The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 10

THE FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1977 erslion keys WDRB-TV is sold for $6.5 million to Minneapolis Star and Tribune Co. affiliation, they also lack national program service and newscasts. Most independent stations have done little more about news than read some stories from the wire services a few times a day. By operating without news and public affairs departments and buying old programs to rerun, independent stations have chalked up impressive profits for some of their owners. The Minneapolis publishing firm owns station KTVH in the Wichita-Hutchinson, area.

In addition, it owns newspapers in Baltimore, Denver, South Dakota and Montana. It also owns Harpers Magazine, part-interest in Harper Row Publishers, and Quayle, Plesser and a market-research firm. Asked if the firm was interested in buying more television stations, Tattersall said, "We always have our eyes open." in other cities. (In Louisville, the Bingham family, which owns The Courier-Journal and The Louisville Times, also owns WHAS-TV, WHAS-AM and WAMZ-FM.) The Minneapolis stations are noted nationally for their strong news and public-affairs operations. Asked if the purchase of WDRB would mean beefing up the independent station's small news department and minimal newscasts, Tattersall said, "I'd really like to duck that one now.

Obviously we'll have something to say about it in our application to the FCC. It's certainly something we'll consider, but, we wouldn't want to damage the station's economic viability either." Independent stations in all but a few big cities do not have large news or public affairs departments, which can be expensive to operate. Without a network Staff Man Fill-up City crews seeking potholes to fix Junk pickup This is the area of next week's neighborhood junk pickup by the Louisville Sanitation Department. Starting Monday and continuing through Friday, crews will pick up junk and trash placed at curbs. Items should be put out by noon Monday.

'Ji's tough9 at the depot as workers get notices repair division applied about 1,600 tons of asphalt to potholes in its regular re- pair program, Sloane said. The cost was Lxm GOP, jfiiot Stansbury By ED RYAN Courier-Journal Political Editor S-Creighton Mershon, speaking to a tlTousand or so of his supporters last ruglit, virtually ignored his tough Democratic mayoral primary race against William Stansbury, and attacked the Republicans. "Let's make no mistake about what this (Democratic) race is all about," he told the crowd gathered at the Common- wealth Convention Center. "It's a cam- paign for the right of running against Republicans in the fall." 1 Then, not directly mentioning the I Stansbury battle again, he upbraided the 1 local Republican Party as the party that, I while in power in the 1960s, "spent eight years looking for the floodwall sates. They thought they were stored in the basement of the Pendennis Club." Mershon, the city aldermanic prcsi- rlant ellnnt 4lll1l rvl-QlcinCf TQtt ni'P.

sent Democratic leaders former May- or Frank Burke, current Mayor Harvey Sloane and current Jefferson County Judge Todd Hollenbach. 'He said these Democratic elected officials cared about "the real people the kind of people the Republicans read 4 about at Yale and talk about at the Lou- isville Country Club." '-'Asked why Mershon decided to take $tyi the Republicans before the Demo- cratic race on May 24 is won, the candi- date's speech writer, Terry Holland, said I Mershon wanted to dispel talk that there would be a rift between city and county governments if he is elected alng with Hollenbach. It's a charge that Stansbury has raised recently. said the Mershon camp "overconfident, but merely confident of victory" over Stansbury. In his speech, Mershon referred to the primary election "as the end of phase one.

It's all before us, within our grasp, this chance to continue the work of Burke and Sloane and Hollenbach. Last night's rally was in the same room where Stansbury's supporters gathered for a rally Wednesday night. There were the natural arguments of who had the biggest crowd. Free beer and hot dogs were available at the rally, but tickets sold for $15 per person and $25 per couple. However, many complimentary tickets were given out.

A SlOO-per-coup'e cocktail party was held before the rally. Sloane, U.S. Rep. Romano Mazzoli and Mershon camoaign manager David Karem also spoke. Grand jury visits road project Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky.

The Franklin County Grand Jury made a trip Wednesday to the Grassy Spring Road east of Frankfort, site of a project under investigation, it was learned yesterday. A recent report by state Auditor George Atkins said improvements on the 2v2-mile road, costing $380,000, raise serious conflict-of-interest questions. The road passes the farm of former Transportation John C. Roberts, who was highway commissioner when the repairs were authorized. Roberts' neighbor, Ed Randle.

is president of 1 he firm that was sole bid der on the project. Commonwealth's Atty. Ray Corns submitted the matter to the current grand jury, which invited several pople to testify. No subpoenas were issued. Roberts has said there was nothing "illegal or immoral" about the Grassy Spring project.

He contended Atkins, a potential Democratic candidate for governor, was politically motivated in the report. By TOM DORSEY Courier-Journal Radio and TV Critic Louisville television station WDRB-TV has been sold to the Minneapolis Star and Tribune Co. for $6.5 million, pending approval of the Federal Communications Commission. Paul Tattersall, vice president of affiliated companies for the Minneapolis newspaper publishing firm, was in Louisville yesterday to make the announcement to the local staff. The FCC approval process usually takes six months to a year.

The commission almost always approves the sale and transfer of licenses unless some serious objection arises. WDRB (Channel 41) is now owned by Consolidated Broadcasting Co. of Louisville. There are 11 stockholders, but Elmer Jaspan, station manager, is the only local one. The Minneapolis firm is buying all outstanding WDRB shares.

Both Tattersall and Jaspan said they wanted to make it clear that there would be no immediate changes in management, staff or programming because of the sale. "We obviously examined this station and found it in good shape or we wouldn't have been interested in acquiring it," Tattersall said, "We don't plan to change the people or the operation." The Star and Tribune Co. was part owner of WCCO-TV and WCCO AM-FM radio in Minneapolis until August of last year, when it sold its 47-per-cent ownership. It had had part ownership of the stations since they started operation. That sale "removed all newspaper, radio and TV cross-ownership in the Minne-apolis-St.

Paul area," according to the company's announcement. A March 1 U.S. Court of Appeals decision ordered the FCC to require the dissolution of joint newspaper-broadcast ownership in the same cities unless such ownership is "clearly in the public interest." Although the decision will be appealed, some newspaper-broadcasting ownerships have already arranged to sell the stations in question. Many have also started negotiations to buy stations DURABLE VINYL ASBESTOS! TOUGH FLOOR TILE TAKES HEAVY WEAR AND TEAR! rAI ItHN fliuta Uburroi i ii' Are there holes in your street that need fixing? If so. just call Louisville's Action Line, 587-3333.

Mayor Harvey Sloane says city Works Department crews will come out and take care of the problem within 24 to 36 hours. It's a new city program called "Operation Pothole." The mayor held a news conference yesterday in the 1900 block of Elba Drive in the Bashford Manor Lane area to tell about the program. In the background a city crew was busy putting hot asphalt in chuckholes. Sloane said the special program was needed because this winter was more severe than usual and damage to streets was greater. From Jan.

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There wasn't much work done yesterday in the large, hangar-like electronic maintenance building at the Lexington-Blue Grass Army Depot. Most of the chairs along the long rows of work tables were empty, while employes gathered in small knots to talk. The expressions on most faces were grim. After 2Vz years, the reality of massive civilian job cuts had arrived. About 700 workers at the depot received letters yesterday morning, informing them their jobs would end July 23.

Those 700 had held on since November 1974, hoping the Army's plan to eliminate about 2,650 of the depot's more than 3,500 jobs would not affect them. They waited out the protests, the lawsuits, the appeals, while many of their fellow workers retired early or took jobs elsewhere. Yesterday, some still showed a glimmer of optimism that positions will open among the 1,900 or so jobs remaining after July 23. But for many, their separation notice amounted to a good poleaxing. Some were depressed, some disappointed, some bitter, and all uncertain over their futures.

Col. William E. Denison, depot commander, said he had been hearing reports all day on the workers' reactions to the letters. "It's tough around here today," he said. "There's been a lot of complaining.

A lot of people don't understand the system." Clyde Fugate, a 46-year-old sheet metal helper, said he felt "like the majority of others like I got screwed." Fugate said he was angry because he was not considered a veteran even though he had retired after 21 years with the Army. "I'm going home and leech off the government," said Fugate, who has worked pt the depot. 31- years. they won't let me work, I'll draw food stamps or whatever they 11 let me have. Fugate said his retiree's pension and his wife's earnings won't be enough to live on.

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