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Show KING ASKED TO SAVE AGED WOMAN'S STAND London. May 20. By appealing I to King George, "friends of Mrs. Caro-line Caro-line Orford hope to save from aboil- tion the little refreshment kiosk 'n St. James' park which she has con-, ducted for the past 60 years and, which has been In the possession or her family for three centuries. Mrs. Orford's great-great-grand- mother started the business In a Ht-tje Ht-tje shelter near the Mall, opposite ( the Horse Guards' parade, and was HU years old when she left it to Ir-r daughter. Successive mother-to-, daughter transfers have kept the re-1 freshment stand in the family's hands for mor than 300 years. j The site Is now wanted by the r-flce r-flce of works for the erection f tho guard's war memorial, but an Influ-, entlal committee is trying to have an-, other location substituted. |