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NAEB NEWS LETTER Page 5 September 1, 1944 More than 230*000 children listen to radio in the classrooms or Chicago SCHOOLS DURING AN AVERAGE WEEK OF THE SCHOOL YEAR, HANDBOOKS FOR TEACHERS GUIDANCE !N THE USE OF RADIO ARE PREPARED AND DISTRIBUTED TO EVERY CLASS¬ ROOM USING PROGRAMS a 20,000 SUCH HANDBOOKS ARE DISTRIBUTED TWICE A SCHOOL YEAR, Sq THAT TEACHERS MAY KNOW WHAT IS AVAILABLE FOR CLASSROOM LISTENING, THE RADIO COUNCIL PREPARES A WEEKLY PROGRAM BULLETIN WHICH LISTS ALL WBEZ BROADCASTS AS WELL AS THE SCHOOL TIME PROGRAMS OF OTHER STATIONS AND NETWORKS, PM EQUIPPED SCHOOLS, OF WHICH THERE ARE NOW ABOUT 125, RECEIVE A SPECIAL BULLETIN EACH WEEK, IN ADDITION TO THE STANDARD PROGRAM BULLETIN, Operation of the school station is under the direction of George Jennings, STATION MANAGER AND ACTING DIRECTOR OF THE RADIO COUNCIL? ELIZABETH £* Marshall, program director; Robert R, Miller, production head; and Emil H, Andresen, chief engineer, PAPPER URGES AIRING CONGRESSIONAL SESSIONS Floridans Democratic Senator Clauds Pepper, in August, introduced a resolution urging that the proceedings of Congress be broadcast. Pepper SUGGESTS THAT THE RADIO NETWORKS BE GIVEN ACCESS TO THE SENATE AND MOUSE FLOORSo Introducing his proposal, the Florida Senator declared that millions of PEOPLE DEMONSTRATED THEIR INTEREST IN THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES BY following the recent national political conventions by radio. Pepper ASSERTED THAT, IN HIS OPINION, PUBLIC INTEREST WOULD BE SIMILARLY SERVED BY THE BROADCASTING OF CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS, However, he declared that the proposed broadcasting privileges would not EXTEND TO ANY GOVERNMENT-0WNEO RADIO FACILITIES, Pepper*s resolution provides that the architect of the Capital install recording or transcribing machines in the Senate and House chambers and THAT COPIES OF THE TRANSCRIPTIONS BE MADE AVAILABLE TO RADIO STATIONS AND NETWORKS AT COST, PePPER 8 S PROPOSAL ALSO PROVIDES THAT NO RADIO STATION OR NETWORK BE REQUIRED TO BROADCAST ANY OF THE PROCEEDINGS AND IT ADDS THAT EITHER HOUSE COULD PROHIBIT BROADCAST OF ANY OF ITS SESSIONS AT ANY TIME, { COMMISSIONER DURR PESSENTS Fear that the radio industry may eventually be controlled exclusively BY SO-CALLED n WELL TO DO M PEOPLE IS EXPRESSED BY FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS Commissioner Clifford Durr. As a reason for this apprehension, he points TO RECENT HIGH PRICES PAID FOR RADIO STATIONS. Durr explains his reasons for dissenting from the action of the Commission in approving without a hearing the purchases of stations WQXR in New York, WINX in Washington, and others. He says that the prices paid WERE MANY TIMES MORE THAN THE NET WORTH OF THE STATIONS, According to the Commissioner, the price of about one million dollars PAID BY THE NEW YORK T «MES COMPANY FOR STANDARO STATION WQXR AND F-M