Witchiepoo and Pufnstuf draw mixed TV buzz in 1970s mix
A columnist critiqued NBC plans for more reruns and a Pufnstuf movie, praising Witchiepoo played by Billie Hayes and noting the show’s adult appeal to young viewers. The piece also includes a legal notice about Middletown Ohio zoning actions and a public hearing set for August 11, 1970.
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Jack Wild
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City Commission For Public Inspection
Sylvia H. Hughes
TV Tonight Highlights Classic Stars and Westerns
Tonight offers a mix of action and drama across channels. High Chaparral presents a tragic romance, Get Smart features Kaos doppelgangers, He and She imagines a birthday mix up, Name of the Game follows a priceless manuscript mystery, College All Star Football showcases Chiefs against top seniors, Bracken's World stars Anne Baxter in a director’s clash, Never So Few chronicles Burma guerrillas, Bright Victory follows a blinded GI, The Man from Laramie stars James Stewart in a rifle plot.
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Commanderos
Maxwell
Kaos
Paula
Jeff Dillon
Kansas City Chiefs
Soldier Field
Chicago
Bracken
Anne Baxter
Burma
Frank Sinatra
Arthur Kennedy
Laramie
James Stewart
Five Middletown Women Complete Scout Leader Training
Five Middletown women finished a three day Camp Timberhill training to prepare as Girl Scout leader trainers for fall. The group included Mrs Halver Haugen Mrs Harold Morrison Mrs Andy Sabo Mrs Gary Shupe and Mrs William Tunnell with instructor Miss Connie Stubbs a former Middletonian and current field adviser for the Great Rivers Girl Scout Council.
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Middletown
Camp Timberhill
Halver Haugen
Harold Morrison
Andy Sabo
Gary Shupe
William Tunnell
Connie Stubbs
Gershwin Selections Highlight Sunset Park Band Concert
George Gershwin selections will headline the final Sunset Park band concert of the summer. The junior and senior bands totaling 99 members, directed by Wayne Markworth, will finish the free Friday concert series with light and pop music.
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George Gershwin
Park
Sunset Park
Wayne Markworth
Cincinnati Book Stores Sue City Officials Over Censorship
A $1.25 million federal suit names ten officials and the founder of Citizens for Decent Literature as defendants. The action, filed in U S District Court, accuses city and Norwood leaders of censorship by intimidation after raids on Trans Media News shops and a padlocked Norwood store. The suit seeks an injunction and alleges conspiratorial actions to bypass laws.
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Cincinnati
Citiens For Decent Literature
U.S. District Court
Norwood
Allen Brown
Cincinnat
Richard Krabach
Joseph Shea Jr
Charles Keating Jr
Citizens For Decent Literature
Cincinnati Vice Squad
Pill fear hinders birth control cancer research
Three California scientists say Senate hearings on birth control pills frightened potential users and disrupted work on links between the pill and cancer. Elizabeth Stern and Virginia Clark of UCLA and Carl Coffelt of Los Angeles County Health Department warn women are turning to diaphragms or IUDs, complicating cancer risk assessments.
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Philip A. Hart
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Elizabeth Stern
Virginia A. Clark
Carl F. Coffelt
Stern and Clark
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School of Public Health
Coffelt
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