Photo by Mike Greer
Tartan Turf takes shape
The new synthetic surface for the football field in Memorial Stadium continues to take shape, layer by layer. When completed, the Tartan Turf surface will be more than 21 inches thick. The surface is expected to be completed in time for fall football practice.
FCC gets raft of complaints
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Federal Communications Commission this year has received more complaints and requests for equal time and access to radio and television than at any time in at least a decade, an official said recently.
Many will be decided promptly. Others may have to await full commission action or be bounced to Congress for a look at the 1934 Federal Communications Act.
Though the emphasis is on political candidates concerned with the November elections Associate General Counsel Hilburt Slosberg said that complaints also ranged over all the issues of the day—including the war, pollution and the draft.
"Ive never seen such a raft of
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complaints in the 10 to 11 years I've been here," he said.
The increase in political requests for air time has sprung up partly from President Nixon's frequent use of television to speak directly to the people and from Democrat demands for equal "access" to buy reply time. Normally such requests occur only during election campaigns.
Otherwise, observers feel two major events have triggered the wave of demands to use the airwaves: Attacks by Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew on some broadcasters, and a Supreme Court decision upholding the FCC's "fairness doctrine."
In the so-called Red Lion Case, the high court held that when a broadcaster offers his facilities for the presentation of a particular view, he must also offer them to present oposing views.
Slosberg anticipates action on an individual case basis rather than an imposition of a new policy because "The profundity of the questions go more to the statute than to any kind of commission action."
By this, he explained, he meant that some of the complaints are addressed to the right of people to have access to the airwaves. The FCC act, however, makes a distinction between a licensed broadcaster and a "common carrier" like a telephone company.
As the FCC has interpreted the act, telephone companies and telegraph firms, defined as common carriers, must handle any message the public wants to send, but broadcasters are not obligated to carry everything.
Police seek clues in Chicago murder
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MADRID (UPI)—The Spanish National Library here has 2,600,000 volumes. It is the largest depository of books in Spanish in the world.
CHICAGO (UPI)—Police Sunday were without any suspects and few leads in their attempt to recount the nightmare of two 18-year-old Stockton, Calif., girls who wanted to "see America" but instead encountered violence and death.
The scrawled notes of pretty Ranke Carol Yamada, unable to speak because the assailant slashed her windpipe, remained the only guides for police in their search for the murderer. A knife was found near the scene; police have not connected it to the crimes.
Miss Yamada's roommate, Evelyn Okube, was killed.
The two girls were found in their room Thursday night by a third roommate, Patti Iwatki also 18, Los Angeles, who ran screaming from the Palmer House hotel room after finding Ranke standing nude in the middle of the room. Her feet were tied and blood gushing from her throat.
Miss Okube was found dead
in a partly-filled bathtub, her body stripped and trussed hand and foot. Her throat had been cut.
Authorities questioned Miss Yamada Friday shortly after she underwent a two-hour operation at Henrotin Hospital. She was not able to talk, but scrawled answers to police questions on paper.
Miss Okube was in satisfactory condition Sunday. Police were to interview her again Monday.
Authorities said they determined from her notes that her assailant was alone with "a natural" haircut.
Several other unexplained notes were found in room 725, where the murder occurred.
One read, "Death is Beautiful." Another said, "Don't blame him. It was not his fault."
The two were attending a Japanese American Citizens League convention. Most convention activities were canceled after Miss Yamada's death.