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2 MINNEAPOLIS SUNDAY TRIBUNE Oct. 3, 1948 See Powers full page color ad. page 12 rotogravure section fpday i- TVWWV i SHOP MONDAY NOON TO 8:45 P.M. 1 in 48" SAM HILL'S DREAM MUSEUM Probably the world's most remote museum to attract world-wide fame is Maryhill museum, 60 airline miles south of Yakima, Wash. The castle which houses some 50,000 priceless art objects represents the dream of the late Samuel Hill, son-in-law of "empire builder" James J.

Hill. Samuel Hill married the railroader's daughter Mary in 1S88. He was president of the Minneapolis Trust Co. for several years btfore he moved to Washington early in the century. Maryhill, named for his wife, was intended for their home.

Queen Marie of Romania dedicated it as a museum in 1926, and last year it was visited by more than 51,000 persons. TUES. THRU SAT. 9 A.M. TO 5:30 P.M.

Wool gabardine, 89.50 Uf TH I PLANE SINKS; 22 LOST Craft Crashes While Landing Off Norway OSLO, NORWAY UP) A Norwegian flying boat capsized and sank near Trondheim Saturday, apparently killing 22 of AIR GETTING CROWDED Television Change Unlikely for Years By JACK WILSON Minneapolis Tribune Stiff Orrnpondrnt WASHINGTON If you're on the receiving end of television, the present uncertainty and "maybe if" stuff going on in the federal communications commission needn't worry you. It'll be at least five years before any possible shakeup in TV can Swift Justice, Years Hence BURY, ENGLAND Cf court held that 4-year-old Stephen Jones and a certain rock were responsible for a smashed greenhouse pane. But judgment cannot be collected from a legal infant, so the court ruled the greenhouse man must wait until Stephen is 21 before he can collect. assume that television would not begin commercial operation in the ultra high for five to 10 years," said report to the industry by the National Association of Broad casters. FCC Chairman Wayne Coy has emphasized that the freeze order not mean the commission had to use higher frequencies But the industry hasn't forgot that Coy himself said earlier year that there were many demands for additional frequen for radio use and now and you may as well know the commission will be look for more space for these im services very shortly." LOSE CHANNELS i Wool covert, S9.SO If! FCC looks for space where television people are afraid it look, some of the lower fre the 48 persons aboard.

Earl Bertrand Russell, 76. Brit ish philosopher, who saved soon after he had been plunged into the water. He was en route to Trondheim to lecture. The Norwegian airlines said three were killed, 19 are missing and 26 were Saved. It now appears certain all the missing drowned.

Three of them were babies. The fate of the missing prob ably wil not be determined finally until the Sandringham flyin' boat is brought to the surface Darkness and rough weather forced rescuers to abandon work late last night. All the victims were Norwegian citizens, with the possible excep tion of Norwegian-born Mrs. Lis beth Stroem, who may be a nat uralized citizen of the United States; Among the missing were two crewmen. The pilot suffered a broken arm.

The biff plane with a crew of seven and 38 passengers was en route from Oslo. When it hit the sea one pontoon seemed to come loose and the plane tipped over and sank very quickly. One witness estimated it sank within two minutes. City Woman Fears Crash Killed Brother Grete Lostegard, who works in the Norwegian consulate in Min-' neapolis, Saturday was awaiting word from Norway of whether her brother, Tor, was killed or hurt in the crash of a Norwegian Airlines plane near Trondheim. Her brother, she said, is a copilot with the airlines and frequently has flown with pilot John Straindrud, whose arm was broken in the crash.

A recent letter from home, however, indicates that her brother may not have flown at all this week-end, Miss Lostegard said. West Sets Up Scrap Iron Pool BERLIN UP) A western European scrap metal operating under European recovery program guidance, was being formed Saturday under the leadership of the United States and Britain. An important role in the pool was assigned to western Germany. The plan proposes that the organization of European economic co-operation assist in setting up a scrap committee in Paris. The United States would be given full membership, along with the 16 ERP nations.

GURXEY LEAVES PORTUGAL LISBON, PORTUGAL UP) Sen. Chan Gurney S. left Portugal by special plane Saturday for the United States. channels may be taken from TV and handed over radio. acting chief engineer of may have let the cat out of bag when he told the South Broadcasters association TV stations in the lower from channel two to might have only two years operate in those bands.

Wool gabardine, 79.95 Wool covert, '93 FCC promptly announced that engineer was giving only his opinions. Privately, members the commission, said they opposed to any changes that wipe out the lower tele effect you. And if you're on the broadcast ing end you're probably used to living on pins and needles by this time, so nothing that happens can make you much more jittery. The commission Thursday froze all pending applications for new television stations more than 300 of them. Before any more will be approved, FCC will make up its mind which way it's going to jump.

CHANNELS CROWDED Specifically, it will have to decide whether it is going to jack video up into higher frequencies, which would mean that present receivers would have to be con verted, or revise the engineering rules covering transmitters so that more of them can be crowded into the present operating channels. It will be six to nine months be fore the decision is made. Hearings were held on the question last week, but there will be a lot more study and at least a couple! did of engineering conferences later this year before any policy deci sion is made. And the final regu ten this lations will take some months longer. cies The only immediate direct effect in Minnesota is the freezing of three applications for new TV stations.

Two are for Minneapolis, by the Independent Merchants Broadcasting Co. and Beck Studios, and one for St. Paul, by WMIN Broadcasting Co. Two new stations have already that ing the will been authorized in Minneapolis and these are not affected by the to freeze One is WTCN-TV, owned by Minnesota Broadcasting and the other is KTRV, by Northwest Broadcasting Co. KSTP- TV, which has been operating for several months, is also unaffected by the FCC order.

six There are no applications pend to ing before the commission for sta tions in North or South Dakota or western Wisconsin. INDUSTRY UNAFRAID The broadcasting industry, con cerned about investments in new stations as well as marketing new receivers, reacted more placidly than you would expect when the "FCC lowered the boom. One reason for the philosophic calm was the industries estimate that nothing drastic can happen for five years or longer. The theory behind this is that if FCC decides to push TV upstairs into the ultra-high frequencies, outmoding present receivers and transmitters, the channel allocations and engineering standards can't reasonably be completed before the end of next year. After that it will take the manufacturers from three to five years to design the new transmitters and receivers and probably somewhat longer than that to get them into anything like full production.

"In view of these facts, we the was off tax tad. 17 A may band a decided know, portant MAY If quency away The FCC the Carolina that channels the own of were would vision now because tain even TV a would permit our All and i i channels. The broadcasting industry is wondering who is right. ml I i Leeds Coats and they all have Zip-Out linings However, when he announced freeze order, Coy said there no reason for anyone to put buying a TV receiver simply the situation was uncer at present. He said that if the commission boosted into a higher frequency band few years from now, there be converters which would use of present receivers This Is a view to which the television industry as a whole em phatically subscribes.

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