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ALEXANDRIA DAILY TOWN TALK ALEXANDRIA-PI NEVILLE. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1971 SECTION PAGE SIX 2d Pick of the Programs It's Time to Take the 5th NEW ACTORS' CONTRACT HOLLYWOOD (UPI)-Mem-bers of the Screen Actors Guild have ratified a new three-year contract, calling for pay increases of 15 per cent, by a margin of nearly three to one, it was announced Monday. The vote was 5,580 to 2,006, said John L. Dales, executive Lf AWMVMVMttMil 1 secretary ot tne ouua. 5 i mmimmimmmm IP il him with a recent widow in New Life, an experiment in communal living.

The group's leading lecher wants the widow (Vera Miles) and his two aides can't wait to "marry" Vera's daughter (Sue Lyon). The question is, can The Virginian rescue her before she is well, you know. REPEAT. (ABC) "The 5th Dimension Traveling Sunshine Show" -(tonight's Best Bet). 8-9 (NBC) Comedian Charlie Callas has his last guest shot on "The Des O'Connor Show." Connie Stevens is on hand, as usual, and British comedians Joe Baker and Johnny Vyvyan yuk it up.

Des does "Autumn Leaves," and Connie offers, "Someone Who Cares." 8-9 (CBS) "Medical Center" focuses on Geoffrey Duel (Pete Duel's younger brother) as a young Indian caught between the old ways and his yearning to become a doctor. It's another serious attempt to present the problems of the Indian, although you may feel that an educated man like the head of a special training program at the hospital, would be less prejudiced. Edward Franz plays Duel's seriously ill grandfather. REPEAT. BEST BET 'The 5th Dimension Traveling Sunshine Show" has the versatile, talented Fifth in a make-believe medicine wagon, traveling the country and stopping to sing at the drop of a wagon wheel.

Guests include Dionne War-wicke, the Carpenters and Merle Haggard. Various members of the Fifth get to display their talents: Marilyn McCoo with "Love's Lines, Angles and Rhymes," Florence Larue Gordon with "Joy to the World" (she also dances this) and Ron Townson singing the Prologue from Pagliacci. In a high spot, the two girls, joined by Dionne, do "I'm a Lady." (ABC). (CBS) A Martinez, who plays Roberto, the seldom seen law clerk on Men at Law, is in the spotlight tonight when, on a friend's request, he tries to locate a Mexican migrant worker and winds up charged with felonious assault. This is a sincere effort to examine the horrendous conditions under which so many migrants exist.

Wil liam Conrad plays the head of a farm which employs these men and where the "assault" took place. REPEAT (NBC) James Drury is tonight's star of "The Men From Shiloh" which involves Country Music Corner The 5th Dimension sings up a storm on their special, "The 5th Dimension Traveling Sunshine Show," New Shows Are for, tonight over the ABC television. Not About, Children The new pact, retroactive to July 1, covers theatrical and television motion pictures and payments for television reruns. Although clarification may be sought, Dales said the Guild believes the pay increases will not be affected by President Nixon's wage price control freeze because of the effective date. ONLY ONE MAKES THE OTHERS PERFECT! See what a difference RCA's 100 Solid State Accu-Color makes.

See it in Action at your I RCA DEALER! i 20 Barbara Mandrell Started Out Young 'III' 1.1 16 months of research, planning and work, is Take a Giant Step, the show is geared to the 7 to 14 age group and in its Saturday morning slot, its potential viewing audience is estimated at 15-million children. Heineman wants to make children "reach" on this show by expanding their minds. No Formal Teaching But there will be no formal teaching on the show. The em phasis is two-fold: entertain ment and education, in that or der. "We want to do programs for children, not about them," he said.

"Which means we want to find out what they find inter esting, not what we think they will find interesting. This show is for kids and involves them, Its aim is to give them life ex periences and to help them learn how to make value judg ments: 'What is right and what is 'What is 'What are my It is in the area of teaching children to make value judgments, according to Heineman, that the American educational system is lacking. He hopes Take a Giant Step will act as a springboard for some changes in the system. He's using a pool of 25 nonprofessional children (aged 13-15) to host the shows in groups of three. They are responsible for all the content.

Allan Ducovny is CBS-TV's Children's Programming vice president. He, too, sees his area as a mix between entertainment and education. And the accent, once again, is on entertainment. The emphasis makes sense? "If you can't get children to watch your show in the first place," Ducovny points out, By Nancy Shipley NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -Petite, vivacious Barbara Mandrell has spent half of her 22 years in country music.

She sings, plays the steel guitar, bass, banjo, sax and guitar. Her unusual talent for a femaleof playing the steel guitar began in her 11th year. She learned under the guidance of Norman Hamlet, now steel player for Merle Haggard. Before reaching the age of 12, Miss Mandrell made her professional debut with the Joe Maphis Show in Las Vegas at the Showboat Hotel. She also signed as a regular on the "Town Hall Party" television show originating from California.

The little entertainer was included on a Johnny Cash tour when she was 12 and continued working often in Las Vegas be By Joyce Gabriel (Last of two articles.) NEW YORK In the last two years, the networks have become increasingly aware of the importance of children's programs and, accordingly each network has appointed a vice president in charge of the area. In a general sense, the three vice presidents have the same job: to create quality programming for network presen tation, thus easing public pres sure on broadcasters to provide more than cliche cartoons for the small fry's entertainment. George Heineman is the Chil dren's Programming vice president at NBC-TV. His experience on a network level goes back to 1952 when he produced the ac claimed Ding Dong School show, Miss Frances presiding. Heineman describes himself as a broadcaster.

But as a broadcaster of children's pro grams, he needs a certain expertise in education and psy chology, as well as in broadcasting, to produce shows that will educate, entertain and that all-important term in network television SELL. His major opus, the result of (ABC) 'The Immortal's" foe of the week (aside from his usual set of enemies), is a beautiful woman, played by Lee Meriwether. Naturally Chris George is captured, and she, of course, is his captor. Is that so bad? REPEAT. 9-10 (NBC) "Four-In-One: McCloud" deals with the wild time which occurs when the rodeo comes to New York.

(Yup, you'll see the new Madison Square Garden here.) Seems two cowboys are bitter rivals, with prizes and women the points of contention. When one is murdered, the other is the suspect. A complication for hero Dennis Weaver: the suspect's wife is a woman he once loved. Burr De Benning, Joanna Moore, Nancy Malone and Albert Salmi are involved in this good, atmospheric story. REPEAT 9-10 (CBS) "Hawaii Five-O" begins a two-parter about a Red plan to undermine the U.S.

via counterfeit money. It's up to our stalwarts to locate a pair of absolutely perfect plates which will print the money. There are Red Chinese, Russians and a lady spy whose services go to the highest bidder in this action-packed show. PART ONE REPEAT tired from the music business after her second tour of the Orient in 1967. Dudney, who was in the Navy, was transferred to Europe and Miss Mandrell's family moved to Dyersburg, from Califonia.

She joined her family in the west Tennessee town. Nashville was only a step away, and she took it. TONIGHT WEST SCREEN Open 7:15 pm He blew the Desert FoxtoHell! shard Burton C3aidan CP A UNIVERSAL PICTURE TECHNICOLOR C2 CO-FEATURE RATED BUT MAY BE TOO INTENSE FOR YOUNGER CHILDREN. PRODUCTION 'DROKDA STRAEI A UNIVERSAL PICTURE TECHNICOLOR PANAWSWT TONIGHT EAST SCREEN Open 7:15 pm FIVE EASY PIECES PLUS THE VIRGIN SOLDIERS Reader Writes a Tribute To Miss Black America BRIERPATCH RESTAURANT Greenbrier Motel BUSINESSMAN'S SPECIAL (and for you ladies, too!) Spaghetti and Meat Balls or Chicken Shrimp Creole Italian Po Boy all with our special vegetables and potato "Fine Food In An Atmosphere of Pleasure" Come eat with us you will be glad fore signing as a performer with the Five Star (Ozark) Jubilee in Springfield, Mo. Miss Mandrell toured South Vietnam twice at an age when she was younger than the youngest soldier in Southeast Asia.

And the troops loved her. Her shows were scheduled to last one hour, but repeatedly stretched1 out to two hours or more. One afternoon, with the temperature hitting 120 in a building with only two fans, the show lasted six hours and! 45 minutes. She said there were soldiers everywhere on the floor, in the aisles, along the walls, sitting on the laps of others and fighting for a chance to see through the windows from outside. At the age of 16, Miss Mandrell maried Ken Dudney, who had been her drummer, and re- feminist, Crowned, with the beauty of young blackness, Glowing in Her face, as it sprays itself on the fragrance of the "Garden," A spicy odour that flavors every glancing eye, with for lasting taste, Budded on the tongues of everyone Who is here tonight, to witness her face, A lasting rose, one dignitary did say One that lives an entire summer each and every day, Never allowing its rozyness to fade away, How many more a black feminist, did God make, That has her eyes, to look this way, as is the Lilies of the fields, that doth to nature what she wills A first in every way, Black America! And if there be, it so like, a complete today, a tomorrow, that is as the present now, This black queen will reign for twenty-four hours around.

'NOW: JOHN WAYNE "BIC JAKE" Rated Color Shows at Opens 1:15 p.m. Si! To help them discover, Jones prepares animated' films on a variety of topics. One film, done by George Pal, is an animated ballet of tools they have a battle with the blow torch as the bully who is stopped when a tack punctures him and his fluid drains out. Jones, in a speech made earlier this year, summed up his programming philosophy: "The best way to serve chil dren is not to 'love children' but to love what we do. We owe nothing less to our children than our very best, the absolute max.

imum of our ability to provide exciting, stimulating, interesting entertainment not with the children mind, but with our own work in mind." Children's programming is still in the experimental stage. And the men who devise the programming are in the position of the turtle featured on a poster in George Heineman's office: To get ahead, they have to stick their necks out. HELPING HOBO NIMES, France (UPI)-The temperature was 97 degrees and parish priest Rene Vautant could not refuse the hobo a drink of water, so the priest invited him inside his quarters at the church, police said. The clergyman was puzzled, however, at the man's parting words, "God will make it up to you." The priest later discovered 12,000 francs ($2,400) missing from a box where the congregation's donations were kept. A thought for today: Rudyard Kipling said, "Youth had been a habit of hers for so long, that she could not part with it." Chuck Jones of ABC, Allan Ducovny of CBS and George Heineman of NBC (from left) are the vice presidents in charge of children's programming.

Like turtles, they have to stick their necks out. MIGRATION SLOWS SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPI) Fewer Americans moved to California in the past year than during any year since World War the state department of finance reported Tuesday. The net migration into the state during the 12 month period was 26,000 about a tenth of the state's total population increase of 256,000 persons since mid-1970. The increase brought California's population to 20,265,000 still the most heavily populated state in the country.

BRIERPATCH has the 3RD EDITION in town this week! Don't miss this exciting group I BRIERPATCH RESTAURANT Greenbrier Motel "you won't be able to teach them anything." New Series At CBS the far indues a new You Are There series, a Chil-ren's Film Festival and In the News, a series of two and one- half minute news wrap-ups. Chuck Jones, who does the children's programming at ABC, has a different approach from Heineman and Ducovny. Jones programs according to what interests him. Usually, his interests and children's coincide. As one of the pioneer figures in film animation, he originated "The Road Runner," "Wile E.

Coyote" and "Pepe Le Pew" and is co-creator of "Bugs Bunny," "Porky Pig" and "Daffy Duck." Although he is relatively new to the TV game, Jones has produced and directed such TV children's specials as "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and "The Pogo Special Birthday Special." His new children's program for ABC-TV, Curiosity Shop, is not an educational show in the formal sense. "We want to create a question program, not an answer program," Jones said. "A once-a-week program can't do much about educating children, but it can arouse their interest by being entertaining." The set for Curiosity Shop fixes the tone of the show: It is a place full of what Jones calls "interesting trivia" everything from toys and tools to a live seal named Eunice. Figure It Out "The owner of the Curiosity Shop is never there," said Jones, "so the kids on the show have to figure out what things are, for themselves." 7" i mmmmmmm Dial 443-0846 If lj Proudly Presents! Fried or Sauteed Frog Legs with all the trimmings 16-oi. Prime Ribeye Aged Beef.

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A tribute to Miss Black America was paid in prose form by John F. Butler and submitted in a "Letter to the Entertainment Editor" this week. Mr. Butler writes, "After reading about the forthcoming Black America Beauty Pageant, I could not suffer myself in allowing such a majestic evening to be lost from the eye, ear or visual minds of the many pa trons of this great city of Alex andria. It is for this commitable reason that I have sought to render and impress upon the public my poetic talents in their service." Miss Black America Adhere to her, as the symphony refills the emptied with her every traded smile, A 1 a k-a-viced America, drifting, down the aisle, Holding every eye and ear, as she opens her arms to cry, And her tears, as she let each fall, cry themselves, Dripping in the richness of the marble plated wall, Oh, what could be lost from a HUNGAS AWiTGHzoOyearsago, AnquecomesbacktoCoIlirmwxi 'JtycA little 04 Delightful Pets! TAME BABY SKUNKS and RACOONS New Shipment! PET PARADISE Savory 16 oz.

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