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Show Annuel Poppy Day Saturday; Citizens Urged To Purchase Little Red Flower Every loyal American will be wearing a little red poppy on Saturday, May 21, in memory of those wTho save their all and as a means of assisting those Swho may never leave the hospitals. hospit-als. For just one day, the little red flowers will' be sold on the streets with members of the American Legion Auxiliary volunteering to do the work. Mrs. Cleonda Miner is poppy chairman in Springville and she stated today that Spring-ville's Spring-ville's quota is 1800 poppies. Contrary to some beliefs, not a cent of the money for which poppies pop-pies are sold, goes for Legion Auxiliary Aux-iliary activities. It is paid to the veterans who made the poppies and a percent is also used for child welfare work to aid children child-ren of needy war veterans. Approximately 34 men in the Veterans hospital made the little red poppies which will be sold in Utah this year. They turned out approximately 120,000, during November and December, which is quite a feat when we know that some worked with only one hand and others flat on their backs. Townspeople arc asked to buy at least one poppy on Saturday and to remember when buying the flower that it is not the Auxiliary you are contributing to but to the veterans who sacrificed limbs and health for their country and for us. In connection with the Poppy Day sales, a poppy poster contest has been conducted in the schools and the best posters are to be displayed dis-played in down-town store windows. win-dows. For their efforts, six high .school students were given cash awards by the Auxiliary. The annual Poppy Day usually held the Saturday before Memorial Day is set one week ahead this year and in as much as Spring-yille's Spring-yille's quota of poppies to be sold is more than last, the cooperation of all citizens is asked to make the day's sales a success. |