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Show Independance Day Celebration Plans Near Completion Plans for the biggest Independence Independ-ence Day Celebration to be held in Cedar City in many years are near-ing near-ing completion. City Councilmen L. C. Miles, General Chairman for celebration, announces. With gasoline gas-oline rationing making it Impossible for many people to make their usual us-ual Fourth of July trip into the mountlans, the events to be held in town should be well attended. A varied program has been arranged ar-ranged in order to provide activities activ-ities that will apieal to all ages. Following the daybreak ' salute, the opening event will be a minuature parade, with the feature of the day, a patriotic meeting, starting immediately after the parade. During Dur-ing tSie afternoon sports for everyone every-one will be conducted, followed toy a softball game between an Aviation Avia-tion Student team and one representing repre-senting the civilians. Alter which Aviation Studends will parade and retreat will be held.A children's dance will be the final event of the afternoon. Evening events feature a novelty program In the early evening followed fol-lowed by a public dance. Captain Roswell Messing, Jr. commander of the College Training Train-ing Detachment at the Branch Agiticultlgal College, will be the speaker of the day, delivering an address at the public meeting to be held at the First Ward Chapel at 10:OOA. M. Following Captain Messing address a tableau, directed direct-ed by Mrs. Fae Dlx and Mrs. Elaine Southwick, will be given, with local people and Aviation students participating. par-ticipating. Community singing will be lead by Wm. H. Manning, with organ music furnished by Frank VanCott. Band music under the direction of A. B. Larson will preceed the program. pro-gram. Mrs. Ralph Jones and Alfred Olson in charge of the mlnature prade, announce that the success of this event will depend entirely upon the cooperation given by merchants, mer-chants, civic and church groups, and by indlvduals interested in making the celebration a pleasent one. The sports pogram in the afternoon after-noon will be under the direction of Yorke Nelson, Tom Evans, Hughes Han.hett. Mont Bailey, Lee Lis-ton, Lis-ton, Virice Davis and Ross Wool-sey. Wool-sey. Yorke Nelson and Lieutenant George Chambers will be in charge of the softball game. Aviation students stationed here vill parade through town, and later lat-er assemble for retreat on the college col-lege campus. Lieutenant George Mathews and Alfred Olson will be in charge of this event. The Primary Pri-mary associations will entertain the children at a dance In the open air pavilion In the late afternoon. The details of the novelty program pro-gram have not been announced, but it is understood that entertainers enter-tainers from the College Training Detachment will present mast of the numbers. The detailed program, with the time and place for each event, will be announced next week. |