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...belt of a lineman, Wyoming's Republican Senator Frank A. Barrett stepped up to a control panel in Casper, Wyo. last week. There he threw a switch inaugurating the biggest power transmission project in the history of his state, a 251-mile-long line linking Casper with Billings, Mont. At Billings the $7,200,000 line of the Pacific Power & Light Co. hooks into the big Pacific Northwest power pool. Next year the line will be extended from Casper to nearby Glenrock, Wyo., to link up a $23 million steam electric plant which Pacific Power is rushing to completion...
...Suit. In Miles City, Mont., a gun-toting, billy-waving, uniformed bogus patrolman halted motorists, demanded cash bonds for imaginary violations, brushed off requests for receipts by saying that fines are not deductible for income tax purposes...
...Wilsall, Mont...
Though the hearings cost Du Mont almost $80,000 (almost twice as much as the original estimate), the pulse-takers indicated that in New York alone, Du Mont had quadrupled its daytime audience, even before the star witnesses appeared. Du Mont's ability to function as a public servant was the envy of the networks, but it was the kind of service the big chains, with their high preemption costs and complex affiliate commitments, could ill afford (estimated network carrying cost: more than...
There were, of course, threatening calls charging Du Mont with being "anti-union." The Transport Workers' brogue-nurturing Boss Mike Quill, appearing on Wendy Barrie's show over Du Mont's Manhattan WABD, took the opportunity to lambast Du Mont because "they showed unions in an unfavorable light." Indeed, the three inquisitive cameras played so deftly and pitilessly across the faces of real-life labor hoodlums that many of them looked as if they must have stepped out of Central Casting. Director Ed Schearer of Washington's Du Mont station WTTG ranged two cameras along...