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Show Salt Lake Area Readies Huge Yule Observance Salt Lake residents this week were putting finishing touches on preparations for Christmas. The year's biggest holiday will be observed Thursday. Aided by unusually good pre-Christmas pre-Christmas weather, shoppers almost al-most jammed downtown Salt Lake City streets for the past month. ,The Salt Lake City postoffice has been snowed under a record inflow and outflow of Christmas mail and has pressed into service equipment of other government departments and extra workmen to handle the job. The city's churches will be the center of formal Yuletime activity. activi-ty. Special pageants and programs pro-grams are being presented and Christmas services are planned in most churches. The holiday will be observed by all government departments except those serving on an emergency emer-gency basis. Virtually all businesses busi-nesses will close. Some institutions institu-tions will observe Friday and Saturday as holidays too. |