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Show THEY DOfi'T ASK FOR CHARITY WILFORD STAKE GOES OUT AFTER ITS NEEDS JUST FOR FUN! All Utah was girding for the great 1953 Pioneer Days celebration celebra-tion next weekend, but at no place was the activity more fevered for a great affair than in the LDS Wilford Stake in Sugar House. The gala Welfare Farm FunDa carnival, pointed up by the eight wards of the stake, was to be one of the outstanding affairs on July 23 and 24. Perhaps the only event to attract at-tract wider attention in the Salt Lake Valley was to be the July 24th Pioneer Day parade in down town Salt Lake. AND Sugar House will enter its finest float in the tremendous line, a float which year after year captures cap-tures prize money. The 1953 float, chamber of commerce com-merce officials declare, will be most outstanding and will proudly patriotic Mormon Pioneer heritage. With a goal of thousands of dollars, the Wilford Stake affair headed by General Chairman Paul Pehrson, will provide funds to buy farm machinery, livestock and to level land on the 135 acre welfare farm near Saratoga in Utah county. Tractors, farm implements needed need-ed to harvest hay, barley, oats and wheat, a land leveler, some more fine white faced Hereford cows and farm incidentals are badly needed, and funds raised at the carnival will be used for this necessity. neces-sity. Committees from each ward, from each level of LDS church activity ac-tivity in the wards and hand-picked and general groups are assisting the dynamic general chairman with the project which will offer prizes, fine foods, games, carnival rides, merchandise and candies, dollar for dollar just as good as can be bought anywhere. President George Aposhian predicts pre-dicts this year's carnival will exceed ex-ceed last, with every member of the stake and their neighbors participating par-ticipating in the good cause. To mention each of the Wilford Stake workers for this big benefit would be impossible, but from Boy Scouts to deacons, from the women of the MIA to the Quorum of Seventies, Sev-enties, and from the skilled young seamstress to the Sunday school folk with a yen to make candy, the Mormons turned out to give time, effort, money and merchandise merchan-dise to make the 1953 affair top billing next week end. Chairman of the fine dinners, Mrs. Veoma Horman, announced that elegant stake meals would be Continued Inside A ' I , x .y-v V" lS..- 1n HVMAX HIGH POWER Paul Pehrson. who puts the steam behind the great Wilford stuke welfare farm ciimival. WILFORD SLATES WELFARE FETE Continued from Page I served from 5:30 p. m. to 8 p. m. on July 23. that delicious ham dinners din-ners would be served the same hours on July 24, junior plates costing 60 cents, adults only a dollar. And to make the dinners roll like clockwork, Table Chairman Ralph C his holm announced sufficient tables would be installed to seat 500 persons at once, and Mrs. Hor-man Hor-man said her' groups could serve 1500 each night. The gay carnival will open at 4 p. m. July 23, and at 2 p m. July 24. Both days the carnival will run to 11 p. m. Chairman Judy Parker of the refreshment committee declared that the hamburgers would be particularly par-ticularly savory this year because General Chairman Pehrson has do nated an extra hundred pounds of select and flavorful onions to be minced for the tasty bites. Wayne Dudley, heading up the soda-pop detail, has bought 300 cases of soft drinks, iced gratis by Hygia Ice company, and to be served cold as an Eskimo's nose. ... Kay Jensen and her Primary ticket tick-et sales group have called on every home in Wilford stake, pushing ad vance sales into the hundreds of dollars. ... Each group manning a booth, will decorate his allocated space to suit your own individual taste. ... And to Mickey Hart, Paul Pehrson Pehr-son and "Bud" Brain, The News Bulletin expresses its sincere thanks for their help in getting this special edition to its thousands of readers before Pioneer Days and the Wilford FunDa carnival. |