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Newspaper
Port Lavaca Wave
Location
Port Lavaca, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1975
Page
2
NBC plans to lengthen Another World and Days of Our Lives to one hour each, citing better pacing and stronger ratings. Lin Bo jen notes 12 minute scenes replace 3 to 4 minute cuts, and NBC weighs adding more hour-long soaps while possibly reshuffling game shows to accommodate the change.
Alabama State Geologist Philip LaMoreaux says Getty Oil Co. tests at a Creola well indicate a major oil field. The first well, completed December 26, showed the strongest tests the state has ever seen.
Fragmentary TV guide items show a program slate including Dragnet and Hollywood Squares. The text hints at a 6:00 PM slot and names Dick Van Dyke and guest appearances. No clear event or outcome beyond listing shows and times.
A compact television timetable lists 6:00 PM through midnight programs across channels. Highlights include Perry Mason, The Failing of Raymond, and Johnny Carson with Night Gallery and News segments guiding late evening viewing.
The station lists a morning lineup from 6 to 11:30 featuring New Zoo Revue GED Test and various programs. Highlights include Mister Rogers Sesame Street The Lieutenant Wore Skirts Love Lucy Joker's Wild Dialing for Dollars High Rollers The Brady Bunch and Young and the Restless with game shows, soap operas, and children's fare across multiple time slots.
Radio and TV listings show a daytime schedule featuring soaps like As the World Turns and Days of Our Lives, game shows such as The Price Is Right and $10,000 Pyramid, and films including Casanova Brown and Birth of a Legend. Cartoons Villa Alegre and Mickey Mouse Club appear, with Star Trek and Bewitched also on.
Local Jaycees host Rattlesnake Round featuring venoms extracted for research, snake handling and milking demonstrations, with bus tours to hunting areas. Contact Sweetwater Jaycees, P.O. Box 416, Sweetwater 79556 for details.
The notice lists events in March for St Patrick’s celebrations at Shamrock and Easter fires in Fredericksburg with a pioneer tale of the Easter Bunny, plus a Glass Festival in Woodville. It cites dates, admission details, and contact boxes for St Patrick’s Association and Chambers of Commerce for more information.
A reader column presents practical homemaking hints. Suggestions include thawing meat on a grill over newspaper, using thread spools to organize lace and ribbons, placing car keys on the stove to remind of turning off burners, converting outdated hatbands from spare ties for a new look, adding stick on towel hooks near the fridge, crease end of tape for adhesive holders, and using a brick wrapped in a towel as a weighted tool for polishing small spaces.
Seminary students in Fort Worth undertake a two week hunger budget challenge to mirror poverty. Participants live on eight dollars for a week for a single person, ten for a couple, twelve fifty for a family of three, and two fifty for each extra member. The exercise reveals how scarcity affects behavior, emotions, and moral choices, with some noting guilt after stealing small items and others reporting tension within families.
Dallas star Larry Mahan, the sixtime world champion, tops the 43rd Houston rodeo as all around winner. He takes $3,042 in saddle bronc and bull riding, though fails to reach finals in bull riding. Johnny Hudson of Paradise leads cash with $5,055 in calf roping. Attendance hits 422,238 for the rodeo, with total show attendance at 688,325.
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