Don Knotts Scores as Astronaut in The Reluctant Astronaut
Don Knotts stars as Roy Fleming an accidental astronaut in The Reluctant Astronaut a Universal film at the Paramount theater. Leslie Nielsen Joan Freeman and Jeanette Nolan co star as the comedy follows Knotts fearless but comical ascent into space and in a family misfire plot the father pushes for a hero while the son becomes a space program janitor receiving humorous chaos.
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Reluctant Astronaut
Don Knotts
Leslie Nielsen
Joan Freeman
Jeanette Nolan
Arthur O'Connell
Universal
Andy Griffith
Don
Barney Fife
Roy Fleming
Knotts
Edward J. Montagne
James Fitzell
Everett Greenbaum
Son
Space Hero Misadventures on Deck Landing Comedy
A bumbling space tale unfolds as the accidental hero lands on a recovery carrier with comic timing. Joan Freeman plays the heroine while Leslie Nielsen stars as an earnest astronaut and Arthur O Connell with Jeanette Nolan portray the reluctant parents. In color.
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Knotts
Joan Freeman
Leslie Nielsen
Arthur O’connell
Jeanette Nolan
Divorce granted to wife of Tom Smothers in Santa Monica
In Santa Monica California AP reports the wife of singer comedian Tom Smothers Stephanie Smothers 27 obtained an interlocutory divorce by default in superior court. She was awarded alimony child support and custody of Tom IV 22 months.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Tom Smothers
Smothers Brothers
Stephanie Smothers
Tom IV
No Action by State on Atkins School Protest
The state board of public instruction took no action on attaching the Atkins school district. Benton county board of education recommended attachment to Benton Community district, while Atkins school board opposed it. The issue set for April board meeting.
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Atkins
Des Moines
State Board of Public Instruction
Benton County Board of Education
Benton
Atkins School Board
Winters urges college students to rethink church traditions
Richard Winters of Grinnell College told the Men's Lenten luncheon that many students practice penitence in nontraditional ways and should not be judged by outward appearance. He cited campus tutoring, federal programs, service learning, and three students heading to Greece with the Peace Corps as signs of renewed church influence. The Very Rev. Msgr. Daniel J. Tarrant will speak next week.
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Richard Winters
Grinnell College
Roosevelt Hotel
Winters
Grinnell
Greece
Peace Corps
Daniel J. Tarrant
Allergies Your Personal Poisons-6 Foul Air Adds to Threat
The Donora Pennsylvania episode shows how a temperature inversion trapping fog and emissions from industry can plague 14 000 residents for four days, sickening 5910 and killing 17. Pollutants include sulfur dioxide and soot. gases like carbon monoxide worsen respiratory allergies.
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Donora
Los Angeles
Chicago
Theater Time For Saturday
Community theater shows Guys and Dolls with matinee and evening slots. Paramount screens Reluctant Astronaut followed by shorts and later listings.
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Guys and Dolls
Paramount
Iowa
Film schedule notes quirky showings and titles
A list of theater titles and times appears with venue names like WORLD TIMES and MARION plus drive in and Twixt Town entries. Films include Dr Zhivago Sword of Sherwood Forest The Bell Boy Tenth Victim Get Yourself a College Girl When the Boys Meet the Girls Gidget Goes to Rome and Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed among others with multiple start times.
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Paris
Dr. Zhivago
Marion
Sword of Sherwood Forest
C. R
Gidget
Rome
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