NAB reports (Jan-Dec 1941)

mitter, antenna changes, and change population from 5,641,981 to 2,498,000. NEW — Seaboard Radio Broadcasting Corp., Glenside, Pa. — Con¬ struction permit for new high frequency broadcast station. Frequency, 48300 kt“. ; coverage, 9,600 square miles; popu¬ lation, 2,900,000. MISCELLANEOUS NEW — Lehigh Valley Broadcasting Co., Allentown, Pa. — Con¬ struction permit for new relay broadcast station. Frequen¬ cies, 1622, 2058, 2150, 2700 kt‘.: power, 3 watts; emis¬ sion, A3. WGNB — WGN, Inc., Chicago, Ill. — License to cover construction permit ( B4-PRE-347) , as modified for a new relay broad¬ cast station. KAQW — Central States Broadcasting Co., area of Omaha, Nebr. — Modification of construction permit (B4-PRY-209) , which authorized a new relay station requesting extension of com¬ pletion date from December 18, 1940, to January 18, 1941. KAQX — Central States Broadcasting Co., area of Omaha, Nebr. — Modification of construction permit (B4-PRY-210) , which authorized a new relay broadcast station requesting extention of completion date from December 18, 1940, to Jan¬ uary 18, 1941. NEW — WOKO. Inc., Albany, N. Y. — Construction permit for new relay station. Frequencies, 156750, 158100, 150300, 161100 kc.; power, 50 watts; emission, special for frequency modu¬ lation. WAWT — Alabama Polytechnic Institute, University of Alabama and Alabama College (Board of Control of Radio Broad¬ casting Station WAPI), area of Birmingham, Ala. — License to cover construction permit (B3-PRY-211 ), which author¬ ized a new relay broadcast station. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION ACTION COMPLAINTS Federal Trade Commission has alleged unfair compe¬ tition against the following firms. The respondents will be given an opportunity to show cause why cease and desist orders should not be issued against them. Consolidated Book Publishers, Iiie., Terminal Building, Chicago, engaged in publishing and selling an encyclopedia known as “Standard American Encyclopedia”, and a dictionary called “Universal Dictionary of the English Language”, is charged in a complaint with misrepresentation. The complaint charges that in circulars and other advertise¬ ments distributed throughout the various States the respondent has represented, concerning the encyclopedia: “YOURS— ALMOST A GIFT Through the .American Home Library Foundation We Are Able to Offer THE STANDARD AMERICAN ENCYCLOPEDIA Giant 13-Volume Home Reference Library . . .” “15 HUGE BOOKS” “ * * * EDITION LIMITED !***’> ,1: * * * * =1= ;)! >!: it: * “A MILLION DOLLAR INVESTMENT Was Required to Produce This Great New Home Reference Work.” ^ ;{c il; :}c jjc t * * “WHY WE MAKE THIS OFFER How can we afford to make this offer? Flow can we give you the Standard American Encyclopedia, almost as a gift ? The answer is simple. The .American Home LibraryFoundation is dedicated by its sponsors to the glorious task of placing within reach of every home in America good books that for all too long have been the privilege of only the wealthy. . . .” In connection with the dictionary, the respondent is alleged to have represented: “EDITED AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY by Henry Cecil Wyld * * * % The UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY is thoroughly new throughout, NOT a revised, reprinted edition of an oldcr publication. It contains all the newest additions to the English language. It is printed from new plates, in mod¬ ern, easy-to-read form. It brin.gs you the definitions or nearly 200,000 modern English werds and phrases, with every definition newly written. . . .” The complaint alleges that these representations are false and misleading; that the price of the encyclopedia is not lower than it would be but for the activities of the “American Home LibraryFoundation”; that the “American Home Library Foundation” is not an organization dedicated to placing within the reach of every home the said encyclopedia, but is a trade name used by the respondent in conducting its business of selling the encyclopedia for a profit; that the volumes composing the encyclopedia are not huge, but of ordinary size; that the cost of reproduction was not a million dollars, and that the supply of the encyclopedia is not “limited”, and copies are available for all potential pur¬ chasers, and that the dictionary is not new, but is an identical reprint of a 1932 edition by another publisher, except for a one and one-half page preface, a nine-page appendix, and other minor changes. The complaint charges that neither Oxford FTniversity nor any such educational institution sponsored or contributed in any way to the publication of the dictionary. (4440) I)e F'orest’s Trniniii};', Inc., 2333 North Ashland Ave., Chicago, conducting a vocational school in television, radio and motion picture sound equipment maintenance and manufacture, is charged in a complaint with misrepresentation. The complaint charges that in the conduct of its business and for the purpose of promoting the sale of its course of instruction, the respondent secures prospective students and purchasers of its course by means of circulars and sales literature distributed in commerce. In advertising matter supplied by the respondent and distributed by its agents, there appear, among others, the com¬ plaint charges, the following statements: “Sound, television, radio present world-wide opportu¬ nities. Television, a new branch of the Electronic field, is developing rapidly, * * *. After a man is trained the De Forest w--ay, he is ready to enter the Electronic Indus¬ try and really go places. Our employment service is available to every enrollee no matter where he lives. Through this service we have helped scores of men obtain employment. Because we train our men w'ell, manufac¬ turers, dealers, and distributors are glad to consider our advanced students and graduates. What we have done for others we can do for you when you are properly trained. Start your preparation now' so you can soon take advantage of our employment service.” The complaint charges that the respondent’s representations are exaggerated, false and deceptive, and that the demand at the present time for men trained in the television field is not large enough to warrant the respondent’s representations that graduates of the respondent’s school may he readily placed in positions in the field. Moreover, the complaint continues, graduates of the respondent’s school do not possess sufficient practical experience to qualify as skilled employees or craftsmen in the radio and television industry. (4441) Gly-Cas MeiHciiie Company — Medora Whinrey, individually and trading as Gly-Cas Medicine Company, and Robert B. Whin January 10, 1941 — 39