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Newspaper
Port Lavaca Wave
Location
Port Lavaca, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1975
Page
2
In New York AP style a TV expert Dr Ray Cathode fields summer inquiries from readers across the U S. Questions cover S W A T repairs golf schedules football conflicts and TV content with blunt humor and advice.
Washington musicologist Gillian Anderson, with a $20,000 NEH grant, compiled a 1000 page manuscript listing 1455 lyrics from colonial newspapers 1773 to 1783. She argues satire shaped the period’s songs and created musical jokes beyond the printed words. Anderson formed the Colonial Singers and Players, a 30-member group that has performed at the White House Kennedy Center and National Archives.
A fragmented TV timetable lists 5:00 PM to midnight lineups with shows like Dragnet, The Lucy Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, Hawaii Five-O, Marcus Welby, The Tonight Show era imports, and film titles The Hatfields and the McCoys and Hangmans Knot. It reflects a mixed network schedule with sports, game shows, and crime dramas.
Eisaku Sato former Japanese prime minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate died at 74 after a heart failure following a stroke. A private home funeral is planned with a future state style service at Budōkan Hall and a public service at a Buddhist temple. U.S. figures led by President Nixon praised his influence on world peace and US Japan ties amid calls over Okinawa and regional stability.
Air Force Sgt Elmer B DeForest son of Mr and Mrs Bernie H DeForest of Seadrift Texas has arrived for duty at Holdeman AFB New Mexico He is an avionics systems specialist with a Tactical Air Command unit A 1967 Calhoun High School Port Lavaca graduate attended Victoria College His wife Tanya is the daughter of Mr and Mrs J V H Stubbs of Seadrift.
Gainesville AP reports Dr. Merle Flannery of the University of Florida College of Education urges parents to avoid coloring books for children. She advocates blank paper and crayons to foster individual vision, noting kids scribble before drawing and rushing development harms artistic growth.
A fragmented restoration of a TV listing shows morning to midday programming including New Zoo Revue Captain Kangaroo Sesame Street Mister Rogers and Wheel of Fortune with associated game shows, soap operas, and talk formats. Names include Peter Sellers Phil Carey Carras and types like News 68 and Dialing for Dollars.
A scrambled afternoon listing shows a dense slate of daytime programs across networks with soaps such as Days of Our Lives and General Hospital, game shows like The Price Is Right, classic films including The Mummy's Ghost, and children's fare like Sesame Street and The Flintstones, all marked by time slots and episode cues.
Chronology notes Allied evacuation from France in 1940 with 337000 troops moved to England. Other items mention 1621 Dutch West India charter for New Netherlands, 1808 Jefferson Davis birth, 1937 Duke of Windsor, 1942 Dutch Harbor raids, 1963 Pope John XXIII death, 1966 Surveyor 1 lunar pics, Nixon Cambodia drive, and Golan Heights talks. Also birthdays Tony Curtis and Allen Ginsberg. Thought for today by Horace Walpole.
Gladys Knight and the Pips recall their first on TV on American Bandstand in 1961 and celebrate a four week NBC music variety run starting July 5. They describe years of grind from Atlanta to Detroit, weathering poverty before breaking through with Every Beat of My Heart in 1960 and emphasizing live performance over records to stay in business.
Jeb Stuart Magruder says he feels forgiven by God and has paid legal penalties for Watergate. He argues he need not apologize to the American people as he served seven months in prison for conspiring to obstruct justice. He says Congress has done little to prevent another Watergate.
The article notes Daniel Webster used his Senate speeches to prevent a civil conflict, maintaining unity between the North and South for three decades.
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