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Show Democrats Continue Plans for Harry Truman Birthday Party sel. Highlight of the May 8 celebration cele-bration will be a nation-wide closed circuit television spectacular spectac-ular on large screen which will be seen by thousands at Democratic Demo-cratic gatherings in the country. The two hour program will feature leading personalities of the stage, movies, television and the music world. Mr. Truman will give a speech at the conclusion conclu-sion of the program. As now planned, the program , will dramatize the highlights of Mr. Truman's colorful career and his place as a leading figure in American history. The story will be tied together by live TV operating op-erating from New York to California, Cali-fornia, from Independence, Mo., to Washington, D.C. All persons attending showings of the program in the country will write their names in special I jubilee guest books which will I be placed In the permanent ar-1 ar-1 chives of the Truman Library at fern 3fW$4m Independence. , The program will be available to local or state Democratic com-f com-f mittees, which will arrange to show it through the Democratic National Committee and the Truman Tru-man Diamond Jubilee Committee. Commit-tee. "The Truman Jubilee offers Democrats everywhere a chance to pay tribute to our No. One Democrat," Mr. Stevens said. "At the same time it offers them an HARRY S. TRUMAN The nationwide celebration of former President Harry Truman's Tru-man's 75th birthday May 8 will be headed by a five member honorary committee including the widows of two former United States Presidents. - Those named, are Mrs. Franklin Frank-lin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Adlai Stevenson, Senator Lyndon Johnson and Speaker of opportunity to equip tne jjemo-cratic jjemo-cratic party with the financial resources needed for the important impor-tant campaigns ahead." All funds collected for each local showing of the program will be divided equally between the local sponsoring group and the Democratic National Committee. the House Sam Rayburn. Chairman Chair-man of the Truman Diamond Jubilee Committee is Roger L. Stevens, New York financier and play producer. Vice chairmen are David Lloyd, Mr. Truman's administrative assistant in the White House, and Charles Murphy, Mur-phy, his White House legal coun- |