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Newspaper
Port Lavaca Wave
Location
Port Lavaca, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1975
Page
2
A collage of reader letters offers practical kitchen and home hints. A widower shares a method for crisp pork chops with minimal greasiness, campers describe nylon dunk bags for drying dishes, and readers discuss shower head balancers, drying peppers, and repurposing a shoetote bag as a diaper bag.
A collage of 1960s and 70s television listings featuring Happy Days Lucy Show Mister Rogers Love Lucy and The Electric Company. Also includes Brady Bunch Adams Price Is Right People and Ideas To Tell The Truth Concentration Name That Tune and Captain Kangaroo style segments. Notable program notes mention documentaries and movies like Someone Touched and Ironside with host Johnny Carson and Lilias Yoga and You.
A scanned TV grid shows morning lineups with Mister Rogers Sesame Street Captain Kangaroo and Batman among cartoons and live action features. Proms include I Love Lucy The Beverly Hillbillies and The Price is Right while soap operas Young and the Restless and Love of Life appear in late morning slots.
A dense listing of daytime and early evening programs across channels, featuring Perry Mason Days of Our Lives General Hospital Match Game The $10,000 Pyramid The Price Is Right and more. Notable titles include Knocking on Wood and Petticoat Junction among classic US soap operas comedies and adventure shows.
A Philadelphia report recalls May 1775 when Second Continental Congress met on Chestnut Street to seek peace with Britain while planning an army. Delegates argued over war plans, window etiquette, and who would lead the future Continental Army as Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold gained string of events shaping America's fate.
A long, readable OCR passage covers Port Lavaca Wave publishing details and staff, followed by a block of historical narrative about the American Revolution. The text blends newspaper masthead data with a retelling of the birth of the United States, including key figures like Washington Adams Paine Jefferson and events from 1775 to 1776.
National Nielsen ratings place CBS Phyllis Switch and ABC Starsky and Hutch among the top 20 shows in the week ending Sept 14. Several newcomers including Joe Forrester On the Rocks Joe and Sons Welcome Back Kotter posted mid to high rankings, while Three for the Road and others underperformed. CBS Beacon Hill led periods, with Walton comparisons and All in the Family returning as top show.
Six Flags Over Texas announces its best summer season with attendance surpassing 2,023,000 through Labor Day. The park reached 2,000,000 visitors by August 31, two weeks ahead of the 1974 pace, and up 58,000 from the same period last year. Through Labor Day the park was more than 15,000 ahead of the pace set in 1973.
On this date in history major events include the signing of the United States Constitution in 1787, a bubonic plague outbreak in London in 1665, Antietam Civil War battle in 1862, Major Bowes Amateur Hour debut and Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, US weapons intercept systems disclosed in 1964, and 1967 air strikes near the China border. Also notes on birthdays Frederick Ashton 69 and Edward Cole, plus Truman quote and bicentennial firearms note.
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