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Newspaper
Port Lavaca Wave
Location
Port Lavaca, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1975
Page
2
A fragmentary TV schedule lists Lucy Show, Dragnet, Gunsmoke, Hollywood Squares, Maude, Tarzan Triumphs, Twilight Zone, Perry Mason, Carson, and late night mysteries. It includes sports and film entries with weekday times and channel cues.
A scrambled listing of morning to late morning TV programs and films. Notable items include Dead Reckoning and The Robe films, game shows like Wheel of Fortune and Password, soap operas such as The Young and the Restless, Love of Life, and various children’s programs like Sesame Street and Captain Kangaroo.
A cluttered list shows daytime network blocks and syndicated picks from noon to afternoon. Programs span soap operas General Hospital and Another World to classics like The Bachelor and Leave It to Beaver, with animated and game show diversions including Sesame Street and The Price Is Right.
Readers share simple, durable uses for common items. Suggestions include repurposing plastic foam containers to hold knives and flour, using rubber-bladed tools to minimize residue on tile, burying plant moisture with a punctured jug, and packing shoes in socks to prevent scuffs. The column invites reader correspondence.
Peter Graves headlines an ABC Movie of the Week titled Dead Man on the Run set in New Orleans. The project teams William Finnegan and Bob Sweeney, creators of Hawaii Five-0, with Graves known for Mission: Impossible. The article notes Graves's past pilots Archer and other series, and discusses network era shifts and shooting locations.
Today marks March 31 1975 with notable events past and present. The day recalls 1854 treaty opening Japanese ports by the United States and 1782 birth of composer Joseph Haydn in Austria. It notes 1889 Paris Eiffel Tower milestone, 1917 US acquisition of the Virgin Islands, 1949 Newfoundland joining Canada, 1953 Dag Hammarskjold’s UN election, and 1933 Civilian Conservation Corps creation. Also mentions Camden Alabama protests, Explorer 1’s demise, Nixon’s veterans committee, and birthdays of John McCloy and Henry Morgan. Thoughtful quote by Josh Billings closes.
Saginaw Michigan AP profile of Happy Jack Roper a Texan with a lifelong love of aircraft. He bought a 1952 Grumman HU16B Albatross for 6870 dollars from BCM Co. of Dallas restored it spending about 20000 dollars. The firm has been offered 120000 dollars. Roper has flown diverse planes from World War II spotter planes to crop dusters and scavenges old aircraft worldwide seeking their next restoration.
The Port Lavaca Wave and Calhoun County Times are published each afternoon except Christmas Day, Monday through Friday, by Wave Publishing Co. Inc. in Port Lavaca Texas. The staff includes Rod Moake as General Manager Dick Fisher as Editor in Chief John Adams as Sports Editor Mary Rothband as Society Editor Mike Lopez in Editorial Bill Pack as Advertising Nita Crober as Classified Kay Cleere Tesla Gertner Mary Ann Franke as Composing Jean Smith Sammy Garcia as Circulation Linda Marek Reginald Grigsby as Building.
Civics teacher Bill Hickey and 15 students left De Soto, Texas, to spread word of the U S bicentennial. The group will visit France Switzerland and Germany, meeting dignitaries and administrators and delivering greetings from De Soto Mayor Charles Harwell.
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