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Newspaper
Port Lavaca Wave
Location
Port Lavaca, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1975
Page
2
A dense list of network airings shows 5 to 12 PM and late night programs. Names include Lucy, Dragnet, The Tonight Show style lineups, movies and specials with titles like Night Passage Lifeboat and The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant.
A fragmented TV guide list shows broadcast times for soap operas game shows cartoons films and classic series across 12 PM to 4:30 PM. Programs mentioned include Dream of Jeannie Days of Our Lives Guiding Light The Price Is Right Sesame Street Fire over Africa Gilligan's Island and Star Trek among others with assorted Spanish language and educational items.
A fragmented TV guide lists morning to early afternoon programs including New Zoo Revue Scope Adelante and News Three Stooges, followed by Today Sesame Street Captain Kangaroo Batman Speed Racer Celebrity Sweeps and various game shows, dramas, and soap operas.
The column shares quirky home hints from readers including shaping weiner hors d oeuvres into bunny heads, candle repair with melted wax, sparkplug trick for self cleaning ovens, sewing scraps into a housecoat, back scratchers for easier reading, giblet gravy with cream of chicken soup, and warm reader notes praising Heloise’s help.
Sheriff of Calhoun County responds to claims of lack of police protection for Port O Connor and critiques burglaries. He details 1975 budget allocation, per capita staffing, full time deputy presence, patrol hours, and cooperation with city forces. He urges residents to improve security practices and offers free property surveys to reduce burglaries.
Established 1890 and Calhoun County Times published each afternoon except Christmas Day by Wave Publishing Co Port Lavaca Texas. Provides staff roles, telephone, and subscription rates for carrier and mail delivery with historical note on AP republication rights.
In seven Northern California counties only life-and-death surgeries are performed as a physician protest of malpractice insurance rates disrupts care. About 200 anesthesiologists in San Francisco, Marin, Alameda and Contra Costa counties have been off work since May 1 after Argonaut Insurance Co. coverage expired, with surgeons and other specialists joining the boycott amid steep rate hikes up to 322 percent.
Public TV promotes health programming but lags behind commercial networks. John Cosgrove’s Medix, a 30 minute medical information series hosted by Mario Machado, went national in January after three years on KNXT Los Angeles. The show appears on over 70 stations, with LCMA underwriting and Burroughs Wellcome sponsorship, as segments focus on medical topics and sometimes restricted subjects.
May 13 marks several historic events from Jamestown’s founding in 1607 to Vienna’s capture in 1809 and the U S Mexico war declaration in 1846. Other notes include Lusitania protests in 1915 and the Dutch royal flee to London in 1940. Birthdays span Joe Louis and Daphne du Maurier. Thought for today warns about know it alls.
Washington AP Rep Wilbur Mills, back in the House after alcoholism treatment, says he is inclined not to seek reelection in 1976. He told NPACTV he is leaning against running, though he could change his mind.
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