Carnegie Commission Proposes Nationwide Educational TV Network
The Carnegie Commission on Educational Television suggests a countrywide network to inform and educate the public, while acknowledging value in commercial TV. It warns financing would be challenging without commercial support and notes CBS offered a million dollars as seed funding if a national network is chartered, plus a proposal for a modest excise tax on new TV sets.
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Carnegie Commission On Educational Television
Commission
CBS
Education TV Network Faces Government Control Risk
The piece warns that funding a national educational television network by general taxes could lead to government influence. It argues against Washington control over a nationwide network and notes existing concerns about federal spoon-feeding.
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Washington
Grand Central as Nation’s Finest Rail Hub of Prewar Era
In the years before World War II New York City’s Grand Central Terminal was regarded as the country’s best railroad station and possibly the world’s. It served as the launching point for the 20th Century Limited, the premier New York Central service between New York and Chicago. The six o’clock departure was famed as a grand production.
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New York
Grand Central Terminal
20Th Century Limited
New York Central
Chicago
The 20th Century Limited Then and Now
An old time rail fantasy at Grand Central is recalled as the 20th Century Limited, once a refined club car experience with Pullmans, dining, and red cap porters. Now a faded string of coaches with no smiles at the entrance, its era of elegant travel is described as lost, challenging passenger appeal.
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125Th Street
Hudson Valley
Grand Central
Zeke’s Corner Trisha Beall topless wedding headline stir
Zeke Wigglesworth comments on Trisha Beall Corpus Christi wedding with no top on her dress, lampooning topless fashion fads. He criticizes the trend, jokes about Tarzan movies, and notes Ottawa’s stricter reactions while predicting the fad will pass.
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Zeke Wigglesworth
Trisha Beall
Corpus Christi
Texas
Ottawa
Dear Dr. Mother and Health Qs and Answers Column
A reader asks about unidentified lung markings after tests and a physician’s reassurance that past lesions may be inactive and not cancer or tuberculosis. The column also covers rowing machine fitness, hereditary baldness, pilocarpine and ulcers, and thyroid effects on conception, plus brief old-fire and prayer notices.
Television Schedule Pages of Classic Sitcoms and Dramas
A dense TV grid lists hour by hour programming from early afternoon to late night. It recalls many classics such as Leave It To Beaver Flintstones Perry Mason and The Fugitive along with news weather and movie hours.
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Leave It To Beaver
Flintstones
Wells Fargo
Pat Boone
Dick van Dyke
Furnace Creek
Password
Bette Hayes
Doctors
Nurses
Dark Shadows
Mike Douglas
Merv Griffin
Torey and
the Three Stooges
Virginian
Beverly Hillbillies
Green Acres
Bob Hope
Gomer Pyle
Danny Kaye
I Spy
Chautauqua Promoter Horner Dies at 88
Kansas City AP report notes Charles F. Horner educator author and promoter who founded the Redpath-Horner Chautauqua and Lyceum Bureau in 1906. His circuits staged music drama comedy and debates in tents across the Midwest. Speakers included William Jennings Bryan Champ Clark and William Howard Taft.
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Charles F. Horner
Midwest
Horner
Redpath - Horner Chautauqua and Lyceum Bureau
Mississippi River
West Coast
William Jennings Bryan
Champ Clark
William Howeard Taft
Today In History highlights from the Associated Press
On February 7 1904 Baltimore fire wiped out the business district with damage over 150 million dollars. In 1958 Spaniards began colonial efforts in present day New Mexico. Dickens born 1812. Sullivan beat Ryan in 1882. Ticonderoga launched 1944. Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin met in 1945. Columbia scientists warned in 1957 of endless nuclear tests. Kennedy asked Congress in 1961 for a private communications satellite system. FHA boosted rate to 5.25% in 1965. Ten years ago nuclear tests debate continued. Ten years ago summaries.
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New Mexico
Charles Dickens
John L. Sullivan
Paddy Ryan
Ireland
U.S
Ticonderoga
Newport News
Columbia University
John F. Kennedy
Congress
Federal Housing Administration
Nielsen ratings push ad costs higher for Hope special
NBC's Bob Hope Christmas show led the period's Nielsen ratings, earning the top audience and driving ad time costs to about 85,000 per minute. Bonanza trailed, while CBSs Lucy Show and Red Skelton, Ed Sullivan also ranked high. Evening and daytime rates varied, with As the World Turns cheapest among soaps.
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Cynthia Lowry
NEW York
Bob Hope
NBC
Nielsen
ABC
Broadcasting
CBS
Red Skelton
Jackie Gleaeson
Phyllis Diller
Hope
Andy Griffith
Jackie Gleason
Ottawa Herald Subscription Rates Page Summary
Ottawa Herald lists subscription rates for trade area and outside area, showing monthly and multi month options. Rates include one month to one year plans by mail, with higher charges outside the trade area. The paper notes Associated Press status and local news use rights.
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Kansas
Robert B. Wellington
Associated Press
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