Show leHm to the Editor Charlotte managing editor of the Chronicle for is spending the summer in Denmark and sends the following special to the Summer on the observance of July Fourth by the Danes in their annual Rebild For the Americans and Danes celebrated the fourth of July together at Rebild National with King Frederick Queen Princesses and and Richard and Pat Nixon as honored is said men of good will can knock down barriers to As a link between Danish-Americans and their the first Rebild Festival was held in Celebrating the golden anniversary of the Danes and Americans greeted one another at Rebild Wednesday to hail the independence of the United States of William McCormick American Ambassador to and Jens Danish Prime and Paul Royald participated in the In his message to the gathering seat on the hillsides surrounding the speaker's Richard Nixon emphasized the message of often our answer to materialism is our own Rebild stands for something stronger than military The right of men and nations to be is the message of people should have the right to choose the way they are Nixon and celebrate the universality of these ideals at Nixon named the Danish-Americans as citizens of explaining that the love of their homeland made them have so few given so much to so remarked He asked the Americans and the Danish to pledge themselves to freedom without war through moral assistance and Ambassador Blair made a similar plea in his remarks asking the audience to and as basic Blair referred to the American and Danish peoples as those attached by common e i t h e r have feared the winds of The Ambassador presented President John F. Kennedy's greetings to the In a taped message Kennedy also urged those in attendance to the world possible to celebrate many other independence The bond of the United States Air Forces in conducted by Arnold I. and the Royal Life conducted by Robert played national marches and hymns throughout the Americans and Danes sang national songs of both countries The pathway to the Park was lined with flags of the fifty American The red and white Danish Dannebrog and the Stars and Stripes flew from atop every hill surrounding the Jets performed overhead as the State Gymnasium choir sang the and Danish national songs conducted by C. Willum The festivities came to a solemn close as Henry son of Max the founder of R ebi 1 d National passed away with a stroke following his Horace Eva Niels P. John W. Sorensen and Mark B. Garff all of Salt were among the membership of the 1962 The Rebild National Park is located near the city of Denmark's third largest It was set aside by Max an American-Dane who his |