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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1957)
Radio Station to Observe 35th Year At Studio Sunday Radio station KMED will ob serve its 35th birthday Sunday, Sept. 29, with a public open house at its Ross Lane studio and transmitter site, according to General Manager Ray John son. Hours for the open house are 1 to 5 p.m. Refreshments will be served. Tours of the studio will be conducted by guides, ac cording to Johnson. Station KMED was the first station on the air in the Rogue valley, starting its broadcasts in 1922. Studios for the 50 watt station were on West Main st. General Manager The late Bill Virgin was gen eral manager of the station which had a total staff of two. The station, then called KFAY, would be on the air each day only as long as advertising, sold each morning would pay for air time. In 1933 the station's name was changed to KMED and the pow er boosted to 100 watts. Several power boosts were made until 1943 when KMED became a 5, 000 watt, non-directional station, then the largest of this type be tween Portland and San Fran cisco. The station became an NBC outlet in 1937. In 1950 KMED was sold to the present owners. Radio Medford Inc. The staff now numbers 14. Friends of R. J. Lawrence Family Contribute Funds Washington IP Royce A. Hardy Jr., Henderson, Nev., will be sworn in Oct. 3 as assistant secretary of interior for mineral resources. Friends of the R. J. Lawrence family are contributing to a fund to halp the family, friends have reported. Lawrence, owner and manager of Larry's Line Up Shop on South Pacific highway between Medford and Phoenix, suffered a severe heart attack July 4.. Names of contributors will be listed and sent to the family in Denver, Colo. Mrs. Lawrence and the children, Mary Lou and Jimmy, are staying with her mother in Englewood, near Den ver. Lawrence has been in the Den ver hispital since about the mid dle of July. When heart surgery was discussed by doctors, among Maloney Hearing Pre-Trial Continues Portland tP The pre-trial hearing in the conspiracy case against Thomas E. Maloney, Se attle and Spokane race track figure, continued in Circuit Court today. Circuit Judge Martin Haw kins told Howard Lonergan, Ma loney's counsel, Thursday that he would limit the hearing to the" defense attack on a half hour tape recording already produced by the state. He said he would not permit him to bring into the hearing an esti mated 80 other tapes. Two state policemen, Capt. Vayne Gurdane and Lt. Claude Cross, were on the witness stand Thursday. They were question ed about various recordings they had handled and heard. The defense seeks to suppress the tapes as evidence. them a prominent specialist from London, they were not sure the operation was advisable or that it would help Lawrence. Undergoes Operation But Sept. 3 he underwent the operation and it was discovered that two valves of his heart were damaged instead of only one as was previously thought. One could be repaired. During the next 2$ hours he received 20 pints of blood. He will have to remain in the hospital from three to four weeks more and it will be some time before he will be able to be back at the shop, friends re ported. At its meeting Tuesday night the Lions club took up an of fering to go to the family. Any one desiring to help may con tact or send donations to Mrs. Don Troxel, 1680 Camp Baker rd.; Lewis Bertrand, 4129 South Pacific highway, or Earnest James, Fifth st., Phoenix. Any one wishing to send cards direct ta Lawrence may send them to R. J. Lawrence, Colorado Gen eral hospital. Ward L, 4200 East Ninth ave., Denver, Colo. Change in Portland Government Sought Portland (IPi T h e Commit tee for Effective City Govern ment has filed a preliminary petition to change Portland's government to a council-manager form. If approved then the commit tee will have to secure 27,807 voters' signatures by Feb. 28 before it can be placed on the j May ballot. Eugene TV Channel For Commercial Use Washington HP) The Fed eral Communications Commis sion Thursday designated TV channel 9 at Eugene, Ore., for commercial use, effective Oct. 31. The channel previously had been reserved as an educational outlet. The commission rejected a proposal to reassign channel 7 the educational channel at Cor vallis, Ore., to Eugene-Cor-vallis for educational use by both cities. It said a construc tion permit already has been issued to the Oregon State Board of Higher Education for educa tional station KOAC-TV on the Corvallis channel. The commission in another action, assigned channel, 2 to Portland, Ore., effective Oct. 31. 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