San Angelo Standard-Times from San Angelo, Texas • 51

tation Starts Tests Opening Nears ture and sound win be telecast with the beat of quality and with wholehearted cooperation of all concerned your set must be properly installed and set to the With that premise the station hu ambitiously set plans for programs of metropolitan calibre to be telecast from approximately 5 to 11:30 pm dally the exact period depending on amount of sponsorship and general demand With KTXL-TV Rust Is adding another enterprise to an already long list of activities both commercial and civic A native San Ange-loan he has been a ranchman i marily with holdings In Kiml and Tom Green Counties OPERATIONS GREW Rust enlarged his operations In 1947 when he founded KTXL radio In 1950 at the age of 39 he came mayor of San Angela Soon after that he was elected president id the League id Texas Municipalities a politlcally-energetic coalition of city officials Last year he became a member of the governor's water committee after serving a short time previous as chairman of Allan campaign committee in this area In 1952 when the Federal Communications Commission lifted Ha freeze on new television channels Rust and his partner Blud-worth a Brown wood advertising executive were among the first to the counter to ask for a permit to operate a television station The successful request for a channel led to KTXL-TV Rust says the future of the new venture is going to depend on quality id programs over a long period of time "We have our goals set he told a meeting of television set salesmen here two weeks ago to West Texas and San Angelo who have visited Dallas Fort Worth Houston San Antonio Chicago and New York are not going to be satisfied with anything but the best Our aim to to give It to San Angelo Tex Standard-Times Sun June 14 1953 35 TV NEWS all this talk about television service you ask? If you are going to get a aew television set why should you have to worry about service right away? If the thing is going to need fixing all tha time maybe you shouldn't have one at all! Now that'a a good question but it's an easy one to answer too Your television act to a very complex instrument much more so than your radla Certainly if you get a new television set a good one like a Philco whose popularity over the country shows that they have given fine performance you can reasonably expert that you'll get excellent trouble-free service for a long time But there are a number of things you have to keep in mind First the set hu to be properly installed by an expert technician who can adjust it to the receiving conditions of your locality Secondly even a new set may have bugs that have to be ironed out like a new car You can buy the but car mads and you will still have to taka it in for the minor adjustments that become necessary the car to driven for the first time These adjustments may be neces-ury on your TV set too and like your car your set is guaranteed to perform utisfactorily ao you have to worry about these initial IF you buy your set from a servicing dealer So the point of all this is that service IS important but not a great worry if you buy from a dealer experienced in installation ud service The TV Radiolab servicing department hu over 20 years' experience servicing radios and television so we have the know-how to give you satisfaction You can rely on TV Radlolab 210 Beauregard your TV headquarters for sales installation and factory supervised Adv phones Today there era 270154 within the city limits Hardin and other old timers met recently in the 30th annual convention of the Telephone Pioneers of America's Lone Star chapter The first coin phone was on exhibit about five times as much to call to thou Hardin said Tha television replacement demand to expected to reach five million sets a year when TV is available nationally neers already art surveying the path over which a microwave radio link will operate to tie In San Angelo with the cable The television cable connects New York with San Francisco and Chicago to Dallas and San Antonio A branch cable has been started west from Dallas and now is linked past Sweetwater From Sweetwater the programs will be beamed south to San Angelo hy means of microwave radio Microwave radio relay stations operate on channels outside the range of ordinary television sets so viewers will be unable to pick up the programs directly off the microwave beam The beam would have to be relayed by an antenna NOVELTY Television from the Greek word meaning a and for well vision) for the moat part is a new medium for San Angeloans and West Texans Its advent certainly can be expected to be as much a novelty in this area as it has proved to be in other places in the United States TV is an expensive and complicated undertaking fostered on the contagious appeal of pictures and sound brought into the convenience of the living room Rust said recently in a pamphlet announcing the imminence of TV: realises that you the television viewer cannot hope for the best in quality of pictures and programs without the co-operation of many individuals QUALITY "First we assume that It la our duty to bring you the best in technical production ao that your pic By JACK ALLARD BUWirt Bm iwuMnli ma Thla West Texas clty'i first and only television outlet KTXL-TV Channel I will begin running teat patterns sometime Monday The station will beam its first programs into homes in this area July 4 an official opening date to coincide with Independence Day On July 5 the station Initiates commercial telecasting born its studios on East 28th St immediately off the Robert Lee Rud FOR CALIBRATION The test patterns will serve as a calibrating method for the engineers and for owners of sets They will consist of running lines already familiar to viewers who have watched TV elsewhere cartoon slides and other bits which will test the intricate mechanisms both at the station and In the receiving acts KTXL-TV will radiate a power of 27500 watts sufficient to afford very good reception into homes within a radius of at least 40 miles of San Angelo Because of the flat terrain studio officials actually expect their programs to be picked up clearly up to 80 miles from San Angelo The antenna is an RCA Super Turnstile made especially for Channel 8 The two-ton antenna is 38 feet high and sits atop a 405-foot tower made for KTXL-TV by the Phillips Tower Construction Co of San Antonio CABLE IN FUTURE Mayor Armlstead Rust presL dent of Westex Television Co owner of the station says KTXL-TV likely will be connected to the transcontinental television cable within a year's time American Telephone Telegraph Co engU Walter Cronkite chief Washington correspondent for the CBS television network is narrator of the new sreies "You Are There" which recreates and reports great events of history as if they were actually happening now The series will be seen each Sunday 5:30 to 6 pm on KTXL-TV Ancient Pay Phone Still Works Well DALLAS Tex UUWhat would you say If you found a telephone to a leading hotel that had bright nickel-plated slots for nickels dimes quarters half dollars and silver dollars? Hen's what Bert Hardin 74 said: a 1912 model magneto-powered coin the first cola phone ever Handln went to work for the telephone company hen March 20 1900 when Dallas had 2459 tele- maple Is a variety of wood of the sugar maple tree which derives its name from the wavy grain which causes an eye-like marking ARMISTEAD RUST enters new venture PLAN TO ATTEND OAFB San Angela Carnival July A 4 by AdmmniroD THE WORLD'S LARGEST TV MANUFACTURER 17" TV Table Model Ne need to settle for a smaller picture when the tame money buys this beautiful Admiral 21B console Hu the all new 21" Dyne-Ray picture tuba (220 sq In viewing area) powered by great Chassis with Cathode Turret Tuner that guaranteu UHF reception new Range Finder that your set for any signal area Variable Tone control Walnut Mahogany or Blond hand-rubbad cate 21" TV Radio Phonograph Admiral proudly prwonts the Regency the greatest vault In home entertainment Compare those futures that mean many hours of cm Joyment Extra wlda angle glare-free 21" TV pictura pewsrad by super long distance chassis 248 sq In of perfect pictures Guaranteed VHF reception -Sensational built-in radio uses TV components to give new listening thrills Plus super PHONOGRAPH that plays ALL records all automatically All this In on authentic mahogany cabinet makes tha Regency truly tha greatest value In home entertainment today- Sensational 1953 Admiral 17" TV at a spectacular new low price! Yours in a trim cabinet only 17 Vi" wide all these advanved enginering features new Super Powered chassis for amazing long range reception new "DX" Range Finder and many more See it today! Compare and you'll see why it's a fabulous buy! 5)95 IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BUY A SERVICE POLICY WHEN YOU BUY YOUR SET FROM We stand behind all sets we sell with a complete stock of parts and trained technicians with more economical prices than any service policy could afford LONNY (TINY) ADKINS AND DUB GRIFFIN ADD ANOTHER TV AN-TENNA TO THE SKYLINE OF SAN ANGELO Ragsdale's complete TV service includes antenna installation either long distance or local reception You will find the installation men well trained and well equipped -if We sell TV for best service We sell best service for TV RUDY GLEICH AT WORK IN RAGSDALE'S TV SERVICE SHOP Our TV sets art all shop-tested by TV technicians before delivery to insure proper TV reception for you This service is performed at no extra charge with the purchase of a set JOE EUBANK APPLIANCE MANAGER IS SHOWN AT RAGSDALE'S TV Featured in this picture are just a few of the sizes and prices of sets available at Ragsdale's Ragsdale's TV Merry-Go-Round is loaded with the tops in TV OPEN EVERY EVENING UNTIL 0 O'CLOCK 229 CHADBOURNE DIAL 6906.