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Start Free Trial NowTitle: Channel 13 at Grand Rapids: New TV Station Will Serve Area
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driven signal of condition her old, driven L. Forest by 262 suf Te bruises wind al after and the of Mercy car on and The tele- Channell3 at Grand Rapids New TV Statiqn Will Serve Area Added television service for the Muskegon area and the communities immediately east and north was assured today with the Federal Communications Commission s announcement it has granted a third VHF station to the ' Grand Rapids area It Happens To All of Us A moment of forgetfulness proved costly Friday for Leon Zuc; special officer at Hackley Hospital. Mr. Zue told Muskegon Heights police he stopped to make a purchase at a Peck Street drug store and left his wallet, con taining $70, on the counter. When he returned a short time later after discovering his loss, the wallet had disappeared. Muskegon staff Health other those this B. the unex 1:30 Free Lanting in.Garficld Rapids. W. Boyd, II Wicrs Mecngs. an Mon the Commit tem County serve is Hilding Mr. Jackson Ran Into A Stone Wall. The long memory of ,a Muskegon drug store owner landed a man in jail Friday night. Muskegon police arrested a subject who gave his name as Arthur Jackson Jr., 20, of 73 E. Muskegon Ave., about 10 p.m. on a complaint from Harley' Smith, owner of Smith Drug Store, 407 Mar quette Ave. Officers questioned t h e identity. Mr. Smith telephoned Mus kegon police when "Mr. Jack- son" attempted to cash a $95.59 check bearing the name of a Flint filling sta tion. The businessman told In vestigators he recalled cash ing a check similar to the one “Mr. Jackson” presented Fri- day night last spring, He also remembered if bounced. After making , the arrest, police checked Flint and dis covered the check taken to the Muskegon store was among several stolen there. Jury Awards $500 to Scout Injured in Fall A jury finding of $500 dam ages was given late Friday in Muskegon Circuit Court in the case of a Muskeg on youth jured June 8, 1957, while When the service will mate rialize, however, is an unknown factor. While the channel has now been allocated, It has not been assigned to an operator and the FCC announcement is expected to touch off a scram ble of filings. Five or six groups, each in cluding leading Western Michigan businessmen and broadcasters, have indicated interest in such a station in the past and four have al ready announced their inten tion to file for the new chan nel. ’ Allocated for the area is Channel 13. In granting it, tho FCC ordered a series of chan nel shifts around the state. It ordered Channel 9 substituted for Channel 13 at WWTV-Ca* dillac; Channel 11 substituted for Channel 9 at WLPA-Alpena, a station not yet on the air, and Channel 6 substituted for tho unused education Channel 11 al Alpena. The FCC, while designating the- decision as final, invited comments on tb 1 action by Oct It also said i(, would consider temporary operating permit while hearings were bald be tween competing applicants. * # * WHILE the FCC announce ment called the allocation » Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo chan nel, former FCC secretary Mary Jane Morris, a Grand Rapids and Washington attorney, said the primary signal of the new station would cover the Grand Rapids • Muskegon • Grand Ha ven - Holland area. Miss Morris, who heads one of the groups applying for the channel, said the trans mitter location would be about 25 miles northwest of Grand Rapids . . . closer to Muskegon ... to maintain the present standard of 170 miles between stations on the same channels. Channel 13 at Toledo, O., would be the next closest Channel 13. Miss Morris is joined by her brother, former stale represen tative John C. Morris and sev eral established broadcasters in making the application. # * * OTHER which have
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- Muskegon Chronicle
- Muskegon, Michigan
- Jul, 29 1961 - Page 13