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The Birmingham News from Birmingham, Alabama • 19

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9TH FLOOR 922 WOODWARD BLDG. J244 LOWEST PRICE EVER! G-E FILTER-FLO WASHER Only WA 750 WERE DETERMINED TO TEASE YOU SEE US TODAY COOPER OPEN TIL 9 EVERY NIGHT OPEN 'TIL 9 EVERY NIGHT TV APPLIANCE CO PHONE 52-6486 1520 PiNSON STREET. TARRANT THS BIRMINGHAM NEWS TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1956 The Thames line First black dahlias Visits Formorsa UHF battle indicates something brewing in TV walk when the commercial comes on. theater main. I have a feeling that a fourth TV station and a third commercial one is not far off.

ridden herd on television since it first began, its hard to see why set manufacturers were not somehow made to make them to receive either type TV signal. Its still not too late, although it would be five or six years before present sets wear out and the all-channel sets replace them. Whatever the solution is going to be, the UHF folks are working hard at bringing one about. They have recently merged all their forces into a Committee for Competitive Television, and named John G. Johnson, of WTOB-TV, Winston-Salem, N.

its head. Johnson is the new owner of WSGN here, one of the applicants for Channel 42 in Birmingham. The other applicant is the Harry and Elmer Balaban to see: A fight over a UHF channel. Fights over VHF channels are usuaL Whenever a new station goes on the air, its a safe bet that there was a long drawn-out battle between competing interests Theres still only one TV station in New fH Orleans, due to fm arguments over whos going to get the second channel The Ifc Times Pica-yune, or Loyola University. Similar hassles are holding up Thames allocation of a channel at Biloxi.

But argue over UHF? Unheard of. Show guests PREVIEWS: Peter Lawford and Mildred Natwick will be guests of Martha Raye at 7 p.m. on WABT Judy Can-ova will clown with Red Skelton in a mountain feud scene in color at 8:30 p.m. on WBRC-TV. "A SALESMAN HAS to HEAR I wear a SONOTONE!" Complaint department A COMPLAINT about a nasal spray commercial being sprung on TV viewers just at supper time comes this way from that desk right over there where Sid Thomas sits.

Sids a relatively new reporter on The News up from The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer. Hes irked at the graphic description of the stopped up nose, with the accompanying solution. He might do like so many millions of others do take a Do You Wonder who to coll when your TV needs ottention? Ask your neighbor for my reference. Call 59-6464 for Service VINCENT A. LoPRESTI Can you imagine what the boss would say if I garbled an order from a good customer No cheap hearing aid for me! I cant afford anything but the best.

If dependable hearing is part of your job, you too will want the best. A Sonotone is not a luxury some hearing aids cost much more. Convenient terms will be arranged. Scientific fitting provided in the privacy of your home or office. No obligation, of course.

Can't compete UHF CANT compete with VHF, Be Sure With for one thing; theyre not as powerful and most sets have to be converted, at right nice expense, to receive them. As closely as the FCC has There about 130,000 toy-train hobbyist in the United States, National Geographic coming into the back room while I get a snort? Thats agreeable. So, they journeyed into the back room, the merchant pointed to a jug in the corner, and practically commanded: Now, have a drink!" Have we got to go through that again? asked the TPA man. I thought I gave you a rather direct answer. The head man of the store looked at him menacingly, suddenly grabbed a shotgun from the rack on the wall, and commanded: "Now, my fine feathered friend, take a drink of that whisky or suffer the consequences.

The salesman reached, grabbed and gulped. How was it? asked the merchant. The rottenest rot-got I ever put in my mouth, sputtered the man. Thats what I been telling 'em around here. Its really awful.

Now, you take the gun, aim it at me, and make me take one. OLD DOLLAR BILL SEZ: Hez Tuggle asked the orchestra to play the Kindling Song at the dance th other night. The leader no savvied, and asked What in the world is the Kindling Song? Hez replied: Love Is a Many Splintered Thing." Th only permanent th erst- any I fullai any MAKE MODEL FOR YOUR TELEVISION or RADIO Call 4-541 1 CHAPMAN RADIO TELEVISION CO. 725 S. 22nd Street ALABAMA'S LEADER IN RADIO AND TELEVISION says tl Society.

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