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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 8, 1979)
Rosts increasing miMU-TV needs more local donations to stay on the air THE BATTALION THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1979 Page 5 By LEIGH McLEROY r • ■ Battalion Reporter It takes local support, and a lot of it J keep a public broadcasting television station on the air and Texas A&M University s KAM U-TV option. -TV is partially funded by rom the Corporation for :rr.!idcastine, but under fctnwxirfKKK wk wnwytooty w tm km wh wk itx i> x it x PACK’S PLASTER AND CERAMICS SPRING SALE March 6 - March 10 $80 000 this year, and Jean Herbert-Wiesenburg, promotion and development coordinator for the station, says program costs are increasing. “Shows that cost $50,000 last year are now costing $70,000 to $75,000,” Wiesenburg said. With increasing costs and a tight budget, local donations are vital to KAMU. “At this point, KAMU is not acquiring the full Corporation for Public Broadcasting funds we could be getting, because local do nations are low and the 50 percent rule must be adhered to,” said Mel Chastain, director of the Univer sity’s educational broadcast serv ices. KAM U-TV programming is seen on Channel 15 on the UHF dial and cable in Brenham, Bryan- College Station, Caldwell, Hearne, Lyons, Madisonville and Some rville. It reaches an estimated 29,000-30,000 television households with daily newscasts and a variety of PBS programs, aside form the sta tion’s teaching functions. Battalion photo by Clay Cockrill talked about streamlining their duties and in tensifying efforts to increase Mexican- American and black voter registration. retary of State George Strake Jr. spoke Wednesday to a district and county clerk’s seminar at Texas A&M University, where he ^Legislature should streamline pjJounty clerk duties, Strake says The University budget supplies money to pay salaries of station per sonnel who, in addition to teaching, act as producers, directors, cameramen and technicians. Little money from the budget is applied to the daily operation costs of the sta tion, however. Therefore, the pub lic’s help is needed. A lot of attention has been fo cused recently on the $29,000 needed by Aug. 31 to keep KAM U-TV radio on the air. The sta tion is well on its way to that goal, with $21,000 so far. “We’ve come a long way toward our goal for the radio station. But, at More girls play in sports survey says United Press International NEW YORK — A new survey of teen-age girls shows 99.9 percent participate in some type of sport. The most popular sports for this group are swimming, bicycling, tennis and jogging. More than seven out of 10 girls questioned in the Se venteen magazine survey said they’d taken up jogging. More than half those surveyed said they com peted in athletic activities, com pared with only 42 percent three years ago. Track is their favorite competition, followed by tennis and swimming. this time, we need funds for televi sion as critically, if not more criti cally, than we do for the radio,” Chastain said. In an attempt to raise funds to op erate KAMU, the station is planning the first KAMU TV Auction, scheduled for three nights of prime time television, April 1-3. The auction will sell items that have been donated and apply the revenue from the sales to the opera tion of KAMU. Proceeds from the auction and Festival ’79, two weeks of special programming aimed at creating greater interest and sup port for local public television, will go toward both FM and TV. Viewers phone in their pledges for KAMU during the programming scheduled for Festival ’79. The auction has already collected over $3,000 worth of merchandise, including a large collection of art and antiques which will be au ctioned separately the first night, April 1. Donations and workers are still needed for the auction. Anyone wishing to help or contribute should contact Jean Herbert-Wiesenburg at 845-5611. In addition to the auc tion, two benefits have been scheduled for late April. 20% off all unpainted plasters, candles, and candle rings. Tues.-Thurs. FM 2223, Old Wheelock Road (off Tabor Road) 823-3965 Fri. & Sat. 10-5 Closed Sun. & Mon. ^ ■TmryrjrY^TryTTrT^TrT-TrTTT^TrTTrrTii^ i i aiai aiaiai G R E G G P A Y T 0 N 9 pm -1 am Sat. 8 pm -12 pm Mon.-Fri.^, AGGIELAND INN MvtB B y RO T B « A „ G G nanam Battalion Staff Te\as Secretary of State George _ Jitrab Jr. told a district and county clerks seminar Wednesday he in tends to “streamline” their licensing TION .duties and intensify state efforts to I homef e 8 ister black and Mexican- » j nc American voters. tor W(|Bi ra k e to ^ gathering at Texas {_jp S A&M University he is urging the vouIB 186 of a bill that would move the licensing of notaries public from the county level to the secretary of 'ORATK state’s office. ’) Bfefore the Legislature this ses sion are several bills that would ikends c ^ an K (: the licensing procedures for notaries, each one proposing a .. .y digktly different method. ^B'esently, the licensing of noiSi H s public is done by county IIV clerks. A ^ ^■the bill Strake favors is passed, county clerks will still be involved in £|§V ^Bprocess, but to a lesser extent. Applicants for notary public would lUSeS, Screened by the clerks before rid, the y apply to the state. f |B ra ke said the terms for notaries Hid be increased from two years to four years under one of the bills. An informal vote of the delegates at the seminar backed Strake’s pro posal. Sixty-six percent of all eligible citizens are registered to vote, Strake said, up from 55 percent in 1965, but the number of blacks reg istered is still low. Other than the increased adver tising, little more can be done to lure people to register, the secre tary of state said, adding that the present system, including registra tion drives and postage-free regis tration cards, is often abused. Strake said there are numerous fraudulent claims in statewide voter registration. 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