Green Bay Press-Gazette from Green Bay, Wisconsin • Page 43

Green Boy Prcss-Gozette March 30, 1969 D-S From D-7 Directors Re-elected Oconto Historical OCONTO (PG) Three direc-' TVTov erot Rhinelander tors have been re-elected to the board of directors of the Oconto of; trees from the Memorial Fund, The trees will replace several which wert removed during the widening of Park Avenue. The group also voted to pi County Historical Society. They To Retu are Mrs. Frank DonLevy, Mrs. rn Taller Than Any E.

A. Linger; and Gus H. Wohlk. 'AN have a float the parade tq bo held the week of the 300th and 100th anniversary celebratlotis in July. y-v They will serve three-year the sky nearly two-fifths of a we can't use," said Philip Kar-i terms.

v.W.. at Wausau with fair clarity when weather conditions are miie. "With our maximum Duane Ebert and Olive Sylves ban, pointing to two huge wood' en cases In the back room. favorable. The June meeting win be peld at the noma of Mrs.1 Lester Campbell.

lowance of 316.000 watts, we ulll ter were appointed to investigate the purchase and planting John Dohrmann, who identi Yet the elder Karban, J. remarked that he wanted to see be able to carry our signal 125 miles," he declared. Green Bav I. A. 4M fied himself as president, gener Channel 12's reappearance.

Desires Service ttuuui uu air miles away, al manager, chief technician and principal ditch digger for Rhinelander TV Cable, said his Since the disaster, O'Konski 3 WIJFL 1440 on your dial nas maintained makeshift auar. firm has about 800 plug-in sub feel people in distressed areas should be able to get TV service at reasonable cost," he ters on the second floor of the scribers in Rhinelander. They city-owned Memorial Building. On his frequent weekends home. said.

pay a monthly fee. Cable Service Since 1954 people confer with him there on Platter The cable service was begun Howard Letter, the Press-Gazette's Rhinelander distributor, lives five miles out of 1 oy Gilley, the real estate man, In 1954. He sold it in 1964. town. governmental, political and television business.

O'Konski proposed to buy the Memorial Building, which serves as a youth recreation and "We carry the three Green "Cable and UHF are fine, but I am just out of range," he Bay stations, the two at Wausau, and Channel 6 at Marquette," TOMORROW HORNING ft Sports Local Ntn pointed out THIS MORNING News ft Local News ft Sports Services ft Local News for Sunday Service for Sunday THIS AFTERNOON ft Local News for Sunday News Monitor Dohrmann explained. "Since community center, but the city didn't want to sell. It subsequently developed that the lo They have good reception Channel 12 has been down, we from Channels 7 and 9 with their 'A also have added Channel 13 at high antenna, Letter said. Chan Eau Claire." Dohrmann expressed no ad nel 13, at Eau Claire 150 miles away, has been coming in very well, too, since Channel 12 was verse sentiments about Channel cation wasn't suitable anyhow, because there isn't room for the required 200-foot studio tower. O'Konski has kept strings on most of the 24 people who were on his staff.

Six have been kept on at fulltime. Two young 12. knocked out, "As a public-minded citizen," "It's not like having your own local TV station, though," he ob he said, "I feel it is in the com munity's interest to have women are making trips around the world. Others have found served, 'j O'Konski, whose earlier ca O'Konski go back on the air," ft Local Naws ft Local News News Local News With Merrick ft Local News TOMORROW AFTERNOON ft Local News News-Sports ft Local News ft Local News Sports temporary jobs, with their old A less cordial attitude was In boss making up any difference reer included principalship of Pulaski High School in Brown County, was born on a farm dicated by Karbans, who in salary. have the translator service, TONIGHT Tomorrow Hour News The Press Monitor Analogue of Truth 10:00 Billy Graham Platter He Has Millions Dr.

Nor near Kewaunee, "I have them on a standby They said O'Konski had filed complaints and objections about basis, and am happy to say that them with the FCC, and dis- count of insect populations. More than a million pine needles were shipped to MTU in plastic bags for research in a study of winter bird population in the Caribbean pine He was elected to congress for the first time in 1942, and has been returned each two years since. That makes his tenure even longer than the 8th Dis played the copy of one such nobody has had to collect unenv ployment compensation," he re marked. Many Donations man Sloan of Michigan Technological University at Houghton, recently defoliated a dozen 25-foot trees in the Grand Bahamas and Florida Everglades, He plans to make a complaint. "Cable companies and trict's John W.

Byrnes, Green O'Konski are pretty well op Bay, who dates back to 1944, He told how eager people were to help out, and that provoked a posed to translator systems," O'Konski was owner and pub Ronald Karban said. He men lisher of a weekly paper at Hur- tioned that Dohrmann's firm State Missing Bet on Blind Teachers, Senate Unit Told ley for several years. Then with $17,000 in savings and $65,000 blast at TV survey ratings. "Liars," he called them. "They are the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the public," O'Konski insisted.

"They indi was a party to O'Konskl's objections. The congressman, however, borrowed capital, he started a radio station at Merrill. MADISON (AP) Wisconsin expressed no animosity. cated that we were getting into After moving the radio station butes, so classroom order does not suffer with a blind person is missing a good thing by not only 44,000 homes, but how do to Wausau, he sold it for "I am very friendly with them," he insisted. "They were they account for the fact that 000, O'Konski said.

That enabled teaching, Card said. The Department of Public In- 40,000 people voluntarily sent him to move over into television, hiring more qualified blind school teachers, the Senate Education Committee was told last week. contributions either outright or struction is "wholeheartedly" in favor of the bill, said Dr. Ken here before I was, they are entitled to a profit, and they save people huge investments in big antennas." Got Six Stations He went on the air with WAEO-TV on Oct. 20 1966, and moved his residence from Mercer to Rhinelander.

Blessing of the department. as prepaid advertising?" Donations, he said, ranged from $1 to $30, and even higher. A certain number of No one opposed the bill, which "natural" teachers are born in was taken under advisement. "I spent $1,500 for an antenna The translator service picks every generation and some of A television dealer at Three Lakes wrote him about a young them, by chance, are blind, said couple paying $16 down on George Card of Madison, representing the Wisconsin Associa color set a short time before the at my house in Mercer," he recalled. "It was the biggest all around, and I would invite friends in for a Packer game.

They'd have the ball on the up signals from six channels, rebroadcasting them for UHF sets. It covers a rectangle roughly 10 miles in length and five to six miles in width. Absenteeism Closes Newberry Schools NEWBERRY, Mich. Because of a high rate of ab tion of the Blind. "They have met frustration in one-yard line, and you should Ronald Karban estimated that attempting to find jobs and to that extent the system has suf senteeism caused by a flu epidemic; schools in Newberry accident.

They asked the merchant if he was going to hold them to the deal since they wouldn't be getting much use out of their expensive investment. "He said he felt like a heel they serve 2,200 to 2,400 house fered," he said, testifying for a were closed last Thursday. holds, noting one serious flaw in have heard my friends scream when the blasted thing faded out." Claims Misrepresented bill prohibiting discrimination The schools will reopen Mon the setup from their viewpoint. day. against blind people seeking "We have to operate on the taking money from people that teaching positions.

Schools at St, Ignace, Sault honor system," he said. "We People deserve better tele- Teachers 'matritain discipline have about ARtlUtltTJsoa, reception than thati' he de more through personal magne ing. The rest art! mained open despite high rates dared, and that's what got him interested in going into the of absenteeism. tism than any physical attri The fee is $18 a year or $5 a quarter for those who appreciate the service enough to pay for it. Reminded of the criticism way, so he was sending $100 to help get me back on the air," O'Konski related.

Ralph Mayer, resource development agent for Oneida County, said he had heard many reports about poor television reception outside of Rhinelander. Good sets and tall antennas are able to pick up Channels 7 and 9 The Karbans blamed O'Konski raised over his tourist promotion for keeping them out of Hurley idea, he said the facts were and Park Falls. We have equipment sitting He went to the Vilas County right there for Park Falls that Board's advertising committee, suggesting that it allocate him $3,000 out of its $22,000 budget. y-- WITH iSmSSXz CASINGS 1 "The Very Best" REIMER (ft) JPREEVa GAL. OF mUll iVTTTT COUPON TtnOW mTn "I just wanted a little help in Changes at Private School Means Falls To Add Teacher producing some special films to advertise tnis area, i was going to put in $15,000 of my own SCDKIDAY WHY MARCH 30 12 NOON TO 5 P.M.

money, ana we were going to send the films around to TV sta-tions for free publicity," O'Konski explained. "But some people raised a big Delicious Chipped fuss, so I dropped the whole; thing and saved myself He remarked that his station; Ham Sandwich v) tional 23 students in the seventh grade and 21 students in the eighth grade as a result of the action. No figure was available as to the number of first grade students who will attend St. Anthony's, but he estimated it would be equal to an average size class. In other action, the school board accepted the resignation effective at the end of the school year of Miss Ellen DeWitte, English and Spanish instructor.

OCONTO FALLS (PG) -Dropping of two grades and reopening of another by St. Anthony's School will force the Oconto Falls public school system to employ one additional teacher next fall. The Falls school board has been advised that the Catholic school will drop grades seven and eight, but will reopen first grade. William Kean, superintendent of schools said Washington Junior High will receive an addi was just getting on its feet finan cially when it received the knockout blow. "We had just got into a posi With lettuce and mayonnaise (Limit 5) Reg.

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