Formating psql query output

Until I finish building the python/tkinter/psycopg2 front end to my business
tracking tool I continue to work using the psql shell.'

I have a working .sql script that reports my contacts between two dates; the
script returns more columns than I want included in the report. I want to
pipe the output through an awk script to extract, in order, the columns I
need. I'm stuck at the point of defining options to psql.

The current command line is:
psql -d bustrac -f prospecting_log.sql -o contacts.txt --csv

However, using the --csv output conversion makes separate fields from a
varchar column that can contain commas with the text contents.

Without --csv I get normal psql output with column headings and separator
lines such as these:
  person_nbr |  act_date  | act_type  |
                                                                                                    notes

                                             | person_nbr |      lname       |   fname    | org_nbr | org_nbr |
org_name
 

------------+------------+-----------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------------+------------+---------+---------+----------------------

Is there an option that will retain the '|' separator but exclude the
headings? Reading the psql document page I don't see such an option.

TIA,

Rich