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Show of Hollywood's most elegant! buildings where the mon'-hly rent would pay for at least a square mile of those Dallas slum dwellings. TTe was nnlv plpvpn when he American Lopez with "That Trini Lopez is the greatest United States export since Coca-Cola." Appearing with Trini Lopez will he thpnew nrr spnsatinnal 'Rags to riches life's story of VMH entertainer had already decided what he wanted to do; having watched his father play the guitar and sing since he was a tot, he decided de-cided that music would be his life. His father bought him a $12 instrument, "It was like an ordinary family spending $500 for a kid's gift," says Trini. He worked every day and began to develop a singing style. By the time he was 15 he had farmed his own combo and was playing at a Dallas restaurant. During summer vacations he was touring tour-ing restaurants and clubs in the Southwest. Mexico's newspaper 'Nove-Dades" 'Nove-Dades" proudly hailed the success suc-cess of the young Spanish- comedy team of Kalil and Toy-lor Toy-lor whose comedy album "My Plumber Doesn't Make House Calls," is climbing the popularity popular-ity ladder at a fast clip. Tickets are on sale at North Salt Lake Box Office, Castle-tons, Castle-tons, Sears, Murray Music, ZCMI, Booktable in Logan. U.S. Population The Census Bureau has estimated esti-mated the population of the United States at the beginning of the year to be a little less than 189 million. This is a 10 per cent increase from 1960 and the bureau expects the 200-million 200-million mark to be reached by late this year. Trini Lopez will appear for two evening performances on March 31 and April 1, with a matinee April 1, at the Valley Music Hall in North Salt Lake. The miracle of Trinidad Lopez Lo-pez III is this: Over half the man's life was spent in the jungle atmosphere of Dallas' "Little Mexico" where his playground play-ground was rooted in the narrow nar-row dirty streets and his family fam-ily slept and lived eight in a room and fought a daily war to keep a sense of dignity alive. Today, not yet 30, Trini lives in a magnificent apartment in one |