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8 College Station, Texas Wednesday, May 10, 1967
Mayor Proclaims
`Budd Poppy y Day'
Mayor D. A. Anderson has pro- pose of the annual event is elo-
claimed Saturday as "Buddy Pop- quently reflected in the desire to
py Day" in College Station in "Honor the Dead by Helping the
conjunction with the annual sale Living."
of Buddy Poppies by the Vet- Mayor Anderson and The Bat -
erans of Foreign Wars. talion urge the citizens of this I
VFW Buddy Poppies are as- community to recognize the mer-
sembled by disabled veterans and its of this cause by contributing
then sold, with the proceeds used generously to its support through
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exclusively for the benefit of dis- the
purchase
abled and needy veterans and the The Mayor o reques s all pa •
widows and orphans of deceased otic citizens to wear a Buddy
veterans. Poppy as mute evidence of our
The sale of the poppies has gratitude to the men of this coun-
been officially recognized and try who have risked their lives
endorsed by the President of the in defense of t h e s e freedoms
United States and the Veterans which we continue to enjoy as
Administration. The basic pur- American citizens.