The Selma Times-Journal from Selma, Alabama • 8

JHE SELMA TTMESOOURNAL MONDAY, JUNE 3, IMS Montgomery station loses CBS affiliation MONTGOMERY (AP) -tg ornery's oldest television station, WCOV, will lose its CBS network affiliation in March 1986, station officials said. WCOV General Manager Carl Richards said Friday the CBS-initiated action contradicted the network's earlier claims that the Montgomery station would remain an affiliate for the foreseeable future. Its a direct reversal of their testimony during the FCC hearing that dealt with the Selma-Montg ornery conflict," Richards said. They said they had no plans to change affiliations from our station to WAKA. Selma's AKA-TV recently opened its tall broadcasting tower 28 miles outside of Montgomery and has entered the market, ranked No.

120 in the country, with its own CBS signal. Because of its stronger VHF signal. WAKA is able to reach a larger broadcasting market than WCOVs weaker UHF signal. Richards said the network cited business reasons for pulling the affiliation from WCOV. They give as their reason that it was a business decision, Richards said, and thats all I can say about their motivation right now.

WCOVs current owner, Gay-Bell Stations of Lexington, announced plans last month to sell the station to David Woods of West Monroe, La. Richards said Woods, the owner of KARD-TV in West Monroe, was aware of CBSs plans to withdraw the affiliation before he made the offer to buy WCOV. But Richards said he wasnt whether WCOV would become an independent station. Its difficult to make any firm statements because of the jockeying of aU the stations, he said. Currently, three of the four area stations are for sale.

Bahakel Communications, the owner of WKAB announced in April that it had filed for permission from the Federal Communications Com; mission to sell the station to a. Maryland-based communications company. The Charlotte, N.C.-based Bahakel" was forced to sell WKAB because' FCC regulations prohibit the ownership of two television stations in the. same market. Bahakel has lined the purchase of WAKA, a move will take place when the FCC approves the WKAB sale.

Bahakel owns seven television sta- tions, five of them ABC affiliates, and industry speculation has been that Bahakel will switch WAKA from CBS to abc. HI But the agreement between Bahakel and Terrapin tions, the company that has applied tg buy WKAB, forces Bahakel to commit; to maintaining a CBS affiliation WAKA for at least two years after thg -sale. Only WSFA, Montgomerys NBC affiliate, is removed from much of the swirling business deals, CharlesR Whitehurst, WSFAs general manag er, said Friday. I think the whole market is weird right now, Whitehurst said. New Selma High officers These Selma High School students have been elected student council officers Back row, Mark Peterson, chaplin; Chudy Okoye, parliamentarian; Velvet for the 1985-88 school year.

Shown from left, front row, are Carrie Goldsby, Harris and James Braxton, activities directors; Jeremy Cnice, historian; president; Jenny Anderson, vice president; Patrice Jefferson, recording sec- Dexter Patterson, public relations. Nancy SeweU is faculty sponsor of the retary Kimberly Bartlett, corresponding secretary Zelda Oliver, treasurer student organization. Newsmakers Douglas helps hometown celebrate its birthday Before you go on Let Us Service Your Car Fan Belts Lube Jobs Tires Wheel Balancing Tune Ups Brake Service Batteries Mufflers Washing Waxing and now considers him her greatest security. Mrs Gandhi spoke of her relationship with her husband and her late mother-in-law Indira Gandhi in an interview with the Hindi-language weekly Dharmayug. It was the first she has given to a non-Italian journalist since Gandhi came to power late last year after his mother was assassinated.

Portions of the interview were distributed Sunday by the Prgss Trust of India news agency. Mrs. Gandhi, 38, said she met her husband 21 years ago in a cafe at Cambridge University, where both were students. They were married in 1968. I found an inner beauty in him, she said.

He was different from the others, deeper and wiser. Asked whether she had any misgivings about moving to India, Mrs. Gandhi said, When one is in love that love gives a person an extraordinary strength wards off any fears. I wanted Rajiv, she added, and Rajiv is my greatest security. Celebrity auction works in her class GARDEN GROVE, Calif.

(AP) King Fahd of Saudi Arabia and Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa sent autographed photos, actress Elizabeth Taylor donated a tote bag, and Olympic diver Greg Louganis contributed a pair of swim trunks. English teacher Sara Hess plans to stage her second annual readers celebrity auction this week at Pacifica High School. Students use points accumulated by reading to bid on such memorabilia as television scripts from comedian Bob Newhart and Hill Street Blues" star Daniel J. Travanti. In addition to getting students (o do more reading, they are finding out that people they might admire feel reading is important, she said Friday.

Rock star Stevie Wonder, actor Burt Lancaster and Britains Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher also gave autographed pictures. ABC-TVs Good Morning America host David Hartman offered his coffee cup, and former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro sent a copy of the official proceedings of the 1984 Democratic National Convention. Ms. Hess estimated that 130 potential auction participants read more than 3,000 novels, plays or biographies, getting one point per 100 pages. AMSTERDAM, N.Y.

(AP) Veteran actor Kirk Douglas returned to his hometown to help celebrate its centennial this weekend, and more than 10,000 people turned out to welcome him. Douglas was grand marshal of a parade in his honor Saturday, and a park was named for him in this mill city of 21,800, 35 miles west of Albany. The 68-year-old actor was given the keys to the city. Also at the park dedication were Gov. Mario Cuomo and other officials.

At a news conference before the parade, Douglas talked about growing up poor in Amsterdam. He said that was easier than growing up was for his son, actor Michael Douglas, 41, who had money and a famous father. I have always told my kids that they have not had my advantages because I had the advantage of being poor. I had nowhere to go but up, -he said. Yale post goes to Tsongas NEW HAVEN, Conn.

(AP) Former Sen. Paul E. Tsongas won his latest election, defeating movie director George Roy Hill and four others for a post on the Yale Corporation, the Ivy League schools governing body. Yale President A. Bartlett Giamatti announced Tsongas election at the end of the annual alumni meeting weekend Saturday.

In keeping with tradition, the results of the balloting by nearly 90,000 alumni were not revealed. Tsongas, lives in his native Lowell, and is in private law practice in Boston. His six-year term begins July 1. Tsongas, a Dartmouth College graduate, went to Yale for his law degree. He was elected to the U.S.

House of Representatives and went to the Senate in 1978. Tsongas decided against running for re-election last year to spend more time with his family and for treatment of a form of cancer. Hill, 64, majored in music at Yale, graduating in 1943. His directing credits include Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting," The World According to Garp and The Little Drummer Girl. Wife considers Gandhi security NEW DELHI, India (AP) Sonia Gandhi, Italian-born wife of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, says she was first attracted by his inner beauty Valley Creek Shell Service ShSTi ACROSS FROM WALMART-W.

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