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Show rr Iowa State's ' ! t air waves offer service " : lo the local t video viewers : ii u V V, J v TV fans how to make coolie hats out of newsStudents Joy Ringham and Creighton Know show small-fr- y WOI-Tat Iowa State College. paper. It's all part of "Magic Window," a regular kiddie show presented by V CBiraQS s EEQaDaDtfs V, . flavor of st programming with the flashy extravaganzas produced by the networks. The on ihe campus of Iowa station is WOI-TState College in Ames, one of trie nation's the down-to-eart- h local-intere- V, pioneers in educational TV. For less than the big networks spend on ... .. " i ry'iH-iiH.i- H i snuu.s in i ri iim. iiiir. nti.ii V. iii v presents both education and What's more the entertainment force for good in the station is an accepted radius of communities lying within a nigtit, WOI-T- V year-oun- 1Z d. 50-m- W e QUah II Es EH dDnnCt" and "Talk it out" is the motto of WOI-Tto thrash it offers the air waves for Iowans For out everyday problems. example when the residents of Cambridge were undecided about a consolidated school, they talked it over before an audience of some 200,000 on WOI-TWhen the issue came to a vote after the talk,! consolidation was approved. Citizens of Humboldtw discuss erecting a hospital. And local dairymen decided what to do about the influx of cheese from abroad.- As a matter of fact, service to Iowa farmers How well it at- is a primary goal of WOI-T- UNIQUE television station in Iowa com- A bines XT ile its transmitter, V. .v. V w v v 1 - . . 11 m J V !:., big-ci- ty A , - i indicated when contour tains that goaf was . . 4UM J 4.v piOWlilg was uucucu uii tiic icguiai icaiuic, "Tele-farFacts." Right after the show, an. absentee owner telephoned his tenant to ask: "Can't we plow that way on our farm?" The relieved tenant replied: "Boss, that's the method I've been trying to talk you into ; f or five years !" WOI-Tare professionKey employees at local programs with als, who neatly dovetail network. But college those from the students also spend many hours at the station, learning as they labor. :M : t 1 i 'i hmmmM Student workshop rehearses for a dramatic production, actors are real professionals. but majority of WOI-TV ry -- - "Down to Earth" program gives TV audience tips on dairy products. This show compared types of cheese. deMargaret McKeegan visits college partment to get facts for "Your Home Hour" program. home-Conomi- APRIL 18, 1954 FAMILY WEEKLY MAGAZINE |