Broadcasting (July - Dec 1941)

50,000 WATTS CBS 425,683 Listening Families* SH REVEPORT LOUISIANA Dominant Coverage in the Central Southwest Branham Co. Representatives *CBS Audit of .Nighttime Coverage I Serving Canada's Rich § J Pacific Coast Area, with § J Bonus Coverage of North § J ern U. S. Points. See any § I J. H. McGillvra office, or, § I in Canada, H. N. Stovin. § I CJOR I ^ Vancouver— Canada | ^ 1000 Watts 600 KC | ^ National Representatives ^ f J. H. McGillvra (U. S.) § I H. N. Stovin (In Canada) § You Can Dominate the 0.maha_Great Oo the n£D Network 590 KC. 5000 WATTS DAY 6r NIGHT PROF. ABBOT'S GRADS Michigan Radio Classes Are Well Represented PROF. WALDO ABBOT, who installed and directs the radio classes at the U of Michigan and who is author of the standard text Handbook of Broadcasting, taking notice of the crop of U of Iowa students going into radio [BROADCASTING, July 14], challenges any other institution to produce a bigger list of graduates than those of the Ann Arbor institution who are now with broadcasting stations. Michigan graduates now professionally employed at stations are : Peter Antonelli, WJLS. Beckley, W. Va. Howard Bressler Barnes, CBS production staff. Rowland Barbour, KVSF, Santa Fe, N. M. James Britt, Yankee Network director of sports. Charles Bowen. WSOO, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. Dorothy Caughey. WOKO, Albany. N Y Merle Clarke. WSAM, Saginaw, Mich. Don Chown, WJR. Detroit, Mich. W. Fritz DeFries, WHLS, Port Huron, Mich. Geraldine Elliott, WJR. Detroit, program director. Steve Filipiak, WIBM. Jackson, Mich. Frank Firnschild, WSOO, Sault St. Marie Mich. Jack Gelder, WJLS, Beckley, W Va Sylvia Goldstein, WKST, New Castle, Pa Ted Grace, WJR. Detroit. Joe Graham, WENY. Elmira, N Y Robert Hite, KWK. St. Louis. Mort Jampel, WSOO, Sault St. Marie. Mich Hazel Johnson. WNBF, Binghamton, N. Y Ruth Landwehr Landers, WAAT, Jersev City. Bob Lewis, WTRY, Troy. N. Y. Charles Livingston. WXYZ, Detroit Dorothy Lull, WAPI, Birmingham. Ted Mattson, WTOL, Toledo. Morris Mazer, WOOD, Grand Rapids Jack McCarthy, WXYZ, Detroit Carl Nelson, WTOL, Toledo. Esther Nelson, WRUL. Boston Ward Quail. WGN, Chicago. Caroline Rayburn. WJR, Detroit. William Rice, WJLB, Detroit (now in Army) . Jean Ruth, WHAT, Philadelphia. Jerry Schlafander, WSOO, Sault St. Marie Mich. Fred Shaffmaster. WSAM. Saginaw, Mich Stewart Sheill, WSAM, Saginaw, Mich Richard Slade, W45D (FM), Detroit Harman Stevens, WHLS, Port Huron Mich. Sidney Tremble, KSAL, Salina, Kan Myron Wallace, WXYZ, Detroit. Theo Holloman Whitted, WDNC, Durham N. C. Maryland Wilson. WFBC. Greenville, S, C David Zimmerman, WWJ, Detroit. Jack Zuideveld, WKZO, Kalamazoo, Mich. In addition, former Michigan radio speech students now in various positions where they use their microphone training include: Elizabeth Adams, teacher. Bob Jones College: Stuart Churchill, Fred Waring's Orchestra; Doris Ferry, J. Walter Thompson Co., New York: Donald Hargis. U of Oregon; Charles Harrell, Library of Congress : Ernie Jones, McManus, John & Adams, Detroit; E. A. Mcfail. U of Detroit; Sylvan Simon, director, MGM, Hollywood; Margaret Soenksen, McCann Erickson, Detroit ; Cadwell Swanson, J. Walter Thompson Co., New York; Jerome Weisner, Library of Congress; Alton Williams. U of Richmond. AXTICIPATIXG the juvenile market for Christmas, Kasper-Gordon Inc., Boston, is now releasing three juvenile serials for department and other stores — Santa's Magic Christmas Tree, Adventures in Christmas Tree Grove and Around the World With Santa Claus. To Conserve Gas REMOTE crews of WPID, Petersbui-g, Va., will travel to and from pickup points in one vehicle to conserve gasoline, according to Lee Chadwick, manager of the station. In the past, the engineer, announcer and production man often have used three separate vehicles where only one was actually required. If the current gasoline shortage continues into the Fall, remote football crews will travel by train instead of auto, Chadwick said. Last year WPID football crews covered more than 1,000 miles. Dr. Dunn Named Civilian Aide to Gen. Mauborgne DR. LAWRENCE J. DUNN, of Brooklyn, has been named civilian representative to aid Major General J. O. Mauborgne, chief signal officer of the Army, in coordinating the work of 2,400 Army amateur radio operators affiliated with the Signal Corps. At present amateurs are transmitting many messages for the Army as training for the voluntary Civilian Defense work they may perform during emergencies. Dr. Dunn will be adviser to the chief signal officer on all matters affecting these amateurs and will work with corps area radio aides in promoting interest by civilian amateurs as well as assist the amateur liaison officer of the Signal Corps, Major David Talley. Dr. Dunn will retain his civilian status and will receive no compensation. Dr. Dunn has long been interestea in amateur radio and served as a major in the Signal Corps in World War I. More Signed By ABTU, Technicians Available RUSS RENNAKER, manager of the Associated Broadcast Technicians Unit of IBEW, reports the signing of five agreements on a Midwest trip— KSO and KRNT, Des Moines; WMT, Cedar Rapids; WHBF, Rock Island; WAAF, Chicago. Negotiations are still in progress with KSTP, St. Paul, and WEBC, Duluth. Agreements also have been signed with WRUL, Boston, and WINS, New York. President Charles Warriner of Local 1220, Chicago, reports that in spite of recent reports that a shortage of technicians exist, his union is able to supply qualified men to stations. NLRB petitions for representation at WPAT, Paterson, N. J., and WBYN, New York, are reported to have been withdrawn by the American Communications Assn. (CIO) and negotiations are in progress at both stations with representatives of the ABTU. L ^ WIN WASHING Washington's Own Station WIN WASHINGTON WITH WINX CONTRO ROOM LOUIS McCOMAS YOUNG, chieengineer of KMOX, St. Louis, w& ordered Aug. 6 to active duty as : major in the Air Corps stationed a Wright Field, Dayton, O. CHARLES GIBBS, formerly chic engineer of WGTC. Greenville, N. C. has joined WSAZ, Huntington, W Va., supervising construction of ne\ transmitter and towers. ' HAROLD HACKBARTH, transmit ter engineer of WHBL, Sheboygan Wis., is the father of a girl, bon recently. KENNETH OLSON, formerlv chi< engineer of KORX. Fremont. Neb, has joined the engineering staff << KMA, Shenandoah. la. THOMAS PRICE, recent graduate the National Television Institute Kansas City, has joined the engineei ing staff of WKBN. Youngstown. (\ D. D. KAHLE. studi > engineer o KOA. Denver, and Mrs. Kahle af parents of a daughter, born in July. WILLIAM KUMPFER has been pr.. moted to studio engineer of KOA Denver, succeeding Bill Williams, as signed to NBC Hollywood. LEO SHEPARD, KNX, Hollywoodmaintenance engineer, is the fathe'-' of a 7 lb. boy born July 29. j JACK JOPLIN has been named chie engineer of WGAC, Augusta, Ga., suc' ceeding Merrill Prince, who has bee drafted and assigned to the engineer ing corps at Fort Belvoir, Va. WRDW Staff Institute* Group Defense Savings GROUP savings to encourage thi purchase of U. S. Defense Saving: bonds has become a 100% reality at WRDW, Augusta, Ga., accord" ing to W. R. Ringson, manager. The whole 14 of WRDW's em ployes, Mr. Ringson said, havi voluntarily agreed to have the sta tion deduct a certain amount eacl; : week from their paychecks. Whei an amount sufficient to purchase i bond has been accumulated by ai,' individual, the station purchases i in the name of the employe. Mr Ringson also declared that the sun! involved is left entirely up to thtindividual and that the movemem was an outgrowth of the station'n close contact with public speaker^jj^: who had made WRDW more con scious of the necessity for cooper atin,:^ in national defense. ^^^^^ When you see the Above Coat of Arms You Think of Nova Scotia When You Think of Nova Scotia You Must Think of CHNS i The Key Station of the Maritimes at Halifax Kep: WEED & CO. WINX BUILDING • WASHINGTON, D. C. Page 40 • August 11, 1941 BROADCASTING • Broadcast Advertising y