Statesman Journal from Salem, Oregon • Page 19

Statesman, Salem, June 12, '75 (Sec. II)-19 Senate OKs Purchase of KVDO-1M i 'J i -vh I In addition, a tie-in with Lane and other community colleges would be facilitated in the matter of-classwork and experience for broadcast students. Looking beyond these immediate possibilities, he said, FCC might also be asked to approve a change of transmitter location so public television could extend farther south and to areas of the Coast not now in range. THIS WOULD probably involve a change in Corvallis' public channel 7, though the studio at Oregon State University would be maintained, Bryant said. Meanwhile, duplicated programs would be staggered by taping so they would be seen at different times on overlapping stations like Portland's Channel 10 and Salem's Channel 3.

ernment coverage, increased instructional uses and possibly a wider broadcasting area reaching more Oregon citizens. LIBERTY COMMUNICATIONS executive Jim Magnu-son, who manages KVDO in Salem, said his firm hoped to recover some of its investment in Salem by making donations of $159,243 to the state over a period of time and deriving a tax benefit from them. Another part of the plan, he said, calls for donations of $50,000 a year for four years from Eugene Television Co. The latter separate company, which operates Eugene's NBC affiliate station KVAL, had earlier offered financial assistance to Lane Community College's broadcast training program. When the Liberty plan came along later, said OEPBS leader Bryant, "KVAL said its offer would still stand if OEPBS would go along with it." So it became part of the legislative plan.

SB 539 appropriates of general fund money and authorizes $79,000 of Higher Education general obligation bonds for $158,000 toward purchase of KVDO. Remainder of the price would come out of money previously budgeted to OEPBS. BUT THE PLAN also calls for private donations from the television firms and other donors, eventually totaling $359,000 to also cover operating costs in the first biennium and the costs of seeking FCC approval. The financing is made conditional on approval from FCC, the Board of Higher Education and the State Emergency Board. Liberty Communications headed by Don Tykeson, owns the Eugene ABC station KEZI and the Corvallis Cable TV Co.

which in turn owns KVDO, the Salem independent station. The holdings were extensive enough that FCC limited its owner- Pioneer Queen (SHERIDAN) Flora Baird, center, has been named pioneer queen to reign over the Phil Sheridan Days activities here June 20 to 22. Princesses are Bess Pratt, left, and Martha Schalek. An open house to honor the court will be held at the American Legion Hall during the celebration. (Statesman photo by Elsa Simonson) Sheridan Picks Pioneer Queen ship of KVDO to three years when it allowed the firm to purchase KVDO from Salem local owners in 1972.

Some legislators and other observers have raised questions over the "gift horse" on grounds that the offer of KVDO to the state might be motivated by a desire to eliminate potential commercial television competition in the Eugene area. Liberty's Magnuson scoffs at the idea. "A new commercial owner would have to first show FCC it had operated in Salem long enough to prove it couldn't make it here. A request to change the channel location to Eugene would undoubtedly arouse opposition and take years of FCC hearings. The government has on only very infrequent occasion changed a channel from one city to another." MAGNUSON INDICATED successful commercial operation in Salem isn't in the cards because this area has good reception for four Portland stations representing all three networks and one strong independent station.

"The only alternative to public use of the channel is the possibility of operation by a religious organization," he added. The OEPBS plan for expansion, as described by Bryant, calls for mobile color television equipment that can be used at the Capitol for governmental hearings, legislature and other events as well as use around the valley. Sheridan in the big parade at 6 p.m. June 21. The American Legion Hall will be open for senior citizens to rest and visit during Phil Sheridan Days.

At this time open house will be held for Queen Flora and her court. Mrs. Baird moved to Oregon in 1918 from her native California. She and her husband Floyd operated a garage and trucking business for many years in Sheridan, and now are retired to raising beef cattle. Baird, as in the past 11 years, will ride as Gen.

Phil Statesman Nw Service SHERIDAN The Phil Sheridan Fellowship has named Flora Baird as Pioneer Queen to reign over Phil Sheridan Days activities June 20 to 22. The princesses reigning with Mrs. Baird are Bess Pratt and Martha Schalek. House Rejects By ROBERT E. GANGWARE Statesman Business Editor State purchase of Salem television station KVDO is authorized in a bill passed Wednesday by the Oregon Senate.

With legislature nearing its finale, SB 539 was rushed over to the House where Ways Means Chairman Harvey Akeson, D-Portland, said he hoped to bring it to a House vote by this morning. THE BILL would set off a complex financing plan in which the state is to buy the station for $200,000 and recover the money later through gifts. Subject to approval by the Federal Communications Commission, the Channel 3 station would then be added to the two-channel Oregon Educational and Public Broadcasting Service. The reason KVDO is available is that its owner, Liberty Communications Inc. of Eugene, must under FCC order dispose of its Salem station by Sept.

29. The Salem television market has been considered unprofitable because of its nearness to Portland, and Liberty was apparently unable to find a commercial buyer. Community colleges were sounded out as early as last fall on a plan for them to buy the station but the current plan emerged only last Saturday from a Joint Ways Means Committee session at the Capitol. Donald S. Bryant, executive director of OEPBS, said Wednesday the addition of a third channel would make possible expanded state gov- States to File Antitrust Suits SPOKANE, Wash.

(AP) -The states of Idaho and Washington will file an antitrust action here Wednesday against several major manufacturers of agricultural chemicals, The Associated Press has learned. Idaho Atty. Gen. Wayne Kidwell said in a telephone interview that both states would file separate lawsuits seeking "a substantial amount" of treble damages from the firms. Kidwell said the states of Montana, Oregon and Alaska might join in the litigation.

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Bi The conference committee, working from the House version of SB 311, added a provision giving the grass seed industry more control over the smoke management program. The committee held firm on leaving control of the phase-out program including allocation of burnable acreage with the EQC. Under all versions of SB311, including the conference committee recommendation, the EQC would be authorized to cut burning below the maximum allowed each year if alternatives to open field burning become available. House members of the conference committee were Reps. Ed Lindquist, D-Mil-waukie; and Roger Martin, R-Lake Oswego.

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