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Show I : Provo Planning Outstanding Fourth Program For many years Provo has established a tradition for stag-ling stag-ling the outstanding July Fourth celebration in Utah, 'both from the standpoint of quality and quantity, and those in charge of this year's event say it will fully uphold that tradition. Provo's main celebration will be Monday, July 5, date of the legal observance of Independence Independ-ence Day throughout the nation. The city will, however stage a public patriotic meeting at 8 p. m. Sunday, July 4,' in the Provo tabernacle, at which the Rev Arthur W. Moulton; Salt Lake City, Episcopal bishop of Utah, will be the principal speaker. A concert by the fine Mendelssohn Mendels-sohn men's chorus is also on the Sunday evening program, to be preceded by a band concert on the tabernacle grounds beginning begin-ning at 7 p. m. All Sunday evening eve-ning events are free and the public pub-lic 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 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 Inter-mountain Inter-mountain 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 base-ball game between the Provo Timps and the Brigham Peaches in the Timp ball park. The usual July 4 carnival attractions at-tractions will be available to everyone. 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 inarching demonstration to start the stadium program. This will be followed by six high-caliber high-caliber circus and vaudeville acts, brought in at considerable expense ex-pense from the national circuits for the show. The greatest single-night fireworks display ever staged in Central "Utah will end the show. ' Two experts to fire the display will travel from California Cali-fornia for this express purpose, to insure the maximum in safety and brilliance. Officials point out that a family fam-ily can enjoy a local celebration and still come to Provo- in the 'evening for the stadium show. |