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Sentinel Star, Friday, October 10, 1980 7-C Station From 1-C out to be a dummy corporation. The money eventually ended up in Blackburn's gambling operations, according to testimony. Segal con-. tended he didn't know that money would wind up in Blackburn's hands. The administrative law judge presiding over the hearings believed Segal and recommended that Mid-Florida be awarded the WFTV license.

However, in the summer of 1979 an FCC review board disregarded- the recommendation, concluding that Segal should have known the money would be used for gambling. The review board gave Mid-Florida a "substantial demerit" that in its view put the company out of the running. Emerging as the prime contenders after this were Comint Corp. and TV9 Inc. Comint's big plus derived from two of its 14 owners being black.

TV9's advantage stemmed from its owners pledge to be deeply involved in the day-to-day operation of WFTV, a factor the FCC calls "integration of ownership and management" As of this week, the FCC still hasn't made what it calls the "difficult" choice between the two companies. With more litigation likely in a case that already has produced a 55-volume record and some 50 motions for delay, all five companies have now decided they would be better off making their joint operation of WFTV permanent. Venom From 1-C York all over. "I'm just wiping out my bank account and there's not much to wipe." Greenfield said interested persons may write her at 813 Halstead Deltona, 32725. Shirlee Kempner, science editor of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in New York City, said society officials remain "unimpressed" by claims that snake venom helps MS victims.

To partly fund a "very, very expensive study" of snake venom, the society applied several months ago for a grant from the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Strokes, she said. Kempner said the study would be conducted in connection with the FDA and the National Institutes of Health. Greenfield said her battle-by-mall is "very expensive, especially when you're on Social Security and you just lost your job." Her Orange City employer recently laid her off, she said. Greenfield and Joan Ripps of Hollywood rallied forces to aid Rubin's defense strategy. Greenfield was handed the job of rallying patients to send legal defense funds and giving testimonials that the treatment really works.

So far, she has spent $150 having 600 copies of a three-page newsletter mimeographed and mailed. "If you believe in something, sometimes you have to pay for it," she said. "I'm on the phone constantly. Sometimes I have to take it off the hook to get work done. I've had calls from California, Illinois, New Jersey, Indiana, New Btate prison gets reprieve on transfers TALLAHASSEE The state doesn't have to transfer 372 prisoners from Florida State Prison by Monday, but must improve conditions at the prison, the 1st District Court of Appeal said Thursday.

The court suspended for at least 45 days Circuit Judge R.A. "Buzzy" Green's order capping the Raiford prison's population at 750. The facility now houses 1,122 of Florida's most dangerous criminals. Green's order was to take effect Monday. The appeal court did allow one provision in Green's order to take effect, a requirement that the Depart-ment'of Corrections submit by early November a plan to" implement recommendations by a special advisory commission appointed by Green to improve conditions at the, The panel recommended a reduction in the inmate better pay and training for corrections officers and other changes.

AttiSrhey General Jim Smith asked the court for the stay Wednesday, warning that the immediate transfer of that jnany inmates would create "dangerous situations" at other prisons. Graham visiting Orlando today Bob Graham will visit Orlando for about 30 minutes today to attend a fund-raiser for State Rep. Dick Batchelor at the Harley Hotel. Graham is expected to arrive at 1:15 p.m., after spending the morning campaigning with President Carter in St Petersburg. After meeting with Batchelor and select students from Blankner Elementary School and Evans High School, Graham will return to Tallahassee to host a party for the opening of the refurbished governor's mansion.

Batchelor will face Republican Lou Whitten in the Nov. 4 general election for District 43. Neither candidate ivas opposed in the primary. legal proceedings in a case with enough twists and turns to rival the plot of "Dallas." The first application for a license to operate the station was made in 1952 by WORZ which has long since dropped out of the picture. Joseph Brechner's Mid-Florida Television Corp.

originally applied in 1953, finally got the commission's approval in 1957, and launched WFTV on Feb. 1, 1958. At that time the station was called WLOF-TV, sister station of WLOF-AM. Later that year, however, the station got caught up in a congressional subcommittee investigation of the FCC itself. The subcommittee hearings uncovered off-the-record contacts in 1955 and 1956 between William H.

Dial, a Mid-Florida lawyer, and FCC Commissioner Richard H. Mack. The two had been friends in college. According to the FCC, Dial several times had told Mack the FCC should investigate a lawyer with ties to WORZ Inc. to see whether he was fit to hold a license.

In light of this, the U.S. Supreme Court, acting on WORZ's appeal, overturned Mid-Florida's license assignment and ordered a new FCC hearing. Six years later, the FCC ruled in Mid-Florida's favor. WORZ Inc. appealed again.

When the case reached the federal appeals court in 1965, the court said the case was so old that the FCC should start from scratch and open up the license to new applicants. Six additional applicants emerged to compete with Mid-Florida and WORZ Inc. for the license of the station, which had been renamed WFTV in 1963. But the list of rival applicants had dwindled to five Mid-Florida, Comint, TV9, Central Nine and Florida Heartland when the "interim" joint-operating arrangement was ordered by the court in 1969. In 1970, an FCC hearing examiner again recommended Mid-Florida be awarded the license and Brechner's company seemed well on its way to winning full control of WFTV.

But before the full FCC could act, the WFTV story took its most dramatic twist. Martin Segal, Mid-Florida's secretary and general 4 counsel, was accused by a Tampa grand jury on Nov. 1971 of supplying money to a gambling operation run by Harlan Blackburn, a Seminole County man law enforcement officials described as a mobster in the Santo Trafficante crime family. Segal, who denied the grand jury charges, was never tried because of his health. He had been shot and paralyzed below the waist in a domestic shooting.

When the grand jury's action didn't persuade the FCC to overturn its hearing examiner's decision in Mid-Florida's favor, the four competitors appealed. In 1973, the court of appeals further complicated matters by ruling for the first time that ownership by racial minorities ought to be given extra weight in licensing proceedings. The court also ordered the FCC to investigate the Segal-Blackburn connection. The FCC held hearings in 1976 and 1977 during which Blackburn and several of his associates testi WANTED FOR CASH Oriental Rugs Oiamonds Old Pocket Watches Gold Silver Music Boxes Old Clocks Fine Jewelry. OLD MASTER ANTIQUES Bv Appt.

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