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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1954
Page
13
A dense list of broadcast times and programs shows a daily radio schedule across multiple stations with news, weather, music, talk shows, and variety programs. Entities include AP News CBS shows Adams and Stevenson and Opry style music, with entries spanning morning to late night.
WGGH Marion lists a full Friday morning lineup from 5:30 to 7:00 am with shows and AP News segments, featuring Coppi, Elders, Duncan, and musical acts like Peggy Lee and Vic Damone, plus Farm News and Weather.
Program listings for KMOX 1120 in St Louis show a dense array of shows across dayparts. Items include news by Rex Davis and Lindley Hines, music blocks from Arthur Godfrey to Duff Cooke and Belmont Prevues, sports updates, world news, and various features such as The Clockwatcher and Garden Gate. The fragmentary schedule lists times and show names with occasional channel markers.
Radio schedule lists Cardinals versus Pittsburgh at 7:50 followed by news and music segments on KXOK 630 in St Louis Central Daylight Time. Other features include Quincy Howe News at 6:15 and The Lone Ranger at 6:30 with Les Griffith News at 6:55 and France Laux Sports Gallery at 4:15.
A compiled daily broadcast grid lists programs from sign on at 6:00 through 1:00 Sien Off, including News, Breakfast, Town and Country, Space Patrol, Song and Dance Parade, Tea and Crumpets, Washington briefing, Wake Up St. Louis, sports and music segments, with Ozzie and Harriet and France Laux Sports Gallery among the offerings.
A full daily lineup lists segments from Roy Freeman at 6:00 and 7:00 to 6:00 Sign Off. Programs include SIU Farm Show Wake Up Time Morning News Barn Dance News Sammy Kaye Hillbilly Matinee Guy Lombardo and more with regional news, music, sports and community updates.
A detailed daily radio grid lists programs from 6:00 to 10:30 with shows like Parade of Sports Pirates vs Cardinals Waxing Sentimental and Twilight Time. Musical segments feature Jazz and Country sets from artists such as Gabriel Heatter Pierson Thal Orchestra Ralph Flanagan Orchestra Hillbilly Hit Parade.
Sgt. John Weiman at the Herrin Recruiting Station explains a rewritten recruiting policy offering enlistment in multiple Army branches including Adjutant General Armor Chemical Corps of Engineers Finance Infantry Military Police Ordnance Signal Transportation and various divisions and detachments with seven guaranteed technical school options for high school graduates. Many policies have not been in effect since 1947.
The article notes that bearings for propeller shafts are made from hard tropical wood, highlighting a traditional material choice in maritime engineering. This emphasizes durability and suitability of tropical hardwoods for bearing applications in vessels.
Channel schedule lists the evening lineup from Sign On at :44 through late night with news, sports, westerns, adventures and cartoons. Notable items include Baseball Hall of Fame feature, Front Page News, Counterpoint, Badge 714, Armchair Adventure, Hopalong Cassidy, Wresting, and sports byline.
A dense listing of daily Central Daylight Time programming on KSD TV 5 in St. Louis. The grid covers 6:00 a.m. to 2:15 a.m. with shows such as Dottye Bennett, Eddie Fisher, Love Lucy, Space Patrol, Roy Rogers, Kukla Fran and Ollie, Belmont Stakes coverage, wrestling, and late-night news and weather.
Haskell Murray named custodian of Lesser Goode-Barren Township High School by the Board of Education to replace Lawrence Winemiller who resigned to become deputy sheriff of Franklin County. Murray, a World War II veteran, and his wife Lorene with three daughters have moved into the custodian’s residence on the GBTHS campus. No replacement action yet for principal Wesley Bovinet.
Lt. Gen. William H. Tunner, commander of USAFE, reports a critical need for 500 teachers to educate 11,000 students now and 15,000 next semester across 51 elementary and eight high schools in Europe, Africa, and Asia. He notes USAFE has grown to 80,000 personnel, covering 17 million square miles, about a fifth of the U.S. Air Force, with goals to minimize the Soviet threat and to repatriate 10,600 airmen this year by hiring foreign skilled workers.
Capt. Alice J. Bender of the Army Nurse Corps will visit the Herrin Army and Air Force Recruiting Station June 24 to discuss nursing and Army nurse programs. A Home Hospital and Indiana University graduate, she has served from Ft. Campbell to Korea, and will speak on WJPF from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The report contrasts supported assistance for an American airman abroad with a $1,100 aid amount offered to a native, highlighting disparities in wartime relief.
Southern Illinois University cancels the geography field course slated for June 21 due to insufficient advance applications. Field course director Dr. Robert A. Harper cited low enrollment for a program combining a week of campus study and a seven week tour of southwestern states.
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