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Wire Of Radio Station M AR With
Increased Power Relayed To World
The voice of KFAR was heard
pretty much throughout the
world Saturday when the Fair
banks station celebrated its first
day of broadcasing with new
5,000 watt power.
The inaugural program broad
cast from KFAR’s studio in the
afternoon was sent by short wave
to San Francisco which relayed
it over a coas-to-coast NBC net
work. And two New York short
wave stations, WRCA and WNBI
beamed it to Latin America and
Europe.
Meanwhile, Saurday nigh. Sta
tion KGEI at San Francisco de
voted a half hour program for
Alaska’s benefit, broadcasting a
mock trial of Capt. Austin E.
Lathrop, president of the Mid
night Sun Broadcasting Company
which operates KFAR.
“Disturbing The Peace’’
On tihe program were Alaskan
old-timers now living around -
San Francisco, who put Capt.
Lathrop on trial for “disturbing
the peace with a new-fangled
thing called radio.”
KFAR engineers say the new
power has resulted, as was ex
pected, in covering most of Al
aska easily. Points which for
merly received the local station
only in the night-time, now re
ceive its programs with equal
volume during the daylight
hours.
As example is Barrow, where
Sergeant Stanley Morgan of the
U. S Signal Corps, informed
KFAR that its programs are
“thundering" in now during the
da., .
Dedication Program
An hour’s dedicatory program
was given over KFAR from 8 to
9 o'clock Saturday night, in
which prominent Fairbanksans
pointed out the boon to the Terri
cry which its increased power
will be. Capt. Lathrop and Miss
Mariam Dickey, secretary-treas
urer of the Midnight Sun Broad
casting Company, were at the
studios to welcome the guests
who witnessed the show and par
ticipated in it.
Among the speakers were Dr
Hi vard Hughes, mayor of Fair
banks; Ralph Lomen of the Lu
men Commercial Company;
Southall Pfund, president of the
Rotary C ub; Andrew Nerland,
pioneer businessman of Fair
banks: William 11. Bloom super
intendent of schools; Lieutenant
R. W. Houser, representing the
Navy; aril Lieut. Winston Allard,
on behalf of Col. John V. Hart,
commanding officer of Ladd
Field.
Master of Ceremonies
With station manager Bud Fos
or acting as master of ceremon
ii 3, there was also music fur
i t cl by the Ladd Field or
chestra; Mickey Conti and his
accord an; Conporal Francis St.
Cyr, who sang; Mrs. Elizabeth
Clark at the piano and a comedy
skit by Private Eddie MoCregor.
Talk By Bloom
The address given by Mr.
Bloom follows in part:
“Three years ago we congrat
ulated KFAR for having the best
broadcasting facilities in the
Territory of Alaska. Now we con
gratulate KFAR for taking an
other stride ahead by increasing
its power five-fold. When fur
ther improvements are made in
radio service to Alaskan’s we
may i\ st assured that KFAR will
be out in the lead.
“Tiiose of us who follow teach
ing as a profession appreciate the
importance of radio as an agency
for di; initiating knowledge and
for influencing public opinion. No
other agency plays so important
a part in guiding the thinking of
American people than the radio;
but its possibilities are not lim
ited by international boundaries.
Station I;.; Democratic
The p li.of KFAR have al
■ways been . .roughly democrat- ]
ic. In fact, they have been so
democratic that it is easy to for
get that this an organization pri
vately owned and operated. We
have been made to feel that this
station is ours, and we have been
granted a liberal use of its facil
ities. On behalf of the public
schools of Fairbanks I wish to
express our appreciation of the
many privileges exended to us.
This station has been a great
factor in assisting the educative
process. Our school work is great
ly motivated by the opportunity
our children have for displaying
their wares over the air. It has
been distinctly noticeable that
our students are much better in
formed, particularly in world af
fairs, since KFAR came into be
ing. All of this we appreciate,
and I am pleased ot have this op
portunity of saying, Thank You.”
Mr. Lomen s Talk
The address by Mr. Lomen in
part: “I have recently read a
book entitled “The Keys of Free
book entitled ‘The Keys of the
Kingdom' by Dr. J. A. Kronan.
Neither the plot scene or context
of the novel are suggestive of Al
aska but somehow the title on
this occasion suggests to me
those important keys; transport
ation and comnjunication with
out which a country remains
provincial and small.
KFAR is indeed one of the
keys which has and which will
continue to open up this vast Al
aska Empire. The expanded good
which can be accomplished by
this Station is in direct propor
tion to the expanded power of
the station. Many of us who in
the studio this evening have
wached the growth of Alaska
and have participated in its de
velopment.'I recall Nome before
the advent of the Alaska Com
munication System. Without the
telegraph we depended upon
mails which frequently during
the winter months were seventy
five days by dog team from Val
dez. There was no Fairbanks on
the maps at that time and the
Alaska Railroad was not in con
templation. The International
II ghway was as remote as a tun
nel under Bering Strait; which,
incidentally bad been conceived
though lie highway had not.”
Congratulates KFAR
Lieutenant Houser said: “It is
a real pleasure to bo here to
night, Mr. Foster. I is a privil
ego and an honor to be asked to
present the Navy on such an aus
pi"in-us occasion and in the pres
ence of such distinguished com
pany.
“Station KFAR is certainly to
be congratulated upon its new
equipment. But more than. that.
Fairbanks in particular—and the j
; people of Alaska in general are
to be congratulated. For they are j
I the beneficiaries.
“The power of the radio is tre
mendous, and at this particular'
time, the radio is a predominate
factor in our very grim struggle
| with the Axis powers. Its power ;
' to influence, encourage, discou- j
rage, educate, and to generally J
inform is unequaled by any oth
! or single enterprise or institu :
tion.
Radio “Welds" Us ,
“We are faced with an all-out
need for an all-our effort and the
radio is the greatest single force
in welding us, and all the peo-1
pies in our United Nations, into
five one great cohesive whole
which is so necessary to our suc
cess.
“I believe that of all the new
inventions of the 20tib Century.
Radio is the greatest. One can
hut imagine what a tremendou
blessing KFAR has been to thos,
hundreds of people who live far
away from communication cen
ters in Alaska. I remember be
fore radio when miners and pros
pectors came into town, we had
to tell them all the news but now
when they come, they can tell
us something.
News Fresh Now
“Dewey’s great victory at Man
ila Bay in July 1898 was not
known in Dawson, Yukon Terri
tory until six weeks later when
some energetic man had some
how procured a Seattle paper
containing detailed account of
that historic battle and which he
read to us at a dollar a head in a
hired hall. In the years that have
passed since, we have been bene
fitted by many wonderful im
provements for our every day
use, but often we fail to appre
ciate these really worthy bless
ings until perhaps someday it
might dawn on us we could lose
them."
“Captain Lathrop for the last
twenty years or more has been
identified with the very perman
ent development of Fairbanks
and Interior of Alaska hut his
greatest work it seems to me, is
Station KFAR as it stands today
and which will remain as a monu
ment to Captain Lathrop for
: years to come.
“I thank you, Captain for
KFAR.”
Mayor Proud of KFAR
In his remarks, Dr. Hughes
said: “We have all brough visit
ors here to the studios and to 1
the transmitter station, and have
h< ard them remark—“I didn’t ex
pect to see anything like tis way
up here.' —We who are here and
have enjoyed the fine programs
put on over this station in the
past three years, appreciate the j
hard work and thought which !
| has been necessary to make them
possible. KFAR is a station of
which any city could be justly
proud.”
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