The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • Page 3

THI TENNESSEAN, Tufy, Jufy 10, 1973 Black-Owned, Operated TV Station Nearer for a reorganization under SISK SAID THE station pro By PAT WELCH Nashville's first black-owned and operated television station took the initial step toward its proposed fall debut yesterday with court approval of the sale of the license of bankrupt Channel 17. THE PEN SHAVER SHOP 415 Church St. (Next to Crescent Theatre) REPAIRS AND SALES PENS LIGHTERS ELECTRIC SHAVERS rf Summer THE LICENSE currently is in the hands of trustee Charles Hampton White, who has the FCC's permission to broadcast or not broadcast, Sisk said. FCC approval of the transfer is necessary before the station can begin operating. i City Video, which broadcasts as WMCV-TV, filed the names of other investors." He said the syndicate will be mostly black, and the operating personnel will be predominantly black.

Sisk said the group headed by Hudson will seek approval of the Federal Communications Commission soon, after a survey of community needs, and hopes to be "on the air by late fall." bably will not buy up the equipment of Channel 17, because most of it is now obsolete. He said plans of Hudson Broadcasting Co. are not completed in detail yet, but that the station probably will emphasize community affairs. He said the group headed by Hudson is "optimistic" about success in Nashville. Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy laws in May 1971.

It was adjudicated bankrupt by Judge Kinnard in January 1973. She then appointed John H. DeWitt Jr. retired WSM-TV executive, to appraise the value of the assets. DeWitt said the license and office furniture were worth between $25,000 and $30,000.

Hudson Broadcasting headed by former WVOL Radio executive Bob Hudson, now of Montgomery, had offered $25,000 for the license and some office furniture of Music City Video which broadcast on the UHF channel from August 1968, to April 1971. REFEREE bankruptcy Ruth M. Kinnard approved the sale of assets yesterday, "it appearing to the satisfaction of this court that it is in the best interests of the estate that said should be confirmed by this court, and no adverse interest being represented." T. Edward Sisk, attorney for Hudson, said yesterday he is "not at liberty to disclose First Crackdown Trials You're Invited To Hear DR. HENRY C.

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BRANDT SAID that, in his oDinion, the law is unconstitutional because it does not require a showing of interstate commerce. The U.S. Supreme Court has never ruled on the question, Brandt said. The 6th U.S. Court of Appeals has upheld the federal law in i a case involving a Fayette County man who was convicted of raising three acres of marijuana in the middle of a corn and okra farm.

Yesterday's drug cases were the first to be tried from a crackdown on suspected heroin pushers last March and April by the federal Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement (ODALE), which used agents from the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, the U. S. Customs Bureau and state and city narcotics agents to make up special task forces. TWO OF the agents involved in Green's arrest were detectives from the Miami and Ft.

Lauderdale police forces. Both the BNDD and the ODALE have been abolished and combined, along with customs agents who handle narcotics investigations, into the new Drug Enforcement Administration. Charles Klick, head of the local BNDD office, said he is still waiting to hear details Two North Nashville men were convicted yesterday in federal court of selling heroin to undercover agents. John Wesley Douglas, 35, of 1562 Delta pleaded guilty before U.S. Dist.

Court Judge Frank Gray Jr. Gray set his sentencing for 9 a.m. Friday. Calvin Houston Green, 29, of 2709 Meharry was sentenced to two years on each of two counts of selling heroin, with the sentences to run concurrently. Green was found guilty by a jury which deliberated less than an hour.

He denied the heroin sales, but Asst. U.S. Atty. Ira Parker III presented four agents who identified Green. Green said he is a hustler at Sam Sim's pool hall on lllltl SAT I'll HAY OXLY SALE (3 C2lI) GDLTH Phone 262-0011 FREE EST.

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