NAB reports (Jan-Dec 1948)

HOT OFF THE BEAM Kav Allfii of WMPS, Memphis, interviawed Mai'garet Truman, when Mar¬ garet visited Memphis on hei' concert tour through Tennessee, Miriam l,aiic. whose “Home Chats” are broadcast over KMPC, Hollywood, has started another series of written chats. It is titled “At Home With Mir¬ iam Lane,” This venture is in the nature of a semi-monthly letter devoted to gracious living and personal beauty. Miss Lane also writes a Hollywood column for a Madras (India) weekly. Frances Scully. KECA’s “Stai’ Gazer,” spent her vacation in New York observ¬ ing the New Look for her home town listeners. I5cth Winter, assistant Program Direc¬ tor at WAGE, Chicopee, Mass., has a Concert Hour program for young people. She started it last October and it is to run 33 weeks. Under her direction it is worked out by four musically-precocious children. They choose and run the pro¬ gram, aided by the Springfield Symphony Orchestra. Marlowe Thompson is now director of women’s programs for WHBF, Rock Island, Ill. She succeeds Millicent Polley, who resigned to become Woman’s Editor for the Rock Island Argus. Miss Thompson conducts a daily pro¬ gram at p. m. called “Words for Women” and a weekly “High Spot” broadcast at 9:30 p. m. Tuesdays, de¬ voted to High School news and activities. Adele Hunt of WPAT, Paterson, New .Jersey, has been made a member of the New Jersey Woman’s Press Club. As an extra-curricular feature, Adele writes for weekly newsi)apers. During the latter part of October she served as moderator for a panel at the 47th Annual Convention of the New Jer¬ sey Congress of Parents and Teachers held at the Hotel New Yorker, New York. Boston members of AWB had an in¬ teresting time the evening following Christmas. The management of China House presented them with beautiful Chinese costumes, and entertained them at a Chinese feast. China House is a new restaurant in Boston, and the women bi’oadcasters had done much to establish its immediate popularity. The members so favored were I’riscilla Forle.srue. Connie Staekpole. and Heloisc Parker Broeg of WE El, Louise Morgan of WNAC, and Marjorie Mills of the Bosto!! Herald, who also broadcasts over a network of six New England stations. One of Hazel Kenyon Markel’s “D. C. Dateline” programs is being played across the nation. It features Charles Luckman, former Conservator of Food, and was cut during Girl Scout Week. Three Scouts talk about the Scout Clean Plate Campaign, and Mr. Luckman tells about the food conservation drive. Pressings of the program were sent to local stations in 48 states, and the Girl Scouts report that the jn-essings were generously used. Elizabeth E. Marshall of WBEZ, Chi¬ cago, 9th District Chairman, informs us that as a result of the AWB Conference held there in mid-December, forty new members have been accredited by Illinois station managers. The girls are shooting for lOOG mem¬ bership for AWB among the NAB sta-' tions. So far they are but eight stations shy of their goal. Frances McGuire. WPEN director of Women’s Activities, whose “Let’s Talk It Over” program is broadcast Monday through Friday from 11:0.5 to 11:39 p. m., uses wire and tape recorders for out-of-town interviews with fashion, literary, and theatrical personalities. She recently cut 13 interviews within a span of 6 hours during a visit to New York in search of material. The Quarrie Curporatitm, 35 East Wacker Drive. Chicago; i)ublishers of World Book, will make their Bib¬ liographies available for AWB mem¬ bers ami will furnish background material and prints on re<|uest. The latter can be had in quantity for dis¬ tribution at lectures. The publish¬ ers who entertained the AWB dele¬ gates of the 9th District at break¬ fast, Hotel Sherman, Chicago, on December 14th. made this an¬ nouncement and asked that all our members be apprised of these availabilities. Christine Evans of WHDH in Boston, is the recent mother of a beautiful baby daughter. Mildred Bailey of WCOP, whose popu¬ lar “Food Is Fun” program is liberally sponsored, can well be the envy of other AWB members. Her station sends her to New York for new material on an average of once a month. Kay II arrison of WCOP’s publicity de¬ partment and member of the 1st District Publicity Committee of AWB is recover¬ ing from a serious operation . . . one that has saved a leg, that had been in¬ jured in a fall. She is away from her desk on a sixmonth leave of absence. RMA-AWB Letter Contest Winners More than 200,000 entries were received from radio listeners in the contest i jointly sponsored by the Radio Manufac ' turers of America and the Association of ' Women Broadcasters, during National Radio Week. The letters were written on the sub¬ ject: “What Is Your Favorite Radio Program and Why?” which was sub¬ mitted to 177 stations in all parts of the United States. One national winner and seventeen district winners were selected by a com¬ mittee of national judges. The winner of the national award was Iris Haverstack of Canton, Ohio. Her letter was submitted through Esther Mullin of WGAR, Cleveland. Her prize is a de luxe RCA Victor radio-phonograph console. Her favorite program on which she wrote the prize-winning letter was I “CBS Was There.” The other 17 district prizes were ' awarded on the basis of NAB Districts. They were : I District 1 — Mary C. Mulcahy, 16 Colonial Street, j Elmwood. Connecticut, submitted throu'^h Eunice Greenwood of WTHT. F'avorite Proyrram : “Amer | ica’s Town Meetinjr of the Air.” District 2 — Mrs. Sidney Schoenwald, Plank Road, ^ Ontario. N. Y.. submitted throupih Louise Wilson | of WHAM. Rochester, N. Y. ; favorite projrram: “Fred Waring.” i District 3 — Mrs. Robert Rinehart. 1027 Northern | Parkway. Baltimore, Md., submitted through Martha Ross Temple f>f WFBR : favorite program: "America’s Town Meeting of the Air.” District 4 — Floretta H. Cleaves, 6600 Luzon Ave.. N.W.. Washington. D. ('., submitted through Nancy Osgood of WRC : favorite program : "Invi j tation to Learning.” , District 5 — Isabel Tudeen. 1941 18th Ave. North. j St. Petersburg. Fla., submitted throuirh Kav Har I grave Dawst of WDAE, Tampa ; favorite pro I gram; "Meet The Press.” [ District 0 — Mrs. Thomas L. Justice, Briarwood. I Monheim, Tenn.. submitted through Caroline King of WJHL, Johnson City: favorite program: "Ma Perkins.” District 7 — Agnes M. Gillespie. 475 Catalina Ave.. Youngstown. Ohio, submitted through Marian Resch of WFMJ. Youngstown; favorite program: "Don McNeil’s Breakfast Club.” District 8 — Mrs. .John Richardson. 1744 West .Jefferson St.. Kokomo. Ind., submitted through Jeanne Pierce of WKMO : favorite program: "The Greatest Story Ever Told.” | District 9 — Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Sullo, 518-A North 27th St.. Milwaukee, Wis., submitted through Ann Leslie of WISN ; favorite program : "Lux Radio Theatre.” District 10 — Mrs, Myerna L. Krebs, 314 East 13th St., Davenport, la., submitted through Mary Louise Marshall of WOC. Daveniiort ; favorite pro¬ gram : "Fred Waring.” District 11 — Martha Westberg, 222 I-'ranklin St., Rapid City, S. D.. submitted through Mrs. Jean Mitchell of KOTA; favorite program: "New York Philharmonic.” District 12 — Mrs. Glen D. Anderson, 1400 S.W., 22nd St.. Oklahoma City, Okla., submitted through Vera Croft of KOMA : favorite program: "Light of the World.” District IS — Mrs. Jack Ponder. 2424 Arizona St.. El Paso, Texas, submitted through Alice Barry of KTSM ; favorite program: "One Man’s Family.” District 14 — Mrs. Edward Bourquin. Box 58, Mis¬ soula, Mont., through Erin Day of KGVO ; favorite program: "CBS Was There.” District 15— Harmony Harper Moreland. 2436 Williams St.. Eureka. Calif., through Bets Wilson of KIEM : favorite program : "America’s Town Meeting of the Air.” District 16 — Burr Willard. 2736 Genevieve Ave.. San Bernardino. Calif., through Kit Sterns of KFXM ; favorite program: "Metropolitan Opera.” District 17 — Kathleen L. Cochran. 7319 43rd Ave., N.E.. Apt. 127, Seattle. Wash., through KIRO, ^ Evelyn Marble: favorite iirogram: "America’s U Town Meeting of the Air.” * Convention Theme — The Woman Broadcaster in Public Affairs