Hee Haw Quietly Replaces Smothers on CBS Midseason
Hollywood notes CBS-TV plans a midseason comeback with Hee Haw a hillbilly variant of Laugh-In as the Smothers Brothers exit. The network leans into rural, nostalgic fare amid urban tension while Gunsmoke Mayberry R.F.D. and other country style shows bolster CBS ratings.
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Banks Signed for Regular Role on Tim Conway Show
Tim Emily Banks has been signed for a regular role on The Tim Conway Show premiering Friday January 30. She plays Becky the romantic interest for star Tim Conway. Banks previously appeared in The Plainsman Live a Little Love a Little with Elvis Presley and The Fakers and guest starred on Mannix and The Wild Wild West.
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Saturday CBS children’s hour features J. T 60 minute special
The Kids CBS “Children’s Hour” begins at 11 Saturday morning with a 60 minute special titled J. T about a young black boy and an injured cat. NBC counters with a two hour musical adaptation of Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates filmed in Holland and Norway starring Eleanor Parker, Richard Basehart and Cyril Ritchard to air Sunday at 6.
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Television Listings and Sitcom Lineup for Cedar Rapids and Ottumwa
Television listings show 9 KCRG TV and 2 WMT TV in Cedar Rapids, 7 KWWL TV in Waterloo, and 3 KTVO in Ottumwa. Programs include Let's Make a Deal, High Chaparral, Get Smart, Hogan's Heroes, The Name of Game, and a wedding reception referenced as a victory dinner.
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Nixon Plan Voting Bill With Broad Safeguards Passes House
The House narrowly approved President Nixon's voting bill replacing the 1965 act's South focus with nationwide safeguards. It would ban literacy tests nationwide until 1974 and allow district residents to vote for president if they have lived there since September of the election year. The bill moves to the Senate for consideration.
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Compromise on Capitol Project Clears Fund Bill
Senate passes a $344.3 million appropriation bill, ending a Capitol west front dispute. If a $15 million restoration is feasible, a $45 million office extension design cannot proceed. The bill funds a third Senate office building with $1.25 million for land.
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Wright Brothers Day Proclaimed by Nixon
President Nixon proclaimed Wright Brothers Day honoring Orville and Wilbur Wright on the 66th anniversary of the first powered flight. The designation honors the brothers for turning the dream into a hard scientific fact.
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Regents Discuss Braille School Control Dispute
AMES The board of regents met to review a report on control of the Iowa Braille and Sight Saving school at Vinton. A move to shift control from the regents to the Iowa Commission for the Blind is expected in the coming legislative session. The report, circulating in the Gazette, addresses criticisms of transfer plans and reads as a governor’s letter. Board President Stanley Redeker said there has been no comment from the governor or legislators.
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B 52 Pullout Clarified by Defense Dept
The Pentagon clarified that 15 B 52s were withdrawn from Vietnam last July. An equivalent 15 more bombers were to leave Southeast Asia by next summer, but no orders for redeployment had been issued. Defense spokesman Jerry Friedheim said new information shows half of the planned pullout already occurred.
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Toll Collectors Give for Christmas in New Jersey
Toll collectors at the Tacony Palmyra and Burlington Bristo w bridges will distribute greeting cards to motorists on Christmas day, forgoing the nickel toll.
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Advent series guest at First Lutheran Church
Sister Siena Davis of Mount Mercy College will join Pastor George Carlson for the Advent series Time for Hope in Theology at First Lutheran Church at 7 30 PM Friday. The program will be broadcast in color on KCRG TV Channel 9.
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