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TV Sale Falls ThroughJerry Proctor, who thought he'd•old his Interest in KIVA-TV, andplanned to move to Houston, is backrunning the statiaiH-and plans toreturn his wife and daughter, who'd already moved to Texas, toFarmington.The Allen Theatres and Charles Martin Marty” tail had exercised an option to buy the station last Aug. 1, sub|oct to Federal Com*' rnunicofions'Commission apprdVOl.Deadline for transfer j»f contract wgpset for Nov. 1, according to Proctor.Without going Into a let of detail, suffice It to say that meanwhile, the would-be new owners asked to be relieved of their contract, and Proctor agreed.The Proctors still own their home at 3000 North wood Circle. Out they'd •old nearly all their furniture, predicated on their move to Houston, where Jerry had planned to build a cable tv system.And In Houston, they'd bought property and were preparing to build. So that now has to bo sold.Mrs. Proctor (larbara) has bean In Houston since last August, and was at the bedside of her cancer-stricken mother, until the letter's death a few days after Thanksgiving. Fourteen-year-old Jerlanno was with her mother, while 17-year-old Russoll, a Farmington High School senior, has boon batching with his dad. Tho family had planned to bo reunited in Houston In mid-January.Jerry says he still plans to build the cable system In Houston, but doesn't anticipate that will toko more than a few months.Jerry and Russell are going to Texas in the next few days to |oin Barbara and Jerianne and other relatives for tho holidays—and hopefully it won't be long after that until they can resume a normal Ufa again, in Farmington.Confidentially. Jerry likes this area so wall he was rooting around the business community to see If he couldn't find something to keep him here after the tv station was sold. So he really doesn't feel too badly atthe developments.Neither do we. Jerry Is a nice guy, who wants to give a little of himself back to the community from which he derives his livelihood. The town noeds more dtisens like him.
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Farmington Daily Times
Farmington, New Mexico, US
Fri, Dec 19, 1975
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