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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
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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.
"Another flight will be made,
possibly on Thursday or Friday
weather permitting in an at
tempt to better the record," an
Air Force spokesman said.
L. P. Twiss set the present
world speed mark in March,
1956, in the Fairey Delta a
British-built research ship.
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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
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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."
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who served the U.S. Civil Serv
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tinued to serve his country after
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the commission. The Public Per
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CENTRAL POINT
Christmas Party Scheduled
By Doris Hughes
Central Point The Central
Point Home Extensio'n Unit will
hold a Christmas party Dec. 18,
beginning at 10:30 a.m. in the
Grange hall on East Main street
in Central Point.
Co-chairmen of the lunch
committee are Mrs. E. C. Arnold,
Mrs. P. B. Snook. The lesson for
the day will be on consumer
buying of foods. Miss Mary Pat
Lucy, county Home Extension
agent will be the speaker.
During the program, Mrs. Don
ald Lacy will read the Christ
mas story from the. Bible and
Mrs. Claud Lewis will sing a
Christmas number. Mrs. Lewis
will also lead the group singing
of Christmas carols.
A Christmas gift exchange is
also planned for the occasion
with the price of the gift not to
exceed 75 cents. Child care will
be available at the home of Mrs.
Eunice Jones at 235 Laurel st.
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.
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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.
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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.
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