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15 THE HARTFORD COURANT: Friday, February 18. 1972 Blackout Hits Ulster; Settlement Plan Awaited were rationing sugar. power plants can be kept run planned to work into the night ployment total soaring above Channel 18 Assigned to Faith Center By ROEERT WATERS Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON The Federal Communications Commission Thursday overrode the objections of Hartford's black and Puerto Rlcan community and LONDON (AP) Britain's power crisis spread to Northern Ireland for the first time Thurs 2.5 million and Davies said the Davies told Parliament the cuts ordered so far had reduced electric output to about C5 per day, adding an order for four immediately and new coal supplies let in. But the actual end to the strike will have to await a ballot by the union's 280,000 members, a process that should take at least a week. Removal of the pickets would cent of demand.

He refused to daily electricity cuts to the province's troubles. At the same time the govern disclose the size of the further figure could reach 3 million next week. Nearly 1,200 electrically driven commuter trains were cut from service on British Rail's southern region alone by Thursday night. Cutbacks in London subway service were ordered beginning Monday. ment warned that power cuts Local Man Piloting Jet The son of a former production manager of the Cou-rant is piloting one of the charter flights in President Nixon's party to China.

Stewart W. Beckett of 302 O'Connell Drive, East Hartford, flew a charter jet out of Washington Thursday morning carrying dignitaries and newsmen. Beckett, a first officer with Pan Am Airline, for eight years, followed the same route as the presidential plane. Air Force I. His father, John worked at The Courant from 1951 to 1962.

He currently lives in Florida. Beckett will return with the rest of the party around Feb. 28. cuts planned for Wednesday. Industry is now on a three-day week.

already hitting homes and fac lift the threat of a nearly com ning only until the end of next week. After that, a shutdown of all but emergency services is inevitable, he said, halting the bulk of British industry. Hope of averting additional cuts depends on an early settlement of the six-week-old coal miners' strike that has starved electric generating plants of fuel supplies. Da vies added. The power cuts have been ordered to conserve dangerously low supply levels.

A government-named inquiry into the miners' pay dispute to ready a proposed settlement formula by today as promised. Employment minister Robert Carr asked leaders of the miners union and the state-run Coal Board to be in his office Friday morning to look at the outlines of the inquiry board's recommendations. The Coal Board has promised to honor any suggestions drawn up by the mediators. The miners have said only that if the recommendations are acceptable to the union leadership, the pickets outside power plants can be called off tories across Britain for up to plete power breakdown halting approved the assignment of British industry. But further 12 hours a day will be increased next Wednesday unless the crisis is settled.

The black delays In getting the miners back to work are expected to Channel 18, WHCT-TV, to a California-based religious group. The city station, once the nation's pioneer pay-TV operation, will be assigned to Faith Center of Glendalp Calif 9 rwnniwf if outs in Northern Ireland begin keep coal supplies below nor WILLIAM H. PEHL 11 ASYLUM ST KM. 803 247-6570 Repair Work of All Kindi Oculists Prescriptions Filled Broken Lenses Repaired mal for many months. Grocers complained In some areas of shortages in food supplies, as packaging and processing plants worked on half time schedules.

In south Wales, a coal mining area, housewives Industrial shutdowns from at 7 a.m. today. Industry Minister John Da vies told Parliament that' ven with these further cuts the 1 power shortage already church corporation which oper- of am rmr a have sent the nation unem oic5 a iv siaxion ana two em radio stations on the West Coast. The FCC order is subject to They also charged Faith Cen ter's programming proposals were confusing, that local news 'J ILwl 1 IfrJI hV II! 2ZS UVifli IIUUMBt coverage would decline and that Faith Center's specialized for mat of religious programming would be a "selfish use of the airwaves. The FCC brushed aside these and other complaints.

Consider ing Faith Center's proposed use of 60 hours and 30 minutes of ir air time each week, the FCC said that it found that a "significant portion" of the station's programming would be devoted to community problems. ihe commission also found that Faith Center had made a "reasonable and good faith effort" to ascertain the needs and interests of the community as required. icuerai court appeal if the 32-member Hartford Communications Committee chooses to carry its challenge into another forum. In Hartford, George Foster-Bey, former chairman of the Hartford Communications Committee, said he was "disappointed but not surprised" at the FCC decision. It was felt, he said, that Faith Center operation of the channel would not be of benefit to the whole community.

The committee and its attorney would have to get together to decide whether further legal action might be justified, he said. William J. Brown, executive director of the Greater Hartford Urban League and a committee member, said he thought an appeal would be "appropriate." However, he said, he would like further details on the grounds on which the channel was assigned to Faith Center "in the light of all the testimony" presented by opponents. Channel 18 is presently licensed to RKO-General Inc. RKO-General has been operating the money-losing station as a conventional TV operation since Jan.

31, 1969, when the six-and-a-half year experimental subscription TV operation ended. RKO announced it would donate Channel IS to Faith Center last May after efforts to sell the station for about $2 million failed. The Hartford Communications Committee, led by representatives of the Poor People's, Federation, La Casa de Puerto Rico, the South Arsenal Neighborhood Development and. the Greater Hartford Urban League challenged the transfer July 9. The commission noted that the proposed general manager and program director of the station conducted interviews with 57 community leaders, including at least eight black leaders and 10 representatives of the Puerto Rican and Spanish-speaking community.

Faith Center proposes to use some 40 per cent of its broadcast week for religious programming. The FCC noted that this represented less than half of the time the station would be on the air. RKO-General presently oper ates the station 51 hours a week. Prior to the decision to donate the station to Faith Center, Channel 18 sought FCC approval for a power boost that would give it some four times the present viewing signal. The request was denied.

During a two-year period before the transfer was ll II Ml II II "nl flMjS ggh 1ST -l I ffAJT) announced, the station was re ported losing from $30,000 to $60,000 per month. The challenging group charged Faith Center would be "insensitive to the need and problems" of the city's minority The experimental Pay-TV op-eration sustained estimated losses from 1962 to 1989 of about Koooft, Emm. mtttM-yp-B $11 million, officials said. groups. COMBO DISTRIBUTORS Where people come from as far away as 75 ml to savi FRIDAY-SATURDAY-SUNDAY-MONDAY ASK FOR CDCC PUCDDV DIE NO PURCHASE YOUR Lt vntKKT Ht NECESSARY REPEAT OF A SELLOUT! FAMOUS MAKE PORTABLE includes guarantee and service ALL, PORTABLE and JThCJK CONSOLE COLOR SfkZ DRASTICALLY DISCOUNTED! U.S.

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