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1 he Bee: Danville Vo Thursday April 22 196 CBS Jumps Over ABC In Ratings NEW YORK (AP) ABC No 1 in the average weekly ratings for 12 of the past 13 weeks dropped to third place in the A Nielsen Co ratings last week The ratings showed CBS an easy winner NBC third ranked of the net works in the ratings for eight weeks barely escaped doing it again NBC edged ABC by only one tenth of a ratings point which works out to a margin of 293000 homes The Nielsen audience esti mates for last week made pub lic Tuesday showed a repeat of CBS's "All in the as the week's most popular show It vas viewed in an estimated 204 million homes The least watched evening program was an ABC News special on health care and its financing The show aired last Saturday night was seen in about five million homes according to Nielsen figures According to Nielsen esti mates for the week ending April 18 the most pop ular TV shows were in the "Rikki Tikki Brown Easter Spe A and (All CBS) and (ABC) viMMBw nW 7 47' A 1 AT LEAST HER UTURE'S BRIGHT NBC says con tlnulng negotiations with "Today" show cohost Barbara Walters to renew her contract and ABC says it too is negotiating with Miss Walters ABC reportedly Is offering her a five year con tract at $1 million a year to co anchor the "ABC Evening program (AP Wirephoto) Director Leaving Sweden STOCKHOLM Sweden (AP) ilm director Ingmar Berg man said today he ia leaving Sweden because of his tax trou bles An open letter from the world famed movie man in the newspaper Expressen said all his projects in Sweden are being terminated But he said he was leaving his entire for tune in Sweden "at the disposal of the Internal Revenue Serv ice" to prove that he was not because of the tax ation court Thenewspapersaid Bergman had already left the country for an undisclosed destination Bergman 58 was arrested last Jan 30 during a rehearsal at the Royal Dramatic Theatre and charged with tax fraud in connection with $750000 he brought into the country from a now defunct Swiss film com pany he owned between 1968 and 1975 Shortly afterward he suf fered a nervous breakdown and was hospitalized The prosecutor withdrew all criminal charges against Berg man early this month How ever the government is still trying to make him pay taxes on the $750000 (CBS) (ABC) Day at a (CBS) "Bionic (ABC) Tyler (CBS) (ABC) "Carol Burnett" and "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" (both CBS) and Shirley" (ABC) (CBS) Jff People i In the Rack Kotter" (ABC) (CBS) and of San rancisco" and "Barney Miller" (both ABC) MILORD Mich (AP) King Carl XVI Gustaf of Swe den displayed his gusto for fast cars when he raced a turbo charged auto around a test I Highway 29 South 3 mlls out city limits of Danville DANCING Open riday Saturday and Sunday 8PM 1AM I featuring recording artist DONNA BARBER and REE and EASY NORTH I THEATRff 7994215 SHOWS AT 719 PM JIMMY "JJ" WALKER DO IT AGAIN11 nrroTTTirTrrTiTTTirrmrTTnnrrT Countryside Inn RESTAURANT BLAIR LOOP ROAD WESTOVER DR The WT 'Tommy' GATEWOOD amily YOUR 2 Phone for Details about Private Parties JULM IA 1 8 JUIJUUUULL8 MA I 1 Hit 8 ailXJ Open Every Thurs ri Sat 5 PM til 9 PM Phone 797 4218 why they serve only resh US Choice Steaks and Strictly resh Seafood They believe their cus tamers deserve the best and what get when you dine at Countryside Inn The best seafood and Steaks to be found in this area i WE CATER TO PRIVATE PARTIES OR CHURCH GROUPS BUSINESS ETC flLaMiA I I CAPITOL MAIN DANVILLE 797 3777 DOORS OPEN AT 7 PM L' I jSMHLLUl Mly Iswi Ry BMfe I jm! CURTIS MAYIELD I "CLEOPATRA JONES" track at speeds estimated at up to 150 miles per hour king was was the way Trevor Jones track su pervisor at the General Motors proving grounds described the 29 year od monarch's reaction Wednesday to driving a special ly built Buick that will be the pace car at this In dianapolis 500 The king also attended a luncheon and met 150 local dig nitaries including Detroit May or Coleman Young Gov Wil liam Milliken and in a rare joint appearance the chairmen of all four major US car mak ers King Carl Gustaf is scheduled to arrive in Houston today for a two day tour of US space fa cilities HONOLULU (AP) Cher Bono Allman is in a Honolulu hospital for treatment of pre mature labor pains The 29 year old television star seven months pregnant was vacationing when she was taken to Kapiolani Hospital Monday Doctors said Cher could be under treatment for days or even weeks Cher's husband rock musi cian Greg Allman flew here to be with her SAN RANCISCO (AP) A 33 year old electronics wizard who was fined $1000 in 1972 for using a toy whistle to make a free phone call to Australia has been indicted by a federal grand jury for placing free calls to Pennsylvania John Draper who gained notoriety as was accused of fraud by wire in making three calls on eb 20 from Menlo Park to Bethle hem Pa The government accused Draper on Wednesday of usi ngan electronic multifrequency signaling device capable of pro ducing certain sounds and sig nals to make the calls illegally Draper got his nickname after he discovered that toy whistles in Captain Crunch ce real boxes duplicated Bell Tele phone Co signals ederal Judge Robert Peck ham placed Draper on five probation and warned him that the next violation could mean a prison sentence Draper now unemployed is free on $5000 bail SAN DIEGO (AP) feel beautiful" said a graying Dr Timothy Leary as he walked HOLIDAY INN RESTAURANT is pleosed to invite MRS MARY PARROTT Honoree of the Day I to dinner any evening LILLIAN YATES Innkeeper out of a federal prison on $5000 bail Leary 55 smiled broadly Wednesday afternoon and waved to fellow prisoners when he left the Metropolitan Correc tional Center He had spent a year at the downtown prison as part of a 10 year federal sentence for a Texas marijuana conviction in volving less than a half ounce of the illegal weed NORTH KINGSTOWN RI (AP) Joseph A Zinno and his brother Clarence have built a plane that flew its way into American aviation history A five second 80 to 100 foot flight marked the first time in US history that a man pow ered aircraft has gotten oft the ground The feat had been ac complished previously in Eu rope The Zinnos needed only Jo frantic pedaling and a lightweight balsa wood and aluminum aircraft to accom plish that feat Wednesday at the abandoned Quonset Point Naval Air Station The aircraft clocked by ra dar at 12 knots lifted its nose wheel off the ground And then for five seconds Zinno was air borne about 12 to 18 inches off the ground The flight ended near the edge of the runway when a gust of wind tipped the plane onto its left wing and brought the fuselage down with a crunch WASHINGTON (AP) Wil liam A Anders was sworn in as US ambassador to Norway and Marcus A Rowden imme diately replaced him as chair man of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Anders 42 has been chair man of the NRC since it was created in January 1975 to take over many of the functions of the former Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Rowden 48 an attorney who became a member of the NRC when it was formed is the for mer AEC general counsel GEORGE SEG DANVILLE PLAZA RIVHMIM MIW ALL 100 SEATS 'til 3:30 GOLDIE HAWN is hi DUCHESS AND THE DIRTWATER SHOWS 3 7 9 SOUTH SHOW ST ARTS AT 7:30 PM ADM STRICTLY ADULTS 2 HITS TONIGHT Classic porn so sensual you'll be squirming in your seat National Expose "THE PASSIONS CAROL" KUS "MALE PIG" MUST Bl TS I PORTRAYS JUDGE IN 'SCOTTSBORO BOYS' TV TRIAL Arthur Hill portrays (above) Judge Jamee Edward Horton in the television special Horton ond the Scottsboro on NBC (AP Wirephoto "Scottsboro Trial" On NBC TV Tonight LOS ANGELES (AP) bunch of bureaucrats hiding be hind That was Arthur angry answer to the Na tional Education Association's rescinding of its recommenda tion of the TV special Horton and the Scottsboro Hill stars in the NBC drama Thursday night as Judge James Edward Horton a segrega tionist who risked his career by ruling against a miscarriage of justice in the famed 1933 case of black Alabama youths ac cused of rape Most people think of Hill as unflappable Owen Marshall But it should be re membered that he was also the original George in Afraid of Virginia creating on Broadway the rampageous role that Richard Burton played in the film Canadian dander was up when he learned that the NEA had withdrawn its bless ing on Horton and the Scottsboro the NEA got cold feet after NBC decided to put a disclaimer on the show stating that the' subject matter might be objectionable to some the actor said suppose the network figured it had to do that because of the talk about rape the script is unchanged from what the NEA read and approved What you read is what you get or the NEA to back down now shows a lack of courage" The theme of Horton and the Scottsboro is courage Hill remarked show points up how one individual can change the course of the actor said Horton was a believer in the but philosophy but he sim ply could not allow perjury in his courtroom And so the boys with ages ranging from 13 to 19 were saved from execution They had been accused of rape by two of the prosti tutes of the boys con tinued and one of them get out of prison until 1952 Oddly enough it was the Com munists who kept the case alive and prevented the boys from being killed Scottsboro case has been largely ignored by generation both white and black I think that is wrong Young blacks may be dis satisfied with conditions today But when they look back and see what it was like in the 1930s they will feel better about the progress that has been Born in Saskatchewan edu cated at the University of Brit ish Columbia trained on the London Stage Arthur Hill has nonetheless made a success of playing Americanroles Earlier this season he played Abraham Lincoln in the television special Rivalry" the first Canadian to play Hill remark ed "There was Rayrnond Mas sey of course And before him Walter Huston "I have a theory about why Canadians are cast for such roles What people think of as the Anglo Saxon face John Kenneth is to me the classic example is more in evidence ip Canada than it is in this country The reason is that the United States has be come a melting pot Canada but it is starting Hill came to New York in 1955 with Thornton play which had first appeared in London He brought his wife and two children for what appeared to be a visit but ended as a per manent stay I "RACE WITH THE DEVIL" SkuRUcis NOW iWEYWfSTRD I SlM oaiVE'IN jL A DRIVE 1 THEATRE PHONE 7924933 3 HITS SHOW STARTS 7:30 PM The 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