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FIRST IN IDAHOIIIIFIGHTINGNampaTV StationSHF OOFSSets NextWeekTest PatternNampa’s KFXD expectedtoday to become1 the first station in Idaho to broadcasttelevision.Ed Hurt, president of FrankE. Hurt and Son, Inc., whichowns the station, said KFXDwill begin interim TV broadcasting with a test pattern Thursday evening, June 18.KFXD-TV, a Channel 6 grantee, will operate on STA (special temporary authority) from the Federal Communications Commission with studio and transmitter at a 6f»00~foot elevation in the Boise National Forest overlooking Boise Valley from Deer Point.Program starting date will be announced later, Hurt said today.KFXD-TV will be an affiliate of the American Broadcasting Company’s television system. It will be represented nationally by the George P. Hollingbery Company and regionally by Rocky Mountain Broadcasting System’s television network. Salt Luke City.Meanwhile, truckers started out for the transmitter site today with the transmitter shack and Ihe first load of equipment to be used there.THIS transmitter shack foi Nampa’s KFXD-TV starletup the mountain today to set tin' pace for Boise Valley television broadcasting. If all goes well, KFXD-TV will broadcast Idaho’s first TVtest pattern next Thursday evening. The Nampa TV station will be affiliated with ABC television network and will begin programming at a date yet to be announced.It» *•Barlow Charges Fund WasUIn SICE Caretaker ProgramSWAIN'S IDEAItltllNOS COI'S,I*111fCBUT NOT GIRLrBURLEY, Idaho iff) — State Sen. K. C. Barlow (R-Cassia) charged Friday that public money is being wasted in the caretaker program at the abandoned Southern Idaho College of Education at Albion.He declared, in a statement, thatHe fecently opposed a move to use the Albion buildings as a school for underprivileged chi! dre».He said C. E. Simonsen, SICE caretaker, requisitioned a mower from the State Board of Education in December, 11152, and was turned down. He asked the state purchasing agent to do somethingamil it, hut was told In* had to have the board’s okay.“After months of delay, a second requisition was made by Mr.CINCINNATI (tfi- When his girl friend refused to see him James Collins, 19, resorted to what he thought was a it of clever strategy.lie rang a fire alarm in Ihe vicinity of her home hoping that the commotion would ringher out.It didn’t. But it did ring thettftIit1Ir;4 • I.
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Nampa Idaho Free Press
Nampa, Idaho, US
Fri, Jun 12, 1953
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