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Thursday, December 8, 1949 RADIO DAILY 5 Say AM Sets Now Go To Non-Video Areas WINDY CITY WORDAGE By HAL TATE • • • Jack Brink ley celebrating his 14th year as announcer on the transcribed "Judy and Jane" show. Program, sponsored by Folger's Coifee, is now in 28 markets. Grant Advertising handles the account. . . . WCFL scored a coup by tieing up lop profesChiCQCJO sional and college basketball games from the Chicago Sladium. Key games of the Chicago "Stags" pro team as well as Notre Dame, Northwestern, Loyola and De Paul will be carried by the Labor station with Joe Boland reporting. ■fr -sir <r •& • • • Everett Lande, WIND account executive, passing out cigars in honor of his new son. The second Lande heir, named Everett Howard Lande, weighed in at 7 pounds, two ounces at Codell Memorial Hospital in Libertyville. . . . WJJD's Ernie Simon gave away a $1,630 jackpot last week on the Libby Telephone Quiz. Irving Rocklin Associates handle the Libby account. . . . Guest speaker at the Chicago Radio Management Club luncheon Wednesday was Heine H. Haupt, BBD&O vice-president. His topic was "The Arithmetic of Business." . . . Arthur C. Nielsen, president of the A. C. Nielson Co., last week was elected a member of the Board of Trustees of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. & & & # • • • The Ruthrauff & Ryan agency switched their "Bob Elson on the 20lh Century Limited" interview show from WENR to WBBM. Sponsor is Frank Shave Creme. . . . Stealing a leaf from radio quiz shows, Alex Adler, local furrier, has girls call up people at random who are asked very simple questions. "Winners" receive a $50 merchandise certificate. . . . Local DuMont distributors. New World Distributors, in which football star Sid Luckman has a goodly share, are sponsoring the new 'Stop the Record" show on WGN-TV for a full hour five days a week. Program is emceed by disc jockey Frann Weigle and is produced by Rose Dunn and Stan Joel. . . . John Harrington starting five-minute "Feature Story" show on WBBM. it # tr "fr • • • M-G-M records and the Zenith distributing firm are jointly sponsoring "Record Spotlight" on WIND with Howard Miller in charge. During course of show, Miller calls top M-G-M artists all around the country and chats with them. MacFarlandAveyard, Chicago, handles the account. . . . Bill Merz, Jr., local sales rep for the C. P. MacGregor shows, has closed a deal with Joseph B. Benge, account executive at McCann-Erickson, for the transcription firm's "Hollywood Theater of Stars" program. Sponsor is Hyde Park Beer and station used will be KSD, St. Louis. . . . Bill also sold "Hollywood Theater of Stars" to 81 Plymouth dealers in Detroit for sponsorship on a Detroit station as yet unchosen. The ad agency, Powell-Grant, Detroit, also bought MacGregor's "Henry King Show." . . . Karl Sutphin, promotion manager for ABC in Chicago, deserves the credit for the front page grabbing stunt when Santa Claus arrived here via ship. Ell Henry, whom we had inadvertently credited with the feat, says Sutphin is the one who deserves all the credit. f Profit Sharing Plan Of P. & G. Explained (Continued from Page 1) working at top speed to take care of this demand. RMA reports that the plaints of dealers in such non-TV areas as i Denver and others throughout the I area west of the Mississippi have I been especially loud, with manuI facturers sadly admitting that they I underestimated the market badly. "They know now that there is plenty of life in the market, and production has been going up this fall," said an RMA spokesman, "but 1 it is a fact that a lot of our members 'were getting ready for the funeral of the AM-set market this spring." Here in Washington there are \ shortages on the better grade table and combination sets, and also on FM-only models. The s:arcity of FM-only models has been reported in other cities with extensive FM ! service, according to FMA. | Procter & Gamble's profit sharing plan was called "incentive in its broadest and most inspiring, compelling sense" by William G. Werner, ' company executive, in an address before the Council of Profit Sharing Industries last week. , Werner said the plan, started in 1887 by Procter & Gamble, is the oldest in continuous operation in this country. He continued "Over .' all, our plans fully justify and, we hope, make clear to the rank and file of employees that it has always , been the declared policy of the i company to recognize that its in I terest and those of its employees are inseparable." The plan "results in a heightened, sharpened, more loyal esprit de j corps that marks one business as , against another the moment you I ! step inside a plant," he told the ' council. Werner concluded, "We see employees gaining a new conception of how much quality output and sound operation mean in assuring ' the kind of values to the public that earn their good will and patronage." 1 Admiral Declares Div. The Admiral Corp., Chicago, has declared a quarterly dividend of 20 i cents a share on new common stock, I payable December 31. The old shares were split two-for-one, effective today, and received 20 cents I at quarterly intervals. The new diviI dend is equal to 40 cents on the old i share basis. 1 'Record Shop' Expanding WJZ, New York, has expanded t "Joe Franklin's Record Shop" into I a five-a-week 11:35 p.m. to midnight disk session starting Dec. 19, it was announced yesterday. Expansion comes one month after the show I made its debut as a Saturday a.m. half-hour feature. Will Broadcast Game Sponsored by Gillete's "Calvacade of Sports," the annual Blue-Gray football game, featuring a northern all-star team versus a steller southern contingent, will be broadcast over the entire Mutual web for the third consecutive year on December 31, it was announced yesterday. Originating from the Gramton Bowl at Montgomery, Alabama, the game will be described by Harry Wismer with statistics and color for the contest, a traditional affair, being supplied by Jim Britt. Will Air Hoover Speech NBC has cancelled the "Martin and Lewis" show for Dec. 12 only in order to present a special halfhour address by former President Herbert Hoover, entitled "Reorganization of the Federal Government." Mr. Hoover's address will be given in connection with the two-day meeting of the National Citizen's Committee For The Hoover Report being held in Washington at that time, Dr. Robert L. Johnson, president of Temple University, will introduce the only living ex-president. Radio-TV Stations To Aid Scout Drive (Continued from Page 1) program of radio spots, guest speaker appearances and other promotional features were discussed. William Berchtold, vice president of Foote Cone & Belding agency and Ed Thomas, vice president of Geyer, Newell and Ganger, Inc., spoke at the luncheon. Berchtold as chairman of the business men's group stressed the importance of the Scouts in building good citizenship and combating juvenile delinquency while Thomas, as Scout public chairman, outlined the effective service given the Scouts by both radio and TV in past campaigns. It was announced that Al Nichols, director of the Scout camps; Harry M. Cohn, director of public relations and Lann Armitage, radio-television publicity director, would be available to the stations in preparing their campaigns. In attendance were: Harvey J. Gannon, WNBC; Clarence Worden, WCBS; Gene Fitts, WOR; Florence Morris, WJZ; Hank Morgenthau, WNEW; Ted Estabrook, WNBT; Lee Bland, CBS-TV; John Neal. WINS; Louis J. Carino, WMGM; Pat Hurley, WQXR; Tom Morgan, WOV; William Moore, WBNX; Charles Barkley, WGYN-FM; Harold Hirschmann, WABF; Betty Stone, Broadcasting; Frank Burke, Radio Daily and Zac Freedman, Coll and Freedman, Vice Chairman, Public Relations Committee, Greater N. Y. Councils. Telephone Co. Protests Popularity Of CKLW Show Detroit — A CKLW disc show has brought a "Cease Fire" order from telephone officials who say three exchanges were put out of service during a broadcast of the program. The avalanche started when Eddie Chase on the Make Believe Ballroom described a used car which was offered for sale by the Hall-Dodds Co., Detroit Ford dealer. CKLW listeners were asked to estimate the exact price of the car in question and receive a jackpot prize. The jackpot started at $25 and increased $5 for every incorrect answer. The telephone company stepped into the picture on the third day when their service broke down. Officials visited E. W. Wardell, CKLW sales manager, and requested a change or an end of the program feature. The telephone men estimated that several thousand calls were placed before the exchanges went out of service with thousands of other calls that could not even get into the exchanges. AC DC Transcription Players Tape, Wire, Disc Recorders Sales-Rentals-Service MILLS RECORDING CO. 161 N. Michigan Ave. Chicago, III. De 2-41 17 I