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FCC OMITS SUMMER VACATION; BUSY SUMMER AHEAD
The Customary Summer recess which the Federal Communi¬ cations Commission has observed in past years will be passed up this year, according to plans of Chairman Frank R. McNinch, and a quorum of the Commission will be on hand at all times to trans¬ act business.
With several investigations underway and a realloca¬ tion in the offing, the FCC will be the busiest it has been during the Summer season since it was organized.
While the super-power hearing has ended, except for oral arguments, two other hearings are scheduled for this month and FCC investigators are gathering data in preparation for the monopoly probe in the early Fall.
Oral arguments will be heard by the full Commission throughout July and possibly in August.
Chairman McNinch plans to permit one or possibly two Commissioners to take vacations simultaneously. In previous years the FCC left only one Commissioner to look after routine matters while the remainder went to vacation resorts. The Chairman was to take a two week’s rest beginning this week-end.
On July 18th the super-power committee, headed by Commissioner NormarT°^ase will hold a hearing on the application of Station WLW_ for renewal of its special experimental license to operate wTth 500 KW. A renewal of clashes between Commissioner George Henry Payne and Powel Crosley, Jr. , owner of WLW, is expected.
Commissioner Payne was responsible for the hearing as he was acting in the one-man job of passing on broadcasting applications when WLW made its periodical request for a renewal of license. Instead of granting the application automatically, as the FCC had done in the past, he scheduled it for a hearing.
The inquiry will be particularly significant in view of the action of the Senate opposing any change in FCC rules which would permit the operation of broadcasting stations with power in excess of 50 KW.
However, the FCC will not be bound by this resolution as Senator Wheeler ( D. ) , of Montana, its author, stated on the Senate floor that it was not intended to apply to stations already using more than 50 KW.
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