Broadcasting (July - Dec 1939)

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Dana waters, assistant to John M. Oiitler Jr., advertising manager of WSB, Atlanta, has enrolled in Columbia Theological Seminary and shifted to a night announcing assignment to accommodate the scholastic schedule. MONA BAKER, graduate student of Montana State U school of journalism, has joined KGVO, Missoula. BOB O'HARA, sports columnist of the Syracuse Herald-Journal, has joined the sports staff of WFBL, Syracuse, N. Y. CLIFF PETERSEN, actor of NBCChicago, is the father of a boy born recently. SHORTY CARSON, actor of NBCChicago, married Maxine Wade Oct. 7. STA^'LEY GORDON, actor of WON. Chicago, married Miss Merle Encksou Oct. 2. CHARLES VOLGER has joined the announcing staff of WHBF, Rock Island, 111. JAMES MUGFORD has resigned as program director of WSPA, Spartanburg, S. C. FRANK BRADY, of the sports department, and Mena Boyer, secretary to Program Director C. G. Renier, of KMOX, St. Louis, recently announced their marriage of last July. Harriet Edwards, director of KjVIOX educational programs, on Oct. 7 was married to H. N. Spencer Jr., of D'Arcy Adv. Agency, St. Louis. RUSS HODGES, sportscaster of WBT, Charlotte, N. C on Sept. 30 married Margaret Hilton. HARRY JORDAN, announcer of KOMO, Seattle, is the father of a girl born recently. Maitland Jordan, also a KOMO-KJR announcer, recently married May Strangeby, formerly of the station copy department. MARGARET KILEY has joined the program staff of WEEI. Boston, to assist in Food Magician broadcasts and promotion, making personal appearances in New England stores to acquaint housewives with food products mentioned in recipes on the program. ROBERT STONE, of the NBC transcription department in New York, is to marry Margaret Stillman, of the stenographic department, on Oct. 15. VIRGINIA PRICKETT, new to radio, has joined the secretarial staff of the Chicago office of Texas State Network. WALDON PORTERFIELD, formerly of KFRU, Columbia, Mo., has joined the news staff of WHO, Des Moines. CARL VANDAGRIFT, press relations director of WOWO, Fort Wayne, Ind., on Oct. 7 married Harnette Fosnight. CHARLES WOOD, James Nolan, Edwin Watson, Ronald Rule, Stanley Warwick, James Scott and Radford Kuykendall, all students of Washington" State College, Pullman, have been named announcers of KWSC, the university station, for the 193!)-4() college year. JEAN TENNANT McGRAAV, formerly of the traffic department of WOAI, San Antonio, was married Sept. 30 to Richard E. Meyers. Virginia Anderson replaced her in the AVOAI traffic department. CYRUS TROBBE, formerly musical director of KPO and more recently in that capacity on KYA, recently was named musical director of KFRC, San Francisco. He succeeds Chet Smith, resigned. CLINTON JONES, forn erly assistant news editor at KNX, Hollywood, has been named news editor of KSFO, San Francisco. GIFTS and farewell festivals marked the departure of Lloyd E. Yoder from San Francisco to become manager of KOA, Denver, after two years as manager of KPO-KGO. Employes presented him with this set of golf clubs, with Jennings Pierce (left), agriculture director, making the address, while Milton Samtiel (right), manager of the KPO-KGO press department watched. Affairs were given by station department heads, who presented him with pipe and pipeholder, as well as Northern California Broadcasters Assn., San Francisco Press Club, Shriners, and businessmen. FRANK FARR, formerly of Salt Lake City, has been added to the announcing staff of KPO-KGO, San Francisco. EVAN FRY, formerly of KCKN. Kansas City, Kan., has joined the announcing staff of KANS, Wichita. STANLEY L. VAINRIB, formerly in radio in Chicago, has joined KRIC. Beaumont, Tex., as announcer and publicity director. STANLEY SWALES, announcer of WW J. Detroit, recently married Marian Wilson. Winifred Wilcox has joined the WW.J office staff as receptionist. GERALD HOLLAND, free-lance writer, formerly with KMOX, St. Louis, has joined the NBC script division, New York. BILL WOODSON, formerly of KHJ, Los Angeles, has joined the announcing staff of WDGY, Minneapolis. DANA BASTIANI. 11-year old Chicago radio sincer. has joined the music staff of KFEQ, St. Joseph, Mo. TRISTAN COFFIN, former Hollywood announcer, has been signed by Monogram Productions, that city, for role in a forthcoming film. RAY EPSTEIN, former sportscaster of KROW, Oakland, Cal.. has resigned and is free lancing in Chicago. SAM WANAMAKER, actor of NBCChicago, has been named director of the local Jewish Peoples' dramatic group. A number of prominent Chicago actors are members of the group. PEGGY HILLIAS, leading actress of Manhattan Mother on CBS was recently married to .Jack Bordeaux, radio singer. WILLIAM M. CARPENTER, Columbia U graduate, has joined WRAL. Raleigh, N. C. as publicity director, succeeding Howard Hamrick. .1. B. Clark, sportscaster, has joined the AVRAL announcing staff. JACK PAYNE, of WTMJ, Milwaukee, recently was hospitalized with a fractured jaw and slight brain concussion resulting from a motor accident. PETE PRINGLB, editor of the CBS Hollywood news bureau, is the father of a boy, born Oct. 9. Grubb's Song WHEN Oklahoma City's Downtown Qtiarterbacks saw the need for a new Oklahoma U football song, a committee approached Gayle Grubb, manager of WKY, with the suggestion that the station sponsor a song contest. Manager Grubb, a football fan and something of a composer himself, eliminated necessity for further search by composing "Hail to Oklahoma", which made its debut between halves of the Oct. 14 game. Also one of radio's pioneer football announcers, Manager Grubb started his 15th consecutive year of stadium broadcasting when he handled the color commentaries for John Shafer's description of the Oklahoma-Northwestern game Oct. 7. NBC Hollywood Shifts REALIGNMENT of executive personnel has been put into effect at NBC Hollywood studios by Don E. Gilman, western division vice-president. Reshuffling created three new positions and coordination of the duties of two department executives. Walter Baker, formerly general service manager, has taken over the newly-created post of office manager of NBC Artists Service, under management of Alex Robb. Three subdivisions under Baker's former supervision — btiilding management, maintenance and general service — have been turned over to aides, responsible to Lew Frost, assistant to Gilman. Walter Davidson, supervisor of studio tours, has been transferred to the sales promotion department as assistant to Charles Brown, head of that division on the Pacific Coast. William J. Andrews has relinquished the post of night program supervisor to Marvin Young. He is now manager of guest relations department which includes totir guides, receptionists and ticket distribution. Young also continues as assistant program director under John Swallow. Opera Names Weber HENRY WEBER, musical director of WGN, Chicago, has been named general musical director of the Chicago City Opera Company for the coming season. In addition, Mr. Weber will conduct several of the 40 operas to be given. At 38, Mr. Weber has a record of 20 years as conductor of world famous operatic orchestras including the Chicago Civic and operas at Bremen, Germany, and Florence, Italy. Mr. Weber is a graduate of the Imperial Academy of Music at Vienna. Lucille's Crew WHEN the new home of Lucille Long, singer on the WLS National Barn Dance, was recently completed everyone who had worked on the house was invited to a broadcast. Paper hangers, truck drivers and painters filled a special section of Chicago's Eighth Street theatre during the show. Personnel and Facilities In Ontario Are Widened By Thomson Interests WITH establishment of a new company, combining the broadcasting and publishing enterprises of Roy H. Thomson in Northern Ontario, ope^rates^"cFCH! Mr. Cooke North Bay; CJKL, Kirkland Lake; CKGB, Timmins; the Timmins Daily Press; the weekly French language paper La Voix Pojndaire, Timmins; the weekly Larder Lake (Ont.) Sun; and the Northern Directory Co. Jack Cooke, 27, for three years sales manager of Northern Broadcasting Co., in Toronto, has been appointed general manager of the broadcasting division of the company. He was with the sales organization of Colgate-PalmolivePeet Co. in Toronto before joining Northern Broadcasting. He will make his headquarters in Timmins, visiting each station frequently and also keeping in touch with the Toronto sales office. George Brown, new to radio, has been taken on as operator at ^ CKGB. Paul Vatcher, also new to radio, has been appointed operator at CJKL. Hal Cooke, new to radio, has joined the announcing staff at CFCH. Dan Carr, formerly announcer at CKGB, becomes sales manager. Sonya Barnett, continuity writer at CFCH, is now at CKGB. Julian G a r s o n , announcer at CHML, Hamilton, Ont., has been appointed announcer at CKGB. Bill Wren, former manager of CKGB, has been appointed editor of the Timmins Daily Press. Building of a new two-story home of CKGB and the Timmins Daily Press, which was stopped at the outbreak of war, has been resumed, and the structure is expected to be completed by spring, j Three studios, control room offices . and the news room of the daily ' will occupy the second floor. The building is the most modern in northern Ontario. Shecklen for Isbell GEORGE SHECKLEN, recently returned from Shanghai where he had charge of RCA Communica ^ tions affairs in China, has been appointed manager of the company's ; commercial department in New York, succeeding Arthur Isbell, who retired Sept. 29 after 37 years of radio work. Mr. Isbell installed the wireless equipment in the i steamship President in 1907 and | sailed as operator with the ship, first vessel of the U. S. Merchant Marine to carry radio into the Pacific. Mr. Shecklen's radio career dates from 1911 when he joined the United Wireless Telegraph Co. in operations work. After serving in the Navy during the war, he joined RCA in 1919 and has held successively the posts of radio operator, chief accountant, cashier, commercial representative and assistant superintendent in San Francisco until 1928, when he was sent to China. Page 48 • October 15, 1939 BROADCASTING • Broadcast Advertising