The Charlotte News from Charlotte, North Carolina • 34

CHARLOTTE Feb 12 1964 Virginian Agrees On TV Site Here 0 USKIEEPEIDA "CHARLOTTE'S OLDEST APPLIANCE STORE 28 YEARS OF FAITHFUL SERVICE TO CHARLOTTE AND THE CAROLINAS" I 11M1 By EMERY MISTER News Staff Writer An ultra high frequency tele vision station which would make it possible for Charlotte to have better programming from all three networks should be on the air by fall Cy Bahakel president of the Cy Bahakel Broadcasting Stations said today he signed an agreement to purchase UHF Channel 36 here 110tni POSIITIMELIT 0-111-11 WO 0j He also announced the move meta of his company quarters here from Roanoke Va -1461eIN ir t) 47 04 0' I i i 4 i ''''4' Allti) 1 11: 1 1- I THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 9 AM 'TM 9 PM 9 AM 711- 9 PM 9 AM 'TM 5:30 PM The GREATEST APPLIANCE TV And STEREO EVER HUE EVER HELD Anti 1 tiltU The offices will be on the third floor of the Charlotte Merchandise Mart adjacent to the studio and transmitter which the firm expects to purchase from Century Advertising Co He said formal application to take over 36 which has been oll the air for about a year will be filed soon with the Federal Communlcations Commission an Washington The price for the local station will be published when the transaction is approved As planned the station will be on the air during daylight and evening hours with the exact schedule to be announced IN THE TWO News Stet! Hunter Merchandise Mart's Bill Overholtz (right) shows office location to TV president Cy Bahakel EVERY FRIGIDAIRE APPLIANCE EVERY PHILCO TV and STEREO In BOTH STORES MUST GO! EVERY FRIGIDAIRE APPLIANCE EVERY PHILCO TV and STEREO In BOTH STORES MUST GO! CAROLINAS! 50 mile radius of Charlotte he said Eventually the station plans power of one million watts At present there are comparatively few television sets equipped to pick up UHF signals However a recent act of Congress requires that all sets manufactured a I ter April I be equipped to receive UHF signals Thus the station would have a' comparatively large audience within a year or two Mr Bahakel who already has moved his residence from Roan oke said about 10 persons will: be employed at the station and about five in the headquarters offices Charlotte was selected for the new headquarters of the firm be-1 cause of its schools and transpor tation facilities The company's chain includes seven AM radio stations in Waterloo Iowa Lynchburg Va Roanoke Bowling Green Ky Greenwood Miss and Kingsport Tenn FM stations in Waterloo and Lynchburg and television stations in Greenwood and Montgomery Ala MR BAHAKEL said "It is our hope to get the full night time National Broadcasting Co schedule and the day schedule of the American Broadcasting Co before going on the air" The station also plans to do some live programming Some remodeling and an addition to the present studio and transmitter building also will be necessary The station would have 12000 watts power and would cover the area within a FRIGIDAIRE A 1 o6- 1 I 05 AV' 1 Mit VIIIIIN- NIP! rieltillinil '1 14 J- Ntdp 3k4 Ari 1 1 1nm --H ojert 1 li 1 411sairal IF r111 11 r--Jb ill FRIGIDAIRE 1 --JO Aka NI Slum Board Gets Progress Report Li NO MONEY DOWN this is only a sample of what we're offering 30-INCH BIG 14 FT NO 4111mmionnom this is only a we're offering 30 INcH 'I Felt Something Was Wrong' Continued From Second Front in cash" she said "Usually it they are crooks they will want to put in some cash with checks to make it look better" "I watched him closely I thought his hair had been dyed" mho said "That made me even more suspicious" -------i----- Is til 7 Ilh I FRIGIDAIRE UPRIGHT FREEZER Sill 89 Model FDS-13T2 Model The commission has obtained all but a few pieces of property and hopes to sell its first prop erty soon final phase of the application for a loan and grant contract for the second project will go to the Urban Renewal Administration office in Atlanta tomorrow When the application is op proved the commission can start buying land for the sec ond project I SAWYER will go to Atlanta tomorrow to take the first part of the application in pre liminary form for a loan and grant contract for the third project If the preliminary form is approved the final draft would go back in a few weeks By ALEX COFFIN News Stan Writor Vernon Sawyer executive director of the Redevelopment Commission was to give the commission a progress report this afternoon on the four projects underway in the blighted Brooklyn area The agenda for this afternoons session contained only routine matters The commission headed by Elmer Rouzer was to meet at 4 pm in the City Council chamber THE SLUM clearance project three years old is designed to clean out 238 acres of Brooklyn slums in five projects Mr Sawyer made this report: has begun on the streets in the first project area' RANGE SI 28 RANGE 28 With Trade Model RS 30564 VFD1463 500 Pounds a Easy to clean i11 es --zi GIANT or- 1 -1r1- 12 LB i NI-----j TUB! El 4 12 ir WDA64 BIG CAPACITY FRIGIDAIRE REFRIGERATOR Realtor Head Hits Housing Bill 12-lb CAPACITY AUTOraillisAWASHER 4 8 tdt3 As soon as the man left she called the construction company on Tryon St which he had listed as a place of employment They had never heard of him Her suspicion confirmed she quickly telephoned North Carolina National Bank where Jarrell had said he previously banked They said a man using the name James Taylor had set up an account the pre vious day at the main office with $75 cash She told them her suspicions and put them on the alert NCNB quickly found that two checks for $65 each had been cashed at separate branches and that the descriptions of James Taylor didn't match WHILE THIS was taking place Mrs Baucom found Jarrell was back in the lobby try log to cash a $70 check She took him back to the new accounts department and stalled while someone else got in touch with the detectives who by this time were questioning a second James Taylor who had walked into the NCNB main office When the detective walked up behind Jarrell he asked the man his name "James Wilson!" said Jarrell and then quickly "I mean James Taylor This lady has me ACT QUICK lAttt 1 -lake advantage of this great sales I event Some models in short supply No gimmicks nothing held iback Shop throughout the town and then come to Good Housekeeping Shop for a REAL DEAL! With Trade SI063 Fully Automatic andr 4 f) t-n TV'S and STEREOS By LAMAR GUNTER News Stet Writer The president of the National Association of Real Estate Boards hit the Johnson administration's housing bill suggested a change in the federal urban renewal program and toucbed on civil rights in a speech here today Edward Mendenhall Jr of High Point the first North Caro linian ever elected national Res ident spoke to the Charlotte Board of Realtors at a luncheon in Charlottetown Mall He was introduced by De Lacy Wyman retiring president of the North Carolina Association of Realtors MR MENDENHALLS president of the High Point Downtown Development Corp told local real tors he hoped they would be active in facing the problem of downtown renewal and "I hope you can do it without urban renewal grants" He said the position of the national association is that urban renewal funds "can be justified only when the re-use is predominantly residential or for public use MENDENHALL HERE'S JUST A SAMPLE OF OUR FABULOUS BUYS! erat and bound for a destination that is not indicated on the priv ate enterprise map" he said PHILCO PORTABLE TV Jarrell is no more confused than another man whom Mrs Baucom helped to put back Into Jail some time ago OPEN IIIGIITS 9 pm Ile said there are good points to the bill such as increasing the maximum single family home mortgage FHA will in sure from moo to $10000 and allowing FHA to insure mort gages on vacation homes up to $11000 when they are accept able risks EARLY BIRD SPECIALS! 19 Inch tartaahric PORTABLE Trial" 9 Speaker STEREO $ty Floor Sample 3 Speaker STEREO Early Amer lean AMFM payee Reg $49900 Ile said the policy position ha no way repudiates other as pects of renewal cominer dal and Industrial '399 '69" 2 Speaker STEREO 119 WALNUT CABINET By coincidence this man walked into the bank just as Mrs Baucom had finished listening to a description of him for passing bad checks in Durham She said he wrote from the Durham jail to ask for the $5 cash he had given her along with the had checks he used to set up his account "He got a Wachovia check for the $5 Aft er all that was his money" She remembers tripping up another man about three or four months after she moved to the new accounts department The man gave as his address a number which a check of the city direehry proved to be that for the nurses' residence at Charlotte Memorial Hospital "I didn't think he lived there" she said amused that he would have picked this address Another address given by still another man turned out to be a vacant lot Mrs Baucom hasn't kept track but she guesses she has helped in the apprehension of at least four or five bogus check artists in her 10 years at the bank The Republican housing bill offers more promise for private enterprise advocates Mr Mendenhall said "particularly if it Is amended in a few particulars" ON CIVIL BIGHTS Mr Mendenhall said "It is unfortunately true that some of our citizens Negroes do not have the full civil rights to which they are constitutionally entitled and the equality of opportunity to which they are implicitly entitled in the terms of our country's founding Special guests for Mr Mendenhall's talk were incoming state president Joseph A Robb of Dur ha National Director Charles Landt of Raleigh: State Executive Vice President James Bichsel Jr representatives of the city county and state governments and presidents of 10 realtor boards in the Piedmont area GO ROUSC(EPQ I He said the association advo- cotes that Congress terminate capital grants for such renelhal and enact legislation providing for loans not to exceed two thirds of the net project cost to finance non-residential redevelop ment projects that are economically sound Mr Mendenhall said of the administration's so-called "omnibus housing bill" that "the intended passengers on this omnibus are free-loaders "THE BILL has subsidies in It for almost everyone but before the free-loaders gleefully board this particular omnibus they ought to take a good look at it It is a bus named 'fed eral control' driven by a bureau 919 CENTRAL AVE ED 2 363 11 411 Ps It E3E D902M 4111 1113A 1 4 1.