Hoss Blocker Aims at Hollywood After Texan Rise
The Texas actor known as Hoss Blocker from Bonanza rose from a high school football ta actor to drama major at Sul Ross State College in Alpine. He turned down a football offer for summer stock and later pursued TV western roles while balancing acting with education. Blocker appears at Southwest Oklahoma events before heading back to Hollywood for more film work. His career includes Cheyenne Gunsmoke Maverick Wagon Train and more. Little Joe Cartwright Michael Landon will visit Ardmore Shrine club rodeo in April.
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the Rifleman
Ardmore Shrine Club
Pop Music Service Planned in St James Church
Rev. Michael Curragh agreed to hold a pop music service in St James Church Devizes England next month. He said younger members asked for it and described the music as tuneful, vigorous, and with conviction.
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NBC Plans Four New Anthology Dramas Next Fall
NBC’s fall schedule features four to five weekly hour long anthologies led by The Dick Powell Theatre’s legacy, with Richard Boone Odets Serling and Brodkin producing Espionage The Defenders and other drama series while musicales fade and several shows are canceled or moved.
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Oklahoma City String Quartet Concert at Museum of the Great Plains
The Oklahoma City String Quartet led by Norman Paula violin Lawrence Fisher violin T Burns Westman viola and David Vanderkooi cello will perform in the round at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Museum of the Great Plains. Tickets cost 1.50 for adults and 1 for students and Fort Sill enlisted personnel.
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Red River Use Seen By Long At 39th Meeting
Senator Russell Long said the Red River is in best shape in history and could be navigable from its mouth to Shreveport by 1970. He spoke at the Red River Valley Association meeting where C. A. Fairbanks was re elected president and other officers were renamed.
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Dallas
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Hugo
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Hope, Ark
Engineers and scientists a team in space effort says McCrory
Dr Rollin J McCrory a Battelle Research Organization engineer spoke at a Columbus high school science program noting the public uses engineering failure for a miss and scientific achievement for a success He urged clearer explanations of space results.
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Rollin J. McCrory
Battelle Research Organization
Columbus
Fire claims life of George Corey in Hutchinson
In Hutchinson Kansas firefighter record fire fatality George Corey 59 died after falling asleep with a cigarette in his hand while watching television Tuesday. Firefighters had earlier saved him from a similar danger four years ago.
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Smoke Fills Brooklyn Subway Triggering Large Evacuation
In Brooklyn a fire in a work train near Ridgewood caused dense smoke to fill two passenger trains. About 600 riders were trapped on stalled cars, with roughly 100 treated on site and nearly 100 hospitalized. Police reported the incident began at 3 p.m. and power was restored after several hours.
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Edward Thompson
Samuel Marco
Harold Johnson
Share-The-Fun Festival Ready
The Southwest district Share the Fun festival will be held at Cameron College at 9 a.m. Saturday with 4 Hers from 15 counties competing. Alma Koerner says each county will present one individual and two groups, acts may be musical or dramatic, and the top two groups advance to the May state roundup at Stillwater.
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Cameron College
Alma Koerner
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Actor Damon Knight jailed for firing at brush and door
Actor Damon Knight, 27, of the Combat television series, was jailed after neighbors complained he fired a revolver into brush behind his apartment and into a closet door ripping holes in five suits. Officers said he fired when they arrived. Knight gave a defiant remark.
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