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Clinton News-Record, 1974-09-12, Page 39PAGE 23 Allen Spraggett joins Global Allen Spraggett will be joining the cast of Global Television's new show, THAT TALK SHOW, which will be seen Mondays through Saturdays from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Allen is an astrologist and an ex- "pert in all aspects of parap- sychology and, psychic phenomena. He dodsn't like the term "super- natu'ral" because, he believes, we should not be limited in our view of what is "natural". Time magazine once called him a "psychic sleuth" but Allen prefers the title "psychic investigitor" as he feels that while there are many genuine instances of psychic phenoinena there are also many spurious ones. He himself has exposed several frauds. Born on March 26, 1932 in Toronto, Allen is married and has five children, two dogs and two cats, including one black cat named Houdini. He was educated at Queen's University in Kingston and then served as a parish minister for eight years. From 1962.71 Allen was Religion Editor for the Toronto Star where he was also a columnist. He was the host of a CBC Montreal television program called "The Oc- cult" and in 1971 he became the writer-narrator of a syndicated radio feature "The Unexplained" which was heard on CFRB radio in Toronto and across Canada. In the same year, hjs weekly newspaper column unde the same title was syndicated in 50 newspapers throughout. the U.S. and Canada. In 1973 he was featured daily on CFRB Radio's "You and Your Sun Sign", an astrology feature, and he is still heard regularly on CFRB Toronto. He is the author of seven books, including "The World of the Unexplained" and 'The Case for Immortality", both published in 1974. He is currently president of the Toronto Society for Psychical Research and he lectures on parap- sychology and .ESP . at villeges across Canada and the US. On Monday's edition Of THAT TALK SHOW the ebullient Allen Spraggett will interview what he calls E.& P. (Extra Special People) on all aspects of parapsychology and the unexplained. On Fridays he will moderate a hotline show in which viewers will phone in questions and suggest topics for discussion. "Allen Spraggett with ESP" will be seen Sundays at 5:00 p.m. Bill Bennett on Hockey Telecast Team John Spalding, Program Director of the Global Television Network, announced today that Bill Bennett, Sports Director of CKPT Radio in Peterborough, Ontario, will join the team of broadcasters who will provide the network's coverage of the hockey games featuring the Toronto Toros of the World Hockey Association. Bill, who will continue to hold his position at CKPT, has had wide ex- perience of sports coverage in radio and television. He was born in Kapuskasing thirty-six years ago and was educated in Woodstock, Ontario. When he was in Grade 13 at Woodstock Collegiate, another young fellow who later became in- volved in hockey was in Grade 11. The youngster was Robert Marvin . Bill's first job in radio - at the tender age of 16 - was as disc jockey for CHVC Niagara Falls. A year 'later he moved to CHLB, Oshawa, as the "morning man". His next move was to North Bay where he became the morning disc jockey for CFCH and later the Sports Director for CKGN-TV, which is now CFCH. TV. For ten years he was Sports Director of CKBB Radio and CKVR-TV in Barrie, Ontario, where he gained extensive ex- perience in hockey by covering the Barrie Flyer games. Following his time in Barrie he moved, to Denver, Colorado where for three years he was Publicity Director for the Denver Spurs of the Western Hockey League and play- by-play announcer for radio broad- casts of the games. In 1971 he moved to Peterborough as CKPT's Sports Director where he has been working on the broadcasts of the games featuring the Peterborough Petes of the OHA Major Junior A • League. As part of the Global team, he will be doing between-period inter- views with hockey players and per- sonalities in addition to selecting highlights and giving his own in- sights into the game, "Hockey is my life", says Bill. "So I am very ex- cited at the prospect of my new job at Global, The Toros, with the ad- dition of such players as Mahovolich, Henderson and Nedomansky should generate some real hockey excitement this year on Global," CELEBRITY WRESTLING No — it's not Burt Reynolds vs Robert Redford. 'Celebrity Wrestling' pitsleading personalities and proponents of grunt and groan in a weekly hour of muscular mayhem. GOSPEL SNOW' TIME The best in contemporary gospel musk, returns to Global for another season. The program, already with a large and faithful 'following, features various groups from Canada and the U.S.A. in an in- spirational half hour. HEE HAW • All of the regulars are back on Global for another season of music and corn in the country vein — Buck Owens and Roy Clark, Archie Campbell, Gordie Tapp, Grampa Jtaies, Minnie Pearl, The Haggers, Don Harron, and others.