Danny Thomas show debut skews toward cute not funny
New York AP reports Danny Thomas weekly anthology opener failed to elicit laughs. It borrows Damon Runyon, centers on a compulsive gambler and a diamond ploy, while two NBC hour partners The Men from U N C L E and T Spy chase Greek plots and rescue missions amid mixed reviews of tone and execution. ABC to shake up morning lineup with Temptation and How's Your Mother-in-law replacing Dateline Hollywood and Honeymoon Race. Chuck Barris expands daytime game show empire with five titles including The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game.
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NEW York
Danny Thomas
Damon Runyon
Thomas
U.n.cle
T Spy
Robert Vaughn
David McCallum
Casablanca
Greece
ABC
Hollywood
Chuck Barris
Goodson-Todman
Regional Planning Grants Allocated For 18 Areas
Gov. Connally announced 256000 dollars distributed to 18 metropolitan areas two valleys and two counties for regional planning. Funds aim to foster local cooperation in vast urban regions and address cross‑area impacts such as mental health and water rights in the Red River and San Antonio River basins. The allocations include amounts for Abilene Amarillo Austin Beaumont Port Arthur Orange Lower Rio Grande Valley Corpus Christi Dallas Fort Worth El Paso Houston Galveston Laredo Lubbock Midland Odessa San Angelo San Antonio Sherman Denison Texarkana Tyler Waco Wichita Falls Brazos River Valley Gregg County and Victoria County.
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Austin
John Connally
Connally
Houston
Fort Worth
Dallas
Texas
Red River
San Antonio
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Cooper
Abilene
Amarillo
Beaumont-Port Arthur- Orange
Lower Rio Grande Valley
Corpus Cored
Dallas-Fort Worth
el Paso
Houston- Calveston
Laredo
Lubbock
Midland-Odessa
San Angelo
Sar. Antonio
Sherman-Denison
Texarkana
Tyler
Waco
Wichita Falls
The
Brazos River Valley
Gregg County
Victoria
County
Baytown Radio Schedule Highlights Local News and Music
A 24 hour broadcast grid lists Baytown News at 5:00 AM and 7:45 AM, with country music blocks from Morrison's Western Melody Manor to Ken Knights Countrypoliten Music. Mutual News airs on the half hour, plus weather on the hour, and a Morning Chapel Hour and Evening Meditation segment round out the day.
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Baytown
Donard
Texas
Cabinets Hard To Find In Tehran
San Angelo AP reports Mrs Andrea Alemazkoor, a San Angelo resident who married an Iranian engineer and now lives in Tehran, says finding an apartment with kitchen cabinets is a major hassle. She notes many units have only small cupboards due to fresh refrigeration and canned goods being recent in the Persian country. The article also recalls the first recorded balloon flight in the United States by Francois Blanchard over Philadelphia on January 1, 1793.
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San Angelo
Andrea
Alemazkoor
Tehran
Alemazoor
United States
Francois Blanchard
Philadelphia
Ft Belknap Grapevines Stand Vast At Fort Belknap
Ft Belknap Texas features the Cox Grape Arbor a 35 year old mustang grapevine cluster in an Fort Belknap area three miles south of Newcastle with 20 trunks reaching ten feet tall. Spanish missionaries brought the grape to America and it was introduced to the Southwest. The Cox Grape Arbor began years ago by Burl W Cox who planted cuttings from Jack County. In the 1940s the trunks required a metal support structure built by government welding classes. A college feasibility study for a Sweetwater junior college is under way by chamber of commerce members.
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BELKNAP_ Tex
Great Southwest
Mustang
Ft. Belknap
Newcastle
America
Southwest
Cox
Old Army Post
Burl W Cox
Jack County
Sweetwater, Tex
Sweetwater
Chamber of Commerce
Five State Senators Added To Texas Constitution Panel
The Texas Constitutional Revision Commission named five Senate members J P Ward A M Aikin Don Kepnard Grady Hazlewood and Henry Grover to study a new constitution. Chairman Robert Storey also appointed seven committee chairs including Rep R H Cory Peter O Dosnel James P Hart Tra Butler Carey Croneis W W McAllister and Larry Temple. The panel plans a draft for the 1969 legislative session or recommended revisions to the existing constitution. Requires two thirds of the legislature and voter approval.
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Senate
Commission
Robert Storey
Dallas
Rep
R. H. Cory
Victoria
Peter O'Dosnel
Judicial
Supreme Court
James P. Hart
Tra Butler
Fort Worth
Carey Croneis
Houston
Rice University
San Antonio
W. W. McAllister
George Wilson
Lone Star Steel
Larry Temple
John Connally
Gist
A Cafe Driving Tip by Baytown Police Department
Dear Parent the Baytown Police urge you to teach children walking to school obey safety patrols signals watch for turning cars and walk without running. For bike riders teach signaling yielding pedestrians quiet bus riding obey drivers seat belts and no passengers. For drivers ensure children buckle up avoid leaning out and drop them at safe cross points with school patrol help to keep them safe on the trip to and from school.
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James Lankford
Baytown
Ivory billed woodpecker found in Big Thicket report
Senator Ralph Yarborough says the interior department reports the ivory billed woodpecker, long believed extinct, has been found in East Texas Big Thicket. The discovery supports his bill to create a Big Thicket National Park to protect the shrinking wilderness.
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Austin
Ralph Yarborough
D-Tex
Big Thicket
Texas
Interior Department
Yarborough
Texan Appointed To Educational Post
W. Graves Blanton, vice president at Southwestern University in Georgetown Texas, is named educational consultant to Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Blanton, a Baylor graduate, did graduate work at the University of Texas and the University of Chicago and will leave his current post.
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Georgetown
Tex
Graves Blanton
Southwestern University
Pontifical Catholic University of
Rio de Janeiro
Blanton
Baylor University
University of Texas
University of Chicago
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