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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1954
Page
13
A detailed listing of daily and nightly radio programs across multiple hours featuring news, weather, sports reviews, talk shows, music programs, and performances from artists such as Dinah Shore, Sinatra, and Xavier Cugat Orchestra with AP News updates interspersed.
A daytime schedule lists 5:30 sign on 8:31 rise and shine 6:05 market reports 6:10 clock in the barn 6:55 weather forecast 7:00 AP News Coppi 7:15 Coppi's Corner 7:55 Frank Elders AP News 8:00 breakfast with the Duncans 9:00 Frank Elders AP News 9:10 Moments With the Bible 9:30 Swap Shop 9:45 Sentimental Journey 10:25 Frank Elders AP News 10:30 Tony Martin 10:45 Ginger Rogers 11:00 Dick Powell 11:15 Pessy Lee 11:30 Frankie Masters 11:40 Souvenir Song 11:45 Today's Star 41:55 Southern Illinois Farm News Friday Afternoon 12:00 Frank Elders AP News 12:15 Music Cavalcade 12:30 Egyptian Ballroom 1:30 Vic Damone Show 1:45 Bingo Crosby 1:55 Frank Elders AP News 2:00 Motel Matinee Jim Duncan 4:00 Illinois News Mine Report 4:15 Paul Weston 4:30 Red Skelton Show 5:00 Frank Elders AP News 5:05 Jim Duncan Show 7:00 Sign Off
A detailed listing of KMOX 1120 programming for a Saturday covering shows from Tennesse Ernie to The Harry Pender Show with multiple time slots, news, weather, and music programs across the day and night. The lineup includes World News hourly briefs, musical programs, variety shows, and special features such as Gangbusters and Capitol Cloakroom.
Sports digest previews the Cardinals versus the Philadelphia Phillies in a pivotal midseason showdown. Analysts weigh momentum, pitching matchups, and potential impact on standings for both clubs as the week unfolds.
A dense daily broadcast grid lists programs from 6:00 to 1:00 with blocks including Sign On News Breakfast Space Patrol Ed Bonner's St. Louis Ballroom Song and Dance Parade Pan American Union Pop Concert sports digest Cardinals vs Philadelphia and multiple news and music segments reflecting a 1940s to 1950s local radio lineup.
The listing shows a full day of programs on WCIL Carbondale from 6:00 to 6:00 with Roy Freeman hosting sessions, farm shows at 6:45 and 9:30, musical acts like Sammy Kaye Guy Lombardo and Guy Lombardo, plus news, sports, and local features including Union County News and Jackson Co Farm Front.
Local station WIJPF details a full day of programming from 6:00 pm to 10:30 pm including news, quizzes, sports, music, and orchestra broadcasts with a Parade of Talent at 8:00 pm and again later. Featured programs include Gabriel Heatter, Parade of Sports, Phillies vs Cardinals, Hall of Fame era melodies, and multiple headline news segments.
Washington June 4 AP employees at AFL Teamsters Union headquarters voted 28 to 1 against being represented by a labor union. The choice in a National Labor Relations Board election was between no union or the AFL Office Employees Union. The Teamsters Union had sought ballot placement but withdrew amid charges it was an employer acting as its own workers’ representative.
WSIL TV 22 in Harrisburg lists a dense lineup from 5:44 PM to 12:00 AM including Sign On Front Page News Counterpoint Badge 714 Country Carnival Armchair Adventure Western Playhouse Final Edition The Range Rider Man on the Street Hopalong Cassidy Joe Palooka Beehive and sign offs with late entries Like Cactus Pete Lucky Leroy Show and Here’s Lucky.
The listing shows KSD TV 5 in St Louis with a full daily lineup from 6:15 PM to 2:15 AM including The Greatest Fights of the Century Eddie Fisher News and classic programs. In Canada a note warns moose attacks on locomotives and possible derailed trains with deadly outcomes for the moose.
Huntington, June 4 AP L J Meisel says Cabell County School Board can reclaim its property if an $85 bid is paid He bid that amount at a tax sale on an unseen lot later found to host a $50 000 school building The lot remained on the tax books as delinquent after the school was built
Enid Oklahoma June 4 A P John M White Sr 58 a retired Army captain is a junior at Phillips University here His son John Jr is a graduating senior at the University of Oklahoma
A humorous look at Colonial courting customs contrasts courting sticks and bundling with modern romance. The piece notes how TV could revive the courting stick while bundling fades, and shares quirky historic quirks about taxes and breach of promise norms in 18th century Maryland and beyond.
Springfield reports Hemp and Co. of Macomb wins 1955 Illinois license plate contract with a bid of 23.2 cents per pair, unchanged from 1953 and 1954. S. G. Adams and Co. of St. Louis submitted the only other bid. The Land of Lincoln slogan will move to the bottom on the new plates.
1955 plates will feature the word Illinois above the figures 19 and 55. Carpentier stated he has not decided on the color scheme for the 1955 licenses.
U.S. farm exports for January 1954 totaled 205 million dollars, about 24 percent lower than January of the prior year, reflecting a significant drop in agricultural shipments.
Illinois forecast shows temperatures about 3 to 6 degrees above normal with highs near 80 to 84 and lows around 57 to 61. Warmer days Saturday and Sunday, followed by mild trend. precipitation averaging 0.1 to 0.39 inch from scattered showers after Sunday.
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