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10 Manhattan Mercury Bandar, December ti, Gets More Brassy Each Year By Ag Statisticians Loses True Meaning 4 'j1 TY V' 7th Largest Wheat Crop Seen For '59 Christmas By TOM IIENSIIAW AP Religion Writer Seems like Christmas, with its street corner Santas, its red, white and green window decorations and its carols, gets off to an earlier and earlier start each year. And, each year, it seems to get a little more brassy, a little more gaudy and a little bit further from I Woman Accused Of Paying Men To Murder Son's Wife i doing about keeping Christ in Christmas? If you don't have the slightest idea what you can do about it, the four-man Keep Christ in Christmas Committee has compiled a list of eight suggestions. They are: 1. Attend church services and bring others. 2 the crusade to give early emphasis to the true meaning and message of Christmas by urging the use of Nativity billboards and window displays.

3. Encourage and join outdoor singing of Christmas carols. 4. Arrange special Nativity tableaux in churches and schools. 5.

Place a Nativity creche at the base of your Christmas tree for your children, friends and relatives to see and admire. 6. Buy or use "Keep Christ in Christmas" seals. 7. Buy and send only religious Christmas cards and urge your friends and business associates to do likewise.

8. Make the Nativity story of St. Luke, ChaDter 3, the central theme cf your family's observance of Christmas. II i OPENING NEW INTERSTATE HIGHWAY It looks like Gov. George Docking is just holding a scissors but actually he has just cut a ribbon to open the first major section of Interstate highway 35 in Kansas.

The ends of the slashed ribbon are flying off to the extreme left and right of the picture. At right is Paul Gaynor, President of the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce. The ceremony was held on Interstate 35 where it joins U.S. 50 south of Ottawa. The governor also cut a ribbon at Wellsville at the other end of the new 14-mile stretch of highway.

Interstate 35 some day will extend from Duluth, to Laredo, Texas. (AP Photo) TV Private Eye Fears Success By BOB THOMAS AP Movie-TV Writer HOLLYWOOD (AP) Efrem Zimbalist Jr. is a TV star in dillema; He doesn't want a flop, but he doesn want a hit either Zimbalist is the suave private- eye who matches wits with Holly wood's underworld on 77 Sunset Strip for ABC Friday nights. The I SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) The mother of a local lawyer has been accused of paying two men $3,000 in a conspiracy to kidnap and murder her son's wife.

Nine ASC Croups Are Outstanding Nine Kansas county ASC committees and employees were named here Thursday as outstanding in Kansas during 1958. The Sheridan County committee and employees were cited as "Most Outstanding" by Thomas Miller, Washington, D. deputy ASC director. Other counties named for recognition were Greenwood, Nemaha, Ellsworth, Miami, Meade, Lincoln, Barbar, and Osborne. Members of the Sheridan county committee are George F.

Simon, John A. Yelek, and Carl E. Schlicher. The officer personnel are Harold L. Jamison, Opal Stor-er, Anna Bell Person, and Bcr-neice R.

Whittman, Majella Boor, and John Oelke. Each person received a citation from the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture. A Little Too Old CHICAGO (AP) A 70-year-old grandmother was 45 years late but not a bit sheepish about accepting a University of Chicago degree.

Mrs. Frances Tay Timblin of Rockford, 111. originally was scheduled to get her bachelor of arts in 1913 but it was withheld because of two credit deficiencies. "The only thing I'll do with this degree is hang it up and look at it, but it certainly is a great satis faction to get it," she said. "Naturally, I hope the series is la success.

But the thought of my I being in it for five to seven vears frightens me. I think I'd shoot myself first." It looks as though he may be in for trouble. Because "77" has been doing very we in the ratings these Friday nights, and the sponsors seem content. Zimbalist could be in for a long run. When I saw him between scenes, he was wolfing down a sandwich, which comprised his lunch.

"We've been working steadily since the season began," he explained, "and we're still not ahead. We couldn't get any backlog. Sponsor money was tight this year, so we didn't know if we were sold until the last moment. And Warners wasn't willing to shoot more than the pilot until the sale was made." The studio pulled the wily stunt of making the first show 90 minutes long. Thus, if it didn't sell for TV, it could be sold to theaters.

TV claimed it first, and the show won much attention for the novel opener. New Wheat Program second largest crop of record, 291.252,000 bushels At this time last year the 1958 crop was forecast at only bushels. But nearly ideal winter and spring conditions pushed yields far above earlier expectations. The federal state report said wheat for the 1959 crop was seeded under favorable conditions but lack of surface moisture slowed emergence of the new crop and caused uneven stands. Dry weather during October and early November held back top and root growth so development of the new crop was considerably behind that of last year.

But precipitation in the last half of November renewed growth until slowed to a standstill by recent cold weather. The agencies said top cover is somewhat uneven but generally sufficient to prevent excessive losses from blowing. Percentage ratings on the condition of the crop range from 80 per cent of normal in the southeast to 93 per cent in the north central. The statewide average is Estimates of the number of acres seeded in the various counties showed seven more than 200,000 acres. They are Sumner, Reno, Ford, Barton, Sedgwick, 206,000, and Pawnee, 203,000.

Wyandotte has the smallest acreage, 4,000. From Congress Demands By OVID A. MARTIN WASHINGTON Gov ernment report forecasting a 957- million-bushel winter wheat crop next year is expected to add strength to demands that Congress write a new program for that grain. A crop of this size when added to the spring crop yet to be seededwould add to a record surplus of about 1,320,000,000 bushels. Christmas To Shows On TV By CHARLES MERCER NEW YORK (AP)-Just about everything on the television networks in the coming week with a few exceptions will be concerned with Christmas.

For example: Today NBC-TV, Omnibus stars Gene Kelly in his television debut with "Dancing A Man's Game." CBS-TV, a half-hour program of Christmas music by the Salt Lake City Tabernacle Choir. NBC TV, Shirley Temple's Storybook offers "Mother Goose," with Miss Temple, her three children, Elsa Lanchester, Billy Gilbert and Carleton Carpenter. Monday night NBC-TV, The Two British Fliers Killed In Nicosia NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) Two British airmen were killed and a third wounded today by a mine which blew up their Royal Air Force water truck in eastern Cy prus. It was the first serious incident in the island since a ceasefire was proclaimed Nov. 22 by EOKA, the Greek Cypriot terrorist movement fighting British forces in demands for union with Greece.

son of the famed musician is also making a name for himself in theatrical films; he scored as Jean Simmons' sympathetic friend am '-Home Before Dark." Therein lies his dilemma. "I think it's good for me to be doing a TV series now that film production is so low," said the Warner Brothers Dlayer. "If I didn't have this, I'd be off salary. one of 266 million bushels, the 1959 crop would add about 200 million bushels to the surplus, putting the oversupply at around a billion and a half bushels. The Agriculture Department said Friday that farmers planted slightly more than 45 million acres to winter wheat, an increase of 2.1 per cent over the 1958 crop acreage.

Some of this increase reflected the fact that the soil bank acreage reserve program ended this year. Under this program, payments were made to growers who underplant-ed wheat allotments. However, some of the land held out this year under the acreage reserve apparently also was held out of production for the 1959 crop under the longer-range conservation reserve part of the soil bank program. The department said that so far as weather and moisture prospects are concerned, the 1959 crop is not as well off as this year's record one. It said there is a short supply of surface moisture in some areas.

WASHINGTON (AP) Prices of protein supplements used in livestock feeds have increased about 24 per cent during the past year to help narrow returns producers are getting for hogs, cattle and poultry. Corn and other feed grains taken as a whole, are priced at levels prevailing a year ago. Reporting this, the Agriculture Department said a strong demand for the supplements, reflecting expanding production of hogs and cattle, is the major factor in the advance in prices of the TOPEKA (AP) The seventh largest Kansas wheat crop of rec ord is in prospect for 1959 on the basis of Dec. 1 condition, federal and state agricultural agencies said ysterday. The forecast Is for 208,601,000 bushels, based on an expected yield of 10 bushels per acre on 10,979,000 acres.

This compares with a 1958 rec ord yield of 27.5 on 10,591,000 harvested acres. This produced the Negroes Picket Cafeterias Of Stores In K.C. KANSAS CITY (AP) Negro pickets paraded in front of five downtown department stores yes terday protesting what they said was discrimination in the cafeterias of the stores. The protest began as a boycott last Tuesday of the Community Committee for Social Action. At that time, Mrs.

Kenneth Kerford, the chairman, said members of her race would not patronize the stores Emery-Bird Thayer, Macy's, Peck's, Jones and Kline's because they would not serve Negroes in their restaurants. Pickets were on duty for two hours late Friday. They returned this morning and stayed throughout the day. They carried signs reading: "We protest discrimination in the cafeteria of this store." Officials of the committee said they had been unsuccessful in negotiations with the stores in an effort to get them to serve food to Negroes. The Rev.

Lawrence S. Odom, co-chairman of the organization's picketing committee, said the "answer we received was a very positive 'no' with some little statement they might consider doing something about it at some future time." However, William G. Austin, manager of the Merchants said that because of the holiday shopping rush the stores had not been able to give the situation the attention needed to reach a conclusion. He said the stores would confer with the group immediately after Christmas and "try to reach some understanding." Felony Charge Gets Man A Long Term CITY, Kan. (AP) A state prison term of seven to 31 years was given yesterday to Daniel Ralph Marcus, 20, on two felony charges.

The charges were assault with intent to kill and first degree robbery. He pleaded guilty to both. rThe assault charge arose from a. beating Marcus gave a city jailer, John Knowles, 67, in an escape Nov. 23.

Marcus surrendered about two weeks later. He also was accused in a $100 holdup market Nov. 17, 1957. vwo lmssourians Fined For Parley KANSAS CITY (AP)-Two Mis-sourians were fined $500 each and placed on two-year probation Friday after pleading guilty to charges of distributing football parlay cards without obtaining the $50 federal wagering stamps. 'They are Guy A.

Smith, 41, Marshall, and Richard A. Snyder, 55j Lexington. Judge R. Jasper Smith of the U. S.

District Court ordered each to pay their fines during their probation. Exterminating 'a service the true reason for its being: the birth of the Christ Child. If you've been thinking those uneasy thoughts lately, you're in good company. The lay movement called "Keep Christ in Christmas," is still around and. still pounding away at its annual, and often embarrassing, question: What are you Canadian-born Mrs.

Olga Dun can, 30, has not been seen since Nov. 17. She and her husband, Frank Duncan, 30, separated two weeks after their marriage last July. Duncan has said he believes she is still alive. Charged with conspiracy to commit murder and kidnaping are Mrs.

Elizabeth Duncan, 54, Augustine Baldanada, 25, and Luis Moya, 22. Bail for them was set at $100,000 each. All were already under arrest on other charges. Mrs, Elizabeth Duncan is in jail at nearby Ventura, charged with fraudulently obtaining an annulment of her son's marriage to Olga by posing as Olga in court proceedings last Aug. 7.

Moya and Baldanada were arrested earlier this week after police impounded a car they rented from a woman acquaintance. Detectives said they found traces of what they believed to be human blood on the upholstery. The complaints, filed Friday by Dist. Atty. Vern Thomas, assert that Mrs.

Duncan and the two men entered her daughter in law's apartment shortly before midnight Nov. 17 and kidnaped her. Thomas quoted a cafe owner, Esperanza Esquivel, as saying Moya and Baldanada appeared at his home later that night in disheveled and bloody clothing and told him: "We Jiave Mrs. Duncan's job done; they can't find the witch. The body is in or behind a pipe." Baldanada then was quoted: "I had to hit that witch.

That witch sure screamed." Police have ordered workmen to halt construction of a pipeline in front of the missing woman's apartment. The excavation has been filled in, but final paving of the street hasn't been completed. We're Open Till 9 Take it from Santa: nothing says Merry Christmas like PMILCO RADIO and TELEVISION This year's winter wheat crop was 1,179,000,000 bushels, largest of record. Secretary of Agriculture Benson has said that he will urge Congress to write a new wheat program. He contends the present one based on acreage allotments, marketing quotas and flexible price supports is not working.

Officials said that should next year's spring crop be an average Highlight This Week Goodyear Theater offers "Curtain Call," starring Jackie Cooper in a half-hour drama about a child star trying to make a go as an adult actor against the enmity of a critic. Tuesday night ABC-TV, Naked City strikes an ironic note on the holiday with "And a Merry Christas to the Force on Patrol." Wednesday night CBS-TV, Pursuit presents "The Silent Night," a one-hour filmed drama starring Lew Ayres, Patricia Neal, Victor Jory. CBS-TV, Armstrong Circle Theater abandons its usual format to offer live from New York dramatic readings and narrations by Victor Jory and special Christmas music. Both CBS-TV and NBC-TV will present a variety of religious services and music in the late hours of Christmas Eve and early hours of Christmas morning. Thursday night CBS-TV, Playhouse 90 presents the celebrated Christmas ballet, "The Nutcracker" by Tchaikovsky.

Election Contested ATCHISON, Kas. (AP)-An elec-tio contest hearing concerning Hie office of Atchison County attorney recessed yesterday after five days of testimony. Maurice P. (Buck) O'Keefe a Democrat who received a two-vote majority, and Republican incumbent Bob Duncan each will be given an hour to sum up their cases Monday morning. Duncan contends 34 St.

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