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Show Old Folks To Be Honored Next Week Preparations are being made to honor, feed and entertain upwards of three or four thousand thou-sand old folks, 70 and over, at a gala Old Folks Day, on Wednesday, Wed-nesday, June 25, at Liberty Park. The event is under direction of a special committee chair-manned chair-manned by LeGrand Richards, and activities will include a free luncheon at noon for the old folks, and a program beginning at 1:30 p.m. Actual festivities will get under way even prior to the luncheon, however, with a lively dance program by the Centennial Centen-nial Dancers at 10:30 a.m. and then a concert by Strong's Military Band at 11 o'clock. Dr. Belle Boone Beard, world authority on centennarians, will be guest of honor and speaker of the day. Prominent officials and citizens of Utah and Salt Lake County and City will also be guests of honor with some participating on the program Highlights of the afternoon program will be music and "dance numbers under direction of Eugene Jelesnik. |