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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1956
Page
8
TV schedule from WSIL TV 22 Harrisburg lists Tuesday evening through Wednesday evening and morning segments with NBC and local programming including News Caravan G-Men Mr. and Mrs North My Little Margie This Is The Life News and various game shows and dramas.
Readable TV guide fragment lists 6:00 to 11:00 PM programs on KFWS Cape Girardeau including The Scoreboard Watching the Weather Edwards The Brothers Do You Trust Your Wife Red Skelton The $64,000 Question Star Showcase Ray Milland People Are Funny News and Weather later CBS shows Godfrey Time The Guiding Light As The World Turns and more Missing or garbled items suggest a mixed local schedule with CBS and AB network titles and film later in the evening.
KWKE TV and station KWKE 4 present a Tuesday evening lineup in St Louis with shows from 6:00 to 12:29 including weather forecasts, News, classic dramas and variety programs. Notable titles feature Adventures of Hiram Holiday Father Knows Best Kraft Theater This Is Your Life and Dr Hudson with Further sports and late weather updates.
Seventeen female students in a Southern Illinois University woodworking class displayed toys Friday night at a party for industrial education department staff and wives. The replicas of animals and birds demonstrated the course aim to expose future early grade teachers to simple classroom materials like wood tin and paper.
Southern Illinois University's Temporary Administration building will close all offices for routine maintenance on December 24 26 27 and 28. Affected offices include Extension Division Liberal Arts and Sciences Small Business Institutes Student Employment and Technical and Adult Education.
The Suez blockage spurs a wave of new shipyards and larger steel mills to build bigger oil tankers. Uncle Sam may seek tax incentives, aid. World yards plan 314 ships totaling 25.35 million deadweight tons, boosting the western tanker fleet by about 29 million tons over five years.
The audience networks and sponsor back a long running contest while staying ahead of rivals in thoughtful programming. Hallmark Hall of Fame, Producers Show Case, and Project 20 rank among the year’s best home screen offerings, reflecting main streams of life and thought.
Larry G Riggs was commissioned as Ensign after graduating from the Navy Officer Candidate School in Newport Rhode Island. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Gordon Riggs of Rt 2 Elizabethtown.
The 1956 television season is seen as lackluster with little experimentation. ABC grows but remains smallest, expanding live shows while relying on filmed content and OmniBus acquisition. CBS leads with See It Now and public affairs, while NBC lags behind.
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