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tfhU 1 5m to I- i VV 4-V Paso Herald -Post Editorials Women's News Section Wadneiday September 25 1974 Pag B-f i 4 4 asft 'This Will Be the Lord's Station- Christian TV Station Building on Faith 'k: 4 White says the ultimate activity will be half Christian and half commercial broadcasting The eommercjal half of the programs will be uplifting in some way aimed toward family programming with no violence and nothing offensive The El Paso Christian Television station will also be able to handle civic programs such as a flower show or one developed by the Chamber of Commerce White suggested By BETTY LIGON If Jesus could find his tax money in the mouth of a fish then' the Missionary Radio Evangelism Corp is believing that they can come up with $175000 to purchase a mobile television van And they have already demonstrated $17500 as the down payment on the mobile van which arrived recently from San Diego and is parked in the Cablevision Studio lot TEMPORARILY its programs will continue to be seen on Cablevision on Channel 3 on Saturdays but it will soon be moving to Channel 8 and broadcasting from its own home An application is being readied to present to the Federal Communications Commission to become a UHF station already set aside for El Paso on Channel 14 Missionary Radio Evangelism is a local nonprofit charitable corporation which operates El Paso Christian Television It began in the minds and hearts of several El Paso businessmen who felt there was a reaching out toward Christian oriented television programming and a need to provide viewers with a choice from violence and crime SAYS DAN WHITE business manager for the corporation is not going to be just another commercial station It is going to be the station It may make some money to support television to share fend glorify i To in the television business here has been so cooperative we don't want to step on anyone's toes But take the Oral Roberts show for instance Maybe they'd like to be seen on prime time and get a different audience We will be able to do this have a bunch of shows taped here on Saturday which we can run later during the week We can be seen on Cablevision Channel 7 in Spanish and we can also run the programs on Juarez stations and others in The new $400000 mobile van which the MRE people were able to snag in San Diego for the bargain price of $175000 will not only allow Christian Television to be on its own but it will be able to pick up and go where the action is THE- VAN CAN operate under its own power with its own generating unit for as long as 18 hours at a stretch can go any plaee you can take a truck so that we can do programs on location so to White went on There could even be a lady lieutenant-governor in New York Arkansas and Rhode Island Last week State Senator Mary Anne Krupsak snagged enough votes to land on the ballot for the number two job in New York Her two male opponents never had a chance FOLKS BEGAN to take women candidates seriously after the last election when an unknown Manhattan lawyer Elizabeth Holtz man scored an unexpected upset over politically powerful Emanuel Cellar and took the seat he had held in the House for almost half a century Now another old guard boss is facing strong opposition in Arkansas where 31 -year-old Judy Petty is campaigning to make Wilbur 18th term in the House his last Her pitch is that voters who like the tax system should vote against Mills because he helped write it Four women are running for the Senate and almost four dozen for the House On lower levels campaigning for state legislatures attorney-general posts seats and city council spots And in Las Vegas a famous madam (under Navada law a legal businesswoman) led six other candidates for the state assembly Now she faces a runoff THEY all make it of course still the male chauvinist problem And women still have trouble raising money And proving they have enough political savvy to hold public office On the plus side they hope to project a that will convince voters above the back-room hanky-panky that corrupts male politicians stumping hard on promises to up the mess the men have have to wait till November to see if the voters buy it But win or lose it beats licking envelopes Uiitad Future Syedirate mobile van to El Paso run a check on the monitors preparatory to the transmitting MONITORING PROGRAMS technicians from California Two of the who brought the Today we give you a paradox: while militant lady libs marched bra-less to protest the Miss American really liberated ladies walked the streets campaigning for votes and government may never be the same again (a phrase that would make Ms Fried an sick to her stomach) is cashing in at the ballot box with the feminist war song that anything men can do they can do better And cleaner MORE THAN 1300 women ran for publie office this year the biggest number in history And they all had more or less the same platform: wipe out corruption in politics Not a frivolous bra-burner in the bunch And yet where the paradox coraCs in) if a dock of angry females rebelled against bras and lipstick and other mantrapping wiles a few years back candidates would have a rough time getting anyone to take them seriously IN THE FUNNY WAY things sometimes work out it took a few hysterical protest marches to clear the way for women to challenge the smoke-filled world of male politics So because Gloria Steinam rebelled at being a sex symbol we have three women beating out various men in primary races for governor Come November voters in Maryland will have a chance to put Louise Gore in the State House: and political nose-counters give Ella Grasso a good chance to score a first as governor of Connecticut In Nevada Shirley Crumpler is running as an underdog but running hard ACTUALLY there have been three other women governors in the past but since they slid into office because their husbands had been there first they really count Nellie Tayloe Ross governed Wyoming after her husband died in office Ferguson took over in Texas when got himself impeached and the late Lurleen Wallace held the Alabama office-open just long enough for George to win it again Cablevision cameras in their Saturday broadcast of the 1400 Club program announcements 1400 CLUB CALENDAR Pete Warren left Alex Blomerth Jr and Dan White face the i I 4 Friday Niters Dance The Friday Niters of Central YMCA will have their regular Friday Night dance Sept 27 from 8:30 to 11:30 pm Lucille and her Serenaders will provide the music REALITY DEMONSTRATED The $400000 mobile television studio parked new at Cablevision Studio is the visual reality of a dream of dedicated Christian businessmen who believed hard enough to get their own TV station others in Texas in Dallas and Houston And 80 stations now have at least 25 hours a week of Christian broadcasting THE MRE organization believes it has the faith that can move mountains and it has proved it can move people to respond with their checkbooks to a plea for money 3 is a 400-foot cable for each camera which means that the camera can be roughly a block and a half from the van We can also make commercials for advertising agencies If something is going on like a conference we can go right in and produce Operating on 25 kilowatts of power the motor including all cameras and even some lights can be taken out of the van and hooked up and used elsewhere awhile the van will be the control room but when we get our own place we can take them he continued THE STATION will operate with two people on control panels and two audio and two visual monitors have to do just one thing at a time We will have the capacity to be running one show and producing another at the same time using just one camera and one line on The new station will broadcast from 2 or 3 pm until 10 pm six days a week depending on the amount of programming available haven't developed a Sunday program yet We won't broadcast our own church service but we will sell that time to any other church that would like to be on television The location of the new site for the station has not been announced yet but White said they were looking at several locations most likely being one on the west side we want to construct our own studio with offices and studios from which we would mount a signal to beam to Mt he said Looking further into the future White estimated that MRE was talking about a total of $1200000 being invested in land and transmitter with a total of $750 million to get the International Christian Television station on the air So far only Eddie Horn secretary of the MRE corporation is on salary The rest of the station is operated by volunteers Others in the corporation are Alex Blomerth Jr president of MRE Pete Warren vice president and chief engineer and Bert Wing treasurer FOR THE PAST YEAR the 1400 Club has been seen on Channel 3 on Cablevision under the direction of Howell Eurich well-known local television am to 9:00 pmSAT 10:00 we found that van was going to be available at such a bargain price we put out the 1 information on the air that night and we took in $4100 in pledges during the recalled Eurich who was emceeing the 1400 Club believing going to raise all the money we need with the 3 a a a Cl cc co fr- at Si co 3 a ID a personality with Blomerth and Warren More and more regular commercial television stations are beginning to use Christian broadcasting The Christian Broadcasting Network now operates on 67 stations which uses 25 per cent of its material There are 14 Christian-owned stations in the country two am to 6:00 pmRH0DES GRAM) OPEMG OCTOBER 3 CIELO VISTA AT HAWKINS BLVDSHOP UPTION CHARGEMASTER CHARGEBANKAMERICARD r- Jif 1 i I-?.