Public broadcasting funding debate heats up in Washington
Public broadcasting officials clash over spending priorities as lawmakers debate long term financing. House and Senate votes allocate 96.75 to 103 million dollars for the current year. PBS chief Lawrence Grossman signals shift toward stronger national programming over local station needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald Sanders
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Public Broadcasting
Senate
House
Congress
Corporation For Public Broadcasting
Public Broadcasting Service
Lawrence K. Grossman
NBC
New York
TV Schedule Entry for Classic Evenings
At 5 00 P M three programs listed include Happy Days Mister Rogers Adam 12 Beverly Hillbillies and El Mundo de Juguete in a classic television schedule snippet with channel time cues and show blocks.
Evening TV Schedule Highlights and Late Night Lineup
A dense TV timetable lists primetime to midnight offerings including News, Gunsmoke, Brady Bunch, This Week, Adam-12, and a Democratic Convention coverage block. Notable features include Caprice with Doris Day, Mary Hartman, Johnny Carson, and Movie Night of the Lepus.
Morning TV and game show schedule with Cryptoquote
The page lists a dense morning TV lineup including Tele-Lesson Today Sesame Street and The Price Is Right along with afternoon game shows. A cryptogram puzzle titled DAILY CRYPTOQUOTE appears with a quote by Charles Francis Kettering.
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Sanford and Son
Gary Cooper
Mike Douglas
Sellars
Afternoon TV Schedule Framed by Soap and Sitcom Lineup
A daytime and early evening schedule lists soap operas Days of Our Lives General Hospital As the World Turns One Life to Live All My Children and Guiding Light alongside game shows Match Game Password and The $20,000 Pyramid plus dramas The Edge of Night General Hospital and syndicated fare including Star Trek Gilligan's Island Batman and Gunsmoke.
Escape Vessel Films Viewed
A Coast Guard inquiry screened four films on an oil rig escape capsule that capsized near Port O Connor. Thirteen men died aboard Ocean Express while training and warnings were debated as survivors cited lack of instructions. The board will hear survivor Thomas Loftin after his surgery, with sessions continuing through Friday.
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New Orleans
Coast Guard Board of Inquiry
Port O'Connor
Whittaker
Survival Systems Division
Jerry Laibson
la Mesa
Calif
Whitaker Engineering
Metairie
Ocean Drilling & Exploration Co
Odeco Riy
Ocean Express
Thomas Loftin
Loftin
Voting Probe Beginning Soon in Gregg County
Longview Texas AP District Attorney Odis Hill expects to clear up possible voting irregularities in Gregg County during the May 1 primary and June 5 runoff within the grand jury's term. He said the office will begin an investigation this week as a regular Gregg County grand jury sits through August.
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Longview
Tex
Odis Hill
Gregg County
Hill
Corrections Board Seeks Funds for Prison Farm and Units
The Texas Board of Corrections asked legislators to provide 167 million for a two year building program including a 2,000 inmate prison farm in West Texas or the Rio Grande Valley with work in cotton fields and a textile plant, and an 85 million hospital complex near Sugarland. They also seek 211.2 million in operating funds for the coming year and 116.6 million for the following year to cover growth, inflation and utilities along with about 250 new employees.
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Dallas
Texas Board of Corrections
Texas
Rio Grande Valley
James Estelle
Central Prison
Sugarland
Walls
Huntsville
Ron Taylor
Estelle
Taylor
Corrections Department
Ballot Spot Claimed by State Party
State party officials say the American Party of Texas secured a November ballot spot by filing over 20,000 petitions from registered voters not aligned with other primaries. National chair Tom Anderson heads the ticket for president with Rufus Shackleford as vice president. Marjorie Gallion of Crane seeks the Senate, alongside seven congressional and eight legislative candidates.
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Austin
Tex
Bill Skees
American Party of Texas
Skees
Tom Anderson
Rufus Shackleford
Marjorie Gallion
U.S. Senate
4-H council elects officers for 1976 77 year in Calhoun County
The 4-H council elected Janet Benarden as Chairman Mary Ann Knobles as Girls Vice Chairman Dutch Crober as Boys Vice Chairman Patti Maguire as Secretary Brad Sanders as Treasurer Dennis Peterson as Reporter Margaret Rhule will report to Calhoun County as Home Economics Agent The article also covers screwworm spread alert with APHIS eradication measures and a USDA Texas survey drive plus notes on red meat consumption traffic safety rabies and related public health points.
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Gilbert Heideman
4-H
Janet Benarden
Mary Ann Knobles
Dutch Crober
Patti Maguire
Brad Sanders
Dennis Peterson
Margaret Rhule
Calhoun County
Ecnomics
Margaret
Texas
Bend
East Texas
Rusk
Red River
The
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
APHIS
van Zandt, Smith, Freestone
Navarro
Johnson
Limestone
Grimes
Washington
Williamson
Arizona
New Mexico
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Port Lavaca
Vox Public Broadcast
Frederick Brightenfeld
Maryland Center For Public Broadcasting
PBS
Brightenfeld
Larry
el Mundo de Juguete
Electric Company
Bewitched
Carrascalendas
Adam-12
el Milagro de Vivir
City
Doris Day
Lilias
Johnny Carson
Robert MacNeil
700 Club
Mary Hartman
Night of the Lepus
Stuart Whitman
Ironside
Big Valley
Gilligan’s Island
Christian Living
Melvin Garrett
Car & Truck Parts
Delco
Porter RD
TRI Wholesale CO
Adelante
America
Good Morning America
Dusty
Villa Alegre
Jeff
Wheel of Fortune
Love Lucy
Gambit
Hollywood Squares
Dream
Jeannie
Fun Factory
Hot Seat
Young and Restless
Soundstage
AN My Children
Thomas Joseph
Philadelphia
Spectrum
Baden- Baden
Tinate
Nobleman
Chessman
Feline
Priest
Astronaut Shepard
Napoleonic
Longfellow
DSK Rkhd
ASJ Aycen
YHO
Charles Francis Kettering
Jecker
W. Main
Ryan's Hope
Somerset O
Tony Russell
Doctors
Guiding Light
Another World
General Hospital
Ogy
Somerset
Andy Griffith
San Antonio
Merv Griffin
Romagnolis
Batman
Dinah Batman
Juan Piculero
Ramsey Carpet Care
Point Comfort Park
Larry Froelich
Point Comfort
Corrections Board
Texas Department of Corrections
Mountain View
Gatesville
Coffield
Tennessee Colony
Anderson County
W. H. Walther
Texas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
USDA
Texas Department of Agriculture
U.S
Australia
Tilley
Weaver’s Grocery
Broadway
Thomas B. Hargrove
Thomas J. Jenkins
FBI Deputy Association
FBI National Academy
Hargrove
Quantico
Tiger Lounge
Mark
Rawlins
Michael Vincent
Baby Blue Marine
Henry Winkler “Lords OF
Flatbush
Dayton
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