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Show Senior Citizens Entertained X Last Saturday Senior Citizens of the Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove-Lindon-Manila area were royally entertained last Saturday at Pleasant Grove High School. The event was the annual Older Folks dinner party par-ty and the homecoming sponsored spon-sored by the Timpanogos Stake Committee, Eldon Johnson, as general chairman. According to Ruth Cobbley, committee secretary-treasurer, 300 Senior Citizens attended as well as 25 entertainers and stage hands and 54 committee members. A total of 72 hot dinners din-ners were sent out to shutins. The "Day" got off to a prompt beginning at 10 a.m., when a fine travelogue sound picture was shown in the auditorium. audi-torium. Following, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. a visiting hour was enjoyed and Milt Brown and Mary Humphries entertained, as usual, with violin and piano yesteryear melodies. Also during the social hour several Senior Citizen couples put on a demonstration of ballroom ball-room dancing, including waltzes waltz-es and foxtrots. Vilace Radmall offered the invocation and grace on the food at the "cube steak and all the trimmings" dinner which followed. When all had eaten their fill William Hone, 94, and Pruie Coombs, 90, were introduced as the oldest man and woman present. Since Feb. 8 was Mrs. Coombs' birthday, Nancy Ek-ins Ek-ins sang "happy birthday" in her honor. Special potted plants were awarded to both Mr. Hone and Mrs. Coombs. Also potted plants, which were featured in the "Springtime" "Spring-time" table decorations, were awarded to the oldest person seated at each table. Following the dinner, the guests adjourned to the auditorium audi-torium for the traditional afternoon after-noon entertainment. Welcome addresses were given by President Presi-dent Elwood Allen and Mayor Paul T. Fordham, representing represent-ing Timpanogos Stake and PI. Grove City, respectively. Miss LaDawna Hiatt directed direc-ted a group of BYU students in a variety program of Folk Dancing Dan-cing that was highly enjoyed and near-professional, to say the least. Nancy Ekins also thrilled the older folk with a series of "Songs of Yesterday" with uke-lele uke-lele accompaniment and James Lee Curfew and Karl Bennett entertained with banjo duets. During his closing remarks, Mr. Johnson thanked everyone (Continued on page 6) Senior Citizens -Vf (Continued from page 1) who had contributed to the success suc-cess of the celebration. He especially es-pecially mentioned businessmen business-men and citizens who had contributed, con-tributed, the committee, who had labored so loyally and efficiently, ef-ficiently, the high school administration ad-ministration and custodians, the entertainers and helpers, and the guests who had attended. |