Broadcasting (Jan - June 1940)

WFM J Yonngstown Ohio The only B^BC station hetween Cleveland and Pittshnrgh. Our bilingual service covers the meeting place oF Spanish and English markets. The Shortest Route to the rich AKRON MARKET is via Akron's Popular Station, WJW AKRON, OHIO Representatives Headley-Reed Company DAVID W. SIEVERS, announcer of WGBR, Goldsboro, N. C, is the author of the play, "Doors That Slam", which was produced and presented in mid-April on MBS by the Carolina Playmakers. Sievers wrote the play while a student at North Carolina U, where he majored in dramatics before graduating in February. WGBR carried the play by special permission. JACK KELLY, of the sports department of WWL, New Orleans, on June 18 is to marry Katherine Chester, of Atlanta. VERNE WILSON, formerly of KSFO. San Francisco, recently was added to the announcing staff of KYA, San Francisco. WADE HAMILTON, formerly of KTUL, Tulsa, Okla., and for the last six months demonstrating and teaching the Hammond organ and novachord in the St. Louis region, has returned to KTUL as organist. In addition to his radio work, he has opened a studio and is offering courses in the instruments through his "Visichord" method. Bob McWilliams, graduate of the Oklahoma U school of journalism, has joined the KTUL news staff. JIM O'NEIL, head of the news department at KJBS, San Francisco, is now also head of the news department at KQW, San Jose, Cal. DON HAMBLY, program director of KRB, Berkeley, Cal., is the father of a boy born recently. JOE GOODELL of the guest relations staff of KPO-KGO, San Francisco, was married recently. DANE LUSSIER, Hollywood writer of the CBS program. It Happened in Hollywood, sponsored by George A. Hormel & Co., had his first play, "Come to My House," presented April 18 at the local Footlight Theatre, as tryout for New York. MANNY MANHEIMER, HoUywood scenario writer, has joined the script staff of the NBC Chase d Sanborn Show, sponsored by Standard Brands, assisting Dick Mack. REID KILPATRICK, formerly announcer of the old KBHE, Los Angeles, has joined KHJ, that city. WILLIAM FAGAN, formerly of the Macy group of Westchester newspapers, has joined the news staff of WNEW, New York. Paul Schreiner, studio assistant on the WNEW Make Believe Ballroom program, has been appointed manager of the station's Softball team. JAMBS WAHL, producer of KGU, Honolulu, who came to California to study television, entered Cottage hospital, Santa Barbara, Cal., in midApril to undergo a mastoid operation. RICHARD HOGUE, formerly of KDKA, Pittsburgh, has joined the announcing staff of WHN, New York. DON WILSON, Hollywood announcer, has been signed by Paramount for a role in the film "Comin' Round the Mountain." JACK COPELAND, news editor of the Arizona Network, Phoenix, has been contracted by a New York publisher to write a series of articles dealing with the attitude of Mexican citizens toward the United States. EDWARD HOERNER, graduate of Holy Cross College and Loyola College of Music, has joined the production department of WWL, New Orleans. ARCH OBOLER, NBC Hollywood playwright, has been assigned to do the MGM screen version of "Escape," story of Nazi Germany. KNOX MANNING, CBS Hollywood newscaster, provided the narration for a new series of Columbia film shorts on wrestling. PAT FREDERICKS has joined KWOS, Jefferson City, Mo., as chief of the news and sports departments. Elliott Roosevelt Heard Over TSN for Dr. Lyons ABSENT from the air as a regular commentator since the expiration of his MBS contract with Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp. last winter, Elliott Roosevelt, son of the President and head of the Texas State Network, returned April 24 on 12 TSN stations with a new series of sponsored commentaries. Titled America Looks Ahead, the programs are heard Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 7-7:15 p.m., under sponsorship of R. L. Watkins Co., subsidiary of Sterling Products, for Dr. Lyons Tooth Powder. Blackett-Sample-Hummert placed the account. TSN outlets carrying the series are KFJZ, Fort Worth, owned by Mr. Roosevelt and his wife; KLRH, Midland; KBST, Big Spring; KRBC, Abilene; KGKL, San Angelo; KVWC, Vernon; KPLT, Paris; KCMC, Texarkana; WACO, Waco; KTEM, Temple; KNOW, Atistin; KABC, San Antonio. PERRY LAFFERTY, formerly director of music at the New Haven branch of WBRY, Waterbury, Conn., has joined CBS in New York as an assistant director. EDWARD CHARLES KOOPS, dramatic director of WSJS, WinstonSalem, N. C, was a member of the board of judges for the sixth annual one-act play tournament staged April 17-19 under the direction of the city recreation department. RICHARD WYNN, formerly of KYA, San Francisco, and winner of the Sidney Garfinkel Adv. Agency announcer's award last year, has joined KSFO. HELEN SCHINDLER, on the announcing staff of WDAS, Philadelphia, has announced her engagement to Leonard Lipkin. ROSALIND ROULSTON, formerly in the continuity department of WABC, New York, has joined the KNX. Hollywood, continuity staff. HAL TUNIS, announcer of WIBG, Glenside, Pa., on May 1 married Sylvia Lipsehutz. PAUL PIERCE, CBS Hollywood continuity editor, and Bob Garred, news commentator, will shortly apply for their private plane pilot iicenses. JACK RIASKA, production manager and announcer of KLO, Ogden, Utah, is recovering from a recent tonsillectomy. JIMMIE ALLEN says: "I believe I can give you bigger sales increases per dollar spent than you can get by any other method — let me prove it." Up to 650 transcribed episodes (World transcribed) available. Proven merchandising plan. You can buy rights for any book — 65 episodes per book. Write for price and information,— stating number of episodes wanted, radio stations, etc. Audition record sent $4.00 C. O. D. Money back when returned. RUSSELL C. COMER CO. 1G1 W. 11th St., Kansas City, Mo. GARDEN GOODS prizes got a big play on the opening Question Market woman's quiz program early in April, when it started on WRC, Washington. Shown here with the two winners of the first program— they finished in a dead heat and split the booty — is the feature's guiding light, Mary Mason (center), WRC director of women's programs. With six women contestants matching wits, each qtaestion asked by "Cousin Mary" was graded by some item to be found in the assortment of groceries handed each contestant as the competition opened. At the finish, the woman missing the fewest questions wins all the forfeited groceries — except that they are split in event of a tie, as here. GEORGE TOLIN, formerly of KSAN San Francisco, has joined the sports announcing staff of KROW, Oakland. Don Logan, formerly radio columnist of the Oakland Post-Enquirer, has joined the KROW continuity staff. EMERSON WALDMAN, formerly in the NBC publicity department in New York, is the author of Beckoning Ridge, his third novel, to be published in November by Henry Holt & Co., New York. JIM MOORE, announcer of KRE, Berkele.y, Cal., is convalescing from a serious illness. BILL PARSONS and Mike Ashman announcers of KSAN, San Francisco, recently joined KTOH, Lihue, Hawaii. MARJORIE LUETHI, continuity writer of WBAP, Forth Worth, recently entered her black cocker spaniel. Black Knight's Mamba, in the Fort Worth National Dog Show, winning second place in the novice class. DON LOGAN, formerly radio editor of the Oakland Post-Enquirer, has joined KROW, Oakland, Cal., as continuity writer. JOE HASEL, formerly announcer of WNYC, New York's municipal station, and assistant to Ted Husing in covering tennis matches on CBS, has joined WNEW, New York, to assist Earl Harper on baseball broadcasts. GRACE LEGG, secretary to Walter B. Haase, program manager of WDRC, Hartford, Conn., has announced her engagement to Walter Holman. VIRGINIA TATE has joined the merchandising and publicity staff of WOAI, San Antonio. HAL JANIS, sports director of WMCA, New York, on April 17 became the father of a seven-pound baby boy. TRUMAN BRADLEY, Hollywoodannouncer-narrator, has been signed for a feature role in the Paramount film, "A Night at Earl Carroll's", now in production. He also played a leading role in "Northwest Passage." CHARLES M. ANDERSON, formerly announcer-producer of KOA, Denver, has joined KHJ, Los Angeles, replacing Don Currlin, who resigned to freelance. S. P. OCHILTREE of the Associated Press radio department. New York, has returned to his desk after a threeweek absence for an appendicitis operation. Page 54 • May I, 1940 BROADCASTING • Broadcast Advertising