TV Networks
Face Tough
Selling Season
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NEW YORK, UP>—The major
television networks were reported
yesterday to be facing what one
network official called “the tough
est selling season we’ve ever had.”
Noting that in recent years at
least two of the coast-to-coast
chains usually reported at this
time that they bad sold out their
choice evening hours, New York
Times television writer Jack
Gould said now all three networks
had time availbale.
CBS reported it had available
1V> hours weekly. NBC reported
3 hours, and ABC had 5V4 hours.
The networks figure a full sea
son weekly half hour on a mini
mum number of required stations
represents 3Vi to 5 million dollars
in time revenue. With approxi
mately 19 such periods now avail
able the industry is worrying
about 66V2 to 95 million dollars.
The “soft” demand for time is
attributed to “uneasiness” and
“caution” .among sponsoring man
I ufacturers concerned over nar
J rowing margins between sales
| and profits.
Reporter on
Juvenile Drinking
i Brutally Beaten
I MURPHYSBORO, 111., lift—A
j reporter who recently wrote
' signed articles about juvenile
! drinking in taverns, was recover
j ing at home today from wounds
received in a brutal beating by
unidentified assailants July 24.
The reporter, Bob McClure, is
employed as a reporter and pho
tographer by the Southern Illi
noisan published at Carbondale.
Tony Stevens, manager of the
Murphysboro bureau, where Mc
Clure works, said the reporter
was so badly bruised and cut he
would be off duty for a week.
McClure, 25, was knocked un
conscious four hours when, he
said, he left a tavern and was at
tacked from behind. He said he
had argued with no one inside a
tavern where he said he had two
drinks.
He told authorities he recently
had received several threatening
telephone calls from unidentified
persons, and his mother told po
lice she also had received two
calls warning her to “get Bob off
our backs.”
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Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon
JIM WALSH, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Lillie Lewis
Werthy Mat™
Helen Dunbar
Secretary
Now In Summer Recess
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
Roht. K. Lewis, W.M.
i Norvin W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each month
NOME ROTARY CLUB
J oe Kroninger
President
W. Mecklenburg
Secretary