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LI Channel 21 Racing Tight Schedule noon Monday The previews Pearce said are designed to reveal to the public and particularly to school officials the character of planned programing Program Manager Albert Becker of Bay-side Queens said that about half the regular 60-hour broadcast week will be devoted to purely academic programs some for college credit and the rest to assorted cultural and informational shows many of them dealing with Long Island affairs Before anything is broadcast much remains to be done Becker spends much of his time preparing continuity copy to be read on the air looking for an announcer to hire expediting orders for tapes and films and chasing down a promised but undelivered film projector A clear broadcast signal should be received within 50 miles of the trana- mitter in Garden City That Includes Bridgeport Conn and Newark NJ On Long Island east to Riverhead Ch 21 will be received directly East from there cable television subscribers will pick up the signal to Montauk and Orient Points By Laurance Morrison Garden Right now Long firet television station lacks a camera a film projector a working transmitter an announcer assembled videotape machines and widespread jniMic notice WLIW Ch 21 needs all but the last of those to go on the air Monday with previews of its programing and it liopes to win public notice and ac-oi'tance soon Station General Manager William IVarce of Stony Brook watched yesterday as workmen assembled the 700000-watt transmutter and he said working right down to the He explained that the flu wave upset equipment delivery schedules and that recent bad weather and high winds prevented technicians from scaling the 410 foot antenna tower for tests of the gear The station on the Nassau Community College campus intends to broadcast from 9 AM to 9 PM weekdays beginning Jan 27 Two weeks of piwicw shows are scheduled to start at Wiwirliir Photo Mr CUff Do Boor TESTING 1 2 3 WLIW cameramen David Cady of Baldwin films a street scene in Minaiola for use in a fast broadcast on WLIW Long Island's new TV station as Martha Bowles of Mineola times the run with a stop watch 1 vv' I i ia-foV -W Set To Plan Use Of Old School Glen Cove A 39-year-old red brick schoolhouse that no longer Is used for instruction has definite possibilities: It might be turned into a community center or a trade school or something that has not occurred to anybody yet The old South School which was phased out of das use two years ago as part of a plan to end racial imbalance in the district's five other all-white elementary schools presents what Schools Superintendent Robert hi Finley termed last night intriguing challenge of an empty And the district has invited 15 of the best-known experts on educational innovation and functional design to attend a three-day on the subject Jan 16-18 The building which Finley described as typical 1930 two-story bells-and-cells has unlimited possibilities he feels for an innovative program got to get some brainpower thinking not in terms of what has been dime but what can be he said The thinkers scheduled to attend the meeting in the old Pratt estate on Dosiris Lane include among the 15 Dr Harold Gores president of Educational Facilities Laboratories an affiliate of the Ford Foundation Dr Robert A Den tier director of the Center for Urban Education (CUE) and Spencer Cone Chicago architect all experts in their fields Tftw rtay Photo fey Bob Locfcry NEWS CONTEST WINNERS The three winners in the ninth annual Nawsday Rate the News Contest receive their prize reference books from Philippe Sanborns left editor of Weakly Review The winners are from left Carol Wang-berg of Syossat first place winner Thomas Testa of Dix Hills third place and Nancy Pedaen of Garden City second place 3 Winners Named In 'Rate the mission Christmas week This historic event Integration By-Product would have been the No 1 choice Den tier said that he considered the brainstorming session Listed in Newsday last Dec 30 as the top 10 which will be funded entirely by a 510000 grant from his organ-stories of 1968 were (1) Sen Robert Ken- ization opportunity to show how the effort at integration can nedy assassinated (2) Richard Nixon wins itself lead to improvement in teaching and learning techniques the presidency (3) Soviet Union invades Czech- through good planning for old oslovakia (4) Vietnam war continues as talks Dentler he thought that the old school would be suited between the U8 and Hanoi begin (5) the Rev ideally serve its community as a center for continuing (adult) Martin Luther King Jr assassinated (6) IVesi- or vocational Dr Gregory Coffin an Evanston 111 dent Johnson announces that he will not run for schools superintendent said that he had the same problem in reelection (7) bloody clashes between demon- Evanston a few yean ago and solved it by turning an abandoned strators and police mar Democratic National ghetto school into an educational laboratory of Northwestern Convention (8) students seize buildings at University He plans to suggest a-program run In conjunction Columbia University battle police as new wave with nearby Post College in Brookville to the intellectual of student militancy sweeps college campuses assembly (9) North Korea seizes the U8 intelligence The other guest speakers will be Dr George Blair associ-ship Pueblo and imprisons the crew and (10) ate director of the State Education Center on strike closes New York City schools for Innovation James Doherty editor of School Management maga-weeks sine Dr Ben Graves director of the Great Cities Project Dr In the 1968 contest nine students picked all Eugene Maleska associate director of the Center for Urban top 10 stories although not in the order of Education Rexfotd Moon vice president of the Academy for imporiinw as listed by editors Education Development in New York Dr Donald Glines direo- The prizes were presented to the winners by tor of the Mankato State University laboratory School in Min-Fhilippe Sanborne editor of neapolis Dr Richard Palermo director of the Kent State Univer-Weekly Review Carol received a 20-volume set sity Laboratory School in Ohio and school superintendents Dr of the World Book Encyclopedia Nancy a copy Frank Brown Brevard County Fla Dr ThomaaR Hasen-of the Shorter Oxford Dictionary and Thomas pflug Lakewood NJ Dr Carrol Johnson White Plains and Dr a copy of New Collegiate Dictionary' Charles Richter West Hartford Conn 17 By Stephen Hills Two Nassau girls one just 14 and a Suffolk only 13 are the winners in the ninth annual Newsday Rato the News Contest for Long Island junior and senior high school students frizes were awarded yesterday at main office in Garden City First prize In the 1968 competition was won by Carol Wangberg 17 of 253 Berry Hill Road Syosset a senior at Our Lady of Mercy Academy Syosset second place to Nancy Padden 14 of 103 Tullamore Rd Garden City a fresh-nun at Garden City Junior High School and third place to Hamas Testa 13 of Fine Hill Dr Dix Hills an eighth-grade student at Candle-wood Junior High SchoL Huntington In the 1968 contest 28298 entry forms were requested and distributed to 78 junior and senior high schools in Nassau and Suffolk with 5273 students actually competing Each student was given a list of the top 25 stories of 1968 as selected by editors They were asked to choose in order of importance what they considered to be the 10 biggest stories of the year The deadline for entries in the contest was Dec 12 and the list of 25 stories dosed before the successful Apollo 8 moon Thursday' Jansary 9 1949.