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Show Television Committee Takes Over Operation of TV Signal Equipment The newly organized Iron County Television Committee, Commit-tee, appointed by the administrations of Cedar City, Parowan, Paro-wan, Iron County and Iron County School distritc to maintain television service for the area until a definite program of operation can be approved, has taken the first steps toward solving the problem and providing service. ser-vice. The committee is composed of Haze Hunter, who will serve as chairman, and Don Mathews, district representa- tive, appointed by Cedar City; James Benson, of Cedar) .i City, who will act as secretary, and Eryner Wood of Escalante Valley, appointed by the School Board; Preston Williams, Kanar-raville; Kanar-raville; William Boardman, Par-agonah, Par-agonah, appointed by the county, and Heber Curr, Parowan, appointed ap-pointed by Parowan City. The committee will attempt first to stabilize the signal available, avail-able, and then conduct expeil-ments expeil-ments to determine what improvement im-provement can bt made. Hunter points out that the signal will be maintanned with the present equipment, and additional equipment equip-ment will be acquired for exper-mental exper-mental service. Next step will be to work out an agreement with Beaver County Coun-ty to separate the two services, since both offer different problems. prob-lems. An additional unit will be placed on the Beaver Hill to bring the signal Into Cedar City and Iron County, leaving the present equipment for service to Beaver. The power line will be used by both, It Is understood. Wm. Hill has been employed by the committee to bring the signal sig-nal back to its former strength and clarity, and then to maintain main-tain It. He will be directly responsible re-sponsible to the commltee. The city, county and school district will provide funds for experimental ex-perimental work, but cannot provide pro-vide money for maintenance and operation under the present circumstances. cir-cumstances. Therefore, the committee com-mittee is asking for contributions from television set owners, as a means of raking funds with which to operate the system. The committee rquests that each owner contribute a minimum of j $10. The contribution should be mailed to the Iron County Television Tele-vision Committee. P. O. Box 1215, Cedar City. Television dealers have agreed to charge a $10 service ser-vice fee on all sets sold In the future to assure continued service. ser-vice. The committee will continue to function until the Federal Communications Commission le-i le-i zalizes a definite form of operation. oper-ation. When this Is done the county governmental agencies have agreed to provide and finance fi-nance television service for the county. In the meantime, however, it is imperative that contributions be received, and all set owners are asked to make their contributions contribu-tions as early as possible. |