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-4- EOAC MARKS ITS SILVER JUBILEE December 7, 1947 is an important date in American history. It’s also a very important date in the annals of Station EOAC, owned and operated by the Oregon State System of Higher Education. EOAC, transmitting with 5000 watts on 550 kilocycles, is located on the campus of Oregon State College, Corvallis, maintains remote studios.- , on the campus of the University of Oregon in Eugene, and serves, under the direction of James M. Morris, a wide area in Oregon*s fertile Willamette Valley Surveys have shown EOAC to hold the number one spot in Oregon rural listening preference. It operates with a varied program of good music, news, special agricultural features, and a noteworthy School of the Air, broadcasting from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 r>.m. Clearly one of the key stations on the N-A-ErB. educational circuit, EOAC has operated continuously since 1922 as an educational, non-commercial outlet for Oregon’s institutions of higher learning. December 7, 1922 saw the arrival on the Oregon State campus of the license from the old Federal Radio Commission for facilities then known as ”EFDJ" which later became the present EOAC. EOAC has had a good many radio notables ’’milestoning” its career. To mention several— Wallace Eadderly, long-time Radio Chief for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and former mentor of the ’’Rational Farm and Home Hour,” Luke Roberts, Educational Director for EOIN, Portland, and Allen Miller, presently Director of the RockyMountain Radio Council, N-A-E-B salutes EOAC and its Program Manager, Jimmy Morris. HEW RADIO COUNCIL IN NEBRA SKA Civic leaders and station representatives met in Omaha early in December to begin formation of a Nebraska Radio Council whose first formal meeting was scheduled this month. Dorothy Lewis, who has been active in nation-wide organi¬ zation of these civic groups which act as liaison agencies between commercial stations and John G-illin, manager .of commercial station WOW, Omaha,met with the organizing committee. Radio councils, acting on the local level, serve as liaison and traffic centers for public agencies seeking, free public service time on commercial and educational stations. An increasing number of radio councils are seeking associate membership with the National Association of Educational Broadcasters in their capacity as lia^lson and public service program production centers. COMMISSION WARNS COLLEGES ABOUT RADAR ABUSE The FCC this month warned colleges and other educational stations who have been inquiring about use of radar equipment for engineering training, about possible interference to recognized radio services and the necessity of obtaining both station and operator licenses before beginning operation. (MORE DETAILS IN FCC SECTION OF NAE3 NEWSLETTER)