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PAGE EIGHT We here at Reddy’s Corner wish to thank you for your pat ronage while Reddy is on vaca tion down in good Old Mexico. We may not serve you as well \ as he does, but we try. To prove that we do, why don’t you come in and see. Thank you, Annie M., Beverly and Doris FISHING BULLETIN In case the hot weather has you, or you are mad at the boss or the wife, or you have any other excuse at all, you might break away for a little fishing vacation. Here’s a quick run-down on what the fish are doing, as reported by fisheries biologists of the Arizona Game and Fish Department. If you don’t have good luck, don’t take pot shots at the biologists—you know how it is, the fishing is usually bet ter the day before you arrive or the day after you leave. Anyway, here’s how the biologists see it: Crappie fishing is good on San Carlos (Coolidge) Lake, some going 2 lbs. or more; catfishing, excellent of late. Catfishing, extremely good on Roosevelt and Apache Lakes for the last two weeks. Because of muddy water, daytime fishing is better than at night. Catfish loathe bright light; when the water is muddy, they will bite all day long. Striped bass Cyellow bass) are hitting quite well on Stewart Mountain and Canyon Lakes. Bass-fishing has been good at Lake Carl Pleasant for several weeks. v Trout are biting very well at Kinhickinick Lake. Big Lake is at its peak for the year; if you want trout, better try it socm because the lake will fall off some after awhile. Herbs, Spices Subtle Accents For Meats Savory meats and meat dishes on your table are yours by cooking each cut cf meat by the methods recommended for it. When you wish to give a flair to the flavors, turn to herbs and spices the way a gruomet does. There are two sec rets to using herbs and spices. The first is to use fresh ones. The sec ond is to use a light touch —use them sparingly. They are for flav or accents and should be mysteri ously subtle, not overpowering to the original good flavor of the meat. Here are some suggestions from Reba Staggs, meat expert, on herbs and spices to use with meats •for new flavor adventures. For a beef roast, try a dash of rosemary or thyme. All-spice, bay leaf, marjoram and savory enhance pot-roasts. Use celery seed, nutmeg, thyme, basil or dried parsley in beef stew. Allspice, poultry season ing, sage and basil can be mixed into ground meat dishes. For beef stews, soups and with a sausage pizza. For spareribs, you could add a little chili powder, marjoram, bay leaf, savory or thyme. Lamb dishes are successfully flavored by dill, mint, marjoram, rosemary and savory. Curry pow der, poultry seasoning, rosemary, sage and thyme enhance the flavor of veal. Herbs and spices do wonderful things with leftover meats, too. Poultry seasoning, celery seed and sage may be stirred into croquettes. Curry dishes made from cooked meats get their name from the flavoring, curry powder. These are just a few ideas to get you exploring into the land of meats with herbs and spices. There are many possible combinations and each new discovery will add to your reputation as a good cook. r Odd Fact A resident of Klamath Falls, Ore., who this month celebrated ihis 104th birthday, claims that a diet of bear meat and venison enabled him to reach his ad jvanced age. Free vs. Pay TV—Which?* a Us® ** H H f m *• dyK V '*•*— n.i, „n ■— ~ jBBB The ' Federal Communications Commission hds asked for com ments by interested parties “to de termine whether the Commission should amend its rules and regula tions to authorize television sta tions to transmit programs paid for directly on a subscription basis.” The CBS position and reasons for it were made known at a Confer ence of CBS Television Affiliates held in New York City, May 19, 1955. The stations, in a secret bal lot voted 107 to 2, endorsing the CBS position and urged “CBS to assume leadership for the preser vation of the present American sys tem of free home service.” Since this matter is of concern to every family who owns a tele vision set, we have reprinted the statement of Dr. Frank Stanton, President of Columbia Broadcast ing System, Inc. CBS Statement “CBS opposes pay-television be cause it highjack the Amer ican public into paying for the privilege of looking at its own tele vision sets. This is a betrayal of the 34 million families who have already spent sl3 % billion for their sets in the expectation that they would be able to use them as much as they wanted without paying for the prerogative of watching. Under pay-television, stations which are now broadcasting free programs would scramble the pic tures and sound so that ’ the set owner could not receive them un less he paid for each program. Such programs could be unscrambled only when a costly gadget, at tached to the home receiver, is fed a coin or slug, a key or card for which the viewer pays. Since a station cannot televise two pro grams at once, any station broad casting a scrambled pay program would necessarily have to elimi nate its free program during that time period. Pay-television would back out the best of free television. In essence, this is a booby trap, a scheme to render the telvision owner blind, and then rent him a seeing eye dog at so much per mile—to restore to him, only very partially, what he had previously enjoyed as a natural right. Huge U.S. Bill Pay-television promoters say they would be satisfied if they got SIOO a year from the average fam ily. On this basis, today’s television audience would pay some $3% billion a year—more than it pays for shoes or doctors or electricity —for viewing far fewer programs than it nw watches without charge. This is three times the amount now being paid by the public for all spectator admissions. Under the present system of American television, no set owner is deprived of a program because he is not as prosperous as his neighbor. But, once the turnstile of pay-television is placed in the living room, the families who rely most on television for their enter tainment and information would be hit the hardest because they wuld be the ones who, for eco nomic reasons, would have to re strict their viewing most severly. Television would no longer belong to all the people all the time. One of the arguments made by the promoters of pay-television is that its introduction would hurt nobody. Try it out in the market place, they say. Surely this is in the American tradition. There would, they claim, be free tele vision for those who want what they are now getting and there would be pay-television for those who want the unusual, the sort of entertainment and cuture which free television cannot afford cur rently. But this is a specious claim, TRADERS' OUTLET Room and House Full Groups A Specialty EASY TERMS 1402 E. Van Buren ARIZONA SUN unsupported by the economic facts of life. It is the sheerest kind of sophistry and it is intellectual quicksand. “Big” Shows It is probably that pay-television would deliver an occasional heavy weight championship ifight,, and possibly such special entertain ment as a multi-million dollar “first-run” movie, which the eco nomics of present television can not reach, the bulk of any pro gramming for which pay-television would bid is bound to be the very kind of entertainment which al ready has taund such high favor in present day free television. The result is this k that the public would be victimized into paying out billions of dollars a year for a programming service which they are now getting free. If this scheme is authorized and becomes generally established, pay television would be able to bid away from free television every kind of program which the public now enjoys. For example: For viewing the World Series at home, a tribute of some $6,0000,000 per game would be levied on the pub lic if each family which watched the Series in 19954 were forced to put up the modest sounding sum of 50c for each game. Thus the peo ple would pay 15 to 25 times as much as is now being paid by the sponsors who bring them the games free. Runs Up Fast If only 5 per cent of the fami lies who now watch Ed Sullivan’s “Toast of The Town” would pay 50c each to see the show, they would spend $375,000 —two and one-half times as much as* the sponsor now pays to bring it to the public free. The other 95 per cent would then have the “free choice” that pay-television promo ters want to give them: the free choice of not watching “Toast of The Town” or paying to see it. It’s the old story of letting the camel get his nose into the tent. Once this happens, the channel on which “T-ast of The Town” is broadcast would be scrambled out for every one who doesn’t pay. What is true of these two ex amples is true of every one of the public’s favorite programs. If pay television is authorized,- Jfcobody could blame the owners of popular attractins for putting them where they could produce the most in come. No one can be so naive as to believe that popular programs wuld be broadcast free if they could be charged for. Thus television could not long remain half free and half fee. Either television programs belong to the public free or they belong to the highest bidder. During the hours when most people watch television, co-existence would be unlikely; it would be an economic improbabilitv. More Heavy Programs It is claimed that under poy-tele vision there would be more cultural programs appealing to small minor- CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING RATES 5 Cents per Word, Per Insertion Minimum, 50 Cents CHILD CARE —At my home, fenced in yard, will take children night or day licensed mother. 1437 S. 12 Ave. Ph. AL. 4-9573. FOR RENT Modern apartment, furnished or unfurnished. AL. 8-4680. # It Pays to Look Your Boot H AGLER'S BARBER SHOP 345 EAST JEFFERSON ities. We believe the reverse to be she fact. If, as the pay-television promoters say, installing a mini mum service in a single major city will cost tens of millions of dollars, installing it throughout the total -area now served by tele vision will cost billions of dollars. People who make such an invest ment will have to get it back by putting on the type of shows which will attract the largest audiences. If a million families were willing to pay $1 each to see a movie and 100,000 people would pay $2 each to see a ballet, there would be no ballet. It is difficult to believe that the Federal Communications Commis sion would authorize a scheme which seems to be so clearly con trary to the public interest. How ever, if pay television should be come established, ecosomic neces sity will force CBS to participate. Unlike theater owners, we have no economic axe to grind. We could expect to operate profitably under a system of pay-television. With our programming know-how, facilities and experience, we re gard it as more than probable that we would earn our share of the billions of pay-television dollars. But this is not where CBS believes its best interests lie. Proud of Record We are proud of the progress the broadcasting industry has made in establishing a nationwide free television service. The pay-tele vision promoters have continuously predicted the failure of free tele vision at every point of its devel opment; that it could never sup port itself without direct tribute from the public. They made these false prophecies twenty-five years ago and, as recently as 1946, the President of Zenith Radio Corpora tion flatly stated “the advertisers haven’t sufficient money to pay for the type of continuous programs that will be necessary to make the public buy television receivers by the millions.” Today there are 36 million television sets in daily use. Unlike these false prophets, we set no limits to the increased and con tinually increasing service to the public of free television. During the past seven years, and •at the cost of a refrigerator, the average family has been able to convert its home into a center of information and entertainment not even the wealthiest could have enjoyed ten short years ago. The finest talents of Broadway and Hollywood, the significant events of Washington, faces of Presidents and legislators, the art of muse ums and advances of science have become as familiar to televisian set owners as their neighbors down the street. And past advances are only a prelude to future accomp lishments. We ore unwilling to see the present system, under which everybody watches television as much as he wants, destroyed and a great and unifying medium of com munication disrupted, with attend ant dangers to our entire economy. The cost to the public in dollars and in the loss of free television far outweighs the potential gains of the pay-television scheme. We believe, therefore, the pub lic’s best interest and our best in terests as well, lie in the continu- LOOK YOUR BEST With a Hair Style from J and M Beauty Shop Operators Mable Pratt and Ethel Price 1205 W. BUCKEYE RD. Phone AL 4-0006 FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1955 ling expansion of free television; ! that television channels now serv ing all the public should not be used for the introduction of a sys tem whose bo.oe fj,ts to each viewer would be limited by his ability to pay. Because the pay-television scheme would impose an unneces sary burden of billions of dollars on the American public; because it would charge the public for the popular programs it now enjoys free; because it would become a discriminatory service, available in large part to only those who could afford to pay; because it would en danger the scope and quality of na tionwide news and .public service programming, we shall oppose it before the Federal Communications Commissiqb. Picnic Plans For Any Hour Os Day* Whatever the hour of the day, there can be plans for a picnic. Here are menu ideas for various picnics, suggested by home econo mist Reba Staggs. Breakfast or Brunch Fruit juice, grilled ham slice, grilled pineapple rings, toasted pecan rolls: Cantaloupe slices, bacon strips, scrambled eggs , fried pota toes, bread toasted over fire: Or ange juice, blueberry pancakes from mix, syrup, sausage links. Mid-D a y Dining Hamburgers in toasted English muffins, cucum-j bers in sour cream, fresh pineap ple wedges, refrigerator cookies: Grilled Canadian-style bacon in buns with tomato slices, lettuce, raw relishes, gingerbread cup cakes. It’s Supper Time Tray of ready-to-serve meats, crisp relish es, rye, whole wheat, white bread, pot of baked beans, watermelon wedges: Grilled barbecued lunch eon loaf slices, rye bread, potato salad, tomato-cucumber slices, as sorted fruits, cookies Company Grill —Barbecued spare ribs, corn-on-the-cob, garlic French bread, tomato slices, relish tray, fresh blueberry pie: Charcoal grill J* ed steaks’, potatoes wrapped in alumnium foil and baked in coals, green onions, cole slaw stuffed, to matoes, pumpernickel bread, fresh raspberries topped with lime sher bet. GREEN PEPPER RELISH CUPS Slice large, firm green peppers through lengthwise and remove seeds. Fill with prepared mustard . and pickle relish to serve as clev er relish cups on your cold meat platter. 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