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12 - WAYNE U* FORMS COMMUNITY TV COMMITTEE Wayne University is encouraging community participation in planning for the .use of channel £6 reserved for education in Detroit* A general advisory committee, with representation from all educational interests in the area, has been formed* It is expected that the license will be held by a non-profit educational cor¬ poration, basic policies of the station to be directed by a board of trustees of some 15 individuals selected from the community. The facilities of radio station WDET, Detroit, have been presented to Wayne University by United Auto Workers (CIO), and will be adapted for. television broadcasting* Use of the radio station's land, buildings,. and tower will cut construction costs for the Detroit educators* LIBRARIES AND EDUCATIONAL TV Scheduled for the October issue of College and Research Libraries is an article by Robert W. Orr, Director, Iowa State College Library, on means by which libraries can provide effective service to educational television broadcasting* The article, which is. entitled "Television and the Libraiy at Iowa State," is a comprehensive report on the utilization of college library materials by the WO I-TV staff in pro¬ gramming and researching television shows, and on ways in vhich a college library staff may be able to aid television stations on its own campus* The article should prove helpful both to members of college library staffs and television personnel. FORD FOUNDATION TO AIR 90-MINUTE CBS DRAMA-TIC SHOW The Ford Foundation will make its initial entry into television programming in the fall with a high-budgeted hour-and-a-half dramtic series Sunday afternoons, on CBS-TV* While plans are still in the earliest talking stages, the Foundation has notified CBS of its intentions to program the show Sundays from k:30 to 6 p.m* start¬ ing Nov* £* Under plans set recently the series will be offered to five participat¬ ing sponsors, each of which, must be acceptable to the Foundation* Program Schedule Set Alistair Cooke, chief correspondent in the U*S. for the Manchester Guardian and winner of a Peabody Award this year, is to be emcee. Shows are to be both live and film. Now in the works, according to Workshop director Robert Saudek, are three original plsys by Maxwell Anderson; five short French ballets now being produced in Paris; a special video series by maestro Leopold Stokowski; examples of how film is used in medical research and in industry; a series of plays by James Agee; plus occasional fims made by the American Museum of Natural History, the N*Y. Zoological Society and other American and foreign institutions. In addition to these, Richard de Rochemont, formerly producer of March of Time, and Jean Benoit-Levy, will present individual shows on "Omnibus*" Besides Saudek, the permanent staff of the show include John Coburn Turner, Saudek*s assistant, and Franklin Heller, now on leave from CBS-TV. The initial "Omnibus" series Is planned for a 26-week run* * "People Act," meanwhile, completed the 26-week cycle for which it was originally designed. The Ford Foundation, however, 'is offering recordings of the show to. sta¬ tions around the country for aid in helping other communities solve the type of problems which the show spotlights*. Recordings will be distributed via the "People Act Centre" at Penn State College*