Congressional Act
May Extend Oregon
Educational TV
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON
WEDNESDAY. APRIL 25. 1962
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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.
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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.
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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!"
An earnest young high
school scribe was interview
ing the writer of seven consecutive rock-and-roll hits. Asked thi
scribe earnestly, "Which do you. steal, first the, words or ths
music?" j
1
A long-winded New England senator was sounding1 off at &
political rally in Vermont. One farmer arrived a half hour late,
and after listening a while, asked his neighbor, "What's he talk
ing about?" The neighbor shook his head and grumbled, "Dunno.
He didn't say."
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