FCC Reports, Volume 23, July 12, 1957 to December 27, 1957 Page: 220
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ceptions were filed by the Broadcast Bureau and WLOX; replies
thereto and briefs were filed by Radio Associates. Oral argument
was held December 18, 1956, before the Commission en bane. Radio
Associates' counsel did not timely file a notice of intention to par-
ticipate in oral argument and we will herein formalize our ruling
to sanction counsel's participation in the oral argument. We shall
also herein rule on and grant the same counsel's unopposed petition
of August 29, 1956, to accept late filing of briefs directed against the
exceptions filed by WLOX and the Broadcast Bureau. Our rulings
on the exceptions appear in appendix B attached hereto.
FINDINGS OF FACT
9. The area to be served.-Biloxi is located in Harrison County,
Miss. Gulfport is the county seat. Within the computed grade B
contours of both proposed operations are Biloxi with a 1950 census
population of 37,425, Gulfport with 22,659, and Pascagoula with
10,805. Within the city limits of Biloxi is Keesler Air Force Base
with 1,437 housing units, a separate population of more than 20,000,
and an annual payroll in excess of $50 million. Biloxi and its im-
mediate environs, exclusive of Keesler Air Force Base, has a popula-
tion of 45,983, of which 16 percent are Negroes. The area activities,
in the order of their economic importance, are (a) Keesler Air Force
Base, (b) resort business, (c) fishing and seafood industry, (d) deep
sea fishing and port of entry, (e) shipbuilding, (f) manufacturing,
and (g) farming and cattle raising.
THE APPLICANTS
Radio Associates, Inc.
10. Radio Associates has operated standard broadcast station
WVMI in Biloxi since 1950. The station operates on the facilities
570 kc., 1 kw., daytime only.
11. Radio Associates, Inc., is authorized to issue 500 shares of $100
par value common stock, of which 315 shares are issued and outstand-
ing. The 185 unissued shares are subject to a purchase option at par
value held by Odes E. Robinson. The officers, directors, and stock-
holders are as follows:
Office Name and address Shares of Percent of
stock stock
President, director- .-..... Odes E. Robinson, near Biloxi, Miss_..... [ 198 62. 8.
Secretary and director _ -... (Mrs.) Frances L. Robinson, near Biloxi, Miss_ 6 1. 9 plus.
Vice president and director_. James H. McKee, Jackson, Miss-------------- 96 30. 4 plus.
Kathleen Sutton McKee, Jackson, Miss . 10 3. 1 plus.
Edward Ball, Tallahassee, Fla__ _ 5 1. 5 plus.
12. Odes E. Robinson, president, director, and principal stock-
holder (62.8 percent) of applicant Radio Associates, Inc., has a back-
ground in radio extending from 1918. During the period 1928 to
about 1930, he was a radio salesman in Dickson, Tenn. He became
successively engineer at WFIW Hopkinsville, Ky., in 1930-31;
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