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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1971
Page
10
A chaotic listing of television programs across days and channels. It enumerates shows such as The Munsters The Addams Family Star Trek Wagon Train and Sesame Street along with time slots and channel hints, reflecting a mid century network lineup.
The Messenger states it is not responsible for listing errors when stations do not provide correct schedules. Schedules may change last minute. Most programs are in color so no special indication is used. Times are given in Eastern Standard Time.
A TV schedule fragment lists The Big Country Part 2 with Gregory Peck Jean Simmons Carroll Baker Charlton Heston Burl Ives and others at 9 p.m. Also on air are The Long Ride Home, Skirts Ahoy, The Strange One, Once More My Darling, The Sheriff, Three Little Words and Walk the Dark Street with various stars and genres across the evening.
Reader asks if Mickey Rooney played Huck. The 1931 film featured Jackie Coogan as Huck. Rooney did portray Huck in the 1939 adaptation The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
TV listings note the season finale of The Carol Burnett Show with Nanette Fabray and Paul Lynde. A second segment features From a Bird's-Eye View, Gunsmoke encore, sculptor Winslow Eaves, Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, The American Sportsman special, Here's Lucy, and Mayberry R.F.D. latest episodes with cast twists.
At Forest Acres Park near Rutland about 450 anglers fished for rain bow trout stocked in the lake. Douglas Lambert of Rutland won with a 23 inch trout and $15. Jules Bison of Middleport placed second with a 22 and a half inch trout for $10. Dan Cremeans of Rutland and Harold Mason Meadows each claimed $5 with 17 inch catches.
Cub Scout Pack 245 met at the Middleport Legion hall with S. T. Smith as cubmaster in charge. Webelos opened with a Cow boys and Indians theme. Mil ford Hysell led Den 4 in a stunt, and several members received attendance and service pins, bears, and pins. A Jesse James skit followed by a SOAR talk and district enrollment notes capped the meeting. Pomeroy Emergency Squad aided a 15 year old Joyce Bing after an auto crash, taken to Veterans Memorial Hospital for a back injury.
Alfred E. Hussell of Point Pleasant Route 1 at 90 may be the oldest member of the Point Pleasant Odd Fellows with 68 years of continuous membership. His brother John R. Hussell has 59 years in the lodge, and grandson Louis Hussell is set to begin initiatory work. The lodge shifts to 8 p.m. meetings starting next Thursday, April 1.
POMEROY Meigs County Sheriff Robert Hartenbach reports a deer struck and killed on Route 124 near the Vinton Meigs County line. A second deer was killed by a car on Route 338. Drivers not identified. A game warden was notified and the sheriff's department investigated a car with rear glass broken at Whispering Pines Cafe on Route 7.
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