A list of the top ten rated television programs from 1965 including their networks and ratings.
OCTOBER, 1965-APRIL, 1966 1. Bonanza NBC 31.8 2. Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. CBS 27.8 Check out this website:
4. The Red Skelton Hour CBS 27.6 You can see what song was #1 on the 5. Batman (Thurs.) ABC 27.0 day you were born. 6. The Andy Griffith Show CBS 26.9 7. Bewitched ABC 25.9 8. The Beverly Hillbillies CBS 25.9 9. Hogan's Heroes CBS 24.9 10. Batman (Wed.) ABC 24.7
News Items from
Junior Hi-Lite Newsletter
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January
3, 1959
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Problem Box
Q. How do we stop 6th
and 7th grade boys from washing girls’ faces with snow?
A. The girls should stop
teasing the boys or making them mad.
Whatever the boys do to the girls, they must have a reason.
A. How old should you be
before you go to the Rec
Center?
B. A The girls should be 13 at the lowest and a
boy should wait till he is 14 or 15 years old.
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What’s Going on
in the Sixth Grade
Room
1 put on their assembly January
9, 1959. It was
the first sixth grade assembly of the new year. It seems “The Mortgage on the Farm” was a
great success. We must give all the
credit to Mrs. Margison. The acters in
the play were;
Mother
– Maureen Bishop
Father
– Robert Brewer
Daughters
– Pat Coates, Sally White
Villian
– Barb Foote
Announcer
– Gerry Grindle
The
skit will be put on for the Daughters of Isabella on Tuesday, January 20th.
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Fashion News
If
you want a new outfit and are wondering what to get, matching outfits are
nice and very practical. Sweaters with
neckerchiefs, one for your ponytail (if you have one) and one around your
neck. Knee lengths to match you
neckerchiefs and a dark shirt are very popular, and also neat looking. Desert boots are a nice choice for shoes
and are very popular. Boys like dark
sweaters with bright designs and dark ski pants. Plaid shirts and pants are also going
strong. The Paul Bunyan caps are
making a great hit with the kids.
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March
30 1959
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Thanksgiving 1959
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Time Spent on Television is Remarkable
By Greg Grant
It
seems since television was invented, nobody has time to do anything. If you ask one of your friends to go to the
ballgame with you, it is always the same story, “I have to watch “Maverick,”
“U.S.
Marshalls,” “77 Sunset Strip,” or “Peter Gunn.” Division 7-1 took a little survry on
television programs. The average was 2
hours on Monday through Friday and 4 hours on Saturday and Sunday watching
television. It seems detective stories
and westerns are the favorites. Edward
Burns the co-star of “77 Sunset Strip” is very popular with girls. Also James Garner the star of “Maverick” is
popular with the girls and boys and even adults. Myself, I think too much time is being
spent on watching television. Some of
this time could be spent on other activities.
To
avoid that “Run Down” feeling, be sure to look both ways before crossing the
street!
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Halloween Social Big Success
By Glenna Pangburn
On
October 30, 1959
we had a Halloween Social! It was from
7:00 to 9:00.
There was dancing, games, and refreshments. There were prizes given out. Trina Hayward won the funniest prize. She had on a vest, slacks, top coat, top hat,
and a cigarette in her mouth. Richard
Delaney won for the best costume. He
had on a plastic bag which was full of balloons. Cindy Rossignol won for the most original
costume. Almost everone had on either
a costume or a mask. There were three
judges who awarded the prizes
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Teacher: “Johnny, what is the meaning of SPACE?”
Johnny: “Well, it’s something where their isn’t
anything. I can’t explain it exactly,
but I have it in my head!”
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Two
octopuses, deeply in love, were walking down the street, hand in hand, hand
in hand, hand in hand, hand in hand, hand in hand, hand in hand, hand in
hand, hand in hand.
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FASHION NEWS
The
girls this year seem to have very good
taste. They have chosen plaids, tweeds
and solid colors; reds, grays, and blues are popular. For small items such as socks and other
things of the sort, they have chosen thick bobby socks, and dark-blue, red,
and black leotards. Dar colored
knee-lengths are also popular.
Fifty-yard petticoats are worn wih full skirts which are very popular,
although straight skirts are coming fast.
White bulky knits and ban-lon cardigans and pullovers are worn quite a
bit with skirts. There are very few
dresses this year. Medallions are a
favorite this year. First name
initials and big name buttons are also popular. For shoes the girls have selected desert
boots in colors of black and light-brown.
Hush-puppies which have been popular since last year are still on
top. Knit tie-ons, scarfs, and
kerchiefs are the choice for head wear.
The
boys fashions are black or blue shoes, also white bucks are coming. They’ve picked chinos and dungarees with
white short shirts and sweater-vest.
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In the old west a .45
cartridge for a six-gun cost 12 cents, so did a glass of whiskey. If a cowhand
was low on cash he would often give the bartender a cartridge in exchange for a
drink. This became known as a "shot" of whiskey.
BUYING THE
FARM
This is
synonymous with dying. During WW1 soldiers were given life insurance policies
worth $5,000. This was about the price of an average farm so if you died you
"bought the farm" for your survivors.
IRON CLAD
CONTRACT
This came about
from the ironclad ships of the Civil War. It meant something so strong it could
not be broken.
RIFF
RAFF
The Mississippi
River was the main way of traveling from north to south. Riverboats carried
passengers and freight but they were expensive so most people used rafts.
Everything had the right of way over rafts which were considered cheap. The
steering oar on the rafts was called a "riff" and this transposed into
riff-raff, meaning low class.
COBWEB
The Old English
word for “spider" was "cob".
SHIP STATE
ROOMS
Traveling by
steamboat was considered the height of comfort. Passenger cabins on the boats
were not numbered. Instead they were named after states. To this day cabins on
ships are called staterooms.
SLEEP
TIGHT
Early beds were made with a wooden frame. Ropes were tied across
the frame in a criss-cross pattern. A straw mattress was then put on top of the
ropes. Over time the ropes stretched, causing the bed to sag. The owner would
then tighten the ropes to get a better night’s sleep.
SHOWBOAT
These were
floating theaters built on a barge that was pushed by a steamboat. These played
small town along the Mississippi River . Unlike the boat shown in the movie
"Showboat" these did not have an engine. They were gaudy and attention grabbing
which is why we say someone who is being the life of the party is
“showboating".
OVER A
BARREL
In the days
before CPR a drowning victim would be placed face down over a barrel and the
barrel would be rolled back and forth in an effort to empty the lungs of water.
It was rarely effective. If you are over a barrel you are in deep
trouble.
BARGE
IN
Heavy freight was
moved along the Mississippi in large barges pushed by steamboats. These were
hard to control and would sometimes swing into piers or other boats. People
would say they "barged in".
HOGWASH
Steamboats
carried both people and animals. Since pigs smelled so bad they would be washed
before being put on board. The mud and other filth that was washed off was
considered useless “hog wash".
CURFEW
The word "curfew"
comes from the French phrase "couvre-feu", which means "cover the fire". It was
used to describe the time of blowing out all lamps and candles. It was later
adopted into Middle English as “curfeu" which later became the modern "curfew".
In the early American colonies homes had no real fireplaces so a fire was built
in the center of the room. In order to make sure a fire did not get out of
control during the night it was required that, by an agreed upon time, all fires
would be covered with a clay pot called-a “curfew".
BARRELS OF
OIL
When the first oil wells were drilled they had made no provision for
storing the liquid so they used water barrels. That is why, to this day, we
speak of barrels of oil rather than gallons.
As the paper goes
through the rotary printing press friction causes it to heat up. Therefore, if
you grab the paper right off the press it’s hot. The expression means to get
immediate information.
There, don't you feel
smarter now?
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If you are under 55,
you simply won't understand.
If they were invented after you were born, you are really old? :)
Insights
The location of your
mailbox shows you how far away from your house you can be in a robe, before you
start looking like a mental patient.
My therapist said that my narcissism
causes me to misread social situations. I'm pretty sure she was hitting on
me.
My 60 year kindergarten reunion is coming up soon and I'm worried
about the 195 lbs. I've gained.
I always wondered what the job
application is like at Hooters..
do they just give you a bra and say, "here
fill this out"..?
The speed in which a woman says "nothing" when asked
"What's wrong?" is inversely proportional to the severity of the shit storm
that's coming.
Denny's has a slogan, 'If it's your birthday, the meal is
on us.' .....If you're in Denny's and it's your birthday... your life
sucks!
If I make you breakfast in bed, a simple "Thank you" is all I
need.....not all this, "how did you get in my house" business!
The
pharmacist asked me my birthday again today....Pretty sure she's going to get me
something.
On average, an American man will have sex two to three times a
week; whereas a Japanese man will have sex only one or two times a year. ...This
is upsetting news to me............ I had no idea I was Japanese.
I can't
understand why women are okay that JC Penny has an older women's clothing line
named, " Sag Harbor ."
I think it's pretty cool how Chinese people made a
language entirely out of tattoos.
What is it about a car that makes
people think we can't see them pick their
nose? ********************************* Mergatroyd! Do you remember that
word? Would you believe the spell-checker did not recognize the word
Mergatroyd? Heavens to Mergatroyd!
The other day
a not so elderly (I say 75) lady said something to her son about driving
a
Jalopy; and he looked
at her quizzically and said, "What the heck is a Jalopy?" He had never heard of
the word jalopy! She knew she was old... but not that old.
Well, I hope
you are
Hunky Dory after you read
this and chuckle.
About a month
ago, I illuminated some old expressions that have become obsolete because of the
inexorable march of technology. These phrases included: Don't touch that dial,
Carbon copy, You sound like a broken record, and Hung out to
dry.
Back in the
olden days we had a lot of moxie . We'd put
on
our best bib and tucker, to straighten up and fly
right.
Heavens to Betsy!
Gee whillikers! Jumping
Jehoshaphat! Holy Moley!
We
were
in like Flynn and living the life of
Riley
;
and even a regular guy couldn't accuse us of being a knucklehead, a
nincompoop or a pill. Not for all the tea in
China!
Back in the
olden days, life used to be swell, but when's the
last time anything was swell? Swell has gone the way
of beehives, pageboys and the D.A.; of spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts,
saddle shoes, and pedal pushers.
Oh, my aching back!
Kilroy was here, but he isn't
anymore. We wake up
from what surely has been just a short nap, and before we can say, "Well, I'll be a
monkey's uncle!" Or, "This is a fine kettle of fish!" We discover
that the words we grew up with, the words that seemed omnipresent, as oxygen,
have vanished with scarcely a notice from our tongues and our pens and our
keyboards.
Poof, go the words of our
youth, the words we've left behind. We blink, and they're gone. Where have all
those great phrases gone? Long gone: Pshaw, The milkman did it.
Hey! It's your nickel. Don't forget to
pull the chain. Knee high to a grasshopper. Well,
Fiddlesticks! Going like
sixty.
I'll see you in the funny papers. Don't take any
wooden nickels. Wake up and smell the roses.
It turns out
there are more of these lost words and expressions than Carter has liver
pills.
This can be disturbing stuff! (Carter's Little Liver
Pills are gone too!)
Leaves us to
wonder where Superman will find a phone booth...
See ya later, alligator!
Okidoki. After
a
while Crocodile!
You'll notice
they left out "Monkey Business"!!!
Thank you to classmate Patrick Chasse for sharing this!
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