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Show lLsT0kehT Grant For Campus TV The University has received word from Senator Frank E. Moss that the Department of Health, Education and Welfare has awarded KUED a grant of $239,322 under the Educational Television Facilities Act According to Pres. A. Ray Ol-pin, Ol-pin, the grant will enable the University to extend KUED's signal throughout the state with a system of 18 primary translators trans-lators to which the counties will add an additional 50 translators to make a complet system. The grant will also give KUED funds to equip the second production studio and purchase a second video recorder. The project is under the direc-tici direc-tici of Dr. Keith M. Engar and is the result of three years of planning. The translator network was developed as a cooperative venture ven-ture under the aegis of the Utah Joint Committee of Educational Television, a group composed of members from the state board of education and the coordinating coordinat-ing council for higher education. Present UJCET chairman is Mr. Loretta Cline. ALL LEVELS of government will be involved in the translator transla-tor network which will be the first one of its kind in the United Uni-ted States. The federal government govern-ment is making matching funds available for purchase of equipment. equip-ment. The state of Utah is providing pro-viding matching funds through the legislature's appropriation to KUED which means that the equipment money appropriated by the last legislature will be increased four times. The counties have signed contracts con-tracts with the University to install, in-stall, maintain and provide operating ope-rating funds for the 18 primary translators which will be licensed licens-ed to the University under conditions con-ditions of the grant. The counties coun-ties will install the remaining 50 translators out of local funds. |