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Show Legion Plans Big State Party Clarence C. Neslen, Utah Com-mandi.T Com-mandi.T of the American Legion, announced this week that on i Saturday, March 25, in Saltj Lake city, Legionaires will hold j a stale-wide birthday party, I honoring the 31st anniversary of i the founding of the organization. Hotel Newhouse will be the: site for the thousand-man ban- 1 quet and floor show which be- j gins promptly at 6:30 p.m. I Legion posts in Utah annually! stage local birthday parties be-! taien the dates of March 15-17.1 However, not since 1941 has the Legion department held a combined com-bined state-wide observance. I Due to pressure of the War, j they were discontinued that i year and were not resumed until i this year. Tickets have been printed and distributed proportionately to Legion post commanders under the direction of Clem S. Schramm, general chairman. Schramm said that the committee com-mittee is presently negotiating for the services of a man of nat-onal nat-onal prominence to fill the bill as main speaker. Also, J. E. (Doc) Martie, National Vice-Commander Vice-Commander of the American Legion from Reno, Nevada, will be in attendance. One of Utah's ablest impres-sarios, impres-sarios, in the person of Kings-ley Kings-ley E. Clawson, a past department depart-ment commander, has lined up a floor show which he bills as 'surpassing anything seen in the Beehive state in at least 10 years!" New colors and standards of 'he Legion department will be on display for the first time. The old colors, having served the organization for a generation, and now much faded, will be formally presented to Governor J. Bracken Lee, for safekeeping among the state's most treasured treas-ured momentos. |