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Show Soosevelt Ware! Plans Ikw Budget Financing P?1ethod j The Roosevelt Ward, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, will abandon its usual method of raising funds for the ward budget, and this year will inaugurate an auction as a means of providing needed revenue, Bishop llollis Hullinger announced an-nounced Tuesday. In past years it has been the policy of the Roosevelt ward to make direct mail solicitations in establishing the budget required re-quired to meet the ward's yearly expenses. Bishop Hullinger explained. ex-plained. But this year, for the first time, a departure Trom this custom will be made in favor of a two-day auction combined with a program of entertainment. In explaining the procedure to be followed. Bishop Hullinger announced that committees are now being appointed to solicit homes and business firms for donations of useable goods or excess merchandise that can be offered at auction on March 3 and 4. The single standard adopted adopt-ed is that the donated articles be useable. The ward auction will begin Thursday. March 3, at 2 p. m. in the Roosevelt Stake tabernacle amusement hall and banquet room. It will end at 8 p. m. Odds and ends remaining unsold will be offered at a remnant sale all day Friday, March 4. A banquet Friday, March 4, from 6 to 8 p. m. will climax the activities, and the closing event will be an M.I A. sponsored program, pro-gram, scheduled for 8:15 p. m. A charge of $2 per person will be levied for both the banquet and program, with the proceeds gcing to the ward budget. ' Our objective," Bishop Hullinger Hul-linger advised, "is to raise sufficient suf-ficient funds from the auction and entertainment to meet ward expenses for the full year. The two-day event is for everyone in the community, and we invite all to join us in this undertaking under-taking " |