22 May 1947
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Newspaper
Milford News
Location
Milford, Utah, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1947
Page
1
Milford officials and horsemen gear up for a June race meeting. A feature piece notes Utah Flying Farmers were welcomed at Milford Airport. Local events include a benefit dance for a radioprotector for the Milford Volunteer Fire Department with community support and reduced hall costs.
A roundup of Centennial events across Utah includes the Mes sage of the Ages pageant at the Salt Lake Tabernacle May 21 to June 1, a Vernal show May 28 and 29, Sanpete Rambouillety and Junior Livestock Show in Ephraim May 24, an Ogden tabernacle choir and Weber College performance May 25, Kamas Valley Livestock Show May 27 and 28, Orson Welles Macbeth at Kingsbury Mall May 28 to 29, Millard County Junior Livestock Show at Delta May 28 to 29, a Western Zone Trap Shoot at Salt Lake City Gun Club May 30, Centennial Regatta on Utah Lake at Provo May 30, Blossom Time in Brigham City May 30 and Logan May 31 to June 1.
Milford High School will host baccalaureate services for twenty nine grades in the auditorium at 8 15 p m Sunday May 25. T Edgar Lyon of the University of Utah will address graduates with Miss Lucile Smith Lizst piano Liebestraume and John B Williams two vocal selections. Vena Wilson will give the invocation and Bishop George Goodwin the benediction. Milford High School Band will play on the lawn before services.
Milford to celebrate Centennial Day on June 25 with Governor Herbert Maw attending the Centennial Queen and retinue in Milford. The three day race meet follows, led by Chamber of Commerce and Mayor Gronning, featuring Homecoming, dances, and committees guiding advertising, stables, track, and race finish judges.
Safety tip urges drivers to treat others as they wish to be treated on streets and highways. Emphasizes driving calmly, complying with signals, using hand signals, and avoiding speeding to reduce accidents. Encourages teaching safety by example and maintaining control at all times.
Beaver County may share in the cost of a new City Half-Fire Station Jail as city trustees discuss the building plans. The county now uses Milford jail for prisoners and would continue to use the new jail, with a partial county funding share. A surplus old library tack room is given to a Volunteer Electronics Platoon USNR to use until permanent quarters are found. The board backs Chamber of Commerce volunteer attendance at Arion Hall next Tuesday to raise funds for a resuscitator.
The twentieth American Legion Forty Niner celebration drew large crowds from morning to 4 a m. The Go West parade began at 245 under Thorpe Waddingham and was called one of the best Milford has seen. Hundreds of school children, Milford Boy Scouts, pioneer costumed marchers, and numerous merchant floats filled the parade view and streets.
Horace Carter of Minersville in cooperation with Irving Lay to Centerville announces Tuesday the construction of a new cold storage plant at Minersville. The facility will store vegetables meat poultry and fish with experienced personnel for slaughter dressing and packing. It will use the latest design and be installed by a major freezer plant manufacturer.
The article notes municipal plans to run a fire department operated stand and paint surfaces, authorized permanent oil spray painting, and a city owned corner lot tennis court project to start soon. It also lists prize winners in a school parade with groups such as Wegeqdesrhunl First prize and the Boy Scouts second prize for a sagebrush Indian encampment float.
The Milford High School Senior Class presented the three act farce Laughing Gas in the high school auditorium Monday night. Don Ashworth and Ray Kesler received special credit for quick on stage adjustments with Kesler stepping in as the Irish patrolman Ambrose.
Mr Walter Parkinson suffered a serious throat laceration and jaw fracture when backing his car from the garage the head became wedged between the car and the building. He received treatment at Milford Hospital and is reported recovering satisfactorily.
Paul Van Doren played the radio act or LaRae Evans appeared as Kitty Doe the chorus girl Ray Kesler portrayed Ambrose the policemans Arnold Swindlehurst was Judge Haley Clifton Reese acted as Tony Ls Porte Rent Hanney served as stage manager Kathryn Holm was advertising manager During intermission Miss Bonnie Tomsik and Mrs Kenneth C Farrer played a delightful piano duet The Dance of the Demons
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