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Show Saturday is Poppy Day in Springville Mrs. Dorothy Brown, American Legion Auxiliary Poppy chairman, announces annual Poppy Day Saturday, Sat-urday, May 24, in Springville. She asks that residents be as generous as possible, since in honoring the dead, we are helping the living disabled veterans to help themselves. them-selves. The auxiliary purchases the poppies from the veterans who make them in the hospitals. It gives them something to do, something some-thing to occupy their minds and give them a contact with the outside out-side world. The need for rehabilitation has increased considerably since the Korean conflict and the Auxiliary has taken on the added responsibility. responsi-bility. In addition to selling the poppies, pop-pies, the auxiliary decorates the graves of each veteran with a poppy. They ask the cooperation and support of townspeople, when the poppies are sold on the streets and at the doors Saturday. Smiles Approval .... ! v ; . - y 1 ! - :-i?! . .. . . ' i . -1 X - s- ' ' ' r . 'K t -s. ' -? , Mrs. Dorothy Brown, left, Poppy chairman, pins a poppy on Councilman Harold Whiting, as she receives re-ceives permission to conduct the annual poppy sale Saturday in Springville. Poppy Day is under the direction of the American Legion Auxiliary, as a rehabilitation program for disabled veterans. |