Broadcasting (July - Dec 1939)

8. W. (Bill) BROWN, for the last two years a member of the announcing and continuity staff of KWTO. Springfield. Mo., has .ioined the promotion department of Ralston Purina Co., St. Louis, as an assistant to L. A. Wherr.v who is in charge of the , radio advertising of Purina feeds for • livestock and poultry. JOHN C .McCORMACK. manager of KWKH and KTBS. Shreveport. La., has been elected president of the Centenary College Quarterback's Club, booster club for the Centenary football team. The organization meets Tuesday.s in the College gym and watclies movies of the preceding week's game. JAMES R. LUNTZEL, for the la.st year on the sports staff of the Chicago American, on Oct. 1 joined KDKA. Pittsburgh, as publicity director succeeding Kay Barr. resigned. Mr. Lunt7.e\ for nine years was associated with the Balaban and Katz Theatres in Chicago and prior to that time was on the reportorial staff of Louisville newspapers. LENOX R. LOHR. president of NBC, on Oct. 12 addre.ssed the banquet of the Texas Newspaper Publishers' Assn. in Galveston, held in honor of G. B. Dealey, president of the Dallas Neics, who was celebrating li.S years of service with that organization. JOHN EWING, owner of KWKH and KTBS. Shreveport, and publisher of the Sh)-evepoi-t Times, on Sept. 30 conferred at the White House with President Rosevelt. JOHN W. HAIGIS Jr.. son of J. W. Haigis, owner of WHAI, Greenfield, Mass.. and a graduate of Amherst College, has joined the station a.s director of the news department. P. H. CUNNINGHAM, formerly in the newspaper advertising field, has joined KWOC, Poplar Bluff, Mo., as commercial manager, succeeding Cliff Atkinson. JOHN C. McCLOY. formerly program manager of WROK. Rockford, 111., on Oct. 1 joined WKAT, Miami Beach, Fla., as assistant to President Frank Katzentine. MORTON BASSETT of NBC sales department. New York, on Dec. 17 will marry Davyde Miller of Elmhurst, Long Island. LESLIE W. JOY. general manager of KYW, Philadelphia, again has been named chairman of the radio committee of the Southeastern Pennsylvania chapter of the American Red Cross. Joy also was appointed to the Founders' Day committee of the University of Pennsylvania for 1939-40. HENRY GREENFIELD, who has been serving as both advertising manager of the Jewish Daily Forward and general manager of WEVD, New York, owned by the newspaper, will henceforth devote all his time to the station as managing director. Joshua S. Epstein, formerly of Waxelbaiim & Co., New York, succeeds Mr. Greenfield at the Daily Forward. WILLIAM MISKIN, formerly in the travel service field, has joined WMCA, New York, as salesman. DAVE SUTTON, new to radio, has joined the sales staff of WBBM, Chicago. G. F. BOURKE, manager of CKCA, Kenora, Ont., has resigned. JOHN O'HEAR. formerly publicity director of Charleston's Dock Street Theatre and new to radio, has joined the commercial department of WCSC, Charleston, S. C. FRED ELSETHAGEN, of the commercial staff of KGVO, Missoula, Mont., is the father of a boy born recently. WILLIAM ROTE, formerly of WOKO and WABY, Albany, N. Y., has joined the sales staff of WKBN, Youngstown, O. WYNN NEELY, formerly of WISN and WEMP, Milwaukee, nas joined the sales staff of WROK, Rockford, 111. Willey Appointed F. C. WILLEY, business manager of the Modesto Bee, has been named assistant general manager of the McClatchy properties, according to an announcement by G. C. Hamilton, vice-president and general manager of the McClatchy newspap ers and radio sta A ^Hay tions. Mr. Willey, ^^uBB who will headH^^^ >^^| quarter in Sacramento, has been Mr. Willey with the McClatchy organization for 13 years, starting in the advertising department of the Sacramento Bee in 1926 and becoming business manager of the Modesto Bee in 1933. Wirges Joins WFBM WILLIAM WIRGES, veteran radio production man, has left the NBC Thesaurus staff to become musical and production manager of WFBM, Indianapolis, i t was announced Oct. 9 by Jesse L. Katifman, general manager of the station. Mr. Wirges, a conductor, pianist and composer, who has handled programs for Van Mr. Wirges H e u s e n , Everready, Smith Brothers, Valspar and other sponsors, plans to promote music written especialy for radio and to develop local talent. For three years he was musical director of Brunswick Recording Co., and has been accompanist for Morton Downey, Irene Bordoni, James Melton, George Jessel, and Frank Munn. Simon Joins WOR ROBERT A. SIMON, noted radio writer, annotator and music critic of the Neiv Yorker magazine, on Oct. 9 became director of continuities in the program department of WOR, Newark. In the early days of radio, Mr. Simon conducted his own musical commentary programs on various stations in New York, and in 1929 joined the Judson Radio Program Corp., New York. In 1931 he joined the radio department of J. Walter Thompson Co., New York, which position he has resigned to join WOR. Mr. Simon also conducts a course in radio technique at the Juilliard Graduate School of Music. George Daws GEORGE DAWS, 38, former publicity agent, radio commentator and writer, died Oct. 1 of a streptococcic infection at the Knickerbocker Hospital, New York. Mr. Daws wrote for the New Yoik World Telegram, was publicity agent for Warner Brothers, and in 1934 joined Blackett-Sample-Hummert. New York, as editor of a five-minute news program broadcast twice daily on CBS under the sponsorship of General Mills, Minneapolis. At the time of his death, he was with Earl Newsom, public relations firm, New York. BEHIND NAIPH ABODAHER. formerly production manager of WKY, Oklahoma City, has been named program director of the station, replacing Bill Kennedy, resigned, and Jim Cox has been apliointed head of the WKY publicity department, following the transfer of .John Shafer to a full time sports assignment. KEN ELLINGTON, announcer of WBBM, Chicago, has transferred to the West Coast, where he is commercial announcer on the Wrigley Gateway to Hollywood series, which started on CBS Oct. 8. [Broadcasting Oct. ]]. He joins Robert N. Brown, WBBM program director, new producer of the series. GLEESON KISTLER. formerly of KFJM, Grand Forks, N. D.. has joined WDAN, Danville, 111., as program director, succeeding Donald Glasgow, who shifted in that capacity to WJBC, Bloomington, 111. Margaret Karlstrom, pianist announcer, has been named musical director of WDAN. DOM DAVIS, former editor of the NBC Transmitter when with the NBC production division, is now on the editorial staff of the White Plains (N. Y. ) Evening Dispatch, where he rewrites AP news for the newspaper's radio station, WFAS, and presents the WFAS quarter-hour newscasts four times weekly. DAVE FREDERICK, of the publicity department of KXOK. St. Louis, has been named editor of Flash, weekly publication of the young men's division of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce. WALTER DAVIDSON, of NBC Hollywood sales promotion staff, is the father of a girl, born Sept. 28. LADIES.* TONY LEFRANO, KHJ, Los Angeles, announcer-producer, has taken on the additional duties of educational director of the Don Lee Broadcasting System. MRS. DELAVAN COWLES FOR MORE than five years, Mrs. Cowles has been broadcasting hints to homemakers in Tidewater, Virginia. Last year she began her association with WTAR, Norfolk, and is its representative on the Newport News Peninsula, operating its office and studio in the Bank of Hampton Roads Bldg. Her program, Fashion Thrift & Home Economics, is carried three mornings weekly on WTAR, and she features recipes for Tidewater seafood on which she is an expert. JEROME SCHWARTZ, CBS Hollywood continuity writer, has written a new book titled Oscar the Ostrich, a novelty satire, which will be published by the Random House, New York. A one-act play. Laugh God, also written by Schwartz, and released last spring, is being produced by various little theatre groups throughout the country. JERRY BOWMAN, formerly of WLW, Cincinnati, has joined WKBN, Youngstown, O., as news editor. HELEN BERGOVOY, formerly with Columbia Workshop where she collaborated in the production, editing, casting and research of various radio scripts, will conduct a course in radio script writing at the Writers' School, New York, this season. HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE Jr., formerly editor of the CBS monthly program book, has been named CBS trade news editor, replacing James S. Tyler who moves up to the position of copywriter. Robert Gerdy has joined CBS to replace Mr. Swope. BILL TRAUM. formerlv of WROK. Rockford, 111., has joined WJIM. Lansing. Mich., as head of the newly organized WJIM news bureau. CHARLES CRUTCHFIELD, program director of WBT, Charlotte, N. C, recently bagged the first deer reported during the 19.39 deer season in North Carolina. MICHAEL WILKOMIRSKI, violinist of WGN, Chicago, has been named concertmeister of the WGN orchestra, according to Henry Weber, WGN musical director. JOHN LAGEMANN, who recently resigned from the CBS publicity staff in New York to devote his time to fiction, is author of Time to Get Up, broadcast on CBS Oct. 10 as the first of the new fall series of Columhia Wok shop productions. MAVIS GREEN has been appointed educational director of Arizona Network and is headquartered at KOY. Phoenix. EDWARD R. MAYER, formerly with the Philadelphia Record, has joined WIP. Philadelphia, as news editor, in which capacity he will supervise the 13 individual news broadcasts carried by the station daily. EDAVARD J. LORD, formerly manager of WLNH, Laconia, N. H., is now with WFMJ, Youngstown, O. John H. Baxter, WFMJ program director, has resigned. ANDREW ALLAN, formerly announcer and continuity writer at CFRB, Toronto, and recently with a London (England) agency handling radio advertising, returned to Toronto Sept. 30. He was a survivor of the torpedoed Athenia. BOB LEHIGH, announcer of WCSC, Charleston, S. C. recently remarried his former wife, and she and their three-year-old son have joined him in Charleston. KENNETH WEBB, radio script editor of BBDO, New York, will conduct an evening class in radio script writing at the New Y'^ork U Radio Workshop this fall. FRED HENRY and Clete Roberts, news commentators of KMTR, Hollywood, have signed for four-daily threeminute news summaries in the Pantages, Hollywood and RKO-Hillstreet theatres, with more expected to be added. The pair also continue their nightly sponsored half-hour Let's Talk Over the Neics on KMTR. VIRGINIA MELTON has joined the continuity staff of KSO-KRNT, Des Moines. BOB KESTEN, Toronto free-lance program director, formerly with CKCL, Toronto, has been appointed program director of CKGB, Timmins, Ont. WILLIAM C. LIVESAY, announcer of KGMB, Honolulu, on Sept. 30 married Laurel Ensminger. Page 46 • October 15, 1939 BROADCASTING • Broadcast Advertising