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Everyone who contributes to the county-wide Birthday Ball for the President by the purchase of tickets for the county dance at the Junction Park pavillion Tuesday evening, January 30, will be given an opportunity for a comfortable evening's entertainment. The advance sale of tickets has been substantial in all parts of the county and Chairman Walter M. Goettman and members of the General Committee have arranged for additional places of entertainment.
Tickets bought for the Junction will be honored at a bridge party to be given at the Brodhead Hotel in Beaver Falls, while arrangements have been made for an additional dance at the club house of the Beaver Falls Elks.
Chairman Goettman stated today: It is apparent that Beaver County is giving full support to the nationwide appeal for the greatest charitable undertaking ever attempted. Everyone who buys a ticket for the Birthday Ball for the President will be aiding in the movement to establish a foundation for the study and care of infantile paralysis, which costs the United States $300,000,000 annually in loss of earnings of those afflicted.
The committee wants everyone who participates in this event to have a comfortable evening's enjoyment, and for this reason additional facilities have been arranged in the bridge party at the Brodhead Hotel and the dance at the Beaver Falls Elks as well as the large party at the Junction. Members of the committees in the different towns are requested to call the matter of this choice of entertainment places to the attention nf those purchasing tickets.
Preparations are being made for at least fifty tables of bridge at the Brodhead and substantial prizes will be awarded the winners of both contract and auction bridge. The program will be in charge of members of the Beaver Valley Contract Bridge club through a committee with W.F. Reehl of New Brighton as chairmen and including Howard McCray, William Haberfield and Harry Schaeffer.
Members of the Welfare Committee of the Beaver Falls Lodge of Elks, with W.C. Reich as chairman, will direct details of the dance at the Elks and a splendid program of music for dancing has been arranged. Preparations are being made for the appearance of the floor show arranged for Junction Park, at the Brodhead and the Elks during the course of the evening.
Funds derived from the Birthday party for the President, through thousands of dances throughout the country on next Tuesday night, will not be expended at Warm Springs, Georgia, but will endow a Foundation of sufficient size to permit the establishment of centers for the treatment of infantile paralysis sufferers everywhere, and will permit the national campaign to go on for years.
The countrywide dance at the Junction will be featured by one of the best programs ever introduced at an informal dance in this section of the state. Music for dancing will be provided by an orchestra of 12 pieces. Entertainment acts will be featured.
A loud speaker system is being installed. A radio hook-up will permit the guests to hear the program to be broadcast through 500 stations between the hours of 11:15 and 12:15 o'clock.