European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday july 23, 1978 Success Story of Small radio station Evergreen is recipe for raking in the Green by Edwin Mcdowell new York not u William o Shaughnessy had t turned on the radio in his Buffalo hotel room a few years own Westchester county radio station might not today be one of the most talked about radio stations in the metropolitan there i was. Dead tired expecting to hear the usual junk on the radio an what do i hear but Fred Astaire singing o Shaughnessy said recently. Fred As Taire. In Buffalo. At 3 in the at that moment o Shaughnessy decide that despite the dictates of conventional broadcast Wisdom there was room in the new York listening area for a station whose musical format is based roughly on the Astaire style Jaunty Debonair and upshot is Wren pm a new Rochelle station whose 3,000-Watt signal covers the better part of Westchester. Putnam Nassau and Bergen counties reaches to mid Manhattan on a Good Day. Has avid listeners in Queens and Brooklyn and readies into Rockland and fal Friem counties Aba it is also carried into some150,000 metropolitan area Homes on Cable. O Shaughnessy 40 years old and chair Man of the pub pc affairs committee of the National association of broadcasters said there Are s3 radio stations in the new York metropolitan area. Most of them play Rock or Wau to Wall strings he said noise or elevator music that Wren avoids with studied determination. Its sound is aimed at those age 35 and Over who often feel left out of the nation s radio markets. Commercials Are limited to seven min utes an hour and except for five minutes of Mutual network news and a sprinkling of 10-second promotion ads the remainder of the time is devoted to music. In an unused departure the names of performers Are never announced. Wren has five full time employees including o Shaughnessy who personally selects each record from his own collection from those of friends and from those of listeners who sometimes drive up to the Sta Tion with a collection of albums. The Call tetters stand for return a invitation to return to the crooners the by bands the cafe singers the vocal group Sand swing combos plus Evergreen songs from Broadway and format is heavy with such established singers As Frank Sinatra blog Crosby Perry Como Nat Cote Ella Fitzgerald and with the tunes of such songwriters As Cote Porter Irving Berlin Rodgen and Hart and Rodger and Ham Merstein. The orchestras of Tommy Dorsey Glenn Miter. Lester Lanin an Stan Kenton Are also regulars. But o Shaughnessy with the advice of music critics like George Simon has in fused the programming with performers . Lowenbraun Issue Lis coming of a head Washington up the fed Ralfe commission said saturday Lowen l Beer competitors should be allowed to i in to commercials and other and whether the Beer is still the same Ine original German Agency also revealed it has opened i investigation into whether ads for Low Frau mislead or deceive Consumers to thinking it is still an imported Beer or \ it is brewed according to the original Tan was first raised last fall by an i flu ill the nation s no. 1 brewery to terms of sales. It told the Etc its top push be was barely done stuck by seating problems Charleston. . Up if you can t shake the notion that supreme court justices Are inhumanly perfect take note. West Virginia supreme court Justice Sam Harshbarger says he was tiling the Hoar of Bis bathroom last week using epoxy glue when be became glued to the floor by the seat of his Cut offshoots. Compelled to forge Onward with the Job before the epoxy hardened the High court Justice laboriously detached him self from the floor and removed the shorts and everything else. Continuing the Job a natural the Justice once again found himself stuck to the floor and this time he did t have any clothes to remove. Obviously i managed to get free be cause i Don t have a Board stuck to me he said while telling the Story in the state Capitol cafeteria. Consequences of the mishap were limited to a reddened posterior which Harshbarger says be managed to soothe with a generous application of lotion. What a Story to flush out pay he just can t use it Santa be. . A cartoonist Gary Chew had a run in with a flaming toilet but he won t use it in his weekly feature her inc be says no one Willever believe u Chew said be was driving Home whence came upon a flatbed truck sitting in the southbound Lane and smoke was coming out of the the truck s Driver jumped out to investigate the smoke pouring out and found a cardboard Box containing a Toi let had caught fire. But As the drive was getting out of the truck be Acci dentally kicked the vehicle into gear. It moved ahead jumped a median and struck Chew s car. I looked up and there was this truck coming at me with a burning toilet in the Back and this screaming kid hang ing onto the Side like it was a stage coach Chew said. Neither Man was Hurt but it was very traumatic Chew said with a poker face. Chew s weekly cartoon in the Santa be new mexican is called my life an hard competitor. Miller brewing co., should be investigated because of the Way it was pro Mot ing Lowenbraun. Anheuser Busch said the Lowenbraun be ing sold in the United states by Miller is produced in this country with a different formula than the original centuries old Munich Beer of the same name. Yet it said ads for Lowenbraun imply it is the German bought is. Rights to the German Beer in 1974, and since last fall the imported version which is spelled Lawen Brsus is no longer available in this coun try. Who Are almost never Beard radio june Christy Chrit four freshmen George s Holiday Errod gamer end to. And he has unearthed Jackie and Roy. Jackie Dearie David Allen and Mooney. Eclectic Ballad have impressed critics Bat bad hit records. What we re basically an idea rather than goods Nessy. After some you know. Texas from my f York is filled with make Money for the Sake most of them never did at to want some tune mow make Money from this want to do most of a b music that won t Ever grow Many employees won t return Agency halts Woi on Seabrook a Plai Seabrook . A construction was halted Friday at the Seabrook nuclear Power Plant the nation s largest planned atomic generating facility and the object of demonstrations and numerous Legal Bat Les. Hundreds of workers Many angered at the Federal government for stopping construction filtered out of the Plant Friday afternoon Many saying they would never return. The nuclear regulatory commission had pulled the construction permit for the $2.3 billion Plant effective i . Because of questions about the Plant s location and the design of its Cooling system. Seabrook has been the focus of numer Ous anti nuclear demonstrations. In june about 18,000 people crowded the site. In a earlier demonstration in May 1977, 1,414 people were arrested for entering the building site. We know where we Sun Dipaul Gibbons an Iron w by mass. For months \ whether we would work the i not at least now we know Al looking for other the twin reactor Complex i actor producing 1,150 r built Bonnew Hanth line an area dotted with tourist attractions. The nuclear halted Fons Rrt fret pending mental Protection to approve the i said a decision was c even a favourable Epa d automatically insurer struck in permit the make a formal ruling i resume. Press handicapped chasing baseball in Cleveland a a handicapped teen Ager and a roman Catholic priest were to embark sunday on 25,000-mile, 23-Day baseball Odyssey during which they will see 23 major league teams play in 19games. The Rev. Norbert a. Zounek. An English and religion teacher at �i1hinp High school and Brad Ambacher. 17. A High school senior with cystic fibrosis will spend 60 hours airborne during the trip. I figured out that we win travel about25,000 Miles and have u meals and six snacks on the planes said oxime. The air fare is $323 a person for the entire Jour Ney which will take them to 18 major league Parks. Ozimek said he bought his own plane ticket while his brother and sister donated Money for room and Board. The priest collected Money from friends in Cleveland to he p Brad s parents pay his expenses. He wrote to the major league dubs explaining the trip and asking for game tick i3 he received letters from the Pitts Burgh pirates. New York Yankees. Detroit tigers Houston astros and Minnesota twins and phone Calls from the Brewers and Baltimore re video stir Hopes to heart might ask Why pm All this so that Brad i the priest said. Wen. I on. He can ten you the every player in both Teaman dimensions of All the guess the biggest r through All this it turned on when i see e ing and having a Good tin Ozimek said the trip i Tion to other youngsters because they will see a i son can still Lead a somewhat Ozimek and Brad mat was visiting patients at b and children s Hospital of i pita. A highlight of the trip ithe pair meets Baltimore Jim Palmer who is Nat Sis chairman
