Television Today: NBC MCA Universals Movie Pact Shocks TV
Alan Gill argues NBC MCA and Universal will produce weekly two hour TV movies starting fall 1964, elevating big studio bigness and risking the intimate, original TV play. He warns viewers to beware glossy, canned products replacing fresh, small productions across television and cinema.
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Monster Entertainment Packager
MCA
Universal
Josef Stalin
Mao Tse-tung
Variety
Nbc-Tv
Richard Chamberlain
CBS
ABC
TV V.i.p
Robert Kintner
Virginia Woolf
Ben Casey
Hollywood
Rover Boys
Sunset Strip Alfred Hitchcock Death Valley Wagon Train Eyewitness
Shuffled TV listings show shows and movies including Alfred Hitchcock titles and a Death Valley segment. The schedule references Wagon Train Eyewitness and a Baseball Preview among afternoon and late night airtimes with multiple city pairings and hosting stations.
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Sunset Strip
Alfred Hitchcock
Death Valley
Eyewitness 13
Murphy Divorce Records Sealed to Protect Children
In Fairfield Idaho District Judge Charles Scoggin sealed the divorce records of Margaretta Fitler Murphy now Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller to protect the four children James 12 Wendy 10 Carol 7 and Malinda 3. The sealing covers child custody and property settlements indefinitely at the request of both sides' attorneys.
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Shoshone, Idaho
Charles Scoggin
Margaretta Fitler Murphy
Nelson Rockefeller
Fairfield
Idaho
James Slater Murphy
Malinda
Boise
Messingham Wins Hawkeye Girls State Governorship
Marlys Messingham of Waterloo won the Hawkeye Girls State governorship on the Nationalist ticket defeating roommate Ellen Messerer of Cedar Falls, while Waterloo’s Mary Bolster became lieutenant governor for the Nationalists. Federals took four of the remaining five offices including secretary of state Harriet Hirsch and state auditor Gail Boone.
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Cedar Falls
Marlys Messingham
Waterloo
Hawkeye
Miss Messingham
Ellen Messerer
Mary Bolster
Harriet Hirsch
Mason City
Federalist
Gail Boone
Sheldon
Nationalist
Mary Jo Fulton
Sidney
Mary Ellen Kohl
West Branch
Firms Accused of Anti-Trust Violations
A federal grand jury charged seven corporations and five individuals with rigged bids and customer allocation in metal library shelving sales. The indicted firms include Sperry Rand Corp Art Metal Inc Globe-Wernicke Co W R Ames Co Estey Corp Hamilton Manufacturing Co and Virginia Metal Products plus several named officers. Annual shelving sales exceed 10 million with these firms making up about 95 percent of the total.
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Chicago
U. S. District Court
U. S
Sperry Rand Corp
New York City
H. J. Syren
Art Metal Inc
Jamestown
N. Y
Globe-Wernicke Co
Norwood
Ohio
W. R. Ames Co
Milpitas
Calif
Cloyd Gray
the Estey Corp
Red Bank
N. J
F. Philip Tucker
Hamilton Manufacturing Co
Two Rivers
Wis
R. G. Halvorsen
Virginia Metal Products, Inc
Oranaeva
N. C. Gianakos
River Cattle Drive Continues Up Missouri River
An unusual cattle drive on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers proceeds as the towboat Jefferson City pushes a barge with 1,000 cattle north of St. Louis. The voyage began in Greenville, Mississippi, and aims for Omaha, Nebraska, with Gerald Harrison promoting the water route as cheaper and less fatiguing for livestock. The trip includes a stop at St. Louis and passage through the Chain of Rocks lock.
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Mississippi
Missouri
Jefferson City
Chain of Rocks
Greenville
Miss
Omaha
Neb
Houston
Gerald Harrison
Fred hires bank robber as housekeeper
A local report notes a unusual hiring where a bank robber becomes a housekeeper as part of a TV segment featuring the Flintstones. The program airs at 7 30 Friday night on Television 9.
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Fred
THE
Flintstones
Marion Methodist Church Receives New Pastor Kellams
The North Iowa Conference announced 16 Eastern Iowa pastorate changes. Rev. Lloyd Kellams will lead Marion Methodist Church replacing Rev. Ralph E. Baker, previously appointed to Storm Lake. Kellams, from Mason City, has pastored Wesley Church there since 1958 and has held positions in Kansas and Colorado.
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Fort Dodge
Marion Methodist Church
Eastern Iowa
North Iowa
Marion Church
Lloyd Kellams
Mason City
Ralph E. Baker
Storm Lake Methodist Church
Nickerson
Kan
Kellams
Wesley Church
Kansas
Colorado
Southwestern College
Winfield
Drew Seminary
Madison
N.J
North
Clergy Appointments and Joins Across Several Parishes
A list of church assignments shows ministers and congregations including Lisbon Delhi Delaware Robin Butler and Edgewood Denton W Ericson with students in Kansas City, Epworth Farley and Madison New Jersey, Hawkeye Alpha Duane O Tool e, Hazelton Stanley Robert Christensen and Hopkinton with new charges, New Albin Dorchester Ernest Nielsen Missouri, West Union Basye and Grundy Center ads, Belle Plaine Jack Speer at Davenport St John’s with G S Hartung retired.
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Edgewood
Denton
W. Ericson
Kansas City
F. E. Cripps
Marathon
Epworth Farley
W. J. Conner
Madison
N. J
M. P. Leaming
Lime Springs
New Charge
New Albin-Dorchester
Ernest Nielsen
Missouri
M. E. Beeman
Indiana
West Union—Fe
EF. Basye
Grundy Center
John L. de Garmo
Mason City Wesley
Belle Plaine
Jack G. Speer
Davenport St. John’s
G. S. Hartong
Leone Accepts Premier Offer
In Rome Giovanni Leone, president of the chamber, Thursday night accepted Italy’s premiership ending a 35 day crisis. The move aimed to avert a leadership void ahead of President Kennedy’s planned visit to Italy on June 30.
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Rome
UPI
Giovanni Leone
Italy
Kennedy
Gazette Want Ads Promote Bargains
Extra! Value at prices you can afford. Gazette Want Ads highlight affordable goods and services offered by local sellers.
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Gazette
New M P O Hemorrhoid Treatment Claims Fast Relief
Clinical tests on M P O show results good to excellent for five of six patients. The product claims five action steps including faster pain relief with Benzocaine, quicker shrinking via Ephedrine Sulfate, faster itch relief, longer lasting comfort, and Hexachlorophene to fight infection. Mentha latum Laboratories offers stainless ointment or suppositories with a money back guarantee.
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M.P.O
Menthalatum Laboratories
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