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Show i flrmy-Navy Planes to Visit Cedar to Get Mayor Parry's Covered Wagons A fleet of 28 Army and Navy planes will hit Cedar City in May, but their mission will be peaceful. The transports will land in Cedar to pick up 28 covered wagons owned by Mayor Gronway R. Parry which will be used all over the nation in the 1949 Opportunity Bond Drive. Besides the Army and Navy, a battery of newsreel men will be on hand to cover the air lift Oxen will also be flown out with the wagons. Twelve Army DC-47s will fly the first twelve wagons to Independence, Mo., for the Bond parade on the opening day, May 16. In the meantime, 16 Navy DC-4 transports will pick up the remaining covered wagons and distribute them across country. Each wagon will be accompanied by a western movie star. Governor Earl Warren of California, Cali-fornia, and Governor Paul Dev-er Dev-er of Massachusetts will be on hand for the Independence, Mo., parade. California this year is having its Centennial Celebration Celebra-tion of the gold rush, and Massachusetts Massa-chusetts celebrates Minute Man Day on April 19. It is hoped that President Truman will be in his home town of Independence to take part in the parade. Mayor Parry offered his wagons wa-gons for the drive and the symbol sym-bol of this year's drive is the Covered Wagons. The slogan Is "Put More Opportunity in Your Future". With a goal of one billion forty million dollars, intensive in-tensive newspaper, magazine, radio ra-dio and outdoor advertising will be used to promote the drive. A network radio program on the evening of May 15, will officially open the drive. After the Independence, Mo., ptrade, Mayor Tarry's oxen and wagons will be sent to Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Wash-lagton, Wash-lagton, New Orleans, Atlanta Detroit, De-troit, Dallas, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles and San Francisco L lead the drives In those areas. A. D. O'Conncr from Washington, Washing-ton, D. C, field sales coordinator for the drive, was In Cedar City last week to confer with Mayor Tarry. t i |