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Ak-Sar-Ben Matches Funds For Co. Fair Improvements Omaha, Nebr. — Ak-Sar-Ben’s sewest program of financial as sistance to Nebraska county fairs, which soared from a $500 grant to a statewide improvement program of nearly a qvsrter-cf-a-million dollars, has been continued for another year. Jess J. Thurmond, chairman of the Ak-Sar-Ben Public Affairs Committee, said' the program met with such widespread public ap proval that the Omaha civic or ganization approved continuance of the grants for 1955. Under the plan, which sets up a fund to help the county fairs build and improve their facilities for great er service to the public, Ak-Sar Ben provides $500 for any county fair which will match the grant with at least an equal amount for construction of new permanent buildings or new improvements on their fair grounds. A total of 71 counties received Ak-Sar-Ben’s $500 checks in 1954. And the funds were used to start! a wide variety of building and improvement projects. New build ings and structures of all sizes and descriptions have sprung up on county fair grounds through out the state. There are new | livestock buildings, sales pavil ions, community and activities buildings, exhibit halls, 4-H Club buildings, dining rooms and kitchens, grandstands, stages, lighting and sanitary installa tions, and scores of others. “Although we receive countless requests for donations from many other sources,” Mr. Thurmond said, “Ak-Sar-Ben has consistently chosen to channel the bulk of its funds to the county fairs in keeping with a program dedicated to the future of midwestern agri cultural economy. As long as our great agricultural industry pros pers, then all of us living in this area will prosper, and as long as Ak-Sar-Ben has the funds avail —j! AS COGS IN AMERICA'S ECONOMIC MACHINERY^ OUR YOUNGSTERS. ARE MORE IMPORTANT TODAY THAN EVER BEFORE. THE BABY BOOM (FOUR '' MIUJON BIRTHS IN ICJ5-41 IS OPENING ' \ NEW MARKETS FOR MANY BUSINESSES gtgtejSgf AND INDUSTRIES. -.— BEFORE TEEN-AGE, UNCOUNT ED MILLIONS OR YOUNGSTERS EARN MONEY DOING SUCH -JOBS AS BABY-SITTING, Shoveling snow, mowing LAWNS, CADDYING AND DELIVERING NEWSPAPERS AUJCH OF THIS MONEY IS FINDING ITS WAV' INTO SAVINGS ACCOUNTS. THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN HOLDING SAVINGS ACCOUNTS IN SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS HAS RISEN SHARPLY IN RECENT YEARS. AAA NY TEEN-AGERS TODAY HAVE HIGHER INCO/VAES THAN THE GROWN-UPS OR SEVERAL. GENE RATIO MS AGO. ITS NOW ESTIAAATED THAT NEARLY 6>000,000 YOUNGSTERS BETWEEN \4- AND IP YEARS OR AGE HAVE AN AVERAGE INCOME OR APPROXIMATELY ^4-50 . UNITED STATES SAVINGS AND LOAN LEAGUE @ Educator Awarded "Beau Brummel" Title PARK t iliioRp I .^ f NEW YORK — A prominent educator and community leader out paced 600 other nominees here to capture the title “Mr. Beau Brum <mel of Harlem.” The distinction was awarded bythe Uptown Press »Club of New York. The well-groomed winner is Dr. James Allen, lb St. Nicholas PL, New York City. He’s shown here, at center, during presentation ceremony at Spring ball of the journalists club. Pre (senting Park & Tilford gift hamper is C. Melvin Patrick (left), club president, and Ophelia De Vore, president of Grace Del Marco Model 1 Agency. i Dr. Allen, a former school teacher, is currently district school co ordinator for community education of the Board of Education in New , York City. He was for 15 years president of the New York state unit of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People < and founded that organization’s New York City branch. , He has lectured widely in this country and abroad on human rela tions and on youth problems. Among his other affiliations are chair man, youth committee, Harlem branch, Y.M.C.A.; member, national*■ I council, Y.M.C.A.; member, speakers’ bureau, English-Speaking Union, j and former member, national council, Boy Scouts of America. He taught school for 20 years here. s The press ball was held at Savoy Ballroom, here, able we will continue to carry on such programs as this for the benefit of all.” Nebraska Manufacturing Up 16.5 Percent, Census Reports Value added by manufacture in Nebraska in 1953 was $401,398, 000, an increase of 16.5 percent over 1952, according to 1953 Annual Survey of Manufactures estimates released today by John E. Tharaldson, of Des Moines, j Census Bureau Regional Field Assistant. Average number of manufact uring employees in Nebraska in 1953 was 57,558, with total sal aries and wages of $210,973,000, comparied with 53,063 employees paid $186,180,000 in 1952. Value added in the manufacture of food and kindred products in Nebraska in 1953 was $203,273, 000, up from $188,499,000 in 1952. Average number of employees in this industry was 25,892, with total salaries and wages of $93, 864,000 in 1953, compared with 26,591 employees paid $96,669,000 in 1952. Information on ^nanufacturing activities in 1954 iq now being collected in the 1954 Census of Manufactures and statistics for States, their counties and cities,! covering all important industries will be published before the end of this year. Hruska Opposed To Cycle Tax Senator Roman Hruska (R. Nebr.) is urging early action on a bill introduced in the Senate last month that would repeal the 10 per cent manufactors’ excise tax on motor-yles. Hruska was one of the co-sponsors of this bill that is pending in the Senate Fi nance Committee. “For excise tax purposes, mo torcycles are in the same cate gory as automobiles and pay the same rate of tax,” Senator Hruska sid . “However, automo bile sales have soared in the past six or seven years, while the sale of motorcycles for this same period has declined about 60 per cent.” , Senator Hruska said the pri mary reason for the decline in motorcycle sales is the increasing competition from foreign mar kets. He pointed out that for eign-made automobiles have nev er been a serious threat to the American market as in the case with motorcycles. “The Federal Treasury has de rived little benefit in taxing the motorcycle industry. In 1954, the excise taxes paid by the in dustry amounted to slightly over ■-1 t Distinctive Table Top fF YOU have a coffee table with a marred top but otherwise good appearance, you tan make it like new without 1 lot of laborious refinishing. And at the same time you can give the table a distinctive feature that it never had — a marble pattern top with a sur face that takes abuse. The simple job is done by ipplying a new top in the form of a plastic-finished Marlite panel in one of five authentic marble patterns. Widely used for walls and ceilings, the ma terial is available at lumber yards. Saw a panel to fit, allowing ; a fraction of an inch for smoothing edges by planing and sanding. Bond the panel to the table with adhesive and leave weights on top until the ad hesive is set. Wax the edges or paint them to harmonize with the marble pattern and table finish. Your new table top, with its baked-on plastic finish over a tempered Masonite hardboard base, will defy attacks by bev erages, heat and wear. Damp cloth wiping will clean it. $1,000,000,” Hruska said. “Many manufactures faced with a situa tion similar to that of the motor cycle industry were given sub stantial excise tax reductions last year, and the present bill re pealing the excise tax on motor cycles is in accordance with that policy,” the Senator continued. “The entire motorcycle indus try is a small one employing less than 2,000 workers,” Hruska add ed. “A repeal of the 10 per cent excise tax will give this long established industry an opportu nity to grow and prosper,” the Senator concluded. Hruska Asks Postal Exams Senator Roman Hruska (R Nebr.) has requested the Civil Service Commission to give com petitive examinations at First and Second-Class Post Offices over the State July 11th to deter mine the relative standing of in terested applicants for West Point or Annapolis. “The Civil Service epamination is not an entrance examination for either of the Academies,” Senator Hruska said,“but it will be used as a basis for my ap pointments.” Appointees will be required to successfully pass the regular academy entrance exam inations. Senator Hruska said young men should keep in mind that West Point and Annapolis offer the finest education in the United States. “Both academies enjoy a scholastic reputation equal to the best universities in America,” he said. Young men interested in an | Army or Navy career should ex plore the many advantages offer ed in addition to an excellent ed ucation,” Hruska said. “Among ithe many advantages are a life ,time position with promotional opportunities and a liberal retire ment plan,” Hruska continued. Senator Hruska pointed out that candidates must have reach ed their seveenth birthday on or before July 1, and not have reach ed their twenty-second birthday on or before July 1 of the cal endar year in which they expect to enter either West Point or Annapolis. Senator Hruska urges interest ed applicants to write him im mediately for authorization to take the Civil Service examin ation. Handrails Needed 'Maks sure that every stairway has a handrail. Reinforce Page Holes Want to reinforce the holes in the pages of a loose-leaf recipe book, or any kind of loose-leaf notebook, quickly and Inexpensively? Simply dab each hole with colorless nail polish and let dry. Moving Tips Before you move: Notify your electric, gas, water, and telephone companies, so they can shut off service at the time you wish. Ask | your postman or post office for a change-of-address card. Notify your life-insurance companies, newspa per office, magazine companies, and the stores where you have charge accounts, of your change of address. Ask your physician and dentist to recommend doctors in the community which is your destina tion. Used His Head On Mt. Shasta, Calif., Mountain Climber Dan O’Neill, 34, slipped and fell on the snowy slope, es caped with only minor cuts and bruises after a 40-m.p.h. head-first slide of nearly a mile, because “I kept my head, used my toes as brakes and steered with my fore arms." THE NEWEST CARD GAME Don’t believe it the next time some , one tells you that Calypso is only a combination of Canasta and Bridge. ' Nothing could be farther from the 1 truth as you yourself will discover j the very first time you play the game. Calypso, o £ course, is Ihe exciting tew card game cur r e n t 1 y sweeping the country r tvhich gives *. each player * his own per sonal trump suit and is; played with four decks | of cards’ shuffled to gether to form one giant pack. Conceived in the romantic island of Trinidad, Calypso has already been described -by one well-known card expert as the first really new card game since Whist. Whist first appeared way back in the sixteenth century. If this isn’t enough to convince you that Calypso is an entirely new game, a few comparisons with Canasta and (Bridge may help. 1 How does Calypso differ from IBridge? For one thing, there is no laidding in Calypso. For another, ^ there is no “dummy”; all four players play every hand. But Calypso’s big gest distinction is that '* gives each player his own personalNixump suit, determined at the beginning of the game by drawing cards and unaltered * by any of the cards received *n en suing deals. \ J Calypso is a game in which tricitf are taken, but unlike Bridge, the number of tricks captured has no significance and they are frequently broken up in the process of forming Calypsos. Calypso also differs from Bridge in that no one suit ranks higher than another. What about Canasta? The games are similar in that the main object in Calypso is to complete as many. Calypsos as possible during the four deals comprising a game. But you cannot add to a Calypso (a complete run of 2, 3. 4, etc., up to the ace of your personal suit) by melding from your hand; you build the Calypso only with cards in tricks won by you and your partner. There is no meld ing or discarding in Calypso, no wild cards or bonus cards; Jokers aren’t even used. Perhaps the best news lor most, card fans is that a Calypso game is completed in a half hour or less while a game of Canasta can some* times run several hours. You can get a free, pocket-sized, leaflet containing the complete rules for playing Calypso merely by send* ing a stamped, self-addressed envel* ope to Playing Cards. 420 Lexington Avenue, New York 17. ARE YOU PIT TO ► _D 81 V 8 CAN YOU PASS ? Are you fit to drive? Safe driving depends on many factors. You must know and obey the traffic laws, of course. But what about your ability to drive—to handle a car safely? » Traffic accidents are zooming and the public is aroused. Public offi cials are grim. Some states are already tightening their driver licensing laws. The time is not far distant when all drivers must pass periodic re examinations to determine their continued fitness to operate a motor vehicle. The fact that you have a driver’s license today doesn’t mean you will have it a few months or a year from now. So give yourself that tougher test right now— How about your accident record—good or bad? How about your police record—good or bad? How about your physical and mental condition? Don’t gamble. Drive safely, obey the law, and be sure you are fit all-ways. SLOW DOWN-LIVES ARE IN YOUR HANDS! THE OMAHA GUIDE