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Newspaper
Port Lavaca Wave
Location
Port Lavaca, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1975
Page
2
Home tip from Heloise notes freezing a used roller in a sealed plastic bag between color sessions preserves nap quality. Also suggests freezing roller pans. Reader shares praise for time savings and easier painting workflow. The page includes assorted tips and reader letters on frugal living and homemaking.
A detailed TV schedule lists programs across many networks from 5:00 PM to after midnight. Notable entries include Lucy Show, Dragnet, Bonanza, Hawaii Five-O, MASH, Marcus Welby, Kung Fu, and a late-night lineup with News, Wide World Mystery, and Tomorrow.
A compact listing shows 6:30 to 11:30 AM programming across channels with the New Zoo Revue Adelante Sesame Street Captain Kangaroo Mister Rogers Speed Racer Love Lucy Wagon shows and game shows like Wheel of Fortune Gambit Hollywood Squares High Rollers Tattletales The Love of Life The Young and the Restless and Search for Tomorrow plus interviews and calendar notes.
A fragmented afternoon schedule lists daytime soaps like Somerset Days of Our Lives and Guiding Light alongside game shows and children's programs. It also references movies such as The Law vs Billy the Kid and The Buster Keaton Story with host lineups and times through early evening.
AP reports Snidely Foon visits Camp Rerun upstate Manhattan to critique television and tour a new TV museum opened in 1956 with items from The Electric Company to Route 66. artifacts include a Nattering Nabob of Negativism, a blown fuse, guano from Batcave, and a destroyed Japanese battleship from Victory at Sea. admission is $3, exit noted as $4.
Rich Jensen, a 45 year old retired Chicago master mechanic, leads restoration of the Texas & Pacific steam locomotive Old 610 named Will Rogers for the bicentennial Freedom Train. The loaned engine, built in Lima, Ohio, 1927, will require about 100000 in overhaul and many custom parts.
Port Lavaca Wave and Calhoun County Times publish afternoons weekdays by Wave Publishing Co Inc in Port Lavaca Texas. Staff include Rod Monks general manager Dick Fisher editor in Crist Statt sports editor Craig Black society editor Mary Rothband editorial Bill Pack Jim Mitchell advertising Mary Marras Nita Crober composing Tesla Gertner Mary Ann Franks Janette Chambless bookkeeping Chevyl Manning building Rainald Grigsby. Subscriptions: carrier or mail options with monthly and yearly rates.
Los Angeles AP reports singer Dionne Warwicke filed a 43.5 million suit against Burt Bacharach and Hal David alleging they breached a 1971 agreement to produce one album annually for four years. The suit seeks 5 million in punitive damages and 500 thousand in compensatory damages. David declined comment.
On this date in history various events are noted including Hawaii becoming a state in 1959 and first Oriental seated in Congress, Vincent van Gogh's death in 1890, transcontinental telephone service beginning in 1914, and royal investiture in Egypt in 1937. Birthdays include Owen Lattimore and Paul Taylor. Thought for today reflects Longfellow.
Dallas police report three teens Ken Ribelin Mitchell Rude and Terry Lynne Long all 18 19 died from asphyxiation in a car linked to nitrous oxide use. Authorities note rising gas thefts from hospitals and seek the cannister serial number to locate its source amid a growing trend among youths.
Mennie Person a Memphis bank teller met Elvis Presley by a car lot and was invited to choose a Cadillac from his personal collection. He handed her the keys for her birthday and told an aide to write a check to buy clothes to go with the car. Presley urged her to keep the gift or give it to her husband Troy.
Four American performing groups totaling 125 young singers were greeted by President Nicolae Ceausescu in Bucharest before a gala concert. The Rut gers University Glee Club, Arkansas State University Male Chorus, Asher Troupe of Michigan State University, and Dwight-Englewood School choir traveled under the Friendship Ambassadors Foundation in New York.
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