Television and public taste in a Cedar Rapids dorm TV room
A Cedar Rapids Gazette excerpt recalls residents watching variety and western programs, debating station choices from Medics to Sid Caesar while voting with silent protests and sharing candid notes on TV habits in a crowded dorm living room. The piece notes reliance on familiar old Westerns and crime shows, with humor at the residents’ mixed reactions to programs and personalities.
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Norman Thomas
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Fellas
Sid Caesar
Lawrence Welk
Sonny
Channel One The Patient May Live but He'll Never Be the Same
A hospital room becomes a TV viewing lounge as a patient notes the mix of humor and pain in early TV programming. The piece reflects on aging illness and the contrast between a doctor’s hopeful line and the prevailing mood of a telegenerated world.
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Tony Marvin
Eddie Albert
Mr. Godfrey
Whammo
Hopalong Cassidy
Television Listings for Cedar Rapids Waterloo and Rock Island
TV schedule details include KCRG WMT KWWL WHBP Skyline News and various shows such as Secret Storm Here s Henry Edge of Night Laurel and Hardy and Mickey Mouse Club with times and channel numbers for multiple stations including Cedar Rapids Waterloo and Rock Island listings
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Rock Island
Program Fare on Radio Front Row Showtimes
Radio listings show times and hosts for a morning to evening schedule. Names include Jarre Swin Faith Heatter and Mee, with segments on markets, news, and music.
Penn State Shorthorn Named Grand Champion at Chicago Show
PS Troubador, a Shorthorn senior calf bred by Penn State, won grand champion at the 1957 International Livestock Exposition in Chicago with Judge A. D. Weber signaling the win. Penn State also took reserve grand with PS Eileenmere II, an Aberdeen-Angus junior yearling. Purdy stated Troubador was bought from Cyrus Eaton’s Northfield Ohio farm and will be auctioned Thursday to aid the Livestock Improvement Fund.
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Penn State Livestock Improvement Fund
France Orders Gas Rationing Start Thursday
Paris AP reports France ordered gas rationing as supplies dwindle. The measure goes into effect at noon Thursday following a Tuesday night decision by authorities to curb consumption and manage energy shortages.
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Russians Seek Oil In India's Punjab
New Delhi AP reports Russia will send 26 petroleum experts to India next month to explore for oil in east Punjab. An agreement for the explorations was signed this week.
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India
Punjab
Farm Bureaus Get Marketing Method Hints
At the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation 38th annual convention three farm leaders outlined promotion and marketing methods for farmers. Marvin J. Briggs urged integrating farm activities into processing financing warehousing and transport while Carl Neumann described Meat Board funded research to boost meat consumption. Lester J. Will recommended studying the American Dairy Association self help program for sales promotion.
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Walter C Berger Named Commodity Stabilization Head
Walter C. Berger of Cedar Rapids is appointed administrator of the Commodity Stabilization Service by Secretary of Agriculture Benson. Berger has served as associate administrator since March 15 1954 and acting administrator since August 13 of the previous year. Clarence L Miller becomes associate administrator and will run the tobacco division. Berger and Miller will oversee price support production adjustment soil bank and related Stabilization Service activities. Berger is a Jones County farm native and former captain of the 1920 Washington High football team in Cedar Rapids.
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Police Chief Sentenced For Mail Theft
BELLEVILLE Ont. Charles Lockwood 45 police chief of Marmora was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison for an 8500 theft from the mails.
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Rockefeller Cancelled Trip on Death Plane
Nelson Rockefeller planned to fly to Caracas on a Venezuelan airliner that crashed near Caracas Tuesday. He changed to a New York origin Pan American flight to gain a berth and rest, arriving safely for a week of inspections of various interests in Caracas.
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Yugoslav Polish Trade Pact Extended to 30 Million
Belgrade Yugoslavia and Warsaw Poland renewed their mutual trade agreement for another year, lifting the total value to 30 million dollars, two million more than the 1956 level.
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