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Show Democratic Volunteers Pitch in to Ready Inaugural Lights burn until midnight in the offices of the 1961 In augural headquarters in the Liberty Loan, Building in Wash ington, D.C., and the people who keep them burning night after night are an army of volunteers. Housewives, federal judges, college students, senators wives and top-notch secretaries are working side by side, accord ing to Mrs. India Edwards, chairman of the Volunteer Parti cipation Committee. Most of them type lists, file cards and stuff the invitations to inaugural events into envelopes. "Nearly at housand people have volunteered since De cember 21, and only two have found the jobs assigned thoei too humble," she said. Some days the volunteer roster looks like a Who's Who in Washington. Mrs. Edward H. Foley, wife of the chairman of the Inaugural Committee, who spent days as an envelope stuffer and sealer, and Mrs. William Proxmire, wife of the Junior Senator from Wisconsin, have been among volunteers. Sentor Proxmire's secretary, the secretary of Former Secretary Secre-tary of Interior Oscar Chapman, and four secretaries from the office of Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson are among the many secretaries who rush from their regular jobs to volunteer at Inaugural headquarters. Skilled secretarial help is much in demand at Inaugural headquarters but Mrs. Edwards admits that often her committee coordinators must send the most skilled to President-elect John F. Kennedy's offices to handle the mountains of mail connected with the Inauguration that arrive there daily. i |