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Wheel of Fortune Sell Your Books & Play! Get top dollar for your used books and spin for prizes discounts, more cash or a chance to win a trip for two to Las Vegas. Play at either location-Today! 340 Jersey St. Across from University Police 696-2111 901 Harvey Rd. Woodstone Center 764-3969 You’ve Got This. Then You Can Have This! NO DOWN PAYMENT $400 REBATE Grad Program + $750 REBATE Oldsmobile $ 1150 TOTAL REBATE AND NO PAYMENT FOR 90 DAYS -Show Your Peers You’ve Finally Arrived- ALLEN OLDS - CADILLAC - ISUZU, INC. "Where Satisfaction Is Standard Equipment’ ’ 2401 Texas Ave 779-3516 GM QUALITY SERVICE PARTS raiiisMiwniBm State of Mind t WILLI j$is and coffin, a mission v by Kristi %*,>• ■ IT & t>t &CrO*TiHGi f THATS WHAT if IS ... ■ • ANts THfcY CAul- THeMS>fcU.V€.S CWlUIZfcfck 1 . 40 former POWs return to camp to attend Mass UMBARGER (AP) — After leav ing this country as prisoners of World War II more than 40 years ago, a group of Italian soldiers inter ned at a nearby POW camp were welcomed as friends to a Mass cele brated here Sunday in honor of their dead comrades. As part of a visit to the area where they once were held captive, the for mer POWs celebrated Mass in a church their fellow prisoners deco rated during their internment with painted wall murals. “The work that is in this church has been such a constant presence to us that when we see it we think of you with love,” the Rev. Richard Sonderman of St. Mary’s Catholic Church told the group. Cameras flashed and video cam eras recorded the paintings as the group of about 40 ex-POWs and their families viewed the handiwork of nine of their comrades, who vol unteered in 1945 to decorate the in terior of the small stucco church. Only two of the artists who were brought daily from the POW camp at Hereford, 10 miles to the south west, to work at the church still are living, and only one of those made the journey, retired Brig. Gen. Franco Di Bello. “My soul is overwhelmed with emotion in coming here today,” Di Bello said. A resident of Pordenone, Italy, Di Bello described to parishioners, some of whom he has corresponded with for x ears after forging friendships in the 1940s, how the walls of their church came to be dec orated with pastel-toned paintings of religious symbols and geometric de signs. A 23-year-old lieutenant at the time of his capture by Allied forces in Tunisia in 1943, Di Bello was one of about 6,000 soldiers held at the Hereford camp from 1944 to 1946. mired artwork done by the prisoners, he arranged lor Di | and the others to design and p the murals. The Italians agreed to do: work on condition that they n paid and that U.S. officials m. j stood that they were not coopera, with the government. I he |>i inc ipal artist, Dino betti, is in poor health andcou j make the journey to see ho" work has withstood 40 year Bello said. Using a book as a copy, C>an and the others painted theascer; I of Christ on canvas behind the a. along with two flanking muraL soldier executed a woodcarviK| the front of the communion ta After the priest at St. Mary’s ad- On Saturday, the group of ^ ians visited the site of the 7 I POW camp, dismantled in 19«j cept for a chapel built by the p ri ' ers in honor of five soldiers pi died at the camp. i $ University Bookstores I announce 3rd Location! 1 at University Dr. & Tarrow in the Village Shopping Center with GTE and Gyms of Texas across from the Hilton. WE BUY ALL BOOKS AT ALL 3 LOCATIONS Even paperbacks, novels, out-of- edition books if you bring them with usable textbooks. Sell your books before you leave -they're worth more now I We also buy Biology, Chemistry & Engineering equipment. University Bookstores Northgate Culpepper Village Plaza Shopping Center i- r