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j N-A-E-B NEWS-LETTER I _ NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS J Edited by Richard B. Hull, President Station WOT, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa 80th Congress & Radio Longer FK Licenses & the FBI liore Educational Stations Tennessee radio for farmers DECT!SEP. 20, 1947 Salute to ICOAC CLIFFORD PURE'S CHICAGO SPEECH CAUSES DELAYED EXPLOSION Purr T s Remarks at Annual ff-A-3-3 Convention Cause of FBI-FCC Squabble Commissioner Clifford J. Durr, major speaker at the N-A-E-B annual meeting at the Hotel Sheraton in Chicago made a "brilliant speech at the final convention "banquet, pointing out the "basic responsibilities that education and educators havein this period of crisis to preserve the rights of free men, their basis liber¬ ties, and to extend the light of learning—a light which in some cases, has failed. Durr expressed disappointment that colleges, universities, and schools were so slow about applying for the 20 educational FM radio channels set aside for education’s use by the FCC, but stated his continued hope that educational institutions would seek facilities to provide more programs of education and information for the thousands of listeners to whom such radio service is not now available. The Commissioner also called attention to the rising tide of prejudice in this country, the real and dangerous onslaughts on free press, free radio, and free speech which have begun to make themselves evident. He distinguished between those who cherish a genuine concern for free speech and human liberty and those who falsely parade under those slogans. Durr pointed out that the FBI was furnishing the Federal Communications Commission with ’’unsolicited reports on individuals connected with radio.” He told the audience that if he could tell them of the kinds of things contained in many of these reports ’’you would dismiss the information as baseless gossip” Columnist Marquis Childs Publicizes Durr’s Remarks & FBI Becomes Annoyed After an address to college students at Ames, Iowa, Marquis Childs, well- known newspaper writer incorporated those remarks in his syndicated column, prais¬ ing Durr s Chicago remarks at the N-A-E-3 meeting, and characterizing him as a champion of liberty, and describing the ’’unsoliticted” FBI reports to the FCC. Edgar Hoover then ordered the FBI to stop forwarding private information to the FCC because Durr’s remarks made at Chicago, had not been ’’repudiated” by other commissioners or by the FCC itself. ^ice-President John Dunn WNAD, University of Oklahoma Norman, Oklahoma Treasurer W. I. Griffith WOI Ames, Iowa Executive Secretary Executive Committee M. S. Novik Seymour Siegal, WNYC, New York Graydon Ausmus, WUOA-FM, Alabama 30 Rockefeller Plaza Carl Menzer, WSUI, Iowa Ralph Steetle, WLSO-FM, Louisiana New York, N. Y. Frank E. Schooley, WILL, Illinois William Seneh, KUSC-FM, California