Montana labor news., 1939-06-22
HISTORIC Scenes TO BEL
RE-ENACTED DURING
BUTTE'S CELEBRATION

Nine days of thrilling action-com-
bining the famed Butte Rodeo, an
air show starring Tex Rankin with
his troupe of 23 Southern Air aces
and seven specially built planes-a
dramatic, historic pageant will be
Butte's $4,000 salute to Montana on
her 50th birthday.
The Treasure State Golden Jubilee
Celebration, promising to be one of
the most outstanding ever staged in
the Pacific Northwest, will run from
July l to inclusive.
The pageant Bullion, Bandits,
Builders, saga of statehood" will
be presented at the Butte high school
stadium on the evenings of July l,
p, 3, and 4 under the direction of
the Jerome H. Cargill company, New
York theatrical producers. Eleven
tons of equipment, including cos
tunes, electrical apparatus and
scenery have been shipped to Butte
to stage this spectacle on a truly
metropolitan scale. The cast of 1900
people are already working hard at
innumerable rehearsals to portray
the major events in Montana's color
full history. Scenes will depict the
arrival of Lewis and Clark, develop
ment of fur trading, coming of the
BLACK Robes" discovery of gold, the
Vigilantes, Chief Joseph's retreat
and other events bringing the story
down to the present.
Finals of the Miss Montana"
beauty contest for the states only
entry In the official Atlantic City
miss America" beauty contest will
be held July S, with the winners of
sectional e1iminations competing.
The winner will receive an all-ex-
pense paid trip, with a chaperone,
to San Francisco where she will join
winners from 10 other western states
at the Golden Gate Exposition, stop
in Los Angeles and then go through
the canal to Atlantic City for the
national contest, as well as the New
York worlds fair.
The ninth annual Butte American
Legion rodeo, widely known as the
widest show on earth" will start
its big four-day contest on July 6.
Always a popular event with fans
and contestants, the rodeo will fea-
ture the greatest group of trick
ropers, riders and entertainers ever
gathered in Butte. Coming as this
show does between the Cheyenne
and Calgary shows, Butte will pre-
sent the best group of top hands in
her history, as Butte provides the
logical stopover for the national stars
who compete at these two shows.
An aerial parade consisting of rs
to 100 planes will fly over Butte
Saturday, July 8, to signal the open
ing of the two-day air show, princi-
pal features of which will be the
acrobatics of Tex Rankin and his
troupe, who will present the identical
show here that the same group
thrilled the crowds at the San Fran
cisco fair a few weeks ago. Ample
thrills are promised in the two and
one-half hour show, including Jim
my Cook, the batwing flying, drop
ping from plane at 10000 feet and
flying with only wings between out
stretched arms and legs until near
ing the ground when he pulls the
ripcord on his chute. Bernadine
King, one of Americas few women
sky writer's, is included on this pro-
gram with her speciality of picking
handkerchief off the ground with
the wing of her plane.
During the celebration there will
be three mammoth parades, a gigan-
tic fireworks display, two gun club
meetings, the Bureau of Mines First
Aid contest, state horseshoe pitch
ing championship tournament and
nationally known baseball players
in action in Butte.