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St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 118

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4J Feb. 7, 1954 ST. LP UIS POST-DISPATCH FCC to Hear Oral Testimony Of 3 VHF TV Applicants Here DESK DERRICK CLUB DINNER The Desk Derrick Club of St. Louis will hold Bosses' Night dinner, marking the organization's first anniversary, at the Sheraton Hotel Thursday at 6:30 o'clock. Miss Eloise Korrls of Oklahoma City, regional director of the Desk Derrick Clubs of North America, will be guest speaker.

PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION CONVENTION HERE THIS WEEK The Missouri Petroleum Association, will hold its annual convention at Hotel Chase beginning tomorrow at 9 a.m. and continuing through Wednesday. Speakers scheduled to address the convention tomorrow include Orville Roberts, repre sentative of the Sinclair Pipeline Co. of Independence, who will talk on "Atomic Energy," and James Tritschler, Cleveland, 0., attorney, who will speak on he Taft-Hartley law. Tuesday, the convention will hear Singer B.

Ireland, president of Cities Service Oil and Roy J. Thompson, chairman of the National Oil Jobbers Council. Both speeches will be devoted to the oil jobber industry. will be $73, second $50 and third $25, Awards will be made Feb. 23 at the Forest Park Hotel, and the winning designs will be displayed there.

Judges will be Lester Haeckel, president of the architects' chapter; Wesley Wedemeyer and Richard Bliss, architects; Eric Smith, assistant professor in the architectural school, and Stanley Rlchman, vice president. of General American Life Insurance Co. NEW DESIGN COMPETITION AT WAShlSTON UNIVERSITY Seniors in the Washington University School of Architecture are participating in a new competition in design, sponsored by the St. Louis Chapter of the American Institute of Architects in co-operation with the university. Entrants must design an eight-story office building.

First prize HUI1I FLOOD BUDGET 10 BE PROPOSED Examiner to Listen March 29 to Arguments for Single Permit to Operate Channel 4. and 220 Television, repre Three applicants for VHF (oWUinn Phnnnpl 4 at St. Louis Mississippi Valley Group Expected to Seek to Stabilize Army Engineers' Plans. Shop Monday Night In Our 3 Big Stores A. are scheduled to start oral testimony before a Federal Communications Commission examiner March 29, it was announced at Washington yesterday.

I OfO I I POWNTOWN STOm HOWS CLAYTON SOUTHTOWM Hearings on cnannei appu- futinna Ktartpri last November and attorneys have been assem bling evidence in line with FCC procedure. It was expected to several months before final Tl liZlx I Mo.doy 4 nmniay Monday, TWwi-y I Mdoy jOJkTttn? I MO AM. Ml. MO A.M. MO P.M.

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Channel 4 applicants are tta- rftn station KXOK. owned by A proposal that i minimum annual appropriation level be established for flood control work of the Army Corps of Engineers is expected to be brought before the Mississippi Valley Association In its annual convention tomorrow and Tuesday at Hotel Jefferson, Everett T. Winter, executive vice president of the group, said yesterday. He said many members of the association have felt that the Army Engineers have been hampered from year to year by the inability to base their plans on the reasonable assurance of obtaining a minimum amount of funds from Congress. the Elzey Roberts family, which published the old St.

Louis Star-Times; Radio Station KWK, con-trniiH hv Rnhrt T. Convev. and the Missouri Valley Televi sion controlled by a group headed by Stanley Hubbard, owner of stations ana KSTP-TV at Minneapolis. No Date set oy nt, Nn date has been set by FCC senting the Park Plaza Hotel and Koplar family interests. Began Operations Last Year.

Broadcast House, operated by a local group and affiliated with the American Broadcasting began operation last November with a transmitter at 5916 Ber-thold avenue. Meanwhile, St Louis's educational television station, KETC, was expected to go on the air late this spring on VHF Channel 9. It conducted closed-circuit transmission last month to permit evaluation school programs and the staff Is now engaged in preparing general educational programs. The Post-Dispatch television station, KSD-TV, tits been in operation on VHF Channel since February 1947. Other UHF stations in the St.

Louis area are WTVI at Belleville, affiliated with the Dumont network and operating on Channel 54 and KACY, on Channel 14, with a transmitter near Kimmswlck, 12 miles south of St. Louis. No Additional Time. A permit for operation on UHF Channel 42 has been granted to the Missouri Broadcasting which operates Radio Station WIL, but FCC notified WIL this week that it would not grant additional time for construction of a station on the basis of evidence submitted so far. No start has been made on construction and there has been no announcement of where the station would be.

Radio Station KFUO. operated by the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, has a permit for television operation on UHF Channel 30, but plans for its operation are still under study, a spokesman said. fnr hpnrinffs on the five SDDlica- Best in Quality and Value When Baby's Needs Are Made by Such Famous Makers Including Carter, Kleinert and Slumber-Gro! tlons for St. Louis's remaining unassigned VHF channel, No. 11.

Broadcast House, obtained a court order for Its Channel 11 application to be considered after FCC refused the application because Broadcast House already is operating KSTM on UHF Channel 36 here. Commission rules limit a licensee to one station in a broadcast area. Broadcast House offered to surrender Channel 36 if granted No. 11. On receipt of the court order, FCC agreed last Tuesday to consider the Broadcast House application along with the other four.

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SET AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE Meet Our Panel of Experts Mlu Pearl Mortlead, Carter nurse, will be in our 3 stores to advise you in the care of your baby. DOWNTOWN, Feb. 8 through 13; CLAYTON, Feb. 15, 16, 17; SOUTH-TOWN, Feb. 18, 19, 20.

Mr. Alloa FeneHor of I. B. Klsinert Company will be here with interesting facts about keeping baby socially acceptable. Mn.

Mary Skateff of Slumber-Gro and Slumber-Kins brings knowing advice on sleeping problems. Specific Program Expected. The association, an organization of business and commercial Interests in the Midwest and South, will probably recommend a. specific program of appropriations for flood control and navigation projects for the next fiscal year, Winter added. The group also Is expected to renew its long-standing opposition to establishment of "user" tolls on inland water carriers and repeal of federal law which prevents any carriers from charging less for "long-haul" services than for "short-haul" services, he said.

Other items on the convention agenda are a national water conservation and use policy, the new watershed flood control program of the Soil Conservation Service, and measures to expand the overseas commerce of the valley More than 1000 delegates and visitors from 30 states are expected to attend the sessions, the thirty-fifth annual convention of the association. Army Engineer to Speak. Principal speaker at tomorrow's opening meeting will be Maj. Gen. Bernard L.

Robinson, deputy chief of the Army Corps of Engineers, who will address the group following the report of its chairman and president, Henry F. DeBardeloben. Birmingham, Ala. Presiding will be Aloys P. Kaufmann.

president Of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce. Karl E. Mundt of South Dakota, and Civil Defense Administrator Val Peterson, former Governor of Nebraska, will speak at the afternoon meeting. At the annual banquet in the evening, Chester C.

Thompson of Washington, D. president of American Waterways Operators, will deliver the main address. Tuesday the convention will near speeches by Louis S. Rothschild, administrator of the United States Maritime Administration, and Leif J. Sverdrup, Chairman of the Missouri-Illinois Bi-State Development Agency.

Resolutions will be considered and new officers elected at the concluding session in the HEAD OF HOSPITAL COUNCIL PRAISES ST, LOUIS PROGRAM In connection with President Eisenhower's recent health message to Congress, St. Louis might well be proud of the hospital expansion programs exceeding $30,000,000, C. E. Cope- A 13-week refresher course on business subjects will be offered Feb. 24 to May 26 bv the Na ATS 'vn tional Secretaries Association and University College, Washington University adult evening school, at the university, it was announced yesterday.

The course will consist of 11 lectures on finance, business law and office management. It also will include two workshops on office machines and office layout. The course will be co-ordinated by Prof. Samuel V. Smith and taught by faculty members of the university's School of Business and Public Administration.

To aid in the program of raising the standards of the secretarial profession, the association established the Institute for Certifying Secretaries. The first 12-hour certifying examination was administered in 1951. Six sections of the examination covered human relations, business law. economic and business administration, secretarial accounting, stenography, and general secretarial and office land, president of the Greater St. Louis Hospital Council, said yesterday.

Copeland, administrator of Missouri Baptist Hospital, reported at a recent meeting of the council that "at present there are about 975 beds available to the mentally ill in general hospitals of the council." Four hundred more beds are being provided for the treatment of mental patients by proposed construction and other means, he said. Commenting on the President's remark concerning cost of medical care, the council cited a national statistical study which showed that operating expenses of the larger hospitals in the St. Louis area are among the nation's lowest. Kleinerts Frou Frou Panties 3-Pc. Terry Knit Slumber-Kin Set 098 98 1 Adorable rhumba ruffle, all-nylon bloomer style, waterproof pants.

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IRA REID TO SPEAK AT Y.W.C.A. BRANCH DINNER THREE FIRST AID CLASSES TO BE TAUGHT BY RED CROSS Three first aid classes will be started this month at St. Louis Red Cross Chapter headquarters, 3414 Lindell boulevard, Charles F. Paul, chapter chairman, announced yesterday. Each class will meet two hours weekly for nine weeks.

Instruction will be given In treatment of burns, shock, fractures and bleeding. The new method of artificial respiration also will be taught. The first sessions of each class will be at the following times: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday; 10 a.m. Wednesday, Feb.

17, and 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24. instrution is free, and the classes are open to the public. NEGRO HISTORY WEEK EXHIBIT AT CENTRAL PUBLIC LIBRARY An exhibition on the fourteenth annual observance of Negro History Week, which begins today, will open tomorrow at the Central Public and will remain until Feb.

23. The display features art work by students at Negro schools in St. Louis: copperwork by Mrs. Clarice Dreer Davis, Sumner High School art teacher, and portraits by the Rev. W.

A. Cooper, pastor of the Metropolitan A.M.E. Zion Church. The display was arranged by Herman Dreer, professor of English and Negro history at Stowe Teachers College. Dr.

Ira Reid, professor of sociology at Haverford College, Haverford, will speak at the annual dinner meeting of the Wheatley Branch, Young Women's Christian Association, at 6:30 p.m. Friday in the new Wheatley auditorium, 2711 Locust street. Dr. Reid is the author of several books on Negro labor problems. He is a member of the Federal Advisory Committee on Employment Security of the United States Department of Labor.

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