Television Specials Shape Networks In Public Image
TV critic notes the season's specials draw bigger attention and publicity than many regular series. Fred Astaire, Frank Sinatra Ella Fitzgerald and Jack Paar programs boosted NBC and ABC profiles, despite some network plans to cut back. Revivals like Of Mice and Men, Anne Frank and Dial M for Murder are praised as strong assets.
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Patrick McGoohan to headline CBS summer drama The Prisoner
The English star of Secret Agent is set as the head liner of a one hour CBS TV summer replacement show titled The Prisoner a weekly drama. A Ford's Theater restoration feature from Washington DC about Lincoln will air on NBC Today. The Chaffee parents discuss their Apollo astronaut son’s book On Course to the Stars on Today.
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Road Runner TV Listings Highlight Bradley N Texas Scores
Listings show Road Runner 2 and 4 segments with Road Runner 13 and Valley basketball notes for Bradley N Texas. Program blocks include channel changes and time slots across the schedule.
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Hughes Okays School Taxes Computation
Governor Hughes directed the comptroller and the schools superintendent to compute local school taxes and state aid under Turner Turner’s formula for the balance of the current school year. A court test will decide the law for next July budgets. Weeklong work aims to certify levies to county auditors early next week.
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Iowa Sheriff's Assn Tables Emergency Police Plan
Iowa Sheriff's Association directors tabled a plan for a 300 man emergency police force and instead called for a study committee of sheriffs and private citizens to coordinate law enforcement in town. The decision followed a meeting with Gov. Hughes and Scott County Sheriff William Strout, who urged delaying the force proposal.
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Davenport Man Killed in Vietnam War
Washington AP report lists another Iowa death in Vietnam. Marine Pfc. William Leamon of Davenport is named as the 23rd Iowa casualty this year, son of Mr and Mrs Robert Leamon.
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Tentative Okay of Banning Open Refuse Burning
Iowa Air Pollution Control Commission tentatively approved a regulation to ban open burning of refuse in dumps and salvage operations while allowing backyard burning of leaves or trash by homeowners. The plan excludes open fires for cooking or recreation and would require permits for salvage burning. The draft goes to a nine member panel in March for review and then a public hearing.
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Ohio Man Dead in Auto Near Calamus
A 23 year old Cleveland man Theodore Mancuso, a Palmer college student in Davenport, was found dead in a car parked in a field near Calamus. He had been missing since January 21 the day after his marriage to a Mayfield Heights woman. Autopsy ordered. no violence found. Calamus lies about 20 miles northwest of Davenport.
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Civil Strife Curb Up to 7 Agencies
Governor Hughes convened officials from seven agencies to marshal state resources for social and economic problems that could spark civil strife next summer. The plan aims at jobs, training, recreation, education and related needs through a coordinated effort led by church leaders and local officials with potential private funding. A Feb 20 meeting will draft a main plan with subcommittees formed to address specific concerns.
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Lorillard withholds tobacco ads on football telecasts
Lorillard Co will not renew tobacco product advertising on professional football broadcasts on CBS next season. A letter to Sen Robert Kennedy dated November 29 1967 signaled the move and followed a request from Kennedy Magnuson urging tobacco ad limits on sports viewed by youths.
Debates Set for Three GOP Senate Candidates in Emmetsburg
A February 22 debate for the Republican U S Senate nomination is planned at Emmetsburg High School auditorium. Organizers include Rev. Chester Guinn of Emmetsburg Methodist Church with accepted from former Congressman James Bramwell and State Senator David Stanley Muscatine. Des Moines insurance man Wil
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Antiwar candidate Liam Plymar to attend debate
Liam Plymar, running on an antiwar platform, said he would attend a debate. Guinn outlined proposed ground rules to be approved by all three candidates, including a random speaking order and 20 minute segments on Vietnam inflation and urban riots.
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Algiers closes student cafes near university
The government shut several student cafes near the University of Algiers on Friday, reportedly to disrupt meeting places for dissident students.
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