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NAEB NEWS LETTER .... IT. ay 1, 1941 .. Page 2 WHA WINS INCREASED OPERATING BUDGET Starting on July 1, WHA will expand its broadcasting service as a result of the substantial budget increase granted by the Wisconsin Legislature for the State Station., The budget boost is approximately 90 per cent over that of the past biennium* The results of the increase will be longer hours of operation mornings and on Sundays, funds for administering the Wisconsin School of the Air, equipment improvements and salary adjustments* A second measure is now before the Legislature to appropriate money for a new antenna* Enrollments for the Wisconsin School of the Air totalled 325,049 as of April 1. More than 16,000 school classes use the broadcasts* Fourteen series of programs are now being presented by the School over WI1A. The series are: Afield with Ranger Mao, This Our Democracy, Storybook Land, LeVs Draw, Good Reading, Living Language, Let f s Find Out, Journeys in Music Land, Music Enjoyment, Ficture Studies, Our Wisconsin, Rhythm and Games, The French Program, and Book Trails, 0N-T1.E-G0 AT KWSC Kenneth E* Yeend. Director of KWSC, reports on activities for his station in these words| "Six daily United Press news broadcasts have given a boost to KWSC f s radio audience. Through work of the KWSC staff, other departments on the campus, and the Associated Students, the funds were raised to install a teletype machine in the .KWSC offices, Now it constantly beats out the news of the world for KWSC* s news broadcasts. Because of the great success and growing recognition this institution is achieving in training and placing radio students, the Department of Speech at the State College of Washington is now offering a four-year course in radio speech. Perhaps the crowning achievement in sports broadcasts for KWSC was bringing a direct report of the National Basketball Champioa- ship game between the State College of Washington and the University of Wisoonsin direct from Kansas City, Cooperation of the Puilman townspeople, the faculty, and students made it possible for the funds to be raised to handle the expense of the leased v?ire. KWSC* s own sport announcers handled the play-by-play description of the Coast Championship series between WSC and Stanford, and also translated telegraphic reports of the Creighton-W3C and the Western Championship game between the Washington State College Cougars and the Arkansas Razorbacks into play-by-play reports for the Cougar fans of the Inland Empire. This series of sport events brought