AProvo’s Freedom Festival moves to the center stage this week in the’Central Utah paradevof celebrations – anda look atithe schedule indicates there’ll be plenty of color, excitement, and patriotic flavor. It will be Bhe Bicfentennial edition( of a long. string of Provo , Independence Day celebrations. U Early-day Provoans celebrated the “Fourth” at the “public square” where Pioneer Park now stands. A patriotic oration; parade with a “Goddess of Liberty,” and ringing of bells usually were included in the festivities. The American .Legion sponsored some great celebrations in the late twenties and until about 1936 when Legionnaires turneqtl the festival over to a nonprofit Fourth of July Corporation. The celebration’s dimension was enlarged beginning in the early fifties when the stakes ofthe LDS Church became the sponsor. The present sponsor, a nonprofit Provo Freedom Festival corporation, took over a few years ago. A Sunday patriotic assembly at Pioneer Park with Sen. Jake Garn as speaker,. children’s parade, Panorama’ patriotic show, art (actfvity, bazaar, carnival, various sports, and pgnammoth rade these re some of7tiie major events that comprise the schedule, ( Panorama ’76, the festival’s gigantic musical slated Saturday night at Marriott Center, is billed ag a “stirring musical salute to the Bicentennial.” And that it is. With historical res enactments ranging from the Boston Tea Party to Britishtroops marching on Concord, the Panorama is a glitteringr salute to the principles that formed the ) basis of a new nation. in the celebration; from beginning to end, we believe Central Utahns will find entertainment, inspiration and motivation. Let the Freedom Festival, as it unfolds, amount to a gigantic Bicentennial salute from all who have apart in it –and that includes the thousands who attend., ,