Daily Press from Newport News, Virginia • Page 13

DAILY PRESS, Newport News. Wednesday, Jane 15, 1977 Cut WHRO-TV Honrs Electricity Mate Mike May By RALPH CORNELIS Staff Reporter NORFOLK- A dra--matic increase in elec tricity rates may force WHRO-TV, the area's educational and public broadcasting station, to before the board of directors Tuesday approved a $1.3 'million operating budget for next fiscal year. The board for the first time also approved application for a three-year, $150,000 loan at the prime interest rate, currently 6.5 per cent, to finance "urgent long-term cut up to IS hours per week from the schedule. The news came from Executive Vice-President and General Manager John Morison just sponsibilities." The station has also received another production contract from NASA to produce a life science educational film on the outcome of the Mars Viking exploration last summer. WHRO provided a similar film in advance of the Viking project.

To expand the programming of WTGM, the public radio station, folk and jazz music has been added, as well as more public affairs programs and a locally-produced folk music show and children's story hour. capital improvements in equipment and building." On July 1 Channel 15's electricity rate increases Dimensions Unlimited Presents Graham from one cent per kilowatt hour to 3.7 cents, which will boost utility bills from less than $35,000 per year to almost $100,000, said Morison. Since the major cost of electricity is the television transmitter, which operates at five million watts, reducing' the number of operating hours by 15 would save at least $10,000. Morison said after the meeting the staff will "look at marginal viewing areas to make cuts, perhaps signing off earlier during the week and signing on later on weekends." For every hour not transmitted, the station can save about $1,000 per year, he said. Like commercial sta- tions, WHRO uses an audience survey firm, Nielsen, to obtain ratings for its programming.

Morison said programming may be dropped that registers no measurable viewer reaction in the survey. One board member suggested reducing transmitter power as an alternative to reducing hours, but Morison said later he's not certain whether that's possible in view of the FCC license requirement. "Besides, if you get up in the 40 per cent range (power reduction) you defeat the purpose of having a five million watt transmitter," said Morison. The budget for the fis Central Station The best place to have Fish'n'Chim this side of is MEM nits special mtfce Sunny Day's Jolly Lobster RESTAURANT with special guests Brothers Johnson and Enchantment Sat. June 18th 8 PM Merry Olde Kntland is right here in Merry Olde Tidewater.

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l.tl Pttmrk-xler St across-the-board salary increase for all employes, an $80,000 cont $6 advance $7 day of show Tickets available at Scope box office and all video seat locations. ingency fund and one major new category, $13,000 for computer services 1875 "to handle our growing and complex financial situation," said Morison. mm Purchase of a mobile I ft television trailer and increase in electric' rates made it impossible to include capital improve Peninsula Newsmakers $150,000 Asked In Suits Suits totaling $150,000 were filed Tuesday in Newport News Circuit Court, in connection with a traffic accident at Jefferson Avenue and Muller Lane on Feb. 25. Steven J.

Noel, 17, suing through his mother, Mrs. Patricia Noel, asks $100,000 from Patrick V. Cusack of Ft. Eustis. The suit contends that Noel, passenger in a vehicle involved in an accident with an automobile driven by the defendant, suffered injuries and impaired future earnings.

Mrs. Noel asks $50,000 for medical expenses for her son. Two Charged With Assault Two men have been arrested and charged with the assault of a designer a week ago. Hampton police arrested Granville L. Diehl Tuesday and Newport News police arrested Jerry D.

Champion of Courtney Avenue, Newport News Friday night and charged them with assaulting Otto J. Kraemer, 57. Both men were released on their own recognizance. Kraemer has said that the two men, members of the Designers Local of the United Steelworkers of America, attacked him as he was leaving Newport News Shipbuilding shortly after 5 p.m. on June 7, Kraemer was taken by ambulance to Riverside Hospital, where he was released after treatment for broken ribs, according to a hospital spokesman.

Kraemer is one of 50 to 75 designers who went back to work last Monday and Tuesday. The Steel-workers, who represent about 1,200 designers, have, been on strike since April 1. Shortly after this and other incidents, the local union sent a letter to all its members saying in part, "The Steelworkers neither advocate nor condone such acts. Violence does not help us, but can only hinder our efforts to obtain a fair and equitable Demo Panel Seats Filled Three of Hampton's 18 precincts Tuesday elected members to the Hampton Democratic Committee, the first time such a category has been included on the ballot in the primary. The precincts in which more people filed for the allotted committee seats than there were vacancies were Buckroe three seats and six candidates, Northamptontwo seats and four candidates, and Phoebus three seats and four candidates.

In Buckroe, Frank A. Kearney III led that ticket with 316 votes, followed by Leonard L. Graves Jr. with 254 and Jacqueline C. Stieffen with 202.

Losing in that precinct were John F. Lawson with 198, Christopher W. Hutton with 118 and Edward S. Kacerguis with 44. In Northampton, voters elected Elaine Marie ment projects in the budget, Morison told the board.

The $150,000 loan, the first ever approved for WHRO, will be used to buy backup transmission components, build a garage storage building to house the mobile unit, provide for minor tele IS NOW OPEN AT 754 J. CLYDE MORRIS BLVD. MON. thru SAT. 11:30 to 10:00 SUNDAY 5:00 to 10:00 Phone 599-4308 FARIS St FORTUNE A V'- vision and radio production needs and provide matching funds for a federal grant to improve broadcast and production facilities.

In other business, the board of directors voted to expand to 15 members, with the two new members nominated from the public. The board now has four public members. The board's executive committee has approved an agreement with Television Corporation of Virginia, which plans to operate an independent UHF television station on channel 33 and lease space on WHRO's transmitter tower. The agreement requires the firm to obtain a construction permit from the FCC within two years, to begin operations a year after the permit is granted and to make annual payment of $20,000 increasing to $40,000 by the fifth year. WHRO has been awarded the 1977 Silver Gavel Award of the American Bar Association for its citizenship series "Rights and Re 6k ij A JHl EMflJUIQd Boyters with 139 and Herman C.

Lawson with 135. Losing in that precinct were Robert D. Thompson Jr. with 112 In Phoebus, elected were Sarah L. Taylor with' 407, Judith A.

Kaiser with 387 and Michael S. Wolsh with 336. Losing was Garnett R. Gregory Jr. with 168.

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