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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1959
Page
14
A dense OCR listing of TV program times and show names across channels with bold color entries and many small errors. It reads like a fragmented, unreconciled schedule page noting news weather sports and various entertainment programs throughout day parts and late night.
A chaotic OCR exchange lists daytime and late night shows across NBC and local channels. Programs include News Weather Sports Bonanza Adventurers The Deputy Dinah Shore Loretta Young and various cartoons, dramas, and game segments with many times and titles truncated.
A dense OCR list outlines a day of TV programming including Cisco Kid, Sunset Strip, Annie Ashiey, The Detective, Net for Hire, Walt Disney News, Porky’s Playhouse, Jamboree, Dick Clark, Soupy Sales, High Road, Restless Gun, Lone Ranger, Christopers, Wrestling, Glencannon, Sacred Heart, Lawrence Welk, Maverick, Showboat, Lawman, Wagon Train, P. Winchell, Alaskans and more, with times ranging from early morning to late evening. Names of hosts and programs appear multiple times, reflecting a busy station schedule with entertainment, news, variety, and western shows.
A dense listing of TV and radio time slots shows programs across genres from 6:40 to 12:30 with shows including The Detective, John Daly, Walt Disney, Wrestling, Santa Claus, Roy Rogers, Maverick, Sinatra, World of Taler, and news briefs.
A fragmented list shows assorted television slots from 6:00 to 12:15 including programs like Desilu Theatre CBS News Weather Rawhide Cartoons Lone Ranger Gunsmoke Sky King Mike Hammer and Lassie with titles such as Perry Mason Mighty Eve and Death Valley. The page mixes times and show names in a rough timetable.
A fragment lists Huntington programming on UU News with a 10:30 Big Pay segment followed by 11:00 News and a 13:15 theater listing. Mentions names Chan 15 Amos Andy and Zane Gre with times 10:30 and 11:00.
TV previews list 7 P.M. Four Just Men Their Man in London features Ben Manfred rescuing a patriot from London agents of a dictator. 8 P.M. Journey to Understanding covers Eisenhower's 3 day Mediterranean cruise. 8:30 P.M. Bell Telephone Hour hosts Christmas music with Rosemary Clooney and more. 9:30 P.M. M Squad stars Lee Marvin in One of Our Armored Cars Is Missing. 10 P.M. Friday Night Fights Charley Scott vs Benny Paret in Madison Square Garden. 7:30 P.M. Walt Disney Presents Range War at Tombstone. 9 P.M. 77 Sunset Strip Vacation With Pay follows a ransom to Europe. 10 P.M. The Detectives The Long Drive features Capt. Holbrook locating two criminals.
At 7 30 P M Rawhide with Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood follows trail boss Gil Favor as he pushes his crew to impossible tasks. 8 30 I Search for Adventure covers Race To The Border with Johnny Mantz before American teams win. 9 Desilu Playhouse features Lucy Goes To Alaska with Red Skelton and Lucille Ball. 10 CBS Reports presents Iran Britt le Ally a prime hour on oil and borders with the Soviet Union.
TV guide lists movies and showtimes for Friday December 18 and beyond. Featured titles include Disraeli with George Arliss, The Great Ziegfeld with William Powell and Myrna Loy, Caribbean Mystery with James Dunn, Claudia with Dorothy McGuire, and House of Dracula with Lon Chaney Jr. Plus Westerns, comedies, and dramas such as Three Godfathers, You're In the Army Now, Edge of Darkness, They Won't Believe Her, Time Out of Mind, National Velvet, and The Hagen Girl across late night into Sunday. Sunday offerings include Beyond the Rockies, Three Cheers for the Irish, Romance on the High Seas, and That Hagen Girl with Shirley Temple.
Seventy-eight students are named on the Hannan Trace Local School District honor roll for the second six weeks. Mercerville Elementary leads with 29 honorees, followed by Hannan Trace High School with 15, Swan Creek 14, Bullskin 13, and Bethel Elementary seven. Names span freshmen to seniors with multiple students listed per grade and school.
Gallipolis Ohio an empty Southwestern Local School District bus and a truck collided on Sandfork Pennier Rd. at 4 30 p m. Homer Chambers 64 of Patriot drove left of center and the bus sustained medium damage while the truck had none. Both drivers were uninjured and Chambers was cited to County Court. Charles M Van Cooney 43 of Middleport was arrested for drunk driving and scheduled for a hearing in Middleport Mayor s Court.
Gallipolis Rotary Club plans its annual Tag Day to raise about 400 for the Christmas basket project. A Kimball Suiter, tag day chairman, says 30 Gallia Academy Junior High School band members will assist, selling tags from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mrs. Ralph Burner's Brownie Troop 222 and Mrs. Marcus J. Magnussen's Girl Scout Troop 220 are praised for tying tags in preparation.
Gallipolis state highway patrolman William J. Keating spoke to grades three through six at Washington Elementary School on bicycle safety. Principal Evan Howard Evans praised the timely topic as many new bicycles will be delivered at Christmas. Keating and his wife co chair the Washington PTA safety committee.
State Senator J. Sherman Porter news director of Radio WJEH slipped on leaving the station late Thursday evening and suffered a severely sprained ankle. He will be taped at Gallipolis Clinic and return to work in a day or two on crutches.
List of newborns including a son for Charles D Mullins in Jackson and a daughter for John E Smith of Middleport Route 1. Other entries name parents and residences in Gallipolis Patriot Route 2 Gallipolis Blackfork Minersville and surrounding communities. Blood usage recorded as eight pints Thursday.
Maridel Holley of Crown City led Huntington Tobacco Co. with a $69.84 per hundredweight sale after moving 1139 pounds for $759.53. This marks the fourth straight day this week a Crown City burley grower ranked among the top sellers.
Capt. Matthew M. Wetherspoon, 37, a Bethlehem, Pennsylvania native and eight time decorated veteran, named commander of Army recruiting in the Tri-State area by MSgt. Paul G Kabage. He replaces Capt. Frank M. Gornto and will oversee recruitment across 22 eastern Kentucky counties and parts of West Virginia and Ohio. Wetherspoon first joined service in 1940 and previously served as deputy commander at the Cleveland main recruiting station.
Funeral services for Gilbert Roush 46 of Gallia County will be held Sunday at Miller's funeral home. He died December 9 in a Philadelphia veteran's hospital. Burial is Gravel Hill Cemetery with military rites by Lafayette Post 27 American Legion. Born September 15 1913 he served in World War II in Africa Italy France and Germany where he was wounded. He leaves a daughter Sharon Roush a brother Clarence and John and five sisters in Ohio and Akron.
Pvt Gary Winters, a 1959 Rio Grande High School graduate, is home for the holidays with his parents Mr and Mrs Hershel Winters of Rio Grande. He will report to Fort Belvoir Virginia on January 5 after completing basic training at Fort Hood Texas and a reproduction equipment repair and city engineers' training in Granite City Illinois.
Military mail call notice lists TOPSAIL A B John F from Athens A F and the 3366th School Squadron based in Marillo Texas requiring delivery of correspondence and official notices to the service member.
Gallipolis Ohio Marshall D. announces the city board of education postpones a Dec 29 meeting with a 25 member citizen group to discuss school finances until after the new year. The board will next meet Jan 4 to seat new members Dr George W Davis Clyde Saunders and incumbent Dr J Gordon Gilbert. Outgoing members include Merrill O Dell and City Manager Austin O Cotton.
Tri County Teen Canteen hosts a M G M Teen Tones salute record hop in Middleport with Miss and Mister Stroll Champs of 1959 announced. The first What the Tri County Teen Canteen Means To Me essay winner will be named, judged by Dick Thomas of The Athens Messenger. Miss Snow Queen candidates join the reception committee. New Year’s Eve Ball replaces White Christmas Ball. dance runs 7 30 p m to 12 30 a m with Middleport Safety Club handling concessions. Preparations for Wahama High School gym New Year’s Eve dance are noted.
Mrs. Sarah Allison 83 a former Vinton resident died early Thursday in a Detroit area hospital. She had lived with her son-in-law and daughter in Novi Michigan since fall. Surviving are daughters Mrs Hollie Marcum and Mrs Tom Pendleton and other relatives including John Bates Cincinnati Virgil Jackson Detroit and Willie Tomblin Logan. Funeral set for 2 p.m. Saturday at Vernon McCoy funeral home Vinton with burial at Marcum Cemetery.
Gallia Academy High School Key Club hosts the Mistletoe Ball on Saturday night in the junior high gym from 9 p.m. to midnight. Admission is 75 cents for a stag and one dollar for a couple. Advisor Gordon Massie leads the planning with officers and homeroom representatives.
Daily river gauges show Gallipolis 18.2 and 31.0 with 120 feet of rollers while Kanawha Falls and Hin ton report smaller crests. Ohio River movable dams down as river traffic waits. numerous boats listed up and down locks 13 through 35 with mixed up and down readings amid fog delaying northbound and southbound traffic.
Instructions recommend taking eggs from the refrigerator the moment you wake up so they warm to room temperature before cooking. This quick tempering step is advised to improve texture and even cooking.
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