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Fireworks Included

Old-Fashioned 4th Slated at MSC

An old fashioned 4th of July celebration, featuring activities for all ages, will be held at Moorhead State College Wednesday as one of the events in the first of four summer programs the college has scheduled leading to the 1976 Bicentennial of the U.S.

The public is invited to participate in the celebration, and free ice cream, lemonade, and coffee will be served during the day. Families are invited to bring a picnic lunch. Hot dogs will be on sale from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Organized by Dr. Charles E. P. Simmions, the dean of social and behavioral sciences and director of summer sessions, the old fashioned "Fourth" will open at 11 a.m. on the campus mall with President Roland Dille presiding at a ceremony that will include the posting of the Colors by Moorhead Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 1223.

A children's bicycle parade is scheduled for 12 noon and followed at 1 p.m. by a children's costume parade. Bothe events will offer first prizes of five silver dollars.

The afternoon schedule includes music by a 14 piece "Fourth of July Band" at 1:30, free movies in Hagen Hall at 3 p.m., and barbershop quartets, games, balloon races, egg rolling and other attractions from 3:30 to 5 p.m.

Planetarium shows will be held in Bridges Hall at 1, 3 and 5 p.m., and tickets are available at the College Box Office in the Center for the Arts.

A picnic and annual meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m. on the lawn east of the library.

Two theater productions are of the MSC Alumni Association Straw Hat Players will present "Look Homeward, Angel," in the Center for the Arts, and a Pulitzer prize-winning play, children's play, "Story Theatre," will be performed in Weld Hall auditorium by the 1973 High School Theatre Company.

The day's activities will conclude with a band concert and a fireworks display by Moorhead American Legion Post No. 21 at Nemzek Stadium starting at 8 p.m.

All of the day's events are free, except the plays, planetarium shows and Alumni picnic.

The theme for this summer's Bicentennial program at the college is "The Great Plains: Romance and Reality."