Broadcasting (Jan - Mar 1950)

le, attorney and state senator. Filed ji. 12. Korth Bend, Ore.— Bay Bcstg. Co., |0 kc, 250 w fulltime; estimated cost j,850. Principals: Josephine E. Edtds, owner Edwards Hardware Store, Tsident 100%; Donald B. Carmichael, [retary-treasurer, and John W. Kend i majority owner KWWB Walla lla, vice president. Filed Jan. 12. ort Bragg, Calif. — Knox La Rue. ) kc, 250 w fulltime; estimated cost 165. Applicant is 42.5% owner KSTN ^ckton, Calif., and manager of San mcisco oflSce of George P. Hollingy Co. Filed Jan. 9. (urbank, Calif. — Essie Binkley West, 0 kc, 250 w fulltime; estimated cost p35. Applicant is owner KCSB San rnardino, Calif. Filed Jan. 6. ^bby, Mont. — Lincoln County Bcstrs. (., 1230 kc, 250 w fulltime; estimated It $5,475. Principals: Oliver G. Cok-n, ex-chief engineer KBYR Anchori, Alaska, and co-owner Coburn bctronics, manager-chief engineer, t i't sh; Mary Elizabeth Coburn, coijner Coburn Electronics, 601 sh; ;igan Jones, president-general manbr KVOS Bellingham and president fO, Wenatchee, Wash., 1 sh; James Wallace, vice president-general inager KPQ, 1 sh; Radio KVOS Inc., ( sh. Filed Jan. 6. tfackson, Mich.— WKMH Inc., 970 kc. -Kw fulltime, directional; estimated tl'tt $56,400. Applicant is operator |5MH-AM-FM Dearborn, Mich. FM APPLICATIONS Muncie, Ind. — Wilson Junior High nool, noncommercial, educational jj,|I station, Ch. 218, 91.5 mc, 10 w. lied Jan. 10. iifiLa Crosse County, Wis. — Wisconsin >late Radio Council, noncommercial ilucational FM station, Ch. 212 (90.3 J:), power 3 kw. Transmitter to be sated at P. O. Holmer, RFD, La losse County. Filed Jan. 6. TRANSFER REQUESTS IVSHB Stillwater, Minn. — Acquisition control of St. Croix Bcstg. Co., linsee, by William F. Johns Sr. through iPchase for $58,000 of 67.5% interest ad by Victor J., Albert S. and Nichks Tedesco. Mr. Johns is 15% owner OSH Oshkosh, Wis. William F. hns Jr., WSHB manager, retains FtV5% interest and James W. Bobbins Jlains 10%. WSHB assigned 250 w ill y on 1220 kc. Filed Jan. 11. WFUR Grand Rapids, Mich.— Transf of control of Furniture City Bcstg. >rp., licensee, for $60,300 from Simon . and Jennie Oppenhuizer, T. F. and L. VanderMey, and William R. and 4 R. VanderWerp to new group of all stockholders headed by William Jifcjiper, about one-third, and Harold inks, trustees. WFUR assigned 1 kw y on 1570 kc. Filed Jan. 10. KSVC Richfield, Utah— Transfer of ntrol of Sevier Valley Bcstg. Co. from illiam L. Warner Sr., president and ajority owner, and to cover issuance new stock. More than dozen new >ckholders have been added to firm, ir. Warner and four other original jckholders retain 54.15% under new 1 tup. KSVC assigned 1 kw day on ( 3 kc. Filed Jan. 12. li AVSRK(FM) ShelbyviUe, Ind.— Acquiion of control of ShelbyviUe Radio r., licensee, by Emma S. DePrez, who •h nephew, John C. DePrez each •^ady hold 37.5% interest. Marion T. ers is 25% owner. Mrs. DePrez also chief owner of ShelbyviUe Newspers Inc. and Daniel DePrez Mfg. Co., V iders of preferred stock in WSRK. ef erred stockholders acquire equal ting interest when dividends are not I id. Filed Jan. 12. ' KXXX Colby, Kan. — Transfer control Western Plains Bcstg. Co. Inc., ensee, from John B. Hughes and fl sociates through sale of all stock for " 5,500 to KMMJ Inc., licensee KMMJ •and Island, Neb. Mr. Hughes, chief l iner KXXX, holds 350 sh. There are i other stockholders with holdings t: nging from 5 sh. to 50 sh. KXXX is signed 5 kw day on 790 kc. Filed ji-i n 6. iwWYVE Wytheville, Va.— Assignment ( license from Dr. A. M. Gates and iit:»bert Hennis Epperson d/b as Wythe 4 lunty Bcstg. Co. to Dr. Gates indidually. Mr. Epperson sells his 50% terest for $20,000. WYVE assigned kw day on 1280 kc. Filed Jan. 6. WVNJ Newark, N. J.— Transfer of mtrol of Newark Bcstg. Corp., lipisee, through multiple small stock ansfers and new issues over period time from six original owners to ■esent 18 stockholders, including cerSn of original owners or members of leir families. WVNJ assigned 5 kw I 620 kc. Filed Jan. 6. Johnson (Continued from page 16) annual election in which Neville Miller, Washington attorney and former NAB president, was named FCBA president succeeding Guilford Jameson. Other officers elected were: William A. Porter, first vice president; Arthur W. Scharfeld, second vice president; Thad H. Brown Jr., secretary, and Reed Miller, treasurer. Sen. Johnson told FCBA that it is FCC's "duty" to be more than a regulator of technical factors, and that it must see that licenses are used in the public interest. Otherwise, he maintained, the license becomes "special privilege of the worst kind." He said regulations are more likely to become arbitrary and onerous "only when the licensee is doing a minimum job." He continued : When the licensee persists upon skating on thin ice, always seeing how little he can get by with, he strengthens the hand of a bureaucratically inclined agency. It is faulty and sloppy operation that brings on a Blue Book; it is clever deals that bring on an Avco Rule; it is monopoly practices that bring on network regulations. Licensees and their lawyers constantly cry about the Commission and its greed for more power, but the most effective way to pull the Commission's fangs — if fangs it has — is to do such a good job of broadcasting that there is little for the Commission to do except formulate technical regulation. Sen. Johnson said he was "not criticizing radio, for American radio has done a magnificent job." He told his listeners that "there are 10 to 1 more fine radio stations performing a great public service in this country than in all of the rest of the world combined." It is a "few," he said, who give radio "a bad name." February Report Sen. Johnson, who in a report to the Senate last February said his committee "would deplore" an FCC decision on the clear-channel question prior to the NARBA conference at Montreal, declared Thursday night that : "We might have been in a much stronger position at Montreal in our efforts to reach a conference agreement had we first eliminated the problem of the clears. Most certainly, then we could have dealt with cleaner hands with our LatinAmerican neighbors." He said: ... I hope the Commission will shortly provide for duplication of clears since the people of this country need more frequencies desperately. Certainly, it has the authority to do so. The maintenance of clear channels is an anachronism in modern radio practice. Unfortunately the clears cannot render the local service that many areas deserve, hence they do not serve well. It is archaic to contend any longer that clear channels serve a useful purpose in the U. S., and the best proof is that the networks now frankly admit that their own sea Commerce Committee, and a number of other congressmen and government officials. Mr. MILLER Sen. JOHNSON board clears might be duplicated without harm to them. He claimed that such agencies as FCC and others "have not only come hopefully to regard themselves as arms of the Executive, but they actually perfoi-m their functions as if they were part and parcel of the Executive." He maintained this is a "dangerous" trend with "totalitarian aspects." Sen. Johnson suggested that the power of appointing members of commissions should be withdrawn from the President and given to Congress — the Speaker of the House, for example. With respect to the possibility of substituting FM for AM in Cuba and other Caribbean countries, the Coloradan said: FM renders better service than AM in areas where static interference is serious and where the area to be covered is not continental. Moreover, its use would eliminate pressing frequency problems and AM interference for us since there are ample FM frequencies. ... It might pay us to make a loan nor grant for the installation of FM stations, plus the replacement of all existing AM receivers with FM sets. . . . On Color TV On the subject of color television : "Since it is generally agreed that color is practical, most emphatically the public interest would not be served by waiting until 30 million families have invested upward of $6 billion dollars in black-andwhite sets before switching to color." He said he was "sorry there has been unavoidable delay in reaching a final decision" on color but that he thought FCC's "present hearing has been justified by the new interest it has aroused in this art." The entertainment program for the dinner included Eddie Gallaher of WTOP-CBS Washington as m.c, and radio and television singers Jody Miller, Jeanne Warner, Steve Olds and Gene Archer. Guests aside from FCC members and staff executives included Navy Sec. Francis P. Matthews, who is part owner of WOW Omaha; Sen. E. W. McFarland (D-Ariz.), whose bill to reorganize FCC procedures has passed the Senate and was promised further assistance by Sen. Johnson; Sens. Brien McMahon (D-Conn.), Charles W. Tobey (R-N. H.), Owen Brewster (RMe.), Homer Capehart (R-Ind.), and John W. Bricker (R-Ohio), all members of the Senate commerce committee; former Sen. Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, now practicing law in Washington; Rep. Robert Grosser (D-Ohio), chairman of the House Interstate and Foreign Trafficking (Continued from page 20) mittee actually intended to construct the station for purposes of sale rather than operation. In cases where, in addition to a transfer of license, there is also involved a transfer of a construction permit for modification of facilities, under which construction permit program tests have not commenced, the Commission will authorize the transfer of such construction permit if it represents a relatively minor modification of existing facilities but not when it represents a major modification. What is minor or major will depend upon the facts of every case. Illustrative of the former is a construction permit to change transmitter site. Illustrative of the latter is a construction permit to change facilities from a local station on daytime only to a full time regional station. [Editor's Note: FM illustration of "major" modification: To change from Class A to Class B; in television, to change from community to metropolitan station.] ' This section shall not apply to an assignment or transfer of control of a construction permit for a standard broadcast station where such assignment or transfer is an integral part of the assignment or transfer of control of an FM station located in the same community and where such FM station is itself eligible for assignment or transfer under the provisions of Section 3.215. [Editor's Note: In FM section, this footnote permits transfer of FM grant when integral part of AM license transfer. No comparable footnote appears in section dealing with television transfers.] WBIG ELECTS Price Is Board Chairman ELECTION of Ralph C. Price, president of Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co., as chairman of the board of WBIG Greensboro, CBS-affiliated regional, was announced last Wednesday following a meeting of the board of North Carolina Broadcasting Co., WBIG licensee. Mr. Price formerly had been chairman and president. Gilbert M. Hutchison, general manager, was elected president and a director of North Carolina Broadcasting, and Mrs. Lorraine P. Ridge, widow of Edney Ridge, former general manager, was reelected to the board. Jefferson Standard owns two-thirds of the corporation and Mrs. Ridge onethird. Aileen Gilmore was reelected secretary-treasurer. Joseph M. Bryan, executive vice president of Jefferson Standard, formerly a director, resigned. ■ HELP WANTED I A good Philadelphia station is I looking for a good AM time I salesman who wants to work . and wants to make money do ' ing it. I BOX 810D. BROADCASTING "iROADCASTING • Tel ecasting January 16, 1950 Page ■ e 73