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pp'p i pp 1 1 jp" Food For Thouaht By Gilbert Love PEBROART I 1 I 4 I 1 I 16 11 IJ 11 14 IS IS 19 ao a 33 2i a 27 38 2 MM The Pittsburgh Press 8 13 22 1 3 19 11 13 13 15 1t 17 1 19 30 31 22 23 24 25 28 37 28 29 30 31 It's been cold, aU right, and you'll be perfectly justified if you boast about Its rigors In future years. But don't lean too heavily on the statistics that show record after record being broken. Elmer J. Betz, of Ben Avon, points out In a letter that some SECTION TWO PAGE 17 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1963 Pcoy lVDSDini on "Tiriol of the record-breakings are due to the fact that we're com-paring present Greater Pittsburgh Airport temperatures with Downtown temperatures in earlier years. That can make a lot of difference.

On Jan. 24, when the airport thermometer hit 18 below zero, the lowest Downtown recording SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1962 7:00 PM BILL TR AVERS made by Vice Adm. H. G. Rickover while visiting the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory last week.

Ai reported In a General Electric publicity release, the outspoken officer said our nuclear submarine fleet is a dual safety device, It threatens destruction to any enemy that might attack us and this is not generally realized would force the enemy to throw his missiles into the seas to destroy this fleet, instead of onto the land where our people are. The milk of human kindness still flows, and often is properly appreciated. Here's a note about a Pittsburgh, truck driver, Jack McCauley, getting a letter of commendation from the president of his firm, the Wilson Freight Forwarding of Cincinnati. It seems that on a very foggy night he put his truck in front of a party of confused motorists and guided them for many miles, signaling turns and danger points with his blinkers. They took the name and number of the truck and wrote a letter of thanks to the companyi Letters endorsing the idea of a paved hiking and cycling trail across Pennsylvania continue to come in.

One from J. Judson Brooks, of Pittsburgh National Bank, points out that this would encourage a mode of travel that could be afforded by practically anyone. Young people who have cycled in Europe, have found that it promotes friendliness, Mr. Brooks said. "As one 18-year-old boy pointed out to me when you come upon a group of people and you are riding a bike, you are on a totally different level than if you were in an automobile.

l0 stirring EDBEGLEY An excitement-packed drama of auto racing. A story of the men engaged in the world's most dangerous occupation. was minus 11. Last Monday the low at the airport was nine below, but Downtown it was only one below. If the 1899 all-time low for Pittsburgh had been recorded at an airport, it probably would have been much lower than the minus 20 that's now on the books.

Airport temperatures first became official in 1935, when the readings at County Airport were used. I've found considerable food for thought in my mail in the past few days. There is, for example, a publicity release saying West Virginia is hunting up its centenarians because the state, is 100 years old this year. Many 100-year-olds will be found. Haven't you noticed that news stories about persons who are 100 or more are now fairly common? The phrase "If I live to be a hundred" no longer reflects something close to Impossible.

It seems as though we can be more and more hopeful of living out our natural lives. Another bit of encouragement is a statement (ADULTS AND YOUNG PEOPLE) Code No. 154E Price: $1.00 This featura will be shown again at 11:15 PK on 'Icp Friday, January 4. Pl Rm PM HmM Immf rum nroiira V4 To Mf Bette DavtsTJoan Gniwfbnl (Second Showing) FrOSt's Philosophy By Inez Robb Thlnfs you should know about this motion picture A If vnu'rt fani-standing fans of Be tie Davit and Joan Crawford, we warn you this Is quite! unlika anything they've ever done. You ire urged to see It from the beginning, Bel prepared for the macabre and the terrifying.

QWe ask your pledge to keep tne Shock ing climax secret. When the tension begins to build, please try not to scream. NEW YORK "The world wasn't a desert when I came into it and it won't be when I go," Robert Frost said on his 80th birthday. When the great poet died eight years later, the body of his work had long since cast a bloom over the (ADULTS AND MATURE YOUNG PEOPLE) Code No. 154P Price: $1.25 This feature will be shown again at 9:00 PM on Wednesday, January 2.

News Headlines will follow the above feature at 13. 1 tm I -fn Ml llll nui in approximately 10; 45 PM. (Sun.) land. His loss to American life and literature is irreparable, but his loss to the American heart to which he spoke so directly is even, greater. He was wise in the ways of both poet and man.

To the end of his days, his bright eyes snapped with humor, tolerance and com Hartford's pay TV listings, code numbers and prices. erais don't die or fade; they go into business. "I write poems to see if I can make them all sound different from each other. "No one ever made money out of poetry in 10 centuries." A rugged individualist to last, Mr. Frost once said that if he had complete security, he would, out of sheer boredom, take to playing the ponies.

"I never had any Insurance and I never let myself think about it," he added. "It is by craft and courage that you manage to temper life to yourself," he said on that occasion. "I never asked for security, and now I have it. Isn't it odd that I always get in life what I never ask for?" All of his adult life he planted a few trees every year. It was one of his ways of ing his world against any threatening desert.

Once, in discussing the Anglo-American poet, T. S. Eliot, Mr. Frost's affirmation of life in a nuclear age shone out clearly and strongly. "It's a fine line, a fine line," he said of Mr.

Eliot's prediction that the world would end "not with a bang but a whimper." "As for me, I feel there'll be some of us left in the crevices after the explosion is over. And ideas go on forever. Even bombs can't destroy them. The world hasn't ended with either a bang or a whimper. It just goes on." passion.

"I'm not exactly tolerant, just good na-tured," was the way in which he described himself when I last saw him, just two years ago. HOME TV BOX OFFICE To unscramble telecasts usincj Zenith's Phonevision subscription system, viewer opens decoder door, turns knob until code number from advance program listing appears in window. Knob at left then is turned to PV and decoder door closed to activate decoding. What 1 900 Families Can See For $12 To $15 Monthly Toll First of Serizs. By FRED REMINGTON, Press Radio-TV Editor HARTFORD, Feb.

4 This city which is the hub of Connecticut's insurance and tobacco industries, not to mention its politics, is also the national center for Subscription TV. What is happening here Is being watched with high hopes In the film studios of the West Coast and with hostility in the advertising agencies of Manhattan. Many believe this new financial base for television will one day explode from the tight confines of laboratories like Hartford and surge across the national economy with a force of eight or nine billion dollars per year. And so will the American poet's gift to Over the years, when I had talked with Mr. Frost, it was my habit to come home and make a few notes.

In looking them over, I find the following: "I'm an Old Testament Christian. I be lleve In God despite all the evidence." "I never print anything that Isn't six or seven years old. "Poets sometimes die into critics and sometimes into philosophers, but old gen- 'Big' Charlie NEW YORK You know, one of these days, Charles de Gaulle is going to die. Just like you and me, Charles of France will die, and when he dies he will be just as dead as another Charles with impermanent this country and the world. Pnonevsf'on decoder unscrambles picture.

By Robert C. Ruark Every two weeks, the subscriber receives by mail his Channel 18 Program Choice. It lists the attractions for the week, along with the proper dial setting for each, plus the price per attraction. If and when it does, warn others, its incalculable earn-' ing power will suck up television as we now know it financed by the advertiser, free to the viewer. Good riddance, say many who are sick of greasy kid commercials and the restricted content advertising considera- From available figures, it tions force on today's TV.

appears that the average sub-Go slow, say others. Do you gcriber l3 tti tQ $15 want to wind up paying for what you now get free and monthly into Pay TV Pgram-still have commercials to ming, plus an initial instaUa- delusions of grandeur In other areas, have been restricted to theater viewing Patterson vs. Liston Cas-sius Clay-Archie Moore Dick Tiger Gene Fullmer "We had a big crowd in for the Liston fight," reports Mrs. William Morrissey, a Hartford Pay TV subscriber, "and before my husband could serve anyone- a drink it was all over." Why Theater Men Fjht The Morrisseys also invited a group in for the motion picture "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" which was shown on Pay TV the same night it was playing their neighborhood theater. This is why theater owners look upon Sub Carlos Mon toy the great flamenco guitarist ($1.50) and a concert by the Kingston Trio.

They would like to do mora of this original programming but the financial stakes here already are so high that pro-ductlon must be done sparingly. In a subsequent article we'll go into some of the finances. One further word on the program content of Channel 18: Not everything costs money. The station provides 58 hours per week of programming, of which 28 hours are free. The free material ranges from reruns of "The Life of Riley" to educational films from the library of McGraw-Hill.

NEXT: 10 million dollars Koing into Hartford test that FCX! could call off at any time. Charlemagne. This is going to leave the French in rather a peculiar positionmore or less that of a tail7 with no dog to wag'it. Le Grand Charles today is France. No matter how Democratic the procedure which, he allows to keep him at the helm, he is quite possibly the most absolute dicta The backbone of Channel 18's programming is movies.

The Pay TV station gets pictures soon after they have had their first showings in Hartford's downtown houses. This means the pictures come to TV before or, in some cases, simultaneous with their appearances in suburban houses and drive ins. 22 Different T'tles tion cost of $10. Figures ore not easily come by from those run-ning this test for they fear anything they say now they may be stuck with later. They are very mindful that this is still a modest and as yet inconclusive trial.

This unearthly absolutism Is great while it lasts, but it occurs to me that where there is absolutism there are generally assassins, and if there are no assassins there is always senility and its gray-faced partner, death. De Gaulle is touching on an age the top seventies In which it is sometimes difficult to distinguish haughty autocracy from the kind of age-and power-engendered infantilism which is generally described as senility. It needs only a year to make the transition sometimes it needs only one crisis, one day, one hour, one minute. Then the grandeur, the infallibility, is suddenly described in French and other languages as ga-ga. De Gaulle has played his pitch directly at the Germans, and aimed it straight at Adenauer.

That is another magnificent old codger, but Konrad is old to the point of permanent frostbite, and he, too, will pass. In the unholy alliance of De Gaulle and Adenauer more or less against the world, we have the implication of a caucus between pallbearers in anticipation of their own funeral. The fact that the pair is using Britain as a practice corpse a prop for rehearsalis only momentarily tragic. For the truth is that Britain is bigger than France, bigger than De Gaulle, bigger than Adenauer's version of Germany. Britain is not and never has been a one-man show.

Britain once kicked Winston Churchill out of office for going against the national grain. Britain sacked the socialists, Britain tarred-and-feathered Anthony Eden, the golden boy, for overplaying his hand in Suez. boot? 1900 Families Pay Toll Whatever the future may hold, this is what is happening in Hartford now: 1900 families subscribe to a Toll TV service. The service has grown from 200 homes when it first went on the air. It has a backlog of several hundred unfilled orders.

It began last June 29, it's first attraction being the movie "Sunrise at Campo-bello." The picture's star, In this two-week period, 22 Each subscriber Is provided with some of the plctures get. with a decoder, a small unit ting up to three re-runs. A scription TV with something WhlXVS firSt subscriber pays only for the less than devotion. They an FM radio tuner. A knob on first viewing.

If a family the decoder controls a dial tor, barring a few fever-and-banana republics, that the modern world has known. Big Charlie's dictatorship is quite possibly much more absolute than was that of, say, Hitler, because Hitler was a noisy, rather stupid man, who allowed the evil brains around him to pamper him into a sense of superiority. Not so Mr. France. De Gaulle is surrounded literally by no one save himself.

He is a nondelegator. He does not even permit himself the luxury of court fools or stooges. He even denies himself whipping boys, and the thought of a second man mon dieu. Ralph Bellamy, made a special whose face showg a series of appearance on the Hartford digits and letters By dialing station opening day, for, like to the proper combination of mosi movie, aumis, ivu. dow numbers and lpttprs.

the Chan. my is all for Pay TV. Letters From Kids wants to watch a picture a second time or a third, they pay only the fee for the first exposure. Present day movies being as they are, the Program Guide prints a notation with each picture listing as to whether it is suitable for total family viewing or, In that euphemism of the film industry, "recommended for adults." lougnt tne mruora experiment up to the Federal Court of Appeals and lost. So far, professional football has stayed officially aloof from Pay TV, though some individual club owners have expressed a willingness to listen.

But the NCAA has yielded a bit here and there. Subscribers In Hartford saw the Yale Dartmouth and Yale-Cornell games at $1.25 each. Pay TV officials are reluc nel 18 transmission is "unscrambled." How you Art Billed On the right of the decoder Is a slot which the subscriber opens each month and re- $12 To $15 Month! The pay TV station here is WHCT, Channel 18, a UHF channel. Hartford originally was an all-UHF community, so Warming Thoughts by Bi'' vaughan more than 90 per cent of the moves his bill. The bill comes sets here are UHF-equipped.

on a roll of tape like that of a supermarket cash register. But while movies are the Thus operating on UHF (chan-nels above 13, all that the majority of TV sets are built to receive) is not the disad (Thus far Pay TV doesn't give trading stamps, but don't NEW YORK I have been trying to cheer myself in the cold weather by concentrating upon some people who are in what I would regard as thermally-rewarding situations. I think, for long periods of time when the sidewalk, why Bugsy says, "Are you nuts, Duke? Every cop in town is looking for you, to say nothing of the Feds, They'd spot you in a minute." To prove it, one of the mob, maybe a moll backbone of Pay TV program- tant to talk specific audience think they haven't thought of mingi there are other attrac- figures for a given event. They it.) Needless to say, a dupli those about me are vantage it would be in cities whose TV service always has been on the VHF (Channels 2 to 13) frequencies. tions.

Subscribers to Channel 18 see hockey and basketball from Madison Square and Bos cate tape remains sealed in the machine for periodic audits by the company. Dear Lester, In whool they told us that they always give hurricanes girl's names like Alma or Betty or Edna, That's because a are dealing with a maximum potential of 1900 sets against the hundreds of thousands available to their competitors. Any audience figure they give is necessarily miniscule. Concert Videotaped Channel 18 has done some original, creative program I OFF THE RECORD By Ed Reed ton Garden. (New York Knickerbockers vs.

Boston Celtics, Boston Bruins vs. Toronto Maple Leafs, $1). Pay TV subscribers here have seen all the fights that, apt to assume I am merely of men I would like to be when the temperature outside is on the miserable side of zero. There are those who are made pier by the thought that, while they are pouring a teakettle of hot water in the car radiator, other citi is a big hurricane wind. ming that is neither movies nor sports.

They videotaped an hour and a half concert by Your pal, Freddy 1 AMY (optional), turns on the radio which announces, "The dragnet for Duke Follicle continues today. Police Then they snap it off. I'm not sure how it works, but criminals on the lam always seem to know exactly when their name is going to be mentioned on the radio. Then they turn it right off again. I would change the tradition a little at this point and leave the radio on until I had heard the weather, cold wave and blizzards and more of the same for the next 36 hours.

That is the whole point. It wouldn't be any fun at all to be hiding out in nice weather. The spring lam holds no appeal. Another good person to think about being in weather like this is an Antarctic explorer. He is spared a lot of the problems of cold weather that the rest of us have to face.

The way I picture the Antarctic explorer he Is mostly in some kind of an underground burrow, pleasantly warm, reading letters from his friends back home about how cold it is in Memphis. Also, there are no bus stops in the Antarctic, so he doesn't have to go out and wait at one: These are just a couple of the people I like to think about when a frigid front has me, as the headline writers so graphically put it, in its grip. It is probably best to keep the role imaginary. It would be just my luck to join an Antarctic expedition the week they were having outdoor survival drill or to find a hideaway from the law in some apartment where the landlord was trying to conserve on the fuel bill. Skefches For A While By BEN BURROUGHS For a while we tarry on the streets of life paved with worldly problems marred with untold strife some folks have a rough road others have it smooth some people are winners others stand to lose zens are pouring a cooling beverage on the sun-drenched sands of some tepid paradise.

But jealousy is foreign to my nature. I gain an inner warmth from just imagining the snugness with which some of my fellow voyagers through life are blessed. It would be pleasant, for example, to be a bank robber, hiding out. (No indignant letters, please, I am not condoning crime. Warmth Is the issue here, not ethics.) You know the scene.

You are in this nice, steam-heated apartment. From time to time a member of the mob shows up with a sack full of sandwiches from the delicatessen and cartons of milk and eigarets. There is a hot plate with coffee continuously available for your sipping enjoyment. If you so much as say that you might Just go out for a newspaper or to hovel off for a while we suffer tries are all in ivain then when least expected sun follows there are happy few and far be- the rain spaces tween ment scene rowed we smile lasting for a mo-darting from the time is only bor-we cry and then life is not for couldn't "Pardon us for laughing at your request for our money and jewel You see, we have two kidsJi college. don't know WHAT I put in 'em read seme of th' labels." ever it's only for a while.

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