The Key West Citizen

Nation Plans
Old-Fashioned
Celebration
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Throughout the nation this weekend, in big cities and small towns, Fourth of July celebrations will mostly follow the old-fashioned formula of a parade, fireworks and patriotic speeches.
But behind the speeches will lie the very modern problems of an uneasy atomic age, more awesome than any that could be imagined when American independence was declared 178 years ago.
Celebrations at some of the nation's most historic shrines however, will keep alive an appreciation of the country's early struggles and hardships and of the courage required to overcome them.
Johns To Speak
There will be ceremonies at Valley Forge, near Philadelphia, where prospects for American success in the War for Independence reached their lowest ebb. At the Washington Memorial Chapel there acting Gov. Charles E. Johns of Florida will speak.
There will also be other ceremonies at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, home of the Liberty Bell.
Fireworks will light up Boston's famed common, where independence
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Erce was preached and stoutly defended. And several blocks away at the old state house, now a historical museum, the Declaration of Independence will be read by an honor student from Boston Latin School, the oldest school in the country.

Fireworks In Capital

A mammoth fireworks display will be set off July 5 at the grounds of the Washington Monument in Washington D.C. This annual show usually draws thousands to the center of the nation's capital.

The nation's first family—President and Mrs. Eisenhower—will not be in town to see the sight.

They plan a quiet holiday weekend at Camp David, the presidential retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland.

Vice President Richard Nixon will be among the holiday orators.

Today he goes to Somerset, Pa., to take part in the town's sesquicentennial celebration.

Another celebration in western Pennsylvania will mark the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Ft. Necessity near Uniontown, Pa., which opened the French and Indian War. The speaker there will be Gen. George C. Marshall.

California Plans

On the other side of the country in California a huge firework display will be touched off Sunday at the 103,000-seat Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The next day another big show will be staged at Pasadena's Rose Bowl where 80,000 are expected.

In Texas the traditional Fourth of July celebrations are rodeos and cowboy reunions.

At Flagstaff, Ariz., more than 12,000 Indians were in town for three nights of ceremonials and pow-wow rituals.

Independence Day ceremonies in Detroit, Mich., recall the most recent war in which American soldiers have fought. The city will present to Korea a 40-car train loaded with relief and rehabilitation supplies. Tyo Wook Han, Korea's minister plenipotentiary to the United States and delegate to the United Nations, will accept the "train for Korea" gifts, which range from aspirin tablets to trucks and tractors.