Broadcasting (July - Dec 1942)

HELEN PAYNE, of the CBS production staff, is pinch-hitting as producer for Valiant Lady, the General Mills show on CBS, while Ken Fickett takes his vacation. Miss Payne will substitute for other CBS iiroducers on vacation. ILKA CHASE, commentator on the weekl.v NBC Luncheon Date With Ilka Chase, after several weeks in Hollywood on a film assignment, has returned to New York and goes into rehearsal for "Susan & God", stage production. Miss Chase resumes her program Sept. 5 after a six-week layoff. C. J. MARSHALL, for 13 years credit manager of KHJ, Hollywood, has .joined the Army as private. He served in the last World War. IAN SMITH, former Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Toronto producer, has , made four transatlantic flights in addition to several other special flights since he left the CBC last January. He is a navigation officer in the Royal Air Force Ferry Command, his present job being navigator for famed America flyer Capt. Clyde Pangborn. TED ARCHER, new member of the announcing staff of CBL and CBY, Toronto, is a veteran of the Second World AVar. He returned to Canada in April, honorably discharged following an accident which incapacitated him for further active service. HOWARD RAY, formerly in the commercial department of KPRO, Riverside, Cal., has been named program manager. ARC YOU PUBLIC (Ky-) BENEFACTOR? v„« can » „e ...» en.er«.i°»<"" ,^ ._bul dotft expect a ToL and Pigeon--* Area,-* Peoples Louisvdle .„^oie, business bonanza. 1 .nc ic/ of Kentucky's total dfeiden*. K ^ ^ L vbere entertainment pay the market « your «Uat you «ant,^^^^^ p„o., r complete coverage ^^^^^ „eed it, is yours tor 5000 Vlatts r o. PETERS, ^ N B C. Basic Red HAL GRAVES, announcer of WWRL, New York, has joined the Enlisted Reserve of the Signal Corps and is studying aeronautical radio communications at the Melville Radio School. Graves, who holds an amateur radio license, will continue announcing at WWRL until called into service. WILLIAM LITTLEDALE, guide of NBC Chicago, has joined the Navy as a first class radio technician. CLEVE CONWAY, announcer of NBC Chicago, is the father of a girl born July 14. BILL CONRAD, producer of KMPC, Beverly Hills, Cal., on the weekly quarter-hour Hermit's Cave, sponsored by Simoniz Co., has joined the Army Air Forces and is stationed at Santa Ana, Cal. George Sales, news rewrite man, has joined the Office of War Information in San Francisco. BRUCE WENDELL, formerly announcer of WNEW and WHN, New York, and Mark Gregory, recently of the Yankee Network, have joined the announcing staff of WOV, New York. MARIE HOULAHAN. publicity director of CBS, San Francisco, has been given the added duties of director of special events at KQW, CBS afiiliate. HAL McINTYRE, announcer of KYA, San Francisco, resigned to join the technical staff of KSFO, San Francisco. DAVE ORMONT has joined KGFJ, Los Angeles, as announcer. He succeeds Joe Tomes, who resigned to join KSFO, San Francisco. BOB GARRED, CBS Hollywood newscaster, portrays a football announcer in the Columbia film, "Spirit of Stanford". WILLIS VAN. CBS Hollywood sales promotion statistician, has resigned to join the Navy. JACKSON PARKER, formerly of NBC Hollywood artist service, and now a lieutenant in the Army, has been appointed post theatre officer at Keesler Field, Miss. AUDREY MAYS, formerly writer and commentator on the twice-weekly quarter-hour program, Sally Madison Shoppint/ for You, on WWL, New Orleans, has joined Weed & Co., Hollywood, as office manager and secretary to Haan J. Tyler, West Coast manager. OTIS MORSE, formerly chief announcer of WORK. York, Pa., has been named program director of WSBA, York, new 1,000 watt daytime regional scheduled to begin operation late in the summer. MANTON MARRS has joined the news bureau staff of KVOO, Tulsa. DONALD BROOKS, news editor and commentator of WORL, Boston, reported July 18 for active duty as a first lieutenant in the Army. He is to be stationed at Camp Upton, N. Y. LUELLA RUTH CANNAM NINE YEARS on the staff of WOW, Omaha, is the record of Luella Ruth Cannam. She entered radio as a pianist and instrumental ensemble director. Her aim was to present musical programs that were unusual and different, and as a result her Singing Violins, Nightingale and Serenaders and The Merrymakers all clicked. Later Luella expanded her activities into the commercial field and now, in addition to her musical work, she is a star advertising salesman for the station. One of Luella's hobbies is her musical library in which she has collected over 1,000 compositions for string ensemble, 300 of them being her own arrangements. ELEANOR HANSON, women's activities director of WHK-WCLE, Cleveland, has been appointed chairman of women's radio activities of the War Savings Staff of Ohio. GORDON CARTER, director of the Little Theater of St. Louis and producer-director of the Civic Theater, has joined the production stafE of KMOX, St. Louis. ERNIE HARWELL, sports announcer of WSB, Atlanta, has enlisted in the Marine Corps. He is succeeded by Add Penfield, who has been with WDNC, Durham, and WPTF, Raleigh. CLETE LEE, Arthur LeTourneau and Vern More, announcers of KIDO, Boise, Ida., are now in military service. o%ni€L • • • A big, concentrated selling job at surprisingly low rates Affiliated in management with WJR, Detroit, WGAR, Cleveland. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE: PAUL H. RAYMER CO. BROADCASTING • Broadcast Advertising