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Show HIGHLIGHTS . . . in the week' s news I FAIR: State and county will be held this . coming year in many places that have had none since the war began. Delegates to the annual convention in Chicago of the Association Associ-ation of District and County Fairs, coming from 22 states, resolved to reopen the big shows. It was said that fairs held this year drew larger crowds and made more money than for a long time. HEAVYWEIGHTS: Jimmy Bivins, called the ranking heavyweight fighter fight-er in the absence of Joe Louis, won a hard-fought decision over Lee Murray Mur-ray in a 10-round battle. The crowd expressed disapproval of the result. Bivins weighed 187 pounds, Murray, 200. LUCK: Lieut. N. Jacobs, naval flier, crashed near San Diego. Suffering Suf-fering injuries and shock, discovered that he was behind the targets of a machine gun battalion. He escaped injury from 10,000 bullets, although he was in line of fire. He was found semiconscious. FOOTBALL: Attendance at college col-lege football games declined 18.4 per cent from 1942, a survey of 57 large colleges and universities disclosed. The drop was biggest in the South, with 28.4 per cent, and smallest in the East, at 6.4 per cent. A similar downturn was shown when 1942 figures fig-ures were compared with 1941, the decline between the two years being be-ing 19 per cent. HELICOPTERS: A Pittsburgh taxi company has made application to the public utility commission for permission to operate an aerial taxi-cab taxi-cab service, using helicopters, after the war. USED CARS: Sales of used commercial com-mercial cars were more than doubled dou-bled in October as compared with September, according to figures of financing companies. They reported report-ed a 124 per cent increase in this class of time loans. Sales of new cars, both commercial and passenger, passen-ger, declined, according to the same data. |