Television Today: NBC Plans Multicontinent “Projection 67” live
NBC will use the Atlantic and Pacific Satellites in December 1969 for a half hour three continent talk with Frank McGee Elie Abel Welles Hangen Horn and George Page forecasting the international future in Projection 67 The piece also notes CBS abandoning a drama anthology after Nielsen results The article covers Canada pursuing a coast to coast domestic satellite and FCC hearings anti smoking fairness doctrine efforts by John F Banzhaf II and other TV industry updates
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Television Listings for Cedar Rapids and Waterloo
Listings outline channel numbers and programs including 9 KCRG TV 2 WPAT TV 7 KWWL TV 3 KTVO Ottumwa 9 Rifleman 2 Report to Iowa 7 News Sports Weather 3 News 4 News Sports Weather 6 Weather News Sports 8 Sports News Weather 10 Weather News Sports 13 News Weather Sports 2 Jericho 3 Batman 4 Jericho 1 0 Cap n Kangaroo 2 Modern Woman 10 Eve Guess 13 Eve Guess 3 Hillbillies 4 Hillbillies Concentration shows listed with various time slots and cartoon preferences.
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FCC Approves ABC-ITT Merger Creating 20th Largest Firm
The Federal Communications Commission voted 4 to 3 to permit American Broadcasting Co. to merge with International Telephone and Telegraph Co. ABC will become a subsidiary of ITT forming a major multinational with assets over 2 billion and 1965 sales surpassing 2.1 billion. Critics fear government ties and foreign influence on news. Harold Geneen pledges news autonomy. Senator Morse to press for Senate inquiry in January.
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Services Friday for Mrs Wesley Womochil
Mrs Wesley Womochil 70 of Walford and vicinity died Tuesday after a short illness. Born Mary Hruby March 24 1896 near Swisher she married Wesley Womochil November 24 1915. Surviving are her husband two sons Leonard Walford and Edward Tucson eight grandchildren five great grandchildren two sisters and burial is at Hal a cemetery near Walford. Services Friday 2 pm Brushchapel by Rev Francis Laren. Friends may call after noon Thursday.
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Greece to Hold General Elections in May 1967
King Constantine announced Greece will hold general elections in May 1967 to stabilize the government amid political crises. The move followed the swearing in of Premier Paraskevopoulos's "non political" cabinet to shepherd the nation through the crisis.
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Pair Mentioned for GOP Favorite Sons
Southern Republicans name Senators Strom Thurmond of South Carolina and John Tower of Texas as possible favorite son contenders for the 1968 GOP presidential nomination. Representative Albert Watson of South Carolina says Thurmond’s candidacy is only in the talking stage with no organized drive. Tower is also cited by other southern and conservative Republicans as a potential favorite son.
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Ready Mix Plant Ruled a Nuisance and Ordered Closed
District Judge Van Meter ruled Quality Ready Mix a nuisance at its current site and ordered cessation by January 4. The plant may operate until then with a daily $25 damages payment to nearby Bates family. The decision overruled motions for a new hearing and appeal for modification.
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Kathy Everts Returns From Shrine Burns Institute
Kathy Sue Everts, three, severely burned in a May 19 apartment fire, returned to Cedar Rapids after seven months at the Shrine Burns Institute in Cincinnati. She arrived with a nurse and faces ongoing therapy and further skin grafting in Cincinnati, with hope of progress but no full recovery yet. Glen Brehm, El Kabir Shrine past potentate, coordinated arrangements.
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Plan To Attract Iowa Job Corps Trainees
A federal plan to pay local anti poverty groups 25 dollars for each Iowan enrolled in the Job Corps faces review by Iowa program officials. The incentive would run six months as federal recruiters seek new trainees, especially in rural areas. Job Corps manager Robert E. Tex Hoffman based in Kansas City aims to recruit 1,200 jobless Iowa dropouts. Henry Carter, chairman of the
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Iowa Job Corps recruiting doubts in Iowa
Iowa Employment Security Commission questions demand for Job Corps training among 16 to 21 year olds. Carter says most youths have jobs and are not interested. He notes Iowa's unemployment rate at three tenths of one percent, the nation's lowest.
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