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o o o e d o Sgt. Bilko Show Called Typical Essay in Insanity By WILLIAM EWALD United Press Correspondent New York HP1 This has been a sad season for the funnybone. Ernie Kovacs, one of TV's larger talents, no longer has his own show. Sid Caesar, who kicks off a pre-shrunk series on ABC TV next month, hasn't been seen at all. Jackie Gleason has been playing golf. What's on TV? Well, there's Red Skelton, but he's for special ized tastes for specialists of about the age nine. Groucho Marx confines himself to that quiz show. There's George Go bel, but Lonesome George does not seem to take off anymore. Silvers As Sgt. Bilko Is that all. No, thank goodness, that isn't all. There is still Phil Silvers Sgt. Ernie Bilko and that wacky, wonderful CBS-TV platoon. The Silvers' show is now in its third year. Tuesday night's episode was a typical essay in insanity. The plot was almost cyclonically ab surd a balloon excursion into the ionosphere, a Sgt. Bilko dis covery that he is really a lieu tenant, a mixup over some back pay and some other narrative salad too complicated to put into English. Albegra maybe. But not English. Calls It Funny Anyway, it was funny. Silvers' Bilko is the most per fectly realized character in TV. And Silvers plays it with the casuel ease of the blessed. Bilko is a swindler, a liar, a cheat. He is a card sharp, a bor rower of money, a wench-ogler and snorer of loud snores. But he DAIRY - East Main St. In all modesty, We have Stupendous products C OPEN MONDAY NITS5 UP OFF! Buy and Sere it ACME! LAZY SUZANS $191 I up All Sizs Assorted Colors See our large selaction o CARAFES Wide choice Including newest shapes in 'black, gold or copper trim. $g5 $750 Well and Tree Meat Block $495 & $595 Perfect for large roasts & fowl OPENERS A practical gift she'll love 365 days a year. Reg. 5.98 $449 is also endearing. That is Sil vers' triumph. Each Silvers show is a kind of small morality play in which evil gets it3 come-uppance and virtue emerges victor. In Tuesday night's episode, Sgt. Bilko enlisted for three more years. Here's hoping he makes it as a 30-year man. Voodoo Speed Fails To Count Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. U" The Air Force today planned a new assault on the British-held world speed mark even though it failed to qualify a record-shattering performance Tuesday be cause of malfunction of a camera. A swept-wing, F-101A Voodoo fighter-bomber, piloted by Maj. Adrian E. Drew of Bergstrom AFB. Tex., Tuesday flashed at nearly 1,200 miles an hour over a 10.1 mile straightaway course to break unofficially the 1,132-mile-an-hour world mark. However, the failure of a cam era which recorded part of the jet's smashing performance pre vented official recognition of the flight by the National Aeronau tic Association. 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A real bargain 72.50 r L IDENTIFIES BOMB Highway contractor Robert Mc Dowell of Nashville, Term., testifying before the Senate Labor Rackets Committee in Washington, identifies home made bomb which failed to explode after being tossed on roof of his company's office. McDowell said that he be lieved that a $100,000 Labor Day bombing on government, property grew out of a dispute between his firm and the Teamsters Union after he rebuffed the Teamsters and signed a contract with a rival union. State Land Buyer Accused of Bribery Hillsboro (IP) A State High way Department land buyer ac cused of trying to bribe a land owner was jailed here Tuesday night and bail was set at S2500. Edwin George Black, 36, Port land, was accused of trying to bribe Irwin Tucker of Forest Grove by paying him $300 over the purchase price for a tract of Tucker's land needed for state highway right-of-way. Tucker said Black offered to split the over payment with him 50-50. Tucker notified police and an officer was at the Tucker home Tuesday night when Black . ar rived and collected the money in marked bills. Black was pick ed up a few minutes later just outside Hillsboro. Knoxville, Tenn. (IP) Friends of James J. Housely gave him a "bridegroom shower" because he complained that the husband to be gets left out of all the pre wedding festivities. Your ACME HARDWARE your Family Gift Center has ALL of the thrilling GIFTS both MOM and DAD wish they had! We've Appliances . . . Housewares . . . China . . . and Personal Gifts for MOM in addition to Power Tools . . . Workshop Equipment . . . Sports Goods . . . and Hobby Supplies for DAD! Step in and inspect our entire GIFT SELECTION today . . . and step out with the PERFECT PRESENTS for YOUR PARENTS! NOW .$12.88 5.00 $ 4.95 1.49 7.95 QUALITY At lowest Prices Mothers Win Demand For Traffic Signal Portland IIP) A group of mothers won Tuesday in a de mand for a traffic signal near Lynch school at the busy inter section of 145th ave. and south east Division st. County commissioners said a manually-operated traffic signal would be installed, if the school's traffic safety committee super vises the signal's operation. The mothers had appeared on Monday at the intersection bear ing signs that read, "Dears cross ing, drive slow." A USEFUL LIBRARY Chicago (IP) Ismar Baruch, who served the U.S. Civil Serv ice commission for 40 years, con tinued to serve his country after death by willing his library to the commission. The Public Per sonnel Association said that among Baruck's papers were records of federal civil activities during his participation and ori ginal material on position classi fication. Medford Charge Plate Is Good at ACME! 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Donald Lacy, speech instruc tor at Crater High school, will leave Thursday with five stu dents for Forest Grove, where they will take part in the Pacific University invitational speech tournament. Students taking part are Phyl lis Taylor, Robin (Sue) Day, Carolyn Edwards, Brian Sewell and David Mack. The four types of contests in the tournament will be debate, oratory, interpre tative reading, and extemporary speaking. This is the fourth year that Crater High school has been represented at the tournament. The group will leave Forest Grove Saturday night, arriving home Sunday. Jim Cimfl, son of John C. Cimfl of Cnetral Point, was well enough to go back Monday to Glendale, Ore., where he is em ployed in a sawmill. He has been in Central Point since leaving the hospital after being injured last week in a car wreck four miles north of Grants Pass. 3 -"v x r -xii All I y Christmas I l . $ I Robes as festive as the pO I Tjji JQ holiday season, as warm as llik h y0ur kav wishes, and as n ltPl"f Ivi w f& S fashionable as she could wish i Bip,V l 3 for! That's what you'll find $ JlllllfA Jl m Uf rsfcmas collection. Al ui mN ' HP v Ycrhat's raore' most of .thcse. Ji fl 1 f J) Ihey'n 50 easy to care for, SJ f they'll never interfere fyi yVl with her hours of at-home AVy VViSi J reaxaton- Come in yj l It just the robe to thrill j fell f her "Slippers" ' 'w )( 1 1 Oompies . . . Niteaire... J S 1.99 to 6.95 CLN J Wednesday, December 11, 1957 Mr. and Mrs. Max Hoffman and children, Sandra and Gerry, of Sweet Home left Saturday after visiting at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Van Horn of Central Point. They also visited the A. D. Van Horns. The Hoffmans have recently returned from Germany where he was sta tioned with the Army. The Central Point junior high school basketball team will play Ashland there Dec. 12 at 6:30 p.m. A birthday dinner was given at the A. D. Van Horn home Sat urday honoring their son Jody on his tenth birthday. Guests were Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Van Horn Jr., Donnie Patterson, Miss Judy Van Horn and Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Van Horn, all of Cen tral Point, and Mr. and Mrs. George Tilley and children, Rus, Randy and Sue of Gold Hill. The American Legion and Auxiliary will hold a meeting Thursday evening, Dec. 12, start ing at 8 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Myres Holland Post 129 on Pine st. in Central Point. Riley Potter returned to his home on Willow Springs rd. Fri day. He has been staying at the home of his brother in Vancou ver after being discharged from the hospital in Portland. Mrs. John Blackford reported that she has recently renewed a friendship with a girlhood friend whom she hadn't seen for 38 NEW LOOK Buffalo, N.Y. m The Union and Echo, official weekly news paper of the Buffalo Catholic Diocese, is wearing a new look. For several years, the Union and Echo was a tabloid-size paper. Now it has a standard, eight column format. Each edition is larger, and several new features have been added. at LEON'S years. The friend, Mrs. Earl Hart, moved back to Central Point after living in California for 20 years. Also visiting with the two women was Mrs. Hart's mother, Mrs. Ada Rogers, who lives in Medford. Mrs. Hart and Mrs. Blackford attended school together at Antioch. Wilbur Walker, who has been in the hospital since being in jured in a logging accident four weeks ago, is now well enough to be home. why mm Downtown Traffic? 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