Broadcasting (July - Dec 1942)

ARCH KEPNER, chief announcer, and Alan Taulbee, announcer of WQXR, New York, have been sworn in to the U. S. Navy for aviation cadet training. Taulbee has ah-eady left, and Kepner is awaiting his call to active duty. Sergeant William D. Strauss, former chief announcer, now with the Army at Fort .Jackson, S. C. has qualified for an officers' training course leading to a commission on the Adjutant General's staff. He leaves shortly for Washington. TUiVl MOORE, announcer of WIBG, Glenside, Pa., and now an aviation cadet, has announced his engagement to Dolores Yvonne Mellberg. daughter of Capt. Carl C. E. Mellberg, chaplain of the 34th Bombardier Group, the outfit to which he is attached. JIM MOORE, formerly assistant program manager of ICSFO, San Francisco, has joined the Army. RAY McGUIRB, formerly of WNOE, New Orleans, has joined KSFO, San Francisco, as announcer. BOB BRYAR, formerly announcer of WJWC, Chicago-Gary, has joined the announcing staff of WAIT, Chicago. EDDIE THAYER and Pat Ebert, graduates of Beck School of Radio, Minneapolis, are new announcers at KOBH, Rapid City. S. D.. and WIBU, Poynette, Wis., respectively. WHITMEL FORBES LATHROP and Elwood Stutz are new announcers of WRVA, Richmond. Virginia McDonald has joined the reception department. MAURICE GORHAM, director of North American transmissions of the British Broadcasting Corp., was in Toronto recently as part of his tour of Canadian and American centers to cheek up on BBC programs heard here. MARTHA ROSS BIGGERSTAFF has been named regular announcer at WNOX, Knoxville. GORDON TUELL, music librarian of KIRO, Seattle, was recently the father of a girl, his second child. TED ARNOLD, publicity director of WSAZ. Huntington, W. Va., recently joined the Army. ROLAND TRENCHARD, formerly director of promotion of O'Meali'a Outdoor Adv., has been appointed public relations director of WAAT, Newark, succeeding Walter Patrick Kelly, now in the Army. BRUCE MATTHEWS, formerly announcer of WAPO and WOV", has joined the announcing staff of WPAT, Paterson, N. J. Matthews also works a full shift at the Wright Aeronautical Corp. KEITH GUNTHER, assistant manager of WHN, New York, has reported for active duty as ensign in the Naval Reserve. BOB WALTER, formerly of WWNY, Watertown, N. Y., has joined the announcing staff of WJTN, Jamestown, N. Y. ART BOULDEN and Fen Job, announcers of CKCL, Toronto, have joined the Royal Canadian Air Force. CAPT. GORDON McCLAIN, formerly announcer and operator of CKPR, Fort William, Ont., CKCL, Toronto, and CKTB, St. Catherines, Ont.. is now with the signal section of the Canadian Tank Corps stationed at Brockville, Ont., as an instructor at the officer's training camp. ROSS GIBSON, formerly of KUOA, Siloam Springs, Ark., has enlisted in the communications division of the Navy. MARGARET SPESSARD, program director of KWBW. Hutchinson, Kan., on Aug. 10 will be married to Bob McCreery of KIUL, Garden City, Kan. LES MITCHEL, producer of CBSChicago, has succeeded Blair Walliser as director of the CBS daytime serial Helen Trent. Mr. Walliser is now a lieutenant in the Coast Guard. His successors as producers of other network programs are Lou Jacobson on MBS Citizens of Tomorroio and NBC Backstage Wife ; Ruth AValliser, his sister, on MSB Gveat Artists. MARION STEVENS, for four years radio and literary editor of the Miami Herald, has joined the magazine division of the CBS publicity department. Helen Pa.yne, of CBS television, and Betty Todd of the continuity department of WBT, Charlotte, have joined the CBS production dei)artment. IRVIN S. R. CARLIN, freelance radio and short story writer, has joined the continuity department of WMCA, New York. HARRY CANFIELD. guide of NBCChicago, has entered the Army. New guides are Gerald Ravenscroft and John Condit. JANE TRENT has joined WSBA, York. Pa., as news announcer-operator. He comes from WCHS, Charleston, W. Va. EDMUND DAWES becomes director of education of WFIL, Philadelphia, succeeding William C. Galleher. who goes to Westinghouse. Joe Novenson, WFIL announcer, has joined the Army Air Force, stationed at Kelly Field, Tex. JACK STEWART, announcer of CFAC, Calgary, has joined CKCL, Toronto. A. MIKE VOGEL, formerly chairman of manager's round table department of Motion Picture Herald and at one time with Loew's Theatres, New York, has been named director of publicity and special promotion of AVHN, New York. He replaces Al Simon, now radio director of the New York branch of the U. S. Treasury Dept. war savings staff. GILBERT FIELD, sales promotion director of WCHS, Charleston, W. Va., has enlisted in the Army. BURLEIGH SMITH, formerly announcer of KRBC, Abilene. Tex., has joined the announcing staff of KOB, Albuquerque, N. M. VIVIAN KELLY, of the CBS education department, on July 26 was married to Lt. Marvin Peters in New York. HENRY EAST, chief announcer of WRBL, Columbus, Ga., has been transferred as temporary manager of WGPC, Albany. SCRANTON, PA. and other stations, large and small, coast to coast Available also to agencies and advertisers. For full details, write Cap Cotton says : During the marketing season of 1940-41, gross receipts of cotton in Memphis amounted to 4,938,859 bales, which, based on a fair average, would be valued at ^270,550,696.00. More than 40,000 people make their livelihood from the cotton industry in Memphis. Memphis sales of vegetable and animal oils total nearly ^20,000,000.00. Memphis, the hub of this vast market, is today not only the cotton capital of the world ... it is also an industrial center of importance. For while cotton alone accounts for 17 to 18 per cent of total business transacted in Memphis, the diversity of her industry assures Memphis of a steady, year-round prosperity. You can reach this market over WMC, the MidSouth's pioneer radio station. I George £. Halley TEXAS RANGERS LIBRARY HOTEL PICKWICK • KANSAS CITY. MO. Memphis, Tennessee 5,000 W^ATTS DAY • 1,000 WAHS NIGHT NBC RED NETWORK • OWNED AND OPERATED BY The Commercial Appeal REPRESENTED NATIONALLY BY THE BRANHAM CO. Member of South Central Quality Network WMC Memphis WJDX Jackson, Miss. WSMB New Orleans KWKH-KTBS — Shreveport BROADCASTING • Broadcast Advertising August 10, 1942 • Page 35