Vintage TELEVISION SCHEDULE for AF-TV LORING AIR FORCE BASE EFFECTIVE JULY 1954

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Vintage Television Schedule for AF-TV Effective 12 July 1954, a daily Monday through Sunday schedule of programming at Loring Air Force Base.  3 pages
This is an original item, NOT A COPY or REPRODUCTION.
Measures approximately:   8" x 10.5"
**Please be sure to look at all scans as part of description!
Estate item from Charles R. Hughes, 2nd Lt. at Loring Air Force Base, Maine in 1954-1956, in charge of Publicity, Information Services Dept.   Lt. Hughes was an integral part of AFL-TV Armed Forces first television station located at Loring Air Force Base, Maine.  Dedication of the Morale TV Station was done June 30, 1954 by RCA's Francis H. Engel, assistant to the VP and Gen. Manager of RCA.    Lt. Hughes is in many of the photos I will be listing.   There are also many photos giving us a behind the scenes look at the film and information department located at the base.
The AFL-TV Station was formed to deliver the 1st televised Dependents Assistance Course for Air Force Wives on base.
This item comes from the combined estate of Charles R. Hughes (son-in-law of Allan T. Powley) and Allan T. Powley.  Mr. Powley had a long history of work in the broadcast journalism world as a photographer and sound technician!  Some of the items I will be listing would have only been available to members of the White House Press Crew (as he liked to call them), including confidential presidential address programs, detailed itinerary trip programs, pages rescued from the Christmas Eve White House Fire of 1929, and candid snapshot photographs of the President and/or the Press Crew during his time with FOX MOVIETONE NEWS from 1928 to 1936!  His bio is as follows:
Wireless radio operator on merchant ships 1923-1926
Radio engineer at WOR Radio in NY October 1926 - 1928
Sound Technician for FOX MOVIETONE NEWS in New York City 1928
Went to Washington D.C. to cover President Hoover's Inauguration in 1929 w/ FOX MOVIETONE NEWS and while there Mr. Powley made the first soundtrack of a presidential inauguration!  Worked in the Washington D.C. Press Corp. until 1936
Joined NBC in Washington D.C. in 1937 and was stationed with broadcast crew at the White House.  Mr. Powley handled the technical arrangements for President Roosevelt's "fireside chats" as Radio Engineer and then Master Control Supervisor   1937-1945
President of the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians  1945-1947
Operations Supervisor to Chief Engineer at WMAL-TV 1947 - 1954
Please check out all the wonderful items that will be listed from his astonishing career!
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