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I The Stotoimmi; Solam, Orocjon. Sunday Pcmbr 8. 1948
Motorized Utah 'Pioneers9 to
Emulate Brigham Young Band
By Harold F. Osaerae
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. caravan of 43 canvas-topped
motor cars next summer will begin a trek that will take 143 men,
three women -and Ure children half way across the United States.
The journey, from Illinois to Utah, will be one of the 69 major
events which Utah residents believe will attract the attention of -the
nation as the Beehive state ob
serves its centennial with a full
year of celebration beginning this
week.
Starting at Nauvoo. III., July
14. the -automobiles, will journey
1.500 miles to Salt Lake City, fol-
body join in the work as well as
the fun.
Plans are going f orward to send
symphony orchestras to tiny min
ing towns high in the mountains.
T"lati"4 rmintiM a m lra mm H.t.
lowing : m i closely as possible thejern sUtes t sparsely popu.
route a -Bngham i Young and the , lated t ..jnnort - doctor dWhst
first band of Mormon pioneers
just one hundreds before.
Each night the 1947 "covered
wagons' will draw up in a circle
at the site of one of the camp
ing spots where in 1847 the origi
nal 143 men, three women and
two chUdren sought shelter around
cooking fires and protection from
Indians.
Historical Mttirt
Prime objectives - for the trek,
as for the entire year of activity,
are to bring enjoyment to those
participating and to focus atten
tion on the early history of the
.state.
- The Utah centeMtaL. on that
account, promises to be note
worthy and its sponsors hope to
make it unique by -having every-
or weekly newspaper, will be the
setting for light-opera perform
ances. Fetes Plasae4
There will be concerts of the
Mormon tabernacle choir in Salt
Lake City, pageantry in Zion na
tional park, regattas on Great
Salt lake, and hop-scotch and
marble competition (or kids in.
such poetically-named towns as
Tift tic, Santaquin, Hfoab, Hurri
cane, Escalante, Vernal, - Nephi,
iotom or Brigham.
The "covered wagon" caravan
will reach Salt Lake City July 22,
anniversary of the arrival of Or
son Pratt and Erastus Snow, Brig
ham Young's scouts. The original
party took 114 days coming from
near Council Bluffs, Iowa, to Salt
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104.179 f iism all eaash etas' by ssrnsn ta ftSe
Wa are ptavd to so miwhir t W
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$200-8330
$351 -$400 307
$401 -$1080 5.9
nwlsrvtow over 11.000 I.1H
CloTh-Barrick Co.
rhooe 9139 fi 8. Church
Sales. Ore.
Lake City across the plains and
mountains and 17 months for the
entire emigration from Nauvoo.
tm Dedicate rark
On July 24 will be the centen
nial of the arrival of Brigham
Young and his party at the mouth
of Emigration canyon, overlook
ing the Salt Lak valley. On the
spot where the " pioneer leader
stretched forth his hands and said
"This is the place" Utah will
dedicate a $300,000 monument in
a new state park. Life-sixed
bronze figures atop a granite base
will portray the Mormon leaders
and their hardship-marked journey-
2 Sentences
Handed Down
John Kwiatkoski, indicted re
cently by the county grand jury
on a charge of assault with intent
to kill, was sentenced to -one year
in the Marion county jail but
paroled Saturday by Circuit
Judge E. M. Page.
S. E. Malone. also indicted on
a charge, of obtaining money by
false pretenses was -sentenced to
one jrear in the state prison. He
was arrested by city police last
month in alleged possession of
several fraudulent checks.
Kwiatkoski was arrested in late
September by sheriffs deputies
in connection with the alleged
knifing 'of Harvey Horan, of
Portland, in Meston's hopyards
near St Paul.
Navy Signs R
Valley Men
Earl Rodger Hailey. 838 N.
Commercial st., and George Wil
liam Weber of Monmouth have
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pouts
FOR
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Automobile.
Casualty
Insurance
AND
Sorely Bond
Argo Hatel Bids.
339 Chemeketa
enlisted In the navy as appren
tice seaman. Robert Fallon, CQM.
announces, -and six men enlisted
in the naval reserve.
Men enlisting in U. S. naval re
serve. V- (inactive duty) are
Quentin Edward Smith, MoMM
3c, route I. Salem; Donald Wes
ley Eastridge, ETM3c, 555 N.
Winter sL; Clarence Samuel
Powers, cox wain, route 1, Aurora;
Ralph Walter Rees, RM 1c. 545
N. 28th St.; Donald Earl BarcUey,
GM 2c, 809 N Commercial st;
Isidro Narzeda, SC 1c.
Liiniber Firm
Buys Valsetz
PORTLAND, Ore, Dec. 7ifV
The campany lumber town of
Valsetz, its sawmill, railroad, and
logging holdings were purchased
today by the Valsetz Lumber com
pany from Cobbs it Mitchell Co,
and W. W. Mitchell Co.
The purchase price was not dis-
closed. The sale Includes 30,000
acres of timbered and cutover
land, sawmill with an annual
50.000,000 board foot capacity,
and controlling stock of the Val
ley at Siletz railroad. The rail
line serves many logging opera
tors in the area.
The purchasing corporation is
headed by Herbert A. Templet on,
Portland -wholesale lumberman
who has acted as Cobbs it Mitch
ell's sales- agent for 22 years.
WHEAT LEAGUES TO MEET
LA GRANDE. Dec. 7.-ip-The
eastern Oregon wheat league will
hold its annual meeting here Dec.
16-18, With chartered railroad cars
serving as living quarters for the
delegates. '
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Average per capita Income la
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per year. Ia 1945 It was $1,158.
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