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May ipg" Poge 8 SPEEDWAY SOUVENIR THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS SPEEDWAY SOUVENIR VIDEO OWNERS HAVE 3 SEATS Kiss by Linda Darnell Is Winner's TV SCHEDULE MONDAY WFBM-TV 10:30 a.m. to 4 p. in. 500-Mile Speedway 3,000 With TV Sets to See Reward; Incidentally, There's Gash, Too Race televised. would have to confine her ef Homes ho ever went to Sunset High Awaiting the winning driver ai 500 Drama in Own that the owner of the Blue Crown Soark Plug Specials should be 4:00 p.

6:30 p. m. Test Pattern m. Telenews m. Racing Around due some of the rewards, By HERBERT KENNET.

JR. Lou was willing. Barbara complied. A tense situation was hap the World 0:40 p. 6:50 p.

New York and Meridian Street. Joe and his friends then will go pily relieved. m. Film Feature ta People's 1 a t- forts to a smile. Winner of the "500" three times, Mauri established the unheard-of precedent of saving the kisses for his fiancee, later Mrs.

Rose. Lasl year he suggested that instead of kissing him, Actress Barbara Britton plant one on Lou Moore on the apparent theory he pulls hU hot car Into the victor's cage along about 3 p. m. will be: 1. A sizable fortune in cash.

2. The six-foot-high Borg-War-ner trophy. 3. A score or more of scrambling photographers, radio men and frantic officials. 4.

One of the prettiest girls underground for a triprvla co School, Dallas, Tex. This girl, Linda Darnell, will be there to award the driver Hollywood kiss, provided, of course, he is in a receptive frame of mind. Should the winner be Mauri Rose, the law of averages to the contrary, it might be that Linda form Other drivers, however, may not be so reticent, for according to a paid word-thrower, Linda is 7:00 p. 7:30 p. 8:00 p.

Thanks to the magic of little Joe Electron, the glamour and noise of the 500-mile Race will be reduced to a series of pictures in a cabinet in the homes of an estimated 3,000 television set axial cable, to the WFBM-TV studios on the fourth floor at 48 m. Kobb's Korner in. 54th Street Re Monument Circle, to permit sta vue (Salute to WFBM-TV) owners. a 'glamorful, raven-haired movie beauty." no less. Fresh out of old Sunar-t High in '39, Linda came to Hollywood, where she skipped all the dull adages about working one's way Sign Off.

9:00 p. The Speedway race, with all Its drama of men and machines. Shaw, Rose Hold Record will provide the background for the entrance of television onto tion announcements, then back to the Bell Telephone building. From there the electrons will be sent to the TV transmitter tower Just completed atop the Merchants Bank Building, Meridian and Washington Streets. From the transmitter Joe and thm nthtr lpttrnns will be hurled Only two drivers have ever the Hoosier scene, -Joe Electron and his billions of brothers will start working Monday at 10:30 a.

m. when the won two consecutive races in the same car. Wilbur Shaw put the same Maserati over first in 1939 and 1940 and Mauri Rose did the same with his Hue Crown Spark Plug Special in 1947 and 1948. three WFBM-TV cameras, located In strategic posts at the 216-mile oval, are aimed at the pre-race ceremonies. Joe and the other electrons will "scan" the scene owners also were able to take steps for the elimination of "ghosts" frem their screens caused by faulty tuning or instaU lation.

TV Audience ef 15,869 How many will see the 500-Mile Race from the comfort of their living room is anybody's guess. Indianapolis television dealers can only make rough estimates of the number of sets Installed. That estimate averages out at about 3,000 units in homes. If only five persons gather around each set, that is an audience of 15,000. Those 15,000 wilhsee the start of the raCe when the Oldsmobile leads the pack in the pace-making lap.

They'll be there in "Victory Lane" to see Linda Darnell plant a movie-style kiss on the winner. Naturally, the television custo mer is going to miss few of the refinements of the real thing. He may not broil with the customerj at the Speedway, but he can al. ways fix that by building a fir in the fireplace. And because tele, vision does not record the exotie fumes of gasoline, oil and castor oil, the home owner may be sad.

The fan who watches the speed demons on his television screen may miss the infield custom of tossing chicken bones to the winds (the lady of the house may not appreciate having food scraps thrown on the living room into the air to be picked up by home television receivers and converted into the scene "scanned" at the Speedway. While mechanics in the track-side garages have feverishly worked to set their mounts in up the ladder of success. She started at the top, the star in a drama called "Hotel for Women." Since then she has starred In 23 pictures, among them "Forever Amber," the latest being "Slat-tery's Hurricane," still unre-leased. When not providing feminine touches to such spectacles as the 500-Mile Race or emoting for Hollywood cameras, Linda is Mrs. Peverell Marley, wife of the director of the same name.

The paid word-thrower said "they live quietly In their lovely home at Pacific Palisades, Cal overlooking the ocean." Didn't say anything about a swimming pool. through one of four lenses (for Race Broadcast in '28 Broadcasts of the "500" began closeups, medium range, ordi nary long range and super-long range). In 1928, with Graham McNamee at the mike. The crowds In the grandstand. shape for the 500-mile test, television set owners have been equally hard at work jiggering and arilustinff their eauinment to the racers warming up, the thousands of balloons released in the air as race starting the series of bomb bursts and finally the starting bomb itself obtain the best possible recep tion on Sace Day.

When WFBM-TV came on the air earlier this week with its first will be converted into electrical I. energy by Joe and his pals, with telecast of a test pattern, set owners in Indianapolis and in a circular area bounded rouehly by the assistance of a corps of technicians and engineers. Special Circuits Needed Tipton, Frankfort, Greencastle, FN rJKfr Ik, U' fJ" Martinsville, Greensburg, Kusn-ville and Anderson, were able to make refinements in the installa From the cameras two locat I If ed atop the press row across the tion of their equipments. Set rug). track from the pits and one And the television microphones placed on the roof of Grandstand Jackson's Exercise where it can command a view of the straightaway and the favored southwest turn Joe and may not do justice to the noisy roar that is an adjupct of the race itself.

That, however, can always be remedied by employing 'Burn It Up Welch Tells Rapid Rex Heavy-footed Rex Mays has a blank check in this race. Railbirds have predicted 'that Rex will "burn up" the sleek gray Novl Mobil Special he is driving this Memorial Day for the first time. That ordinarily would cause trouble. But Lou Welch, owner of the speedster, takes a different view. "If Rex can burn it up.

that's what we want him to do," he said. Formula Is 'Rest' Pushups, road work and the other electrons will travel, by special cable to a mobile trans iar any small children on the prem. ises to imitate a race car. For bells may be the choice of some mitter truck of the Bell Telephone company stationed in the infield. From the truck the elec-' drivers as physical conditioning measures for driving the "500," but not for Jimmy Jackson.

a quarter any normal child should be able to compete, or even excel, the Speedway noise. Thus television will make itself right at home in that Hoosier classic.the 500-Mile Race. tron hosts will be beamed by micro-wave to another transmitter, a huge, saucer-shaped affair, atop "I Just rest," said Jimmy, win ner of second-place money in 1948. JIM RATHMAN the Bell Telephone building at J'lf he does, we'll be back with a A I A car nexi yer ini wun i uuiu uut. We're going to build a race car that can be run at maximum speed all day long Cars Tend to Spin Race drivers have twq steering problems.

First to keep the ear on the most desirable strip of track, and second, to keep the rear end of the car from asserting its natural tendency to get ahead of the front. If you've pushed a toy racer hard, you have an idea of this tendency tq Autoist or bicyclist, even the most Intrepid run into a bit of difficulty now and then. Having apparently picked up tack some place (gold-plated, possi bly), 'Linda Darnell applies tape to a tire In an effort to continue the onward journey. But doesn't she take it in good spirits! Let that be a lesson to us all. spin.

rn had till gSi 4-B3GKE DOUGLAS SKYQSTERS eLJz: "T.t. Zy: NEW-TYPE CONSTEUATIONS 9 7 4.rfcliLle- Last Tuesday, WFBM-TV telecast a test pattern for tht first time to the eager television audience throughout the State. During the afternoon, those receiving the telecast wired, called and wrote their names and addresses for lilting to receive weekly WFBM-TV program releases. SKYMASTER SERVICE TO I JJZ so tax SKYMASTER SERVICE TO iOUISVirrv NASimUEon. ATIANTA 3nrs.29Jiaa.

A. COmiUTER comjuTERsinvicE to FLY EASTERN FOR Between noon and 5 :00 P. more than three hundred telephone calls and tele grams from all over the State, as well as from Ohio and Illinois, were received, and hundreds of calls had to be refused because of the switchboard "jam" they created. 1:25 A 9:01 A 29 P.M. 4:15 P.M.

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patsonrjor milosl SAVE 10 on return ticket ALWAYS BUY ROUND TRIP 12:15 A.A4. 03 A.M. The dots on the map above show communities from which telegrams were received. Most distant point heard from was Lakeview, Ohio 165 miles from Indianapolis, and other wires came from Kokomo, Lafayette, Terre Haute, Richmond, Bloomington and dozens of other Indiana communities. WFBM-TV takes this opportunity to thank all who participated "for this hearty response.

We're looking forward, as you are, to the television future of Indiana's first station! SPEEDWAY TELEVISED ON WFBM-TV The 500 Mile da will be telect (of the htn time in its colorful hutory th. year over WFBM-TV, starling ot 10:30 A. Centrol Daylight Time one-half hour before the official starting time. The entire race wilt be covered, Including approximately holt hour following its completion. WFBM-TV's teit pattern will be tt'KOtt until 6:30 P.

M. ADDITIONAL TELEVISION FEATURES MONDAY, MAT I0TN 10:00 A. M. to 10:30 A. M.

Feature Film. 6:30 P. M. to 6:40 f. M.Newi Reel.

6:40 f. 'Round the World." 6:50 P. M. Program Preview. 7:00 P.

M. "People's Platform." 7:30 P. M. "Kobb's Korner." 8:00 P. M.

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