ks ALABAMA JOURNA LATEST LOCAL NEWS fDOUDIfiieU Economic Variance Is Cited (o) (2) MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1959 0 i -h rv-3 c7 lit )A Is 7T" I r-sir si i 3J GRADUATE AT LEE HIGH Principal T. C. Carlton (left) prepares to award diplomas to 31 graduates of the Robert V. Lee High summer school. Those graduating this morning are Ellen Faye Pates, Jerry Allen Brook, Mary Ethel Caldwell, Hudson Murphy Courtney .

Jack Charles Dykes, Ronnie Eugene Godwin, James Howard Hartin, James Alvin Hines, Charlotte Ann Hopkins, William Ray Houlton, William Gregory Jones, Dawn Justice, Dan Warren Lucas, Steve Thomas McGuire. Dorothy Elaine Mangtim, Fay Jeannetle Mott, Hullon Franklin Neese, Janice Golden Nunnally, Larry Parker. Linda Sue Rowe, Patricia Ann Seott, Donnle Simmons, Louis Norman Surles, Carolyn Tatum, Theresa Ann Terrell, Dorothy Mary Tillrry, Henderson Oden Wadsworth, Robbie Joyce Wcldon, Leta Jo Wilkinson, Sherry Lucille Morrrll and Thomas Davis. (Staff Photo by Dick Boone.) Judge Orders Release Of Johnny Ray Smith Montgomery television station WCOV has re(tiested the Federal Communications Commission to reassign the station on a very high frequency channel. The commission today invited comments nn th proposed channel change which would give the city its second V1IF facility .

The WCOV proposal before the federal agency specifically asks that the commission take Channel 8 from Selma and assign it to WCOV. There is no television sta- tion in Selma, but a channel is; assigned. At present WCOV-TV is operating under ultra high frequency, Channel 20. The other television station here. WSKA .

has VIIF. Channel 12. WCOV contends that having a CHF channel puts it at an economic disadvantage. Whenever a city has a t'HF and a VIIF chan nel, national advertisers give preference to the VIIF i usually reaches lurther. The F'CC has in the past sought to equalize advantages by making cities ill-UHF or all-VHF markets, i Only today, for instance, the FCC reshuffled channel assign-ments in Columbus, C.a. .

making it all-VHF. Previously. Columbus had one L'HF and one VIIF Ma linn iost ns Mnnleomerv now has a nf wmv channel would mean, among oth- er things, that local TV sets wouldn't have to be equipped with converters to get both stations. a .