SECTION X = INFOR‘ATION ND EDUCATION:
1.

The Information and Education Section provided inforrantion,

guidance, counseling, and facilities for adidomic ard vocational d=
ueation of this command.

The I & E Section had three main functions:

Radio Station WXLE; newspaper, Atorde Times; and the Education Center,
2.

Radio Staticn WXLE, with studios in the Terrace Theater,

provided a varied progr:ma of music, comedy, drana, education material,
sports

and news,

Tho Armed Forces Radio Service, (uFRS) Los Angeles,

Californis, forwarded regular network shows cach week.

In additicn,

Short. wave ows ond sporteasts wore received by “ME, some broadcast -

"tlivet and others taped for latcr use,

Tho radio station operated

during the following hours: 0600 hours

to 2400 hours ‘ionday thru

.

Friday exccpt for the three hour maintenance per d from 0800 hours to
1100 hours on Tucsdeys,

Saturday's schedule was from 0600 Nburs to

0100 keurs and Sunday's from 0800 hours ‘to 24,00 hours.
Considerable difficulty was oxperienced in obtaining qualified
announcer - cngincers to oporate the radio station and for a thric

week period it operated with only two mens

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“3. Tho "Atomie Times" was publishea vonday thru Friday hy tho:
I&E Section,

It was established
| primarily for the disseninativa of
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world rows, sports ‘news, local news and such amnouncenents as wero
deomsd proper

and of poner “interest, “Sources of news were, the

. ‘Signal Corps, which supplicd Armed Forces Press Service news> rolecses;
the "New York times" and tha mfonolula Advertisor" which were flown
in regularly; and various magazines end publications that wero availaw
ble,. Circulation fluctuated from 500 to 2600 copies daily. during
this perlod,

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