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Congressional Act May Extend Oregon Educational TV MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON WEDNESDAY. APRIL 25. 1962 QLJ Br A. ROBERT SMITH Mill Tribune Wiihington Correiponditnt Washington - (Special) -Oregon's educational televi lion programs may be extend ed to all parts of the state with the fi nancial aid of a bill passed by Congr ess last week. The bill authorizes the federal government to make grants smith to assist states In creating or expanding edu cational TV facilities. A ceil ing of one million dollars is attached to the grants for any one state, and state or local sharing in the costs of the new facilities is required. The Oregon State Advisory Committee on Educational Television, which urged Ore gon members of Congress to tupport the bill, advised them of results of a survey taken last November of the use of i ETV in the public schools. It showed that school districts are purchasing TV sets for classrooms to take advantage of programs offered by the state educational TV stations, KOAC at Corvallis, and KOAP at Portland, and some commercial stations. "While the survey indicated that school districts are mak ing use of the available facili ties, the lack of complete cov erage by the state network seriously limits utilization of the medium for instruction. One of the most significant findings of the survey was that so many of the districts were unable to get an ade quate signal from either stale owned station and were there fore unable to profit from the resource," the advisory com- . mittce reported. Cut To Terrain Out of 221 school adminis trators who participated in the survey, 109 said no com munity reception was possible, 39 said special antennas were : needed and 10 said cable con nections were required. "This lack of reception is due to the terrain of our state. With certain key installations, which would be possible through H.R. 132 (the educa tional TV bill), we could cope with Oregon's topographical problems and educational TV could be brought to all parts of the state - to the isolated coastal regions, to far eastern Oregon, to southern and cen tral Oregon," the committee reported. The installations would in clude microwave relays, trans lators and other equipment for long - distance transmis sions from the two state channels. The c o.m m i 1 1 e e thought the bill would also aid individual school districts to establish their own TV fa cilities for either broadcast or closed - circuit purposes. It noted that last December the Eugene schools were granted channel, 20 a UHF channel. More Programs Seen "Since .Oregon school dis tricts are producing programs for televising even without adequate .broadcast facilities, we are confident more pro grams will be produced, more schools will be equipped for utilizing the programs, and the quality of instruction gen erally increased if better fa cilities become available," the committee stated, over the signature of the following: Miss- Kenar Charkoudian, chairman, radio and TV co ordinator, Eugene public schools; Dr. George Hender son, assistant superintendent, Lebanon public schools; Will son Maynard, director, public relations, Oregon Education Association; Charles D. Schmidt, Salem schools sup erintendent; Dr. Patricia Swenson, supervisor, Port land schools station KBPS; Mrs. E. Bernice Tucker, as sistant superintendent, Mult nomah county schools; and Dr. Gerald Wallace, Corvallis schools superintendent. Their survey showed that 11,000 pupils, or three per cent of the total elementary school enrollment, are view ing in-school TV programs. Over 5000 of them are getting instruction in French and Spanish language, which oth erwise would be impossible due to the shortage of ele mentary teachers with lan- i guage training. tar rt iffC' SATELLITE PICTURE This picture of the Erie, Huron, Michigan and Superior. Also Great Lakes was taken by Tiros IV, the shown is ice-covered Lake Nipigon in the weather satellite, on its 963rd orbit around upper left. (UPI) the earth. It clearly shows Lakes Ontario, Macmillan, JFK Slated for Talks London (UPI) Prime Minis ter Harold Macmillan was to leave today for talks with Pres ident Kennedy on strengthen ing the Western Alliance for future contacts with Russia. The two leaders will hold their talks, their fifth since Kennedy took office, on Sat urday at the White House. They last met in December in Bermuda. The prime minister, a firm believer in negotiating with the Kremlin, was reported anxious to keep open the chan nels between Moscow and the Western capitals. Diplomatic sources indicated, however, that he was not likely to press Kennedy for an early summit meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev. Salem Installs Direct Dialing Salem -IUPH- Telephones in Oregon's third largest city, Salem, will switch to Direct Distance Dialing (DDD) Sun day. This means that instead of having to place a long dis tance call through an opera tor, a phone user can merely dial across country and the toll charge is recorded auto matically. It also means that Salem phone customers can dial directly to 700,000 of the 750,000 phones in Oregon, and 76 million phones nation ally. Duane E. Lafferty, Pacific Northwest Bell DDD special ist from Portland, said Salem is the fourth oetl system city in Oregon to switch to DDD. Astoria was first three years ago, and Pendleton and half of Portland have switched. No date has been set for the conversion in Eugene -second largest city in Oregon - but fourth biggest, Medford, will go to DDD July. 15. PAYS THE PRICE Linby, England - lf - A cat that killed a rabbit here today was reported nursing the rabbit's young. In the Day's News By FKANK JENKINS On EASTER Sunday- Our Washington officials formally announced that the United States will resume at mospheric tests of our weap ons this week. The target area will be in the neighborhood of Johnson Island, about 800 miles southwest of Honolulu, and British-owned Christmas Island, about 1300 miles south west of Honolulu. The tests will include the firing of a nuclear-armed Po laris missile from a subma rine below the surface of the South Pacific. The missile will be fired under simulated war conditions. Its detonating device will be set for a high altitude air burst. ( Its warhead will be equiva lent to about 600,000 tons of TNT. It will be the world's first LIVE firing of an atomic missile. WHY these tests? " The answer is quite sim ple. If we are to pin our faith to the nuclear-armed missile . . . if we are to depend upon it as the weapon of the future . . . we must KNOW that it will work when the time conies-if ever-to USE it. American military men. some scientists, and many' members of congress have long contended that unless the U.S. puts to the test its atomic LABORATORY findings this country's lead in nuclear weaponry is in danger of be ing dissipated. Which is to say; How can you know that a new weapon will work unless you have TESTED it? rpiIE tests that have just been announced are expected to stir an international storm. British newspapers already are urging Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who is due in Washington the latter part of this week, to pressure President Kennedy into post ponement of the tests on the slim hope that a test ban agreement can be reached at Geneva. There will be communist inspired protests from all the neutral nations. But common sense tells us we'd better stand pat. pnOM Geneva this morning: The Americans propose to add another to the list of "hot" telephones that all chiefs of state in this nuclear age keep on their desks for instant contact with their mili tary commanders. This addi tional "hot" phone would make It possible, for instance, for President Kennedy to telephone Soviet Premier Ni kita Khrushchev on a mo ment's notice. The idea of a top priority telephone line linking the White House in Washington to the Kremlin in Moscow is contained in the detailed U.S. disarmament plan presented to the Geneva disarmament conference last week. 1 9 t Well, the purpose of this special telephone Is to enable our President to phone Pre mier Khrushchev instantly In any suspicious circumstances. Suppose a Russian missile fell on Hawaii. It might have been an accident. The presumption is that Kroosh might use it in the same way if one of our mis siles went astray In testing. It is an attempt to avoid the danger of touching off a war by accident. TT'S an interesting idea. But one wonders. Suppose the commies loosed all their nuclear weapons at us In one grand burst design ed to destroy us before we could fight back. Suppose we took time to phone Mr. Kroosh before loosing our re taliatory forces. Seconds are precious in such circumstances. The sec onds wasted in calling up Mr. Kroosh might be fatal. These are parlous times. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF- A PUGNACIOUS PERSONALITY, exactly five feet tall and three sheets to the wind, staggered into a bar and loudly declared, "I'm the wild bull of Killarney and I can lick any bum in this joint." The bartender leaned casually across the bar, hit him lightly in the stomach, and sent him sprawling to the floor. It took the Killarneyite a few seconds to regain his composure, and then he told the bartender re proachfully, "Never hit a wild bull that way, man. It's the silliest thing you can do!" 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