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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1961
Page
9
The Messenger disclaims errors in program lists when stations fail to provide corrected schedules. Times show a long, jumbled lineup including News Weather and various show names with color codes.
Fragmented program rundown shows NBC and CBS style listings including news at 11:00 and 1:00 AM, sports segments, various shows such as Viewpoint Detective Hour Bullwinkle and Bonanza, plus NFL and college football blocks and weather. Reading hints at a late-night mix of entertainment and sports across multiple channels.
A radio TV listing shows 6:00 Hiway Patrol 9:00 Sunset Str and 6:25 News 10:00 Target. 6:30 to 7: League Boo airs before 11:00 News, followed by 7:00 Everglades and 11:10 Sports. 7:30 Diamond and 11:15 Weather precede 8:00 Hathaways and 11:20 Dr. Brothers. 11:25 Movie concludes the night.
A scrambled broadcast slate shows times and programs from 6:00 to 11:15 including News Weather Sports and Movies. The docket features The Flintstones Ripcord Hathaways Bus Stop Paradise and multiple news and movie slots with various start times.
A fragmented list of TV programs and times showing daytime and evening programming across networks. Entries include news, weather, dramas, westerns, comedies, game shows, sports, and movies with varied start times and titles such as Rawhide Route 66 Twilight Zone and Ed Sullivan Show.
TV preview lists 7 p m Ford on Viewpoint with three local panelists from Executives Club Committee of 100 and DAR leaders. 7 30 Ameche hosts Circuses Heros Togni in Vercelli Italy. 8 30 Taylor stars in A Barrel Full of Monkeys. 9 30 Bell Telephone Trio and ballet perform. 7 Everglades The Escape in quicksand dilemma. 7 30 King of Diamonds Diamond Dust security plot. 8 Hathaway Elinor guilt secret return. 8 30 Flintstones The Soft Touchables bank job plot. 9 77 Sunset Strip The Unremembered jewel robberies. 10 Target The Poppy Vendor infant drug case.
At 7:30 Rawhide presents The Lost Tribe with Pete Nolan as Cheyenne cattle theft prompts memory and conflict. 8:30 Route 66 features Lee Marvin in Mon Petit Chou with Tod and Buz challenging a Svengali agent over a French singer. 9:30 Father of the Bride has Stanley Banks memorizing his engagement speech. 10:00 Twilight Zone stars Lee Marvin in The Grave about a gunman’s pledge and courage test. 10:30 Eyewitness with Walter Cronkite covers the week’s top CBS news event.
Local channels offer a slate of films and times across Friday Saturday and Sunday including Valley of Decision Part II A Foreign Affair Flying Tigers Wake Island The War Against Mrs Hadley She Wore a Yellow Ribbon The Greatest Love Crimson Pirate Stage To Chino Devil's Canyon The Great O Malley Mammy Song of Songs and more across Channel 4 6 10 13 16 8 and 12 with daytime and late night showings.
Karen Houston aged seven and David Heath aged thirteen won first prizes in both the suspended apple bite contest and the apple bob contest at Naomi Lodge 55 Knights of Pythias annual Halloween party.
Eleven minutes after the alarm, 11 fire units and emergency vehicles converged on the Kyger Creek Power Plant in a hypothetical major fire staged by MOVIEPC. About 75 volunteers and law enforcement observers participated as the drill evaluated fire response and traffic control with several agencies coordinating arrivals.
Gallipolis and City Manager Austin O. Cotton named as defendants in a Gallia County suit filed by J. L. McCorry Jr. seeking more than 105000. He alleges delays and extra work on the sewer trunk line project begun December 16 1958 under a 37710174 contract, with 55000 against the city and 50000 against the manager personally for exemplary damages. He claims the city forced work stoppages and refused to pay for approved work, leading to additional costs totaling about 43389.95 and a written demand for 55768 with no response.
Gallia County completes non transparent prison windows using eight inch square glass prism blocks four inches thick. Garland Lanier installed blocks on eleven ground floor openings totaling 684 blocks after sheriff Oscar Baird won approval at an Oct. 2 meeting to curb inmate taunts.
A list of names associated with Holzer Hospital including Frank Wetzel Mrs. Carl Norton Kent Brown Mrs Ralph Lasher Glendyn Cherrington Gordon Kendall and others. The entry notes blood usage on Thursday totaling two pints.
Mrs Frank Thompson entertained her canasta group at Haven Heights home with help from Mrs Don Bailey. Attendees included Mrs Don Hartley Mrs Billy Ray Ward Mrs Bob Sayre Mrs Bob Gertis Mrs Earl King Mrs Charles Dodd and the hostesses. Prizes went to Mrs King and Mrs Gertis.
One hundred thirty Racoon Local voters attended a Rio Grande Elementary School auditorium debate on consolidation. Opponents aligned with Southwestern and partially with North Gallia, led by J Dale Miller Joseph W Clark Clarence Davis John Myers and John C Wickline. Proponents included Steve N Jenkins B Lewis Jones and James Clark backing the Nov 7 ballot.
A Tennessee man escaped serious injury when a tire blew on State Route 7 near Gallipolis causing his car to leap over an embankment and overturn. John B. Miller, 33, of Dickson, Tenn., was treated at Holzer Hospital for a bruised leg and released. No charges were filed.
Gallia County 4-H Advisers Association met with President Raymond De Lille naming a planning committee for the 1961 Achievement Day. The event is set for Friday November 17 with Virginia Cremeens F C Pettus and Claude Winters on the committee to choose the location.
The report lists river conditions from the Ganges to Kanawha and Ohio systems with gauge readings, dam sill statuses on Kanawha and Greenup locks, and hourly boat movements. It records specific vessel names, load figures, lock numbers, and times across Montgomery, Greenup, Kanawha, and Gallipolis districts.
Dr. George W. Davis spoke on vision Thursday morning to third grade classes at Washington Elementary School, introduced by his son Mark.
Gallipolis reports each member will contribute one dollar for a child gift at the annual Christmas party set for 3 pm December 24 at Grace Methodist Church. Husbands invited. mothers to bring one dollar to the December 5 meeting.
Bill Dowler begins his post as freight agent at the Gallipolis station of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, taking over Oct. 20 from Chauncey W. Rife who retires after 56 years with the company. Dowler previously served as a telegraph operator in Kananga de Pot and as freight agent at Vinton for five years.
James T. Hedger 74 of Gallipolis Route 1 died at 2 40 p m Thursday in Holzer Hospital after a six day stay following a heart attack. His wife Frances is in serious condition from leg and pelvic injuries after being struck by a car last Saturday night. Friends may call Friday evening at Miller's funeral home. Burial will be at Gratis Ohio with services Sunday at Barnes funeral home Eaton. He was born in Powell County Kentucky and survived by wife two daughters and four sons plus 13 grandchildren.
Volcanic action has driven all 260 inhabitants to desert Tristan da Cunha, the loneliest isle in the world, abandoning homes and fields as ash clouds obscure the horizon.
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