The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 15

Wednesdoy November 17 1971 THE KANSAS CITY STAR 3B CS8 Decision In the Chips Board to Improve KCSD Channel 50 Start Delayed Mr By Robert Butler A Member of The Star' Staff The board of directors of Community Service Broadcasting of Mid-America Inc (CBS) voted unanimously yesterday to center its efforts on improving the broadcasting facilities of KCSD-TV Channel 19 Meanwhile CSB delayed action on whether to seek permission from the Federal Communications Commission to operate channel 30 at a later date as a second educational television station here The board's action means that it will concentrate its efforts In the next few months to converting channel 19 to color and to increasing its power to the strongest TV signal in the metropolitan area It will do this at facilities formerly owned by KCIT-TV which CSB bought at a bankruptcy auctior on Oct 30 CSB plans to take over op- Santa Fe NM New state government has moved into the financial big league In his budget request for 1972-73 State Treasurer Jesse Kor-negay has asked for purchase of a new calculator Kornegay explained his office needs a calculator to handle sums exceeding $1 billion Crop Judging Here on Tuesday Nine college teams are expected to participate in the 1971 National Collegiate Crop Judging Contest here next Tuesday The event is sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City and the Kansas City Board of Trade Texas Technological University Lubbock will try for the 14th consecutive first place in the contest The winning team will go to Chicago Nov 24 to participate in the international contest Grading seed analysis and crop identification are the three phases in the 4-hour contest 'ITT PHILCO PORTABLES TV Actor to Speak At St Andrew Plant the cash now that grows into next Christmas gifts eration of channel 19 from the Kansas City School District as soon as the FCC approves the transfer Approval is expected in a few days Zoel Parenteau station manager of KCSD said there were two possibilities for operating the stations One was to put Channel 19 on at full power and possibly to develop channel 50 later The other would be to operate both channels with channel 19 in black and white at its current very low power and channel 50 in color with its current power which is less than half of what CSB is now planning Roland Fenz director of development for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Washington said the Department of Health Education and Welfare is providing funds for new and existing public stations but is not funding second public channels He said HEW is more interested in establishing public television in cities that have none Homer Wadsworth CSB consultant reported that negotiations with RCA for broadcast and transmission equipment rented by KCIT before it went off the air in July were continuing but added that the CSB now was considering purchasing some equipment from other companies CSB still is interested in the Channel 50 equipment as a longterm investment Wadsworth said but added that converting and replacing some equipment for Channel 19 use would cost about $150000 Pianist Says Listeners Include World Leaders Denton Tex Voytek Matushevski a young music student at North Texas State University claims to be the only pianist in the world who has played for the Nixons the Brezhnevs and the Kosygins Matushevski studying here for a musical arts doctorate won the 1969 young competition of the National Federation of Music Clubs He is a student of Leon Fleisher and has made concert tours through Europe The Polish-born pianist began playing at the age of six and made his debut at 14 while a student at the Warsaw Dick Wilson Hollywood character actor will be the guest speaker at the 57th annual St Andrew Society dinner and dance Saturday night in the Imperial Ballroom of the Hotel Muehlebach The dinner begins at 7 pm and dancing will be from 9 to 12 pm Wilson is widely known for his portrayals of a drunk on Bewitched He is known as in a television commercial His acting career covers many years including radio parts in One Family and Jack Armstrong He acted in vaudeville 41 years ago In addition to Wilson entertainment will be provided by the bagpipe and drum band of the society and highland dancing by the Lassies Among the guests will be Miss Eunice Brown British vice-consul St Louis and Miss Helen Gavigan acting consul Republic of Ireland Other guests will include British military officers COLOR TV WITH STAND Philco brings you big-set performance and greater reliability in a lighter more compact portable TV 18-inch picture measured diagonally Engineering advances such as Cosmetic color circuit Integrated circuit color-system assures a bright clear picture Walnut grain finish molded cabinet 31995 BLACK AND WHITE TV 19-inch picture measured diagonally Transistorized signal and sound system no tubes to burn out in the signal receiving circuits or the sound amplifying circuits Walnut finished cabinet with roll-about 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