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THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. WEDNESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 14, 1956 a 3 5000 Ask March on Council, Police, Fire Raises I rr i 1000 U'Wr I Continued From First Page 1 Local 22, Fire Fighters Association, AFL-CIO, asserted that firemen were paid almost $1000 a year less than an elevator repairmaa by the city and warned that "unless Philadelphia makes the job of a fireman more attractive, it soon will have no recruits." CITES OFFER TO POLICE I Forbes pointed out that along with a $430 annual wage boost. Mayor Richardson Dilworth had offered the policemen a cut in t-j -v (' "A -i -a I 'l I sf iJ -J hours from 48 to 44 a week, but had suggested no such reduction I for firemen "In December, 1954, several of the present members of City Coun cil pledged that when the tax rise came in 1956, the firemen would get the 40-hour week and a salary increase that would put them on a par with the firemen in other large cities," he said. "Toiay we are asking you to fulfill that pledge," he added.

"'OULD RETAIN LEVY Instead of cutting the amusement tax in half as proposed by Dilworth, Forbes said, the tax could be kept at 10 percent, which would furnish funds to put firemen on a 40-hour week. "No other city," Forbes declared, "navs its firemen as little. New York firemen get $5500 a year. Los Angeles firemen get $5868. Detroit firemen get $5860." James J.

Loughran, president of Lodge 5, Fraternal Order of Police, told the Councilmen that Philadelphia ranked last among the country's five largest cities, with Si? I a top pay of $4930 a year, lor 48 hours a week. CITES OTHER CITIES He said Philadelphia police sometimes took six years to achieve this maximum, while Los Angeles police took three years to get to a top of $5844 and a 40-hour week; Chicago pays $5025 for 44 hours, DEMONSTRATORS WITH SIGNS JAM GALLERY IN CITY HALL TO DEMAND PAY RISE FOR POLICE, FIREMEN, PARK GUARDS U. S. Ntovy Photo via UP Telephoto The Navy, distributing this photo in Washington, says it shows the first airplane landing ever made at South Pole. The R4D Slcytrain landed seven members of party led by Rear Adm.

George J. Dufelc. Hungarian Refugees Need Warm Clothing, Friends' Aide Reports achieved in two years; Detroit paysj $5502 for 40 hours, with the top Financing Plan I I WHYY-TV a Community Project i 4 i reached in three years, and New York pays $5705 for 42 achieved in three years. Isidor Bellis, counsel for the! FOP, asked Council not only to im- prove wages and hours but also to' increase sick pay and vacations, i SEES BEST DEPARTMENT Delays Phila. Educational TV be some designed, to be used by the Board of Education cation had agreed to match" in the area's classrooms, last fall, and $50,000 from any funds raised by the sta-There also will be programs private donors.

tion on a "one-for-two" STATION WHYY-TV is a nonprofit "educational and cultural" television station with studios, occupied, since Aug. 10, on the fifth, sixth and seventh floors of the old WCATJ Building, 1622 Chestnut st. LePage is chairman cf the basis. Accordingly, it grant- whole is put be Acute huneer has driven more than 2000 Hungarian refugees "ST wav." "If the proposal corporation's board of direc ed WHYY-TV $150,000 earl for teen-agers and. programs of general interest to adults.

It has been estimated that it will cost about $250,000 annually to operate the new TV into Austria in the last 48 hours, the European Commissioner he 53- "the result will be the best' for the American Friends Service Committee telephoned here! police department in the 1 1 T75 The demonstrators beean eath- The demonstrators began gath this year, after Dr. Bonneil certified that $300,000 had' i Continued From First Page regret at having to delay putting TWenty-two other stations been raised. I yesterday from Vienna WHYY-TV's current assets of the same type are now in station, which is administered existence in this country, in- by the nonprofit Metropoli-cluding one in Pittsburgh, tan Philadelphia Educational channel 35 on the air as scheduled. Walter Biddle Saul, WHYY cor Lansdowne, a veteran was estimated at its max-worker, told the national office 'imum. A loudspeaker in an auto- poration president and former WQED-TV.

Some are run by Radio Television or- Widow Positive N. J. Susoecf Is here that the refugees had only the mobile called the publics atten president of the school board, said better clothes on their backs and many without shoes. WARM CLOTHES NEEDED Miss Branson is a leader of a the board's failure to provide im-' mediate financial help to the sta-. tion meant that "a modern, equipped and staffed television station and studios provided for Philadelphia by public spirited 4.

i I 4 ttate governments, otners cy ganized 19al. universities, and a few are The corporation, which has community projects. WHYY- a 23-member board of direc- TV is among the latter. Its tors, came into being after W. sponsors include corporations, Laurence LePage, an official unions, schools, banks, busi- of The Franklin Institute, ness organizations and indi- heard about educational FM viduals.

and TV stations in operation I Paul Blanshard. WHYY- elsewhere. TV's director of community A group of more than 100 Realtor's Slayer tors and Dr. Allen T. Bonnell, vice president of Drexel Institute of Technology, is treasurer.

Managing director of the new TV outlet is Richard S. Burdick, former director of the University of North Carolina's WTJNC-TV. Burdick said tentative plans call for WHYY-TV to telecast from 10:30 A. M. to noon and from 5 to 9:15 P.

Monday through Friday, offering about 10 or 11 shows daily. Programs already lined up include a half-hour "Teen-Agers Canteen," starting at 5 P. a "sounding board for young people's opinions;" a "Poor Richard's Almanac" show from 6:30 to 7:30, and a nightly panel discussion program from 9 to 9:15. WHYY-TV was made possible through the raising of about S300.000 from such sources as the University cf Pennsylvania. Temple Uni team handling the committee's refugee program.

working conditions." Led by Forbes and Loughran, they crossed over to the plaza on the north side of City Hall, and down the west side of the building, strolling at a leisurely pace. 'BROKEN PROMISES' The banners carried such slogans as: "Help US while we're alive." "Broken Promises." "Give Us a Living Wage. citizens at a cost of over $450,000 include equipment par- I chased under a $300,000 con- tract with RCA, signed early last June. 4 How many of the ,1 people owning some 2,000,000. I TV sets in WHYY-TV's 25r mile radius will be able to see 4 its telecasts? The station -J officials atimit the nifmber is 4 hard to determine, since Channel 35 comes in only on' sets with strip selectors built 4 into them, or those with UHF converters.

tj One official said thatr "many, many more convert- ers are being sold." since The "4 Inquirer ran its Today Mag- azine story on WHYY on Oct. 28. About 400 Philadelphia' schools have TV sets, but only .1 She said warm clothing was business and civic leaders greatly needed because of the cold weather and unheated buildings. will stand idle." His statement continued: "The school board commitment was made unconditionally and; unanimously at an executive ses-l'i sion of the board last fall, at which i as the school board's president, More than 50,000 pounds of clothing and bedding and 75,000 pounds of surplus food are being distri Continued From First Page had a criminal record dating from the time he was 18, was returned here through cooperation of Federal authorities after he had been picked up at the Washington township farm near Williams-town, N. largely through the buted by the AFC and about worth of relief supplies have worked for more than two years before funds finally were raised for the FM station.

It broadcast from the Architects Building, 17th and Sansom before moving into 1622 Chestnut st. with its new sister station. Walter Biddle Saul, president of the nonprofit corpora LABOR BACKS PLEA presided. With the explicit author been purchased to help the suf- Tato allnttprf a hair nour earn to vn r.r.r-.o.t ferers. On Monday, a shipment of firPmPn and the Dolicemen for relations, declared that the basic aim of the ultra high frequency station (UHF) first of its kind in this area, operating on Channel 35 is the same as that of its sister station, WHYY-FM.

which has been broadcasting programs on the frequency modulation radio band since Dec. 14, 1954. That aim. he said, is to bring educational and cultural programs without commercials into the homes of residents within a 25-mile radius of central Philadel keen memory of a policeman in 26,795 pounds of clothing bedding, their presentation, starting shortly council school board com- textiles and other relief supplies afler 2:30 P. M.

Forbes spoke and mitment. The Citv then agreed to a few have Deen converted to versity. Drexel Institute, Har- tion and former head of the -x vx m. xxxlxcvw xxxxm WH ltj ll limil 1 VL LlCilUrl inn i kiif v-, Board of Education, said re- cum Junior College, The date. The Keystone Chapter, 4 freighter for Austria.

president of Local 1, American; Federation of Hosiery Workers, and 'BOARD DID NOT Uonrv MfParlanrl rpcyinnnl fiirpr-i "Tho "iti. TDViilorol il-ii a Virn 'INFORMAL CORRIDOR Franklin Institute, the West- National Electronics Dis-ern Saving Fund Society, Ra- tributors Association, who cently that the TV station annual operating costs would be taken care of by a $100,000 dio Corp. of America, the Few said a set could be converted 'f Although the Austro-Hungarianjtor of tne AFL.Cio. and paid its commitment. border is closed, there appears to for about $20, announced its Memorial Foundation, the appropriation from City that area.

Homicide Detectives John Turner and Larry Sullivan, who made the actual capture late Monday, said Washington tried to escape in an automobile in which he had arrived at his farm home while they lay in wait. But they intercepted him before the car could get under way. Washington was being sought on an assault charge by New Jersey authorities when the search for him was launched from the Penn members would conduct a campaign aimed at the "easy- phia, the limit of WHYY-TV's Council, which handed over new 12'2-kilowatt transmit- a check for that amount to "We're for higher taxes when it The school board did not. means a 40-hour week and wage, "The Board of Education at its raise," McFarland said. meeting made a new proposal to In the Councilmanic rebuttals, 1 the television corporation which be an "informal corridor" through which the refugees are passing unmolested.

Miss Branson said. She said a Red Cross convoy Budd the Westingliouse Radio Stations. Inc. Previously, the Ford Foundation's Fund for Adult Edu- and economical conversion ter. WHYY-TV officials last April of sets in schools in this area.

Among the programs will 2, a like amount Councilman Michael J. Towey, like i was considered by our board at its entered Hungary from Yugoslavia Norwitch, a labor official, pro- meeting, involving an appropria-'. it-two da vs a sro and another the npYt. i factor) ''ohnco'1 nf an1 "rtitrssnwt." .1 riAA tsl.tnFinn day from Austria. The latter ap- toward Council, saying "give us an corporation and $25,000 for a sur-! tional question can be solved, there ed if the station were to begin tel- befere tne meeting that he favor-jLaBrum stated that educations! sylvania side.

I pears to indicate that "the direct opportunity and I assure you Coun It was largely due to the keen- route from Austria is now estab- cil will be fair and square." vey. The television board had al- should be no doubt of settling any feasts before a careful and com- ed such a survey rather than im-, television is a continuing and ready agreed to a survey to bei mmor question involved. The Cityiplete survey is made of the entire mediate operation of the TV sta-1 growing movement and that'-if the even cmei oi wasningion town- nShed and subsequent convoys will has three directors and has not situation." tion. said later that he feared board made an aparoDriation one presidents. asked for any more.

The Board of Education has two of its members' SELECTION OF DIRECTOR After considering the report In there would be "wonderful pro- year it would be morally bound ta the long closed session, the board i grams without an audience" if the continue until the whole program voted to give the station $75,000 station began its scheduled tele- capable of gelling financial supVL to Keep ii on a siana-oy Dasis 1 casts. However, he said, the frame- port from some other -source, pending the outcome of the survey "The condition that cannot be and officials (one former superin-accepted, however, is that the tendant of schools and two former members of the television board be members of the school board). In selected on the basis of dollar con-j addition, the President of the tributions to the television copora- school was invited on our board tion a condition rejected by the but has not yet accepted. Surely, committee of university presidents this is adequate representation." directors work of the station should not be Unless, he said, the board the "provided" the board of snip ponce, i-ramc vvagner, mat be permitted through from here." the capture was made. Warm underwear is in great de-Wagner, police identification of-; mand because the refugee camp at fleer for Gloucester county, read a Traiskirchen is unheated, she ad-desenption of the Langman killer vised.

The only bedding at the and recalled that last January is straw, she added, so bed-had taken fingerprints and photo- clothing, mattresses and similar graphs for the county files of a items ais0 are in demand, man resembling the description. FINDS RECORD IN FILE kj pL Cl Going back into the nies, he! VY I illld. OlOT had found Washington's Washington had been picked up at jODDCl DV ThUQ that time for a minor law infrac- of the Metropolitan Philadelphia 1 destroyed until it is finally decided proper safeguards, it would be com Educational Radio and Television to g0 ahead or stop," depending I mitted to continue. Corp. agreed: 14- 1U.

1 as educationally unsound wnen uu ibuiu ui survey. 'SAFEGUARD ASKED COMMITTEE'S STUDY they issued the following consider Mrs. Lewis countered that--th The Board of Education's ob- xnereiore, tne wouia De needed during the estimated three months of the search. ed judgment: To continue in full operation all educational FM radio programs, for which the Board of Education contributes $25,000 a year: cut television corporation "has a right grouD (Drs. jection yesterday to an immediate 'The university Willinm Goldman thpntprmmpr to.

COUnt On this $100,000 from US." Creese. Harnwell and Johnson) is grant of $100,000 was based on a back operating personnel on ajand member of the school board After passage of the resolution, unanimous in its feeling that the study by a special committee of educational television station must its members which began last May. exist as an independent educa- i The committee had recommend- stand-by basis: promptly provide and WHYY's board of directors, the Board Of Education and theiuas rhairtnan nf th sncrial invps. Mrs. introduced a iormai resolution calling for payment of the money to corporation.

There was no second, but the resolution was submitted to the board's on educational television City of Philadelphia with repre- i tigation committee which made the sentatives on its board of directors, I recommendations, executive committee and finance I tional entity. The group did not ed a survey of WHYY because, feel that educational independence "the material collected by the could be achieved if board repre- committee, including that present-sentation were a function of, and ed to it by representatives of the in nroDortion to. financial nartici- Metropolitan Philadelphia Educa- pnmmittpp in thp nrnnortinn that.i'J-L UlMtAll.Mi VU1L tion. wagner at once got in touch i As police probed the slaying of tel This information meshed with operator of a candy store little the New Jersey assault charge than a mile from the office; and, since Washington was a par-iin which the real estate man was; 6lee under jurisdiction of the Fed- murdered was held up and robbed eral court here, a bench warrant $250- for his arrest was obtained from! Samuel Horenstein, 63, said the U. S.

District Judge George a. rnan entered his candy store ati Welsh. 1504 N. 52d St. shortly after 10:30 It was on that warrant that -P.

M. and warned: "I shot last; Turner and Sullivan made their week and I'll shoot this week so arrest technically for parole vio- don't start a commotion." Horen-i lafirm until tho nricnnoi- Vio ctn'rj coiH Via ViiTnr T1 Vi Mrs. John Frederick Lewis, and business. the amount contributed by the Ji fcl a member of the board, cast the i The board emphasized that it is Board of Education and the city pation of any group in the work tional Radio and Television Corp. bears to the total amount contrib- only dissenting vote of the 11 mem- in favor of educational television I of the station.

(operators or Kaaio Station and the proposed channel uted from all sources: and to bers present. Mrs. Lewis contended but such a station in Philadelphia postpone further contraction and that the Board of Education was should be "safeguarded with prope POSSIBLE CENSURE 35 television station) has been so 'In the Interest of protecting confusing and contradictory operation of the TV station until obligated to give $100,000 to the business and program control The public schools, through Ithe confronted bv Mrs. Laneman. in his cash register to the man I the integrity of the station and in Other reasons were that few the interest of forestalling public television sets in the Philadelphia criticism and possible censure by area are equipped to receive ultra-the Federal Communications Com-, high frequency telecasts and none three weeks after receipt of the corporation for 1956, since the city final report of the proposed sur- had given a like sum and the sta-vey and discussion of its easibil- tion had "been given the right to ity.

expect the money for operation this vn ORiir4Tirv wrv year." She agreed, however, that obligation SEEN I a survey should be made but stated In the event the directors of she could not vote for the resolu- Mrs. Evelyn June Ackerman, 23-year-old taxi dancer, who told Los Angeles detectives Walter G. Borchers, insurance executive, lavished attention on her before meeting his radio and television staff, now televise 'seven weekly shows, of them-on WFTL-Channel 6 for -in-school viewing and" colr -shows after school hours, and 13 radio programs weekly, all. a commercial stations" with the time given as a public service. Those" radio shows are tape recorded fftr later presentation on WHYY.

IbY schools have 3025 radio sots with. mission and the Ford Foundation, of the receiving sets in the schools the group felt that independence is equipped to receive them. The must be insured from the outset, cost of installing adapters was esti-The college presidents could not mated at from $35 to $100 per set feel that the Board of Public Ed-: for the 400 sets now in the schools, ucation felt differently about such It was further stated that the WHYY should decide to begin tele- tion since it contained the Washington had fallen afoul of who escaped on foot. Federal laws in 1949 when he was arrested on charges of applying j- i-n. 11 for veterans' benefits with a forg- in opan OOllapse ed military discharge.

He pleaded CARACAS, Venezuela, Nov 13 guilty and was given a suspended (UP) 500-foot bridge under sentence and put on five years' pro-1 construction collapsed today send-feation. iing workers and pedestrians into Two minor law violations since a creek under a shower of debris, then had caused the court to ex-! First reports said at least five per-tend his probation by two years, sons were killed and 20 injured. casts on Nov. 26, the public schools provisions governing the station would be under no obligation to directors. give the specified $75,000, it was Mrs.

Lewis asked the other mem-explained by Leon J. Obermayer, bers of the board to make that one a cardinal premise of democratic committee believed that "chances I ft, secretary, Mrs. Dorothy Mc- yuiiy, wnom ne is accused or continuing with his statement, educational TV station in Phila- president of the school board. $100,000 payment. In the discus-1 only about 300 of them FM, it was Obermayer, who had announced sion which followed, J.

Harry reported. slaymg. I Saul said, "If this basic educa- delphia would be greatly diminish- Experiment The Hagerstown Story: It May Revolutionize Education ti I 8 i The well-coordinated plan provides for a 10-rninute warm-up or preparation period with the classroom teacher to set the stage for the TV lesson, which lasts about 35 minutes. Afterward, there is a 15-minute discussion period with the classroom teacher. At present, no TV teacher has more than one lesson a day.

But the 15 teachers currently pioneering in this new world of electronic education put in long hours of research and preparation. They try to give lesson outlines to classroom teachers rive to six weeks in advance. "You have to catch the One 16-year-old girl explained: "You know you have to get it right away or you miss it. You have to pay attention." Said a boy: "The teacher seems to be looking you straight in the eye the whole time. It makes you feel he's teaching you alone." That history lecture was going simultaneously to half-a-dozen classrooms in the two high schools.

In each, there was also a classroom teacher, who jotted down significant names and dates on a blackboard, even reproducing a simple sketch from the screen, for review and discussion after the TV tion to America's children? How can the magic of TV best be used in our schools? The answers are five years away; the cost: well over $2,000,000. Hagerstown and Washington county aren't going it alone. The television manufacturers are supplying about $1,000,000 worth of equipment free. The Ford Foundation's Fund for the Advancement of Education is supplying money for personnel, estimated at upwards of another $1,000,000. Providing advice, information and experts to train personnel are the U.

S. Office of Education, the Joint Council on Educational How one city Hagerstoicn, Md. has handled the education-by-television problem is told in this article in TV Guide, national television magazine, on sale at your newsstand today: A "TYPICAL American community" in western Maryland has begun what is possibly the greatest experiment in education and television. The test tube is Washington county and its county seat, Hagerstown (population: They have been chosen to answer these questions: Can teaching by TV help to overcome the Nation's appalling teacher shortage? Can it bring better educa remaining five high schools and 20 elementary schools will be brought in. come three years of intensive exploration of new teaching methods.

These first few weeks of the Great Experiment have been exciting ones. The youngsters are limited to one TV class each day, may go to two a day later. TJiere is no plan for complete conversion to teleteaching during the five-year experiment. A TV Guide reporter watched an llth-grade high school lesson in American History the other day. The lecturing teacher, in another building converted into a studio, talked into a television camera.

Television, several universities and educational TV stations that are already operating. Standing by, anxious for the results, are the top educators" of the Nation. The experiment is in three steps. 1. This first year, which began in late- September, Hagerstown's two high schools and six elementary schools, its public library and art museum have been linked together by 124 miles of cable for closed-circuit television teaching.

2. In September, 1957, two more high schools and 13 additional elementary schools will be added to the circuit. 3. In September, 1958, the In the classroom were four TV receivers placed at strategic spots. The youngsters were seated informally in movable chairs placed for best viewing.

The atmosphere was definitely more relaxed than in a conventional classroom. And the pupils were paying as close attention to a treatise on the Pilgrims as they would have to Sid Caesar or Ed Sullivan. There was the magic compulsion of the electronic eye to a generation weaned and reared on TV. There was the elimination of straining to see the blackboard or hear the teacher. Each student had a front seat a close-up.

explains one TV teacher. "You must be prepared down to every last detail. Yod. can't hold up the classes while you hunt for a book, or go to get some paper. The piercing eye of the camera is on you all the time." Educators are cautious and slow to make claims.

Already they've discovered that science and mathematics are "naturals" for TV teaching; that English seems to offer the greatest challenge. But expanded opportunity for visual aids may-also make this subject come alive on the screen. History, too, offers a challenge. They are trying to meet it with charts, maps and films. i I 1.

imagination of the.