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N-A-S-B SALUTES PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOL STATION One of the unique broadcasting stations in the U.S. is NAEB Station, KBPS, owned and operated by the Portland Public School System, Second^in the Portland area to receive a federal radio license, KBPS was the first pub¬ lic school institution in America to be given a standard wavelength—and to this day is the only school district in the U. S. broadcasting on a standard wavelength. This year KBPS celebrated its 25th anniversary, listing an impressive record of accomplishment both in student benefits and public services , since Benson Polytechnic pioneered the facl.litvback in 1923. Among the millions of dollars of assets belonging to Portland’s public schools. the most coveted is this ethereal property--the KBPS wavelength which the school district holds by virtue of a farsightedness seldom, associated with school systems. Under the direction of Patricia Green, the station broadcasts between 11 a.m, and 4 p.m., furnishing a variety of special sorvicesQn joyed and used not only by the public schools but by adult listeners in the general radio audience in the region. The district has requested longer hours of operation for KBPS. Superintendent Paul Rehmus, congratulating the Benson staff on its anniver¬ sary said:--" Radio is education’s latest instrument. Its success has been a lmost miraculous, not alone for the children in the classroom, but for t he en t ire population of the world. Never has so much been accomplished. in so s hort a time with so small an expenditure. _ Yet in spite of the fact t hat almost every homo has a radio and every wavelength throbs with sound, its potential value hasn’t even begun to be realized. li