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New Toys Keep up with Times, Recall Past
Toys for Christmas, 1958, are
abreast of the times, but the past
is not forgotten.
“Youngsters will anticipate the
headlines by maneuvering fully
manned rocket ships,” says Mel
Freud, president of Toy Guidance
Council. “Playrooms will repro
duce Cape Canaveral's satellite
launching equipment in authentic
miniature.
“Both girls and boys will be re
cruited to the role of research
scientists by a record number of
kits keyed to teach astronomy,
agricultural chemistry, mineral
ogy, entomology and other basic
sciences.
“In contrast are an equally var
ied number of new toys inspired
by the pioneer West, executed
with authentic detail.
“Career toys, keyed to discover
ing and developing juvenile apti
futdes, play an important role in
Santa’s new pack. New girder
panel sets, for example, will in
struct the young engineer-archi
tect in the art of building super
highways. Even the kindergartner
will try his hand at suburban de
velopment with blocks that repro
duce shopping centers and civic
centers in every detail.”
Santa’s pack holds a new kit to
intrigue the pre-school set with
clock repairing, a miniature ver
sion of an industrial tool belt
equipped with tools, a battery
operated play drill with inter
changeable parts including a furn
iture buffer, a printing set that
prints in two colors with plastic
type.
For the junior doctor-nurse
team there is a hospital unit on
wheels. Photographic experts are
recruited from the toddler ranks
with a new toy camera which
simulates a flash bulb operation
by a trigger which clicks against
a bell. .A tiny blackboard doubles
as film.
High-style housewares are in
evidence. Kitchen appliances are
in matching pastels, junior table
service includes carafe sets with
wrought iron holders and Western
Chili Feed Dec. 20
By Sea Explorers
. A chili feed is planned for Sat
urday, Dec. 20 in the Kodiak Mo
tors showroom. The feed is spon
sored by the local Sea Explorer
Ship 726, S.E.S. Bidarka.
The event is being held to raise
funds to outfit the troop’s new
ship, a 36-foot landing craft, do
nated by the U. S. Navy, follow
ing a recent survey of the vessel.
The ship needs only paint and
some rebuilding. The boys in the
troop plan to build a longer cabin
on the craft to facilitate more ex
plorers. Work will be done under
supervision of the troop’s skipper,
Vernon Draper.
The city council designated a
berth in the small boat harbor
for the ship, and it is planned to
take advantage of the berth in
April.
The chili feed will be held
from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. next
Saturday. The menu consists of
one big bowl of chili, salad, crac
kers, coffee, tea or milk. All the
explorers are selling tickets. The
accepted donation is $1.00.
For further information contact
Skipper Vernon Draper at 2801,
or Dennis Gillilan at 5131.
NOTICE
Knudsen’s will be open from 9
a.m. until 9 p.m. every day until
Christmas. 13-ln
style copper trimmed barbecue
utensils.
The young mother can wash
babydoll in a bathmaster that
hoists the doll in and out of a
miniature folding tub by levers.
For young musicians there are
a table top electric pipe organ, a
twirling baton that lights up, a
roll harmonica with changeable
player rolls, automatic player
drums and a top that changes
chords as it spins.
New for the play pen set are
soft plastic telephones on suc
tion cup stands and animated pin
up lights. The cradle gym, 1953
style, has music box attachments.
The stuffed animal kingdom
features whimsical and sad ex
pressions. The seal is a new ad
dition. Music boxes in zippered
poockets are easily removed when
wash day comes.
Highlights of toylard’s rocket
age include a two-stage model
that fires 150 feet into the air.
There’s a motorized satellite that
operates on a gyroscopic principle.
The new playroom planetariums
project constellations and repro
duce solor and lunar phases.
Build-them-yourself scale model
rockets, space ships, space sta
tions and missile batteries have
been designed from official blue
prints.
To make sure the girls take an
interest in science, there’s a girl’s
lab technician set.
FOR A LITTLE SHE AND SPACE-MINDED
HE: For her it’s a camera which simulates a
flash bulb operation by a trigger which clicks
against a bell; for him an authentic miniature
of the trucks used to haul rockets to the Cape
Canaveral rocket launching site.
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FOR THE PROFESSIONAL CHILD: The bis{
Bassett hound is a willing subject for this young
nurse’s experimental work with bandages and a
bagful of first aid equipment The highway en
gineer, junior grade, builds a super turnpike
and bridge with his new girder panel set
JQP TV—The Dinah Share Chevy Show-Sunday-NBC-TV and »he Pat Boone Chevy Showroom—weeMy o*i A8C-TVL
Like all ’59 Chevies, this Impala Sport Coupe is new right down to the tougher Tyrex cord tires it rolls on*
Walk around the car that's all-round new . . .
then he our guest for a pleasure test—
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One look at this ’59 Chevy tells you
here’s a car with a whole new slant
on driving. You see the transforma
tion in its low-set headlights, the
overhead curve of its windshield,
the sheen of its Magic-Mirror finish
—a new acrylic lacquer that does
away with waxing and polishing
for up to three years.
But to discover all that’s fresh
and fine you must relax in Chevro
let’s roomier Body by Fisher (up
to 4.2 inches more room in front,
3.3 inches in back), feel the lounge
like comfort of Chevy’s new inte
rior, experience the hushed tran
quillity of its ride (choice of
improved Full Coil or gentler-than
ever Level Air suspension*). Once
you’re on the road you’ll discover
such basic benefits as bigger, better
cooled brakes that give over 50%
longer life, new easy-ratio steering
and a Hi-Thrift 6 that gets up to
10 per cent more miks per gallon.
And, of course, you find Safety
Plate Glass all around in every
Chevrolet. Stop by your dealer's
and pleasure test the ear that’s
shaped to the new American taste!
*'Optional ut extra cost.
what America wants, America getsinaChevyf
see your local authorized Chevrolet dealer
DONNELLEY & ACHESON
Foot of Main Street * Phoni 3201
Kodiak