Sandy Kozel

Sandy Kozel

The Code of Practices for Television Broadcasters was a set of ethics
adopted by the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) for television,
established on December 6, 1951. Compliance with the code was indicated
by the "Seal of Good Practice" (above). It was displayed during closing
credits on most television programs from 1952 to it’s suspension in 1983.

The code prohibited the use of profanity, the negative portrayal of family
life, irreverence for God and religion, illicit sex, drunkenness and addiction,
presentation of cruelty, along with detailed techniques of crime, the use of
horror for its own sake, and the negative portrayal of law enforcement officials,
among others. The code regulated how performers should dress and move to
be within the "bounds of decency". Further, news reporting was to be "factual,
fair and without bias" and commentary and analysis should be "clearly defined
as such".

Broadcasters were to make time available for religious broadcasting and were 
discouraged from charging religious bodies for access. Most importantly, it also
limited the commercial minutes per hour.

The second USS Newport News (CA–148) was a Des Moines-class heavy cruiser
in the United States Navy. It was laid down 1 November 1945 and launched on 6
March 1947 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company,Newport News, Virginia. The vessel was the first air-conditioned surface ship in the United States
Navy, and was the last all-gun heavy cruiser in commission in naval history.

In addition to annual deployments to the Mediterranean from for duty with the
Sixth Fleet, she participated in major fleet exercises and midshipman training
cruises in the Caribbean and Western Atlantic.

Newport News was decommissioned on 27 June 1975 and stricken from the Naval
Vessel Register on 31 July 1978. She spent her twilight years as a member of the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard‘s "Mothball Fleet" and was sold for scrap in New
Orleans, Louisiana, on 25 February 1993.

                                         
                                        Mike Gracia