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Show cropnate trimmings was served up by a group of experts under the direction of Frank E. Lees. Wendell J. Ashton, president M' the Sugar House SUP and recently re-cently named head of the state organization, was in charge of the campfire program which rounded out the evening. At this time the group heard pioneer pi-oneer stories related by Dr. Howard How-ard R. Driggs, president of the American Pioneer Trails association; asso-ciation; saw the presentation of the Sugar House charter by Harold H. Jenson, state SUP president, and heard music by Pioneer Camp Trek Proves Huge Success Pioneer life and times were relived Saturday night when move than 500 persons assembled assem-bled in Mountain Dell on the old pioneer trail for an evening of sports, feasting and story telling, tell-ing, climaxing the first annual Vek to the last pioneer camp--' t e on Big Mountain. A large number of hardy individuals hiked to the campsite earlier in the afternoon where appropriate appropri-ate services were held and where a tribute' to the pioneers was paid by John W. Bond. The hike was under the direction of M. Elmer Christensen. The entire event was sponsored spon-sored and managed by the Sugar House camp, Sons of Utah Pioneers, Pion-eers, as that organization's first project. Throughout the late afternoon and evening pioneer sports were staged under the direction of Lawrence L. Sum-merhays, Sum-merhays, and at 7 p.m. a frontier fron-tier barbecue of elk, moose, venison, ven-ison, antelope and beef, with corn on the cob and other ap- ; the Millennial chorus, directed by Bertram T. Willis. Robert Wright and Earl Kitchen Kit-chen a couple of accomplished iyoung trumpeters, sounded the opening music, and community singing was directed by N. Lo- renzo Mitchell, with accompan- ' iment by Cecile Manwaring, accordionist. ac-cordionist. Dr. L. L. Richards offered the invocation and Postmaster Post-master I. A. Smoot gave the ben-edicton. ben-edicton. A notable guest at the celebraton was Richard Bonelli, j Metropolitan opera tenor w h o sang the following day in the tabernacle. A pie-eating contest, open only to men with beards, was won by G. Herbert Norman, 23G1 6th E., I while Maurice Clayton of 2095 E. 1 27th S. won the stake pulling contest. Interested spectators in I the pioneer sports events included in-cluded Secretary of State E. E. Monson, IVJayor and Mrs. Earl J. Glade, former Mayor and Mrs. Ab Jenkins, Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Ashton, the Bonelli's, and Postmaster Post-master I. A. Smoot who came off top man in a. challenge stake pulling contest with Hoi-ace Beck. Dr. Richards and Eugene T. Whitaker were in charge of reception, re-ception, R. Emerson Curtis, campfire and grounds, and Parry I D. Sorensen, publicity. |