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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1975
Page
7
Evening to midnight lineups show multiple networks airing news, movies, game shows, and dramas. Highlights include Gidget gets Married, The Five Man Army film, MASH and Hawaii Five-0 episodes, NBC News at night, and late sign off.
Nearly $50,000 was raised to fund officially endorsed Texas bicentennial projects. A statewide benefit at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library hosted by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Ameri can National Insurance and bicentennial officials announced strong local momentum with 210 Texas communities undertaking official activities. Mrs. Hobby noted broad public interest and described the celebration as a panorama of local efforts rather than a top‑down program. Topiary is defined as training and pruning trees and shrubs into ornamental forms, with Latin roots.
The Texas Highway Department promotes a 208 page Texas Land of Contrasts guide with town by town descriptions and attractions. It lists travel trails Forts Forrest Pecos Mountain Lake Brazos Independence Hill Country Tropical and Plains. It advises planning for heavy summer travel and offers tips on car preparation driving pace lodging and safety.
AP writer Jay Sharpbutt notes Shirley MacLaine presents the film The Other Half of the Sky on public TV. The 75 minute program follows MacLaine and seven American women touring China in 1973 as they meet officials including Madame Chou En-lai, exploring women's changes under the revolution. Critics call it thought provoking though not hard hitting, with omissions on dissidents and the military.
Reports from Boston Concord Newport Williamsburg New York and Fort Pownall detail naval armament plans Graves authorized four schooners for blockade duty cannon and powder moves, depictions of civilian displacement and shortages, and a Staten Island meeting rejecting delegates to the Provincial Congress as Lt Graves lands at Fort Pownall to remove stores while Colonel Goldthwaite warns of potential ammunition needs.
Bob Hope extends his on campus love affair by visiting five colleges for a television special to be aired April 17. He interviews Columbia Vassar Florida Southern Lake land Howard Payne and later performs with John Wayne Flip Wilson Aretha Franklin and America at UCLA. Hope notes a growing patriotism among students and recalls taping at Vassar and a battle with storage space for his college trophies.
A list of top titles across fiction and nonfiction including Centennial by Michener The Seven Persent Solution edited by Meyer Lady by Tryon Black Sunday by Harris Something Happened by Harris The Bermuda Triangle by Berlitz with Valentine Helter Skelter by Bugliosi Here at the New Yorker by Gill The Palace Guard by Rather and Gates All Things Bright and Beautiful by Herriot.
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