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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1954
Page
13
A dense broadcast grid lists multiple programs for mornings, middays, and evenings across several stations. It includes AP News segments, World News Roundup, Weather, music shows, talk formats, and serialized dramas with numerous host names and program titles.
The log lists Wednesday and Thursday TV airings with start times and programs including Sign On Front Page News Liberace Dangerous Assignment Royal Playhouse Final Edition Family Playhouse Sign Off and Thursday entries World classic films Lucky Leroy Show The Visitor Amos and Andy Victory at Sea Golden Key Quartette Heart of the City 100 Film and more.
Central daylight time listings show a full broadcast day with news Weather and talk segments. Notable entries include Quincy Howe News John Vandercook Edwin C Hill and practical land use alongside music and talk shows from 6:00 to 11:38 AM.
State police at District 13 in Du Quoin conducted three air raid alert drills across 17 counties to measure warning dissemination. Alerts went to sheriffs at 8:50 am 10:46 am and noon via radio telephone and visits. Gallatin hardest to reach while Jackson and similar counties with direct radio contact were fastest.
A fragmented program timetable lists multiple radio shows and times from morning to late evening. Entries include news with Lindley Hines Rex Davis Murrow, dramas like The Guiding Light, Perry Mason and Road of Life, plus sports updates with Bob Barnes and Stan Daugherty Orchestra.
A detailed daily broadcast lineup includes Roy Freeman wake up at 6:00 and a 7:45 Rise and Shine block. Featured music and news sources span Bing Crosby, Sammy Kaye, Guy Lombardo, and Dave Rose with regional feeds from Union County and Jackson County News.
Radio schedule list shows Cardinals vs Phillies game at 5:55 PM followed by Cardinals vs Phillies at 6:00 PM and a series of music and news segments throughout the day including Parade of Sports and Dance Orchestra.
Members of the Herrin Business and Professional Women's Club raised 55 dollars for the handicapped children's school at Hopper's Dairy Queen on Saturday. President Kathryn Hughes said the event also brought in 50 dollars from sales. Leon and Frances Hopper donated profits from the one day operation for the second year.
Ophus Evans, 17, was delivered to Sheridan Reformatory to begin a five to ten year sentence. He was sentenced June 9 for the June 28, 1953 slaying of his father with a .22 caliber rifle.
Daytime through late night listings for KSD TV channel 5 in St Louis include a long series of programs from 1:00 through 12:35 with classic shows such as I Married Joan Burns and Allen Boxing Weather forecast Today Show Gabe Garroway and more. The schedule lists news weather and entertainment segments with multiple repeats and local hosts such as Dottye Bennett and Lester Morris.
Two Steeleville youths Don ald Schaack and Billy Fiene staged deliberate spills to avoid a freight train on the Missouri Pacific line near Percy. Each rode with a passenger Anne Bixby and Edna Hitzeman. Schaack activated the crossing signal. no serious injuries were reported.
AP correspondent Hal Boyle notes Berlin hosts about 30 allied intelligence services with many Russian agencies present. The city hums with secrecy as residents fear registration and seek anonymity, while the Amerika Haus runs libraries that require no readers to sign cards, underscoring Cold War tensions.
Mrs. Herman Hartenberger and two children Bruce and Phillip suffered minor injuries Saturday when their vehicle was involved in a highway collision near Chester. The accident prompted local responders to attend the scene and assess the damage.
A car was struck by a station wagon on Route 150 near Chester. The station wagon belonged to Hayers Supply Co of Sparta. The Hartenbergers were treated at Chester Hospital and released.
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