The Pittsburgh Press from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • Page 24

Aug. 28, 1957 May Become Educational Outlet shown smaller audiences than their VHF competitors, and advertisers have been reluctant to put sponsor money into shows for UHF. Another UHF station here, Channel 53, gave up the ghost in 1954. WENS Goes Off Air as Channel 1 Opens CommissionsTargets For Abolishment By 'Reform' Groups By FRED REMINGTON Washington." I The fate of WENS is fairly I'ress TV-Kadio Editor Ir. White said he was cer- typical of UHF stations Pittsburgh gains a new tel- tain his station would make around the country which i i ii a Vinson tnvtsmrl 4 i- rv it 4 TV sets, are reluctant to add the expense of L'HF converters.

Thus UHF stations have evision station and loses an iormai application to tne kcu LA fasaV saaW LaaW permission to take over in ine iame marKei wun stations. I old one this week end. With VVIIC (Channel 11) I so channel. He said WQED also! PLASTIC PLATES palm Wkili You Wilt new location Tri Cor Olaawad Wood St If) scheduled to go on the air at was considering applying for 5 p. m.

Sunday, WFNS (Chan- Channel 22 presently assigned; nnl 1G1 has announced it will to Clarksburg, Va. Expert Would Cut Plan Board A prominent member of the Club Asks End Of Triumvirate A new County charter SunburrrHeat Rash Poison Ivy Chafing Relieve Fiery Misery Fast With Soothing Lanolated Since most TV sets are made to receive only Channels 2 through 13, the lot of the L'HF operator lias been a dismal one. Most persons, having made a substantial investment in their broadcasting on Satur- cease day. WQED would be the first educational station in the country to operate on two channels. 1 mm, Medicinal OINTMENT which would eliminate County Allegheny County Planning Commissioners here and sub- Commision has suggested that stitute a chief executive and the Commission he abolished council has been proposed hyl in fact, all planning com I the Civic Club of Allegheny missions might be done away County.

Uvith. declared Patrick J. Cu- In a brochure issued to en- sick Jr. list individuals and groups in But Mr Cusirk hastened to But WENS, which has made a gallant and single-handed effort to make Ultra High Frequency take hold In Pittsburgh. des not die easily.

In one breath it announced its cessation of commercial broadcasting; in the next it announced its intentions of becoming; an auxiliary educational TV channel here. WOOD STREET Open Thursday Might Till 9 STlfc? fol EAST UBERTy II Broad and Collins its plan, the club says a mar-ter would give Allegheny County "municipal status." add he doesn't want to hamper County planning activities. NASH Too many speakers. Poet Nash to Talk On flash, Poetry Commissioners Assn. II i unite tne contrary He feels it's time to p'aee planning; under direct control of the County "Thhrln turn would permit asrreater degree of liome Jcii it adds "le-rause government would not bejiMrrly an administrative subdivision of the Mate gwernment." The ownership of WENS has paralleled the ownership of the Pittsburgh Pirates.

The fortunes of the station, fight-1 To Hear Him Tonight He urged that planning be taken "out from under the Poet Ogden Nash, whose per- ing the uphill battle for gen-; verse verse causes the iambic eral acceptance of UHF televi-; protective custody of 'mother' pontameter intellectuals to It said a chief executive, either elected or appointed by the County's legislative cinn narallelcd those of planning commissions. iS'5'i uu law the last-place Pirates, i after dinner speakers who talk Mr. Cuslck. who Is direc uwners or r.A about things they know noth of WENS include ing about. I Owners Therefore, as an after dinner P.

Johnson and John speaker at tonight's conven- w- Galbreath, principal own-tion of the Pennsylvania Asso- of the Pirates. Others fl- branch(-iild be held responsible forJHceess or failure of administration. "Tlids now Impossible with GIF present dispersal of autlior.ty among three Commissioners and srjreral row offices." savs tlMfJmllctin. tor of the privately-financed Feioniil Planning noted thai commissions or citizens' advisory groups have been abandoned in other phnses of County Governments, such as in the Works Department. ciation of Count Commission- nanciany interestea in ers, in the Penn-Sheraton Hotel, include Ralph Kiner, the for-Mr.

Nash savs he will talk only 'mer home run-hitting outfield-on a familar subject. of the Pirates; Bob Prince, Mr. Cusick spoke at the convention of the Pennsylvania His subject will he Ogden Nash and his poems. me i'lrates announcer; vvu-liam C. Rea and Michael M.

Rea. WENS' opening telecast VhJVS opening The club noted that "a separate legislative branch of seven or more members would permit more equitable repre State Assn. of County Com-j missioners in thp Penn-Shera-1 Th. fnrmw roeirtont Rat.t sentation of all parts of the' ton Hotel. timore and now a New Yorker, a ouw carai- County than does the pres-j nm Save-SS ii I Zil Jit i i ng the panel discussion said there is no rhyme or mtv planning and zon- son why he never wrote a ine 1 Iosl' eni ooaru oi mice qou Commissioners wnicn is usually dominated (when not ing, several commissioners poem anout Pittsnurgn.

Hut, criticized the State Highways he said a local poem should; monopolized) by Pittsburgh." Department for failing to con- contain a mention of Sewick-sult local planners on highway ley since it rhymes with quick- In testing its signal a few days lefore it went on the air, WENS blew a $23,000 Klystron tube, and in high winds of March 1935, its tower blew over. I.V- Following the board of di- The-tWvic Club hopes to form SHcharter committee around 100 members who have analyzed recommendations of the Metropolitan Study Commission. The Study Commission recommended a constitutional amendment to Rive the County metropolitan rectors meeting yesterday morning at which it was decided to take WENS oil the Mr. Nash said the verse that's most often quoted back to him is his: "Candy is dandy But liquor is quicker." "That couplet didn't come from a cocktail party," said Mr. Nash.

"Nothing important ever route plans. A spokesman for the State Administration agreed with the complaints. It's a tragedy for the Highways Department not to recognize the work of local and regional planners, said Francis A. Pitkin, director of the Bureau of Community Development, Department of Commerce. air, a WENS delegation called to: John F.

White, general manager of WQED, Pitts burgh's educational channel VVQED announced last spring that it was seeking al- $: location of the unused Chan- But the Civic Club fears this would become too involved. It proposes the charter 1 1 1 41 nel 47, assigned to Pittsburgh S-jS-i puu. UB.IWU, anu me Anothpr panelist. John Mat- comes out of cocktail parties which are ghastly things," said Mr. Nash.

Mr. Nash added that a humorist's biggest public relations problem is in conversation. "People will laugh at Ronie.hing lliat may have required nine days to get on paper, but when they meet the author they expect every word he says to be funny," Mr. Nash lamented. Mr.

Nash says his forte is 1 r. thews, director of the Alle- achieyed. The plan would be Count Planning Com. submitted to the voters in missj0I, urgpd all countjps t0 'develop master plans. These The club says a charter mut be "custom made" for would "make possible a eounty.

he said. ern. enieient government TI riavnnoiA needs of a adapted to the Armstrong County was elected j-l i iiitxuiic uuiuy a 1 1 1 rapiaiy growing metropolitan ro i -f rrocor( -r hn irlnntitr but never put on the air, as a supplementary educational facility. The extra channel would be used largely for in-school broadcasting and training courses for personnel of Pittsburgh industries. This proposed move by WQED was opposed by Edward Lamb, of Erie, who some years ago had applied to the Federal Communications Commission for Channel 47.

No action has been taken on the request. It was proposed yesterday by WENS officials that WQED consider Channel 16 rather than Channel 47 as its auxiliary service to i of all existing local govern ments. Fred W. Lamburton becomes first vice president. Two resolutions, one proposed by Commissioner John Walker of Allegheny County calling for a 10-man committee writing about 'human foi bles." His latest book, to be pub lished in November, is "Christ mas That Almost Wasn't'1 (Advertlspmrnt) Pure All-Vegetable Laxative Formula of Practicing Physician Proved 58 More Effective Clinical report omonn 7 leading laxative proves superiority of Dr.

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to study the over-lapping func-'and is a prose poem variation tions of municipal, on the Oliver Cromwell inci-state and federal governments, dent in England when Christ-and another by Crawford mas was abolished. The hero County asking that an express-j of Nash's poem is a little boy way be built from Erie to who puts Dec. 25 back on the The Buy of the Year Manufacturer's List $129.95 Factory Closeout 100 Sets I West Virginia, were adopted. calendar, WQED's present channel, 13. Mr.

White admitted that WJED was interested. Mi "We have no idea if anything will come of this," he said. "We wanted Channel 47 but Lamb was in there; he creen 14" Picture wants $20,000 to get out. Mother! When you shop for oint Hi-Vi 1957 IPoriablo Mp "With Channel 16 we could take over their equipment and facilities for very little money, if the FCC will approve. But we haven't gone that far.

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