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Show Delegations Back Rules , For TV Booster Systems A wide representation of Utah : television interests voiced nearly ; unanimous approval Thursday of i last week of proposed federal licensing li-censing and regulating of booster-type booster-type facilities to carry TV to out- lying areas of the state. More than 75 persons attended the hearing conducted by U. S. Senator Pastore (D-RI), chairman of a senate subcommittee charged with making on-the-spot studies of facilities and problems entailed in operation of booster and translator trans-lator type systems. "Questions have been raised about the need for the Federal Communications Commission to move immediately in adopting authorization of booster operations," opera-tions," Senator Pastore said at the outset of the hearing, held in the Salt Lake Federal building. "It has been asserted that very high frequency boosters are successful suc-cessful in the rugged terrain of western states, while the ultra high frequency translators, which are already authorized by FCC, are not too satisfactory." Senator Wallace F. Bennett (R-Utah), among the group who attended the hearing, said -there has been too much chaotic growth of booster stations and community antenna operations in the past. . "Certainly," the senator added, if booster stations are interfering with radio reception, they must be controlled by FCC and even though such interference has not been especially frequent up until now, it is obvious that we must begin sometime to regulate and license these operations.'' A statement prepared by Senator Frank E. Moss (D-Utah), who was unable to attend because of prior engagements, was read into the record. "Under the present circumstances, circumstanc-es, 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, opin-ion, there is no justification for the FCC to continue to refuse to license li-cense these booster stations," Representative David S. King (D-Utah) concurred in and joined in Senator Moss's statement. Other formal statements were submitted iby Marl D. Gibson, Price attorney; State Representatives Representa-tives Craig M. Justesen and Frank C. Memmott, both of Carbon coun-tv: coun-tv: Kent T. Farnsworth, St. George Chamber of Commerce; Ray E. Nash, attorney for Uintah county; W. A. Torgerson, Wayne county commissioner; William G. Bruhn, president of the Five-County Organization, Or-ganization, representing Beaver, Iron, Garfield, Kane, and Washington Wash-ington counties; Earl Wyatt, Wclls-ville; Wclls-ville; and Gerald H. Norris, Randolph. |