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Big Deal In Dubuque THERE’S NOTHING, BUT NOTHING LIKE TV TO STIR FOLKS UP (Editor’s note: a community antenna system serves an area normally cnit of range of TV stations. The signals are beamed to a tower on high ground and are piped into homes by means of cable. A monthly rental is charged each set owner for the service.) The legendary “Little Old Lady from Dubuque” probably didn’t know quite what to make of the fuss and furor in her home town in the past weeks. Few of her neighbors could compre¬ hend everything that was going on, but they thoroughly enjoyed the noise and excitement. And they absorbed enough to turn out in force to vote on the burning issue. Which was: whether to permit the Dubuque Community TV Cable Corp., a home-town applicant (and that point was stressed) to provide community TV antenna service for the city, or to let an outside outfit do the job. The home-town voters turned down their neighbor by a 6610-to-1537 vote —and this after the home group’s ap¬ plication for a franchise had been granted by the city council. It was a near-record vote for any¬ thing short of a Presidential or Con¬ gressional election. In the last school board election, only 200 voters turned out; and in the important issue of a swimming pool, only 4300 voted. Victor in the voting was Milton J. (for Jerrold) Shapp, president of Jer- rold Electronics Corp. and of Du¬ buque-Jerrold, original applicant for the franchise. Shapp took his case to the people after the city council de¬ nied a franchise to his company and placed only the local firm on the ballot. The vote was a climax of a month¬ long campaign that contained every¬ thing from local political philosophy to charges of falsehoods and libel. Jerrold took the approach that com¬ munity antenna TV systems are work for professionals. The Dubuque firm 18