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TV IN REVIEW Ballet is failure By JOAN HANAVER UPI TetevWw Writer NEW YORK (UPI) The battle to stay out of third place continues with NBC barely beating out CBS for second spot in the week past, while ABC continues to leave no room at the top. Whether CBS or NBC is ahead in the ratings for the season to date depends on which network's in- terpretation of the Nielsen rating statistics you choose, but probably that figure will swing back and forth in the weeks to come. The biggest disappointment of the week for culture vultures in general, and ballet buffs in particular, was the poor showing of "The Nut- cracker." The dismal size of the viewing audience proves that ballet will not replace night baseball in America in the foreseeable future. The CBS versjon on Dec. 16, with Mikhail Baryshnikov and the American Ballet Theater ranked 65th on a ratings list of 118, while the NBC's Bolshoi Ballet performance with Mrs.

Betty Ford on Dec. 18 did slightly better, ranking 63. There were few other sur- prises. "Lou Grant" with Ed Asner improved, ranking a decent 34th and, more impor- tantly, capturing a 31 per cent share of the audience for the time period. Shows with shares of 30 or above usually stay on the air, while programs with a below 30 share are in jeopardy.

In the same vein, "Whatever Happened to the Class of '55?" did not manage the high marks it received in its premiere week, but It held a 30 share, which Is good news for NBC. None of the other mid- season replacement shows did well, with "James at IS," "Szysznyk" and "Tabitha" all sharing minimum ratings and rating minimum shares, i The heroine of the week was i Mrs. Miskel Spillman, the 80- year-old New Orleans grand- mother who won the right to host NBC's "Saturday Night Live" show. The white-haired old lady said she needed "one more cheap thrill" because her doctors said she "only had 25 years to live." She not only got her thrill, but the show she ernceed earned the second best rating in New York City in the history of "Saturday Night." One melancholy note "Conversation with Eric Sevareid," the CBS com- mentator's final appearance before retirement, ranked 66th. The conversation rated better.

The 10 top network i i a programs for the week ending Dec. 18, according to the A.C. Nielsen were: 1: "Laveme Shirley;" 2: "Happy Days;" 3: "Three's Company;" 4: "Eight Is Enough;" 5: "Six Million Dollar Man;" 6: "Alice;" 7: "Soap;" 8: (tie) "All in the Family" and "Charlie Brown Christmas;" 10: "The Tiny Tree." Jobbing out public works By RICK DU BROW I.AFAYETTE, Calif. (UPI) The well-to-do town of Lafayette, is sidestepping bureaucracy and hiring employees strictly on an "as-needed" basis to maintain its streets and related public works. Rather than employing crews the year round, Lafayette, a suburb east of San Francisco, has turned to private enterprise and engaged a management consultant firm to hire out the street work to contractors only when required.

"We're the only city I know of doing'this," said City Manager Ernest Marriner, 57, whose experiment now is in its fifth month. Marriner does not see the idea as "a sudden flash of brilliance" that will necessarily save money, but as a cost-effective plan that does not rely on government workers who have to be kept busy. He said the town once relied heavily on county civil service employees, but decided to hire on a job basis because it was discovered that "we get less hours per year of less ef- fective use in the face of the civil service system." Maynard Crowther, of the consultant firm RJA Mainte- nance Contractors in San Jose, is serving essentially as Lafayette's foreman in the ex- periment. Crowther noted, "If you have a county or city with a permanent work force, you often have to justify work for them, whether there is work or not. We don't have a set work force that we have to Begin arrives in London LONDON (UPI) Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin arrived in London today "to brief Prime Minister James Callaghan on his talks with President Carter in Washington and his for- thcoming Christmas meeting with President Anwar Sadat of Egypt.

Begin, seeking broad Western support for his Middle East peace plan, landed at Heathrow Airport, on his way home from a six- day tour of the United States. His plane was three hours late because of dense fog blanketing much of Western Europe. He was met by Foreign Secretary David Owen and they drove together to Chequeri, the British leader's official country residence about 40 miles northwest of London. After lunch at Chequers, Begin was leaving for home. British officials said the talks were at the Israeli prime minister's suggestion.

This was his second meeting between the two men this month. They conferred at. length Dec. 3 and 4 during a five-day official visit to by Begin. provide work for the year round." He added, We feel we can do it at a substantial saving.

We establish a work program, such as repairing pavements, patching potholes, street sweeping, cleaning ditches, maintaining traffic lights and landscaping. And then we subcontract. "We accomplish things only on an as-needed basis." Like many other towns, Lafayette, located in an area where many homes are priced from 100,000 and up, is trying to control its expenses in an inflationary economy. "It's not necessarily spending less but getting more effective use of the dollars," said Marriner. "Better street repair, for instance, for the same number of dollars." But Crowther, who hopes the experiment will lead to similar moves by other municipalities, pointed out: "Our budget is 6 percent lower than last year's, and the savings could go higher.

"No one has been fired or laid off. And there is a potential of saving taxpayers' dollars." Three fishermen survive 10 days on life raff KEY WEST, Fla. (UPI) Three fishermen said Tuesday they survived 12 days on a 10-foot inflatable life raft adrift in the Gulf of Mexico with nothing but a gallon of sour milk and "some rain the Lord sent." A Coast Guard helicopter airlifted Oscar Oliver, 27, James Brown, 37, and Bobby Clark, 27, all of Tarpon Springs, to a Key West hospital Monday night. They were rescued about 300 miles southwest of Key West earlier in the day by the 45-foot snapper fishing boat Blue Chip. Oliver and Brown were reported in good condition.

Clark was suffering exposure, dehydration and infected salt water sores. Oliver said the three left Tarpon Springs Dec. 7 on the 68-foot shrimp boat Delores headed toward fishing grounds off the Yucatan Peninsula. At 11:30 a.m. on Dec.

8, about an hour after clearing the western Up of Cuba, he said a plank ripped off the hull below the waterline of the 25-year-old boat. "When it started going, it went fast," Oliver said. "It sank In three minutes. It was Just grab what you can and hit the side." The three men managed to load a gallon of water, four ears of com, a head of lettuce, a bell pepper, three cans of beer, a half gallon of wine and a gallon of milk Into the raft before the shrimp boat went down, Payment deficit third quarter By JAMES HILDRETH WASHINGTON (UPI) The U.S. international payments deficit totaled $4.3 billion in the third quarter, the second largest on record, the government reported today.

The size of the deficit during the July-September 'quarter was topped only by the billion in red ink during the second quarter, the Com- merce Department said. The latest "current ac- count" figure marked the fifth deficit in a row, the depart- ment said. In the second quarter of 1976 there was a $490 million surplus. The. current account is the government's broadest measure of the nation's in- ternational transactions.

It is composed of trade in goods and services plus such "unilateral transfers" as foreign aid grants and government pensions to Americans living abroad. American assets aborad in- creased (3.4 billion, the department said, compared with a $10.3 billion jump during the second quarter. Most of the slowdown was accounted for by a $4.8 billion shift in claims on foreigners who owe money to U.S. banks. "The reduction in claims reflected the rise in U.S.

shortterm interest rates relative to rates aborad and some decline in foreign credit demand," a department statement said. Foreign assets in the U.S. incrseased $12.9 billion during the third quarter, the depart- ment said, compared with a $13.8 billion increase in the second. A $3.7 billion increase in liabilities to private foreigners and international financial institutions reported by U.S. banks, $1.2 billion smallers than in the second quarter, more than accounted for the slowdown, the department said.

Vietnam agrees to release trio By ARTHUR HIGBEE PARIS (UPI) Vietnam ended the latest round of talks with the United States by agreeing to release three young Americans from Saigon, but there was no word on Hanoi's demand for $4 billion in war reparations. Both sides said the negotia- tions Monday and Tuesday at the Vietnamese- Embassy in Paris were "constructive, positive, frank and busines- slike," arid will resume at a date and place to be an- nounced later. Hanoi capped the talks by announcing it will release the three Americans by New Year's Day and send Viet- namese officials to a U.S. installation to learn to identify the remains of Americans killed in the Indochina war. But neither side commented on Vietnamese demands for $4 billion in war reparations, which Hanoi claims was pro- mised by former President Nixon.

The three Americans held in Saigon were aboard the yacht Brillig when it was seized off the Vietnamese coast Oct. 12 by communist gunboats which fired on the yacht with can- nons and machine guns. Wednesday, December 21, 1977 Columbus, Nebraska Columbus Telegram--19 Sell It Fast With A Classified Ad! Lipari family files lawsuit OMAHA (UPI) The family of Deputy Sheriff Dennis Lipari has filed a $4 million lawsuit in federal court seeking damages from Sears, Roebuck Co. The suit filed Tuesday alleged that Omahan Ulysses Cribbs used a shotgun pur- chased from an Omaha-area Sears store in the recent shooting at the Club 89. Lipari was slain and pis wife severly injured by a blast allegedly fired by Cribbs, a Vietnam veteran receiving government i a i i payments for a mental con- dition.

The Federal Gun Control Act of 1968 requires that firearms dealers obtain in- formation from gun pur- chasers, including a statement on mental condition and past mental problems. Sears allegedly violated the act when it "knew or should have had reasonable cause to believe that Ulysses Cribbs had just been adjudicated as a mentally defective person or had been committed to a mental institution as set out in the Gun Control Act," the suit said. The suit asked for damages from Sears in behalf of Llpari's estate and his children and stepchildren. Greece voted to become a republic on Dec. 8, 1974, ending a 142-year-old monarchy.

CARD OF THANKS Thank you to all my friends, relatives and neighbors who remembered me with cards, flowers and calls while I was In the Columbus Hospital. A Personal thanks to my doc- tors, nurses, and the priests of St. Bonaventure for their visits. Alvln M. Grubaugh A big thank you to all of our relatives and friends for the beautiful cards, gifts and flowers on our 60th an- niversary Miller Jessie Clock We want to thank everyone for the calls, flowers, gifts'and cards which made our 50th Anniversary one of hap- piness I Dr.

Mrs. O.E.Walgren NOTICES MERRY CHRISTMAS and Happy New Year from the Town Pump Bar. Stop in and have a drink. 1253 26th Avenue. 299-2 INVITE Santa Claus to your home this Christmas.

For an appointment call 564- 6968. 281-3W-Th-F LOST Lost Wednesday, December 14, a Billfold, REWARD, if everything in it. 299-4 LOST FEMALE CAT, part Tabby, rusty brown and gray, small notch in right ear. From 27th Avenue and 19th Street. 564-4790.

REWARD. 298-6 LOST a large White Male Cat, i i i Crestwood Area. 564-1697 REWAR- D. 297-6 LOST GOLD Male Kitten, missing since Wednesday, Crestwood Area. 564-1697 REWAR D.

2976 Hormef takes option on fond MANKATO, Minn. (UPI) The George A. Hormel Co. of Austin, has an- nounced the purchase of a 90- day option on a 30-acre parcel of land north of Mankato as site for possible construction hog processing plant. The surprise an- nouncement, made under the name of Frank Brown, cor- porate manager for con- struction and development for Hormel, was released Tuesday by the Mankato Chamber of Commerce.

The company said it would study the site for construction of a "moderate" size pork slaughtering and packing facility. The area is privately owned and has good access tq Minnesota highway 22. Utilities, sewage hookups, zoning requirements and ap- proval from the Minnesota Polution Control Agency will all have to be investigated before any construction could begin. Hormel also has options on two sites near Waverly, Iowa. The company said no date had been set for a final decision.

Hormel, the producer of SPAM and the nation's largest pork butcher, announced some time ago it must build a new $70-million plant to replace its 60 year old facility in Austin. It has said it would be forced to leave Austin and build elsewhere unless it could reach agreement with its 2,100 union workers. Lincoln man is sentenced LINCOLN, Neb. (UPI) Robert M. Rich of Lincoln Tuesday was sentenced in U.S.

District Court to 10 years in prison for the August robbery of a San Jose, bank. Rich was convicted of taking (1,000 from the bank by telling a bank official he was carrying dynamite. He threatened to blow himself and the officer up unless he received the money. Rich then escaped on foot and was captured a week later in Lincoln when he tried to rob the Cornhusker Bank Aug. 12.

Rich also has pleaded guilty to the Lincoln bank robbery and is awaiting sentencing in Lancaster County District Court. SALE CALENDAR MONDAY, JANUARY I P.M. Lydla Husmann Estate 233.79 A. Platte County Land Auction Held at Platte Co. Courthouse Buss Auction ft.

Realty Auc- tioneers SATURDAY, JAN. 10, 11:00 P.M. Personal property Auction Eugene Eggll, Owner Nortnealt Edge ol Genoa, Ne. Henry Buss, August Runge Auctioneers, Myltn Slelken, Clerk AUTO PARTS WANTED. Old iunk cars.

We are now buying scrap tin and wire. Columbus Metal Industries. 564-2855. 175-tf FOUR 7" 15" Ford or Jeep white spoke wheels, new $90.00, two G78 15" steel belt snow tires, new 175.00 pair. 564-0151- 2992 FOR SALE four white spoke wheels fit any eight hole ton pickup.

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564-3218 FORD-LINCOLN-MERCURY DEPENDABLE USED CARS 1976 CHEVROLET Monte Carlo, Power, Air, Vinyl Roof $4495 1975 DODGE Coronet 4- Door Power. Air, Vinyl Roof $2795 1973 DODGE Dart Sport, Power, Air, 6-Cylinder S2195 1970 CHEVROLET Chevelle 4-Door, Power. Air. $1295 1963 1HC Pickup 27,000 Miles. 6Cylinder, 4-Speed $595 Columbus Motors Inc.

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IHC Truck Dealer 111 lit Columbus S64 08! 1974 CHEVROLET Fleeiside ton, eight cylinder, automatic, radio, power steering, brakes. Two-tone paint. Average mileage original owner. 564 7464.294- 6 ZERR'S AUTO MART 13lliSt.23rJAvo.564.8061. A BIG SELECTION OF GOOD CLEAN USED CARS AT CAMPERLAND COLUMBUS, 3RD AVENUE AND HIWAY 30.

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air. blyled wheels 1973 Torino. 2-door. air. AM FM.

40,000 miles 1972 Buick Plectra. 4-door. hardtop, loaded, new lires 1972 Mustang, automatic air. one owner. 3 7 0 0 0 mileb 1972 Corvette T-roof.

350 V-8. sharp, local car 1971 Volkswagen, squaie back, automatic, local car 1970 Monte Carlo, air. full power, vinyl lop 1969 Torino 2-door. 3bl V-8, three speed 1968 Fairlane. 2-door, 302 V-8 automatic 1973 Chevrolet ton automatic, full power, and air dual tanks We wish all our friends and customers a Happy Holiday Season.

Dan Groteluschen, Kenny Eckholt and Bill Kresha Campberland Columbus 23rd Avenue and Highway 30. 564-0578 after hours 564-6748 We want your business. "I'M SATISFIED!" I sold my sewing machine on the first day my Classified ad appeared. PHONE 564-2741.