{"id":1154,"date":"2011-12-24T18:08:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T01:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2012-05-19T08:40:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T15:40:31","slug":"another-fine-july-4-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/?p=1154","title":{"rendered":"Another Fine July 4 Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Click<\/a>“What a wonderful Fourth of
\n July! We hope the spirit of the Provo
\n celebration will spread to all parts of
\n our country. We want to thank
\n everyone who helped make the
\n Fourth so great. What a swell place
\n to live, here in the shadows of the
\n mountains – how very biased in-
\n deed we are!”
\n We believe this brief note –
\n received by the Herald over the
\n signature of the “Harold Ivie
\n Family” – reflects the feeling of a
\n great many people about the Provo
\n Freedom Festival completed on
\n Independence Day.
\n Provo has had many splendid
\n Fourth of July celebrations and it is
\n hard to rate them comparatively.
\n Suffice it to say the 1912 version was
\n a good one – filled with activity and
\n entertainment, and marked by a
\n highly-patriotic tone.
\n The theme, “What’s right with
\n America” was excellent and a
\n patriotic answer to detractors who
\n would depreciate the values of this
\n land of liberty.
\n The celebration reached its high
\n point Tuesday with the outstanding
\n parade and the Pat Boone stadium
\n show pulling the top crowds.
\n The Provo Freedom Festival
\n Corporation, the city and civic-
\n oriented sponsor, faced a special
\n test, mis being the first time in two
\n decades that the celebration wasn’t
\n sponsored by the LDS Church with
\n its vast reservoir of manpower so
\n readily available. The new group,
\n with Wilson W. Sorensen as
\n president and Hamid Hintze general
\n diairman, came through with a fine
\n job and marshalled the necessary
\n leadership and support to maintain
\n the high caliber of Provo
\n celebrations.
\n To be sure there is always room
\n for improvement and if the com-
\n mittee is seeking suggestions for
\n next year, we have three small ones
\n to offer:
\n There were comments that there
\n were not enough floats in the
\n diildren’s parade; we feel the
\n tremendous July Fourth parade
\n would have been enhanced had the
\n floats been prejudged and winners
\n labeled as in some past years; and
\n we believe the concept of the Sunday
\n night meeting should be oriented to a
\n “patriotic assemb1y” rather than as
\n a “sacred service” where applause
\n is not permitted. The speeches and
\n music are patriotic and musing –
\n why not applaud?
\n The celebration required
\n monumental effort by many people.
\n We join with the lvie family – as we
\n believe most people would do – in
\n expressing thanks and
\n congratulations to all whose efforts
\n made the festival possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“What a wonderful Fourth of July! We hope the spirit of the Provo celebration will spread to all parts of our country. We want to thank everyone who helped make the Fourth so great. What a swell place to live, here in the shadows of the mountains – how very biased in- deed we are!”… Continue reading Another Fine July 4 Festival<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,20,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}