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Show mm i.. ne 1 v eh V f t "Merchants Council Anhounces'Committces, Plans For Major iSS'SMrJSffiSlWill Promote Local. 1848 were announced today by Marion Halliday, chairman of the newly organized ; Retail . Merchants Mer-chants council. :"' " " j Mr. Halliday released plana for a trio ox promotional snopping events,, designed to show the advantages ad-vantages and consumer benefits -. of shopping in Provo. . , , 4 The events and their chairmen ' are: Provo Bargain Birthday Stale, tied in with the July 4 celebration celebra-tion and Provo's Centennial, 'Arch Ping Days,! fall promotional campaign arom ocpi. to v 9, Ernest Steele, chairman, and the annual Christmas celebration. . Ray ! Murdock, chairman. ; - Committees Listed -. j ,- Committeemen- to assist r Mr. Madsen with the Provo Bargain . Birthday sale included C. E. Pet erson, Marvin Gease, Bill Carlson, Zack Brown, B. B. Glasgow and , Breck'Fagin. Members of Mr. Steele's committee lor Pf ovo - Shopping Days are A. Grosjean, Bill Firmage, Mark Berkhimer ' and Lou Allen. Assisting Mr. Murdock with the Christmas celebration cele-bration Will be Art Adamson, A. M. : Stephens, Lee Mendenhall, Jack Smeath and Max Berg. .Mr. Halliday today also announced an-nounced the, Retail - Merchants' council advertising committee. It includes Lynn Taylor, chairman; Owen ' Johnson, Ted Morgan, Frampton Collins and Harold Van Wagqfien. ' The Christmas celebration is an annual event of some years stand-in. stand-in. The Provo Shopping Days in 1 the fall was tried last year for the first time and pronounced an outstanding out-standing success by the majority of merchants involved. This will be the first year for the Provo Bargain Birthday sale, although some emphasis has been placed r in past years on shopping locally ' preceding July 4, for participation in prize awarding, at the July 4 stadium.' show". Centennial Slant ; ; The Provo Birthday Bargain '. sale will have a Centennial slant In connection with the July 4 A celebration, wnien is also em- TV 4k. inn ik. t will be conducted for a period preceding July 4, with shopping directed toward that date and 'the Casting Director Is Finally To Be Immortalized on Screen; Ask Beddoe By VIRGINIA MacPHEKSON .HOLLYWOOD, April 22 (U.R) The casting director, that harried Victim of all those . locker-room jokes, is finally being immortal ized on the screen. And practic ally everybody in town figures this is his" chance to get even. They're out for revenge, they ate. With everything from gags about saving the juiciest-roles for relatives on down to the tfred old wheeze about ''signing up cuties on the dotted couch." You'd think they'd been waiting wait-ing for a chance like this for years, the way they're swamping swamp-ing Don Beddoe with suggestions. He's the actor. 20th- Century-Fox picked to play a casting director in " "The Bandwagon," And the way he tells it everybody wants to hop on. "My telephone rings day and night " Beddoe moaned. "And al ways its some actor or actress who iust thousht of "a new hook I ' could throw in my portrayal. They wants me to make it as jnasty as possible." They're out to make sure he Cts all the classic brusn-oiis IllinoisfcLemons Are Grapefruits Sized PARIS. IU am California and Florida ' fruit growers have nothing on Andy Papp, midwest-: midwest-: erner who growS giant lemons in his home just for the fun of it. Papp( exhibits two emons, each the size of a grapefruit and each weighing more than a pound, as a proof of his prowess. The lemons were grown by ' grafting a branch from a lemon tree to aA shrub, Papp said. He won't reveal what kind of a shrub, however. "That's a secret," he said. YOUTH KILLED IN TRUCK -AUTO CRASH A 20-year-old Salt Lake . City youth, Robert PerryReif, died within a few minutes of his arrival ar-rival at a Salt Lake hospital Wednesday Wed-nesday of a compound skull fracture frac-ture suffered ' in an auto-truck crash. -- Deputy sheriffs who investigated investi-gated said Reifs fatal injury occurred oc-curred 'when the car in which he was Tiding rammed a parked 'dump truck. Lew Forts fvery wfctrt SALT LAKE CITY 99c i PUEBLO J... 10.901 KANSAS CITY : 22.30 cus CEimn .166 North Univ. Phone 1272 Provo Shopping s, , i fc ' , e . - . . ! . . V - - - 1 , v RAY MURDOCK awarding of prizes at the celebration's celebra-tion's stadium show. - The Provo ShoDDins Days will be to ' revive the Successful "Fall Shopping Daysof last year which found Such favor with a majority of merchants. Manv of the latter issued statements following the . two; week period last year that' they noticed a definite increase in their business during that period, and felt the event should be con tinued. ' ' - The Christmas celebration will open- with the traditional Christmas Christ-mas parade to start the Christmas shopping season. A new program , is promised this year, including! some new and effective Christmas Christ-mas lights for the business section, sec-tion, details of which are to be announced later.. In a statement concerning general gen-eral merchant policy, Mr.' Halliday Halli-day said: "We as merchants must be known as: alert, courteous and accommodating, and, ever-attentive to the problems of supplying all the needs of ;people living in this vast productive market. We as merchants and business people peo-ple should make it a business of being friendly, and careful to see that proper merchandise is afforded af-forded those who come here." "You're too old," "too young," "too fat." "too thin," etc. And the old line all casting directors hand out no matter how well- known the actor is "what've you done before?'! . A few of the more frustrated characters want Beddoe to get in a dig somewhere about romantically-inclined casting direc tors who spend most of their time chasing blondes around desks. Beddoe said "no" to those boys, but he does have a few old grudg es of his own he'd like to settle up. 5'What I hate most," he says, "is the way they call in anywhere from six to 100 people for the same part then they march us into a producer's office like so much beef on the hoof. "You stand there for inspec tion while the boys look all this prize cattle' up and down and talk about you as if you weren't even people. That's the worst feel ing .there is." ' Truman Signs Gl Brides Act WASHINGTON, April 22 (U.R) President Truman has signed into law an. act extending' the GI brides act for foreign fiancees of ex-American soldiers whose ap plications to enter the United States; werf" pending when the law expired last Decv31. Under the act, an,ex-GI is per; mitted to bring his foreign fiancee into the United-States for OOdays If he marries her during that pe riod, she is given the status of "permanent' resident. ' The state department hag 'estimated 'esti-mated that the new lawwill affect af-fect about 1000 foreign fiancees most of them German. They will Shave a five-month grace period while their applications are be-ins be-ins nrocessed. , ! - One-quarter of all, the radlol sets in the U. S. are operated with battery current.. . JhU i . i r- - J'4L mi t in m 1. I Road fho Campaigns Shopping Programs ARCH MADSEN ERNEST STEELE Army Tries Out Oils And Tires ABERDEEN, MeL (U-P-) An ar my convoy of 14 vehicles has completed com-pleted a 21,500-mile journey during dur-ing which it tested experimental lubricants and tires under temperate, tem-perate, desert and arctic climatic conditions. T Four officers and 24 enlisted men carried out operation Greaseball" in 7 months. Aberdeen proving ground Of ficer said the purpose was to test six types of lubricants and three types Of tires in an attempt to obtain one type of lubricant and tire that would be 'efficient in any part of the world." Heating equipment also was tested. . The convoys first t0p was Desert Center, Cal., where Gen. George S. Patton used to test his tanks for desert warfare. ! At Desert Center, each truck went through a 3000-mile exper iment in intense desert heat. Five hundred miles were driven oVer trackless, uncharted desert terrain, using only Compass and speedometers. The convoy then went to Great Falls, Mont., and from there ' to Fairbanks, Alaska. The vehicles traveled over the entire Alaskan peninsula as far as terrain permitted, seeking the coldest areas as designated by air force weather stations. 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