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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1973
Page
10
Officials report a wooden ferry overloaded with passengers and cargo sank in Guayas River estuary near Punta Mandinga to Isla Nueva. More than 150 drowned, with 142 listed as passengers and many others missing or rescued by swimmers.
Boston Celtics face the Buffalo Braves at 7 30 p m on Channel 8. Sonny and Cher Howard Cosell Chuck Connors Miss Universe air at 8 p m on Channel 13. Cannon investigates dead man's will at 9 p m with Brooks Hamilton and Davevestigation of heirs. Maine Press wrap up special 7 30 p m Channel 10. Love Story at 10 p m Channel 6. The Silent Years Beloved Rogue airs 8 p m Channel 10. Adam 12 romance Channel 6 8 p m Owen Marshall Channel 8 10 p m. Book Beat Cromie Rubenstein biography talk Channel 10 10 30 p m.
Wednesday night at 11 30 a portrait of crime and adventure stars Burt Lancaster Eva Bartok in The Crimson Pirate and Friday morning eleven thirty features If I Had a Million with Gary Cooper W C Fields George Raft and Charles Laughton in the cast for a midweek program at the local theater.
Saigon reports a transport helicopter with 51 aboard was shot down during landing at Tong Le Chan base 60 miles north of Saigon. Nine soldiers killed and 36 wounded as AP Communist gunners attack multiple positions. Clashs and other losses cited as government aircraft failings and ongoing Mekong Delta explosions.
The readable fragment shows a TV schedule listing stations and programs across dayparts. Notable items include Eyewitness News NBC News CBS News and variety shows like The Beverly Hillbillies and What's My Line with late night entries such as Cannon and Tonight.
Thursday morning updates from 6 13 Maine Weather plus 8 News 8 Farm and Home. Listings include 13 Flintstones 9 30 6 Dialing Dollars 8 Movie 13 Anything You Can Do 6 Dinah's Place 13 Joker's Wild with channel lineups and time slots.
TV guide lists afternoon blocks with Days Of Our Lives Guiding Light General Hospital and Another World on Channel 13, Price Is Right at 1:30, Match Game and Let's Make A Deal on 6, One Life To Live on 13, plus Sesame Street Secret Storm and Truth And Consequences. Evening features Batman Merv Griffin Bonanza Gilligan's Island Mister Rogers and Electric Company on various channels.
On Saturday Ron Giles, manager of Howdy's Elm Street Biddeford pledged 30 cents per clam dinner and five cents per Big B sold to the Muscular Dystrophy Fund. He also guaranteed a minimum $100 donation from Howdy's to the Maine MDAA chapter.
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