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Show City plans birthday party A tentative schedule of events for Iron Mission Days and Cedar City's 130th birthday Nov. 11 ; has been released. Week-long events will include the culmination of the poetry, essay and short story contests, Cedar City merchants Iron Mission Days promotion, historic exhibits in store windows, a special study of Cedar City's history in the public schools, homecoming week for all former Cedar City residents, a quilt exhibit in the Southern Utah State College Library lobby and an elementary art contest by the elementary school students of Cedar City. Events will begin on Nov. 11 at 6 a.m. with a cannon firing east of Cedar City. This will be followed at 9 by a flag raising at the veterans memorial in the Cedar City Cemetery. A rock marker on the site of the first encampment en-campment of the Iron Mission Pioneers will be dedicated at 10 a.m., and the annual Daughters of the Utah Pioneers and Sons of the Utah Pioneers meeting at the Rock Church will begin at about 1:30 p.m. The speaker and musical numbers will be announced an-nounced later. At about 2:30 p.m. a veterans no host luncheon has been scheduled for veterans only. This may be followed by a veterans parade.. From 5 to 8 p.m. there will be a no host birthday dinner at the Iron Mission State Monument, along with an open house all day. The open house is free and open to the public. At 9 p.m. is scheduled Cedar City's 130th Birthday Bir-thday Ball, in the SUSC Large and Small Ballrooms. There will be a big band under the direction of Joe Lamoreaux and a floor show under the direction of LaVeve Whetten. The Iron Mission Days and Cedar City Birthday Committee are Tom Challis, chairman; Inez Cooper; Randy Christensen; Lee Fife, Mike Stansfield; Norm Forbush; Sidney Hahne; Lois Lang; Alva and Zella Metheson, Frank Petty; Guil Funston; and LaVeve Whetten. |