Iowa radio revival brings back old time shows
AP writer Jay Sharbutt notes Dubuque Iowa station WDBQ AM under Paul Hemmer 29 revives old time radio with five listener written scripts from a local ad artist two teachers a deputy sheriff and a factory worker The contest echoes early radio talent discovery leading to a future hit creator Earl Hemner Jr later known for The Waltons earned 500 dollars for a script
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Weekly Horoscope And Radio Theater Contest Highlights
The column opens with sun sign advice for Taurus to Pisces and notes a birthday on May 10, 1973. It transitions to Enterprise Features detailing a radio station's first Radio Theater contest, two weeks of broadcasts, audience voting, five chosen plays, and prize money from $10 to $100 with plans for a September sequel and mid July call for authors.
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Bombing memory haunts former POW at Brawley talk
Coronado, Calif. Navy veteran Ernest M. Moore, 44, told a Brawley chamber of commerce gathering that he bombed a North Vietnamese rail yard by mistake in cloudy weather. He recalled 24 villagers killed and his moral burden, after 20 months in solitary. He argued POWs who cooperated with Hanoi should not be court-martialed.
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