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Show - -ft ' I p-j v.. - t - f "- i i . V - M L v ; ! j-ii - 3 .: teW.-1iitr.il ,ryini n i r,.i-ri-'-11 rOPPY DAY Chairman Rebecca Fullmer of the American Legion Auxiliary Poppy Day, pins the first poppy on Mayor F. Calvin Packard as he proclaims Saturday Poppy Day here. yPoppy Day' planned to benefit veterans Annual Poppy Day will be observed in Springville, Saturday, Satur-day, May 28, under the supervision super-vision of Rebecca Fullmer, chairman. Nearly 2000 poppies are expected to be sold during the day by American Legion Auxiliary volunteers who will make a house to house canvass and will be sold on Main Street all day. The poppy is one of the very few hand-made things in this age of machine products. The little red flawers are the hand-made products of men in Utah veteran's hospitals. They are the men who fought for the country's freedom and who still suffer from the wars in which they participated. Making the poppies keeps their hands busy for many weeks before Memorial Day. The auxiliary purchases the poppies from the veterans and in turn sells them to the public pub-lic thus doing a big job of re-habilitaton. re-habilitaton. Many of the servicemen serv-icemen have been in the hospital hos-pital for years. Mayor F. Calvin Packard has proclaimed Saturday, May 28, as Poppy Day in Springville and urges all who can to buy a poppy for a dime, to help veterans confined in hospitals in this state. |