The Kansas City Times from Kansas City, Missouri • 3

Mti Saturday July 3 171 THE KANSAS CITY TIMET 3A National Anthem on His Hit List mm Wk i Hp (W Stotwa vJ (a cn i it By Robert Dye A Member of The Star's Staff There are rough days ahead for Harry Jenks those 4th of July holidays again and that means playing all kinds of patriotic songs in which his listeners seem to detect the slightest error Jenks organist for the Kansas City Royals at the Municipal Stadium breezed through the Star Spangled Banner last night without a mistake before 11050 fans watched the 2-1 loss But he admits there is occasionally a slip of the finger on the keys in the harmony they might not he said if in the melody Well you just keep gqing You stop' worry more about the National Anthem when playing it than any other song because you want to make a mistake in No one doubts that he has had plenty of practice playing the national song Since Charley Finley asked him to play for the Athletics a decade ago Jenks figures he has pumped out the National Anthem more than 800 times at baseball games here And that count the -basketball games conventions political rallies rodeos and nu--merous other events at which nhe Star Spangled Banner as 1'played by Jenks has started the proceedings He has played the anthem more than any other yet it is never requested from the combos and dance bands he has played with over the years The number of times he has played it is in the thousands but he venture a guess as to how many Jenks first played the Star to which Francis Scott Key penned a message In 1814 during the bombardment of Ft McHenry near Baltimore pretty much the Jenks said play it like you sing it with the pauses at the end of each He tells the students who study piano and organ with him to stick to the original version and not add flourishes to make it sound like jazz or slow it down like a ballad hate to see it he said man to his own taste but it bothers me I think it ought to be During the Royals home stand with the Chicago White Sox Jenks will be at the keyboard at 7:30 pm tonight 1:30 pm tomorrow and 3 pm Monday for the double-header The anthem just gets played once during a double-header Jenks notes but there will be plenty of other patriotic songs included for the holiday crowds When not watching out for i a in those well-known numbers Jenks intersperses popular segments at least twice each inning as a team takes the field He adds a few notes of encouragement when the Royals get a hit but nobody plays anything when the opposing team is active also the one who plays those bugle calls for the yells and starts the simultaneous hand-clapping with a succession of staccato chords Jenks is looking forward to continuing his career as the man who has probably played the Star Spangled Banner more than anyone else in town He said with a broadening of his continual grin that he will soon be moving out of the hot organ box enclosed by plastic panels into a comfortable air-conditioned version at the Harry Truman Sport Complex Harry Jenks relaxed in the stands while the Chicago White Sox were the field in the Municipal Sta- on Smart 2800 and 3200 coatdress and shirtwaist styles Cool easy-care cottons many satin'- finished Most in multicolor stripes Sizes 8 to 18 Urban Shop-Fourth Floor Downtown Plaza and Ward Parkway dium but when the Royals were up Jenks was at the organ to follow up a good play with a few bars of music He has up sprightly Music Man played the Star Spangled Banner more than 800 times at the ball (Star photo by Vic Damon) Although he has since his own version for organ not far off the original notes of the 18th Century drinking song penned Spangled Banner publicly years ago during a school assembly when he was a student at Westport Junior High School olf Jjroflxerjp Final Sign Off for KCIT-TV FCC requirements the station KBMA-TV also an independent will broadcast from 11 am to ultra-high frequency station has pm today 8 am to 10 am11 operating on Channel 41 Sunday and 2:30 pm to Sept 28 1970 Transfer of pm weekdays Channel 50 is control of the station took place expected to go dark by mid- in January when the local cor poration Westport Television Inc was sold to Benno Schmidt of New York The third UHF station here KCSD-TV has been operated for 10 years by the Kansas City school district Control of Channel 19 is expected to be transferred to Community Service Broadcasting of Mid-America Inc I Jouse of Wells Furniture Showroom 7416 Wornall Rd Phone: 444-9951 KCIT-TV is going off the air after less than two years of operation here as a local independent television station Owners of the commercial ultra-high frequency station have requested permission from the Federal Communications Commission to suspend operations on Channel 50 Pending receipt of that approval expected next week the station will operate on a minimal 2-hour daily schedule A spokesman for Allied Broadcasting which owns the station said economic conditions in general and in advertising in particular make continued operation of KCIT-TV impractical to pyramiding costs in an expensive business the board could not justify putting additional funds into the spokesman said have been some discussions of a possible sale of the station but no tangible negtiations have developed up to this Regular program scheduling was abandoned after the station signed off about midnight last night In order to meet minimsll I week The station attempted to streamline operations about 10 days ago cutting back to a 2:30 pm weekday sign-on time instead of the usual 9 am A management reorganization took place at the same time Allied Broadcasting was formed in 1967 by 23 area persons and the station went on the air October 29 1969 As an independent it had the option of telecasting all network programing whether CBS NBC or not shown by the network affiliated situations in Kansas City The president and chairman of the board of Allied Broadcasting is James Ottman a Kansas City lawyer The first UHF station in Kansas City KCTY-TV went on the air in June 1953 and lasted less than a year It failed largely because of the lack of UHF receivers in the hands of viewers at the time 4 PRE-FOURTH OF JULY SALE TODAY ONLY! 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Tunny Girl' Seen by 5397 A crowd of 5397 saw last night at Starlight Theater Performances of the musical starring Marilyn Michaels will be presented tonight and tomorrow night Curtain time is 8:30 pm Nixon Schedule On Trip Outlined President and Mrs Nixon are scheduled arrive at the Municipal Air Terminal at 1:45 pm Tuesday (Kansas City time) for a briefing the President and other administration leaders will give for media executives from 13 Middle Western states the White House announced yesterday The briefing on domestic policy initiatives of the Nixon administration is scheduled to begin at 11:30 am at the Downtown Holiday Inn The first part of the briefing will be given by Elliot Richardson secretary of health education and welfare Donald Rumsfeld counselor to the President and Clark MacGregor counsel to the President for congressional affairs President Nixon is scheduled to address the group at 3 pm The President and Mrs Nixon will be met at the air terminal by Mayor Charles Wheeler Jr and Mayor Richard Walsh of Kansas City Kansas The presidential plane is scheduled to leave Andrews Air Force Base near Washington at 11:15 am (Kansas City time) The President and Mrs Nixon will leave the Municipal Air Terminal for the Downtown Holiday Inn at 1:55 pm and arrive there at 2 pm At 3 pm the President will deliver remarks at the media briefing He and Mrs Nixon will be hosts at a reception at 3:30 pm at the Holiday Inn for those attending the briefing At 4:05 pm the President and Mrs Nixon will leave the Holiday Inn by car for the Municipal Air Terminal where they will reboard their plane for a flight to the summer White House in San Clemente Calif The White House press corps will arrive at the Kansas City International Airport at 12:20 pm (Kansas City time) Many of the correspondents will be accompanied by their families The families will be taken in two busses to the Harry Truman Library in Independence where they will be given a tour of library facilities jf 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