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7k Station Airs Educational Programs, Trains Personnel Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore. Dec. 8, 1957 7A KRVM Radio to Mark 1 0th Anniversary itime listening in school reply advising the school board that the new call letters would be school students had already been at worjt for several years in converting second floor classrooms into a control room, two studios, and a room to house the transmitter and other technical equipment. Then came a brief interchange with the FCC in which KRVM's call letters almost went into the books as "WDWD." Here's the way Houglum tells the story in the station's history: CALL LETTERS SOUGHT When the last piece of equipment was finally installed, a tele gram was sent to the FCC request ing thai call letters be assigned and a permanent station license issued. The next day the FCC sent a imaiVil t.

Harms Says Urban Plans Need Stressed Many of the hundreds of delegates attending tho convention of the American Municipal Assn. in San Francisco last week stressed the need for urban renewal programs to combat blight and deterioration in American communities, Edward C. Harms Springfield mayor, said Fri-day. Harms, who has just returned from tho five-day convention as a representative of the City of Springfield and of the League of Oregon Cities, said the theme of the convention was "Human Needs in the Changing Community." The mayor, who was accompanied by City Manager E. Robert Turner, said several tho convention speakers, including leaders of private industry, emphasized that urban renewal is "extremely important" to communities with problems of deterioration.

The convention, Harms said stressed human needs and problems this year more than problems of municipal administration and procedure. Harms was moderator for a panel which discussed problems of youth and tho aged of the community. November Receipts Told Receipts totaling $4,524,230 were received by Lane County Treasurer Olga Freeman during November. Taxes, she said, accounted for $4,356,216.02 of this total. Pay-mcnts for the month were 777,658.63, of which $204,452.82 was spent by the county general fund, $354,695.98 by the road and $58,463,55 by the juvenile home construction fund for the new juvenile home.

Schools spent a total of on school construction and equipment. Turn-overs to taxing districts were: $623,089 to schools and $164,641 to cities. Mrs. Freeman reported that she had on hand as cash and I investments on Nov. 1 By JERRY UHRHAMMER oj the Rejlster-Guard It happened on a Eugene radio station An announcer known for his slow and deliberate pace started reading a newscast over the air.

Ho started at his usual slow pace But he started reading faster, then much faster, finally so fast he was almost unintelligible. What had happened? Another person in the studio had touched a match to the news script, and the harassed announc er was racing to finish the story before the script turned into ashes. Another newscaster on this same radio station stumbled over the name of a new French premier. When he tried to pronounce the name a second time, it came out garbled again. After a futile third attempt, the newscaster sighed audibly, "Why couldn't his name just be Sam?" FEW HEARD BLOOPERS Relatively few persons heard these "bloopers." They happened at a radio station which occupies a unique status in the community KRVM, the Eugene School Dis trict's FM station located in the Eugene Vocational School.

Monday, this little-heard-of ra dio station will be marking its 10th anniversary of furnishing educational programs for Eugene classrooms and providing voca tional training and experience for those who want to follow careers in radio. Already, Sen. Wayne Morse has extended his "warm congratulations" for doing a job that "deserves our commendation." KRVM is heard by few persons outside of the schools because it broadcasts on the FM (frequency modulation) band which few standard radio sets are equipped to receive. DURING SCHOOL HOURS Also, its broadcasting day 9:30 a.m. to p.m.

conforms to the regular school day when most adults are at work. But during a typical day, the program schedule is something like this: two "Concert Hall" broadcasts of classical music; three Associated Press news casts; a "Luncheon Concert" of semi-classical music for noon- cafe- tenas; "Tunes for Teens," a half hour of popular tunes planned for noon dances in junior high school auditoriums; 15 minutes of "Sports in and a half hour of "Records on Review" with a typical disc-jockey format. But that's only half the sched ule. The other half consists of broadcasts for classroom listening, in tended to supplement what's be-ing taught. Such programs in elude "Singing Time," "Avon- tures in Research," "Listen to a Legend," "Science Trails," "Meet the Artist," "Boys and Girls in Bookland," and "Northwest Ad venture," a program of Oregon history.

EDUCATION, TRAINING The two types of programs il lustrate KRVM's twofold purpose: providing educational programs for the classroom and a "laboratory" for training men and worn en for employment in commercial radio stations, according to Roger Houglum, KRVM manager. In a typical year, he says. about 25 young men and women students at the vocational school form the staff of KRVM gaining actual experience in read ing commercial copy, planning and announcing musical programs, preparing newscasts, and studying radio and electrical theory. The only paid members of the staff are the station manager and school program director. A history of the station pre pared by Houglum shows that although KRVM officially went 'on the air" Dec.

9, 1947, the idea of an educational station for Eugene started back in 1939. WAR CAUSED DELAY But then came World War II and delay. The armed forces needed all the electronics equip ment. It was in 1945 when the school board finally voted to go ahead with construction of a new educational station to be operated in the recently-opened FM alloca tion. But final FCC approval didn't come until 1946 after voters had already approved the year's budg et.

Thus, construction didn't start until August, 1947, when funds fi nally were available. Vocational Li the WDWD. This posed a problem. Accord iiig to FCC policy on assignment of call letters, only stations east of the Mississippi River are sup posed to get call letters starting with So Houglam sent another tele gram to the FCC, suggesting there might have been a clerical error. After several days of embar rassed silence, the FCC replied the call letters WDWD had been withdrawn.

The new call letters were KRVM. And that's what the station has been called for the past 10 years, survey of vocational and tcchni- cal education. Other items arc setting up a standards for the driver educa tion program in high schools and appointment of a commissioner. stale textbook Shop flT KRVM GRADUATE Dick Cross, chief announcer for Eugene radio station KERG, is one of many announcers in Oregon who received his early training in programming while on the student staff of KRVM, the Eugene school system's FM radio station in the Vocational school. Board of Education Meets Wednesday SALEM tm The state Board of Education will hear preliminary reports on school district re-organization when it holds its quarterly meeting here next Wednesday.

It also will hear reports on a 990.50. The month ended with balance of $7,685,561.87. i CHRISTMAS BONUS SALE CONTINUES si da Lee BACK IN THE EARLY DAYS The top photo shows the start of construction on studios for KRVM, the Eugene school system's FM radio station, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary Monday. Checking construction plans in the fall of 1945 were L. L.

Erdmann (left), former director of the Vocational School and now assistant school district superintendent; Roger Houglum (cen ter), KRVM station manager; and Hart Lar-sen, then chairman of the school board. The bottom picture shows Wayne Cox, radio communications student from Grants Pass, operating the control console in the KRVM control room. The equipment at the station is similar to that used in commercial Stations (Photos by Eugene Vocational Sschool Photography Department) Quality Apparel I for BOYS from 1 day to 6 year JfiSr 913 Willamette FURTHER REDUCTIONS TO REDUCE OUR INVENTORY Your Christmas Bonus Slips may be used beginning Dec. 16 U.S. Denies Russian Rocket Claim satellite will burn up in the air in the near future and part of it EVERYTHING IN THE STORE REDUCED! officials Friday with his claim that part of the carrier rocket fell in the United States and that the Americans won't give it back.

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