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years, the fall Youth Conference and the New Year's Eve Dance have brought the Young Men's and Young Women's associations together in joint activities. Firesides, sports, and other outdoor activities such as camping add variety to the basic religious instructional programs for teenagers. Younger children in the Primary organization sang on special occasions. Tirza Brown remembered participating in a children's choir trained by John Hood of Richfield to sing at the dedication of the Wayne LDS Stake Tabernacle in Loa on 24 October 1909. Church President Joseph F. Smith gave the dedicatory prayer at the impressive services. Perhaps the excitement of the day was too much for Tirza, who was just seven years old at the time, for in later years she could not remember actually singing that day, only the long hours of practicing. A festival on 9 September 1948 brought Primary children from around the stake together in Bicknell. It was reported that, "The children," w h o h a d spent the s u m m e r studying different ethnic groups, "wore costumes, danced and sang songs" associated with various cultures. The event was deemed such a success that the Primary sponsored a summer festival for several years. The Primary's churchwide "Pennies by the Inch" program continues to help support the Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City.39 In addition to providing wholesome experiences for young people, church and county leaders worked together to protect youth from bad influences. In 1906 the Wayne County Commission was asked to revoke the liquor license of L.M. Chaffin. He explained that "he did not know that his saloon was within 300 feet of the School House" and was granted "60 days to remove his saloon stock and supplies from that p a r t of town." The commissioners used their licensing power to attempt to control "vice," including potential gambling. In 1911 they set the license fee for each pool, billiard, bagatelle, pigeon hole, or other gaming table at $2,000 per table per year—a hefty sum in that era. It is not clear if anyone actually paid $2,000 to have a pool table in his establishment. By 1938, however, an ordinance to regulate pool halls outside of town limits required a thirtydollar license for two tables and twenty-five dollars for each additional table. The commissioners also set the license to sell beer at sixty dollars. The licensees must have complained—after all, these
