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Show Provo To Hold Outstanding July 4 Celebration For many years Provo has established es-tablished a tradition for staging the oustanding July Fourth celebration cel-ebration in Utah, both from the standpoint of quality and quantity, quan-tity, and those in charge of this years' event say it will fully uphold up-hold that -tradition. Provo's main celebration will be Monday, July 5, date of the legal observance of Independence Day throughout the nation. The City will, however, stage a public patriotic pat-riotic meeting at 8 p.m. Sunday, July 4, in the Provo Tabernacle, at which the Reverand Arthur W. Moulton, Salt Lake City, Episcopal J bishop of Utah will be the principal prin-cipal speaker. A concert by the fine Mendelssohn men's chorus is also on the Sunday evening program, pro-gram, to be preceded by a band concert on the tabernacle grounds beginning at 7 p.m. All Sunday evening events are free and the public is welcome. A full day of events to please a variety of tastes is scheduled for Monday, July 5, beginning at 9:30 a.m. with a street parade and ending end-ing with a gala, top quality show in the evening at the BYU stadium. In between will be children's sports at 11 a.m. in Pioneer Park, with plenty of prizes for the kids; the Intermountain boat races at the Provo boat harbor in the afternoon, expected to attract the speediest boats and finest drivers from all over the intermountain area, and a regular industrial league baseball game between the Provo Timps of highest importance, but back the Timp ball park. The usual July 4 carnival attractions at-tractions will be available to everyone. every-one. . The evening stadium show is to feature the awarding of a 1949 Ford Automobile. The person who wins the car must.be present to receive it. At 7:45 p.m. the crack Magna girls drum and bugle corps will stage a marching demonstration to start the stadium program. This will be followed by six high-caliber circus and vaudeville acts, brought in at considerable expense from the nationaL.circui.ts.ior-the show-. The greatest single-night fireworks display ever staged in Central U-tah U-tah will end the show. Two experts to fire the display will travel from California for this express purpose, to insure the maximum in safety and brilliance. . Officials point out that a family can enjoy a local celebration and still come to Provo in the evening for the stadium show. |