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Longview News-Journal from Longview, Texas • Page 64

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TUESDAY EVENING Driving Hazards, Skills Will Be Rebroadcast KTBS KSLA-fl KLTV 7 KTAL-f ABC News McHalc'i Manion Forum Marshall ru i.avy Good News Dillon 45 Tews Huntfcy- Huntley- ft3 Bnnkiey Brinkley Rinema. News-Weather Radar-Sport Newscope Texas News Garrison I Dream C.C Gonllas Gorillas Of Jeannie Jerry Lewis Show 7:3 The Bewitched 1:45 Invaders Skettoa Mvie Movie :15 "IX A Man "If A Maa N.YJ.D. Good Morning Answers' Answers" 1:45 World S-M Hollywood National Palace Driver's Test News News News Newscope Weather Radar Big Movie Family Dragnet Tonight -Mate Mine Affair Show The Tonight Lieutenant Show 11:3 11:45 Joey Bishop Weather News Devotional More than 800 persons died in the United States because of traffic accidents on Christmas Day. 1956. New Year's, 1967, accounted for more than 29 deaths.

These grim estimates by the National Safety Council point up the need for greater knowledge of the hazards and skills associated with winter driving, one of the main subjects of CBS News' "The 1967 National Drivers Test," to be rebroadcast Tuesday, Dec. 5, t-lt p.m., in color on the CBS Television Network. CBS News Correspondents Walter Cronkite and Mike Wallace are the reporters for the broadcast, which is sponsored by Travelers Insurance Companies, represented by Young Jc Eubicam. Inc. "The December 5 date is quite timely." notes producer Vera Diamond.

"December is a bad month for drivers. Last year, it was the second highest traffic fatality month, with an estimated 5,044 killed." The winter driving sequences were filmed by CBS News last February at Stevens Paint, on the Safety Council's winter driving test course (where winter safety devices are nor -maHy tested), and also throughout the town of Stevens Point Viewers win be questioned on situations involving driving skills unique to winter situations. Among other innovations for the 1967 test broadcast were sections on defensive driving, and safety equipment that can save lives if defensive driving Is not enough; now to maneuver around vehicles other than auto-mobilea motorcycles, scooters, motorbikes, bicycles, house and boat trailers, and 1 buses on the highway; safety precautions that should be taken before a family takes off on an automobile trip, and the do's and donts of driving from the daytime into the evening' hours. Diamond and his staff worked with the American Antomobile Association and the Safety Council in setting up many of the dramatic sequences for the broadcast. Remarkable "second collision film (how an accident affects people inside the car) recorded inside vehicles in normal speed and slow motion was provided by the Institute of Transportation and Traffic En gineering of the University of California at Los Angeles, using lifelike dummies.

Viewers also wis be asked their opinion on questions, not to count toward their score for, "The 1967 National Drivers' Test," relating to government control over traffic and auto safety, and means toward Improvement of safety factors in school buses. They can compare their answers to those of a representative national sample surveyed for CBS News by Opinion Research Corporation. Princeton. N. J.

CBS News' own statistical survey of how many drivers and passengers, who have the equipment in their automobiles, actually use seat belts, will also be included. The survey was conducted in highway and town driving situations at the Valley Forge exit of the Pennsylvania Turnpike and at a shopping center in King of Prussia, Pa. 1 'FANTASY HOUR' SPECIAL Red-Nosed Reindeer Returns through the weather is enacted by puppets "brought alive" in the special Animagic (dimensional animation) technique created by its producers. Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass of Videocraft International The program was directed by; Larry Roomer and Maury Laws was masic director.

Others besides Ives who supply off camera voices for the show are BiDie Richards, Alfie Scopp, Stan Francis, Paul Soles, Janet Orenstein, Paul Kligman, Corinne Connely and Peg "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer," the fully animated' musical Christmas story that is becoming a Yuletide tradition, will be presented for the fourth consecutive year on the "G-E Fantasy Hour" color special on the NBC Television Network Friday, Dec. 8, 6:30 7:30 p.m. Burl Ives stars as the f-camera voice of Sam the Snowman, who sings and tells the story of the shiny beaked buck that is barred from Santa's sleigh team until a blizzard strikes and theatens to cancel Christmas. Romeo Mueller wrote the original TV adaptation of Robert L. May's story of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" that May created in 1939.

It features seven Christmas tunes composed especially for the TV special by Johnny Marks, writer of the show's theme and title tune. His original "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" composition has become one of America's favorite Yuletide story-songs, and has sold over 40.000,-000 recordings since its origination in 1949. The TV story of the Christmas reindeer whose nose glowed Edith North Pampers Pates Of Distaff Cast Of Series Paul Revere, Raider Will Co-Host Show Paul Revere and Mark Lindsay have been set as co hosts of ABC-TV's new Saturday afternoon entry, "Happening It was announced by executive producer Rosalind Ross. Produced by Dick Clark Productions. The program premieres Jan.

p.m. Both Paul Revere and Mark Lindsay are members of the Paul Revere and the Raiders group. On "Happening '68," however, they will perform as individuals, although their group may be booked as a periodic act. Paul Revere, Mark Lindsay and the Raiders were regulars on ABC-TV's "Where the Action Is." They also have appeared throughout the country on personal appearance tours sponsored by Dick Clark Productions' tours division. Tbey also have guested on several national television programs.

It still isnt officially known whether blondes have more fun, but there's one gal vho could tell you their hair secrets, if she wanted to. She's Edith North, who pampers the pates of the distaff cast of the NBC Television Network's daytime drama series, "Days of Our lives," in color, Mondays through Fridays, p.m. "It seems that blondes are more favored now on the show," says the woman who has put curlers in more than 1,000 heads on the program. "But that wasn't always the case. I've been on the show for two years, and at one time brunettes were more plentiful" Combing a wig mounted on a post.

Miss North recalled that she's been teasing tresses on the show ever since Macdonald Carey and Frances Rcid (Dr. Tom Horton and Alice Horton) got themselves involved in so many, crises. Trying to add up the number of blondes versus brunettes (she couldn't recall a true redhead on the show) Miss North has worked with the hairdresser said she couldn't be sure. Most of the women's hairdos remain constant on the show, says the NBC hairdresser, but for some there are different styles, depending on their roles. She says that for "Days of Our Lives" she has created some 50 hair styles.

"For example," Miss North continued, "when Regina (Re-gina Gleason, who plays Kitty) first Joined the cast she was supposed to be a swinger. Then, when she became one of the Hortons, I had to put her hair up in a more refined way. "Susan Flannery (she's Laura) has two hair styles, one as the doctor and another when she goes out on dates in the script In any case the producers tell m- which style they want" Miss North recalled the time one of the actresses rained tears because she had to wear a wig. "Se finally wore it, but during the actual taping she pulled the covers over her head to hide It." ADVENTURE IS MOROCCO-Paul Bryan (Ben Gazzara) encounters bruising opposition when he attempts to help an American beauty (Katherine Crawford) leave Morocco with a priceless necklace after she divorces lier wealthy Moroccan husband, in "The Mustafa Embrace" on NBC Television Network's colorcast -of for Your Dec ft, 9-10 p.m. FACE SUOWTOUt JUONGY1EW MOKMNG JOUJKNAl, DECEMBEft 1967.

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