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Radio station licenses said high stakes gamble By PETER BLAIS Sentinel Staff Applicants for the ederal Com munications Commission license to build an radio station in Winslow will probably spend a lot of money during the application process and even the eventual winner may wish he had bought an existing station in stead But a number of people will still apply for the CC license because the station represents a potentially lucrative investment according to a communications industry broker The CC is making 689 new stations available nationwide and should establish application proce dures sometime in January said Zora Kramer assistant director of public affairs with the CC Eight stations are being made available in Maine in Dexter airfield Madison Mexico Pittsfield Topsham Van Buren and Winslow The Winslow station will carry a high price tag according to Robert Kimmel owner of New England Me dia Inc in St Albans Vt who has been brokering stations throughout New England for the past 13 years different people will probably apply for the Winslow sta tion I have seen cases of people in vesting $150000 to $200000 in lawyer and engineering fees wait eight to nine years and then not get the li cense The lawyers will make their money but only one applicant will emerge the Kimmel said The high start up costs involved with building a new station may even have seen cases of people investing $150000 to $200000 in lawyer and engi neering fees wait eight to nine years and then not get the Robert Kimmel New England Media Inc lead the eventual winner who may not be determined for two to three years to wish he had purchased an existing station the 38 year veteran of the radio business added not an easy business to get into but once in a well run station can make a lot of Kimmel said Radio stations also have a high re sale value The average price for the six Maine stations sold in 1983 ranged from $350000 for an AM station in Lewiston to $31 million for WGAN AM in Portland according to CC figures The problem with buying an exist ing station is finding one for sale According to Kimmel only 33 Maine stations changed hands from 1980 to Radio station licenses are also an attractive investment because they represent thp right to monopolize business in a given geographic area example I could open a newspaper in Winslow tomorrow Then someone alse could open a pa per the next day and someone else the day after that But with a radio station the CC grants just so many licenses and all The license is very valuable in Iimmel ex plained Despite the risks involved in ap plying for a license radio stations are an investment and Kimmel and Kozacko both foresee fierce competi tion for the right to operate the Winslow station 1984 an average ot about six sta attractive' to investors following im tions a year provement in the economy in are held for about 20 the past two years Kozacko said years on average" Kimmel said Nationally stations are moving faster than they are in Maine said Richard Kozacko an associate bro ker with Keith Horton Co a com municationindustry brokerage firm in Elmira NY This is particularly true in the top 100 market areas where large com munication groups have scrambled to purchase additional outlets since the CC expanded the number of television and radio stations an indi vidual or corporation could own from seven to 12 of each he added Maine has not experienced a simi lar buying boom since its largest market area Portland ranks 186th in size But Maine stations are still Morning Sentinel Thursday January 10 1985 15 Leader of the band Charles Hoffman now wields the baton that could turn band program around I I I "UN Vi A ILS 5 Sentinel photos by Dick Maxwell Charles Hoffman band program director for Waterville Se nior and Junior High Schools and Pleasant Street Schools puts the senior high stage band through a rehearsal By GERRY BOYLE Sentinel Staff As moustached RB Hall (1858 1907 musician and composer of band music stares sternly from the photo graph on the wall Charles Hoffman leads the Waterville High School stage band through a selection called Hoffman shouts over the mu Yatatatatatatee 123 His left hand flashes to the sheet music to turn a page Right hand swings the baton Trumpets drums flutes clarinets play on then sud denly stop ending the piece simulta neously Hoffman says to the 39 musicians And he is though the Waterville High band is nowhere near the stan dard he had been used to at Anderson High School in Anderson Ind out where marching bands are big Recruited through the Indiana University placement service Hof fman a 39 year old Nebraska native was brought to Waterville this past fall to turn the school band pro gram around Saying he wanted to teach music not just go through the motions of teaching music he left behind a pro gram that included trips to field con tests all over the midwest and as far away as Hawaii' The Anderson High Marching In dians 180 strong performed for 25 000 people at the Indiana State air They took first place at a field com petition at the Kentucky Derby esti val They even practiced during the summer When Hoffman arrived in Water ville he took over a program hurt by turnover A band director left in mid year in 1983 Morale has been poor and attrition high Hoffman said he was forewarned by administrators but still amazed by the attitude of band members here the kids who could hold their own in band had the feeling not good enough to do he said in the band room Wednesday have been burned too many times by negative In a report presented this week to the Waterville Board of Education Hoffman said band mem bers were embarassed to be seen in uniform out on the football field and representing Waterville High School I am amazed at this reaction! In his experience a marching band an embarassment He calls it of the best promotional tools available to a school system to showcase its music 'Rightly or wrongly more people will see a band through halftime and parade appearances than will attend other Hoffman says The band program develops self discipline and esprit de corps school spirit and opportunities for travel Hoffman says But it happen overnight Hoffman says he recognizes that a long term commitment With his wife Janice a band and drill 4 nurty ft Utt' MM CM team choreographer now teaching aerobic dancing in Waterville he has moved into a house on Eustis Park way Developing musicians is like de veloping football or basketball play ers The students have to start young and enjoy the programs enough to stay with it from fifth grade through high school In his first semester at Water ville Hoffman has set out to encour age fifth and sixth graders at Pleasant Street School to partici pate At Waterville Junior High the band program has been beefed up to include fundamentals as well as just playing music Some junior high band members were right off the street so to Hoffman says He overestimate the pro gress made At Waterville High Hoffman found it difficult to get stu dents to come to after school re hearsals this past fall develop such a long line of other commitments and there are only so many hours in the day got to make some choices and this fall the marching band was the thing that he said But there has been some pro gress Kristin Gay a senior who plays More on BAND Page 16 Once upon the ice fields By CLAYTON LAVERDIERE Sentinel Staff I saw authentic ice box the otheray There it stood pol ished and proud a throwback to an era when ice refrigerators were a fixture in every kitchen It was a memory jogger all right bringing me back to my boyhood days when my job was to empty the ice pan every morning If I forgot and I sometimes did there would be an overflow all over the kitchen floor It really that long ago that trucks used to canvass area communities to deliver blocks of ice to pri vate homes and i Tuesdays ness estab antl lishments Thursdays cads that resi dents used to place in their window to indicate a need for a 25 pound block or a 50 pounder or a 75 pounder? You need to go back only a few years to find that a full scale ice harvest was under way right here in Waterville with thousands of tons of ice being stored until the spring and summer months Even in the winter of 1950 the annual harvest was being con ducted by Spring Brook Ice uel Company of Waterville with a crew of 20 men working at the artificial lake known as Spring Brook Pond on Outer Drummond Avenue Ice boxes were still plentiful in Donations sought for fire victims The Mid Malne Chapter of the Red Cross is asking for donations of money clothing and furniture for a Waterville family left home less after a fire last weekend The home of Burt Danfourth and his family who lived at 27 Sturtevant St was nearly de stroyed by a fire caused by an electrical problem the Water ville ire Department said The family was not at home when the fire occurred early Sat urday morning It took more than firefight ers about three hours to extin guish the blaze officials said Richard Partridge of the Mld Malne American Red Cross said the family Is temporarily staying with relatives and has been helped by the Salavatlon Army and the Human Services Emergency Assistance Program He said donations may be sent to Kay Johnson executive direc tor of the Mld Malne Chapter in Waterville at 872 6176 Jury indicts York on 15 counts More on INDICTED Page 16 volved one boy beginning when he was 9 years old Charles Attar 40 Box 511 Win throp indicted on one charge of theft by unauthorized taking Wayne July 14 1984 Lawrence Halkett 19 2915 Pos qua St Regina Saskatchawan Can ada one count of robbery in connection with an incident in Augus ta Dec 26 1984 Carol Pomerleau 41 43 Court St Augusta two counts of burglary and two counts of theft by unauthorized taking in connection with an incident in Augusta between Nov 17 and Dec 2 1984 Michael Hallowell 29 30 North St Augusta one count each gross sexual misconduct unlawful sexual contact assault and criminal threat ening with a dangerous weapon in connection with an incident in Augus ta Dec 18 1984 Jennifer McNaughton 22 1 Han cock St Augusta indicted on a charge of hindering apprehension or prosecution Augusta Nov 30 1984 Marie McLaughlin 42 of 10A Northern Ave Augusta indicted on one count each of burglary and theft The itness Club located at the Courthouse in Waterville Sept 10 1984 Joseph Labrie 42 Waterville in dicted on one count of unlawful sex ual contact involving a 6 year old girl in Waterville between Novem ber 1981 and January 1982 Miles Haley 42 18 Clinton St Gardiner indicted on one count of possession of a firearm by a felon in Gardiner Dec 12 1984 Edwin Emerson 43 Bolton HilL Road Augusta indicted on one count each of rape gross sexual miscon duct and unlawful sexual contact in Augusta on Jan 9 1979 Roger Wilkinson 32 of Route 4 Strong indicted on one count each of rape unlawful sexual contact and gross sexual misconduct involving a 7 year old girl between Jan 8 1979 and Oct 1 1979 Russell Waterman 33 88 Main St Winthrop indicted on four counts of unlawful sexual contact beginning June 15 1981 through Sept 15 1981 from June 15 1982 through Sept 15 1982 between June 15 1983 through Sept 15 1983 and between June 15' 1984 through Aug 15 1984 The al leged offenses are said to have in AUGUSTA A Kennebec County grand jury has handed down a 15 count indictment against a former Oakland man stemming from a standoff with police last month Dur ing the incident tear gas and a water cannon were used to flush the man from a Summer Street apartment The indictment was handed down in Kennebec County Superior Court Jan 7 In all 29 persons were indicted and are scheduled to be arraigned Jan 11 at 8:30 am Michael A York 25 of Quincy Mass was indicted on five counts of terrorizing with a dangerous weap on two counts of reckless conduct' with a dangerous weapon five counts of assault two counts of crim inal mischief and failure to control or report a dangerous fire in connection with a police standoff on Dec 17 and a court incident the following day York formerly of Oakland alleg edly threatened nolice with butcher knives before being disarmed by a Tracy Hotham 25 1 Church St blast from a firehose during the Clinton one count each of burglary hour long incident attempted theft and criminal tres Before he was subdued by police pass in connection with an incident at a smoky grease fire engulfed a cook ing stove Oakland firemen put it out with water poured in through a side window After his arrest York was charged with two counts of assaulting a police officer and two counts of criminal mischief after he allegedly flipped furniture over and screamed obsce nities prior to his arraignment in Wa terville District Court The second criminal mischief count on the in dictment stems from charges that he allegedly caused $75 damage to a Waterville jail cell York is currently being held at Kennebec County Jail in lieu of $20 000 single surety or $5000 cash bail In another case Robert Wing 29 of 163 Bangor St Augusta was in dicted on an attempted murder charge for allegedly stabbing Wil liam Brigham III in Augusta Nov 291984 Wing was also indicted for aggra vated assault in connection with the same incident Other Kennebec County residents indicted riday were By MARIE HOWARD Sentinel Staff those days and the demand for ice was heavy from merchants sell ing beverages soda beer and the like A large segment of Water ice harvest went to the Maine Central Railroad for the air conditioning of passenger cars or many years ice cutting was conducted in Waterville by various firms Michael rye had a field above the dam on the Ken nebec River at a point opposite the MCRR car shops Young Chalmers usually would cut ice in the river opposite the Colby Col lege campus while William Colby had a field on the Sebasticook Riv er in Winslow The Young Chalmers con cern built a dam on Mulholland Brook where it approaches Drummond Avenue and this pond was eventually used by its success sor the Spring Brook Ice uel Co By 1950 machines had re placed horse drawn equipment An ice field was laid out by scor ing with a power driven saw cut ting into the surface to a depth of eight to 10 inches This permitted a power saw to follow the creases and cut long strips of ice from the field More on ICE Page 16 BASEMENT SALE UPTO fU AND MORE Pants Skirts Jackets Tops Short Sleeve Knit Tops Knit Pants Knit Shirts Sweaters Lingerie Coats Jackets amous Label Clearance In Our Basement MAM 6TREET AND the CONCOURSE WATERVILLE Water Beds urniture Mattresses Better Values Water Beds As Low As Mattress and umrtm Company i 453 9333 151 Main St airfield Market Deli 6 am to Midnight Comer of Elm Western Waterville 873 7171 Offer Expires Jen 18 1985 ood Stamp Accepted 30 ALL LARGE ITALIANS Now making deliveries 4 pm on I IGAZELLE TRUCK CAPS I Highest Quality Best Prices Buy actory Direct PRICES $235 AND UP I ULL IWARRANTY I s2000 iscount Jet 1374202 China I RCA VCR TRUCKLOAD At After Christmas Sale Prices42995 Plus 25 REE 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