Espanola Valley News from Espanola, New Mexico • 7

Wednesday. Dec. 24,1957 cSPANOLA VALLEY NEWS fAOt StTCPI Predict TV College Here Next February work so far has been in experimental stages and the outlying classes Nhave been limited However, he added participating teachers' have received invaluable experience ia working and preparing material for this new, educational experiment. This project, he said, is the first in which freshmen studies are being taught via TV with monitor teachers assisting at the receiving end. Kids' Illnesses Vanish For Yule The State Health Department reports one case of strept throat and two cases of dysenteric type! diseases turned up in Rio Arriba during the week ending Dec.

14. 'v However, the report contained a note of Christmas cheer. The rash of measles and other childhood ills reported in earlier weeks had disappeared. Wage Demand Braving winter rain, about students in Paris went on strike. They carried large banners through the streets demanding salary increases for their professors.

A prediction that channel 5, the new. TV station being set up by UNM and Albuquerque Public Schools, will be oh open channel early next year, was made today. Espanola is among a half-dox-en New Mexico cities to get TV College classes. Dr. Harold 0.

Ried, director of extension, summer session and community services, said that the station expects to be opera- ting shortly after the second semester begins Feb. 3. Latest step in the studio's progress toward going on the air was the Federal Communication Commission's approval of the installation of the studio transmitter link carrying the micro-wave from the operation have been obtained from an Enid, station, and are being ground to the exact channel of the new set-up. The TV studio, located north of the university Administration building, has been created from an old house. During the past fall term, four classes have been offered in freshman Studies: English, mathematics and 'biology.

As the studio and equipment were not ready to go on open channel, the classes have been kine-scoped on a "closed circuit" and sent for showing on a 16 mm projector to assembled classes in several outlying New Mexico towns. Dr. Cooper pointed out that the studio to the Crest of Sandia Mountains. The nedessary equipment has been promised by the middle of January. Dr.

Bernarr Cooper, professor of speech and director of TV and radio, said the next approval awaited Is the engineer's communication return signal front the crest to the studio. He added that several other applications are pending, including two with the forestry service that supervises occupancy of government lands on the crest. Another project that will hasten the station's activiation is the current work of RCA in Camden, N.J. Two crystals needed for station Think Faster Than You Drive It happened in Chino Cow Mule train hauling crude copper bars 400 miles to Chihuahua made possible the first profitable operation at Santa Rita. It was 1804 and the new owner, Don Francisco Manuel Elguea, a Mexican banker and merchant, had solved the transportation and Indian problems that had plagued the mine's founder, Carrasco.

In addition, Elguea bad the capital Carrasco lacked. And a contract to supply copper for coins gave him an assured market. Problems with raiding Apaches were eased greatly by giving them cloth, guns, horses and "strangely shaped casks of ardent spirits." Indian chief Juan Jose, after sampling the spirits, gave permission to establish Santa Rita. Elguea, playing it safe, also built a triangular fort. By solving the problems of capital, Indians, transportation and a market, the mine prospered from 1804 to 1809.

Today Kennecott's Chino Mines Division also faces a problem soaring To solve the problem, Kennecott is seeking economies In a wide variety of ways: through work simplification, expanded use of employee suggestions, improved methods, better use of supplies and equipment and the most efficient use of the work force. This program i of tremendous importance to Kennecott and to New Mexico. It will help Kennecott continue to operate successfully. And successful operations mean continued benefits, including tax payments that aid in the development of New Mexico. This is the third of a series 6f advertisements pointing out highlights in the development of the copper industry in New Mexico.

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