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Show Santa Heads Pageant Ushering in Yule Season at Provo broadcasting station let up In tha law library of the city and county coun-ty building. Chrlatmai caroti of all nations featured this presentation. PROVO Ushering In Chrhrt-ma Chrhrt-ma festivities In Provo, Santa Clam entered the city Thun-day Thun-day night at the head of a huge parade of bands, floati and countless count-less children amid the brilliance of thousands of, lights strung on city streets and on business houses. A short message of good cheer by' Commissioner J. P. McGuire from the steps of the city and county building, and turning on of the decorations, signaled San ta's triumphant entry. Mayor Mark Anderson, who was scheduled sched-uled to speak, was confined to his house with a slight cold, aim Commissioner McGuire took his place. The "landlord of the North Pole rode in a sleigh pulled by Donner and Blilsen. the whole mounted atop a float made to represent a housetop and chimney. chim-ney. Other floats depicted Christmas Christ-mas scenes and fairy tales. Children from a dosen schools In the district marched in the parade to the music of several bonds and bugle corps. More than SflOO packages of Candy Were distributed to the children chil-dren at the close of the parade, when Santa was almost mobbed by eager children seeking to give him their lists for Christmas presents. A mixed chorus from Provo high school under the direction of Ernest Paxman entertained throughout the parade from a |