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New Owners Plan To Upgrade WRDU By JOHN POWELL Staff Writer The new owners of the Triangle area's NBC television affiliate, WRDUTV, have announced plans to improve television reception from the station in the Raleigh area. A Durham Life Broadcasting Co. official said Friday that his firm will build a new tower and transmitter on a 47- acre site off U.S. 1 near Apex in White Oak Township. Durham Life Broadcasting bought the site last summer, according to Carl V.

Venters president of the company. The final agreement between Triangle Telecasters and Durham Life Broadcasting Co. to purchase WRDUTV, channel 28, was signed Thursday, he said. Durham Life Broadcasting announced in late November that it would purchase the station from Triangle Telecasters. Venters said his firm has no detailed plans for the tower and transmitter, because engineering work remains to be done.

He said Durham Life Broadcasting would make a "substantial financial investment with a view of further improving WRDU's Channel 28's signal is weak in many sections of Raleigh and Wake County. Viewers in Chapel Hill and Durham receive a better television picture. Venters said, "What we are trying to do is to increase the power as much as we can." The station's present effective radiated power is about two million watts, he said. The maximum wattage permitted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is five million watts, Venters said. He again emphasized that the planned changes in Channel 28 depend on approval by the FCC.

"We hope to file an application with the FCC in Washington in about three weeks," said Venters. He estimated that a ruling by the FCC might take three or four months. Venters declined to disclose the sale price of the station because of a private agreement with the former owners, Triangle Telecasters. Once papers are filed with the FCC, the price will become public record. Earlier in the month, Venters said his company also plans to expand news, weather and sports programs.

The station will retain its NBC affiliation and its ultra-high frequency (UHF) status, Venters said. Durham Life Broadcasting, which operates WPTF and WQDR-FM radio stations here, had been negotiating for several months to purchase the station. Five Ancient Village Sites Found DURHAM (AP) Archeologists searching the Stagville. Plantation site near here have discovered five ancient Indian villages, one at least 10,000 years old. All of the villages are at least 5,000 years old and were found by Durham native Bill Autry, an archeologist at Vanderbilt University.

John B. Flowers III, administrator of the Stagville Center for Preservation Technology, said that while he understands the ancient villages are "not particularly unusual," the spot has a wealth of archeological artifacts. The plantation where the villages were found is the home of the preservation center, where research is conducted on methods of preserving historical buildings. A number of 18th and 19th century structures remain standing on the plantation. The tract was purchased by the Liggett Group in 1954 and was given to the state this year.

Flowers said archeologists from around the country will be able to examine the Indian artifacts. He said the site will eventually be opened to amateur archeologists. The center is one of four sites in the United States equipped to train people in preservation and restoration techniques. Stagville is the only one, however, which will also provide archeological instruction. The Indian villages are located along what is thought to have been an Indian fur trading path.

Injured Boy Cary High's Band Is Visited By 19 Santas Off to Rose Parade FAYETTEVILLE (AP) Six-year-old Phillip Davis got his wish to see Santa Claus this week, even though a broken leg prohibited him from going outdoors. The boy was injured last month when struck by a car while walking to his home in the Eastover community north of Fayetteville. The Fayetteville Observer ran a story about his plight in its Tuesday editions and 19 Santas responded by dropping in on the youngster. "His little eyes were just shining," said the boy's grandmother, Muriel Rouse. "They got so big when he saw all the Energy Use In the next 25 years, the world is expected to consume an amount of energy equal to all the energy used by man in recorded history, National Geographic says.

The News and Observer, Raleigh, N. C. Saturday, December 25, 1976 WILD FIRE. Staff photo by Scott Stewart MODERN SLEIGH Larry Stetler of Garner loads two bicycles into a modern version of Santa's sleigh, a pickup truck, at North Hills Shopping Center Reidsville Woman Finds Father She'd Never Seen REIDSVILLE (UPI) For more than a half century, the only thing linking Mozelle Garrell to the father she had never seen was a small snapshot of a young man. Last Thursday, an exhausted 79-year-old man stepped off a bus in Greensboro after a 20-hour ride from Indianapolis, to see the daughter he knew only through a similar photo.

The meeting ended 55 years of separation between the two. "It was a miracle," said Forrest Swinney of the reunion with his daughter. "It had to be. Both of us had given up hope." Separated from his wife in 1921, Swinney had never seen his then-unborn daughter until he stepped from the bus and walked toward an ecstatic stranger who looked amazingly like him. "God still performs those miracles," said Mrs.

Garrell as she sat with her father Thursday afternoon. "And don't say that he doesn't." Not only did Swinney find that he had a daughter. He also found he has a son-in-law, two grandaughters, two grandsons and 10 great-grandchildren. "To find out I've got a family like this," he said, "this is something else." Mrs. Garrell was born in 1921, shortly after her father and mother separated in Fries, Va.

Her mother, who died last year, took her maiden name and moved with her daughter from Fries. "We left Fries when I was just a baby," said Mrs. Garrell. "That's why he couldn't find me." Swinney and his daughter exchanged letters and snapshots in 1940 when she was 19 years old, but suddenly the letters began to come back marked "address unknown." Both had moved and contact was lost. She met an Army recruiter at a wedding several months ago, and found out that his last name was Swinney.

She told him the story about her father and the recruiter found out where her father was living through relatives in Indianapolis. "I wrote to find out if he was my father," she said. The letter made its way to a boarding house where Swinney was living. Then the owner of the boarding house called and put the two together on the telephone. "He told me when I spoke to him on the phone, 'I'm going to spend Christmas with you," Mrs.

Garrell said. Man Charged in Bank Holdup A Wake County man was arrested Friday and charged with robbing a Raleigh bank Monday. Hulbert Footner Satterfield, 23, is being held in the Wake County jail under $100,000 bond. Satterfield was arrested by a task force of five Wake County deputies, five members of the Raleigh Police Department's selective enforcement unit and two city detectives at his home on county road 2233 near Shotwell. The Central Carolina Bank branch at 3010 Wake Forest Road in the Holly Park Shopping Center was robbed at about 3 p.m.

by a man dressed in camouflage clothes and Church Briefs RICH SQUARE The Rev. Wade Hawkins, retired United Methodist minister, will be guest speaker at the 11 a.m. service Sunday at Rich Square Baptist Church. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN Church will have a Christmas service at 10 a.m. today with special music by the chancel choir and a sermon by Dr.

Albert G. Edwards. WHITE MEMORIAL Presbyterian Church will have a Family Festival of Carols at both the 9:30 and 11 a.m. services Sunday. Readers will be drawn from the congregtion.

The sanctuary choir will sing and Dr. H.E. Pickard, minister, will preach on the theme "When God Gets Good and Ready." CALVARY PRESBYTERIAN Church in America, a congregation organized last June which has been meeting in the Hillsborough Street YMCA, will move to the Helen Y. Stough Elementary School on Edwards Mill Road for future services. The first service will be Sunday, with Bible hour at 10 a.m.

and a special praise and worship service at 11. FAIRMONT United Methodist Church will recognize college students home for Christmas at the 11 a.m. worship Sunday. Beth Byrum, a junior at Duke University and daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

T.J. Byrum, will speak. TUPPER MEMORIAL Baptist Church will have its cornerstone unveiling service Sunday at 3 p.m. The Rev. D.A.

Peace and the choirs of the Laodicea United Church of Christ will conduct the service. HAPPY HOLIDAYS -from All of usThe Wilders, Tommy Massey, David Tilson, Mike and Randy Jones, Neil Harrell, Willie Hinton, Joanne Anderson CLOSED Dee. 24th and 25th and Jen. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Wilders Nursery Knightdale, N. C.

6 Miles East of Raleigh, Hwy. 64, Ph. 266-2835 Christian Channel Planned A religious business organization has announed plans to operate a Christian-oriented television station on channel 22 in the Triangle area. L.L. Leathers of Durham, president of Carolina Christian Communications, said the group has asked the Federal Communications Commission for a license.

He said the application should take three to six months to process. "We're working on programming" while the application is being processed, Leathers said. "Although we are a Christian-oriented station, we plan to do entertainment and educational programming." If approved, the station would be the only television station in North Carolina devoted solely to religious programming. The organization currently has a program called "Good News for the Triangle" on channel 28 (WRDU) in Durham. Durham Life Broadcasting which has purchased channel 28, earlier expressed an interest in channel 22, but cancelled those plans when it bought channel 28.

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Person St. 832-3750 Rain Wink high midd on Vo Chr Pan milt rer fres sea Fry was tha' $1.5 bar out The Cary High School Marching Band will leave Monday by chartered plane for Pasadena, and its second appearance in three years in the New Year's Day Rose Bowl parade. The theme of the 1977 Tournament of Roses is "The Good Life." Roy Rogers and Dale Evans will be grand marshals for the parade, which will include 22 bands, 61 floats and 250 horseback riders. Jimmy Burns, director of the Cary band, said the group will play a medley of tunes during the march, including "Happy Days Are Here Again," "It's a Good Day" and "Big, Wide, Wonderful World." The band will stay on the UCLA campus while in the Los Angeles area and will take part in a parade at Disneyland on Dec. 30.

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The man fled into a heavily wooded area near the bank. Officers searching the area found a poncho and a pair of sunglasses, but the robber escaped. The officers apparently located the house where Satterfield was staying Thursday night and surrounded it. Satterfield was arrested shortly before dawn Friday. No one was injured and no shots were fired during the robbery or the arrest.

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