Payola Probe Concludes With New Broadcasting Critique
House investigators released a report charging payola pervades US TV radio with broad criticism of programming and ads. Dick Clark was named in a study of Bandstand records while industry leaders promised reforms and new bills to curb payola.
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Washington
Ap) — House
Dick Clark
King
Leonard H. Goldenson
American Broadcasting Co
Goldenson
House Legislative Oversight Subcommittee
Oren Harris
D-Ark
House Commerce Committee
Harris
Clark
Actress Bette Davis Sues for Divorce Suit
Actress Bette Davis files for divorce from husband Gary Merrill in Portland Maine. She cites extreme cruelty and notes the couple wed in 1950 during a Mexican ceremony and have had many disputes despite previous reconcilings.
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Los Angeles
Bette Davis
Gary Merrill
Portland
Maine
Court to Decide on Cheryl's Future
Los Angeles AP report says today a juvenile court will decide Cheryl Crane's fate. Cheryl, 16, daughter of Lana Turner, fled a county girls home last Friday with two others and surrendered to authorities on Monday.
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Los Angeles
Lana Turner
Cheryl Crane
Cheryl
Boy rescues girl from canal in Deerfield Beach
Ten year old Bobby Elliott visiting Deerfield Beach leaped into a tide filled canal and saved three year old Joyce Avard who had fallen from a bridge railing. Both children suffered no injuries and the boy declined money saying he is a Boy Scout.
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Deerfield Beach
Fila
Bobby Elliott
Robert E. Elliott
Cape Elizabeth
Maine
Joyce Avard
Robert Avard
Bobby
Mrs. C.H. Tyler
Local Society Notes and Community Happenings
A summary of weekly sewing group activities for veterans includes nine women making light weight lap robes and scuffies from materials donated after a call for supplies. The piece mentions family birthdays, church activities, trips, and hospital visits, plus a note on the Hudson River channel extending 120 miles beyond New York Harbor.
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Ther
Steven Crane
Hudson River
New York Harbor
Soviet Award for Cyrus Eaton Brightens Peace Motive
Cleveland industrialist Cyrus Eaton received the Lenin Peace Prize worth 35000 dollars. Eaton, reachable from Atikokan Ontario, praised the award as evidence of Soviet desire for peace for all mankind. He noted his long relations with Soviet leaders including Khrushchev in 1958 and Mikoyan’s Cleveland visit last year.
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Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland
Cyrus Eaton
Paul Robeson
Howard Fast
W. E. B. Dubois
Arthur
Eaton
Nikita Khrushchev
Moscow
Anastas I. Mikoyan
Humboldt Rotary hears about Humboldt youth summer baseball program
The Monday night Rotary club discussed Humboldt youth summer baseball with Lit tle League manager Vernon Hawver presiding. A future fundraising drive will buy equipment for the season as David S. Woods chaired the meeting and Walter Wulf arranged the program.
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Humboldt
Rotary Club
Vernon Hawver
David S. Woods
Malcolm Higgins
Humboldt News
Walter Wulf
W. H. Coldwell
Parsons
Mid- America
Baird Brinkmeyer
Coldwell
Mid America
Robert E. Osborne
Brinkmeyier
Walter Poor
Chanute
Echo Balloon Satellite Planned to Cross Skies
Cape Canaveral reports a silent 100 foot sphere named Echo may fly Thursday as a large balloon communications satellite. The hollow sphere could pave the way for new space relay systems and future satellite networks.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Balloon Satellite Flight Aims For Global Radio Link
A three stage Thor Delta rocket will launch an inflated space balloon about a thousand miles up. The balloon will spin around the earth for a month serving as a radio signal and voice message relay between Bell Labs in Holmdel New Jersey and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Goldstone California. The balloon weighs about 150 pounds and carries no instruments, while the rocket's third stage includes a transmitter to aid tracking.
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Bell Telephone
Holmdel
Labora
Hall
Greenland airport rebuilt for DC 3 intercontinental jets
Denmark reconstructs Sonderstromfjord airport in Greenland to serve the Scandinavian Airlines System inter continental DC 3 jets. The automatic bottle making machine was invented in 1903.
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Denmark
Sonder Stromfjord
Greenland
Scandanavian Air Lines
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Utah
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