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DALLAS (AP) — It’s the Christ
mas story from the Bible, but probably
not the way you remember it.
In this version, three girls—daugh
ters of the Wise Men—want to reach
the stable where Jesus is bom. They
want to warn their dads about King
Herod’s plot to kill the baby Jesus.
Along the way, they bump into
other kids who help them on their
quest, including the son of a centurion,
a shepherd boy, and the children of an
innkeeper.
In the end, the girls get word to then
fathers and foil Herod’s evil plan.
That plot is from “A Way to the
Manger,” a holiday radio program for
children and the first installment of
“Ancient Heroes Christmas
Chronicles.”
“It’s like an old-time radio pro
gram,” said Terry Brown, owner of
Youth Life Creations, the company that
developed Ancient Heroes—a line of
trading cards, coloring books and, now,
radio programs featuring Bible heroes
and villains.
“At the holiday season families can
sit around the radio and listen to the
programs together,” he said. “I think
it’s a good positive alternative to turn
ing on the television.”
For the project, Youth Life Cre
ations teamed up with the Dallas-based
USA Radio Network, which distributes
the show to its affiliates.
“It’s not exactly ‘The Grinch Who
Stole Christmas,’ but it is definitely an
opportunity for children to get involved
in the real story of Christmas,” said
Mike Sala, national director of sales
and marketing for the USA Radio Net
work.
About 180 radio stations have
signed up to air the program, which
comes in two half-hour installments,
Sala said.
KBBW-AM in Waco, Texas, plans
to air “Christmas Chronicles” in De
cember. Bill Thrasher, operations man
ager for the Christian talk station, said
he hadn’t heard the program yet, but
liked the concept.
“We’re just really looking forward
to it and I think it holds great promise
for our listeners,” Thrasher said.
Thrasher, who has children of his
own, said with all the messages young
people receive through media outlets,
it’s important to have some spiritual
messages, like the one sent out by the
radio show.
“It’s important from a moral and
spiritual point of view that young
people can have some spiritual ground
ing,” he said.
Rick Eldridge, the show’s North
Carolina-based principal writer, thinks
having children as the main characters
will help kids relate.
The underlying theme of the story
is that cooperation and trust help the
kids reach their goal.
“I think more than anything it just
gives a chance for kids to have the
message put in front of them in a me
dium that catches people every day in
their car,” Sala said.
And, despite the name, the pro
grams won’t end when the Christmas
season is over. Sala and Brown say
there are plans to put together
chronicles for Easter and other holi
days.
The Ancient Heroes line of prod
ucts began in 1993 when Brown, a
mother of three and retired registered
nurse from Muncie, Ind., came up with
the idea. Her sons asked her to buy
them superhero trading cards, but when
she saw them, she didn’t like them.
She asked the salesman in the trad
ing card store if there were any alter
natives.
“Don’t you have any Bible "he
roes?” Brown asked. “You know, cool
ones?”
The answer was no. After search
ing, the only thing Brown could find
that came close was a deck of cards
featuring Bible characters. They
weren’t very exciting, in Brown’s opin
ion, so she decided to make her own.
There are 50 cards in the current
set and they feature some typical he
roes and villains — Moses, David,
Goliath — but also include some pos
sibly less-familiar characters.
On the back of each card is a sum
mary of the life of each character or
event, followed by questions whose an
swers kids can look up in the Bible.
Brown said a new set of cards, fea
turing characters from the New Testa
ment, is planned and the company is
going to keep branching out.
DJs hold Tbys for This camp-out
From Staff Reports
’Tis the season for giving, and
three local disc jockeys will be mak
ing sure some less fortunate children
will have something underneath the
tree on Christmas morning.
In support of the U.S. Marine
Corp Reserve’s Toys for Tots pro
gram, Tim, The Animal and Johnny
Royal, morning personalities from
KJBZ-FM 106.3 The Blaze, will be
holding the Fifth Annual Toys for
Tots Winter Camp-out.
The camp-out will be in the Su
per KMart Center parking lot at
3300 N. 27th Street. It begins at 6
a.m. Friday and runs until noon on
Saturday.
Some of Lincoln’s finest will be
stopping by to make guest appear
ances, including Mayor Mike
Johanns; Lt. Gov. Kim Robak; Lin
coln Stars coach Steve Johnson and
members of the team; Comhusker
Basketball Coach Danny Nee; and
Steve Taylor, a former Comhusker
and Canadian Football League
quarterback. <
Beavis and Butthead
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“Unsolved Mysteries”) as the head
of the Alcohol, Tobacco and Fire
arms division of the government,
and screen veteran Cloris Leachman
as the old lady who encounters the
duo several times on their voyage.
While Judge was not allowed to
name some of the other voices, there
is speculation that Demi Moo^e is
the voice of the lead female char
acter.
Judge himself does the voices of
both Beavis and Butthead, as well
as schoolteacher Van Driessen and
their neighbor Tom Anderson.
Despite the popularity of the
show, Judge rarely gets recognized.
“I do overhear people doing
Beavis and Butthead, and they don’t
know I’m me,” Judge said. “I went
to University of California San Di
ego for college and I was down there
visiting someone, and 1 was walk
ing across the campus and this guy
behind me goes ‘Hey Beavis’ and I
turned around and said ‘Hey’ and
then I realized, he’s looking at me „
like, ‘Who’s this idiot?’
“I’ve had weird things like that
happen,” Judge said.
He may end the series when
Beavis and Butthead “score,” he
said.
“I think if they ever did score, it
would be Beavis and a much older
woman, probably,” Judge said. “If
they ever score, it would be like
Charlie Brown and the football. She
(Lucy) always pulls it away at the
last minute, and if he ever did get a
piece of that football, it would be
the end of Charlie. So maybe when
it’s finally time to end all of this,
maybe that’ll be the way.”
“Beavis & Butthead Do
America” opens in theaters Dec. 20.
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