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Show World Relay coming July 25 On Wednesday a procession similar to the recent Olympic Torch Relay will wind through Park City on its way to Los Angeles. But this time the point is not athletics, it is hunger. The World Runners Relay '84 will come to Park City July 25 and leave for Wendover the next day. Pat Manning, director for the Utah portion of the run, said about 1,000 runners will take part in the relay. Seventy of those will run in Utah. Each runner will complete from two to 20 miles. The 18 hours of running per day is a way of bringing attention to another ano-ther topic world hunger. "The purpose pur-pose is to educate individuals and communities that hunger can end and to encourage them to join in the efforts to eliminate death by starvation," according to relay officials. Carried in the baton which is passed from runner to runner is a. "manifesto against hunger and under-development," a document signed in 1981 by 52 Nobel Prize laureates, said officials. Manning says the relay will finish in Los Angeles in coordination with the women's Olympic marathon on August 5. The relay is open to runners of all abilities, Manning said. There is no charge to run. To date, Manning has scheduled Dick Maben, Bob Wilkinson, Rolf Sandberg, Gary Jordan, Shirley Phillips and himself, locally, and 10 runners from Salt Lake, to run the 146-mile Park City to Wendover segment. Mannitig said he is looking for donations of lodging and food for the relay participants. To join the run or offer help call Manning at 649-7276. |