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-22- George Burns Show Disappears After Nine Years on Television By VERNON SCOTT UPI Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD (UPI) George Burns' TV show flamed out this week after nine years on the air, but the cigar-puffing comedian says even Grade Allen couldn't have saved it. Flibbertigibbet Grade, retired last fall. "I don't think Oracle's retirement had anything to do with our show going off the air," Burns said, sipping a martini in his Beverly Hills home. "Her absence was no more responsible for ending the program than it "Was for Phil Silvers being cancelled. "Television moves in cycles.

There was a time when situation comedies were at the top. They were replaced by Westerns. Now it looks as if the detective show.s are moving in. It all has to do With audience attitude. "Speaking of detective series.

they all have a beat with that crazy musical background. If a private-eye doesn't know how to play a bongo drum he's finished. Watches Peter Gunn "We saw the 'Peter Gunn' show the other night and thought it was great. We danced for two hours." George says he's far from finished himself. Next month he makes his debut as a nightclub entertainer at Lake Tahoe, Calif.

From there he moves to a four-week stand in Las Vegas. "I haven't faced a 'live 1 audience in 25 years," he said. "But I'm not apprehensive about it. No, Grade won't be a part of the act. When she retired she meant it." Next TV season George will co- produce the "Milton Berle Comedy Theater" in which he will a pear infrequently.

i "I'm too okl to retire." he 'grinned. "You can't enjoy playing i golf every day. People harder retiring, than they do at a job. It's murderous trying to kill 'eight hours a day. The minute 'you're forced to take two hours lunch it's work.

Confident and Determined "Milton and I are teaming up because we don't think people are going to laughing. Between the two of us we know enough' about comedy. I have a hunch will be different and successful." After 50 years in show business George virtually is starting all over again. But he's confident and determined to prove himself as a "I'll do what I did years ago in vaudeville," George said, exhal- jng a cloud of smoke. "I'll smoke a cigar, tell some jokes, sing a little bit and dance a few steps.

What I really like is the chance to sing again." Why is George, an extremely wealthy man, continuing his ca- "I like the applause," he an- 'swered. "Performing is like i Once you hear the applause and approval of an audience you're never quite happy without it." A I KITTANNING, PA. THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1959f To Be Heard Area Students in Choir of CSTC Complete Marine Supplies Mercury Outboard Sales and Service Hileman's Boat Service Manorviile Phone RO 3-156J Westinghouse Given Generator Contract PITTSBURGH I The iNavy has awarded Westinghouse Electric Corp. a contract to "design, construct, test and furnish a five-kilowatt thermoelectric gener- ator." The Bureau of Ships, which awarded the contract, said the i generator will convert the heat of a burning fuel directly into elec- i tricity. It will have a power out; put larger than that of any generator of this type known to have been constructed.

TESTING THEIR VOICES are three local vocalists right are Sally Shaner of East Brady Kittan- who are members of the Clarion State Teachers ning; James Wingate and Theodore Breuer, both College Choir, which will be at the Kittanning First of Ford City, Baptist Church for a concert Sunday night. Left to Television in Review DIAMOND BEAUTY DIAMOND VALUEL $150 both rings tnj Terms setting makes center diamond look LARGER! MORE BRILLIANT! If (he most advanced technique In diamond setting! Rings I look twice the price. Sea thisj miracle of diamond! beauty today. Rings lock together Inl lasting UKirat white or yellow. told settings.

$300 both rings Budget Terms A year to pay. iasy credit. Karp's Jewelry 107 South Jefferson St. Kittanning By WILLIAM EVVALD United Press International NEW YORK (UPI)--Bob Hope's a ball has lost much of its hop, but he remains a superb techni- Ician who still checks a comfort- table game. i Wednesday night.

Hope, working loose aUiance with Jack Benny i and Ginger Rogers, bunched together a collectio of taped sequences for a one hour NBC-TV I A The hour was freely chartab'le: It contained an open- ling Hope mono-log, a sketch that dealt with Benny's niggardliness, a song by Miss Rogers that was stronger on visual values than musicianship, a dollop of Jerry Colonna-type vertigo. There was even one Hope-Rogers spoof of neatniks that followed the pattern of a beatnik skit that Hope did with the wondrously pas- tic Carol Haney on a recent special. It was all very standard, some of it funny, some of it not quite so funny, none of it completely dudish. I could say the lacked brilliance, vitality, buoyancy and that this was most evident in Hope's opening monolog which ranged over a wide catalog of current matters--Washingt- ton, rocketmen, the Japanese roy- I al wedding--but which never really sunk a deep needle into anything. But somehow I whether lacks disturbed Hope's audience very much.

It is, after all, almost impossible to go wrong when you harness two pros like Hope and Benny together. And if they were content to settle for a leisurely trot rather than a giddy gallop, so let it. be. Note: I wish to thank all those (readers, who during my recent i illness, sent me stay-sick cards. Note: Dean Martin records are now available over the counter in Oklahoma.

Short Shots: Wednesday night's I NBC-TV Wagon Train--a thing I about a fumbling egghead who redeemed himself--was a cdnven- tional omelet, but Wally Cox's portrayal of the wispy, wooly, cloudland hero was a delicious piece of playing, I CBS TV's Armstrong Circle 'Theatre turned in another tidy job Wednesday night with "Trail of Diamonds," a drama about a i smuggling ring: Patrick O'Neal, i George Wallace and Peter Von Zerneck contributed neat performances and Lauren Gilbert as the i villain was properly swinish. The Channel Swim: NBC-TV's new musical eeries, Oldsmobile I Music Theatre, goes to the bone- yard after June 25. ABC-TV is planning a Saturday night series of sports that will be launched in late spring or early summer--the series will be made up of live and taped baseball, football and basketball a from around the nation. NBC-TV's Restless Gun and Buckskin won't be back next season. Jimmie Dodds and six i ABC-TV Mouseketeers take off May 4 for two weeks' work in and Melbourne.

Australia! Bob Horton will I star in "Guys and Dolls" at the Warren, Ohio, Playhouse i summer. Mildred Freed Alberg, executive producer of NBC TV's Hallmark Hall of Fame, is pulling out of the drama series- Producer George Schaefer will a over the reins next fall for Hallmark's six 90-minute shows CBS-TV's Red Skeltpn film a movie in Japan this Aug' ust. Lanson, who used to sing on the old Hit Parade I Show, is booked in for the May 14 CBS-TV Jimmy Dean show. Farmers Looking Forward To Record-Breaking Year i PHILADELPHIA (UPI) The field editors of Farm Journal Magazine agreed Tuesday the na' lion's farmers are looking forward i to another banner year after i reaping record-breaking incomes i during 1958. At their annual staff meeting here, editors from all sections of the country said they found the optimistic outlook in face-to-face talks with farmers of all types i and of all income levels.

I A consensus showed most farmers expect some reduction in prices but plan to offset this by stepping up production through i increased use of agricultural chemicals and labor-saving ma- i chinery. A check with farm equipment dealers found sales generally run' ning well ahead of last year show- ing the farmers are putting their thoughts into action, the editors said. Dealers reported sales increases this year of one-third in Kansas City, and 15 per cent in Des Moines with outlooks for even higher ratios during the remainder of the year in both cases. 'Jimmy' Is The Name LONDON (UPI)--Police found a little fellow with a blue and yellow complexion wandering lost and alone today. "My name," he said, "is Jimmy Thompson." So police are waiting for someone to claim Jimmy--a parakeet.

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Funds for the current pro! gram are nearly exhausted. USE WANT ADS FOR RESULTS Lighter Side Of Congress By FRANK ELEAZER United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) To rest up after a bout with Form 1040 I in' at one of the Senate Appropriations Committee's new hearing rooms where the chairs are soft, the lighting easy, and the weather buOt in, I'm not sure now this was the best place for a taxpayer to relax. The senators were considering adding an extra five million dollars or so to the 129 million we previously have provided to keep Corigress running this year. And the way Capitol architect J. George Stewart told it, every item looked like a must.

Take furniture for the senators' new office building. Stewart said the million spent 60 far on desks, chairs, sofas, leaves 40 rooms bare as your hand, other $113,200 is needed. Origitfally we carpeted each senator's inner office in the new building, and laid rubber tile in his outer four rooms, where the staff members work. Now the staffers complain this is noisy. So another $150,000 will be n'eeded for carpeting, at $16 per yard.

Some of the elevators in the new building wall have to be rewired, it develops. Nothing wrong with 'em. But they can't, distinguish between ordinary folks, who get fast service, au'd senators, who do too but want theirs first. Then there's the new senatorial garage. It was originally planned for 200 cars, but with today's bigger autos is down now to 160.

Re- jiggering the pillars to fit ran irtto money. That's not all. Some of the senators' new limousines are so long and so low they drag both their middles and tails gettirfg in and out from the street. So we've got to remodel the ramps. This won't cost much, the architects said.

However, workmen will have to be careful. Otherwise they might wreck the snow melting system that's buried under the surface. Originally, the senators planned to station attendants at the garage I doors. Now they believe electric I eyes will be cheaper. Installing them, and some other needed traffic control items, will cost Then there's the new senatorial subway.

It runs from the new office buildir'g to the Capitol, a distance of maybe two blocks. Only thing is, it stops now 56 feet short of the mark. Bringing the tunnel on in under the Capitol will cost art extra $2,492,605, bringing total outlay for the train to $5,596,334. Unfortunately, it. will enter the building just under the Senate's front steps.

Tearing them down, artd rebuilding them later, will cost $325,000. There was this good news though: Stewart said the steps are settling anyway, and are due for replacement. The new Senate Office Building originally was to have cost $20,600,000. Sen. Allen J.

Ellerider (D-La.) said, somewhat accusingly, that the bill now is up to $24,196,000. Plus $1,009,000 for land. Plus $1,293,000 for furniture. All he did, Stewart replied, was carry out the senators' orders. Three local young people Miss Sally Shaner of Brady Kittanning; James Wingate of 416 Fifth Ford City and Theodore Breuer of 314 Tenth Ford City are members of the Clarion State Teachers College Choir, currently engaged in presenting a series of concerts throughout western Pennsylvania.

Television THURSDAY KDKA-TV Oakley Ide News 10--Bob Tracey, Sports, WeatheJ Edwards News Valley Days Bride Derringer Grey Theater 90 News Tonight Yates Studio Page Edition Shift Theater Off WJAC Page Weatherman Patrol Neal Show Drum Thin Man Theatre Ernie Ford. Bet Your Life Party Hour News Stephenson Theater Off WHC 'n' Andy News In the News Men Love Lucy Lawless Years Theatre Ernie Kord Bet Your Life Party Paar WTAE-TV O'clock Adventure News Scott Show In The Name 7.30--Leave It To Beaver Real McCoys Boone Riders .45 News for. Tonight News FRIDAY KDKA-TV Rogers Ide News Sports, Weather Edwards, News Hit Parade Silvers Show Line-Up to Person Tonight Yates Theater Page Edition Hour Off WJAC Page News Journey be announced Pasaaga Queen Squad Service Of Sporti Bowling Hour News OH WIIC 'n' Andy News In the News Venture Raiders Queen Squad Thin Man Of Sports Bowling Paar Show WTAE-TV O'clock Adventuri King News Scott Show 8 Tin Tin Disney Territory Sunset Strip News for Tonight News Theater A sacred concert by the group will be given Sunday evening at 8 in the Kittanning First Baptist Church. The general public is invited to attend. The choir tour, an annual event, includes 25 appearances over a three-month period from March to May.

During the present season the choir will present concerts in Dormont, Penn Township, New Kensington and Snowden Township High Schools in the Pittsburgh area. Another journey will take the 70 choristers to central Pennsylvania, where they will appear aj; Facts For All War Veterans By BOYD C. HENRY Veterans Affairs Director WIDOW'S PENSION The unremarried widow of a World War I Veteran who was honorably discharged and who had served over 90 days is entitled to a monthly pension of $50.40. If she has no children under 18 years of age, this is payable provided her income from other sources is under $1,400.00. She is required to make a return of her income once a year to the Veterans Administration.

If. during a calendar year it appears that her -income will exceed $1,400.00 then she should notify the Veterans Administration so that they can stop the payments. Brockway, Johnsonburg, Emporium, Ridgway and Brookville High Schools. In addition, many sacred concerts will be given in churches throughout the Spring semester. The Clarion choir has gained an excellent reputation over the many years of its existence.

It has appeared on television once this year and is now rehearsing for another television appearance with Pittsburgh's College Panorama series. Plans are underway to record a program of choral music by the Clarion choir. Its repertoire includes the finest of choral literature representative of esch period in musical history. DEFLATING THE LAW BRISTOL, R. L--(UPI)--Vandals recently added insult to injury here by letting the air out of the tires of a police cruiser parked a few feet from the police station.

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