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Show HIE BULLETIN, BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH TELEVISION DISCOVERS MAIN STREET Technical Limitations Restrict TV Range :.:. ; -K r i ' 'i m,j, j - fj 1 V ' n ft (Tbit is the second of s series of three articles on the coming of 4 nationwide television service.) The expansion of video into non-- TV areas is based on the Federal Communications Commission's plan to open up a new section of the radio spectrum, known as the Ultra High Frequency Range, for com-mercial and educational television, This will permit 70 new channels for TV broadcasts, as compared to the 12 channels now In use in the limited Very High Frequency Range. By opening UHF and VHF, the FCC will offer licenses for nearly 2,000 new sta-tions, divided among every state in the union. The FCC has indicated that it will put it up to private enterprise in the towns and cities concerned. If they want television they can ap-ply for it, and, following final allo-cations expected soon, licenses will be granted to applicants found acceptable. On the basis of tenta-tive allocations and provided each state fulfills its license quota under the expansion program, the nation will have this number of TV sta-tions: Alabama, 45; Arizona, SO; Arkan-sas, 38; California, 80; Colorado, 38; Connecticut, 14; Deleware, 4; District of Columbia, 8; Florida, 58; Georgia, S3; Idaho, 28; Illinois, 88; Indiana, 45; Iowa, 58; Kansas, 49; Kentucky, 32; Louisiana, 42; Maine, 29; Maryland, 12; Massa-chusetts, 23; Michigan, 85; Minne-sota, 48; Mississippi, 39; Missouri, 53; Montana, 39; Nebraska, 34; Ne-vada, 22; and New Hampshire, 12. Also, New Jersey, 9; New Mexi-co, 35; New York, 55; North Caro-lln- a, 51; North Dakota, 33; Ohio, 57; Oklahoma, 54; Oregon, 32; Pennsylvania, 52; Rhode Island, 4; South Carolina, 27; South Dakota, 30; Tennessee, 61; Texas, 176; Utah, 19; Vermont, 10; Virginia, 37; Washington, 41; West Virginia, 23; Wisconsin, 44; and Wyoming, 27. This expanded service contrasts dramatically with the present re-gional allocations. In many n cities like Albuquerque and Seattle, network oroerams have been unobtainable SKYLINE OF THE FUTURE Here are the various types of an-tenna, developed by RCA technicians to receive UHF television, broadcasts. Some of them might soon become familiar landmarks on the rooftop of farms, ranches and city homes in every section of the United States. They bear such colorful names as "Bow Tie" and "YAgl" and "Double V" and "Corner Reflector." With the coming of a countrywide television service, the names of the new video an-tennas promise to become a part of the national lexicon. stations and of the speed with which the FCC processes license applications. Yet, there is a regional pattern established since 1946 when the Na-tional Broadcasting Company in-troduced regular commercial tel-evision in the United States. This was the first era of expansion; in many ways the second era might rival it. For example, set sales In the present television regions have maintained a fairly uniform pace. In 1951, there were 27,412,700 fam-ilies residing in TV areas that is, areas where some type of video signal, however faint, could be picked up on home receivers. Of this total, 15,166,000 had purchased television receivers. Since 62.914,200 people reside in these areas, the ratio of TV set sales to individuals is about one vision beyond major population cen-ters into the farms, ranches and small towns of America. To the scientist, Ultra-Hig- h Fre-quency (UHF) means a section of the radio spectrum. Another name for the spectrum is radio air waves. The air waves, of course, belong to the people, and it is the Job of a government agency to divide among various private and govern-ment services wireless channels in which to transmit information elec-tronically. The services to which the gov-ernment entrusts the public's air waves include police radio, tele-vision (in the Very High Freqiien-cies- ), FM broadcasts, civil radio, amateur radio, government wire-less, maritime wireless, ship sta-tions, coastal statioins, maritime navigation, general navigation, radar, air navigation, airport con-trol, industrial, scientific and medi-cal wireless devices. Fixed Channels Each of the services has fixed "channels" in the air waves and cannot intrude upon its sister serv-ices. With television, the number of channels used today is not suffi-cient to carry video signals to every part of the nation. Since the inception of commer-cial TV, telecasts have been beamed over 12 channels in the rel-atively limited Very High Fre-quency section of the air waves, but with new stations mushrooming around the country, the Federal Communications Commission de-cided it had better call a halt be-fore TV signals began bumping into each other. Its decision was prompt-ed by the realization that two tele-vision signals transmitted over the same channel within range of one another will collide and thus "hash up" the home viewing- - screen. The one untapped section of the spectrum which promised plenty of room was UHF. This was the area in which scientists and engineers of the Radio Corporation of America began looking for new television channels. "Up until RCA engineers began looking into it", according to O.B. Hanson, Vice President and Chief engineer of the National Broadcast-ing Company, "the UHF was the Antarctic of the air waves. Every- - to six. In terms of families It Is a little better than one set for each two families. And the pattern is fairly con-siste- nt between .different size cities. New York, for example, has 4,152,-10- 0 families and they own 2,720,000 home receivers. Omaha, Neb., has 210,500 families and they own 104, 000 TV sets. Using the same yardstick, the scores of towns which look forward to their own transmitting stations can expect an audience of one out of every two families in their mu-nicipal and suburban regions. They can anticipate this audience with-in perhaps three or four years after their first video signal is broadcast The number of listeners, of course, is dependent on the number of stations erected. Recent history indicates that they, will go up fast. In 1948, . when ' the freeze on sta-tion construction was imposed by the FCC for fear of the VHF channels and thus creat ing Interference between stations, scores of small-tow- n business men, industrialists, radio station owners and newspaper publishers had ap-plications for station licenses on file. A new technical phrase is being projected into the national vocabu-lary. It is "Ultra-Hig- h Frequency" and it is the operative phrase in a government plan to extend tele- - because relay facilities, either microwave or coaxial cable, do not reach them. But the cables and the radio re-lay towers are today pushing stead-ily into new areas. In 1951, a chain of lofty microwave towers which relay video signals with split-seco-precision was completed from coast-to-coas- t. Coaxial cables are spreading through the south from Kansas City to Wichita, to Dallas, San Antonio and Houston. Jackson, Miss., a southern termi-nal, is being tied to New Orleans, a northern branch is headed for Montreal; and cables are being laid from Los Angeles through Ari-zona, Texas and New Mexico to i cover the southwest. This vast expansion of video re-lay facilities means that scores of new television towns, with either UHF or VHF stations, will be able to tap into the terminals along the route and relay the major network programs through remote rural areas. Main Street's Role It is difficult to forecast accurate-ly today how quickly Main Street, U.S.A., will erect the nearly 2,000 new stations for which licenses might be available and how quick-ly extensive home coverage will be obtained. There is the question of material shortages in a defense economy, of local financing of new body knew where it was dn the map of the radio spectrum, but nobody had much practical knowledge about it." This plunge Into the upper fre-quencies was doubly necessary be-cause television is a great space grabber. A television picture re-quires much more "information" to be transmitted electronically than a radio broadcast. As a matter of fact, a TV station requires 600 times as much room in ether as a radio broadcast station; it uses a band width of 6,000.000 cycles (6 megacycles) compared to 10,000 cycles for standard radio broad-cast. Equipment Developed Out of years of expensive re-search and field tests, equipment ' was developed which made UHF practical. It was found that UHF station, properly situated and properly op-erated could furnish home viewers a picture that equalled in clarity and definition the standard VHF picture. j It was found that present home ' television sets could receive UHF telecasts through the addition of a simple "tuner" and that receivers could be built to receive both UHF and VHF telecasts. It was found that the enlistment of 70 new UHF channels for tele-vision would permit an orderly ex-pansion of VHF service without fear of station conflict. These findings provided the basis ' of the FCC's plans to license near-ly 2,000 new stations throughout America. j MAHONEY ' I vV WHAT IS THE SSi JL MAXIMUM WEIGHT I j ALLOWED A fTQLV. j ' ' I Jtm0Pii. HEAVYWEIGHT Qn SEPTEMBER. TtTv LJrHC PRIZEFIGHTER? 1951, OSWALD FREY, ' 1 l VJI 1 225 LBS. USING 80 POUND CASTING UNE,HOOKED AND TPt ' iVa NONE LANOED A IW U.TARPON IN LAKE PON-T- I rrTT a 275 lbs. chartrajn, within the city limits of new Mfc jfr ORLEANS. IT HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED AS p1 3N0hf mfjei A NEW WORLD'S RECORD. 1951 Broke Records In National Parks U. S. rangers have closed their books on the greatest travel year in the history of America's na-tional parks. From Maine to Alaska and Ha-waii, more than 36,700,000 people one in every four Americans-visi-ted historic shrines and saw majestic scenery that they them-selves own as part of the far-flun- g national park system. The figure broke the 1950 record by nearly four million. Uncle Sam's public park domain mountains and monuments, can-yons and caves embraces more land than the combined area of Vermont, New Hampshire, Mass-achusetts, Rhode Island, Connect-icut, Delaware and half of New Jersey. Half of the total is in 28 National Parks; the remainder in 175 National Monuments, histori-cal sites, battlefields, and memor-ials. National forests, ten times as big, are not included. Yellowstone is the largest Na-tional Park. A fantastic land of geysers, hot springs, mud volca-noes, waterfalls, mountains, and forests, it sprawls across more than two million acres of Wyom-ing, Montana, and Idaho. "IB JfM RHODYr jjfij Who's Right? Sensational catches of largemoutn and Kentucky bass in the impound-ed TVA waters in the past two years are adding fuel to the argument by many anglers that bass do not ac-tually hibernate during the winter. At Kentucky Lake, Dale Hollow. Lake Herrington and n t newly-impounde- d Wolf Creek Reservoir (since officially named Lake Cum-berland by the Kentucky Legisla-ture) catches of bass during even the coldest weather have been amazing. What does this prove? It proves, asserts the school that the scrappy species can be taken the year round, wherever water is open, and that the reason this knowledge hasn'. been shared by all the angling fraternity is that too many of the members sit around a warm fire vegetating during the winter when they could be out catching bass, if they knew their business.' There is no gainsaying the fact that many and big bass are being taken In the winter in the big lakes, and we can add a personal note that it has been done in the streams, too. For instance, in ElK-ho- rn Creek, near Frankfort, Ky., one plugcaster took five small-mou- th in five casts on a cold, Feb-ruary day. The creek was clear, but about two feet high when he pulled the feat. We'll grant that this is not a per-formance that can be duplicated day in and day out during the winter months, but we think any reason-able angler will have to his views on the matter of bass fishing being dead in the winter-time, if he is aware of what anglers have been doing in the lakes. AAA Too Good To Keep Panfish fishermen, this is for you! Remember how all of us have wondered why someone couldn't come up with the one lure that ab-solutely would fill a creel with the tasty finny denizens known as bream? Well, we believe we've found one. A picture of it is included in this article, as you see. The lyre is called the "Deep-Mlnno- ." It is made by the Weber people at Ste-vens Point, Wis., and Weber's Mr. A. L. Bauman, who sent us some of the lures to test, did so without any fanfare or without any super-claim- s for the lure. But look what it did: On New Year's Day, a day more conducive to radiator-sittin- g than fishing, we took it to a nearby pond and in two hours caught 48 bream with this one lure. Four using worms and minnows, caught only 21 between them, and three other fly-ro- d men on the pond at the same time, took a total of only 25 fish. A lure that will produce like that Is, we thought, too good to keep still about, so we're passing along the information here to all you anglers who find much of your sport fishing pondr and other im-pounded waters for bream or crap-pi- e. We haven't tried the lure on crappie yet, but have every reason to believe it will be just as cf. fective. AAA Hunting Dogs The English harrier, halfway be-tween the beagle and foxhound in size, was developed in England for pack hunting of hares. While some have found their way to America they have never been very popular here. Many hunters like fox or 'coon hounds for running rabbits. These faster hounds are usually lneffi- - cient in hunting cottontails as these rabbits are likely to "hole up" be-fore fast hounds. However, varying hares are much different quarry. These big "snowshoe" hares will run for hours ahead of the hounds and seldom hole. In the deep snow of the north woods many prefer a fast foxhound for this sport the faster the better. Few hounds are fast enough to catch these speed--i sters but it can be done. 'Coon or tree hounds. Perhaps the aristocrat of hounds is the "straight 'cooner." by "straight" is meant a dog that will run nothing but raccoon. Such hounds usually do not reach perfection short of three or more years of age. Other "varmint" hounds run oppossum and skunk. AAA Rod Gadget Anglers who fish from a boat will find this gadget helpful. Take an old bicycle tire and cut three pieces from it rtbout three inches long. Turn the open side up and fasten on the inside of your boat three or four inches below the gunwale to hold your rod when not in use. It will not only keep the red from be-ing knocked overboard, hut keeps it away from sand and water and also lesr the hanc?s of it being broken. SPORTLIGHT ; Three Managers Are in Big Slew 1 By GRANTLAND RICE YOU MAY NOT have notic t, there is a bluebird sitting on a cedar post and a touch of flame in the early southern sky. Spring is almost here. In the meanwhile there are three managers out in this section who are beginning to stew over three major problems. They are the only three managers in baseball who had much to say about the two pennant races last spring, summer and fall-espe- cially down the stretch. Their names are Casey Stengel, Leo Duro- - The next problem will be to get more winning games out of his pitching staff Branca, Erskine, and Roe. "Roe is a great pitcher," says Dressen. "I mean great. But he can't be worked too hard. So we have left Labine, Erskine, Branca, Van Cuyk, Banta, Loes, Wade, Alex-ander, Podbielan, Rutherford to mention a few. "I'm planning to send Clem La-bin- e out to take Newcombe's place. I think he can do it, I hope so any-way." Dressen has another problem. This is getting his pitchers into a winning mood. Year after year they are rated high up. But few of them ever win 18 games, even with a great ball club. Just a fair pitcher should be a winner in Brooklyn with the fielding and batting support he gets Dressen said nothing about this. But he knows the entire staff hasn't been any too good the past few years. They have a lot of things but little control. Outside of his pitching, Dressen has the best all around club in base-ball. If he had Giant, Yankee or Indian pitching he would have a Cakewalk. But he must get more consistent work from a highly in-consistent staff. Anyway, here are the three main or major problems the three best teams in baseball last season face for the new spring now only a chip shot away. Tha Big Experiment Can the sow's ear ever produce a silk purse? Can the silver handle be fitted to the pewter spoon? Can the St. Louis Browns ever be lifted again to the first division, or be a pennant contender? This latter an-gle will be given its first chance this year. Hornsby has already started work in a sunny valley near Los Angeles with his first training platoon. The squad is at El Centre where the desert sun is hot and there are no disturbing factors. He has Rivera, Roy Sievers, Mike Goliat and others who asked to be on hand. Hornsby believes he will have a high-clas- s outfield ready by late April. He is a great believer in hard work in extra hard work. And he has another important quality. I've heard many well-know- n managers and ballplayers say you can't teach a man how to hit. Hornsby doesn't. I recall the time in Florida they tried to make a hitter out of Sammy Baugh, the star passer. He was getting his shot at the Cardinals under Frank Frisch. Baugh was a great infielder with a fine arm, but he couldn't hit a lick. No one could teach the famous Texan how to swing a bat. But Hornsby has al-ways been a natural teacher. fira.tl.MRU nd Quuik Dressen repre-sentin- g Yankees, Giants and Dodg-ers. The Yankees, Giants and Dod-gersespecially the first two took over the main battle for last year's two pennants. How will It be for 1952? Casey Stengel has to replace Joe DiMag-gi- o, his greatest ballplayer. He has to fill the hole left vacant by Jerry Coleman. He has to work out the best outfield combination from Woodling, Mantle, Bauer, Jensen and one or two other. And he has to get the able help again he re-ceived from Reynolds, Lopat and Raschi, his three star pitchers who ar all veterans. Casey isn't much of a worrier or else he is a fine actor. His busy brain is seething now, but he says his problems can wait until he reaches the playing field. "We'll be all right," he says with a grin. "We'll either win or make somebody else hustle," The next in turn was Leo Duro-che- r. Leo keeps busy from hour to hour and from day to day. He is al-ways restless. "We have a few problems," Duro-che- r says. "But not too many. The main two are filling Stanky's job at second and taking care of the ter-ritory left vacant by Willie Mays. Both are great ballplayers for any team. Stanky was a big factor last year. So was Willie Mays. We have Williams and maybe Hank Thomp-son for second. We've got to fill that big gap in center. Then we are set with one of the best pitching staffs in baseball. I mean Maglie, Jansen. Hearn, Lanier and Koslo plus a few others. I call that quite a staff. And you know what a big part of baseball, pitching is." The Third Problem This left Chuck Dressen of the Dodgers on our visiting list. 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