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Newspaper
Port Lavaca Wave
Location
Port Lavaca, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1975
Page
2
A column fragment collects reader tips on household hacks. Nail polish on toilet tank lids helps busy moms keep nails polished, can opener labels prevent food wrappers, spider web decorations drawn with a felt pen wash away later, and plastic sheet window covers cut fuel costs. Readers also share meal prep shortcuts and kitchen mise en place strategies.
A dense TV timetable lists programs across channels with titles including Happy Days Lucy Show Mister Rogers Love Lucy The Brady Bunch and The Beverly Hillbillies. It features game shows news reads and films such as Charro and Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man alongside sports wrap ups and late night talk.
A readout of children's programs and early TV line up lists New Zoo Revue Villa Alegre and Mister Rogers along with several morning shows and game shows headed for the 9 to 11 am window. It notes station names, times, and program order for a typical Tuesday morning lineup.
CBS airs Travels With Flip a road special featuring Flip Wilson in Honolulu San Francisco Atlanta Nashville and Boley Oklahoma. Loretta Lynn appears to sing Muhammed Ali appears in a training camp sketch. A Hawaii flight gag starts the program and Wilson wears Geraldine in a San Francisco department store sketch.
A partial broadcast grid lists noon through afternoon programs from multiple networks. Entries show Perry Mason at 1:00 PM with Days of Our Lives and General Hospital later, plus various soaps, game shows, cartoons, and a feature film Demetrius and the Gladiators.
Today in History highlights several milestones dated October 13 across the years. It notes the Continental Congress ordering a naval fleet in 1775, Washington laying the Executive Mansion cornerstone in 1792, Texas ratifying the U S Constitution in 1845, Ankara becoming Turkey’s capital in 1914, and Italy declaring war in 1943. It also mentions a 1960 Nixon Kennedy debate, a 1970 Angela Davis arrest, Kasavubu removing Tshombe in Congo in 1960s, and Kissinger comments on Middle East talks. birthdays for Frank Gilroy and Lana Day, a thought about hope, and a Bicentennial note on Benedict Arnold’s Dead River march.
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