FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Thursday, May II, H37
West German Television
Planning Second Network
uuesseiaorf iu.kj With a
million TV sets in that many
homes around the nation. West
German television is forging its
plans for a second network. Only
Britain, with 6,700,000 sets, is
ahead of this country in Europe.
The TV champion of Germany
is Duesseldorf. There are no less
than 120,000 TV homes in this
area: more, per-capita, than in
any area its size on the continent.
Germany has seven television
centtes, each fully equipped for
telecasting. They are Hamburg,
Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart,
Munich, Baden-Baden and West
Berlin. All actually participate in
the single German television net
work transmission, each contrib
uting a pre-determined segment
of the programs. However, Dr.
Werner Pleister's "North and
West" div ision provides the lion's
hare, an estimated 46 per cent
, of German TV airtime. His
'"North and West" also harbors
a full 60 per cent of German TV
viewers, dispersed as they are
over four German provinces.
Dr. Pleister's thinking is in
dicatives of Germany's television
future. He is pleased with the
present expansion of TV in his
country, at the rate of about 30,
000 sets at the present time. The
average cost of a set is 600 marks
($150),
Star Horn
,-I am 10 times more happy to
receive a letter from a coal min
er saying that, thanks to his TV,
he was able to watch opera for
the first time in his life than to
get plaudits from a city art
critic," he said.
"Television has done wonders
for our working class. Our men
who used to head to the Wirt
schaft (saloon) in the evening
now stay home to enrich their
life in an easy, pleasant, en
joyable nightly lesson.
"Of course, all Wirtschaften
have in self-defense set- up tele
vision sets, too, but the men are
getting to like staying at home
just the same. Our farmers, who
employ as many as 10 . farm
hands, set. up television in the
bunkhouse so farmhands are
kept entertained and stay away
from Wirtschaften, too. It
works."
German television, he ampha
sized, is primarily aimed at an
audience with grammar school
education only, for a good rea
son it comprises 80 per cent
of the population. Yet, the ob
ject is to raise standards.
"We are trying to mix the
light with the serious," he ex
plained. "We have our quiz
shows -and comedy programs,
and our latest aim is "to show
some, enjoyable American TV
film series and even Hollywood
pictures specially sent to us from
across the Atlantic.
"We put on a good share of
sports, especially on Sundays
when you find millions of Ger
mans glued to TV sets, happily
sipping their beer while watch
ing an important football
match."
A new "television city" is soon
to go up outside Cologne. It will
comprise at least three modern
sound stages. Munich has a
brand new studio. Hamburg's
three-year-old modernistic com
pound carrying the huge letters
N.W.R.V. (Nord und West Deut
scher Rundfunk Verband) on its
squat roof has been, till now, the
latest word in television plan
ning. But one thing German TV
won't get for quite a while is
more air time.
"Our network goes on every
evening at" eight," said Dr.
Pleister, "following a half hour
of regional programming, and it
goes off soon after 10. Before
that, from 5 to 6, there is a
children's hour.
"On Saturday we usually start
an hour earlier and many go off
later, and on Sundays, depend
ent on the sports events and oth
er actualities planned, we may
be on the air from noon on.
"And that, we think, is
enough We don't want Germany
to become a nation of TV fana
tics. Evening TV is all right, but
it must not take away from oth
er things in your life.
"Besides we don't have enough
money. At five marks in license
fees per TV set per year, you
get so much and no more. And
we firmly believe that it's better
to offer two hours of good en
tertainment than four hours of
cheap entertainment."
This is where the second net
work comes in. Plans are afoot,
he said, to put it into operation
as more iunds become available
with the growth of German tele
vision. However, he cautioned,
the second network will not be
much different from the first. It
will merely reshuffle the same
type of programming to satisfy
viewers with a different daily
time schedule.
WHERE 62 DIED This is the ragged region In British Columbia's Pacific Coast range
where a four-engine Trans-Canadian Airlines North Star carried 62 persons to their
deaths last December 9. It was Canada's worst commercial aviation disaster. Circled
is 8200-foot Mount Slesse, into which the plane crashed in a blinding snowstorm. The
X marks the region in which some of the wreckage is strewn. Mountain climbers
found fragments of the plane early this week.
Governor Vetoes
Liquor Legislation
Bill Gives All Cities
Urban Renewal Funds
Salem (IP) Every Oregon city
would have a chance at federal
urban renewal funds under the
terms of House bill 661 which
passed the Senate late Wednes
day and went to the governor.
Sen. Ben Musa, The Dalles
Democrat, said the bill would
take away the present restric
tion limiting urban redevelop
ment programs to cities of 70,-
000 or more.
It also would allow cities or
counties to rehabilitate blighted
areas as well as to clear slums.
Salem (IP) Gov. Robert D.
Holmes Wednesday used his veto
powers to block legislation that
would have permitted an indi
vidual to serve two different cor
porations engaged In the manu
facture and retail sales of
liquor.
It was the second time the
governor had vetoed a bill, both
dealing with liquor. The first re
lated to laws governing indicted
persons.
"One of the underlying princi
ples of the Knox law . is that
there shall be no community of
interest between distillers , or
wholesalers on the one hand
and retail outlets on the other,"
the governor's veto message
read.
"This bill tends to undermine
this fundamental principle," he
added.
"In addition, this bill is in
tended to make it possible for
one individual to serve as a mem
ber of the board of directors of
two different corporations, one
of which is engaged in manu
facturing alcoholic liquor, the
other of which is engaged in sell
ing alcoholic liquor at retail. I
do not believe this is sound leg
islation," the governor said.
Average value of a ton of U.S.
bituminous coal at the mine in
1953 was placed at about $4.91.
TV Program Choice
Leads To Divorce
Rosaburg (IP) Elaine D.
Cummins has filed suit for di
rorca - in Douglas County
Circuit Court against Don
Cummins. Th complaint al
leges the defendant refused
"to permit the plaintiff to
iew certain television pro
grams." Mrs. Cummins asks
custody of thrc children, sup
port money, and property set
tlement as well as the tele
vision set.
Burns Man Appears
On Hit-Run Charge
.Burns -0P Willis F. Bard
well, Burns attorney, appeared
in Harney County Circuit Court
today on two indictments in con
nection with the April 4 death
of Douglas Mullarky, 58, co-publisher
of the Burns Times-Herald.
Bardwell posted 510,000 bail
on the indictments of hit-and-run
and' manslaughter and was given
until next Tuesday at 2 p.m. to
enter a plea.
Mullarky, a former aide to the
late Gov. Earl Snell, was found
dead on a Burns street after po
lice had been notified by an un
identified caller.
The Harney county grand jury
heard 12 witnesses before re
turning the indictments against
Bardwell.
Dave Irving Named
President of Club
Dave Irving was elected pres
ident of the Crater Lions at the
club's May 14 meeting in the
Medford hotel. Outgoing presi
dent was 'John Lusk.-
Other officers elected were
Cliff McGinty, first vice-president;
Abb Gressett, second vice
president; Dave Doran, third
vice-president; Dave Franklin,
secretary; Art Carlson, treas
urer; Robert Lindstrom, tail
twister; and Hugh Friel, lion
tamer.
. Directors elected for two year
terms were Lloyd Eastwood and
Bob Taylor. Jim Foster and
Greg Yanoda were elected for
one year terms.
Installation of officers will be
June 11. ,
Billy Graham Calls in Protestant
Leaders for Spiritual Revplution
Births
DAVIS To Mr. and Mrs.
James, 1216 Court st., Medford,
May 15, 1957, a boy, 8Vz pounds,
at Sacred Heart hospital.
TRASK To Mr. and Mrs.
Lester, 1405 Orchard Home
drive, Medford, May 15, 1957, a
boy, 6 pounds, at Sacred Heart
hospital.
New York (IP) Evangelist
Billy Graham called in Protest
ant ministers today to try to
turn his $1,300,000 New York
Crusade into a "spiritual revolu
tion" which will sweep America.
In the unlikely setting of
Madison Square Garden, Billy
Wednesday night began the big
gest, toughest battle of his
meteoric career to sway cyni
cal New Yorkers to Christ and
thus fan a "spiritual fire" across
the nation.
He won the first round.
A near-capacity crowd of 18,
500 persons of all walks and all
ages jammed the big sports
arena, shook its rafters with
hymns and sat in reverent sil
ence as he spoke.
Gats Record Response
Then a record first-night num
ber of them stepped forward to
make their "decision for Christ."
First singly and then like a
tide rolling down from the up
per reaches of the Garden, 485
persons came to stand before
Billy's flower-banked pulpit.
They overflowed into the near
by press section and adjacent
hallways.
It was -nothing like the 5,000
who came forward one night in
the Philippines or the 3,200 at
London's Wembley Stadium. But
Graham was buoyed by what he
called the "overwhelming re
sponse beyond anything we
had anticipated on the first
night."
The 38-year-old North Caro
lina evangelist scheduled a
meeting this morning with the
Protestant ministers of the 1,540
New York area churches which
are sponsoring his long-awaited,
carefully-planned crusade. They
were to join him in a Cinerama
movie house to discuss jointly
the real purpose of the crusade
that is, to channel those who
make "decisions" into the
churches of their choice.
TV Shows Planned
The opening - night crowd
dropped an offering into card
board delicatessen boxes to help
the crusade which has a budget
of 8900,000 for rental, promo
tion an'd office operations and
$400,000 for four national Satur
day night television shows start
ing June 1. The sum collected
was not announced immediately
Concerned that some people
were centering their attention be the beginning of a" spiritual
on Biiiy uranam instead 01
God," the evangelist said, "we
have come, not as some have
said, to put the Republicans in
power, clean up New York or
make Baptists out of everybody.
We have come with the express
purpose of ' winning men . and
women to a saving knowledge of
Jesus Christ. Get one thing very
clear whatever you've read
(about me), give the -glory and
praise and honor to God."
"We have prayed," Graham
said in introductory remarks,
"that New York will have a
spiritual resurrection which will
revolution.
In his 6.500-word sermon on
World Dilemma," Graham men
tioned the words "sex" and "al
cohol" only two times. If his
audience had come expecting
"hellfire and brimstone," they
did not hear it.
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MORRIS To Mr. and Mrs.
David, route 1, box 78, Gold Hill,
May 16, 1957, a boy, 7V pounds,
at Sacred Heart hospital.
FEWER MYSTERY OBJECTS
London HP) Air Secretary
Georee Ward told the- Knn of
Commons , Wednesday that
"only" five unidentified objects
have flown over Eneland this
year, compared with six last
year and six in 1954.
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