Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1957)

TO TURN RANDOM TUNERS INTO VETERAN VIEWERS Now — in many markets — three great adventure -action series combined into one great 5-day a-week show! Why pay a pretty penny for programs when you can get top-rated series in your market and hold on to all of your own cash! For complete details about this new plan, phone today. Or wire Michael M. Sillerman at TPA for your market's availability. Television Programs of America, Inc. 488 Madison Ave., N. Y. 22 • PLaza 5-2100 Page 14 • November 25, 1957 OPEN MIKE Fire and Brimstone editor: I have just read your rediculous editorial: "Let's Break Out the Bottle" written in the Broadcasting Oct. 28, which, by the way, I shall never purchase another copy, and use whatever influence I can against anyone else's purchasing one. . . . Curtis D. Owen Director of Music and Education First Baptist Church Bay City, Tex. editor: . . . My people are joining in prayer that God will either change your heart and attitiude — or remove you! God is still on the throne and you may soon be hearing from Him. /. C. Clement, Pastor First Baptist Church Port Neches, Tex. editor: ... If your moral standards are low enough until you don't care what happens to the people of the world then I wouldn't be too concerned if you could suffer alone — BUT the fact remains that you CANNOT suffer alone and my children are destined to suffer too along with millions of other innocent people just because you and others who do not feel any moral responsibility are permitted to clutter channels that could be used for something wholesome. . . . Rev. C. R. Archer Calhoun, Mo. editor: . . . Rum-soaked minds will never produce the scientific experts we need in America to keep pace in our world. . . . Taylor Pendley Dallas Baptist Assn. Dallas editor : Your recent editorial . . . stinks to high heaven. . . . Ralph H. Langley, Pastor Wilshire Baptist Church Dallas editor: . . . Let [the distillers] produce movies showing the gradual downfall of a young girl deceived by an ad that infers alcoholic beverages bring popularity, only to find her life is ruined by its use. . . , Wade O. Skinner, Pastor First Baptist Church Richmond, Tex. editor: . . . You may want to bring up your children to be drunkards but please, let me try to bring mine up without the disgraceful influence of alcoholic advertising. . . . Mitchell Bennett, Pastor First Baptist Church Savannah, Tenn. editor: . . . You are in a strategic position to properly influence the greatest nation in the world. It will be either for GOD or for SATAN. I pray, sir, that it will be for GOD. W. R. Karkalits, Pastor First Baptist Church Seymour, Tex. editor: . . . You would line your pockets with money from the tables of little children who are not fed sufficiently because fathers and mothers have already been reading the advertisements. . . . Leon W. Heibeck, Pastor First Baptist Church Basile, La. editor : . . . Revolting. ... D. M. Britt, Pastor Lakenon Baptist Church Fort Worth editor: . . . You have no respect for the Bible. . . . J. Clifford Harris, Pastor South Fort Worth Baptist Church Fort Worth editor : . . . Shocking. . . . Kermit E. Whiteaker Minister of Education First Baptist Church Longview, Tex. editor: . . . Appalling. . . . Roye L. Blackmon, Pastor East Mountain Baptist Church Gladewater, Tex. editor: ... I trust that your conscience will convict you. . . . C. R. Pierce Jr., Pastor Lake Village Baptist Church Lake Village, Ark. editor: . . . May God have mercy on you. Loren F. Messenger, Pastor First Baptist Church Cherokee, Okla. [EDITOR'S NOTE: See editorial page 122] Says One Third Proved a Point editor : Re the Pulse survey [Lead Story, Nov. 18] and editorial: First, it is very surprising to me that any appreciable percentage of the public would be willing to pay for existing tv programs. . . . What we have in mind, are the box office attractions that people must now leave their homes to see. . . . The fact that one-third of the people queried voted, sight unseen, in favor of the supplementary service pay tv can provide is answer enough to those who say it should be banned. That is a far larger percentage of Broadcasting v '