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» 2 - GOVERNOR DEWEY QBE6TIQNNED ON RADIO REGULATION (Radio Daily-June 28) "Reasonable regulation" is the role of Government in the radio field* according to GOP presidential nominee, Thomas E. Dewey, He said last week in Philadelphia that development of FM and video "is up to private enterprise" and that they represent "great potentials for service to the public and the stim¬ ulation of business," the FCC The New York governor has not studied /hor its practices closely, but he is con ¬ vinced that the Commission should in no case have power to "regulate program content," Nor does he think Congress should legislate in any wav affecting the objectiveness of news broadcasts, he told a reporter. Repeating his frequent statements in the past that Government ownership of radio is repugnant to him , Dewey said, "Radio in this country made its greatest advance as an integral part of our American enterprises. The Government no more belongs in this field than in the field of the newspaper and the magazine. " HIGH-SCHOOL GRADUATION FOR VJHOLE U.S, The National Association of Secondary School Principals arranged a national high school graduation for broadcast over the Mutual Broadcasting System on the evening of June first. Speaker was David E, Lilienthal, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission who spoke on "Youth in the Atomic Age." The program originated from Gettysburg High School in Pensylvania. STUDEBAKER, U. S. EDUCATION HEAD. RESIGNS Dr. John 71 . Studebaker. United States Commissioner of Education, p rominent figure in the public forum and radicTfield, resigned from his federal duties to become Vice-president and Chairman,of the Editorial Board of Scholastic Magazine. Resig ¬ nation becomes effective July 15th after 14 years of service. IJidely known in ra dio broadcasting for his Interest in radio and radio education Studebaker was one of the champions of FM broadcasting for schools and universities. STRATOVISION SUCCESSFULLY DEMONSTRATED IN OHIO Jestinghouse Electrical Corporation and the Glenn L. Martin aircraft company made a striking demonstration of "stratovision" in Zanesville, Ohio, on the night of June 23. An airborne transmitter, crusing at 25,000 feet above Pitts¬ burgh, Pa., broadcast pictures of the G.O.P. convention in Philadelphia to viewers up and down the East Coast and to the special viewers in Zanesville, Ohio, stationed there for the experiment. Thirty-three newspaper men viewed the program from the Zanesville Country Clfib* The press viewing culminated three years of planning and experimentation. Actual broadcast got under way at 8:55 EDT when the plane carrying experimental station WI0KX3 on Channel 6 rebroadcast from the East Coast TV network. Pictures v/ere received with exceptional brilliance and clarity 0 The experiment heralds plans of Westinghouse and Martin engineers for a coast to coast "stratovision" network based on a basic service area of 500 miles in dia¬ meter. System would link New York and Hollywood which would broadcast five FM programs and four TV programs in a linkage requiring only eight planes flying about 400 miles apart. Addition of six planes to the "stratovision" netw or k would provide added coverage in the Southeast and Northwest. This coverage would include 51 percent of the U. S. area and 78 percent of the U. S. population*