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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1957
Page
7
A dense TV schedule lists channels and programs for a Saturday. Color programming features news reviews sports and films from morning till midnight. Notable items include Perry Como Show Your Hit Parade Captain Kangaroo The Big Picture and multiple movies with actors like Buster Keaton Buck Jones and John Barrymore Jr.
Agriculture officials halted a $3,037 soil-bank payment to Casa Grande Country Club in Arizona pending investigation. Deputy Administrator HL Lawrence Manwaring said preliminary inquiry raises questions about the club’s cotton acreage pilotment and its 191 acre farm acquired in 1952. Cotton allotments were issued 1953-1957 but no cotton was planted, with some allotments returned or sold in later years.
Radio and TV listings note Perry Mason starring Raymond Burr in the title role and Della Street as secretary. The night features crime plots, a redhead, a diamond theft, a frame-up, two guns, and a temperamental movie star, with other programs including sports, music, and variety shows across stations and times.
A collage of TV and film notes including a Wyoming outlaw tale tied to a banker, a jail escape and threats on a banker, the Polly Bergen Show debut with Sylvia Sidney, and references to The Helen Morgan Story. Chester from Dodge City packs a gun for danger as Gunsmoke events unfold, Playhouse of Mystery features Basil Rathbone, final Dollar A See land, Giselle MacKenzie takeover, Mike Wallace Interview with Margaret Sanger, and Anthony Adver film starring March, de Havilland, Rains and Gwenn.
Radio program listings show KAMC and RHI in XNA with independent pass notices and schedule references for the day's segments.
A mangled OCR fragment lists radio stations and show names with times likely from September 21, 1957. It references Gene Bartlett, Spencer, Weather, and numerous station call letters such as KGER, KMPO, KFI, KNX, KHJ, and ABC networks. The jumble includes program titles, host names, and time stamps, creating a chaotic schedule snapshot with numerous proper nouns but few coherent events.
Spin cycle of early TV plans includes Ernie Kovacs vow not to shave his mustache for a Playhouse 90 role next Thursday. Boris Karloff hosts Tales of Franzenstein as a new TV series with him in dramas. Andy Devine brings his Gang back to TV November 23 for kids. Ernest Hemingway allows five yarns for Seven Lively Girls. Omnibus debuts October 20 after airings on ABC and CBS.
Santa Barbara UP reports state Agriculture Director W. C. Jacobsen told about 400 delegates at the California Association of Nurserymen convention that agriculture remains California’s leading industry with nursery products rising in cash value. He noted nursery cash value climbed from 5.5 million dollars in 1955 to over 6.8 million this year and that the federal crop reporting service now covers the nursery sector. William A. Stribling of Merced was elected president of the nurserymen association.
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