The Desert Sun from Palm Springs, California • 4

rrs KS 35-W-l fiMilMtiiVa)iii)M'iiiiiii'''(i i if i4l i WnWr 4vi dM totoaW "Tiffin iS iPf 4 yvtv Jjr 4 gfaSwrlfom PfWay Sqntwlwr 27 19i PetaSfftag Collfantf For Debut on Monday i to sell membership-season! tickets at tee existing prices For fun information cal 328-1397 CATHEDRAL CITY Valley Players sixth annual mentorship drive is now in swing with the playhouse opening Oct 18 for a 20-week season directed by oan Wilcoxon an hilarious by Joan Wilcoxon an hilarious tors who buy masterpieces like stocks and bonds and keep them in underground vaults rings up the first curtain Other hit Broadway shows to follow are: Odd of Until and Curious Despite a Jump in box office prices to $250 due to a rental raise the guild wiH continue So Be Prompt BUENOS AIRES (UPI)-The average citizen ia not the only one who AometimesJ feels frustrated by the lengthy procedures of Argentine bureaucracy President Juan Carlos Onga-nia recently decreed that officials who don't bring Mm repots he requests within 24 hours will be fired-DESERT SUN CLASSIFIED PHONE 325-5005 TOMORROW'S THE Mayor Howard Wiafel has proclaimed Saturday "Cystic Fibrosis Day" in Palm Springs Ha is shown with Lucilla Wornor who will bo hostass of tho "Jot Sot" party to raiso funds for tha National Cystic Fibrosis Foundation tomorrow night hostass of tho "Jot Sot" party to raiso funds for tha Foundation tomorrow nigh the Airport Planning Commission Tony Capps' chair man of tha local Jet Sat Party and Dick Arnold president of tho Jaycoas who era in charge of fireworks for tho avant Doors at tha airport terminal will open at 9 pm Saturday for tho Jot Sat affair Four PSA jets will arrive from San Francisco between 1 1 pm and I am than dinner ticket holders will go to tha Country Club Hotel for a buffet local insertion of Girl From at 4:20 pm and 'Truth or Consequences" at pjn Through a unique business arrangement with the three TV cable companies serving the Valley KPLM-TV secured the advantage of "double on Channel 7 the current ABC-TV slot occupied by the Los Angeles network station When identical network programming is being carried by both affiliates the cable companies will 'split the Channel 2 picture to spread Jointly over Channel 7 Local commercials then would be seal simultaneously on both channels No concern was expressed over commercial sales problems in what is known as a television A population draw of 200000 usually la considered minimal to support one TV station The Valley soon with two has population In the primary coverage ana of about 100000 Across town at El Mirador Hilton home of the new KMUt-TV the man whom John Nelson once hired to host the old many yean ago John Conte wag having Ms television troubles Mr and Mrs Conte with Charles Farrell hope to start their telecasting over KMIR-TV "within four But Conte has foiled to agree with the three principal cable companies on a dial position His local NBC-TV network affiliate station faced the possibility of having a different channel number in each of foe three main cable areas Executives of both stations expressed belief that the advent of local telecasting would produce heavy Incream In sales of both TV sets and antennas Less than half of the valley's estimated 48000 television homes have cable service Palm Others are' standing from loft Jim Hicks president of tho Chambar of Commerce which will match funds raised at tha airport cocktail party to purchase Christ mas lights for the city Donald Gounary chairman of s-fi manager of Palm Springs Television strongly disputed ray superiority of direct rignak Nathanson staled cable systems are proving their advantages in many cities throughout the countoy even where direct signals have our problems of distance or physical (endued Ran Page 1) haabesjman expressed the eel-11 of many these turbulent times the Tft show was something solid to bold on to Nothing on It ever chinged The whole world could be on fire but when me came borne of an evening and flipped to Channel I there was the 5 time and temperature And the humidity and the rainfall and the date wind velocity and df-junction not to mentioned the barometric reading I didn1 dWn mind the public service announcements I had friends who came dear from Los Ange-7 tei for the Time ft Temperature i-show They believe The Time Temperature show ahad few critics Some de-rptored of action" on Reinstall (during the summer) bul excitement over Temperature Idid compensate Wind Velocity has good movement The climax rn the Time show could be tf you were watching a second run and Barometer perhaps was duH except to pro-sessional barometer readers Bu iWind Direction was always good iyto keep you especially if you were not sure if the needle was supposed to point the dtrec-tlon the wind was blowing from Itor Mowing to! Meantime back at the ranch former network John Nelson was prepared to push the start button for operation of rKPLM-TV UHF Channel 42 nnd the new Channel 2 fit the Station's plush new office and studio in Smoke nee VIBage Nelson expressed confidence his combination of ABC-TV network programming and local news couM win many old Channri 2 'Viewers He seemed unperturbed over puch critical questions is: -Can the suspense of "Fey-ton match the swift pace ref Wind Velocity? match the rintrigue of frying to figure Whether on the ahow the £lone camera circles the dials vice versa? station wffl cany moat t'aH the beat ABC-TV network j'erogrammlng now being seen on Channel 7 out of Lot Angeles" explained our J-jwn studios we wiH telecast loc-al shows well is some film -pr video-taped re-runs of gener-ci appeal" Nelson said until nsual bugs" an worked out live loc-aLahowi will consist mainly of lnews Later coverage of such apodal events as parades and golf tournaments and dty council meetings will be considered The new Channel 2s first day -log showed an Monday network programming except for local yews at I and 11 pm and the Springs subscribers wow Cti-mated at 8000 Cathedral City to-Indio at 10000 1200 in 'Desert Hot Springs and 850 senfed by a fourth cable' system in Banning Some 28000 homes therefore were seen as having either abandoned trying to get a picture because of cable expense or bad location or were receiving "bad to reflections free from translator stations in the Santa Rosa mountains These signals give set owners in the Palm Springs area the pictures from three San Diego stations Engineers at both the new Channel 2 and KMIR-TV said their pictures should be received clearly throughout moat of the broadcast area on UHF equipped sets with a or other antenna UHF points for the two stations are 42 and 26 respectively Will Signals from 42 and 26 be better received direct than through the cable? Cable company executives and retail TV sales and service people disagree been getting the good patterns in my shop with no Jim Ragsdale of ft Electronics stated antenna picture should be considerably dearer than that df the New antenna including installation win cost around $30 Where a UHF converter and antenna is required the bill would be about $60 AH TV sets manufactured after May 1964 have the UHF unit built In! GQbert Nathanson general MM (MM LAUNDROMAT 1 SHE MTEII SHE IETEEGE1T! SAVE BOUEV! 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