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Show Celebration Will ! Be Held Aug. 2-3 Model of Cargo Ship To Be Shown at Jubilee Aug. 2-3 There will be presented here Aug. 2nd and 3rd a 9 foot, 250 pound, all steel, radio controlled, working model of a 10,500 ton Liberty cargo ship. Th ship was built in a govern-1 govern-1 ment shipbuilding school as an I educational program. It is the OnlV model Cflrcrn Qhin in tha world that can reproduce actual launching procedures and maneuver man-euver under its own power. The ship has been launched and operated in the water many times and was sponsored by such notables as Mrs. Hallace, the mother of the past vice president of the United States, Miss Alice Miller, 7 year old cousin of Billy Mitchell, Miss Ann Richards, Paramount mo ? .star from Hollywood, Hol-lywood, and has been displayed for President Truman, Captain Edward Macauley of the United ! States Maritime Commission, Ad-mial.Shafoth Ad-mial.Shafoth of the Unites States ,Navy, and many othes. It has been in the movies, the news-reels, news-reels, and has been shown and operated all over the country by the government for the recruiting of merchant seamen and the selling sell-ing of war bonds. Mr. Tom B. Chandler, 4 years a superintendent of shipbuilding, 3 years a government shipbuilding shipbuild-ing instructor, and the builder of the famous model, will appear in person with the ship, and his making it possible for every man woman and child to see the ship on a donation basis. |