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Show jaycee 'Cleanup, Painty f.up Drive To Begin Here Thursday Tin Can Parade, Bonfire, ! Half-Day, Half-Doilar Sale Marks Events of Day Merchants to Close itAircklzy iiil 12 To "Clean House" Enthusiasm w3s running high thia week as the Preston Jun. ior Chamber of Commerce made tmal plans for the big "kick-off "kick-off drive" for the 1941 "Clean-up,, "Clean-up,, Piint-Up, Fix-Up" campaign cam-paign which will get underway under-way officially on Thursday morning. Preston merchants and the Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce are cooperating 00 per cent in pushing the program pro-gram over. Stores will close irom 9 until 12 noon on Thursday morning morn-ing to permit employees to "clean house" at each of the business places. In the afternoon, Preston merchants are offering a oig "Half-day, Half-Dollar sale. You may find many bargains from the progressive merchants in this issue of the Clarion which wos issued early this week in order that the Cleanup Clean-up drive be given all possible publicity. A "tin can parade" will also be staged during the afternoon by students stu-dents of Preston schools, and the day will be topped off with a huge bonfire in the vacant lots at the rrr of the courthouse, along with a band pep rally and a speaker on civic improvement. The Junior Chamber of Commerce Com-merce plans to have appropriate banners placed in the city and crusade cru-sade pins are being distributed this week. Thursday wul start the cam paign off the Junior Chamber, the Chamber of Commerce, the city anil all civic clubs are attempting to get the clean-up bug to bite everyone ev-eryone for the entire week and for the ensuing 53 weeks. |