Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-03-25 | Page 10 | Chamber Plans Gracie's Dinner

'CHAMBER PLANS GRACIE'SDIIINER Grade Allen, self-appointed presidential pres-idential candidate of the "surprise party" will be guest of honor with her husband, George Burns, at dinner meeting of the Salt Lake chamber of commerce at 7 p. m, Fciday, May 10, In the Hotel Utah. The announcement was made Monday after the chamber board of governors approved the motion of Gui P. Backman, executive secretary, sec-retary, calling for the chamber to stage the dinner on the seventy-first seventy-first anniversary of the driving of the golden spike, completing the first transcontinental railroad, at Promontory, Utah. Grade will arrive with George on a special Union Pacific railroad train at 4 p. m. May 10, along With a 50-piece Union Pacific band from. Omaha and majorette corps to advance her presidential aspirations. aspira-tions. She will headline the entertainment enter-tainment program at the dinner which will be open to the public' as well as chamber of commerce officials.