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Sesame9 Parent Considers Commercial Ventures operation and right now we're facing a drying-up of 4H Dec. 2, 1973, Lincoln, Sunday Journal and Star 'Apple's Way' Coming Positive Man Hamner's Goal Asked if CTW might form a commercial arm to produce childrens' shows in hope of syndicating them or selling them to networks with the sole idea of plowing all profits back into the Workshop' public television projects, Hatch replied: "Well, it's one of many things under consideration. And whether it would take that form is very open. It depends on an awful lot of things. i "There are just so many ifs, ands or buts that we've got to work over the next couple of months," he said, adding that CTW probably will have its financial plans ready by late January.

The question of CTW producing shows for commercial TV either on a regular or an infrequent basis was prompted by a Julie Andrews special on ABC-TV, Julie on Sesame Street. The program, taped in London, featured the Muppets of Sesame Street and the setting on which they appear on public television. Hatch, asked if this wasn't laying CTW open to charges of commercialism, said, "I would hope not. We've got to live, we've got to exist. We're a non-profit New York (AP) The Children's Television Workshop, producers of public television's award-winning Sesame Street and Electric Company, says it's thinking about commercial TV ventures to help finance its public television efforts.

But a spokesman for CTW, a non-profit corporation heavily supported by federal funds, emphasized the idea is neither a certainty nor is.it even under heavy consideration right now. CTW officials aren't giving it "any higher priority at the moment than any one of a number of things we're considering," said Robert A. Hatch, CTW. vice president for public affairs. "So I think that as far as we could go," he added, "is to say that it's one of many things that's under consideration at the Workshop as it explores means of survival as an experimental educational center." He said CTW faces a financial crunch that primarily came about because the U.S.

Office of Education, which gave CTW $6 million the last fiscal year, plans to halve that amount this year. Another factor, he said, has been a sharp reduction in financial support from private foundations for CTW's two childrens' shows. government ana luuuudwu u.j. "And if we're going to continue to do non-protit educational things on public television, we've got find ways to make income." He said the net income from overseas sales of 'Sesame Street and the sale of related playthings, records and educational materials came to about $2 million last year. However, Hatch said, "our operating budget to make Sesame and the Electric Company was $11.8 million, so you can see that doesn't cut very much of that big, big pie." Although he described the fee from Miss Andrews' special as small, he said the real benefit was the national prime-time exposure of Sesame Street to millions of viewers who may never have seen the show before on television.

But what income would that produce for the Workshop? "Well," Hatch said, "I guess a larger audience will always mean we have a better chance to make a case with Congress, with the Corp. for Public Broadcasting, with others who'd support us." Our Little Town Joy in Replenishing Church Treasuries Carol Concert Next La Virgen lava panales, Spanish; The Holly and the Ivy, English; How unto Bethlehem, Italian; Lullay my liking, English; He is born, French; God rest you merry gentlemen, English; and Angels we have heard on high, French. between Iowa and California. Lee Rich, the executive producer of the two CBS shows and Doc Elliot on ABC, said, "I think people have had enough violence. We offer something for people to grasp to get the news out of their heads.

"We want people and realism. But not the realism of a man getting killed. The realism of what people are like. People want to know about people." Apple's Way began to take shape last spring when Hamner and Rich flew to New York to accept the Peabody award. Fred Silverman, program vice president for CBS, asked them to come up with a new series.

"Freddie wanted to see a show with the quality of 'Our something with a typically American flavor and done the way Frank Capra used to make movies," Hamner said. After the concept was worked out, Hamner set to work writing the pilot. He had gotten only three-quarters of the way through the script when CBS asked to see it. On the basis of what it saw, CBS ordered a go-ahead for a mid-season start. Casting is still incomplete.

Hamner was a novelist, radio and television writer when he moved west 12 years ago to try his hand at films in Hollywood. He couldn't get a job for six months. Then, with the help of Rod Serling, with whom he had worked in Cincinnati, he began to sell to Twilight Zone. Since then he has written for virtually every major television series and wrote the film adaptation for Charlotte's Web and Where the Lilies Bloom. He is offered so much work now that he has to turn most of it down.

Hamner finds that his duties as story consultant for the two shows about happy families are keeping him away from his own family. "My wife said, 'Why do you want to do another show? Why do you want to spend so much time I told her I had a moral responsibility. I said we have the opportunity to put another hour on television that says something positive about people. Instead of the junk we see so much of." East Campus Program Earl Hamner, creator of The Waltons. Band, Wind Ensemble In Concert The concert band and wind ensemble at the University of Nebraska School of Music will combine talents in a recital at 8 p.m.

Tuesday in Kimball Hall. The concert band, made up of 80 students from various colleges within the University, will present the first half of the free public concert. The program includes three movements of Darius Milhaud's Suite Francaise. Albert Rometo, instructor in percussion and marching band, said the movements are named for French provinces where Americans and allies fought alongside the French during World War II. Another number will be American Civil War Fantasy by Jerry Bilik, a complex arrangement of popular middle 19th century American songs like Camptown Races and When Johnny Comes Marching Home.

The wind ensemble is a new 44-member group, according to Jack Snider, professor of brass instruments and theory. It is "solo oriented with only one person on each of the various instruments exceprfor clarinet," Snider said. "Two people will be playing clarinets." This half of the recital will in clude Gippsland March by Alex F. Lithgow, Concertante for Wind Instruments by Norman Dello Joio, and Symphony No. 3 by Vittono Giannini.

same time one replenishes the church treasury. And then one outbids one's neightbor for the loaf of bread, the eggs, the roasting hen, the brownies and the toy dog for a price of course, very maximal. Again one replenishes the church treasury. And in so doing strengthens the ties that bind the world in Christian love. Who is to say that He does not approve? Unionaires' Concert Is Saturday The Unionaires, a 20-voice select vocal ensemble, will present a secular concert at 8:30 p.m.

Saturday in the Union College gym, 49th and Prescott. This is free to the public. Direction by Lynn Wickham, the chorus will present a variety of selections including Song of the Open Road, by Dello Joio, with piano and trumpet accompaniment. Good, Better, Best a Collection of Proverbs by Berger; a selection of opera pieces by Schubert and songs depicting the winning of the West as portrayed in the musicals Paint Your Wagon and How the West Was Won will be on the program. 'Nutcracker' Omaha Ballet Omaha The Nutcracker, performed by the Omaha Ballet will make its holiday appearance at the Omaha Auditorium Music Hall Friday at 8 p.m.

and next Sunday at 2 p.m. These performances are open to the public. Sunday Soloists will be sopranos Sara Ganz, Gibbon; Caren Solomon, Blair; Denice Weekes, mezzo-soprano April Lowder, Omaha; tenor Thomas Harvey, Omaha; and baritones John Brandstetter, Wayne, and Kent Hall, Fairbury. Spurgin. Nearly 125 persons are enrolled in the class.

Accompanists are Robin Bottger, Peggy Dowding, Alice Ganzel, Dixie Graff, Mary Sward and Jodi Voss, flutes; John Wilson and Allan Vyhnalek, trumpets, and Mary Steffen, piano. Following the concert the Ceres Club, an organization com-posed of female faculty members faculty wives, will give a tea. The public is invited. show to Dec. 20; library gallery art show Sat.

to Dec. 22. Hastings Library 517 W. 4, Sun. 2-5 p.m., Mon.

-Fri. 10 a.m. -9 p.m., Sat. 10 a.m. -5 p.m.; Curtis Routh LaDell Stonecipher show to Thur.

Steinhart Lodge Nebraska City, Sun. 8. Wed. 11:30 a.m.- 2p.m.; Laurine Kimmel paintings to Jan. 1.

Peru State College Fine Arts Dr. Leland Sherwood exhibit Mon. to Dec. 14. U.

9 a.m.- 4p.m. Drawings USA1973 Mon. to Dec. 22. Creighton University Omaha; Bernard Freemesser photographs to Dec.

15. Libraries Ma'rtin Main) 14-N, Sun. p.m., Mon-Thur. 9 a.m. -9 p.m., Fri.

8. Sat. 9 a.m. -6 p.m. Branches: Anderson, 3635 Touzalin, Bethany, 1810 No.

Cotner, Gere, 56-Normal, South, 27 South, Sun. p.m., Mon-Thur. 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Frit. Sat. i0a.m.-6 p.m.

Northeast 27th 8. Orchard, Mon-Thur. 2-9 p.m. Fri 2-6 p.m., Sat. 10 a.m.-l p.m.

2-5 p.m. Belmont 3335 N. 12, Wed. Fri. 9 a.m.-noon.

2-6 p.m., Sat. 10 a.m.-l p.m. Pre-School story Hour Gere, Wed. 10:30 a.m. Wilier Nebraska's Quality By Jerry Buck Los Angeles (AP) The airline clerk took the creidt card from Earl Hamner, looked at the tall, bespectacled, red-haired man and said, "You're the story teller." Hamner, who considers story telling "an honorable profession," is telling some of the best on television.

He is the creator of The Waltons, the Emmy and Peabody award-winning show based on his boyhood in Nelson County, and another upcoming show for CBS called Apple's Way. Apple's Way, which will replace The New Perry Mason on Sunday nights beginning Feb. 10, is about a 40-year-old architect named George Apple who has had it with big city living and moves his wife and four children from Los Angeles back to his hometown, Appleton, Iowa. Hamner, who still speaks with a soft Piedmont accent, was just back from a weekend in Iowa researching the locale for Apple's Way. "Most people leave their hometowns and obtain some kind of success and dream of returning home," he said.

"I think it's universal. I think everyone who has left his home feels the call to return." Unlike The Waltons, which is set in the Depression '30s, the new series is contemporary. It goes to the heart of America's mobile society and the restlessness and rootlessness that goes with it. "It's not a copy of The Waltons," Hamner said. "But there are similarities.

It affirms the positive side of man rather than concerning itself with murder and rape and the shadowy kind of people you see on television so much. "Another similarity is that we'll be dealing with stories that give a tug to the heart. I think people want to be moved by what they see on television. Too often they're simply drugged." Hamner describes George Apple as a "slightly berserk good Samaritan" whose unorthodox methods bring him into conflict with other people. His appeal wins people over.

The show also examines a clash of cultures A gift for that special someone SHOP TODAY NOON TO FIVE AT GATEWAY saline V-v-jn The University of Nebraska School of Music will present the University Singers in the traditional free public Christmas carol concert at 4 p.m. next Sunday in Kimball Hall, 11th and R. The University Singers, directed by Earl Jenkins and with Margaret Emmons, senior from Hastings, as accompanist, will be assisted by Prof. George Ritchie, organ, and Becky Knudsen, a junior from Norfolk, flute. The program will open with motets for the Christmas season by Francis Poulenc, Michael Praetorius and Johann Pachelbel, followed by a magnificat for women's voices by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Festival Te Deum for mixed voices, soprano and organ by Benjamin Britten.

Familiar and lesser-known carols conclude carols conclude the program: Star in the East, early American; Dormi Jesu, English; la don don, Spanish; Today U. Neb. Oratorio Choir in Handel's "Messiah" Coliseum, 13-Vine, 3 p.m. Tuesday U. Neb.

Band Wind Ensemble concert Kimball Hall, 11-R, 8 p.m. Wednesday "Ramparts of Clay" film Sheldon Gallery, 3, 7 8. 9 p.m. Friday Menuhin Family Willa Cather 10 i iSSk HHS By Gertrude Skinner Superior How do you feel about prices today? Would you feel that $7 paid for a loaf of bread, $5 for a dozen fresh farm eggs, $22 for a roasting hen, $8 for a batch of brownies, $36 for a child's stuffed toy dog would constitute grounds for thought that inflation is very much with us? For some, could be. But not for those of us living down here in Nuckolls County.

We consider it an honor and a privilege to pay those prices. In fact we don't feel that we've been properly winterized until we have. Such great good fun laughter, joy and fellowship the annual suppers and bazaars sponsored by the various churches of the area. Carnivals for Christ, that's what they are. He walked often with His disciples to attend feasts, to visit with friends and relatives, to live in close communion with the people of His community.

He did not set himself above and apart upon a throne of gold and velvet far removed from the common man. He went where the action was. There's plenty, of action at a church supper and bazaar. Who is to say that He is not present? Deliciously aromatic foods roasting turkey, ham, beef and chicken dressing; sweet potatoes swimming in brown sugar and marshmallows; vegetables ladled up in butter and cream; salads in great array every color of the rainbow; desserts of cranberries, pumpkin, mince and apple pie; the freshly baked homemade breads; and the steaming hot coffee pure ambrosia! One eats oneself into a state of euphoria for a price of course, very minimal. At one and the taine Department Stores 13th St I I C.O.D.

TODAY I The University of Nebraska East Campus Choraliers and Choristers present their annual free public Christmas concert next Sunday. Beginning at 2:30 p.m., the concert in the East Union Activities Bldg. will include favorites such as Jingle Bells and White Christmas, plus selections from Messiah and Nutcracker Suite. The choral concert is the summation of a semester's work by students and director Adelaide Fine Arts 'Admission Charge Centennial Concert Kimball Hall, 8 p.m. Guitarist Leo Kottke pop concert Neb.

Union, 14-R, 8 p.m. Saturday Choral Concert Union College, 49-Prescott, 8:30 p.m. This Week "Butterflies Are Free" Playhouse, 2500 S. 56, Sun. 7:30 p.m., Fri.

8, Sat. 8:30 p.m. "Doll's House" U. Neb. Studio Theater, 12-R, Sun.

8. Mon. 8 p.m. "Spoon River Anthology" Wesleyan Miller Theater, 51-Baldwin, 8 p.m. "Comedy of Errors" U.

Neb. production, Howell Theater, 12-R, Fri. 8, Sat. 8 p.m. "King of New York" Charlie Chaplin film Sheldon Gallery, Fri.

7 9 p.m., Sat. 3, 7 9 p.m. Art Galleries Sheldon 12-R, Sun. 2-5 p.m. Tue.

10 a.m.-lO p.m., 10 a.m. -5 p.m. Sculpture garden always open. Alice Trumbull Mason paintings today; Kent Ipsen glass to Dec. 23.

Elder Wesleyan, 51-Baldwin, Sun. 3-5 p.m., Tue. -Fri. 10 a.m. -5 p.m., Sat.

10 a.m. -4 p.m. symphony concert nights; Douglas Donna Schleisier paintings drawings to Dec. 21. Haymarket 191 S.

9, Sun. 1-4 p.m. Mon. -Sat. 10:30 a.m.

p.m. Holiday market show to Jan. 1. Neb. Union 14-R, Sun.

1-11 p.m., 7 a.m. -11 p.m., Fri. 7a.m.-l a.m., Sat. 8 a.m.-l a.m. Graduate student art display sale to Dec.

30. Theater Gallery Playhouse, 2500 S. 56, open during Playhouse productions 8. 1-4 p.m. First Federal 1235 Maxine Andres show Tue.

to Dec. 27. Joslyn Omaha 2218 Dodge, Sun. 1-5 p.m., 10 a.m. -5 p.m.

Steve Polchert, Bob Janie Crain pottery Gallery in Market pr ints to Dec. 20; Theodore Robinson exhibit to Dec. 23. Woods Library Falls City; Student ceramic exhibit Mon. -Sat.

Stuhr Museum Grand Island 1-5 p.m., Mon. -Sat. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mrs. Harry Rinder mixed media show to Jan.

6. Warehouse Gallery 720 W. Oklahoma, Grand Island, Fri. Sat. 10 a.m.

-5 p.m.; Tom Talbot paintings to Dec. 27. Kearney College Kearney Mon. 8:30 a.m. -noon, p.m.; Senior art student shows to Dec.

20. Koenig Concordia College, Seward, Sun 1-5 p.m., Mon. -Fri. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Tony Martin ceramics to Dec. 19.

Hastings College Sun. 1-5 p.m., Mon. -Sat. 10 a.m. -5 p.m., faculty Hobby Time 'Admission Charge Star Trek Fan Club Library, 14-N, Sun.

2:30 p.m. American Coin Club Anderson Library, Touzalin-Fremont, Mon. 7 p.m. Barbershop Singers St. Mark UM Church, 70-Vine, Mon.

7:30 p.m. Duplicate Bridge 2738 South, Mon. 11 a.m. 7:30 p.m.; 7:30 p.m. Sweet Adelines St.

Paul UCC, 13-F, Tue. 7:30 p.m. NU Chess Club Neb. Union, 14-R, Tue. 2-5 p.m.

Camera Club Library, 56-Normal, Tue. 7 p.m. Uni Place Stamp Club Anderson Library, Touzalin-Fremont, Tue. 7 p.m. Lincoln Chess Club Library, 14-N, Wed.

7 p.m. Dead Man's Runn puppeteers -Epworth UM Church, 2980 Holdrege, Wed. 7:30 p.m. Lincoln Stamp Club McPhee School, 820 S. 15, Fri.

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