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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1967
Page
7
Hollywood AP reports Yakima Canutt will receive a special Academy Award honoring him for creating the stuntman profession and developing safety devices. Charlton Heston will read the citation. Canutt, 71, reflects on his career from rodeo champion to director of action sequences in Ben Hur El Cid.
Viewers saw the AFTRA strike broaden with craft unions joining in. NBC night news showed technicians replaced by managers causing sound and picture issues. CBS offered Caesar Coca and Reiner sketches as light relief. NBC Crossroads in Space outlined NASA costs near 24 billion dollars. Frank McGee highlighted moon program expenses and agency expansion. The report warned taxpayers about escalating space costs.
A fragmentary listing shows a dense weekday timetable with programs across dayparts. The list names multiple shows such as The Today Show, Captain Kangaroo, Gunsmoke, The Fugitive, The Doctors, The Edge of Night, and regional news, with time slots and channel blocks, reflecting a local broadcast schedule.
A dense channel guide lists programs and air times across stations WSAZ NBC Huntington WLWC NBC Columbus WTVN ABC Columbus WCHS CBS Charleston WBNS CBS Columbus WHTN ABC Huntington WTAP NBC Parkersburg WHIZ NBC ABC Zanesville WOUB Ohio University Athens, detailing cartoons news and movie blocks plus festival broadcasts and special features with color indicators.
A TV guide lists films and schedules for Thursday night including Branded at 9, Stage Fright at 10, Fighting Coast Guard at 11, The Strip at 11 45, Go Chase Yourself at 1 0, The Prison at 1 0, Run of the Arrow, The Long Ships, Death of a Scoundrel, The Cosmic Monsters, The H Men, and Ursus in the Valley of the Lions. The excerpt also notes a descriptive line about a torpedo shaped squid displaying intelligence and color-changing abilities.
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