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HOUSE RESOLUTION ASKS POWER ABOVE 50 KW.
Declaring that rural communities will not get adequate radio reception so long as radio power it limited to 50 KW. , Representative Larrabee (D. ), of Indiana, this week introduced a resolution in the House to direct the Federal Communications Com¬ mission to make a study of super^power broadcasting and mean^ile license a few such stations.
The resolution is directly contrary to the resolution adopted last session by the Senate and influential in the recent action of the Commission denying requests that super-power sta¬ tions be licensed. Present FCC rules bar any regular broadcasting with more than 50 KW
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The Larrabee resolution follows?
'•Whereas the Federal Communications Commission in its report on proposed rules governing standard broadcast stations and standards of good engineering practice has made new rules and regu¬ lations to provide increased radio service to urban listeners with¬ out taking any measures to improve service to small towns and rural listeners leaving the implication that no solution of this problem is being sought; and
"Whereas the report of the Federal Communications Com¬ mission lists in detail the many possible advantages of high-power operation in the standard broadcast band, particularly to people living in small towns and rural areas; and
"Whereas the new rules governing American international short-wave stations prohibit the use of power less than 50 kilo¬ watts in order to provide better service to foreign listeners while conversely other rules governing stations serving our own people within the continental limits of the United States are prohibited from using power in excess of 50 kilowatts; and
"Whereas the Federal Communications Commission in its report has reached the conclusion that because of the inadequacy of data on the social and economic aspects of hi^-power operation in the standard broadcast band (550 to 1,600 kilocycles) no provi¬ sion should be made to permit the operation of standard broadcast stations with power in excess of 50 kilowatts; Therefore be it
"Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Repre¬ sentatives of the Congress of the United States of America that the Federal Communications Commission should take such steps as may be necessary to provide an adequate method to obtain data and
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