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Show Poppy Day To Be Observed Saturday, May 25 Poppy Day will be observed in Pleasant Grove and throughout the United States on Saturday, May 25, Mrs. Thelma Adamson, President Pres-ident of Post No. 70 Unit of the American Legion Auxiliary, has announced. Memorial poppies to be worn in honor of the dead of both world ware will be distributed on the streets throughout the day by volunteer vol-unteer workers from the Auxiliary and coopeating organizations. Contributions Con-tributions received in exchange for the flowers will be used in relief and rehabilitation work for disabled dis-abled veterans, their families and the families of the dead. Extensive preparations for Poppy Day are being made by the Legion Auxiliary Unit under the direction of Mrs. Arvilla Harvey, Poppy Chairman. The volunteer workers arebeing organiized into teams and assigned to locations in the downtown down-town area. Residences will also be covered to give everyone an opportunity opport-unity to pay tribute to the war dead by wearing a memorial flower. The poppies have been made by disabled veterans of both wars. They are crepe paper replicas of the European wild poppy which bloomed on the battlefields . of France and Belgium in both wars and which has become a world wide symbol of remembrance of America's Amer-ica's battle dead. Poppies will be worn more generally gener-ally this year than ever before, Mrs. Harvey predicted. 'With peace restored and the men coming home, everyone will want to pay tribute to those who can never come back to us by wearing a poppy in their honor on Poppy Day. |