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Christmas Television Specials
For those who want to watch television on Christmas Day, KTBC-TV (Channel 7) plans to telecast several special shows. A celebration of the Choral Eucharist in Washington Na- tional Cathedral, preceded by a Prelude of Lessons and Car- ols, will be shown from 10 to 11 a.m. Sunday.
The choir of the College of William and Mary will present a program of carols entitled "Songs of Christmas," at 2:30 p.m. The choir will be directed by Dr. Carl A. Fehr, formerly director of music in Austin High School and the brother of Austin architect Arthur Fehr.
ABC's critically acclaimed special, "Christ is Born," filmed in the Holy Land and in Rome, will be broadcast from 3 to 4 p.m.
At 9 p.m. CBS will present Berlioz' oratorio-trilogy, "L 'Enfance du Christ" featur- ing the combined talents of Metropolitan Opera stars and the John Butler Dance Theater.
Campus Concert
Dr. Carl A. Fehr, director of the College of William and Mary Choir from Williamsburg, Va., gives a pointer to one of his stu- dent choristers while taping "Songs of Christmas" on the school's quaint campus. Dr. Fehr, onetime music director at the Austin High School, is the broth- er of Austin architect Arthur Fehr. The show, a Christmas feature on 14 TV stations around the country ,will be on Channel 7 Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
Program note for all of Dr. Carl Fehr's former music students: Fehr's much applauded William & Mary College choir will be on Channel 7 Christ- mas Day from 2:30-3 p.m. Twenty years ago Fehr taught music at University Junior High...
Handwritten below articles: Pappy was especially proud that our television tape was shown in his home state of Texas.
Cacti's Comments
ON CHRISTMAS GIFT: In lieu of unlimited fin- ance and being an impos- sibly late shopper, I would like to take this opportunity to WISH the following per- sons the accompanying Christmas presents:
To Mayor Lester Palmer a 6-day week calendar (and one city power pole).
To Congressman Jake Pickle a new automobile. I think our Washington rep- resentative deserves more than steam for a propellant.
To Council- woman Em- ma Long a water pistol. And to Coun- cilman Louis Shanks a tow- el...or vice versa.
To Ezra Rachlim a break- proof baton...and a full house.
To Packer Jack a jacket upon which is embroidered the words, "I Am Not a Protester, I Just Dig Beards."
To Charlie Green a free shampoo by Vance Mur- phy's barber.
To Senator Ralph Yar- borough a recording of "I Love a Parade" sung in Spanish by Governor John Connally.
To Waggoner Carr a voo- doo doll likeness of Senator John Tower and a 6-year supply of pins.
To H.C. Pittman Homer Leonard's private joke file.
To Homer Leonard H. C. Pittman's private joke file.
To Madalyn Murray O'Hair a statue of Mildred Wicks that glows in the dark.
To Chief Bob Miles a free evening at the Mardi Gras Club.
To Darrell Royal a fum- ble-proof football.
To Texas A&M a book of [rest of article covered]
with opera star Georgio Tozzi and dancer Carmen De Lavallade. At 10 the Christmas Day service from the Episcopal Cathe- dral in Washington. From 1 to 1:30 the Highland Lakes Tourist Association will present a beautiful color film titled LBJ Coun- try, and from 4 to 5 there will be a replay of the NBC color special The Hill Coun- try: Lyndon Johnson's Texas with Ray Scherer. From 2 to 2:30 KTBC-TV will present Christmas Lost and Found.
From 2:30 to 3 the Wil- liam and Mary University Choir will be presented in a program of Christmas music. This choir is directed by Dr. Carl Fehr, formerly of Austin and now Director of Music of the university.
From 3 to 4 today Chan- nel 7 will offer Christ Is Born, a re-creation of the Nativity story. Ed Sulli- van's Christmas treat to- night will be the Krone Circus in Munich, Ger- many.
KTBC-TV will carry the North-South Game from 3 to 6 tomorrow. Darrell Royal is coaching the South team.
The Cotton Bowl contest will be seen on Channel 7 next Saturday beginning at 1:15. SMU versus Geor- gia.
Both KTBC Radio and KTBC-FM will be present- ing special Christmas pro- grams throughout the day today.
Don Masters, a former KTBC'er, is now a major in the United States Army In- formation Office in Viet Nam. But once a broadcas- ter always a broadcaster. He is now providing Radio 59 with some of the most factual and dramatic re- porting of that war we have ever heard. The taped re- ports are presented on Ra- dio 59's Evening Report. One of the broadcasts in- cludes an actual descrip- tion of a VC grenade lan- ding by Masters' feet. He escaped injury, but a couple of words had to be edited out of the tape.
