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!Giant IVTower StartsIftnv1-Knifing UpThe tallest man-made structuretoD-Dfin the world this week started knifing up into the sky 43 miles eastof here as construction got underwav on a 1.610-foot television towerbv KSWS-TV.The tower will surpass in heightiea1,572-foot television tower1,472-foot Empire and the 984-footOklahoma.BuPdinp e Eiffel Tower m Paris.It's a land where bigness reigns.r-!Sgraphic companion® lesstheits geo-Bottom-miles to thei-ie1-a!Lakes a few East, depths of which have neverandbeen successfullywaterthe largestplumbed,wellinvworld.Its construction will defy Texas tradition for the prodigious,the new structureinasmuchsas me new will exceed by. 89 feet a televisiontower at Dallas.Appropriately, the tower wilt be * located near the oil field where , the television station’s owner, . John Barnett, made his first strike in 1947 and began collecting the fortune that enabled him to plunge into television and radio three5.r,ISJyears ago,£! The tower itself will be symbolic of the meteoric rise of Barrett, who quit a government jobin 1947 as a taciturn geologistwith only $3 000 in the bank, to pr j. | play a hunchThe giant ,rj dubbed, will carrysignal with 316,000 watts over avast area of cities and smalltowns in southeastern New Mexicoand West Texas to what station operators estimate is a half-billion dollar market. It will co\er weakas it has beenthe station’sspots o* the station's present patConfessionsEntered in Trialn Kidnaping Case]MINE OLA N.Y. I# — The pros* ,,ecution has put in evidence twoof three signed confessions attri-IAngelo LaMarcaIdnaping of Peter Weinberger, ft abandoned to die.snatchedJuly(image cn theof his I «Vt esthury. N.Y., home. LaMarcaiwas arrested In the case las'24 at his home in PlainviewILongLaMarca, 31, a taxicab driver, on trial for his life, chargedmkidnaping and et His counselfirst-degreewiU plead innocent by reason U | of temporary insanity induced bypersonal money problems. Kidnapnotes had demanded 12.000.IIn court Friday, Nassau County Dist. Atty Frank A. Gulota read ~confession, made *• to th* FBI about 14 hours after Earrest. This said in effecthu kidnapted Peter and the babywas left alive in bushes near a ?Islandsecond.4assau County police, said an on-imed accomplice took the baby^ his Brooklyn home overnight |*the I*a id, or, July 5, abandoned child. Starvation and the elements \iparently killed the baby. LaMarca listened to the readinghead j the confessions with bowed, his eyes shut or staring ^ af his tightly clasped hands, ||jTRAPPEDMEMPHIS, Tenn. Iff*SCHOOL EXPANSIONabout) | tern, and replace the present 790 * foot towernTo Barnett the new tower is^ an expression of his faith that a t predominately rural area can sup-u port quality television.We are trying to find out howValiey View addition, lower picture is les;vanced. The Edgewood addition will consii additional classrooms and one lavatorySevenclassrooms and two lavatories are scheduledsIWhen | j,several women asked him to send f a police radar speed trap crew to fe their street, Capt. Charles Rhodes a was glad to oblige. Among the first to draw tickets for speeding i, were two of the women who asked for the trap.ley View. WorkmenW. M. Kenty, Wayne Tyler, Jackieman,, D. C. Picked Schools Photos).and Paul Odell.—(Roswell„ we could bring television to Ros-’’ well,” Barnett said, and someone.affiliations with e said I might as well go into television as to drill a couple of dryM Mld tion to its height: prefabricated tower it will utilize themicro-wave hop43 .miles from | ^CBS and ABC.!while he has interests in four BosweU: ,rom ’ls^ vmiles away, wiU be visible; andUjIt will have an elevator. !Imajor oil producing areas, he now----------- _ Located on a sweep of rock gjves the bulk of his time to run- . ..- holes. I said I couldn't afford to that rises above the terrain, the ^ the teievision station. Construction is being. drill any dry holes. antenna of the new tower will be .the Andrews Tower. Inc., or Fort13Experts in the television field 2,700 leet higher than the average I found 1 had a tiger by the Worth. Steel is of a specialsaid this area couldn’t support a elevation of 30 principal cities in tail,” he said.Bethlehemtelevision station. We the coverage area.|! qualityh made a study, found the market n was here and went ahead.Bethlehem Pa. Standard*Thehavethe full blast of New Mexico winds cn the air Isteel!out the backthe transmitterequipment. The micro-And, regardless of the experts,,and its eight-foot squareBarnett has made a go of it since frame is designed at the top to interested solely in geological for- wave link on the tower w, the television first went on the air. withstand a 250-mile wind. Its* motions and oil. Now television vided by the Collins RadioThe station is the largest in the I base is rooted in 100 cubic yards'has given me an interest in al-: Dallas. The copper coaxial cable...... * ” 1-----1— from the transmitterU S to serve a predominately,of concrete and steel, set in solid most everything.Therunningt'politan area. It is a primary affiliate of NBC and has secondary sorural area with no major metro-irock.new tower,the tower cameDecemberProdlin. Inc., in Kearneyfascinating to Barnett that notable for several reasons in ad-N. J.
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Roswell Daily Record
Roswell, New Mexico, US
Sun, Nov 18, 1956
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