Laverne & Shirley Rise From Relative Unknowns
NY AP recounts Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams recalling the surprise overnight success of the ABC TV series. They discuss fears, audience reactions, and how the hit led to the album Laverne & Shirley Sing, made quickly by Paramount with songs tied to their characters.
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New York
Penny Marshall
Laverne & Shirley
Cindy Williams
Shirley Feeney
Miss Marshall
Laverne DeFazio
ABC
Marshall
Paul Sand
Mary Tyler Moore
Bob Newhart
Atlantic
Paramount Television
Cindy Wil
Ams
Zoo to simulate polluted stream display in Walton fund
Cincinnati zoo plans a side by side stream exhibit funded by the Izaak Walton Endowment Fund. Two 400 gallon tanks will show a healthy clean water habitat versus a polluted stream full of trash bottles and rough fish. Janet Ross, zoo PR assistant, described the setup.
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Cincinnati
Izaak Walton
Cincinnati Zoo
Janet Ross
Zoo
Half Guard Enlistments Up in Missouri
Nearly half of Missouri Army and Air National Guard enlistments expire in the coming fiscal year but officials expect to retain about 60 percent. Col. Herman Meyers, chief of staff, says they are not worried about large losses.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
Army
Air National Guard
Herman Meyers
State Adjutant General’s
Area Teachers At Award Winning MU Workshop
Four area teachers joined University of Missouri educators in a workshop that earned a national award. The course Economics for Elementary School Teachers by Dr. Marianne Bonds placed fourth in a national contest by the International Paper Co. Foundation. Ledgerland participants were Kathleen Dunn Deborah Alice Nixon Leslie Ellis and Elsa M. Chipman. Winning entries will later be published in the Joint Council on Economic Education 1975 76 report.
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University of Missouri Workshop
Marianne Bonds
Spon
Sored
International Paper Co. Foundation
New York City
Joint
Council On Economic Education
Ledgerland
Kathleen Dunn
Deborah Alice Nixon
Auxvasse
Leslie Ellis
Community A
Elsa M. Chipman
Mark Twain
The
Council
Knievel to jump 90 feet over shark tank on CBS
Evel Knievel will attempt a 90 foot motorcycle jump over a tank holding 12 sharks on CBS television January 31. Sharks will be eight feet or longer and shipped from Florida for the stunt. A jet plane will transport the animals as part of a 90 minute program featuring seven death defying acts.
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Chicago
Evel Knievel
Florida
Michael Seligman
Knievel
Seligman
CBS
French Deputy Jean de Broglie Shot Dead in Paris
Paris police report the 55 year old deputy and former foreign undersecretary was killed by a gunman described as 20, wearing a sweater and jeans, in Rue des Dardanelles near Porte Maillot. An extreme right underground group claimed responsibility for his role in Algeria’s Evian treaty.
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Paris
Jean de Broglie
French National Assembly
de Broglie
Algeria
Evian
Rue Des Dardanelles
Porte Maillot
Charles Martel
Agence France Presse
Butz Praises Carter Pick Bergland as Agriculture Secretary
Earl Butz, back in Indiana, says Carter’s choice of Rep. Bob Bergland for secretary of agriculture is strong. He calls Bergland perceptive, knowledgeable, industrious, reasonable and courteous as he curbs federal farming involvement. Marilyn Gail Rucker graduates lab technique program in St. Louis and begins a year internship at St. Luke's Hospital.
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Indianapolis
Earl Butz
Carter
Bob Bergland
Butz
Indiana
Marilyn Gail Rucker
William Rucker
Mexico
Gradwohl
St. Louis
Rucker
St. Luke’s Hospital
Wellsville Personal News and Band Concert Report
Personal items from Wellsville list visits and family gatherings during Christmas week including Edith Conover, Gus Deichman, Orville Oden and family, Dan Wood and daughter visits from Libertyville, and the Morris home. The Wellsville Middletown R-1 Band and Chorus performed a Christmas concert at the high school under Dennis Goodman with 11 band numbers and 4 chorus selections. Ida Handwerker cofounder of Nathan's Famous on Coney Island dies at 79 in Miami Beach after a heart attack.
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Wellsville- Middletown
R-1
Dennis Goodman
Rudolph
Marks
Grandman
Spinney
Zaumeyer
Gilman
Yoder
Marty Blackshaw
Ida Handwerker
Miami Beach
Fla
Nathan
Coney Island
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Flannelett
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Gus Deichman
Orville Oden
Mrs
Raymond Oden
Jenny
Vandalia
Dan Wood
Libertyville, Tl
John W. Morris
Ruth Barker
Lana Bass
Janet Boeckelman
Tina Briscoe
Celeste Crouch
Cathy Debo
Julie Dunn
Laura Dee Dunn
Joan Hagemier
Diana Harrington
Lisa Harrington
Janet Keith
Beverly Kleinsorge
Joan Lewis
Robyn Leverett
Vicki McCurdy
Barbara Nilges
Carlotta Thomas
Donnie Barr
Luke Briscoe
Carl Chandler
Billy Debo
Jeffrey Dobbins
Terry Dodson
Tim Fort
Roger Fowler
Randy Harrington
Howard Hollensteiner
Doug Shramek
Glenn Swarthout
Rod van Buren
Frosty Vestal
Harold Welschmeyer
Mark Nilges
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