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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1965
Page
5
A dense Thursday night lineup features Will Rogers biopic The Story of Rogers, travel club and Talk show segments, plus cartoons and soap operas. Notable guests include Kaye Ballard and a slate of NBC daytime and primetime programs with sports, game shows, and news segments throughout the day.
In Dallas the Rev. S. M. Wright president of the Dallas Negro Ministers' Alliance presented to the City Council a plan for Neighborhood Crime Fighters to prevent violence and rioting. Volunteers would locate problems and address them before police action, coordinated with a central crime prevention commission, with no powers beyond those of ordinary citizens.
George Goodman of the Los Angeles Sentinel interviews residents and rioters in Watts to gauge why youths loot and fear grips the area. He describes parents anxious about losses, whites blamed for economic frustration, and a cycle of anger, awe, and fear among the Negro community.
Hollywood AP reports Gypsy Rose Lee, now a film and TV figure, had glamour pin-ups made of herself and sent to her son serving in Europe. He replies his commander made him remove them from his locker, leaving Gypsy amused by the compliment while she stars in the movie Other Superior as a dance instructress. She also hosts a daytime talk show debuting on KGO-TV and syndicated by Seven Arts Television.
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