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Economy '71: Legislature: What's Ahead Anfericdci jCities What Happened 1C, 3-7E 4 U-, i Jlh Section A TroS r3Ii; es FOCUS) vi57rii i tot Signal Arer "KilllfMHHWiWjlHIlliii Subscription Prices, Page 2A Sunday, Jan. 2, 1972 No. 48 104th Year 12 Sections, 124 Pages WHAT IT ALL MEANS A eeps No. I 'i 33c City It's a Something Special ill" Vf- -v 'r; ZAih f-: sift Section 'i STAFF COLOR PHOTO Sunning by the pool at the Ivanhoe Hotel is a favorite pastime of Ne-braskans in Miami. Among the sun worshipers are Mrs.

George Sullivan (from left), Jeff Schnieder who has his nephew Jason Sauer on his shoulders, and Bill Bryant. Nebrashans In Miami Sun Orange By DON FORFYTHE Miami When Associated Press sports editor Bob Johnson visited Lincoln last winter to make the official presentation of the AP championship football trophy he made it clear there was only one way to keep the big traveling trophy. "You've got to win it three times," he said. Nebraska coach Bob Devaney, in accepting the Cornhuskers' first national championship award, said, "we'll see what we can do about that." With Saturday night's 38-6 win over Alabama the Cornhuskers completed their second leg of the difficult triplicate. They'll be No.

1 again for nearly eight months at least until the 1972 pre-season poll comes out in late August. No Place Like Nebraska Indeed, there will be no place like Nebraska during the interim. But it's difficult to envision 1972 being any more dramatic than was 1971. How do you top a presidential visit? Richard Nixon's trip to Lincoln to present his personal plaque to a KUKiiHHHiBi -Ik-, 'iW Old Charmer Chevalier Dies of Heart Attack Career Spanned 70 Years Lincoln, Feeling Being in the top ten, as the Cornhuskers have been on many occasions, is a distinction. But being on top has an intangible quality of its own.

Hard to Describe "It's hard to describe," says Nebraska offensive center Doug Dumler. "The only ones who really know are the ones who were No. 1. But you can't put it in words." "I don't know," said co-captain Jim Anderson. But I've had a great three years.

"Being No. 1 you feel you're the best in the country. And this year, maybe the best in a long time," said. Now the Cornhuskers have a new challenge winning an unprecedented three straight championships. Is it possible? Going To Try Again "We're gonr.a give it one helluva try," says cornerback Joe Blahak, who will return for his senior season in 1972.

"Just about anything is possible with a coach like coach Devaney and his staff," says Blahak. UPI TELEPHOTO The idea would be to convince the Russians that the United States is losing patience with' Soviet reluctance to include a halt on missile submarine construction in arms-control negotiations, and to undermine charges of a new "missile gap" that are expected during the 1972 campaign. served to 7.8 million school children in November, some two million more than a year earlier. The previous high was 7.3 million last April, the agency said. Edward J.

Hekman, who administers the food programs, said he expects moderate increases in food-stamp enrolment during the next few months. More counties are being added to the stamp program, and new regulations allowing an expansion of benefits to the neediest families are expected to attract more people, Hekman said in a statement. The new regulations, adopted last year, have stirred criticism amone iS' (i lSU A championship team was an unforgettable experience. How many times do you talk about college football and the President coming to town in the same breath? It could happen again, but there's nothing quite like a first, which President Nixon's congratulatory trip was. Being No.

1 is something special. $232 billion. The Pentagon may not get all it wants. One items on the Defense shopping list is several hundred million dolars to produce a new missile submarine by 1977 or 1978, several years earlier than recent Bowl Stories, Pictures in partner and lover of an older, established star. 1 He joined Mistinguctt, the dancer whose legs were insured for $1 million.

was 1909 when he was 21, and she was 34 and getting top billing in the Follies Bergere. They were together for 10 years. Born Into Poverty He was born Sept. 12, .1888 in Menilmontant, a scruffy neighborhood in eastern Paris. He remembered his housepainter father as "a drunk" who disappeared when he was 8, leaving his mother, a to support 10 children nearly all of whom' died before growing up.

Maurice spent several months in a children's home. When he was 10, he left school and became an apprentice to an engraver and then to an electrician. He and a brother practiced an acrobat act, but they had more luck singing. Some of his songs had naughty words, and the workingman audience sometimes booed him offstage for betraying their ideas of childhood innocence. He got five francs a week at the start.

Later he made $20,000 a week in Hollywood. He reportedly invested well in American stocks and Paris real estate, becoming a millionnaire. By 1904 when he was 16, he had his first contract in Parisiana, a big music hall downtown on the boulevard. He folded a newspaper into his shoe to cover a hole and sang comic and sentimental numbers full of Paris slang and double meanings. Captured IN World War I With Mistinguett, he went to London where he absorbed ideas from the jazzy American and British acts.

He was drafted in 1913 as an infantry private. Wounded and captured soon after the war began the next year, he spent 26 months in the Alten Grabow prison camp in Germany, where he learned English from a British prisoner. They sent him home in 1916. The French government gave him the Croix de Guerre. After the war and his breakup with Mistinguett, he returned to London in a show called "Hello America." Continued: Page 7A, Col.

4 Wearing Seat Belts Made Compulsory Canberra (UPI) Australia Saturday became the first country in the world to make the wearing of seat belts in cars compulsory. The Australian capital territory and Queensland Saturday joined the rest of Australia in Implementing compulsory seat belt legislation. Compiled From News Wires Paris Maurice Chevalier, whose: straw hat, French charm and bittersweet songs delighted audiences all over the world for more than 70 yars, died in a Paris hospital Saturday at age 83. Doctors at Neckcr Hospital said Chevalier died of a heart attack after a three-week battle against a kidney ailment. His body was taken back to his home, "La Louque," southwest of Paris where his closest friends gathered to mourn.

The veteran entertainer entered the hospital Dec. 13 after tests at the American Hospital showed his kidneys were blocked and he needed urgent treatment with an artificial kidney machine. Chevalier grew progressively weaker with each of the eight treatments he underwent with the machine. Finally, it was his heart that gave out. "The day of Jan.

1 was a calm one for him," said the final hospital bulletin. "Death came suddenly at 7 p.m. (noon CST)." Programs Interrupted French radio and television immediately broke into their programs to announce the news and tributes to the singer, actor and dancer were quick to come. The French national radio network immediately programmed a musical biography of his best songs recorded during more than a half century of performance all over the world. Actor Louis Jourdan, who played in the films "Gigi" and "Can Can" with Chevalier said: "This was a giant in show business and we may never see his like again." Chevalier got his start in one of the great traditions of the Paris music halls: by becoming the dancing Record High antihunger advocates, including a growing number in Congress.

Under the new rules, an additional 1.7 million persons are expected to become eligible for food stamps, most of them In the Southern states. But the rules also will reduce benefits for an estimated two million persons whose Incomes are at the upper range of the government's poverty scale. Further, at least 60,000 persons In a dozen states will lose food-stamp eligibility altogether because those states currently have higher Income eligibility standards than those allowed under the new federal rules. Maurice Chevalier in 1961 as he did some fancy stepping at New York's April in Paris Ball. Weather MILD National Weather Service Forecast for Lincoln Area Today: Cloudy, 109o chance of precipitation Past 24 Hours: High 40 Low 29 Next 24 Hours: High 40" Low 20 Full Weather on Page 6E Husker fans have known it all year, but the team proved it Saturday night to the whole world We're No.

1 Again! Coach Bob Devaney got the traditional ride at the end of the 38-6 victory over Alabama on the shoulders of Jim Carstens (left) and Larry Jacobson. $83 Billion Authority for Defense Dept. Page 1C 10. P.O. K7I Ifcnte.lH MH.

INSTDE YOU'LL FIND Government Food Aid Said at Ag Markets 6K Business 4E Deaths 3G Editorials 4-5A Family Section 1) Gallup Poll 5B Grain 6E Home-Yard 1-2G Livestock 6E Mailaway Metro Memo 4C Outdoor 7F People 2A Religion 11D Sports Section Statehouse 2G Stocks 3, 5-7E Want Ads (c) New York Times Washington The next defense budget will rise as much as $4 billion in expenditures, and $5 to $6 billion in budget authority, if Defense Secretary Melvin Laird has his way. Administration sources, in disclosing this, said the principal increases would come in accelerating development and procurement of strategic nuclear weapons, and for advanced ships, planes and tanks for the conventional forces. Laird, the sources said, "put up a strong fight" for $83 billion in budget authority, the category under which President Nixon's budget is put together. This level, they said, would result In expenditures of just under billion in the 12 month period starting July 1. Spending for the current fiscal year is expected to run almost $76 billion, with budget authority of just under $78 billion.

Nixon is said to be attempting to keep new total federal expenditures from rising by more than $15 billion above the current spending by the 2,3 17 2 FOCUS Section II Books Coins Crossword Emergency Nos Fine Arts Hobbies Horoscope Little Town 19 Movies 16 Music ..10 Night Clubs ..14 Old Nebraska ,,13 Radio Stamps ...13 Television ...7 Things To Do Washington UP) Government food aid to low-income families and needy school children is at a record high and will rise even further early in 1972, says the Agriculture Dept. In November, the most recent month for statistics, food stamps were being used by 10.9' million persons who pay an average of about $4.50 for coupons worth $10 at grocery stores, the USDA reported Saturday. That was up about 400,000 from the food-stamp enrolment in October and 1.4 million more than a year earlier, according to figures issued by the Food and Nutrition Service. Free or reduced-nrice lunches were 13 12 18 9-12 14 Lower Your Food Bill Shop at Klein Food Center, 815 So. 11.

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