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Newspaper
The Canton Repository
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1949
Page
14
ABC gears a new program to air on WHBC July 31 with a 9 30 Sunday night show featuring John Reed King as host. Contestants are selected from studio audiences and telephone listeners using a punchboard device. Prizes total 500000, illustrating radio TV cross scheduling and the rise of simulcasts across networks.
The Gooding Amusement Co. story, operator of the world’s largest rides, is set for The Ohio Story at 6 30 over ABC WHBC. Other programs include You and Education at 7 30 on CBS WGAR and Chicken Every Sunday at 8 on NBC WTAM.
Pierre Monteux conducts the New York Philharmonic in Stadium Concerts at 9 on CBS stations with Giovanni Bagarotti as guest violinist. NBC and CBS air Mr District Attorney at 9 30 and Capitol Cloak Room at 10 30. Curtain Time and Will You Buy My Woolly Dusters? feature on NBC WM and NBC WTAM. Warner Bros previews Fountainhead. Dunninger Winchell show moves to CBS TV in fall. Local stations run movie ads where scheduled.
Loss Bream of 905 25th st NE will be interviewed at 9 30 over WAND. Walter C. Fisher new Lions International president speaks at 12 15 over NBC WTAM. Indians Yankees game airs at 2 over WCMW. WAND carries Reds Red Sox game at 3 30.
WEWS carries Television Tonight at 8 30 PM and Televised Curtain Rises on Television Theater at 9 PM over WNBK. The listings note channel assignments and start times for the two programs on local stations.
WEWS will televise the Cleveland Indians versus New York Yankees game tomorrow at 2 PM. The telecast marks a highlight of the station's sports schedule with local fans invited to watch.
Drew Pearson will host guest speakers on ABC for six weeks starting Sunday with Senator Robert A. Taft. Burl Ives will substitute for Walter Winchell during the summer on ABC. Screen stars Helen Walker and Lynn Bari sign for a series of dramatic television shorts. Tex Beneke and his orchestra have prepared a new program.
Kansas City July 20 AP A turbulent labor union meeting deteriorated into a melee as Congressman Leonard Irving confronted union finances. Fifteen to twenty members were injured. Police were summoned to Hod Carriers Building and Common Laborers Union of America headquarters where about 500 members were present. Irving, a Missouri Democrat from President Truman's home district, said the clash followed his ruling a motion nominating Theodore Baldwin for assistant business agent was out of order.
Governor Gordon Brown yesterday pardoned Dan Frogg of Dayton after a Morgan County Tennessee second degree murder conviction. A witness affidavit, not at trial, supported self defense, with trial judge, sheriff, jurors and Dayton citizens backing clemency.
The National Amputation Foundation plans a July 26 charity bridge game at New York's Polo Grounds. Sylvan Gans notes each team will field players missing arms or legs, proving amputees can work and excel. Memory poker and dances complemented the event, with a National tournament in Atlantic City last year.
West refused a spade continuation and led a club. The soldier boy won with ace jack, took a heart finesse, and East later cashed king of clubs. Nine tricks were made. If the queen of spades had been played from dummy at trick one, East would have unblocked the jack, and with the king of hearts in play East would have returned a spade to defeat the contract by two.
Cute doggy chair-set pattern 707 with directions and charts in fine cotton. Include name address and pattern number when sending 20 cents to The Canton Repository Needlecraft Dept. Old Chelsea Station New York 11 NY.
Boston officer James D. McCarthy earned a grim reputation after tracking escaped steers from the Brighton abattoir. On sixteen hunts he killed the runaway with a single rifle shot, underscoring his deadly efficiency in cattle control.
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