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Show Legion to Hold State-wide Birthday Celebration Clarence C. Neslen, Utah Commander Com-mander of the American Legion, announced this week that on Saturday, March 25, in Salt Lake City, Legionnaires will hold a stade-wlde Legion birthday party, par-ty, honoring the 31st anniversary of the founding of the organization. organiza-tion. Hotel Newhouse will be the site for the thousand-man banquet ban-quet and floor show which begins be-gins promptly at 6:30 p. m. Legion posts in Utah annually annual-ly stage local birthday parties between the dates of March 15 and 17. However, not since 1941 has the Legion department held a combined state-wide observance. observ-ance. Due to pressure of the War, they were discontinued that year and were not resumed until this year. Tickets have been printed and distributed proportionately to Legion Le-gion post commanders under the direction of Clem S. Schramn, general chairman. One of Utah's ablest impres-sarios, impres-sarios, In the person of Kingsley E. Clawson, a past department commander, has lined up a floor show which he bills as "surpassing "surpass-ing anything seen in the Beehive state In at least 10 years!" New colors and standards of the Legion department will be on display for the first time. The old colors, having served the organization or-ganization for a generation, and now much faded, will be formally formal-ly presented to Governor J. Bracken Brac-ken Lee, for safekeeping among the state's most treasured mo-mentos. |