Boxcars711 Overnight Western "The Roy Rogers Show" - Loco Weed (02-08-52)

Boxcars711 Overnight Western "The Roy Rogers Show"
"Loco Weed" (Aired February 8, 1952)

After completing the 8th Grade, Leonard Slye (Roy Rogers) attended high school at McDermott, Ohio. When he was 17 his family returned to Cincinnati, where his father began work at a shoe factory. He soon decided on the necessity to help his family financially, so he quit high school, joined his father at the shoe factory, and began attending night school. After being ridiculed for falling asleep in class, however, he quit school and never returned. Leonard and his father felt imprisoned by their factory jobs. In 1929, his older sister Mary was living at Lawndale, California with her husband. Father and son decided to quit their shoe factory jobs. The family packed their 1923 Dodge for a visit with Mary and stayed four months before returning to Ohio.

THIS EPISODE:

February 8, 1952. "Loco Weed" - NBC network. Sponsored by: Post Cereals. The cattle on John Kennedy's ranch are dying of a mysterious loco weed poisoning. Artie Kerner can sell the same ranch many times over! Roy calls a square dance to the tune, "Raggedy Ann." The Hollywood editor of "Exhibitor Magazine" presents Roy and Dale with an award. Art Ballinger (announcer), Art Rush (producer), Charles Smith, Dale Evans, Forrest Lewis, Frank Hemingway, Herb Butterfield, Howard McNear, Martha Shaw, Milton Charles, Ray Wilson (writer), Roy Rogers, The Whippoorwills, Tom Hargis (director). 30:08. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.