Show TV bossier booster licensing approved at hearing in salt lake city the wide representation of I 1 utah television interests teresta In vole ed nearly unanimous approval thursday of 0 last week in salt lake city of proposed federal legislation licensing and regulating booster type facilities to bring TV to outlying areas of the stated state more than 79 73 attended a hearing conducted by sen pastore D dili it I 1 chairman of a U S senate subcommittee teo charged with making on the spot studies ot 0 facilities and problems problem entailed in operation of 0 booster and translator type questions have been raised about the need for federal communications commission to move immediately in adopting regulations that would permit the hop of booster operations operation sen pastore said at the out 71 set of the hearing in the salt lake federal building Dull ding it has been asserted that very high frequency boosters boasters bo are arc successful in we the rugged terrain ut af western states while the ultra high frequency translators which are already authorized by FCC are not too satisfactory sen wallace F T bennett 11 lutah among amog the group who attended the he hearing eald there ahas ha been toor too much chaotic chaat 6 growth of booster stations and Vom community antenna operations in the past certainly the senator added if booster sta stations tiona are am interfering with radio reception they must be controlled and even though such sach interference has hap not been especially frequent up until now it la a obvious that we must begin some sometime Urne to regulate and license these thebe operations A statement prepared by sen frank E moss dutah D utah who was unable to attend because e af pf prior engagements was read into tho the record under the present circumstances these booster operations are deemed to be illegal and because of their illegality there are too many attendant problems read the statement in part in my opinion there to is no justification tor for the FCC to continue to refuse to license these booster stations rep david S king dutah D utah concurred in and joined in sen moss statement other formal statements were submitted by marl D gibson price attorney state reps craig M justesen 1 D and frank C D both of carbon county kent T farnsworth st george chamber of commerce ray E nash attorney of uintah county W A wayne county commission or cr william 0 bruhn president of a live imo county organization representing deaver iron garfield kane and washington counties earl wyatt president of wellsville cache county T V translator co and gerald it II norris manager of norris community TV randolph rich county |