OCR Text |
Show Legion Greets Cars Enroute To Convention Members of Sugar House American Legion Post 65 and of the post's auxiliary were busy bu-sy last week welcoming Legion parties passing through Salt Lake on the way to the national convention in San Francisco. All Salt Lake Legion posts participated par-ticipated in the welcoming proj- j . ect, and the Sugar House post and their ladies concentrated on the southeast entrances to the ctiy, greeing the travelers at the mouth of Parley's canyon ai along 21st S. Welcoming signs were posted nlont? the hiehwav. and Legion- naires and ladies on duty at the various stop signs greeted the visitors and distributed information infor-mation and literature on Salt Lake and Utah. A welcome banner ban-ner was hung across 21st S. right In the Sugar House business section. Clay Mills was chairman of the local post's committee, and working with him were J. Ed-ward Ed-ward Swift. Horace Taylor, Reg Cornwall, Willard Douglas, Howard How-ard Bringhurst, John Woody, John Rich, Don T. McDonald, Lyman Sherwood, Mrs. Lynn Jolley. Mrs. Max Young, Mrs. Jack Wignall and several others: One of the most unusual entries en-tries from the east was the 40 & 8 sailing ship (on wheels) from Sturgis,. Mich. This land-going land-going vessel wheeled into town Sunday after a stormy cruise across the midwestern prairies during which the vehicle was almost al-most capsized several times by high winds. |