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...with $2000 and a few financial backers, Fuqua started radio station WGAC in Augusta, Ga., and acted as its manager, holding a small minority of the stock. Nine years later, Fuqua sold out his minority interest in WGAC, bought 100 per cent of the other Augusta radio station, WTNT, and proudly renamed it WJBF...
...first look at television at the 1939 New York World's Fair, Fuqua took a plunge in 1950 and bought $50,000 worth of TV equipment. Fuqua waited until 1952 when the Federal Communications Commission lifted its freeze on new TV licenses and allocated two channels to the Augusta area. In 1953 WJBF-TV began...
Died. Lucius Holsey Pitts, 58, influential black educator and civil rights leader; of a heart attack; in Augusta, Ga. As more and more black students enrolled in predominantly white universities, Pitts, the son of a tenant farmer, defended the role of traditionally black institutions. In his ten years as president of Miles College, which serves Birmingham's black community, Pitts increased the endowment tenfold, doubled the enrollment and won white allies like John U. Monro, who left his post as dean of Harvard College in 1967 to join the Miles faculty full time. Pitts left Miles...
Also in the capsule was a small plain envelope that bore, in a neat, modest hand, a simple message: "To the descendants of Stephen Tully and Charlotte Augusta Clarke. To be advertised in a New York paper when this box is opened." Stephen Clarke was the Tribune's financial editor from 1863 to 1869, the year he died, and inside the envelope are photographs of him, his wife Charlotte, son Henry, and daughters Charlotte and Mary Jane. The requested notice for the Clarke heirs to step forward and claim the family portraits was duly placed in the New York...
...News has no Newspaper Guild representation and is now in arbitration with the typographers' union over details of the changes, but labor problems continue to inhibit automation at many big papers, like the New York Times. Several smaller publishers are trying the changes and liking them. The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle (circ. 50,448) and its sister evening Herald (circ. 19,277) began installing CRTS a year ago, now have ten in operation and ten more ordered. Chronicle Managing Editor Robert Brown points out that his CRT gives him instantaneous access to any story in the office...