The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 10 January 1966 — Page 8

Tht Dally Bannar, DraancasHa, Indiana Monday, January 10 r 1966

TV in review

HOLLYWOOD UPI — Right under our noses, right under our very noses, with hardly any warning, Mr. Robert Culp and Mr. Bill Cosby have been developing into a very high-class comedy team. It is mere formality to regard them as secret agent heroes in NBC-TVs “I Spy” series. What they really are in their roles is rare —

Power Failure Causes Setback NEW YORK UPI—Doubtless some folks in the electric utility business wish the historians would just forget about 1965. The northeast power blackout of Nov. 9 was the worst setback this vital industry has had in its history in many respects. Since the blackout was not caused by storm, flood, fire or other natural disaster, the industry leaders are still in a pickle about explaining it. And the fact that the Canadians bravely assumed the primary blame doesn’t help too much. Why, an outraged public still wants to know, was the failure of one little gadget allowed to leave nearly all the northeast stranded in darkness and cold for most of a night? The gas utilities and even nome water companies suffered in the blackout along with the electric utilities — most gas heating plants depend on electric controls and blower motors and electric booster pumps maintain water pressure. Aside from the still very live peril of huge damage suits growing out of the blackout, the electric utility industry has to face the fact that it has handed the oil companies and the gas utilities the most effective sales arguments they have aver had for marketing their new “total energy” package plants to Industries, hospitals, stores and apartment houses. The total energy package is a gas or oil fired unit that protides all the energy needed in a building for lighting, heating, refrigeration, television and Other appliances and even for running machinery. The owner Is completely independent of the electric utility. Even if he brings public power into his building, he can use it if he wants to only when he shuts down his own plant for servicing. During the No. 9 blackout there were Islands of light all over the east—buildings with total energy plants. American Oil Co., a Standard Oil of Indiana subsidiary that has been particularly active in pushing total energy, estimates they will have captured 7.5 per cent of the electric utilities’ business by 1975. Meanwhile, the Immediate business outlook for all the utility companies, electric, gas and water, is bright. Financially, they had an excellent year In 1965. Dividend payments of the electric companies to the public increased 6.5 per cent over 1964 and represented 67 per cent of available earnings for 12 months ended May 30. Shares in utility companies, which are great favorites with income investors with modest capital, have performed rather well on the stock markets.

funny fellows with a genuinely contemporary flair. Watching them cavort again Wednesday night in their ad-venture-comedy series, it was clearer than ever that they have developed into the most natural and perfect television comedy team since the alliance of Jim Arness and Dennis Weaver as Marshall Dillon and Chester on “Gunsmoke.” From the beginning, ‘T Spy,” which is certainly — even with its occasional bad spells — the best of this season’s new video series, has relied almost exclusively on the natural human relationship of Culp and Cosby as its axis. It is the firmest of bases because it supersedes plots, scripts and other variables. Producers searching for gimmicks to success have yet to find a better one in television than the perfect mating of leading characters. The rest follows. I really can’t tell you too precisely what went on in Wednesday night’s “I Spy” except that it involved a jungle doctor (Lew Ayres) who was regarded as a threat by the Communists in Southeast Asia, and his daughter (France Nuyen), and some very incompetent Reds who let Culp rescue them while Cosby flew nearby In a helicopter trying to find him — but none of this really mattered much in the show. Yes, it was James Bondish; yes, it was basically absurd — but yes, also, it had style, that most elusive of television qualities. And the source of the style, as it has been all season for “I Spy” despite its ups and downs; has been the Culp-Cosby relationship. After each show, what you remember is not so much the stories (they barely exist), but a series of pleasant effects and moods. I always remember best the virtual standup comedy routines between the two principals at the most unlikely times. Wednesday night the routine came at the end in a hospital, when Culp caught the entire droll mood of the series by saying to Cosby of their secret agent jobs: 'What would they do without

there? 1 * And Cosby added: “Without us, they haven’t got a chance.” X don’t think there’s any doubt that they axe tight. Without

few* fen Reds amely would have taken over by now. Worse yet, the television season would have been even more dismal than it is. Success win surely continue- fpr our two heroes so

long as they eonthrae to naet intelligently to difficult situations, as Culp did Wednesday night when he was held captive in a Red village and observed: “It’s a nice town to visit, but I wouldn’t want to die here.”

Tracer Of Lost Persons Hired To Find Missing Heirs To Several Estates

HOLLYWOOD UPI — Meet Larry Craig, tracer of lost heirs. He may be looking for you. Craig, a private investigator, has been hired by a network television show to search for miauring heirs to estates that will otherwise revert to the states as unclaimed. Craig said the total monetary value of unclaimed estates has been estimated at $5 billion. Why are they unclaimed? The heirs are unaware they are heirs, perhaps because of their relationship to the deceased was not close or because, as we become an increasingly transient nation, relatives lose track of one another. Craig cites the case of a Seattle woman who died, leaving an estate in excess of 91 million. Her will left one-third of it to a son who died before she did. He had two daughters, one by a first marriage and one by a second, each of whom would receive one-half of her father’s share of the estate. However, the daughter of the first marriage was last heard of 20 years ago, and her inherit tance waits to be claimed. If she does not claim it within the period specified by law (which varies from state to state) the money will go to the state treasury. For obvious reasons, authorities generally make only a perfunctory effort to locate the heirs. Craig has a considerable advantage over most private detectives in finding the missing heirs — a nationwide television audience numbering in the millions. After his first appearance on the Art Llnkletter “House Party” show during which he described three cases, he immediately received about 50 telegrams, telphone calls and letters, three of which were promising. Craig, whose agency does general Investigating for law firms and industry, was hired

on a fee basis by the Llnkletter show to dig up the missing heir cases and to try to locate the lost beneficiaries. His only remuneration will be the flat fee paid by the television show. He said finding a missing person is not as difficult as might be supposed. “It is very difficult to disappear nowadays,” he said. “If a person must earn a living, drive a car, or make a purchase on credit, he usually can be found.” As an example, he noted the case of the errant husband who disappeared from Los Angeles with his three children and his secretary. He was careful about

concealing his past life, but his downfall came when he told a passing milkman in a Portland, Ore., community to deliver milk for his children. The milk company ran a credit check on him and he was promptly exposed. Although a man rarely outsmarts detectives on his trail, it happens occasionally. Craig said heir hunters have been pursuing one man for years in order to tell him about a large fortune he has inherited. But whenever they get near him, he disappears again. He thinks they were hired by his former wife to collect back alimony.

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THE NETHERLANDS Central Statistics Bureau announces that as of today there are 120 centenarians living in Holland, the largest number per capita of any European nations. Even when it comes to longevity, you can’t beat the Dutch! ! ! i Motor vehicles produced in the U.8. this year are expected to reach a record total of 11 miUio*. So, if you’ve a parking place, maybe you’d better lease it or buy it outright, l t ! Sid lumpers reverse tfte usual procedure. First they hove their dawns, end then their upsl ! ! ! Some 100 Orwell, England, pensioners dined on the richest

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