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1 ji )'! 71T INDEX Calendar 63 People 64 Comics 66 TV Listings 67 Movies 64 65 The Soaps 63 Religion Notes 62 Weather 68 efilorlcmcrald A A UJ Jane Alexander lsn ncrvous I 1 about new ph 1 hl Pae64 jBw Saturday October 16 1993 Page 61 News By Jeff Bahr Wit Qi A 1 KCAN Move Draws Protests Television stations KPTM of Omaha and KOLN of Lincoln have filed peti tions asking the ederal Communica tions Commission to reconsider allowing Albion station KCAN to move to Lin coln The owner of KCAN however said those petitions will slow the process and stop the station from becom ing an ABC affiliate and beginning service to Lincoln KCAN on Channel 8 currently operates as a satellite of KCAU the ABC affiliate in Sioux City Iowa Citadel Communications of Bronxville NY owner of both stations wants to make KCAN a full fledged ABC affiliate and build a lower near Utica Neb to serve Lincoln viewers Lincoln currently is home to one commercial television station CBS affil iate KOLN In April the CC granted permission to move Channel 8 from Albion to Lincoln and to change the city of license Citadel is awaiting a construction permit from the CC before it can proceed Before that permit is issued the CC must address the petitions filed by KOLN and KPTM Philip Lombardo president of Citadel Communications said the petitions filed for KOLN and KPTM will not derail the move not going to stop he said just slowing me Lombardo said that in its earlier granting the CC strongly supported proposal He said he knew other stations would oppose the proposal quite frankly going to be a Ray Cole executive vice president and general manager of KCAU said the company has no interest in competing with KETV in Omaha is our intention to provide new and improved local television service to Lin coln television he said David Summers KETV vice president and general manager said ABC has not yet granted an affiliation to Citadel to be a full service Lincoln station He said Lincoln viewers have become accus tomed to receiving ABC programming and news coverage of the Lincoln area over KETV The station has a news bureau in Lincoln with two full time employees and a long term commitment to Lincoln and Lancaster County he said Because of Channel 7's long term presence and coverage the viewership continue to be very in the Lincoln area Summers said think that take Channel 8 a while to build a loval To replace tower near iGenoa Citadel would build a tower in RELIGION Mormons Move To Spread Word Across Midlands BY JULIA MCCORD WORLD HERALD STA WRITER Dr Ralph Maw look or talk like a general But the soft spoken dental surgeon spends most of his time these days doing the things all good generals do He houses his troops He bucks up morale And at his command post the Mormon new missionary headquarters at 1 1904 Arbor St Dr Maw maps strategy and deploys his missionary troops at constantly changing locations in Nebraska and western Iowa The goal is to carry the Mormon interpretation of the Gospel to as many people as possible before the End Times appear And there is no time to waste Dr Maw said want to carry that message to all His he said feel urgency because we feel the Savior will be coming again The Midlands are proving to be a fertile area for Mormon proselytizing New convert baptisms Dr Maw said are averaging 50 a month That has brought about the need for more missionaries and a revision of the mission structure in this area he said Until July a mission president in the Independence Mo headquarters supervised Mormon missionaries in all or part of Nebraska Iowa Missouri and Kansas But rapid growth in membership and the large size of the four state area forced church authorities to divide the region into two parts and establish an additional headquarters in Omaha with Dr Maw as mission president The new area renamed the Nebraska Omaha Mission includes eastern Nebraska most of central Nebraska and various counties in Kansas and western Iowa There are 1 2532 members in a population estimated by church leaders at 19 million Church leaders decided to increase the troops to better serve the area Dr Maw said ifteen new missionaries should be in the field by Nov 2 Thirty five more are expected by spring That means 170 people to house and to supervise in an area that runs as far west as Ogallala Neb and as far east as ontanelle Iowa But Dr Maw and his wife Marilynn say they mind the extra work Dr Maw said He is one of 277 mission presidents worldwide who oversee the activities of 46000 missionaries The Maws are new to the job As a dentist and later as an oral and maxillofacial surgeon Dr Maw 57 spent 33 years drilling teeth and repairing facial bone damage caused by such things as birth defects and gunshot wounds Mrs Maw 55 supervised the couple's six children who range in age from 33 to 23 A year ago the couple decided it was time for a change was payback Mrs Maw said for the blessings of six children safely reared to adulthood 1 1 grandchildren and another on the way They sold their Escondido Calif home and their lucrative surgical practice and made plans for a short term mission They put those plans on hold after church leaders called Dr Maw to the mission presidency in Omaha Since moving into the residence Please turn to Page 62 Col 1 Ven 1 1 1 a ib ivfl? i rrll MB iB flfl VBr Hr f4 2SI Br jk tel fA'J '7 4 Ml Afr wfeA rxv1 ij)rtn Iv BMWBWWBB BILL BATSONTHE WORLD HERALD STRATEGY SESSION: Dr Ralph Maw and his wife Marilynn examine a map of the Omaha area to determine how their team of missionaries can best spread the word on the Mormon interpretation of the Gospel Older Members Are Missionaries Too Not all Mormon missionaries are young Beatrice Gibb who answers the telephone at the new mission headquarters in west Omaha is 67 So is her missionary partner ae Tacher (rhymes with Thatcher) who came to Omaha from Seattle The women both widows said they began to consider mission work when they found retirement boring wasn't for said Mrs Gibb who is from Morton Ill kids didn't need me My grandkids have grown up We (Mormons) believe in being in service to our fellow man What better way to do Unlike their younger counterparts the hardest adjust ment for both women has been learning once again to share living space Mrs Gibb was widowed 40 years ago Mrs husband died in 1987 As if sharing living space enough the women like all missionary pairs must spend time each day studyi ng scripture and praying together live as closely with another person I known has taken some Mrs Gibb said we believe in Christian love for one another so getting the rough spots smoothed Other adjustments' have been the eight hour day been a long time since I have said Mrs Tacher And proselytizing The women don't do which is door to door proselytizing Instead they find and talk to lapsed Mor mons can do that but been very Mrs Gibb said But said Mrs acher getting Source: Mormon Church THE WORLD HERALD THE IELD: I he Maws oversee Mormon missionaries in an area including a sizable portion of Nebraska and parts of western Iowa and Kansas JI A "1 ''S'" 7 Nebraska Omaha Mermen Mission JL South Dakota NEBRASKANS IOWA Jj rnfrr rt rr rri 1 I aT OM 1 1TV A 1 DmahaTr pp) 1 1 i Lincoln if' Colorado1 i Kearney 9iti LC MISSOURI 9 rT itiirni rJieii nu I KEY KANSAS I KY Kearney Stake LC Lincoln Stake a OMOmahaStake PP Papillion Stake Il Antelope County to serve viewers over 'Channel 18 Appeal a program that helps elementary and junior high school students with math problems is receiv ingcalls from a wider area in its first year of being telecast on educational televi sion Dave Rotterman producer of the show said "Homework has fielded calls from people in cities such as Elkhorn Bellevue and Council Bluffs In the past when the program was carried only over Cox Cable Omaha calls were limited to Omaha i Paul Jensen the show's longtime co host said the number of calls has in creased a larger viewing audience so we get a lot more calls which makes it more he said The live program airs Mondays from 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm on both KYNE and Cox Cable Channel 17 Cox repeats each week's broadcast Wednesdays and ridays at 4:30 pm ootnotes Actor Doug Davidson of Young and the who will appear at the City Auditorium this weekend as part of the all Home Show will be both a daytime and nighttime television person ality next year Beginning in September 1994 Davidson will be host of the new evening version of Price Is Davidson will continue in his role as Paul Williams on the daytime drama The actor will appear at the Home Show todayat 3 pm 7 pm and 9 pm and Sunday at 2 pm and 5 pm A greeting from the crew of the submarine USS Nebraska aired on edi tion of Morning A new weekly public affairs program ing in will premiere at 7 pm Thursday on KYNE The show a pro duction of University of Nebraska at Omaha Television will be produced by Maricen Ong She also will be the show's host WRITINGS: Until now Martin anti Semitic essays have not been widely discussed in the modem church Anti Semitism to Be Denounced THE DETROIT REE PRESS our centuries before the Holocaust a major Protestant church reformer sava gely attacked damned rejected race of and urged his followers to burn their synagogues and demolish their homes and then force them to do manual labor Martin Luther the religious pioneer who helped to launch the entire Protes tant movement published two long anti Jewish attacks in 1543 one of which was so obscene that it offended even some of his staunchest supporters This tragic secret is about to be publicly exposed and denounced by an unexpected source the leaders of the 52 million member Evangelical Luther an Church in America the nation's largest Lutheran denomination irony is that the vast majority of Lutherans in this country today do not even know about these writings by said Massachusetts Lutheran Bishop Robert Isaksen "But the various hate groups of this century including the Nazis did know about these writings and they used them to try to justify some very ugly At a churchwide meeting in Missouri last month Isaksen convinced other leaders in his denomination that they should delve into the past and repudiate this chapter in life They are expected to issue an official statement of rejection by early next year would be extremely important for Jewish Christian said Rabbi A James Rudin the national inter religious affairs director for the American Jewish Committee have to see the church's final text" said Rudin who has been discus sing drafts of the statement with church leaders this would be a very important building block for us if they forthrightly speak out against these very very vicious anti Jewish polemics by their or many Christians the effort is a surprising new chapter in the gradual movement since World War 11 to im prove Jewish Christian relations The Roman Catholic Church the world's largest Christian denomination formally recognized Judaism as a valid faith in the 1960s and has been trying to repent for its own historic contributions to anti Semitism Similarly Lutheran Jewish relations have been slowly im proving over many years This new repudiation of es says is likely to send countless church members flipping back through the pages of history Missouri Synod members are not in volved in the Evangelical initiative but some of them would de bate it at least privately will cause some debate at our seminaries which will be interesting to hear" said the Rev John Heins presi dent of the Missouri Synod's Michigan District we probably would not publicly acknowledge the ELCA state ment" Even many Evangelical Lutheran Church leaders have never read or dis cussed the essays which Luther wrote at age 60 three years before he died "I'm ashamed to admit this but I first learned of the depth of anti Se Plcase turn to Page 62 Col I Jokes Dancing Antics ill Jerry Lewis Show BY JE BAHR WORLD HERALD BUREAU Lincoln Jerry Lewis the son of show business performers made his stage debut at the age of 5 in 1931 son Gary became a rock roll star in the 1960s riday night a Lincoln audience may have seen the beginning of another show business career young daughter Danielle toddled out onstage near the end of her performance at the Lied Center As the audience oohed and ahhed Lewis bent over to greet the little girl born just last year is her first professional walk onto a Review Lewis said think having a cardiac After a few moments Lewis told the child to go back to her mother "because starting to upstage your old man" He then sang the good night song with which he serenades her each night That visit between father and daughter was only a small part of time onstage The accom plished entertainer performed for about hours in a show attended Please turn to Page 62 Col 1 Impressive Opens at Gifford BY JIM DELMONT WORLD HERALD STA WRITER Gail Erwin's adaptation of at the Emmy Gifford Theater is one of the best looking most ambitious productions to be staged there in recent memory Greg sets and backdrops are lavish and Sherri costumes are spectacular Mrs musical score is good enough for a wider venue (which the play will have when it goes on national tour in 1994) In short it is impressive and it was well received by a Thursday preview audience The playwright also plays a part Mrs Erwin in a splendid costume appears early as a fairy godmotherlike witch functioning as a kind of narrator who helps pull the story along Pam Carter makes a strong early appearance likable and full of energy as aged mother She is a kick Review Thumbelina What: Musical When: 7 pm ridays: 2 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Nov 14 Where: Emmy Gifford Children's Theater 3504 Center St Information: 345 4849 She returns later as a June bug an infectiously entertaining character part Thumbelina is Susan Clement a very good actress with a lovely appealing speaking voice Although she is plaintive and endearing she perhaps is not as sprightly and feisty as one might expect from a creature who springs from a tulip The oilier cast members splendidly outfitted in Ms wonderful costumes are marvelous Laura Marr is a joy as a grizzle voiced rhyme talking frog and later as a June bug Kevin Barratl is hilarious as a frog enamored with Thumbelina Carrie Nath is a lively personable mouse Kevin Ehrhart is eerily impressive as a huge butterfly with I a spectacular wingspread and again as an amusing prince of flowers Michael Wilhelm is a shade too boisterous as Orville Swallow In this adaptation of the familiar fairy tale Mrs Erwin has taken liberties by modernizing the language personalities and attitudes of the animal and insect characters and it works It the play has a fault it is its episodic quality with the main narrative pull possibly too subtle for some children Overall though it is a fine show brilliantly directed by James Larson who has imparted a richly entertaining eccentricity to most parts.