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He lnl Radio News Se rvice
3/21/45
Senator Robert M. LaFollette (P. , Wisconsin) said the plan sounded all right to him, but he asked:
"What’s going to happen to the soap operas on the net¬ works? "
"Maybe the Government will build a station", responded Senator Claude Pepper ( D) , of Florida, who has for months been try¬ ing to sell Congress the idea of broadcasting its activities direct from the scene.
At the same session of the Congressional reorganization Committee at which Senator Downey made his proposal, Representative Estes Kefauver ( D) , of Tennessee, advanced the idea of a weekly broadcast of a Joint session of the Senate and the House, Mr. Kefauver said that a coast-to-coe st broadcast of a session of both branches would have great educational value, to both Congress and the country. He visualized Cabinet officers and heads of important Government agencies in discussion face to face with Congress while the Nation listens in, current national and international issues.
Senator Pepper and Representative John M. Coffee ( D) , of Washington, had previously introduced identical bills to provide for the broadcasting of the proceedings of the House and the Senate,
There still remains the question as to whether the public would be interested in these specially staged Capitol Hill sessions putting on the air the equivalent of what is now the driest part of the Congressional Record. According to a WOR-Crossley survey of radio listening in the New York area, it was said that broadcasts of Congress were favored by almost half the persons interviewed.
Men favored the proposition slightly more than the women, with 52.3$ of the 789 men interviewed voting "yes", while only 46.7^ of the 2,706 men polled voted affirmatively. Likewise remains the question as to whether Congress would be content with a daytime audience and, as before said, how long it would be before the statesmen on Capitol Kill would demand time on the more desirable evening hours.
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NEW WPB ELECTRONIC TUBE RULING
A producer of electronic tubes, including radio receiving tubes, may not use assigned preference ratings to secure electronic tubes from any other tube producer to round out his own line of tubes available for sale, the War Production Board ruled March 20th.
Direction 7 to Controlled Materials Plan Regulation 3, issued on Monday (March 19) , provides that notwithstanding the pro¬ visions of the regulation, which permits the use of preference rat¬ ings to acquire production materials, no producer of electronic tubes may use the preference rating assigned to him for his author¬ ized production schedule to obtain electronic tubes from any other producer for resale to round out his line,
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