Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 17

-t-t- rr. 3 rryrr, 1 1 i 7 TT T. rt 7 TT WOMEN'S NEWS SOCIETY THE STATE JOURNAL GENERAL NEWS COMICS ONE HUNDRED SECOND YEAR LANSING EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1957 SECOND SECTION PAGES 17 TO 24 ora Big Spaii Ready to Resume Construction Work MSU, Partner Steel Due To Arrive This Week Get VHF Spot In FCC Ruling rHh Educational -Commercial Operation Of Channel 10 Approved; Others Have 30 Days to Appeal iiliiHB)iiil 1,1 mif1iiii iiirTinn i i.m i ij, By BILL BURKE (State Journal Staff Writer) A federal communications commission hearing examiner decided in favor of Michigan State university and the Television Corporation of Michigan Thursday for the joint operation of television Channel 10. 'The commission probably will grant a construction permit for the transmitter and tower at Onondaga (south of Lansing) jn 30 Excavation Is Completed For Northern Approach To Straits Bridge (Stat Journal Capitol Bureau) ST. IGNACE, March 8 With spring in the offing, construction work on the $100,000,000 Mackinac straits bridge approaches will get underway within the next day or so.

Lawrence A. Rubin, bridga authority secretary, said today. While workmen have been excavating for north end approaches and crews of the U. S. Steel's American bridge division have been assembling the 'suspended span truss assemblies during the winter months, actual construction work has been at a standstill.

However, Rubin said, steel for the 700-foot which will carry traffic from the shoreward end of the north approach span down, to the level of the St. Ig-nace causeway, is scheduled to arrive yet this week. MAY START SATURDAY As soon as the material arrives, construction work on the viaduct "will begin probably Saturday or Monday, Rubin said. niftM i nnnAulA 4n rha full nmT ajiuii ia aptaivu cvf niv iuu wm mission, university officials said Thursday." Mrs. Annie Neal Huntting, FCC examiner, wound up the longest television hearing in FCC history when she announced her decision Thursday.

More than 15,000 pages of testimony were submitted. Three other organizations competing for the channel are the Triad Television corporation of Jackson, the Booth Radio and Television Stations incorporated of Detroit, and the Jackson Broadcasting and Television cor joint educational and commercial television operation on Channel 10 ran into opposition in the state legislature where several lawmakers proposed to block any appropriation for such a project The proposal finally passed the two houses, however. Under the proposal, M. S. V.

will own the transmitter and tower which would be constructed through the sale of revenue bonds. The university -would lease the use of the transmitter to the corporation on a shared-time basis. UHF UNSATISFACTORY Interest in VHF Channel 10 was aroused at M. S. U.

when technical difficulties in the UHF The causeway with which the viaduct will connect is the eight- poration. LONG STRUGGLE The university's long battle to tenths of a mile earth and rock mole, which was completed southward from the St Ignace shore in 1941 and now being, used as part of the present bridge project Rubin said that actual am- nfiihimis nnpiatinn nn thn put educational television on a Channel 60 operation became apparent Reception of WKAR-TV's educational television programs VHF channel started in July of 1954, just six months after operation of WKAR-TV on UHF Channel 60 was begun. itself would not be resumed until in the Lansing area bas been very poor. "We have the finest educational television operation in the country today," said James H. M.

S. U. joined with the Tele Walter Reuther To Speak at MSU Youth Injured As Cars Crash vision Corporation of Michigan in the ice is out of the straits. Such work began last year on April 4 and in 1955 on April 5. Rubin said that first amphib Walter P.

Reuther, persident of will speak on "Labor's Role for petitioning for a shared-time operation in September of 1954. The Denison, administrative assistant ious projects would include com to Pres. John A. Hannah at M. S.

U. "The trouble is that UHF Rudy T. Dirban, 15, of 4935 Deiray was treated Thursday at 3:30 p. m. at Lawrence hospital for minor head cuts sus 1975." He will speak at 8 p.

m. in Kellogg center auditorium. FINAL STRETCH NEAR This recent aerial photograph of the Mackinac straits bridge shows the structure as work is about ready to bo resumed after winter months in which work was confined to excavating approaches and assembling suspended span trusses on shore. The $100,000,000 structure linking the upper and lower peninsulas is scheduled to be put into Vs Nov. 1.

Flannigan, 16, of 4727 Pleasant Grove driver of the car in which Dirban was riding, for failure to have his car under control. They said he was driving the United Auto Workers, will speak on the future of labor at Michigan State university next Wednesday night. John S. Bugas, vice president in charge of industrial relations president and secretary of the corporation is John C. Pomeroy of East Lansing and Edward Wilson, son of C.

E. Wilson, U. S. secretary of defense, is -Vice president -In 1955, the proposal for the tained while riding in a car in has not proved to be a satisfactory medium for telecasting." The proposal approved for Channel 10 by the commission Set M. S.

U. Page 34, Cel. 2 south and rammed into the rear Reuther, whose appearance Is the Ford Motor company is sched volved in a rear-end collision in the 1800 block of S. Logan st. City police ticketed Jerry -Lee uled to speak at M.

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labor and industrial relations center, of an auto driven by Otto L. Witt, 18. Holt. April 24. pletion of the approach spans connecting piers 16-17 and 22-23.

These two spans will complete the connection of each shore with the suspension bridge. Meanwhile, Rubin said, contractors for the approach-span deck paving will continue laying concrete for the roadway deck. Nearly half of the work was done last season. A little later, the 24 -inch wire ropes, which will support the suspended span, will be put In position at 39-foot intervals along the cables and lowered into po DANIEL'S DIAMOND SPECIAL .85 FOR THE YOUR CHOICE SET Take your choice of either of these lovely diamond duets for just 39.951 -5 i Last Week of Our flew Account Drive! Charge It and Save! sition. BIG JOB STARTS MAY IS The most spectacular operation of the season will begin May That will be the lifting into I position from barges of the huge truss assemblies for the sus-l pended span, steel structures 80 feet long and weighing up to 125; WW tons.

BA Rubin said work remaining on the structure includes comple-j Sg tion of the approach spans, lay-j Sa ing some concrete on anchorage 53 piers, erecting viaducts at the gjl south shore and St Ignace cause- Kj way, erecting the suspended J5g spans, completing the pavement, AS constructing the toll plaze and jjjj administration finish- 8 ing the approach roads to exist-; S8 ing highways, and' finishing de- raj tails such as cable wrapping, tA painting and electrical installa- pa tions. Winter working tonditions fiatra Wn "avoraffe" aoenrdinff w5 Automatic Controlled here's our charge bonus to you Heat $1 DOWN $1 WEEKLY itFRY- China cTd nilTTrn BORDERS UUIIEK DISH With vii juiiwcaiii Electric shavers: NO TRADE-IN NEEDED! i COVER Regular 19.95 18.88! to the engineers. Rubin said that Nov. 1 is still scheduled as the date for official opening of the bridge. Only minor ceremonies are planned at that time, however, because of weather uncertainty at that time of year.

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