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Newspaper
Port Lavaca Wave
Location
Port Lavaca, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1975
Page
2
Dallas AP says starting January residents of select Dallas area apartments could subscribe to Channel 7, a 12 movie monthly service for 11.95, via off air scrambled signal relayed from a microwave tower. Central antennas needed. set boxes unscramble.
Sgt Roger N Schneider son of Louis W Schneider from Port Lavaca received the Air Force Commendation Medal at Francis E Warren AFB Wyoming for meritorious service with the 90th Organizational Maintenance Squadron of the Strategic Air Command. He is a 1971 Palacios High School graduate. Another item notes Mars Communications pilots in Dallas apartments Chimney Hill Village North offering an in house movie system with a flat monthly rate and direct billing to subscribers as the firm tests feasibility and collection.
The page lists a dense TV timetable with show names and times from 5:00 PM to midnight. Programs include Happy Days Lucy Show Bewitched Mister Rogers Love Lucy The Twilight Zone Tagging various news and kids segments, game shows like Name That Tune and Hollywood Squares, and late movies such as Ten Tall Men and Tender is the Night. Also noted are sports highlights and public affairs blocks.
Local pages include the New Zoo Revue schedule and farm news notes alongside community events for Galveston readers. Also featured are school updates and weekly classroom reminders from L Amiguitos and Adelante BD.
A scrambled list of television programs and times across a morning block. Programs include Good Morning America Sesame Street Captain Kangaroo Sesame Street Batman The Price is Right Wheel of Fortune Match Game Hollywood Squares Love of Life Happy Days and The Young and the Restless with various time stamps and channel codes.
Four Houston narcotics officers were shot during a routine warrants raid. One officer, NG Brumley, was critically wounded. R.J. Thomas, M.R. Wood, and D.G Green were in fair condition. A 19 year old woman and a longshoreman were arrested at the scene. Green shouted as the door opened, prompting a gunfight during which Green died?
A typed daytime lineup lists soap operas general hospital days of our lives guiding light and other dramas from noon to four, including days of our lives general hospital all in the family edge of night and gunman’s walk among a slate of comedies and westerns with Gilligan’s Island and Star Trek noted.
Alcoa honored two Point Comfort Operations employees as new members of the 25-Year Club. Robert G. Sheppard, plan security supervisor, and Richard S. Aresti, pet repair crane operator, were cited for quarter century service with induction ceremonies Friday.
Calhoun County 4 H Council members will carol Friday from 6 to 7 30 PM then hold a hayride games and refreshments at the Agricultural Building They are urged to bring canned goods or toys for needy families A March 6 trip to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo costs 6 per person includes transport and rodeo ticket Money and a signed minor release from the Extension Office must be turned in by Monday to go to Houston
The hospital will host a blood donation drive on Tuesday and Wednesday from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Organised by South Texas Regional Blood Services with assistance from the Hospital Auxiliary Pink Ladies offering cookies and juice. Call 62-2086 to arrange an appointment to avoid wait times.
AP snapshot marks December 9 1975 with world events from 1941 Philippines invasion to Milton birth and Webster paper founding. Includes John Birch Society founding in Indianapolis 1958 and Washington fleet capture note. Local staff at Port Lavaca Wave provide birthdays and quotes.
Port Lavaca Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4403 and its auxiliary host a Children's Christmas Party for members and families at the post home on Sunday. Supper at 5 pm invites a covered dish. Santa arrives with gifts for children up to 17. The charity project includes dominoes and games donated to Audie Murphy Veterans Hospital in San Antonio. Members urged to pay 1976 dues of $8 for women and $10 for men before cancer insurance lapses.
The Hermann Sons branch in Port Lavaca will elect new officers for the coming year at their Thursday meeting. The session is scheduled to be held at the First State Bank and Trust Co location.
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