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i THE GAZETTE, MONDAY, JULY 16, 1965 'Hello Up There Connors Speaks TVRadio yd ll s' 4 il iJ -s 1 Cowboy Is Symbol Of Virility Northern Messages Sent Daily ByCBC sis showed that the mass audience was lukewarm. Result: Arrest and Trial was cancelled. Ten months later, Branded was in the top 10 of the Nielsen ratings. Arrest and Trial concerned itself with stories about other people. Ben Gazzara and I were the per ipheral characters.

HOLLYWOOD CD When the first rumors leaked out last May that I was about to begin a new half-hour western called Branded, and in mid-season to boot (nor and friends. He appealed to the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission, foreunner of the CBC, which liked his idea and established a regular service of mally the kiss of death for TV! shortwave broadcasts to the North during the winter months mm The program serves people in communities that cannot be shows), most of my friends in show business said: "Chuck, don't do it. You changed your! image in Arrest and Trial. Don't! change it back to a you've gotten by that hurdle." My reaction was to pick up the; nearest pen and sign the Branded contract. The reason? After five! years of Rifleman and one of: Arrest and Trial, I felt I was in.

"Hope you are all keeping in the best of health. I still get homesick for the North. But 1 am doing very well in my studies. Love Jenny." That message was from a young girl attending school in Calgary to her family in Akla-vik in the Northwest Territories and was broadcast by shortwave on the CBC radio program Northern Messenger, 10 years ago. Aklavik is a small settlement in the Mackenzie Delta, where the inhabitants live by trapping.

It is 50 miles from the Arctic Ocean and 1,400 miles from Calgary. Northern Messenger was the link between Jenny and reached during the spring break aVW i up and the fall freeze-up; the crews of government, Hudson's Bay Company and other ships carrying supplies into the North during the summer navigation I I f-1 '7' 1 A Mi season; Mounties, missionaries tne best position to decide what image I wanted, and I'll take the cowboy every time. Besides being the only true symbol of American male viril scientists, civil servants, and others living in isolated com CONFESSIONS OF AN AGE a new series of talks by Dr. Samuel Howard Miller, Dean of the Harvard Divinity School, on The Learning Stage tonight at 10.30 munities in the High Arctic ity, the cowboy is dear to the without regular mail deliveries nearts of Uie mass American public. And I care a darn sight Most of tne messages are personal, concerning family matters, sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic.

A govern more for the public approval than I do for the approval of the arty sophisticates of my own profession. I remember when the Brand ment agent in Fort Smith was notified through Northern Mes senger of the serious illness of her family during the long Arctic darkness. This year Northern Messenger, previously heard only during the winter, has become a year-round program, beaming greetings and information during spring, summer and aulumn as well. It is broadcast from Monday to Friday from 9: 15 to 9:30 p.m. EDT on shortwave by the CBC Northern Service.

Northern Messenger is the CBC's oldest continuous program. Since it was started some 33' years ago, thousands of his father in Cornwall, Ont. He ed project became public, I was almost trapped into believing flew immediately to Edmonton, Arrest and Trial was very large from where he took a train and reached home in time to see his for me. Lots of show-business Cosby, who star as a pair of undercover American intelligence agents, will have many other sights to take in since exterior scenes for the series will be filmed at various global locales including Japan and Mexico. HONG KONG: SIGHTSEEING: Robert Culp, left, and Bill Cosby relax in rickshaws to take in the sights of Hong Kong, after filming scenes for NBC-TV's I Spy, a new adventure-comedy series to be colorcast Wednesday at 10 p.m.

in the 1965-66 season. Culp and people liked it. However, analy father before he died. Messages can De oi any reasonable length and will be broadcast in the language in which they are written. They Monsters Can Be Funny Creatures messages like Jenny's have been sent from men, women and children 'outside' to their families and friends at isolated points in the North.

The program was started at the suggestion of the commander of a British naval expedition based at Nain on the Labrador Coast. The commander thought his men would be cheered by radio messages from families that was to make him fallible more so than the average person. Hence, there are times should be addressed to: Northern Messenger, CBC Northern Service, Box 6,000, Montreal, P.Q. The messages are transmitted on the following shortwave frequencies: 15320 kcs. (19.58 meters) 11720 kcs.

(25.60 meters) 9625 kcs. (31.17 meters) By FRED GWYNNE (Of The Monsters) HOLLYWOOD (AP) I when Herman is the perfect caricature of the clumsy oaf. as suppose there are many reasons likely to fall over a chair as to why The Munsters became a ALL SHOOK UP? If you're really getting rattled by the jarring modern trend to TALK, it's time you switched to 1470 on your' dial. You're sure to start relaxing almost instantly as you sit back and listen to our "MORE MUSIC" policy. Discover the big difference by tuning in today.

hit, but I think the principal reason is that we were success ful in our attempt to depict a monster as funny instead of walk past it. But beneath that horrendous exterior beats a second-hand heart of purest gold. Our Herman emerges as just about the nicest person you could imag Contact lens Eyes examined ine, a gentle, childlike charac ter, a loving husband and father, and righteous to the point of being downright square This, I think, is the source of much of Herman's appeal. L. A.

Betournay, O.D. S. R. Crone, O.D. H.

Eisner, O.D. OPTOMETRISTS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT Ottawa, Ontario TENDERS Sealed tenders, addressed to The Secretary, Room 108, Hunter Building, Ottawa, Ontario, will be received up to 3 p.m. (E.D.S.T.), August 10, 1965, for construction of a new concrete runway 12-30 and associated taxiways at Montreal International Airport, Dorval, Quebec. Plans, specifications and other tender documents may be examined at the Office of the Regional Purchasing Agent, Department of Transport, Room 162. Administration Montreal International Airport, Dorval, P.Q.

and copies obtained on deposit of a certified cheque for $30.00 for each set, payable to The Receiver General of Canada. Plans and specifications will also be on display at the Builders' Exchanges in Montreal, P.Q., and Toronto, Ont. J. A. G.

SAINT-LAURENT, Chief Purchases, Contracts and Stores. Another appealing aspect of the show is The Munsters close family relationship. However grim their surroundings, Her frightening, and good-natured as well as grotesque. This concept the idea of making a bumbling fall guy out of a monster was the brain child of Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, producers and writers of The Munsters TV series. Connelly and Mosher established the premise that this would be off-beat comedy, something that would make the kids laugh rather than give them nightmares, and still have something to offer adults.

Then they left it largely to me to decide just how we would characterize our thinly disguised Frankenstein monster. This was no easy task, because we were dealing with an historic and readily identifiable movie figure, and we still had to givej it our own distinctive touch. I We had to humanize our monster. The best way to do man's morbidly lovely wife Lily, Dracula-like old grandpa, son Eddie and Marily live together with Herman in an atmosphere of affection and respect. Versatile Guy Larry Hovis was a singer, light-club comic and writer in MONTREAL J.puston,Texas, before he was 7th floor 842-3241, Local 452 uosen lor me roie oi in omer Pyle USMC.

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