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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1960
Page
12
The Emmy awards kept the familiar format with stars accepting statues on NBC. Despite promises of change and 22 categories, the night featured entertainment breaks and a CBS NBC score showing CBS ahead 10 to 6 with The Untouchables at 4.
Douglas County representatives met with the Lawrence City Library Board to discuss county wide library service. If approved by the County Commission, the county would contract the library for 24500 dollars per year with bookmobile service and twelve weekly stops. If authorized, service would start January 1 1961 and may shift the library to a county levy of 1.5 mills.
The Census Bureau reports that suburbs expanded six times faster than central cities from 1950 to 1960. In 189 metro areas the population rose 24.3 percent from 87,579,138 to 108,872,660, while central cities grew 8.2 percent and suburbs 47.2 percent, with many more people moving to suburban areas.
Joey Jay earned the victory in 6 2-3 innings of relief allowing four singles. Hank Aaron homered twice and drove in three as the Braves moved into second place with a 4-1 win over the Dodgers.
Reader hints reveal a jumble of clues with numbers and partial phrases. Several entries point to classic crossword terms such as sword, honey gatherer, inferior in quality, border, desire, and private, interspersed with abbreviations and misreads.
Readable fragment shows a dense air time grid with programs across channels including News Weather Sports Jack Paar Almanac and various dramas comedies cartoons and films scheduled from morning to late night on Tuesday June 21 and Wednesday June 22. It lists titles like American Bandstand Wyatt Earp Red Skelton The Tonight Show and regional kids programs Captain Kangaroo Romper Room and Captain Kangaroo along with game shows and soap style features.
A recap of late afternoon and evening broadcasts features tightrope The Casino with mob intrigue, The Rifleman Blood Brothers donor scenes, Red Skelton Appleby the Witness comedy, The Garry Moore Show musical numbers and Carson skits, followed by Alcoa Presents The Storm a eerie tale about a painting and a troubled couple on Channel 9.
A puzzle about a presumed death tied to a portrait spirals into a Mexico trip to Cas tera's mother. The elderly reaction shocks the couple as they intensify their investigation with chilling consequences. Tonight on 10:30 Channel a comedy and two features follow.
In Seoul at the U S Embassy garden President Eisenhower chats with visiting Little League boys from the United States. He asks about fielding and hitting as he meets 5,000 miles from home, while grandsons and American teams watch.
In Sauk Centre Minnesota the future novelist Sinclair Lewis was called Doodles as a boy. He earned the nickname after he named himself Yankee Doodle Dandy when he fled home at age 13 in a failed bid to join the Army.
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