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Order of Events

September 5, 1976

1 :00 to 4:00 Exhibit• of historic and railroad
interest.

4:00 Concert by Bra•• Band, Canyon High
School, concluding with National
Anthem.

4:15 Southern Pacific Centennial Engine
arrives.

Presentation of Six Historic Ameri-
can Flags by Canyon High School
Song Leaden.

4:30 Chairman Charles Weeks introduces
Bobbie Trueblood, Santa Clarita
Valley Bicentennial Chairman, to
lead Salute to the Flag.

4:35 Invocation.

4:40 Introduction of Jame• G. Shea, Vice
President Southern Pacific Com•
pany, who introduces honored
guests.

4:50 Don ~orgeson of E Ciampa• Vita•
leads Clampen parade and places
plaque.
No photographer was present to record the
driving of the· golden spike at Lang, but Gerald 5:00 Stanley Lau, President of Chinese
G. Reynolds, curator of the Santa Clarita Historical Society of Southern
Valley Historical Society, has hereby recreated California, introduces Lion Dance.
it from portraits of the participants. They are, Lion dance i• followed by placing of
left to right: Chinese laborer, Judge Robert M. CONTRIBUTORS: plaque by Chinese Historical
Widney , Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin, Maj. Sodety.
Benjamin Truman (Los Angeles Star), Gen. Gerald M. Best, Railway & Locomo-
Phineas Banning (in foreground), Mrs. tive H i storical Society 5:20 Jame• G. Shea introduces Robert
Mac Linton, E Clampus Vitus
Crocker, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker Banning, grandson of Phineas
Emma Louie, Chinese Historical So-
(with hammer on track), David D. Colton,
ciety of Southern Califomia Banning. Driving of Golden Spike.
Chinese laborer (placing spike), Frank Frantes
(kneeling), Mayor A.J. Bryant of San Fran- Edited and produced by Ruth 5:30 Adjournment to reconvene for bar-
cisco (under Flag), Darius 0. Mills, ex- Newhall, managing editor, becue at Elks Lodge, 17766 Sierra
Governor John G. Downey, Joseph W . Newhall Signal for the Santa Highway, Canyon Country.
Crawford, Benjamin D. Wilson (in top hat), Clarita Valley Historical So-
ciety.
Mayor Prudent Beaudry of Los Angeles, I. W.
Hellman .