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Show SPIRIT OF YULE National Guard Project Gets Local Support The annual Sub for Santa project pro-ject carried on by Headquarters Battery of the 213th Field Artillery Ar-tillery Battalion of the Utah National Na-tional Guard here at Cedar City, moved Into the final stage early this week as members of the project pro-ject committee began purchasing toys for distribution Saturday afternoon. af-ternoon. This year over $200 in cash and new toys were received at the Toy dance held at the College of Southern Utah. This contribution from the citizens plus a generous gener-ous knockdown of prices by merchants mer-chants of the city supplied the guard unit with its largest array of toys since the project began and another feature of this year's project Is the fact that all the toys are new, or nearly new. Several stores of the community commu-nity gave generously In addition to marking down toys being bought by the guardsmen, according ac-cording to Clyde Nelson, chairman chair-man of the project. Woolworth's Store, II. M. Endsley's Western Auto and Bulloch's Drug were outstanding in their contribution as was Utah Parks Company, Nelson Nel-son said. Toys were being packaged during dur-ing the early part of the week In preparation for distribution to npndv families in the communi ty prior to Christmas. This year the guard has made arrangements arrange-ments to distribute the tows Saturday. Saturday afternoon the guards, men will travel within the city to leave the toys In the homes of those not quite so fortunate as others to help make it a Merry Christmas community-wide. |