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TANEYTOWN TO HOLD VICTORY PARADE SEPT. 1A -Victory Para tie, celebratingthe end of the war. and sponsored by the Taneytown Chamber of Commerce and otijer Taneytown organizations, will be held Saturday. September 1. at 2 o’clock in Taneytown. concluding: with a program on the high school grounds.Brig. Gen. Malcolnj P. Lindsey.commanding general of the Indian-' town Gap Military Reservation, who recently returned after three years , of duty in the China-Burma-India• l- — *1- — r“V5''Vk ni tuciuit , uf -4»c, Merwyn C. Fuss, chairman of the program committee, has invited any .organization wishing to participate in the parade to communicate with him.Musical organizations whieh will participate include the U. S. Army band from the Carlisle Barracks; Maryland State Guard band of Baltimore; Knights of Pythias band, Hanover; Westminster band; Wil- j liam P. Myers band, Westminster; ; Taneytown TOOF Jr., band; Hanover American Legion drum corps and the Veterans of Foreign Wars ■ drum corps of Hanover.8 Others In ParadeAlso include*! in the line of march will be American Legion Posts from Littlestown, Westminster. Emmitsburg and Taneytown; a contingent of soldiers from a nearby c Company C. Mary-| land State Guard, Westminster; fire | companies and their auxiliaries of Carroll county and Littlestown; uniformed. unit of the Knights of 1 Pythias of Westminster and Han-;over; Women of the Moose, West-i minster; representatives of the Blue Ridge Rubber company and Taneytown manufacturing company; Taneytown Minutemen; Taneytown : Bey Scouts and school children.Hie parade will form at Sauble’s 'inn and will pass the Soldiers’ ’monument before tuning left on ’ Antrim street to the school grounds.1 The army band at Carlisle will fur-j nisli music during the program, i M5\ Fuss will preside as master of ceremonies.Committees for the celebration follow: Program, Mr. Puss, David Smith, James C. Myers, the Rev. Charles J. Walker and the Rev. Charles S. Owen; advertising, the Rev. A. W. Garvin, the Rev. L. B. Hafer and Doty Robb; soliciting, Charles P. Cashman, Charles R. ii Arnold, William B. Hopkins, Rich-Djard Rohrbaugh and Bernard J. ,11 Arnold.To Decorate TownAdditional members of the general committee include the Rev. Guy R Bready, Prank Harman and J. O. Craps ter. Officers of the general committee are: Mr. Puss, chairman; Doty Robb, secretary, and Charles P. Cashman, treasuer. j | Residents of Taneytown have s; been requested to decorate theirs | properties with flags and other ap-- I Dropriate material.
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Gettysburg Star and Sentinel
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Sep 01, 1945
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