Broadcasting (July - Dec 1936)

J2e±t 'Paytime Station in the Jl&nd , For— j I A complete coverage of South Dakota plus ■ ■ a wide audience in Minnesota, ■ B Iowa and Nebraska ■ k With— I 5000 Watts (L.S.) Full Time Regional 570 Kc. C.B.S. Representatives Wilson-Dalton-Robertson WN AX ■I YANKTON, S. DAK. flH ROBERT WALKER DUMJI, director of the KSFO auxiliary studios in Oakland, Cal., was married to Eleanor Breed, daughter of State Senator Herbert L. Breed, in Piedmont, Cal., July 16. Ceremony was performed by the Rev. William T. Dumm, grandfather of the groom. Dumm is the son of \> esley I. Dumm, president of the Associated Broadcasters Inc., which operates KSFO. HERB ALLEN on the announcing staff of KYA in San Francisco for the past year, has gone to KFRC, that city, in a similar capacity. He succeeds Ralph Edwards who resigned to go to New York. CHET GATHERS, formerly program director of KOMO and K.JR, Seattle, has joined KROW in Oakland, Galas producer announcer, succeeding Royal Wiseman, resigned. RODERICK CUPP. formerly continuity director of KTUL, Tulsa, has been promoted to program director. Cupp replaces Fenton Jeffers, who was appointed national advertising manager. Charles Bush, formerly of KBIX. Muskogee, Okla., is now in the KTUL continuity department. HAROLD SMITH, formerly sports announcer with KFXR in Oklahoma City, has joined the KTUL announcing staff. GEORGE ROSS, formerly of KWG. Stockton, Cal., has been transferred to KOH. Reno, where he is chief announcer. FRANK WILBUR, recently active in college dramatics, has joined the announcing staff of KWG, Stockton, Cal. J. C. MORGAN, production manager of KSFO, San Francisco, and Lucy Cuddy, in charge of that station's dramatic department, head the radio faculty of the David Belasco School of Dramatic and Radio Arts in that city. MILTON ADAIR, who resigned from the announcing staff of KSFO, San Francisco, some months ago to study aviation at Randolph Field, Texas, has returned to the station. He was forced to leave the aviation school when he sustained injury to his back. TASMAN WARD, recently added to the announcing staff of KFRC in San Francisco, has resigned to go to New York. PAUL NATHAN, radio editor of the Oakland (Cal.) Post Enquirer, has resigned to try playwriting in New York. His successor is Don Logan, formerly staff vocalist of KROW, Oakland. FOSTER RUCKER, producer and technician of KNX, Los Angeles, was married July 20 to Pauline Stafford, member of the girls trio heard on the Crockett Family program. DON HASTINGS, former CBS announcer and until recently in charge of special events for KFWB, Hollywood, has joined Hub Robinson Inc., publicity advertising organization of Hollywood, as radio production manager. CLAUDE LA BELLE, Robert Hall, and Herb Caen, radio editors respectively of the San Francisco News, Call-Bulletin and Chronicle, have organized a horseshoe tournament and challemred NBC executives in that c'ty. Entered from the network are Harry Anderson. NBC western division sales manager ; Lou Frost, assistant to Don E. Oilman. NBC's western division vice-president, and Lloyd E. Yoder. western division press relations manager. The tournament starts Aug. 2. LUVERNE E. SHATTO. formerly chief engineer of KAST. Astoria. Ore., has joined KERN. Bakersfield, Cal., as announcer and operator. VICTOR CRAZE, recent University of Texas graduate, .-has joined the news staff of WOAI, San Antonio. PIONEER PREACHER — Rev. R. R. Brown, religious director of WOW, Omaha, has been on the air since April 8, 1923 and recently delivered his 700th radio chapel sermon. He is pastor-evangelist of Omaha Gospel Tabernacle. JOHN C. FITZGERALD, formerly of WMFF, Plattsburg, N. Y., and! WGY, Schenectady, has joined the announcing staff of WFBL. Syracuse. He replaces Leo Bolley, who is giving full time to his twice-daily sports broadcasts for Tidewater Oil Co. RALPH WONDERS, manager of the CBS Artists Bureau, returned to New York the first week in July after negotiating several film and radio con: tracts in Hollywood. OWEN CRUMP, announcer and mas-; ter of ceremonies on KFWB. Hollywood, has announced his engagementto Isabel Jewell, screen star. JOSEPH MICCICHE, Los Angeles City Hall contact for a number ol radio stations, and City Hall radic announcer of KRKD, has announced his candidacy as assemblyman foi that district. HAROLD BOCK, NBC press repre-' sentative in Hollywood, and Miss Sybil Chism were married July 5 They will live in North Hollywood JAMES L. BUTCH, University oi Florida student who served for five years as announcer and then chiel announcer of WRUF, Gainesville 1 University station, has joined the announcing staff of WLW, Cincinnati. FRANCIS C. HEALEY, member ol the NBC press department in Radii City, was married July 3 to Miss Elizabeth Palmer, of Indianapolis. DAN SEYMOUR, Yankee Network,' announcer, has resigned to join CB> in New York. Recently he has beer , announcing the Gillette Community* Sing test on Yankee prior to its ad i vent on CBS. Page 40 • August 1, 1936 BROADCASTING • Broadcast