The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 2

2 THE KANSAS CITY STAR Thursday August is wo Political Debate a Crowd-Pleaser Sixth TV Station KBMA Channel 41 On Air Here in Fall time the skinny guy on the second floor wants Last night's debate occurred after Webster discussed state finances in a local newspaper article Officials in Jefferson meant Webster would support tax increase in the next session to raise revenues "I would support a proposal which would raise about 50 million dollars instead of the 100 Highlights and Sidelights (Continued From Page 1) year it may possibly be the million which would have been City saw the article a ac-eaten up by the greedy boards cused him of doing home-and departments of state gov- ernment in Jefferson Webster challenged them to a debate it graming in an attempt to promote KCSD-TV channel 19 the only non-commercial television station would carry some of the NET programing for a limit-megawatt ed amount of time in hopes that the exposure would gain funding first computerized master control system in the KBMA will operate with a power output of 1050000 watts and will be the first station in the area The sta- Webster replied ers and told the audience that if' more persons had understood the needs when they voted on an income tax increase last April that it would have passed have seldom failed when they have clearly understood the he said Vaughn presented figures on revenue receipts for the past fiscal year and his projections for revenue for the coming year WEBSTER SAID that during the past five years state revenue has increased from 342 million to 612 million dollars agree that this state has needs which must be met and that some form of tax increase will be he said not in favor of an income tax proposal which will create a surplus such as the one voted down in April would have because my friends we always spend it Cantrell then asked if that (Continued From Page 1) "We ought to get every dollar we can out of our investments If there are such abuses they should be DURING HIS OPENING statement McNeal said that no change has occurred in state income tax rates in almost 40 years 1931 we set the rates at one to 4 per cent on individuals and two per cent on he said where they are He said that during the same period the state sales tax taxes most those least able to has been increased by eight times "At the same time we have steadfastly refused to raise tax rates on the rich and others who are most able to pay through an increase in income tax rates on the higher he said Cantrell discussed needs and current programs The event was sponsored by Webster was one of the lead- the Carthage Press After the of the drive to defeat the debate Webster was asked how Hearnes plan for increasing in- managed to attract such a large crowd to which he re- come tax rates in a referendum election April 7 Since that time! shucks it much he has said he would support a We'd have had a lot more if the compromise proposal which debate hadn't been broadcast would increase taxes on cigar- on the radio ettes and wine liquor and beer i minority party has been rebuffed at least three times ini its attempts to work out a compromise proposal with the gov-1 Webster said governor has declined to meet but I am still willing to talk any grade A signal will encompass St Joseph Mo Har-risonville Mo and Lawrence Kas its grade signal should stretch from Carrollton Mo to Topeka A Mobile Studio Since the station is not affiliated with any network Wormington plans to "utilize a mobile color studio and originate local programs on rather than concentrate on studio-based programing stripped out a mobile home and are building a mobile color studio which will be both self-propeUed and Wormington explained purchased several General Electric field cameras for he said stressing that plans still were tentative In Long Negotiation The fall debut of KBMA-TV follows an interesting series of behind-the-scenes negotiations on the part of Grant who owns controlling interest in the station Shortly before KCIT-TV channel 50 went on the air last October Grant made a bid to purchase controlling interest in the station KCIT stockholders decided against the sale but if it had been approved Grant had planned to donate equipment to a non-profit local Corporation for Public Broadcasting which would then have operated two public television chan-Channel 19 and Channel I- I i A Number One Shoe which with full broadcast ca pacity and zoom lenses onlynejs weigh about 40 jq Wormington said some of his KCIT-TV would then have plans for local programing switched its signal to include telecasts of high school and would have operated as and college sports events Channel 41 Pa- Volker park and Freedom Grant later proposed another oast-to-C oast i Monster Look 3 Colors Brown Blue Dark Brown WIDTHS AA 6 to 9 LB 5-10 I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I lace concerts and area happenings of terest "With our computer Wormington said "we can spend less money on manpower to operate the station so the bulk of our money will be going into programing he added we have to have most of the people tied up running the station they can be free to go out and film local Wormington said Westport Television Inc had invested about 1 million dollars in the station and equipment "It cost more to put the station on the air this way but less to operate in the long he explained Films on Schedule Despite plans for local programing which be unable to begin until November when his lightweight cameras arrive the station's program lineup will consist mainly of syndicated series and movies The station will be on the air from 2:30 until midnight Monday through Saturday and from 3:30 until midnight on Sundays A tentative broadcast schedule supplied by KBMA-TV shows the station will be carrying syndicated series such as Dennis the Menace Wild Wild West Troop The Flying Nun Please Eat the Daisies Dragnet Tarzan Gidget Here Come the Brides and possibly the Merv Griffin show which KCMO-TV recently announced it was cancelling In addition to syndicated series the station has purchased film packages containing movies such as "Lord of the "Act Hot and and the Single The station also plans to offer a film series of Charlie Chan movies and a series of old comedy features such as early Joe Brown films Wormington said he may any other viewer in- merger between KCIT and KBMA in which KBMA equipment would have been donated to the University of Missouri It also was vetoed by KCIT stockholders Shortly after that Grant decided to put KBMA-TV on the air The decision will see KBMA broadcasting almost four years after Westport Television Inc was granted the station allocation by the FCC in October 1966 Having been granted several FCC the latest in November of last year due to the construction Grant faced the possibility of not being allowed another extension had he not shown more progress this year than in the last three Compete in Management Wormington who will be competing with his twin brother Bill Wormington general manager of KCIT-TV siid he had no idea why it took Grant so long to put KMBA on the air he added can give you some reasons why it was advantageous to wait "The number one reason is that UHF penetration in the market was low this was a key factor Another factor was the general uncertainty while waiting to see the attitude of viewers on UHF Wormington feels cerain that Kansas City as the 19th largest television market in the country will be able to support another commercial station The man who should be worried about another UHF station is Bill Wormington who pioneered KCIT-TV into existence last October A competing UHF station in a market this size could very well hurt the fledgling station If Bill Wormington is worried however worrying in private "We welcome another UHF station in the he said this week hope people will realize that 50 per cent of the television stations in this market are now UHF and we hope people will realize this is a form of additional programing Maybe There's Fun Enough Just Making It Hollywood Don Ho Waikiki commuter has one of the sweetest deals in show business 65 million dollars for the next five years but little time to enjoy it Don Ho is a low-key entertainer who could make Perry Como seem as nervous as Don Knotts But a lot of wile and considerable talent in the easy-going performances for Hawaiian tourists Money too Recently Cinerama which has branched into the hotel business in Hawaii announced a 5-year contract with Ho that will pay him $24500 a week eight months a or 12 months if he chooses to stay at home instead of playing Las Vegas and other mainland spots Copters Poised for Long Nonstop Flight Saigon (AP) Two Air Force helicopters will leave Florida Saturday on the first helicopter flight from the United States to Asia the Air Force billed the flight as the "first by helicopters across the Pacific but it was referring only to the 1500-mile leg from Shemaya island in the Aleutians to Misawa Air Base in Japan The two Super Jolly Green Giants or HH530s are scheduled to take nine days for the 9000-mile trip from Eglin Air base in Florida to Da Nang They will refuel several times in the air from C-130 tanker planes "The flight will shorten delivery time of the choppers to Vietnam by about 75 per cent and demonstrate the long-range capability of helicopters refueled in the an announcement laid helicopters made the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic several years ago from the United States to the Paris ir Show Saloon Returns in California Law Sacramento Calif A carryover law from the days of prohibition has finally been laid to rest with Gov Ronald signature on a law that allows Californians to call a saloon a saloon and a bar a bar Use of the words by California drinking establishments had been banned since 1935 The law was passed to assuage the sensitivities of prohibitionists over the repeal of Prohibition The old law required the nse of the words or which was considered less offensive President of France Takes Mod Vacation (Service of the Chicago Dally News) President Georges Pompidou has showed off a sympathy for the generation by welcoming reporters to his Mediterranean summer home wearing blue jeans a polo shirt and rope sandals The 59-year-old Pompidou said he was enjoying himself boating and listening to recordings by Joan Baez American folksinger and Leonard Cohen a Canadian between work sessions The onetime high school teacher also is reading along more classic Franz Kafka novelist and Charles Baudelaire French poet who anticipated the moderns with their writings about evil A's Fear an Infringement Who says that are mainly mild quiet and efficient? come out battling in Congress over plans to name a new consumer agency the Consumer Protection Agency beefing that the initials in nasty headlines about consumerism might get readers thinking accountants were involved Moreover says the man who wrote the letter (from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants) name 'Consumer Protection arouses in my mind an unhappy association with schemes devised by the underworld for of various groups of Car Lacks the Old Get-Up and Go Now (Bv The Star's Own Service) Liberal Kas Stolen car reports are fairly common but a stolen engine report was a bit different for Liberal police Kenneth Hilton told officers that someone stole the engine from his 1961-model car while it was parked in a cafe parking lot last weekend Hilton said he was out of town and that when he returned the car was there but the engine was gone He said it appeared the car had been driven or towed away the engine removed and then towed back And They Lived Happily Ever After London AP Aristotle Onassis is quoted as saying he and his wife the former Jacqueline Kennedy are happy and anybody who says that this is not the case doesn't know what he is talking The London Evening Standard reporting on an interview with the Greek shipping magnate on a business trip in London said he dispelled any suggestion of a separation and plans to leave tomorrow to rejoin his wife in Europe "What I want everyone to know is that there is no rift Onassis was quoted as saying is unbelievable It is absurd unbelievable mythology People invent these malicious stories because they have nothing onasi else to do because it amuses Lapse in Arrrty Orders to Cost Private Cleveland (AP) A Brunswick soldier who said he spent 13 months at home awaiting word from the Army on a new assignment has been given a suspended demotion of two pay grades and restricted to the post of Ft Knox Ky for 45 days pfc David A Ruf 20 also is required to pay back $1300 his wife Christine received in allotment checks while he was home In addition he has been ordered to make up the 13 months which means that his discharge originally scheduled for last April come until next May Ruf will receive $10 a month most of that time with the rest of his $155-a-month pay going to income tax to his wife's continuing authorized allotment checks and to repay the checks she received while he was home Ruf said there was an administrative error "and the fall Ulster Keeping Miss Devlin in Jail London (AP) New efforts to get Bernadette Devlin the fiery civil rights leader out of jail in Northern Ireland faced rejection today The Ulster office said it would turn down a request that Miss Devlin be released from her 6-month prison term as an act of clemency The call for clemency came from Arthur Latham Laborite member of Parliament and 21 trade union leaders Miss Devlin 23 is serving a sentence for inciting rioting in Bogside district last year 7 LOCATIONS White Lakes Center Master Charge BankAmericard Ward Parkway Center Ruskin Heights 8437 State Avenue Blue Ridge Mall Minnesota Avenue Metcalf Shopping Center broadcast some National Educa-j "We wish them the best tional Television (NET) pro- he added Alternatives Offered In Nerve Gas Dispute (Continued From Page 1) in presuming that ship scuttled in 16000 feet of water break up before it reaches the ocean bottom The attorney noted Army explanations that the slow settling of the old vessel would be followed by a very gradual break up due to ocean pressure and result in very slow leakage of the gas from the cement caskets in which they are imbedded She suggested these alternatives: Ship the 418 gas-filled caskets back across the country to some surplus ICBM pit fill the deep hole with a strong alkaline chemical seal the top of the pit and let the chemical detoxify the lethal gas Go ahead and load the caskets on the Liberty ship hut enclose each cement coffin in a bag filled with an alkaline solution tow the ship far out to sea while the detoxication process went on and then sink the ship In various places on the ocean floor there are natural pockets which water moves little or not at all and there is virtually no marine life where the caskets could be dumped Miss Lee suggested that one of the closest such sheltered 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BULLET SPRAT KILLS MAN 4 A NEW BLAST AT FDA Another Scientist Accuses Agency of Findings Abuse Washington AP Another scientist with the Food and Drug administration has accused the agency of changing suppressing or misrepresenting his laboratory conclusions Dr Kent Davis an anima: pathologist cited nine instances in which the findings allegedly were abused because they ran counter to established FDA policy positions relating to the safety of food additives and pesticides complaints were simi lar to those lodged earlier by Dr Howard Richardson the former No 1 pathologist Richardson was demoted after his statements were reported by The Associated Press (Continued From Page 1) peared to have been fired from a small weapon possibly a 22-caliber firearm Lt Kenneth Beck North Kansas City detective said the body was sprawled about six feet from the comer of a porch of the house and about the same distance from the bumper of a parked car Beck said other persons living nearby reported hearing the shots One witness he said saw a "short person mn from the scene and enter a vehicle parked at the curb The detective said the shooting was reported to police at 5:56 He said the victim had been separated from his wife about three weeks and that divorce proceedings were under way Irishman Would Market His Mountain Dew Dublin Here's an Irishman who wants to take the fun out of life and make his moonshine legally His name is Brian Lawlor and he comes from County Cork He has applied to the patent office to make the name Poteen his own and market it in the United States as a new brand of Irish whisky Poteen otherwise known as mountain dew is the colorless spirit distilled by freelance operators in the islands and mountains of Western Ireland The ingredients are barley oats and brown sugar If you know the right people you can buy a bottle for $3 about half the price for regular whisky Properly made smooth and warming but if the mounlain men are in a hurry the product starts the eyeballs popping A TITLE TAKES 106 CLAMS Seattle Dave Barnes Port Townsend Wash gulped 107 clams in six minutes yester day to win the International Freestylg Clam Eating contest.