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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1971
Page
16
Prime time slots show a mix of talk shows, game shows, dramas, and children's programs. Notable programs include The Lucy Show, Captain Kangaroo, Jeopardy, and The Twilight Zone era staples. The guide catalogs 1960s era broadcasts with multiple channels listed and various show overlaps.
A fragmented TV grid shows program orders and channel lineups with stations such as WSAZ NBC Huntington WLWC NBC Columbus WTVN ABC Columbus WCHS CBS Charleston and WEENS CBS Columbus. It lists shows from Mister Rogers to Dragnet and Masterpiece Theater alongside news programs and public affairs features.
TV Scout lists The Carol Burnett Show at 8 to 9 p m with guests Bing Crosby Paul Lynde and skits including The Drunkard's Daughter and a mob plot with Carol Burnett. At 9 to 10 p m The Great American Dream Machine features Jane Fonda Dalton Trumbo and Don McLean with notes on Hollywood Ten and blacklist themes. At 10 to 11 p m The Man and the City stars Anthony Quinn with Angie Dickinson and supporting cast in a tense mayoral plot.
Dennis Weaver stars as McCloud in a plot about a car theft detail. Bo Svenson plays a former semi pro football player who has stolen a car to drive his mother to New York, with Joan Blondell in a supporting role.
The scene centers on a retarded young man in a 26 year old’s body and his brother’s paralyzing accident. Questions arise about who will care for the youth as the brother’s fiancee and a young intern aid in the situation.
Robert Foxworth portrays a tense New York cop set to extradite a murder suspect from a gangster tale. His co stars include Mike Connors as a former co worker turned target. The case hinges on a wife whose changing appearances heighten the mystery.
Television listings show The Art of Love and Adam's Rib among prime time films with stars James Garner Dick Van Dyke Kay Francis Susan Hayward and Robert Mitchum in a 1950s lineup. A Lagos report notes an armed robber helper faces execution under a new death penalty amendment.
In Meigs County voters approved some levies and rejected others. Middleport elected John Zerkle as mayor with 459 votes and approved a $60,000 fire station bond by 737 to 233. Pomeroy chose William Baronick as mayor with 445 votes to 317.
Meigs County voters chose trustees and clerks in races across townships including Bedford Chester Lebanon Letart Columbia Olive Orange Nina Rutland Salem Salisbury Scipio Sutton and others. Election tallies show varied wins for trustees and clerks, with a statewide off year turnout slightly above 1967 levels.
The Baptist Women's Day of Prayer at Middleport First Baptist, in partnership with the B H Sanborn Missionary Society, featured a theme Bearing One Another's Burdens. Mrs. Gerald Anthony led with several assistants, prayers by Mrs. Willis Anthony, and ushers Mrs. Robert Richardson and Mrs. Manning Klees.
Students from first through third grade performed readings and poems about Veterans Day while the school sang America. Buddies read What Veterans Day Means to Us and Why We Observe Veterans Day. PTA provided refreshments and 81 parents attended. A separate Ohio Highway Patrol report noted a two car collision near Gallipolis. Jerry Shaffer cited for driving while intoxicated. Pumpkins originated in Mexico and Central America.
The Salem Center PTA met to discuss speech therapy with speaker Mrs. Joseph Graff from Rutland Riverview and Salem Center schools. Highlights included bake sale support, jar opener sales, a new legislative committee led by Olive Page, and plans to write to the congressman on two state bills.
In Meigs County races two incumbents topped the county board with Gordon Collins at 2374 votes and Harold Roush at 2831. Meigs Local elected Virgil King 1829 Joe Sayre 1345 and Carol Pierce 1261, while David Jenkins fell short at 1251. Eastern Local chose Howard Caldwell Jr 749 Clyde Kuhn 597 and Roger Epple 557 with Clifford Longette 524 and Charles Hauber as writers. Southern elected David Nease 945 and Grover Salser Jr 777, with Jack Bostick 731 and Patsy White 413 as opponents.
Meigs voters approved the county tax levy for TB and Health with 3758 for and 2057 against. Levies defeated included the 3 mill additional levy in Southern Local School District and operating levies in Pomeroy. A one mill levy in Olive Township and a one half mill in Orange Township failed, while a Lebanon Township one half mill passed and Racine two mill renewal passed. State issues saw 2847 for and 1670 against.
A two car crash near Racine at 4 p.m. injures a passenger. Thomas Farver Jr., 20, of Pome roy, lost control on a wet road and hit a utility pole. Thomas Sarver Sr. was taken to Veterans Memorial Hospital with a jaw injury. A deer crossed Route 7 near Athens at 6:30 p.m. involved in another car incident.
Middleport Elementary PTA organized a Halloween party for students at the Pearl Street building with room mothers from each grade assisting. Walk In Garden Club sets Thursday at 7 30 p.m. at Mrs Glen Lee’s home and asks members to bring arrangements of dried material.
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