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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1955
Page
11
A dense archived radio grid shows multiple stations with programs from early morning to late night. Card games, weather segments, music hours, and news are interleaved with sports updates and special features like Cavalcade of America and Passport to Dream Island. Cardinal games against the Phillies appear in several slots, with frequent AP News updates and various talk and drama shows throughout the day.
The evening lineup lists a 6:00 News Summary followed by 6:05 Fifty of the Finest and 6:55 News Final, outlining time slots for standard news segments and feature programming.
A partial OCR of broadcast times shows a dense schedule across stations and programs. Notable items include Tennessee Ernie, Cardinal Clubhouse, World News, Perry Mason, Drake shows, and classic daytime dramas like Road of Life and Brighter Day, with scattered sports and music blocks.
A fragmented radio timetable lists hourly programs from early morning to evening. Entries include Morning Prayer, Newscasts, music shows, and local features across stations in Carbondale and surrounding counties, with several typos and garbled times. The schedule names entertainers such as Jan Garber and Guy Lombardo and notes local features like Union County News and the Trading Post.
A sparse program log lists breaks and shows from 4:00 to 6:00 PM including Breakfast Capers, local and world news, birthday party, devotions, Hymn Time, Rhythm Rambles, listings for It Pays to List, Market Report, Popcorn Time, Swapping Corner, Luncheon Date, Rhythm Matinee parts, Murphysboro Ballroom, Sunset Serenade, Sports Final and Evening Echoes.
A daytime radio schedule listing Bob Walker Shows, Coppi’s Corner, AP News, Weather, Farm Report, and entertainment programs including Russ Morgan Patti Page and Eddie Cantor, with multiple time slots from early morning through afternoon on Wednesday. Prominent hosts include Bob Walker and Jim Duncan, plus regional news updates and market reports.
The listing shows the day’s programs with time stamps, including News Summary segments, Silo Serenade, Agricultural Advisory Council, Moments With the Master, Coffee Time, Gospel music, Women’s World, Post Exchange, Sports pages, and the Milwaukee versus New York game teaser. It outlines a full broadcast rhythm across morning, afternoon, and evening slots.
Hour by hour listing of programs and hosts for central daylight time across the day, naming Bill Stern, John Vandercook, Ames Brothers, Dinah Shore, Martha Raye, Eddie Cantor, Dave Garroway, Today show, Studs, and other shows with placeholders for news, weather, and special broadcasts. The long sequence reads like a station grid, reflecting a dense timetable of programs, news, and features through the day.
The listing shows a long TV guide sequence with programs such as Movie Quick Quiz Weather Vane Cactus Pensear Lucky LeRoy Show Front Page Now China Smith Roller Derby Danny Thomas Theater Final Edition Theater Family Playhouse Movie Matinee WeatherVane Cactus Pete Front Page News Liberace Frankie Lame Badge Masquerade Party Life of Riley Golden Key Quartet Four Star Final Family Playhouse.
A dense listing of radio and TV program times featuring Douglas Edwards Jo Stafford and a lineup including Watching the Weather Cowboy Corral Crusader Rabbit Roller Derby Superman Red Skelton $64 000 Question Corliss Archer I'm the Law Eddie Cantor Newscast and more.
A compact listing outlines today’s radio programming from 6:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. with segments on Weather Report Maps on the Go and AP News updates. It catalogues shows such as Dragnet Fibber McGree and Molly The Great Gildersleeve Kay Lorraine Sho and Sunrise Serenade along with music interludes and world news roundup.
TV schedule notes an early evening lineup at KWK 4 St Louis detailing weather at 6:10, sports at 6:15, and service segments including At Your Service and Life With Father. Evening features list programming and a 9:00 danger/quiz segment with a large 664,000 dollar figure referenced in the text.
The Illinois Central Railroad announced four passenger agent and traffic manager appointments effective June 16. Named were David J. Hearne assistant passenger traffic manager Chicago Herman J Biesterfeldt general passenger agent Chicago Emmit L Holmes general passenger agent New Orleans Edward W Smith assistant general passenger agent Chicago.
New officers of the Percy American Legion post auxiliary were elected last week. Esther Deppe is president with Bernadine Witbracht as first vice president and Norma Lieter as second vice president. Evelyn Wedemeyer manages treasury and Etta Lister serves as secretary with Bernadine Witbracht as chaplain and Dorothy Gerlach as sergeant at arms.
Atty. Snyder E. Herrin of Herrin has been named to the Committee for American Citizenship of the Illinois State Bar Association. The panel studies methods to boost appreciation of the American way of life and to promote dissemination of American democracy fundamentals to lawyers and the public.
High school summer term registration at University School in Carvondale begins 9:30 a.m. Monday, June 20, one week after spring term ends. Over 150 high school students plan to attend. Elementary registration for kindergarten through seventh grade is June 27 with more than 200 pupils applying.
Mayor Harry Perks says the city will oppose New York Central Freight Station abandonment as Illinois Commerce Commission receives the railroad’s application to discontinue service. Officials cite dwindling business as the main reason for the move.
Mescalero New Mexico June 6 Apaches led by Wendell Chino eye a new venture a dude ranch on their 719 square mile reservation to raise income. Chino a former ordained minister directs the tribe's business committee and aims for a high level operation to improve livelihoods. The tribe runs cottages ranching timber and cattle profits while facing about 150 unemployed and an average cash income around 800 dollars annually.
In Simsbury Connecticut on June 7 AP reports a town trial fined the Yale Alumni Club $50 for running a raffle at a fundraiser. The winner, retired Connecticut Supreme Court Justice William Maltbie, was not present. Maltbie had planned to sell the car and donate proceeds to the Yale alumni fund.
Bernard L. Harmon, an employee of W. W. Dewey & Sons Inc., was charged with embezzling $30,000 after showing off a new Cadillac and a large diamond ring before taking a vacation. Investigators say he issued 30 company checks to himself averaging $1,000 each from May 1953 to February 1955, with the firm auditing his books upon his return from leave.
Hapke's Frigidaire Automatic Laundry opened this week in Sparta. The new business features six automatic washers and six dryers, plus a mangel type ironer to handle laundry tasks efficiently.
Herrin resident Mrs. Wilma F. Weiss was among 195 civilian employees honored at the Third Air Force Civilian Awards Ceremony in Washington DC. She received a Superior Accomplishment Award for sustained superior performance on the job, formerly working as a flexewriter operator in the Secretary of the Air Force office of Legislative Liaison.
Du Quoin Fire Chief Augie Schneider cited violations of the city trash fire ordinance in the downtown area. He said some businesses and downtown residents burn trash in incinerators that do not meet city specifications and violators will face fines if the practice continues.
The Sparta Country Club will offer Friday square dancing for members and guests with an 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. beginner instruction and a 9:30 p.m. to midnight session. Sam Paule of Belleville will run the classes and call for the advanced group, following earlier winter sessions at the Lions Community Building.
Percy Methodist Church opens a daily two week Vacation Bible School Monday morning with 29 enrollments. A second Vacation Bible School starts Monday at Percy Baptist Church with 53 students enrolled, highlighting two concurrent programs in the town.
Secretary of Welfare Hobby and Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele will deliver a national television and radio report this evening on the Salk polio vaccine situation. The briefing aims to inform the public on vaccine developments and public health use.
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