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The Greatest American Hero Sneak Previews Enterprise Joker’s Wild Tic Tac Dough Fame Movie: "The Sand piper" Movie: "Rollover" Spy Movie: "Middle- Age Crazy" Movie: "Finan- zamantes” Movie: “Tess” Q o° Oso Gimme A Break Cheers Too Close For Comfort It Takes Two Gimme A Break Cheers Simon & Simon Houston Weekly Simon & Simon Too Close For Comfort It Takes Two Governor's Report Movie: "Little Ladies Of The Night" Gimme A Break Cheers " , " Battle For The Family Movie: "Love Q 00 t/30 Hill Street Blues 20 • 20 Hill Street Blues Knots Landing Mystery "Sergeant Cribb" Knots Landing 20 - 20 The Lawmakers Tony Brown's Journal Hill Street Blues INN News Card Sharks History Of Pro For Rent" Movie: "El Gran Perro Muerto" - 1(f 1 1/30 News Tonight News ABC News Nightline News Tonight News All In The Family Paul Hogan PBS Latenight News Quincy News ABC News Nightline Dick Cavett PBS Latenight Barney Miller Saturday Night News Tonight Benny Hill Rockford Files Football Another Life Movie: “This Deportes DeGala Movie: "Pennies From Heaven" i r 1 ±30 lavid Letterman Mission Impossible Tavid Letterman Quincy Dick Cavett McCloud Bonanza " )ver Easy News " Javid Letterman Charlie’s Angels Movie: ‘Superman 1" ” Burns And Allen ack Jenny Sporting Life" - - 12 00 1 4 30 YBC News Overnight 1BC News Overnight McCloud News fhe Last Nord )uiero !ritar Tu Nombre " NBC News Ivernight NN News ” Married oan My Little Margie " Movie Movie: ‘Lagunilla" Movie: 'The Fan" Typo error gave Oklahoma town its name by United Press International STRINGTOWN, Okla. — A typographical error the U.S. Post Office made more than a century ago stuck, giving this southeast Oklahoma town its present name. The error never was cor rected. The town's fathers, who had appropriately named it Springtown because of the in numerable springs and creeks around it, just accepted the Post Office version. Once a booming sawmill and railroad town, Stringtown today is a collection of rundown homes with only a rock crusher to call an industry. A 1954 fire that started in a bar destroyed a hotel, two banks and two stores. They were never rebuilt. thursday movies MORNING 6:00 CBN ★★ "The Come-On” (1956) Anne Baxter, Sterling Hay den. A woman pits one lover against another and winds up involved in murder. 7:30 CBN ★ ★ Vz "Second Chorus” (1940) Fred Astaire, Paulette God dard. Two trumpet players com pete for a girl and a job with the Artie Shaw Orchestra. 11:00 CBN ★★ "Decameron Nights” (1953) Joan Fontaine, Louis Jour- dan. Based on the story by Boc caccio. An old man's lovely young wife is pursued by a lusty would- be lover. AFTERNOON 3:00© ★★★ "The Courtship Of Eddie’s Father” (1963) Glenn Situated on U.S. 69-75 half way between Dallas and Tulsa, Okla., the town had had its mo ments of glory. Bootleg whiskey distilled in hideouts on the hills around town was so much in demand that people from as far down as Texas came to buy it. "The neighbors just turned their backs because the bootleg gers were good people who were only trying to make a liv ing," said Marie Wilson, whose grandfather settled in String- town in the last century. Mrs. Wilson, who is editing a history of the town for publica tion by the Atoka County His torical Society, said, "The town had a large payroll because of the sawmilling and cattle farm ing. There were no fences in those days and the cattle and hogs roamed freely. They marked the hogs in the ears those days. There were a lot of shootings as a result of hog stealing. Bootlegging was profit able because the area was also in the midst of an oil boom. "The stills were well hidden in the hills and, if the bootlegger didn't want his still found, no body could find it. The Texas Road from Arkansas to Paris, Texas, came through this town and folks used to rest here be cause of the cold, clear and clean water around it." The first post office was estab lished Aug. 17, 1874, and the name Springtown was chosen. "But when that name was sent to the federal post office to make it official, a typographical Ford, Shirley Jones. A young boy uses a peculiar and humorous standard to determine the “per fect" wife for his widowed father. 5:30 CBN ★★ “The Come-On” (1956) Anne Baxter, Sterling Hay den. A woman pits one lover against another and winds up involved in murder. EVENING 7:00© ★★★ "The Sandpiper” (1965) Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton. A married clergyman falls in love with a liberated artist who lives with her illegitimate son. 8:00 Q3 ★ ★ ★ "Little Ladies Of The Night” (1977) Linda Purl, David Soul.Shunned by her parents and ignored by the police, a teen-age runaway finds herself drawn into the seedy world of pimps and prostitutes. 1:00© ★★ “Escape From The Jungle” (No Date) Sandra Weiss, Schalk Jacobs. The story of a tough and hardened member of an underground organization who during the course of a tense adventure succombs to a charm ing young girl. 1:35© ★★★ “Marriage On The Rocks” (1965) Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr. While on vacation, a lover’s quarrel winds up in divorce with the wife marrying her husband’s best friend. 2:00© ★★Vz “Cry Of Battle” (1963) Van Heflin, Rita Moreno. The overindulged son of a Filipino shipping magnate develops matu rity when he joins an American guerrilla unit. 3:00© ★★ “Jory” (1973) Robby Benson, John Marley. A youth matures during a long, hard cattle drive. 3:30© -k-k-kVi "A Thousand Clowns” (1965) Jason Robards, Barry Gordon. A social worker convinces an unemployed writer to get his job back and marry her, so that he won’t lose custody of his nephew. 3:55© ★★Vz “Lad: A Dog” (1962) Peter Breck, Peggy McCay. A crip pled girl is aided mentally and physically by a collie. or spelling mistake was made somewhere and the name came back as Stringtown," Mrs. Wil son said. "Another story is that a wit came to town on a stage coach, saw so many buildings strung together along the rail road and named it Stringtown, but that doesn't seem credible." The cattle and hogs are gone and the whiskey stills are silent. Oldtimers sit on their porches, ready to tell stories of the past to those who are willing to listen. But not many are left now. A correctional center, part of the state prison in nearby McAlester, is in Stringtown, but residents say the center never has posed a problem for them. 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