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Newspaper
Port Lavaca Wave
Location
Port Lavaca, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1976
Page
2
Channel Selections page lampoons star interviews with a mock Q A session. The piece lists common questions reporters ask actors and shows the stars replying with nonanswers and mumbling asides about privacy, alimony, hobbies, and life after television.
A New York owner, John Levyak of Long Island, says a 150 foot field stone wall worth about 50 tons was stolen from his Luzerne County property near Shickshinny. Police have little to go on and no identifying marks on the stones.
TV schedule fragment shows varied programming from 5 PM to after midnight. Notable entries include Happy Days Lucy Show Mister Rogers Gunsmoke Brady Bunch Star Trek MASH The New Centurions Night of the Lepus and FBI. Channel lineup mentions multiple foreign language programs and game shows.
A fragment lists half hour to hour blocks of shows across morning hours. Programs include Good Morning America Captain Kangaroo Dusty’s Treehouse Sanford and Son King of the Khyber Rifles Dialing for Dollars Wheel of Fortune Love Lucy Happy Days Dream of Jeannie Young and Restless The Gong Show My Children and Newsbreak style notes in varying parentheses.
A listing of daytime and early evening broadcasts across networks with time slots for soap operas, game shows, dramas, and children's programs. Notable titles include Ryan's Hope Days of Our Lives General Hospital Another World The Edge of Night Gunsmoke Batman Star Trek and Gilligan's Island among others.
San Antonio seeks $400 million against Coastal States Gas Corp and its units for breach of contract over gas prices. Trial opened amid motions. judge Curry denied delaying the start pending Railroad Commission price issues. Davis notes admitted as evidence. parties discuss potential relocation to Houston.
A surge in fighting in Beirut and surrounding towns raised Lebanon’s civil war casualties. Hospitals reported up to 180 killed and 360 wounded in the night, with over 200 more killed and 350 wounded in the prior 24 hours. Noncombatants suffered heavily in residential areas as Christian militias clashed with leftist forces. Moslems and Palestinians repelled assaults in western Beirut. leaders urged an immediate halt to shelling and blamed elements within the left for undermining a truce.
Mrs. James L. Hill of Kingsville membership chairmen Texas Congress of Parents and Teachers district 16 will conduct a membership workshop for Calhoun County PTA units Thursday. Mrs. Joey Lang of Port O Connor county 44 council chairman asks unit presidents and membership chairmen or representatives to attend. The workshop will be held at the school district board from 9 30 to 11 30 a.m.
Actress Rosalind Russell, 64, is recuperating slowly at home after hip replacement surgery at UCLA Medical Center. Husband Frederick Brisson said she developed a high fever from drug therapy and was released Saturday. She starred in Auntie Mame and many other films.
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek travels to New York for medical treatment, boarding a jetliner from Taipei. She is the widow of the Nationalist Chinese president and had returned to Taipei in April after seven months in New York for care. The report notes her uncertain illness and ongoing treatment.
Burbank California police will question singer Eddie Fisher about the Bobby Hall murder. Lieutenant Al Madrid says Fisher is not a suspect. The probe covers Hall’s activities before July 22 when he was shot while getting a snack outside a kitchen window. Hall and Fisher were longtime friends and Fisher had been under surveillance during a federal narcotics inquiry.
Mrs Ford's arthritis in the neck and shoulder eased with extra therapy and heat packs at the Fords rental home in Vail Colorado during a nine day working vacation. She hosted 14 guests at dinner and dined with the President and friends at a local restaurant.
On August 24 notable events include British invasion of Washington in 1814, Vesuvius eruption in 79 A D, Washington's 1777 Philadelphia move, Bragg’s Kentucky invasion in 1862, Edison’s work in 1891, and Amelia Earhart’s 1932 flight. Birthdays include Ralph Lapp and Jorge Luis Borges. Thought for today cites George Bernard Shaw. Bicentennial note recalls Washington sending troops to London Island amid Manhattan threat.
The Texas railroad commission named three staffers Monday to draft a proposed change in gas proration rules. The plan calls for an advisory committee to use producers and gatherers nominations to set gas allowables in each field. Bob Harris expects rules ready for commission review before Oct. 1, with Fred Young and James Bouldin also on the drafting group.
State Dist. Judge J. D. McMaster set bond at 50 000 for Vernon Eugene McMannus charged with capital murder in the July 24 strangulation slayings of Baytown couple Paul Harvey Cantrell and his wife. His co defendant Paula Cantrell Derese is held without bond on capital murder charges. The case involves an alleged insurance scheme and potential additional suspects.
Thousands of black workers stayed home in Soweto on day two of a three day work boycott protesting government racial policies. Police protected workers seeking to reach jobs in the metropolis eight miles north. Absentee rates remained near Monday levels with most clothing factories closed and little return to work.
UHVC schedules late fall registration on Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Aug 30 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. First class day is Aug 30. Claude F. Gilson notes registration in the UHWC Administration Building. Offices relocated from the Technical Building. Courses offered across four schools. Applications available from Office of Admissions and Records at 2302 Red River, Victoria TX 77901 or by phone.
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