NAEB Newsletter (Jan 1945)

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NAEB NEWS LETTER*. » •PAGE 2.,,,, January I, 1945 Wallick Hotel, Columbus, Friday through Monday, May 4-7, 8945* Save these DATES ON YOUR CALENDAR * Start now to record programs for entry in the Ninth American Exhibition of Educational Radio Programs* One copy of the specifications and an entry BLANK VMS SENT ABOUT DECEMBER t TO ALL STATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES AND Canada, and to organizations entering programs in the past. Write I* Keith Tyler, Director, Institute for Education by Radio, Ohio State University, Columbus, 10, for additional copies* MUSI C 8 S "BILL OF RIGHTS" PASSED BY SENATE A BILL WHICH WOULD PREVENT UNION INTERFERENCE WITH THE BROADCASTING OF NON-COMMERCIAL CULTURAL OR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS BY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. HAS GONE TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AFTER BEING PASSED BY THE SenATEo The measure was introduced by Senator Arthur Vandenberg after James C, Petrillo, President of the American Federation of Musicians, insisted some MONTHS AGO ON CANCELLATION OF AN ORCHESTRA BROADCAST FROM THE NATIONAL Music Camp at Interlochen, Michigan* Senator Vandenberg is from Michigan* The music was to have been broadcast by school children* DURR SUGGESTS FM EDUCATORS ORGANIZE ENGINEERING TALENT Speaking before the annual meeting of the National Council of Chief State Officers in Bsltimore December 2 , FCC Commissioner Clifford J* Durr suggested that educational institutions enklst the engineering talent in their own ranks for the purpose of planning a nation-wide FM educational broadcast structure* He suggested that the radio technical experts on THE FACULTY STAFFS OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS BE ORGANIZED BOTH AT THE NATIONAL AND STATE LEVELS INTO COMMITTEES TO ASSIST IN BROAD-SCALE FM PLANNING * He SUGGESTED ALSO THAT EDUCATORS INVESTIGATE THE SURPLUS STOCKS OF THE Army and Navy as a possible source of economical broadcast equipment for FM STAT1ONSo ' PRESIDENT SCHQQLEY 8 $ REPORT ON VISIT TO MICHIGAN STATE Editor's Notes This is the second in the series of articles on stations OWNED AND OPERATED BY NAEB MEMBERS* A THIRD WILL APPEAR IN THE NEXT ISSUE OF THE NAEB NEWS LETTER. By Frank Schooley, NAEB President* \ We take you now to Fast Lansing, where Bob Coleman and his cohorts are OPERATING AND MANAGING STATION WKAR FOR THE MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE* Here, much of my task is made easy by a Michigan State bulletin on extension work WHICH RECOUNTS THE HISTORY OF THE STATION, SO I LET IT SPEAK FOR ME, WHILE I'M GETTING WOUND UP* Michigan State's first official entrance "in the r-adio field came on Aug*I8, 1922, WHEN A FEOERAL LICENSE WA S ^RANTED TO OPERATE A TRANSMITTER ON 360 METERS (834 KILOCYCLES) WITH 250 WATT POWER AND THE ASSIGNING OF THE