Broadcasting (Jan - June 1945)

BEHIMD ROBEaiT ALLEN, formei announcer and newswiiter of WKY Oklahoma City, has joined the Blue Network central division as newswriter. replacing JANET POMEROY, who resigned. JIM TRAUTWEIN, an undergraduate at the U. of Michigan who has been a substitute announcer for two years at WSPD Toledo, has returned to the staff for the holiday season. RLA.RTHA HENRIQUEZ. has been named promotion manager of WIOD Miami, replacing FRANK MALLANTS, who resigned because of poor health. NADINE AMOS, manager of Blue Hollywood general service department and prior to that secretary to DON GILMAN, former network vice-president, has resigned. Miss Amos had been associated with NBC and Blue Networks for 15 yeai-s. JOHNNY COX, released from the Army, has been named to handle promotion and publicity for KFOR Lincoln, Neb. W. RICHARD TUCK, chief announcer at KFFA Helena. Ark., married FAYE HORNBECK last Aug. 20. W. TAYLOR TAPPAN is a new member of KFFA Helena, Ark., joining the station as program director Oct. 1. NUMA FABRE, chief announcer of WAJR Morgantown, W. Va., is now program director. JOHN D. GIBBS is new chief announcer. MITCHELL SIMON has joined the announcing staff. SGT. ROBERT C. KAPPAS, former writer, actor and producer with WLW Cincinnati, is now producing shows and editing the camp newspaper for the Army somewhere in Italy. DICK ALLEN and JOHN BOYER have joined KTRB Modesto, Cal. as announcers. SGT. FRANK TRAVERSI, foi-mer San Diego announcer now at Fort Lewis. Wash., is working as part-time operatorannouncer at KGY Olympia, Wash. ELIOT JEFFORDS, of the sales promotion staff of KYW Philadelphia, has resigned to join the American Red Cross for foreign duty. She is replaced by MARY WHITAKER. HAL HALLEY, writer and commentator of KMTR Hollywood, is the father of a girl. Hicks, Cassidy Escape Death in German Attack GEORGE HICKS, Blue Network correspondent in the European Theatre, in a broadcast Dec. 24. told how he and other newsmen, including James Cassidy, NBC. narrowly escaped death when the front wall of a house was blown in in the Stavelot-Bastognet area, on a highway leading to the front. Four men, whose identity he did not give, were killed in the disaster, the result of strafing by German fighter bombers. Mr. Hicks said, "I received only the tiniest cut on the left cheek and a scratch on the back of the left hand." Occupants of the house were knocked down. A piece of debris fell across the back of Mr. Cassidy. NBC said last week that Mr. Cassidy apparently had not been seriously injured and had not missed a broadcast. Horace Horace has * year after year h.s poP -"V-«-'t:»^s.s.narrr,..-a^ Co.. 36^«> onrhe air.and-nrhem Col. 36576 ,OY PIANO WNVP :::;,..H.H-.T OPTICAS DEULAH Co\. 36525 Co\. 36370 Co\. 36337 more than 50 DISC NEW YORK CHICAGO HOLLYWOOD DIRECTORS GUILD ASKS TO BARGAm RADIO Directors Guild, New York, which last May announced its decision to change from the status of a societv to a labor union, has notified CBS, NBC, Blue and Mutual that it is now the collective bargaining agent for the majority of directors employed by the networks, and has asked that a time and place be set for the start of negotiations. Declaration was contained in a Dec. 16 letter to the networks. Conferences are expected to begin after the first of the year. Contract to be submitted to the networks is based on a year's exploration of the entire director field, with individual members contributing data on current abuses and suggestions for improvement. Withholding details of the contract for the present, Jerry Devine, RDG president, said that it includes demands for a minimum wage scale, a specified work week and general elevation of work standards. For the present, negotiations will concern the New York group only, exclusive of the Hollywood branch. The eastern branch has attained a majority representation of nearly 98% at NBC, Blue and CBS, with a lesser proportion at Mutual, and prefers not to dissipate the majority required bv the War Labor Board by spreading over a wider field now, Mr. Devine said. With the addition of six new members the preceding week, the New York group has about 123 members, and the Hollywood unit 34 members, he said. NBC Recording Division Innovates Musical Series NBC Radio Recording Division has announced Music of Manhattan, produced with noted musicians from name bands by Norman Cloutier, musical director of the division, as the first of a series of innovations planned for the Thesaurus Library Program Service. Series, to be started as three quarter-hours a week, was built in accordance with requests from stations for a good popular musical series of material not available on phonograph records or otherwise, according to C. Lloyd Egner, NBC vice-president in charge of recording. Mr. Egner said last week that the division's recording facilities will be greatly expanded in the near future and that a processing plant for making plates will be set up at NBC so that this work will not have to be sent to Camden as it is at present. Paul Allison PAUL ALLISON, 41, announcer of KMPC Hollywood, and prior to that at KMTR Hollywood, died Dec. 21 following a brief illness. Surviving besides his widow is a son in Army Air Corps. ,JPage 42 • January 1, 1945 MISREPRESENTATION in radio and other advertising of a book Perfect Sight Without Glasses is charged in a complaint issued last week against Emil A. Bates, New York, by the Federal Trade Commission. According to complaint, it is not possible to obtain perfect sight or improve sight by following the courses in the book. ROADCASTING • Broadcast Advertising