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Independent from Long Beach, California • 121

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Independenti
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Long Beach, California
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121
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cents a throw, thats a lot of JhW. TVJ.ofoies loot might go up to M0r We get $170,000 for our 000. MIAMI NE TRANSMISSION SPECIALS Youre Jackic Glcason Fan, It Is Already i FREE ESTIMATES 1MM-MU oa WMT eUAIAHTEE jJZU. rJZLu. Adfmted Rebuilt 636l TRANSMISSION SPECIAL FORDS, CHEVS.

POWER-GLIDE f50 to 57 Overbad. S7C Parts and labor, complete 9. SPECIAU TRANSMISSION mV SEALED we' are the first, we ere. getting aU the breaks. Theyve spent $250,000 to fix up the municipal, auditorium for us and they've given us the old Chamber of Commerce, building for offices.

"What can you do In New York far the winter except ski 'and 1 dont ski. Here can' get'some fresh air between shows and play a little But my thinking goes deeper than that: 1 once wanted to build a television city in Phoenix and I got talked out of it Miami has the same feel." RETURNING: to: business, Gleason thought Pay TV might sometimes be free TV. "For example, he said, a sponsor could give away tokens with every purchase of his product entitling the buyer to see a Pay TV He disclosed that his own organization is already fog up lecturers, some of them on fairly recondite sub- Jects such as bird migration. "Wegetan audience of more than 40 million for -tar new show over the. CBS work, he said.

"Now for Pay 4TV there might be only pedple in the whole country who want to hear about bird migration. But at 50 docs SETTING Nights MAKE YOU FEEL OLD Aftor xid UMc n-wmmraikim Dm tom fraqimt whim balk to to Blahi. iwid Willi BO Im Mm. and Htf Irm Htotok toito to MALilnd, totiwt I nek irrtteUoa. OTVTn anally Man teat, relulns Maifort by mrbin.

taritailnc mi I. atrena, add to ato by ala la Mia relief. Oct OmSX at dmciatar Feet toUa wcnnima h190 coMfun FREE Mb. of FREON Air CrOMaw $795 Nr (My B. AUTOMOTIVE 3619 Atlantic, Long Beach Tt Shorn That Tel at Pride 424-Mtl FIEI LOAN CARS TOWING NNANCING lANEAMEEICAED Designed with small budgets in mind Cool, breezy patio fin Summer, warm, cozy Family, Room in Winter.

Insulated roof. To match your home. Your choice off louver or sliding glass windows. At a price any working man canaffford. Factory to You! FREE ESTIMATES CAU GE 8-6021 MIA1 ft (UPI) Jackie Gleason believes the United States will need at least three television capitals to fill the needs of free and Pay TV and he is making what amounts to a multi-million dollar bet on Miami.

The way I see it, Hollywood and New York wont be able fodo' iraH-'said the 1 corpulentcomfc.He came to tills Florida city from New York on a 12-car special train with some 75 of the artists and technicians who JACKIE GLEASON I put together the Jackie Gleason show, American Scene Magazine. "We may be the first to set iip shop here for whole season but we wont be the last Perry Como said the other day. that he waa Interested in doing the same thing. Ted Mack, Arthur Godfrey and Ed Sullivan are all waiting to see how It works out for us. GLEASON, who has ward-.

robes in three sizes to accommodate his fluctuations in weight, was at his most pneumatic -in a lavender sweater that could have comfortably covered a Navy blimp. "Til knock some of this off playing golf at the Dorsl Country -Club, he laid. "Theyve got a course they call The Blue Monster and I to, solve it before we begin-our39weekly-shows j-In From days of Charlie Chaplin, the funny men of the entertainment world have surprisingly been among Its shrewdest businessmen and Gleason has calculatedthe mpve from the familiar surroundings of New York to Miami with hit mind on gold rather than gags. IN CALIFORNIA, we would be just another show, he said. "Down here, because HEARING AID REPAIRS YOU WAIT.

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Years Available:
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