Des Moines Tribune from Des Moines, Iowa • 11

Lighting Contest Will Open Here Dec. 19 The Des Moines Junior the fourth annual Christmas it was announced Friday. The contest is open to any resident of Des Moines who decorates and lights his home between 7:30 and 9 p. m. Dec.

19 through 26. Entry blanks are available now at the Junior Chamber office, 510 Equitable bldg. There is no entry fee. A total of $400 in cash and merchandise prizes will be awarded, with a $100 prize Chamber of Commerce will sponsor home lighting contest year, for first-place, $75 for second and $50 for third. The city will be divided into six districts for judging.

A first and second place winner will selected from each district. Three all-city winners then will be picked for the grand prize awards. are Paul E. Helke and Ells Cackler. Last year's first-place winner was Charles E.

Reeves, 3415 Wakonda court. Claims Famed Colossus Was Only Hollow Sham LONDON, ENGLAND the seven ancient wonders of British scientist Thursday night Herbert Maryon, 79-year-old sculptor-archaeologist, told a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries the giant statue was: Too small to stand astride harbor of Rhodes, on the island off the southwest coast of Turkey. Made of thin bronze sheets instead of solid bronze. The statue, of the sun god Helios, was the work of a sculptor named Chares, who spent 12 years on his masterpiece. It was erected in 280 B.

C. An earthquake tumbled it 53 years later. The story handed down through the years is that the statue stood with a beacon 1 in its hands and one foot on each Cigarette Tax Collections Up State cigarette tax collections showed a gain of more than $200,000 last month compared with the same month last year, the Iowa Tax Commission reported Friday. The 1953 legislature increased the tax from two to three cents per package last July 1. The cigarette revenue last month totaled $581,323.

Meanwhile, state beer tax collections in November amounted to $273,185. That represented a gain of about $16,000 over November of last year. Mrs. Harmon Rites Saturday Services for Mrs. Edward Harmon, 57, of 672 Seventeenth who died of a heart ailment Wednesday at Iowa Methodist Hospital, will be at 11:30 a.

m. Saturday at the Hamilton Funeral Home. The body will be cremated. Harmon was born in Lehigh, and had lived in Des Moines 25 years. She was a member of Hawkeye Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star, and Mount Olive White Shrine.

She is survived by her husband. 200-Voice Chorus To Present Musical (The Tribune's Iowa News Service.) FORT DODGE, IA. -The Webster County Choral Union's twenty-sixth annual performance of Handel's oratorio, "'The Messiah," will be presented in the senior high auditorium here Sunday evening. The choral union's 200-voice chorus and 36 piece orchestra has been rehearsing for the "Messiah" presentation for a number of weeks. Colossus of Rhodes, one of the world, was described by a as a hollow sham.

side of the harbor entrance, with enough clearance for ships to pass underneath. Maryon said he has determined from a study of classical inscriptions that the statue was in fact 120 high and the harber 600 feet wide, which would make the famous straddle an anatomical impossibility. Furthermore, he said, his research indicated the heroic figure was not cast in one piece, as hitherto supposed, but was made of bronze sheets beaten into shape and riveted together. Maryon estimated the thickness of the sheets as equal to that of a British penny- about onefifteenth of an inch. The ancients' belief that the statue stood astride the harbor of Rhodes has long been regarded as having no basis other than popular fancy.

The Encyclopedia Americana says there is no known authority for the statement that vessels could pass under its legs. Make This a "REEL" Christmas Give VIEWMASTER color pictures that "come to life" in 3-D. Over 400 thrilling. varied subjects to delight children and adults. Stereoscope $2.00 Light Attachment $2.00 VIEWMASTER REELS 3 for $1.00 35c each Junior Projector $10.95 Library Box 1.85 SIMPSON Photo Service Corner East 6th Locust Phone 4-3609 "Your Exclusive East Side View- Master Dealer" CALL VIC EDE SEWERS and DRAINS Cleaned Electrically with Every Job Guaranteed PHONE 4-2377 Over 18 Years af Dependable Service Keep Sewers Open for as little as $3 a year with RID-O-ROOT Phone or write for FREE din circular 1112 Jefferson St.

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Save from to $10.00 or more weeklyand you'll have happier Christmas next year. NATIONAL BANK TRUST COMPANY CENTRAL 5th and Locust MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION Dicks, 57, Rites Saturday Services for Grace Helen Dicks, 57, of 1106 Harding road, who died of a heart ailment Thursday at Iowa Methodist Hospital, will be at 1:30 p. m. Saturday at the Joseph Lilly Funeral Home. The body will be cremated.

The Rev. C. C. Bacon will officiate at the service. Afies Dicks, a lifelong resibe dent of Des Moines, was a social service worker.

She was a graduate of Drake University, Weekend Postal Hours for Packages Edith Johnson, Des Moines postmaster, Friday announced special Saturday and Sunday hours for mailing packages at the main post office. Saturday, packages may be mailed between 8 a. m. and 6 p. m.

Sunday, packages may be mailed between 1 and 9:30 p.m. Substations will be open only during regular hours8 a. m. to 12:30 p. m.

Saturday. Miss Johnson said a package delivery will be made Sunday in residential areas. Columbia University, and the First Methodist Church. a New York School of Social Surviving is a sister, Mary Workers, She was a member of E. Dicks of Des Moines.

I Des Moines Tribune Page 11 Dec. 4, 1953 Dwight Steele, 51, Is Dead in Creston (The Tribune's Iowa News Service.) CRESTON, IA. Dwight Steele, 51, radiator shop operator and lifelong Union county resident, died in his home here Wednesday night after a week's illness. Survivors include his wife, two sons, two daughters, six grandchildren and two brothers. Services will be in Coens' Home for Funerals Saturday at 2 p.

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