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Show CELERY IS SENT TO PRESIDENT The presidential stomach. If It consumes all Utah celery offered it, may wind up with a good old-! old-! fashioned Thanksgiving day tummy i ache. About half a dozen separate shipments have been sent President Presi-dent Roosevelt as part of the observance ob-servance of Celery week In Utah, C M. Hall, chairman of the chamber cham-ber of commerce committee in charge, said Tuesday. Latest shipment was from the Japanese - American C 1 1 1 z e n s' league. Others have been sent the president by Governor Henry H. Blood, a group of celery growers and two or three other Individual Celery shipments sent from Salt Lake City by Tuesday night will reach Pacific coast slates in time for the first Thanksgiving day Thursday, Mr. Hall said. Last year, 18.47S celery shipments ship-ments were made during the week's observance. If the present rate continues, the clow of 1939 Celery week on Saturday will sea more than 30,000 shipments, It was estimated. |