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Newspaper
Port Lavaca Wave
Location
Port Lavaca, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1975
Page
2
A reader praises Pearl Boehme for offering free fingernail polish and emery boards to customers at her mountain cafe. The note suggests other neighborhood eateries adopt the practice to boost business and ease daily tasks for workers and visitors alike.
A dense, fragmentary listing shows a televised lineup from late afternoon through midnight. It includes Lucy Show, Dragnet, The Beverly Hillbillies, Price Is Right, Gunsmoke, The Rifleman, Johnny Carson, News, Bonanza, and late-night programs like Wide World Mystery and Tomorrow News, with multiple channels referenced in a single block.
A dense morning lineup features New Zoo Revue Villa Alegre Sesame Street Captain Kangaroo and Mister Rogers at 7 to 9 AM. The 9 AM block includes South Sea Woman Love Lucy East of Sumatra and Wheel of Fortune among others with Dance for Dollars Brady Bunch and All My Children til 11:30 AM.
New York AP reports a new program titled Radio Playhouse will premiere in two weeks, offering two soap operas a light comedy and literary adaptations across at least 26 weeks in about 60 markets from New York to San Jose. Produced by Y and R Ventures the show is a barter venture with Bristol-Myers gaining six minutes of ads while stations receive twelve minutes.
In CABASSE France 22 Europeans from Lightspeed Collective work at an abandoned bauxite mine to build a 290 foot airship frame. They aim to fly food to Africa and see airships as economical eco friendly transport. The group partners with French research bodies for traffic control meteorology and bulky cargo like reactor cores. The effort mirrors a broader revival of airships since their wartime era.
A Tuesday afternoon listing shows daytime programs including News F, Days of Our Lives, Make a Deal, As the World Turns, The Price Is Right, One Life to Live, Match Game, Bonan, Dinah, Merv Griffin, Lost in Space, Petticoat Junction, Mickey Mouse Club, Flintstones, Eagles Squadron, and late afternoon reruns. Local Spanish language segments Sube Pelayo Sube appear at 4:30.
The nation faced renewed heavy rain from the Southwest to the East after weekend downpours. A Virginia picnic was struck by lightning injuring sixteen people, including Herbert L. Beary, 55, who was seriously hurt. Alpine Colorado reported two inches of rain as Rockies thundershowers continued. Texas roads near Big Bend National Park flooded, and Pennsylvania Turnpike experienced a two hour closure due to mud slides with minor accidents and no injuries noted.
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