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I agree.MISS HOUSTON Add - i While in Houston, Mr, Freedman met with Wes Hooper, Jaysee president, and other Jaycee officials, including Wally Sisk and Howard Van Satan, co-chairmen of the Kirs Houston Pageant Committee, and George Kendrifk, chairman of the Jaycee Public Affairs Committee in whose Jurisdiction the Kiss Houston Pageant falls. On learning details of the Miss Houston Pageant, and especially that Jerry Iewfs will emcee tb.e spectacular event, Mr, Freedman expressed delight over what he termed "so fabulous and plush?ǥ an event * "The Coliseum will be too small. V 11 have to turn away a lot of people who will want to see Jerry Lewis perform. I know, because he works for me at the Sands Hotel once a year. "For my money, Jerry Lewis is one of the country's top entertainers and emcees." Announcement of the Las Vegas trip enhanced even more the spectacular pfires and treatment that Miss Houston will receive when she is crowned on July 14 in Sam Houston Coliseum, In addition to the trip, she will get a surprise gift from Jerry Lewis himself, a $1000 scholarship from Bill HcDcvtd, who is also underwriting the pageant, A $500 wardrobe, $300 diamond wrist watch, a $250 portable sewing machine, $150 portable television set, $150 portable Underwood typewriter, a glamorous white fox fur, $100 worth of blue ship insurance stock, a large studio portrait, and a personal color telephone with a year's free service from the Jaycee bachelors. -30-