Broadcasting (July - Dec 1939)

FRED SHAWN, assistant manager of WRC-WMAL, Washington, in charge of programs, and Audrey Sieber recentyl took out a marriage lice_nse. with" the wedding sete for Aug. 5 in St. John's Church, Georgetown. RUSS HODGES, who joined WBT. Charlotte, several months ago to handle major league baseball broadcast for Wheaties. recently signed as a fulltime sports announcer on the station. DAVID YAILE, for three years with KYA. San Francisco, has been pro,;. moted to production manager in addition to being chief announcer. MARTIX GOSCH. CBS director loaned to Lennen & Mitchell to produce the XBC Melody & Madness prof. gram sponsored by P. Lorillard & Co. (Old Gold cigarettes), after several • weks in Hollywood, has returned to Xew York. ■ J. XEIL RE AG AX. program director ; of woe. Davenport. la., was in Hol lywood in early .Jul.v visiting his brother Ronald, Warner Bros, film player and former Iowa announcer. f JAMES W. CREASMAX. announcer '■ of KTAR. Phoenix. Ariz., on .June 15 married Miss Dorothy Phillips, of Litchfield Park. Miss Lucile Ming. KTAR receptionist, was married June 4 ro Charles H. Bomar. LEE MARSHALL, formerly of H. W. Kastor & Son Adv. Co.. Chicago, has joined the continuity staff of WBBM, • J Chicago. ■ [. FRED BRIGGS, formerly with KGU. 'fv Honolulu, T. H., recently has joined • the announcing staff at KYA. San Francisco. , ED ALLEX". announcer of WGX. Chi' cago, married Miss Dolores Dyer, K WGX script writer, June 30. j-i* BOB ELSOX, sportscaster of WGX, U Chicaso ; Red Barber and Al Heifer. ' f of WOR. Xewark. broadcast the Allf Star Baseball Game July 11 on MBS >v; from Yankee Stadium. ;-l ROBERT WILL, formerly of WDWS. ' Champaign, 111., has joined the announcing staff of WIRE, Indianapolis, MARC HOWARD, formerly of KWK, >: . St, Louis, and XBC. Chicago, has joined the stafE of WDWS, Champaign, 111. Harry Ridgley, formerly of WDAX, Danville, 111., has also joined the WDWS staff. BOB HARRIS, formerly of KVOR, Colorado Springs, and KOA, Denver, has joined the announcing staff of KLZ, Denver. DATE MILLER, former announcer of WMCA. Xew York, has joined the . , CBS announcing staff in Xew York. LOUIS LEWELLYX". Arkansas U. graduate, has joined the announcing staff of KARK. Little Rock, Ark. EDWARD WILDE, formerly of the Los Angeles ofiice of Tom Fizdale Inc.. publicity firm, has been named head of the Fizdale Chicago ofiice. ,: FLOREXCE CLAYERE of the XBC Hollywood traffic department, and • ■ Fred Randall, Los Angeles business executive, were married at Yuma, Ariz., in mid-May. FRED LeMIEUX. recently at WJBO, , ; Baton Rouge, and WNOE. X^ew Or ■ j leans, has returned to WHMA, An:< niston, Ala. LUCILLE HOB SOX. secretary of Raymond R. Morgan Co., Hollywood and Howard Cheney, free lance copy writer, were married July 7 at Yuma, Ariz. Leo McMuUen LEO McMULLEN, 50, for ten years commercial manager of KGIR, Butte, died July 1 following an illness of several months. A native of Montana, Mr. McMullen had been with KGIR since 1929 and was well known in broadcasting circles. AWARDED the Sidney Garfinkel Adv. Agency trophy for 1939 by Mr. Garfinkel (left) was Dick Wynne (second from left) formerly of KJBS and now of the Golden Gate Fair. Walter Guild (third from left), Garfinkel, radio director, presented the perpetual station trophy to Edward Franklin, KJBS manager. Annual Garfinkel Award Is Given to Dick Wynne DICK WYNNE, formerly announcer of KJBS, San Francisco, on July 7 was given the Third Annual Announcers' Award, sponsored by Sidney Garfinkel Adv. Agency, San Francisco. Presentation was made at a luncheon in the Palace Hotel and ceremonies were broadcast by KJBS. Wynne is now on the radio staff of the Golden Gate International Exposition. The trophy was presented to Wynne by Joe Walters, of KSFO, last year's winner. Walter Guild, Garfinkel radio director, presided. With the trophy went the revolving station trophy, which Ed Franklin, KJBS manager, accepted from Philip Lasky, KSFO manager. Lindsey Spight, Pacific Coast manager of John Blair & Company, spoke on behalf of the judges. Mr. Garfinkel, sponsor of the contest, explained it was designed to give San Francisco commercial announcers an additional stimulus to deliver their best performances. James A. Richardson JAMES A. RICHARDSON, Winnipeg financier and grain dealer, owner of CJRC, Winnipeg; CJRM, Regina ; part owner of C JGX, Yorkton, Sask.; as well as shortwave CJRO and CJRX, Winnipeg, died suddenly as the result of a heart attack on June 26 at his home in Winnipeg, at the age of 53. He was considered one of the wealthiest men in Canada and was director of many Canadian industries as well as the largest privately-owned air transport organization. He was a pioneer in Western Canada with broadcasting and shortwave stations which were used in the beginning primarily to broadcast news about the grain industry for his grain brokerage house. Comdr. U. J. Herrmann COMDR. U. J. (Sport) HERRMANN, 67, a director of Zenith Radio Corp., Chicago, since the firm's inception in 1923, died July 2 as a result of injuries suffered in a traffic accident near Sturgeon Bay, Wis. Mr. Herrmann was closely associated with the Radio Manufacturers Assn. and was widely known in the Midwest as a philanthropist and sportsman. He was a past potentate of the Medinah Shrine and a retired commander in the U. S. Naval Reserve. Unmarried, Mr. Herrmann is survived by a brother and niece. Pouliot to CBC ADRIEN POULIOT, secretary of the Faculty of Science at Laval University, Quebec, has been appointed to the board of governors of the CBC in place of Mgr. Alexandre Vachon, rector of Laval University, who resigned because of the increase in his duties as rector. Mr. Pouliot is a civil engineer, professor of mathematics, graduate of Laval, University of Montreal, University of Toulouse and University of Chicago. He is a member of the Institute of Civil Engineers, of the Societe de Mathematiques d e France and of the American Mathematical Society. He will serve the unexpired portion of Mgr. Vachon's term, which ends Nov. 2, 1941. Ira Dilworth on leave from his position of associate professor of English at the University of British Columbia for the past year to act as regional CBC director for British Columbia, has been permanently appointed to this post by the CBC board of governors, and has resigned from the University. Carlile Writes Book A BOOK titled The Production & Direction of Radio Programs, written by John S. Carlile, CBS production manager, has been published by Prentice-Hall, New York ($3.75). All phases of production are explained, with illustrations based on incidents within his own experience as well as photographs and diagrams of studio set-ups he has handled. Supplementary chapters are written by Walter R. Pierson, CBS sound effects head, and Clarence R. Jacobs, CBS head of construction operations. Studio sign language, musical setups and a glossary of production terms are included. Sowell Injured F. C. SOWELL, general manager of WLAC, Nashville, was severely injured June 17 in an auto accident and is convalescing at St. Thomas Hospital, Nashville. He suffered a fractured skull, brain concussion, broken ribs, punctured lung, broken hip and pelvis, and a triple fracture of the right leg below the knee. J. T. Ward, president of WLAC, who has taken over his duties in directing the station, said that while at the start hope had been abandoned, his physicians are now confident he recover after a long convalescence. Shenandoah Queen THE MAYOR'S daughter, who also is a beauty contest winner in her own right, has been added to the talent staff of KMA, Shenandoah, la. Betty Lee Ambler, daughter of Mayor Ambler of Shenandoah, student at Christian College in Columbia, Mo., and last year's Miss Iowa, has joined the daily KMA Country School, the station's big audience show. Miss Ambler last year was crowned queen of the Iowa Centennial celebration at Council Bluffs, and while at school in Columbia was the University of Missouri's Barnwarmin' Queen. Radio Press Executives On Yankee Clipper Flight WHEN the Pan American Airways' Yankee Clipper took off July 8 from Port Washington, Long Island, on the first one-day Transatlantic passenger flight direct to England via Canada, Newfoundland and Ireland, the passengers aboard included John F. Royal, NBC program vice-president; Amon G. Carter, owner of WBAP and KGKO, Fort Worth, and publisher of the Fort Worth StarTelegram; John Cowles, associate publisher of the Des Moines Register & Tribune, affiliated with the Iowa Broadcasting System (KSOKRNT-WMT-WNAX) ; John D. Ewing, owner of KWKH-KTBS and publisher of the Shreveport Times. Among the other passengers were Roy W. Howard, president of Scripps-Howard, and James A. Stahlman, publisher of the Nashville Banner and past president of the American Newspaper Publishers Assn. Jaspert Heads WFIL Sales GEORGE H. JASPERT, formerly local sales manager, has been named to direct a recently consolidated local-national sales department at WFIL, Philadelphia, according to Roger W. Clipp, general manager. At the same time it was announced that Murray Grabhorn had resigned as national sales manager effective July 15, to join Transamerican Radio & Television Corp. in the New York representative field. Mr. Jaspert has been with WFIL as local sales manager since May, 1937. Godwin's New Series EARL GODWIN, Washington newspaper correspondent and radio commentator, on July 6 started a new series of weeklv news commentaries from WRC WMAL, Washington, Tuesdays, 6:15-6:30 p. m. carried on the NBC Southeast network, including 12 stations covering Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. Summarizing the news of the week, Mr. Godwin, who is president of the White House Correspondents' Assn., and who for the last two years has conducted a sixweekly quarter-hour news commentary on WMAL under sponsorship of the local Thompson's Dairy, %vill give his own comments on the news together with human interest stories, stressing those of the Southeast. WABC StafE Additions THREE additions to the program staff of WABC, New York, were made July 10. Edwin M. Marshall, formerly a free-lance writer, has joined the station's scriptwriters; Richard J. Goggins, previously a CBS apprentice, has been made an assistant producer, and Miss Mary O'Keefe, formerly with WTHT, Harford, has been placed in charge of traffic on WABC operations. With these additions, WABC's program department totals seven persons who work exclusively on local, non-network programs. DICK BRAY, a race horse named after Dick Bray, sportscaster of WSAI. Cincinnati, recently was entered in a race at Latonia, Ky. Page 56 • July 15, 1939 BROADCASTING • Broadcast Advertising