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•••••••••••••••••••• •• t ••••••••• I ••••••• I • t •••••••« 9 I t I • • • •.......... . . . • t • • • • • » • •Couple Busy PaintingHighTower At USUKeeping their feet on the ground is just not in the day’s work for Jim ana Jean Marx, who make their living painting towers such as they are doing in Logan during this week.Sunday morning, a local helicopter took just 15 minutes to take the antenna portion off the tower at USU Channel 12, and get some of the translations down. For the rest of the week and Marxs will be painting and revamping the tower which is more than 220 feet high.The action was necessary, according to Jerry Allen of KUSU, because educational television is now reaching Cache Valley by means of a translator on Channel 12. Under recommendation from the State Board of Higher Education, KUSU-TV has been discontinued as an originating transmitting station and Cache will Instead receive educational television through a VHF translator carrying the Channel 7 schedule of programs.The Marxes, natives of Longview, Wash., specialize in radio and television tower construction maintenance, painting and relamping or replacing tower lights. They will spend the major portion of the week repairing and painting KUSU’s tower.They travel throughout the United States following their trade but work mostly in Idaho, California, Utah, Washington, Oregon. Montana and Wyoming. Most radio ana television towers are checked each year for light replacement as well as other repairs.The highest tower they have ever paintedwas a 668 foot television structure at Jerome, Idaho.Mane, a native of Moroni, Utah, got his practice in high places by rigging U. S. Navy ships during the World War n. He began his tower jobs in 1942 and his wife got into the act when they were married in 1957. Is she nervous on a high tower? “Only when people come around to watch,” she commented.The couple works by bid and complete anaverage of seven or eight jobs during thesummer months depending on the weatherand the height of the towers. Weather isalways a big factor. A calm day is bestbecause the paint thickens too fast in the wind.Without the transmitter, KUSU will be using the tower for FM and state microwave work, Allen indicated. Dr. Burrell F. Hansen is chairman of the university’s radio and television department.►
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The Herald Journal
Logan, Utah, US
Mon, Nov 16, 1970
Page 4
Full Page
Clipped by
Sammi B.
NA 02 Sep 2019
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