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Show Special Olympics stamp to be issued Monday A U.S. postage stamp commemorating com-memorating the Winter Special Olympics will be issued Monday, March 25 in Park City. According to Park City Postmaster Post-master Byron Johnson, a ceremony cere-mony will take place at 11 :00 a.m. in the Grand Ball Room of The 1 j. -..1 ..... ..j. ... 1 .. ... YarrowHoliday Inn, 1800 Park Avenue. Speakers will include Eunice Kennedy Shriver, chairman of Special Olympics, Inc., and Kenneth J. Hunter, assistant postmaster general, U.S. Postal Service. Guests will include Sargent Shriver, president of Special Olympics, and Bruce Jenner, 1976 Olympic decathalon gold medalist and Special Olympics Olym-pics head coach for track and field. This is the first time a first-day-of-issue ceremony has been held in the state since April 5, 1980, when a postcard depicting the Salt Lake Temple was issued. Prior to that, a stamp commemorating range conservation conserva-tion was issued in Salt Lake City in 1961. The new stamp features the symbol of the Winter Special Olympics, bordered by a female figure skater and a male downhill skier. The Special Olympics was organized in 1968 with a national meet for 1,000 athletes co-sponsored by the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation and the Chicago Park District. Today, more than one million mentally handicapped children and adults participate in the year-round program of recreation, sports training and competition. International games are held every four years. This year they are being held in Park City and Salt Lake City March 24-29 (see separate story). The stamp will be issued only in Park City on March 25 and throughout the rest of the country the next day. People who would like to obtain the first-day cancellation can do so March 25 at the Park City Post Office from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. or at The Yarrow from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Customers are asked to bring an envelope on which to place the stamp. First-day cancellations can also be obtained through the mail for up to 30 days after the ceremony. Customers wishing to do this are encouraged to purchase the stamp locally after March 25 and affix it to a self-addressed stamped envelope. They should also insert a filler of post card thickness. Requests should be addressed to Customer-Affixed Envelopes, Postmaster, Park City, Utah 84060-9991. Or, customers can send a self-addressed unstamped envelope, envel-ope, along with a check for 22 cents, to Winter Special Olympics Stamp, Postmaster, Park City, Utah 84060-9992. The self-addressed self-addressed envelope should include in-clude a post card thickness filler. I ; i I ,-, ; ; ' i : t ft . A ' - ft it 1 1 v 1 1 .. . .. ?, QIQ)i':.; ;.'" r'" Winter Special Olympics |