WEDNESDAY IS A HOLIDAY - Schools and city, county and state offices and most business places will be closed Wednesday, Memorial Day.  The selective service board and post office will also be closed.  There will be no Wednesday edition of the Ames Tribune.  Regular publication will be resumed Thursday.

AMES HONORS WAR DEAD ON MEMORIAL DAY - Ames will pause Wednesday to honor its war dead, joining millions of persons who will be celebrating Memorial Day in the U.S. and in U.S. cemeteries overseas.  Here, observances are at the Iowa State College Cemetery at 9 a.m. and at Municipal Cemetery shortly after 11 a.m.  The Municipal Cemetery service will begin as soon as the traditional parade reaches the cemetery.  March time is 11 a.m. beginning from Clark and 7th.  The parade route is up Clark to 9th and east on 9th to the cemetery.

The parade and program are sponsored by the Ames Patriotic Council.  Parade participants will assemble on Clark between 5th and 7th beginning at 10 a.m.  Cars will assemble west of the high school on Wilson and fall in line as the parade moves out.

John Crowley is parade marshal.  Crowley asked that the head of each group or organization to march in the parade report to him at the high school grounds.  Each unit will be assigned a numbered card for its position in the parade and these cards will be picked up by Crowley and his assistant, C.B. Anderson, before the parade starts.

Hector Thompson, retired Episcopal minister, 607 Ash, will be principal speaker at the memorial service.  He is Ames American Legion service officer.  Kenneth Wells will be master of ceremonies.

The program:
Prelude, Ames Municipal Band
Invocation, the Rev. Daryl Schmidt
General Logan's Orders, Katy Reed
Battle Hymn of the Republic, sung by Peter Getz, Terry Moore, Marvin Berry, Jack Stevens
Lincoln's Gettysberg Address, Bill Gammack
God of Our Fathers, the vocal quartet
Memorial Day Address, the Rev. Hector Thompson
The Star Spangled Banner, Ames Municipal Band
In Memoriam, laying of the wreaths at the foot of the memorial cross
Benediction, the Rev. Daryl Schmidt
Salute to the Dead
Taps.

(If it rains the program will be held in the high school auditorium at 11 a.m.)

Following is the list as of this morning of groups whose floral wreaths will be placed at the cross Wednesday: Spanish American War Veterans, Daughters of Union Veterans, Daughters of American Revolution, Women's Relief Corps, Golden Agers.

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 1107, American Legion Post 37, Veterans VFW Auxiliary, Legion Auxiliary, Interchurch Council, Knights of Columbus.

Catholic Daughters, Chamber of Commerce, Lions Club, Kiwanis Club, Rotary Club, Order of Moose, Women of Moose.

Elks, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Mariah Rebekah Lodge, Pythian Sisters, Ames Women's Club, Soroptimist Club, Wa-Tan-Ye, Red Cross.

Izaak Walton League, Garden Club, Highway Commission, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and Camp Fire Girls, Royal Neighbors, Pammel Court.

Mrs. Lawrence Zea, Patriotic Council member in charge of memorials, today asked that any omission or addition be telephoned to her at CEdar 2-8030.  Any group or individual can sponsor a memorial wreath.

"USE OUR HARD-WON FREEDOMS" - The Memorial Day speaker at Municipal Cemetery here charged his audience to "practice some of the freedoms" which grew "out of the sacrifices of the men we come here to honor."

Speaking to an audience of about 1,000 persons on a bright fresh midday, the Rev. Hector Thompson, retired Episcopal minister, said:
Out of these sacrifices "was born a Republic in which men have the right to take part in government, have freedom of religion and the freedoms of the bill of rights."

He said that we should "above all, practice some of these things."  He stressed the importance of using the ballot.  He said that "some of us who are here to honor the men" for their sacrifices, "don't even take the trouble to vote."  The speaker warned that there are other obligations connected with the freedoms won for us.  "Eternal vigilance may be the price we have to pay for our freedoms," he said.

He said Americans are finding it hard to realize that they are part of a "whole community of the world."  When we come to know that U.S. servicemen's "sacrifices were for all the people, we become less afraid," he said.  "If we remember the sacrifices of these men, we can let our light guide not only the United States but the world in these wonderful times. "We can enjoy a new birth.  The world is not in a sad plight, we are," he said.