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Show Page 10 DIXIE SUN January Students For most students, December happy time. Soon finals would be over and we couldt have our long over due vacation from college and relax with our families over the Christmas holidays. But for Ronnie Whiting, Willie Gray, Jim Bonner, and Michelle Drabner this happy time turned into a nightmare they will never forget. Driving from the Arizona Strip to Bloomington Hills at 12:30 a.m. Saturday morning, Jim, the driver, was surprised by an unexpected curve and couldnt make the turn in time. Sliding off the road sideways, the car flew off a 10 foot bank and rolled four and a half times before coming to a stop. Jim was thrown from the car while the others were still inside. They were all dealt head wounds and other bodily injuries. Ronnie had a broken collar bone, Michelle amnesia, and Jim had a serious cracked 14, 1985 was a While Ronnie and Michelle went for help, Jim started hemorrhaging which caused him to stop breathing. He soon would have died if it wasnt for Willie, who gave him artifical respiration, which helped him to start breathing again. They were all taken to the Dixie Medical Center and taken care of. Jim was flown to Las Vegas by Lifeflight for immediate attention, Ronnie and Willie left the hospital at 5:30 a.m. while Michelle stayed longer because of the amnesia. Luckily, no permanent damage was sustained and they all are doing well, a month after the accident. MR Nanny Wanted Responsible care for infant daughter in my home in Washington D.C. sub-ber- b Room and Board plus salary. Call me collect Sat. or Sun. area code ask for Mrs. Edwards. in the Near Future Big Changes morning, Good youre tuned in to radio station KRDC at 99.3 F.M., in sunny St. George. Youre listening to DJ the DJ, and Im playing the best music in town. Its ten minutes after eight, so lets get into some more funky music.... KRDC!? Ive never heard of that station before! Such is the case with many of todays college students, not to mention much of St. George. The reason the station is not the most popular may be because of its size. KRDC only puts out 10 10 watts. Thats watts. Even right, only lightbulbs put out more than 10 watts. Compare KRDCs power to any other average sta- tion around, and youll find stations that crank out anywhere from 3,000 to 10,000 watts. In fact, a new station is being built right now in Kanab that will have the power of 100,000 watts, enough to reach all of Southern Utah, and even into parts of Las Vegas. KRDC isnt really that big of a name, because it isnt that big of an operation. The station is owned by Dixie College, and operated by the students enrolled in Radio Production (Communications 279). Students are on the air Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. to 12 p.m., and Satur- days from 6 a.m. to midnight. KRDCs biggest concern is promoting Dixie College and the activities going on at the time. The music played is generally Top 100, but the tunes vary from hard rock, to swingin jazz. Several programs are being developed right now at KRDC, one of which calls for a half and hour talk show with a special guest each week. The guest speaker would discuss important issues concerning the community of St. George. Another new program will feature a of the best jazz music around with DJ Randall Maxfield filling everyone in on the sounds of brass horns and lively, uptempo drums. Another thing KRDC is doing new this quarter is watching exactly what is played over the air. Performers such as Prince, Madonna and ACDC have been virtually banned from the station, because of certain unacceptable lyrics contained in their songs. In other words, anything controversial, gross, or obscene, as station manager Kraig Paxman put it, will simply not be played at KRDC. Violators of this rule will lose their radio license. This is the fourth year the station has operated at 99.3 on the frequency scale, but the future of KRDC may be in jeopardy at this point in time. Another radio station is planning to hit the airways of St. George sometime within the 8 next months, and will 99.7 on the radio at operate dial. 16-1- According to some legal advice from Washington D.C., if this station will in fact operate at 99.7, then KRDC will be forced off the air, since the FCC requires at least 10 Megahurtz between stations, and KRDC is only a class D operation. The station advisor, Ed Rogers has been given three alternatives to choose from in deciding exactly where KRDC goes from here. The first choice the station has is simply to go off the air for good, eliminating the Radio Production class. Since this idea is about as good as suicide, the second choice is to move to a different frequency on the radio, somewhere between 92 and 108, and remain 10 watts. The third choice would be to move to the band of the radio, between while increasing the power from 10 watts, to 250 watts, which would also increase the size of KRDCs broadcasting considerably. This means the tower would have to be relocated, so all of Washington County could pick up the show. The only problem with this is that it would cost the school over 10,000 dollars, a figure that seems a bit much at this point. 88-9- 2, Important Documents Found Last fall, Yvonne Stroup, of the Utah Newspaper Project, visited the Dixie College Library to check our newspaper holdings. This project, sponsored by the Marriot Library, under the auspices of the Na- tional Endowment for the Humanities, is part of a national effort to preserve newspapers published in the United States and to make them available to historians and other researchers. Stroup found three newspapers in our librarys archives that she had not located in any other library. The library has some 1900-190- 1 issue of the Dixie Falcon, published in St. George. The Dixie Advocate (issues woman needed to Monday-Frida- 1086 Click Survive Accident skull. 11 from 1901-190- published in St. George, was also found in our archives. Last, summer, when Susan Ash,j library archivist, was inventory- ing the newspaper cabinet, she found an 1895 issue of the Southern Utah Star. It was exciting to find out that we were the only library in the United States with these particular newspapers. 22 21 Music Videos Big Screen T.V. Specialty Drinks Social Area College Night $1.00 off wactivity card Dance till 2:00 A.M. |