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Show RICH TO SPEAK AT CELEBRATION Plans Progress For Independence Day Colonel H. Arnold Rich, state director of selective service, will be speaker at a public .meeting in the Logan tabernacle as a feature event of Logan's big Fourth of July celebration, it was announced today by County Attorney L. Tom Perry, chairman of arrangements for the meeting. Professor W. H. Manning, who is directing plans for the fireworks fire-works pageant to be presented in' the USAC stadium, is making good progress with the production according to Ariel Berntson, general gen-eral chairman of the central celebrations committee. The main theme will be to show the United States of America as a melting pot of all the nations of the world and to portray by music, dance and song what the emigrants of these nations have contributed to America by coming com-ing here. A 300 voice choir, composed of various ward choirs in Logan, will provide musical background, along with the South Cache high school band, under the direction of- W. H. Terry. Miss Helen Strain, a member of the USAC physical education departmet, will coach the dancing group and Professor Moyle Q. Rice is writing script for the pageant and will act as the reader. Supereintendent H. C. Maughan of the Logan city light department and his men will have charge of the fireworks display, and will build set pieces for the stage effects. C. L. Pocock, director of public pub-lic relations at USAC, will be In charge of tickets and seating at the stadium with' parking and policing to be under direction of Hyrum Weatherston, chief of police. Glen Worthington, E. G. Earl and Robert Martin will be in charge of the children's sports, and William Walton, in charge of the midway, reports that plans are progressing for a successful set of entertainments to help make for a lively celebration. |