The News Journal from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 25

Tuesday, SeCOlld February 28, 1961 NcWSfl'Ollt Evening Journal Second Newsfront Tage 25 WILMINGTON DELAWARE I.The Fight for Channel 12 After the TV Darkness, What Kind of Light? -By THOMAS R. DEW Channel 12, Delaware's only very high frequency television, outlet, has been dark for two and a half years now. Chances are that it will stay dark for at least another year or perhaps longer, for it will take time for the Federal Communications Commission to decide which of three applicants it will license to operate Channel 12. The FCC has already started the procedure that will end when the license is awarded. Three more steps remain to be taken before deliberations can begin.

The decision itself should coma within a year. THE RACE FOR Channel 12 has been on for a long time. The groundwork was laid when the Storer Broadcasting Company, last of three commercial operators to try to operate the station at a profit, failed to find a buyer and let the license revert to the FCC on Sept. 13, 1958. Since then, several groups have expressed interest in the channel.

Five filed applications with the FCC. Two (National Telefilm Associates and Wilmington Television Cbm-pany) dropped out on Feb. 17 when attorneys exchanged exhibits they plan to introduce when formal hearings open on March 20. first, the exchange of exhibits by counsel, took place Feb. 17.

The next, on March 20, is rulings on the admissibility of exhibits into evidence. The third step, on April 13, is notification of witnesses to appear for cross-examination. The crossexamination will start at 10 a. m. April 17.

AFTER THE HEARINGS are concluded, the FCC must weigh the evidence before it makes its decision. There is also a possibility that the decision might be appealed, thus delaying even longer the time when the light in Channel 12 goes on again. One other development has a bearing on the Channel 12 issue. The Delaware State Senate has before it a resolution that would put the Senate on record as favoring the granting of Channel 12 as an educational TV outlet. A committee hearing on the resolution will be held March 15.

It will be a long time before Channel 12 lights up again. Even after the FCC decision is made, studios must be built. The question, is: Will Channel 12 be commercial or educational? Onlylhe FCC can answer. Its answer may have a profound effect on the Wilmington area. Tomorrow: Programming.

If it Is to succeed, the FCC must reverse its 1952 decision that reserved all four very high frequency channels in this area for commercial operation and set aside ultra-high frequency Channel 35 (which WHYY now operates) for educational TV. THUS PROGRAM CONTENT will play an extremely im- portant part in the FCC hearings before Examiner Walther Gruenther. The question of financing may also play an important part in the hearings. WHYY, being non-commercial, does not have any income from advertising. Where, then, is its money coming from? These very questions program content and financing-have been the subject of much interest in the Wilmington area ever since WHYY announced its intention to apply for Channel 12.

People have worried over whether, if WHYY does get the license, they will be taxed for its support. The Evening Journal is seeking to answer these questions in this series. Each will be treated at length in succeeding articles. The fourth and last will discuss the reactions of people of the Wilmington arw to the issue. The proceeding before the FCC is in four steps.

The That left three. It also left the principal issue that the FCC must decide which of the three will best serve the "public interest, convenience, and necessity." This sweeping generality from the commission's own "Blue Book" is the FCC's chief guide. It is bound by Supreme Court decisions not only to regulate the traffic on the airways, but also to decide what shall make up that traffic. It serves as both licensing agency and traffic cop. TWO OF THE THREE applicants Rollins Broadcasting Company of Wilmington and Metropolitan Broadcasting Company are commercial radio and TV operators.

The third applicant is WHYY, of Philadelphia, an educational radio and TV corporation. It is the presence of WHYY that complicates the decision the FCC must WHYY is a non profit corporation, with an orientation completely different from that of a commercial TV outlet. WHYY will seek to convince the FCC that its application should be favored because it will offer an "alternative" to the type of programming that is already available over the three other channels (3, 6, and 10) that are received in the Wilmington area. 'Muscovite Ramble' Three for Space With 19 Air Medals, He Aims Higher Russians Invented Jazz Down Yonder in Odessa EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of three articles on the three men selected for America's first manned space flight. the Cape.

"The more familiar you are with the shots," he says, "the less awesome they seem. But I don't think they'll ever stop being impressive, particularly "Nor does it change the im-jhis space flight training began i portance of our whole group of 22 months ago. Running two seven. We have continually! miles each day on the sandy thought of ourselves as a1 beach south of Cape Canaveral seven-man team. The nearerjwhen he is here helps keep we get to launch day, the more him in shape.

He also enjoys important each member of the'water skiing and boating, team becomes." Like the other space candi- The four astronauts not; dates, he watches as many mis-chosen for the first test will be sile launching as possible at cats, In mad counterpoint, made with "Muscovite Ramble." And right in the middle, Ziggy Molo-tov would break in with his five-stringed oud for a couple of riffs of "It's a Long Way to Outer Mongolia." And who can forget Hot Lips Lenin, the father of modern By HOWARD BENEDICT CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. Wi. if you think yourself sitting there on top of the rocket waiting to be shot into space." (Tomorow: Virgil Grissom.) eiioiuie iui icuei, pcuidpi even more ambitious, space One gray dawn this spring if all goes according to plan a man will cross the concrete deck of Launch Pad 26A with this spaceport's lights gleaming jazz and the first cat to sport a beatnik beard? In the days before the October revolution, enced the group is Glenn, 39-1 year-old Marine lieutenant colonel from New Concord, O. Like Grissom and Shepard, Glenn is an expert at wringing the bugs out of all types of aircraft.

He has chalked up more than 5,100 hours flying time. 1,600 in jets. He flew 59 fighter-bomber missions in the Pacific in World War II and 100 missions in Korea, gunning down three Communist MIG's near the Yalu River in the last nine days of fighting. He tolds five Distinguished Flying Crosses and an Air Medal with 18 clusters. In 1957 he became the first man to fly supersonically from Los Angeles to New York, covering the distance in 3 hours 23 minutes in an F-8U jet.

His face later became to television viewers when he won $25,000 on a quiz program, "Name That Tune." on nis silver space suit. He'll climb the criss-crossins Shave and Haircut 70c in Argentina he used to sit outside the czar's palace and hypnotize the mass stairs of a red and white tower By HUGH A. MULLIGAN AP Kewsfeatures Writer NEW YORK We always knew it came up the river, but we weren't sure which river. Now, after all these years, the Russians have cleared the matter up. Jazz, it seems, didn' come up the Mississippi from New Orleans to Memphis.

It came up the Dnieper from Odessa to Kiev, then on to Moscow by way of the smoky clubs of Smolensk. The authority for this is jazz expert Leonid 0. Utyosov, the Soviet equivalent of Leonard Feather. WRITING IN "Soviet Cul ture," an upbeat version of 'Downbeat," Utyosov recalled that "in Odessa long ago musicians always improvised at weddings and this gives me grounds to say that so-called Dixieland es with his way out wailing of to the cap sule. He wiggle through the entrance hatch and settle into a couch fitted to every contour of his body.

Red Square Parade" and "Wheat Field Stomp." Then they nursed it, rehearsed it, cleared it with the commissar of culture, whipped it into the party dialectic, and they called it the birth of the blues. The hatch will close, and his earphones will buzz as the count-down Drosresses on the 63-foot Redstone rocket beneath way it be Man, that's the gan. BUENOS AIRES, tfi An, American visits an Argentine barber shop with a feeling of relief in his pocketbook. Tonsorial service in the best shops in Buenos Aires not only is performed by experts in im maculate facilities, it's cheap, too, by American standards. A haircut costs 36 cents.

THE MAJORITY of Argentine men prefer their locks bushy with little scissor activity above the ears. Sideburns and heavy applications of pomade are still in vogue. A foreigner does best to ask for a media-Americania. "He'll then get a short cut, something existed in Odessa before New-Orleans." Now it all comes back. Who can forget the old days in Odessa when all the cats congregated down by the Black Sea to hear Satchmo Stalin and his Siberian Six belt out "Sweet Georgi Brown," "When It's Sleepy Time in Smolensk" and "Bulganin, Won't You Please Come Home?" Even before the wedding par-with the old balalaika bands ties, there were the funerals, marching in stately procession out to the peoples graveyard just beyond the collective farm.

THOSH WERE the. days of the jazz greats Bix Beria, Jelly Rol Malenkov, Ziggy Molo-tov, Big Daddy Khrushchev, and Wingy Gromyko all playing their hearts out, like there was no tomorrow, man, for just a few kopeks tossed in front of the marchers by the writhing crovvd. Heading out to the graveyard, they played it sweet and 'ow, wringing the last tear from such traditional dirges as "St. Petersburg Infirmary Blues" (later changed to "Leningrad Infirmary and "When the Commissars Come Marching In." Coming back the mood would suddenly change, from the somber to the frenzied, from the funeral to the far out. Like wild, man.

Then you'd hear the real Dixielandauthentic, original, improvised, non-imperialistic, BIX BERIA would grab his steaming hot zither and solo with "Way Down Yonder in Tsaritsyn" (later changed to "Way Down Yonder in while the rest of the Crimes Result In a Net Loss "ACTUALLY THE second, third and fourth flights may accomplish far more scientifically than the first flight does," Glenn commented. "That first mission is going to be sort of 'Oh, gee whiz, look at me, here I am, maw' type of deal. The second flight, once a man has been briefed on what to expect, should accomplish a lot more." Whether the next capsule will be manned is being determined now by space agency officials studying data from the last Redstone test, which boosted Ham the space chimp on a successful 156 mile-high flight. Because of a couple minor problems which cropped on that shot, the decision may be to fly another chimp first. The rigorous training the astronauts have undergone at various test centers across the country has upset normal family life.

"I've spent so much time on the road," Glenn said, "that I've had to be re-introduced to my wife and two kids." His wife is the former Anna Margaret Caster of New Concord. The children are John David, 14, and Carolyn, 13. Mrs. Glenn, hearing in Arlington, of her husband's selection, said: "That's really fine news, really thrilling. GLENN HAS trimmed down from 208 to 168 pounds since between a local trim and a crew cut.

Some American teenagers have even managed to get "flat tops." Prices for other services are cheap too. A shave costs 34 cents; hot towels 10 cents extra. A shampoo is 15 cents; an hour-long manicure, 43 cents; and the shoe shine boy charges only a nickel. THE BEST BUY is the 48- cent facial massage. First, the barber applies hot towels; then works over the face with tweezers and cotton.

Next, a mud pack, followed by a hot towel, then an ice cold one. After shave lotion is then massaged into the skin and a vibrator, a relaxing machine, is applied profusely, not only over the face but the. neck and shoulders as well. A little more after shave, a touch of talcum, the production is finished. And a 15 cent tip will have the barber beaming with pleasure.

There is a drawback to Argentine barber shops, though. You have to bring your own magazines. him. When the seconds tick away to zero, he will feel a tremendous jolt as the powerful Redstone engine lifts him upward. IF ALL GOES right, the capsule will hurtle 115 miles high and land 290 miles down the Atlantic tracking range 16 minutes after blastoff.

Peak speed will be 4,200 miles an hour. This young space pilot will become the man of the hour. His name will be recorded in headlines and history books. The glory will go to one of three men: John Herschel Glenn, Virgil Ivan Grissom, or Alan Bartlett Shepard. Jr.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has selected this trio to train for the sub-orbital flight, expected in April or May. All are brilliant United States' first manned men, skilled test pilots, and extraordinary physical specimens. THE OLDEST, most experi Last week, the number of astronauts prepping for the first manned flight was cut from seven to three and Glenn a powerful athletic type with close-cropped reddish hair and green eyes found himself a step closer to new adventure. "I WOULDN'T trade places with any guy in the world," said the colonel at a news conference which followed that announcement. "We've been looking forward to this day for some time.

It's an understatement to say that I'm happy. However, we've tried to play down the 'first' aspect." Referring to last week's successful launching of an unmanned capsule atop an Atlas missile, Glenn said that flight, and all it proved "was much more important to Project Mercury than the name on the first ticket. Day Is Quid; So fs Holdup SAN FRANCISCO -Officials of the old California First Western Bank planned no elaborate ceremony to mark the changing of its name to United California Bank. A sirv painter yesterdpy showed up to change the name to coincide with a merger between First Western and Bank of California. Inside it was business as usual.

But one person apparently felt impelled to make the day one to remember. A nervous young holdup man passed teller Sue McLain a note and escaped with $2,000. LONDON UP) A police spokesman said today a gang of burglars in Nottinghamshire "doesn't even appear to have covered their expenses." Nine days ago they used too much explosive tob low up the safe at an auto shop. They blew off the roof. Then they tried to blow open the strongroom at a brewery in Kimberly and overturned an oil heater, causing a fire.

Yesterday they cut their way into a bank vault at Daybrook, but their oxy-acetylene torches set the bank on fire. The bank is next door to the firehouse. The bungling burglars fled just before the firemen arrived. The three burglaries brought a total loot of $14. Any Oilier Time, Rut Not Now COON RAPIDS, Minn.

(LTD Any other time, Mr. and Mrs. Glen E. Smith would have been happy to assist Mrs. Laurence Beckenbach, whose son was born yesterday in her car in front of the Smith home.

But the Smiths were at North Memorial Hospital where Mrs. Smith gave birth to a daughter a few hours later. 1 A'" -'aMa MAfM Ajfp JTfj 17 CMLFHa Xlr 1 few IM 0 I eJ i -V I All- Ls 1 y4 7 5 I AK Xl I 1 rl 1 u. St af Photos bf Nelson 0. Brooki In Spring a Man's Fancy Turns to Thoughts of Resting a While tim.

At left, some but not all of Rodney Square's benches are occupied by Wilmingtonians inhaling the 64-degrce air. minutes while, he soaks in some sunshine. At right, Orangt Street becomes a lunch-hour gathering place. In center, a pedestrian has discovered that the building at Ninth and Tatnall Streets needs to be supported for a few Tark benches and street corners that were buried by mow a couple of weeks ago blossomed forth yesterday with that perennial sign of winter's end the spring fever vie- 7 i.