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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1972
Page
5
A dense listing shows Saturday and Sunday airings across channels with cartoons, dramas, sports, religious programs, and talk shows. Notable entries include Bugs Bunny, Scooby Doo, Harlen Globetrotters, Channel 2 News, and several network movie blocks.
Saturday and Sunday slate features Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, The Eddy Duchin Story, Sherlock Holmes patterns like 23 Paces to Baker Street, plus westerns such as Pals of the Saddle and Showdown at Abilene. Evening lineups include horror and mystery titles with gripping dramas and light comedy.
In downtown San Francisco stores report brisk sales of insect repellents as swarms of mosquitoes flood the area. The Health Department sent investigators after merchants noted thousands of these insects appearing suddenly, likely freed by Bay Area Rapid Transit subway construction.
In the Worlds mixed event John Gerber of Houston plays a precise sequence to salvage a six club contract after North opens two spades and a negative double is avoided. He tracks East discards, reads West with a potential singleton, tests diamonds with hearts and finesses to defeat East’s queen.
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