TV Radio Highlights Tonight’s Listings
TV and radio highlights feature Knox County politics, Fenwick plays Wilmington, Charles Sawyer speaks, plus Father Knows Best and Patterson Beavercreek basketball. The evening also includes Eddie Fisher with Dinah Shore, Fore Star Playhouse dramas, Theater in the round, Video Theater and Playhouse episodes with amnesia and renewal themes.
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Radio Tonight
WHIO
Knox County Seat
Ohio Story
WPFB
Fenwick
Wilmington
Secretary of Commerce
Charles Sawyer
Germantown Chamber of Commerce
WLW
Robert Young
Patterson
Beavercreek
Mr. Chamelon
Television Tonight
Wlw-D
Eddie Fisher
Dinah Shore
WKRC
Dick Piwell
Fore Star Playhouse
Public Defender to Debut on WHIO WKRC TV
Radio and television listings recount the new weekly drama Public Defender starring Reed Hadley as Bart Matthews a civil servant defending the poor. cast includes Adele Jergens Veda Ann Borg James Kirkwood Lyle Talbot and more with Erle Kenton James Tinling and Sobey Martin directing.
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Playhouse
WHIO
WKRC
Public Defender
Reed Handley
Hadley
Bart Matthews
Adele Jergens
Veda Ann Borg
James Kirkwood
Lyle Talbot
Christian Drake
Tony Caruso
Snub Pollard
Matthews
Mary Ebien Kay
Douglas Fowley
Fay Roope
John Case
George Lloyd
Snud Pollard
Erle Kenton
James Tinling
Sobey
Film Listings Tie Up Evening Schedule with Stars
A radio guide notes Paulette Goddard and Michael Wilding in a feature titled Husband. Penny Arcade presents Abilene Town starring Randolph Scott and Ann Dvorak at 11 30.
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Paulette Goddard
Michael Wilding
Penny Arcade
Abilene Town
Randolph Scott
Ann Dvorak
Thursday Evening News Bulletin Directors and Programs
Local radio stations WKRC WLW WMOR WPFB and WSAI air a Thursday evening schedule featuring News reports music and community updates. Programmers emphasize timely local coverage and varied music blocks across the Garveston market.
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WLW
WMOR
WPFB
Garveston
WSAI
Wkrc H
Cowhes
WMOH
Stern
WSAL
Beulah
WKRC
Dixieland
H. Wilson
Capt. Starr
Roy Rogers
Sammy Kaye
WKR 700
J. Remington
J. Shepherd
Wmoh Smokey Ward
Das Oeld McCarthy
WLW Smokey Ward
Wsai Lebanon
Wkrc DeWeese
McAthy
T McCarthy
WKRCG
Barbara
Jane
PFB
Amburgy
Music Hall
Rosemary
Jenny
Berch
Helen Trent
Road of Life
Smokey Ward
Ma Perkins
Dr. Malone
D’artiga
Rev. Parr
Middletown
Burton
C. Massey
Perry Mason
Bill Thal
Nora Drake
Lenny
W. Thall
Hilltop
Life Beautiful
N. Keller
J. Rezor
Linkletter
Wsail the Youngs
Imberer
Godfrey
Miami
Lewis
Var'ty
Stella Dallas
Renta Church
Wpfbews
WSAJ
Widder Brown
W. Collegee
Windstorm Topples Dover Plant. Four Workers Safe
Dover Ohio windstorm crashes a 60 by 30 foot cement block and brick boiler house at Dover Chemical Co. Four workers were inside installing a new boiler when the roof and walls tumbled down. No injuries reported though Stuart Marlette Walt Duell Tony Zito and Al Bradshaw were shaken. Damage estimated at 10000 dollars by Plant Manager Samuel Thrush.
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Dover
Ohio
Dover-New Philadelphia
Dover Chemical Co
Stuart Marlette
Walt Duell
al. J. Phipps Co
Canton
Tony Zito
al Bradshaw
New Philadelphia
Samuel Thrush
Wives Bought With Money Made of Feathers in Islands
A peculiar practice from Santa Cruz in the South Seas involves wives valued by wealth fashioned from bird feathers. This account highlights remote customs and social structures observed by explorers and traders in the region.
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Santa Cruz Islands
South Seas
Prodigy Thomas Young Mastered Languages Early
Thomas Young, an English scientist, was a rare prodigy who learned foreign languages as a child. By fourteen he could write in fourteen languages, illustrating extraordinary early linguistic talent.
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Thomas Young
Black market pests blamed for shortages in Soviet Union
Moscow reports accuse marketeers of profiting from shortages, aiding speculation across cities like Moscow Kiev and Riga. Trud and Zarya Vostoka condemn the practice, urge harsher police action, and warn citizens who buy from speculators to ostracize themselves.
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Richard R. Kasischke
Moscow
Georgi Malenkov
Kiev
Riga
Trud
Zarya Vostoka
Thalisis
Tiflis
Litvak
Drought in Ohio Ranks Fourth Worst in 71 Years
C V Youngquist head of Ohio's division of water warns the 1953 drought is the fourth worst in 71 years and even if May or June rains arrive underground reservoirs remain in dire shape. Observation wells show deficits: Auglaize near New Hampshire five feet below normal Clark near Springfield two feet Franklin near Columbus four feet Madison near Mount Sterling two feet Miami near Troy five feet Portage near Windham three feet.
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Columbus
Ohio
C. V. Youngquist
Division of Water
Auglaize County
New Hampshire
Clark County
Springfield
Franklin County
Madison County
Mount Sterling
Miami County
Troy
Portage County
Windham
Lenten Message From Pope Read To U.S. Children
Pope Pius XII addressed a Lenten appeal to Catholic schoolchildren in America asking gifts and prayers for unfortunate children abroad. Due to illness, his message was read over radio networks by Archbishop Karl J. Alter of Cincinnati, chairman of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. The annual Ash Wednesday appeal was previously delivered personally by radio in other years.
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New York
Pope Pius XII
America
Karl J. Alter
Cincinnati
National Catholic Welfare Conference
Longest rail stretches chart world and U S spans
The record for the longest straight rail road run is a 328 mile segment across the Nullarbor Plain in Australia, while the United States’ longest straight stretch measures 79 miles between Wilmington and Hamlet in North Carolina.
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Nullarbor Plain
Australia
United States
Wilmington
Hamlet
N.C
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