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COMMANDER J. F. BATES, USN, PRESENTS THE ARMY-NAVY "E" FLAG WITH STAR TO THE RCA VICTOR DIVISION'S CAMDEN PLANT. RECEIVING IT ARE ARNOLD WEBER AND GILES C. FRAZIER. PLANT WINS "E" WITH STAR RCA Victor Dioision Receioes Army-Navy Flag at Huge Rally-. Pennant is Third Award to Camden Plant from Armed Forces. TllK Army-Navy "E" Flag with Star was presented to the RCA Victor Division's Oamden, N. J., plant during a huge rally of RCA war workers in Johnson Park, adja- cent to the plant, on December 7. The award was the third to come from the armed forces of the United States to the Camden group. The fir.st was the pennant of the Navy's Bureau of Ships. This was followed by the Navy "E" Flag. The star on the latest award—the Army-Navy "E"—indicates an ad- ditional six months of outstanding performance in the production of war e(|uipment vital to the Navy. Commander .1. F. Rates. Resident Inspector of Naval Material at RCA Victoi-, presented the Army-Navy award in the December 7 cere- monies. It was received by A. K. Weber and Giles C. Frazier, who represented the labor-management War Production Drive Committee of the plant. A. L. Pipper, RCA Victor executive, acted as master of ceremonies. Blue Wins 6 Firsts Six first places were won by Blue Network jierformers or programs in the seventh annual poll conduct- ed by Motion Picture DaiUj. More than 600 radio editors and column- ists participated in the voting. Five BLUE performers or programs scored in second places, and four in third places. War Programs Increase NBC's increasing participation in the war effort is strikingly dem- onstrated in preliminary statistics on program makeup for 1942. which show a gain of 2.'5 per cent in public service ijrograms and 28 per cent in newscasts. Statistics, projected for the full year on the basis of actual figures for the first ten months, show that luiblic service programs increased from SO iier cent of program hours in 1941 to 37 per cent for 1942. News programs, including re- ports, analyses, foreign pick-ups and special events, increased from 10.5 per cent in 1941 to 14.2 per cent of all program hours for 1942. In other words 2,(!.").■? of the year's 7.175 hours for all i)rograms on XBC in 1942, were allotted to pub- lic service. Of the 2,653 hours, 1,015 hours were devoted to news. 26 RADIO AGE