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Show Moss Says TV Bill Needed To Give Small Towns Service Senator Frank E. Moss this week said that enactment of his new "TV booster" bill was needed need-ed if smaller communities are to be protected in their right to establish free telephone services. He was testifying before a subcommittee sub-committee of the Senate Committee Com-mittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce which is considering amendments to the Communications Communica-tions Act. Commenting on proposals submitted sub-mitted earlier by the Federal Communications Commission he said they should be substantially strengthened if the "Commission is to be given the tools needed to encourage the development and maintenace of free local television tele-vision in our smaller communities." communi-ties." His bill would place community commu-nity antenna television under FCC regulation, and give the Commission authority to license new as well as existing very high frequency "booster" sta- tions. In a statement sharply critical of the FCC Senator Moss accused that body of failing to respond to the "constructive suggestions contained in .the staff report of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Com-merce Committee of the Senate on this subject. "The Commission has not measured meas-ured up to its responsibility to work toward a truly nationwide television service. From a technical tech-nical standpoint, television could be originated in one or two large cities and then transmitted by some form of repeater device to every community in the U. S. "This would give ample television tele-vision service, but would deny to many people the opportunity of expressing themselves with local stations. The television allocation al-location plan adopted by the FCC in 1952 is based on the philosophy that as many local services as possible should be provided," he asid. to have the American people embarrassed constantly by inadequacies in-adequacies in their foreign aid program. "It is remarkable that we can have all of the facts about irrigation irri-gation projects to be constructed in the western part of the U. S. before they are built, but we can not have disclosed in the budget even a scrap of information of a reclamation project to be built in Egypt or India until after the project is underway." He criticized the Eisenhower administration for lacking any new. ideas on foreign policy, and for presenting "no estimate as to when amounts requested might be tapered down." "We cannot escape the fact that a program which was established estab-lished in the Truman administration administra-tion to rehabilitate industries in war torn Europe, and which has worked miracles, is still being applied without much adaptation adapta-tion or change to under-developed countries whose political, commercial or other institutions are very different from those of wesetrn Europe," he declared. |