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The Oshkosh Northwestern from Oshkosh, Wisconsin • Page 9

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Jan. 26; 1954 OsMcosh Daily 9 Father Is WNAM-TV to Make Officia WNAM-TV Listings Convicted In Aquatot Death Premier Bow at Tonight's NGBATULATiON MIAMI, Fla. (UP)-Russell Ton. gay attorney today planned an appeal from the 10-year prison sentence Tongay received in con nection with the death of his swim ming star daughter. The 36-year-old ex-Coast Guards' to Station man was found guilty of man.

slaughter Monday. He was con victed of making his 5-year-old WEDNESDAY Weather Sporti News Western Kldn Show 7 :30 From Hollywood 7 Adventure National Asm. Ut. Hollywood Wrestling SO Feature Film THURSDAY Weather Sports News Western Kid Show Abbott Coutello My Hero Amos Andy Disc Musicals 8:00 Feature Film FRIDAY Weather Sports News Terry at the Pirates To Be Announced Regal Theater Disc Musicals Feature Film SATURDAY Weather Sports News 6 :30 Western 7 :00 Disc Musicals 8:00 SO Feature Film SUNDAY This Is the Life 6 :45 The Christophers CBS Weekly News Feature Film Feature Film daughter, Kathy, perform a high- tower dive last May 6 which al legedly, caused her death. LT1 Kathy and her 9-year-old brother, lAjrxn Bubba, gained international fame as the "Aquatots" with their swim, ming feats which included long dis.

tance jaunts in the Mississippi Riv er, Free on $5,000 Bond Tongay, was freed on $5,000 bond after several hours in jail and im mediately went into seclusion. His -A i i is 3 YCV I 1 AS slender blonde wife refused to see anyone today and the couple did not answer telephone calls at their the slogan "More in '54" is surely in keeping with the formal opening of your TV station It means more TELEVISION entertainment in '54. home here. New Twin City Station Will Hold Dedication Program "WNAM-TV, Channel 42, at Neenah goes on the air tonight adding another station to the fast-growing Fty Valley communications family. At 7:30 o'clock tonight, WNAM-TV will begin regular telecasting with a special dedication program.

City, state and national government officials, and noted musicians for Neenah and Menasha are scheduled to appear on the program. Premier television showings of local events and a full-length motion picture will complete the banner "first" program. Composer and pianist, James Mink of Lawrence College Conservatory of Music will perform concert selections. Popular music will be provided by two Twin Cities organizations. Lamar Foth and his Templeaires Orchestra will be followed by the Winnebago White-caps, a barber shop quartet, composed of John Harris, Jack Bylow, Ned Galloway and Bill Dunwiddie.

They will harmonize on such tunes Gay" and "I See the Moon." Dunn To Offer Comedy Greg Dunn, familiar to listeners for his "Early Morn" record program over WNAM-Radio, will present an original comedy performance, and the entire show will be announced by Ted Moore, program director and WNAM sports director. -Speakers will include State Sen. William Draheim and Mayor Carl Loehning, both of Neenah. Menasha will be represented by May-op John Scanlon; and both cities wU have a spokesman in George Cameron, president of the Twin-CJty Chamber of Commerce. Don It took the six-man circuit court jury, which included five fathers, testine and complications "was most likely due to some other trauma (blow) than from a dive a kick, an auto accident or falling against a chair." only 52 minutes to return a guilty verdict and Judge Ben Willard fixed Tongay's sentence at 10 years Tongay, a former swimming in at hard labor.

The sentence failed to shake Ton-gay's stoic calm. But Mrs. Tongay, structor, once sought permission to have Kathy and Bubba swim the English Channel but a turned down after a storm of protest. who appeared as chief defense witness, wept. Defense Attorney Louis Jepeway described the verdict "as a shock everyone was surprised." He indi PAY FOR YOUR cated he would appeal the sen.

tence and was granted four days in INSIDE WNAM-TV Television viewers will see a man at home which to ready an appeal. Natural to Dive before a curtained picture window, a cold bottle comfortably at hand. Mrs. Tongay, who took the stand Monday before the case went to In the WNAM-TV studio, the picture is complicated by the cameras, lights and personnel which make the telecast possible. The curtain background is one of several props to be used by WNAM-TV for added interest In telecasts which begin regularly tonight.

the jury, testified "It was as nat SET WITH AN ural for Kathy to dive as for anoth. "IASY CREDIT" er child to walk around a pool. I knew everything the children were doing. I was very happy and OSHKOSH latest weather conditions in Wis ONAL I NATIONAL Channel 48 consin and the nation. Ten minutes 'BANK WAY' proud." Prosecution witnesses, including of latest sports news by Ted Moore, known for his play-by-play broadcasts of Twin City high expert swimming instructors, had testified, however, that the blonde ald Morriessey, vice president of the Appleton Chamber of Com school games, is followed by Rob little girl never hit the water cor LOAN LOW INTEREST RATES! OSHKOSH NATIONAL BANK "Your Home-Owned Bonk" rectly while diving from the high merce, will speak in behalf of that organization and of Appleton's ert Lee and 15 minutes of news at 6:15 p.m.

Wednesday's television fare will tower. OSHKOSH, WIS. Mayor Roemer. Other leaders of Dr. Robert Poppiti of Miami told the court that the type of injury state and national importance are include a number of outstanding films and a feature film series will be shown at 9 p.m.

nightly. Kathy Suffered an autopsy disclosed she died of a ruptured in- expected to add to the roster of speakers. S. N. Pickard, president of Nee-nah-Menasha Broadcasting Company, will greet the station's first television audience as will Don C.

Wirth, vice president and general manager of WNAM radio and television. To Show Marathon Film Dedication ceremonies will be followed for TV viewers by a premiere of the film showing the 1953 Winnebago Outboard Motor Marathon. Climaxing the dedication night will be a full length motion picture starring Paul Henreid and Lizabeth Scott. Viewers will see these outstanding Hollywood stars in "Stolen Face" which was released in 1952. WNAM-TV will go on the air with regularly scheduled programs at 6 p.m.

Wednesday, beginning its regular broadcast day with a look at Boy Guarding Too Closely In Game Is Killed DETROIT (UP) A 12-year-old boy. was stabbed to death Monday nrght by a classmate who objected to the way the victim was guard 1 ll I i ing him dunng an intramural basketball game. The 1 i James Horton, 7 A grabbed a hunting knife from a companion and threw it at his flee Too Many Mouths Come to His Table ing assailant as he lay bleeding to death on the ground near Chaney School. -The Horton boy, with a gaping knife wound in his abdomen, was dead on arrival at Receiving Hos pital. Police said his slayer, another 12-year-old whose name was withheld because he is a Juvemle, admitted the knife attack.

"I stuck him and ran," police CLEVELAND UP! A restaurant owner seeking a divorce testified that within three months after his marriage to a widow she had moved five of her children and three other relatives into their home. Josef Kindler, 59, said Monday his troubles began in 1952 on the day he was introduced to Mrs. Mary A. Green, 50. She started living at his house immediately, he said, and 10 days later they were married.

Common Pleas Judge Frank J. Merrick adjourned the trial until Feb. 8. Mrs. Kindler is contesting the action.

quoted the knife-wielder. The attack was the latest in a recent series of juvenile rowdyism which led to a ban on night bas ketball games between public high schools in Detroit. The ban was ordered by School Supt. Arthur Dondineau after the near-fatal ice pick stabbing of MacKenzie High School's star center, Ross De Bos- key. 18.

after a night game on it "Look Ma No Brakes AH 1 I i CHANNEL 42 Jan. IS. Boskey's attack was followed last week by two flare-ups of teenage gang wars, one after a parochial school basketball game and the other after an intramural game at an intermediate school. STURGEON BAY, Wis. U.P.) When Frank Brauer discovered the brakes on his auto weren't working properly he drove into the nearest service station right through the front door.

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE By Shepard Barclay The Authority on Authorities" mm an J3L PIP II ISP i BiiiiiJJ JlSktla inw7raFn GOOD BID GONE WRONG WHETHER or not a articular bid was a good one is rot determinable from what happens to the ultimate contract If you are going to appraise the merits of your partner's calling from how things work out, you are off the team, out of bounds, haywire and number of other slangy things, frequently a certain bid Is the roundest possible action, which most of the time would pay a profit. If it happens to turn out Unfortunately, the maker of it hould be consoled by his partner because the bid went wrong, not berated for bad Judgment. 4 None 1 AQ2 A04 TY 3 tricks, eleven. That gave all of those East-West pairs 650 points, made up of 150 for tricks and the 500 duplicate bonus for bidding and making a game. North at this table, playing for S-Clubs doubled, was set four tricks when he lost two tricks each in the red suits and two in clubs.

Taking those six tricks enabled the defense to get 700 points It therefore gave these defenders a clear East-West top score and the North-South pair a cold bottom score. South, when he saw the un-happy outcome on the score sheet, mildly questioned his partner'! acumen in making the 5-Clubs call. North didn't get a chance to plead for himself, as a respected kibitzer took over the conversation and pointed out that, if South had held even the of either red suit or the club or if either red had been in the West, or etc. the sacrifice would have paid. Tomorrow's Problem 108 4 2 VQ8765 4 None i i I I 111 ik KJ 10 8543 ni 4 A 7 5 4 KJ954 4 10 8 6 2 41093 AQ82 Jf, None WE o'Clock- AQ93 10 8 7 3 7652 97 (Dealer: South.

East-West vul WNAM-TV Channel 42 WNAM-Radio 1280 on Your Dial nerable. South West A964 4763 North 4 5 East Pass 9 AKJ9 32 AQ10 Pass Dbl. Pass I Pass Pa8i I Pass 10 4 543 J8752 KQ10 AKQJ5 COMPANY BROADCASTING The big surprise of this deal, to veteran tournament, kibitzer, not that North made the sacrifice bid, but that he -waj the only one in the big dupli-'cate event who played in that -contract doubled. Every other table produced a contract in spades, at either the four or the "five level, and all of the declarers took the same number of None OKJ98762 3 (Dealer- South. East-West vulnerable.) What is the best way for South to play after the heart 10 lead if he is fortunate enough to be in 5-Spades redoubled? Feature Si'nJicata Radio and Television Park I Distributed ty Kins.

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