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Editorial Department 4455 Main GALESBURG, ILL.

Business Office 4117 Main
March 10, 195

Dr. Forrest Allen,
University of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kan. “

Dear Dr. Allen;

The Junior Chamber of Commerce in Galesburg is formlating
plans for a basketball banquet to honor the Galesburg High
school team, whose exploits you may read in the enclosed
clipping, and the local parochial club, which also had a
good season.

When the committee thought of possible speakers, basketball
naturally prompted the suggestion that you be contacted as
a potential guest. I am sure that your position in the bas-
ketball world would attract a big crowd, also on handto
honor our local teams.

We hope to have the wancuet in the last week of Merch, or
even the preceding week if arrangements progress as rap id-
ly as we hope. Would you consider speaking here? lf that
is possible, we would appreciate your available dates of
the period I mentioned.

While there are several suitable locations for the banquet,
we are hoping to entice the ladies of the Methodist church
here to consent serving the meal in their dining room, which
is the most cormodious in the city. Their decision wil be
available early in the week.

Train connections to Galesburg via the Santa Fe, I think you
will find, are excellent. The Santa Fe's Chicagoan arrives here
at 6:2) p.m., and I believe leaves Kansas City about 12:30 p.m.
There are then several early morning trains from here which
would place you in Kansas City the morning of tle next day.

We would appreciate an early reply vy and trust you can enter-
tain what 4s now a "basketball-mad" townsfolk.

: . Sincerely yours,

Sports Sditor