Broadcasting (Oct - Dec 1945)

Situations Wanted (Cont'd) tui-Chief engineer, extensive experience. . I Available one month. Box 447, BROAD i CASTING. Writer — Veteran: Publishing and adver! tising production experience. Seeks opportunity where writing ability is rei quired. Will accept any opening in radio, agency, public relations or promotion in New York. F. S. Lida, 1335 Col ■ . lege Ave., New York City 56. Wish to sell radio time for you. Six years radio; now employed. A hustler. References. Box 448, BROADCASTING. 3 year personality. Ad lib, M.C., sports staff, excel in disc-onality shows. Prefer west coast. Box 452, BROADCASTING^ Engineer, first class, age 38, single, sober, 23 years in radio wishes permanent position with one, or group of stations, where good workmanship and technical maintenance ability is the first requisite. N.B.C. and M.B.S. experience, can do console operation and some announcing. W. V. Rockefeller, Wood River, Nebraska. Young man, ambitious, pleasant person' ality, good speech, desires beginning radio career announcing, location near New York preferred, any section acceptable. Please reply William Kinsley, 1579 Metropolitan Ave., Bronx 62 New York. Sports announcer, tops in ice hockey broadcasts, complete background publicity and promotion, expects discharge before Christmas. Transcriptions and references. Write Sgt. Jack Sandler, Squadron A-l, Boca Raton Field, Flor ida. ' Singing announcer — Ten years with prominent, large midwest station. Program organization, production, large vocal library. Go anywhere, married. Larry Oliver, Box 87, Park Ridge Illinois. Combat and coconut happy vet after 4 years of bullets, blood, wants start in radio war of words. Can write bright | stuff, for people with minds open, clothes on. Joseph Horenstein, 300 Wain wright St., Newark, N. J. Veteran awaiting discharge. Three years radio announcing experience while in Army. Considerable stage experience as Master of Ceremonies. Desire announcer's job with future. Good newscaster. Go anywhere. Cpl., Johnny J. High, 2037 N. Park Ave., Fh'.adelphia. Television pioneer— Newspaperman seeks spot in television. 15 years experience in publishing, advertising, promotion, research; television surveys commended by FCC and top executives of radio industry. Veteran, U. S. Navy. Harry G6rdon, 1759 E. 17th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Former copy and continuity chief, N. Y. station. Commercials, spots, continuity, scripts, publicity. Agency experience. Want station or agency connection, N. Y. or west coast. Three years Army public relations. Nathan Berlin, 160 W. 77th St., New York, N. Y. Trafalgar 7-6962. Veteran, communications officer, first phone and amateur licenses, college graduate, major in statistics, desires commercial position in radio. Lt. G. S. Rooker, 4826 Garland, Dallas, Texas. 1st class operator: veteran, 6 years radio experience, including broadcast and research. Desires position with midwest station. Vernon Samuelson, Wyoming, Minnesota. Discharged Navy veteran, 28 and single, i desires position as transmitter operator I or combination operator and announcer. Hold first class radiotelephone license. Not looking for a gold mine but a good opportunity to get started again. Write B. H. Martin, 3119 Choctaw Drive, Baton Rouge 7, La. Experience (chief) announcer, versatile, 2 years 1000 w network affiliate. Newscommercials-sports. Amiable-ambitioussingle — will travel. Seeks position progressive station. Bob Miller, c/o William Honig, 294 Union Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Veteran — ex-program director, 50,000 w station, has network job available but desires medium size city. Qualified program or special events director. College graduate, thirty years old. Richard L. Linkroum, 53 East 87th St., New York, N. Y. Dicharged veteran, 2 years experience all phases radio broadcasting desires ; position with live-wire station. Married, 26 years old, go anywhere, prefer midwest. Ralph Andrews, 2823 W. Cleveland Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Announcer, very poor man's Ben Grauer, three years fifty kilowatt experience, can write, direct and produce. Prefer eastern station. Box 459, BROADCASTING. Situations Wanted (Cont'd) Engineer radio telegrapher, first telephone, second telegraph licenses, commercial traffic, copy press, experienced trouble shooter and maintenance man. Prefer middle Atlantic states. Box 449, BROADCASTING. Radio announcer, copy writer, vocalist, experienced. Air Force veteran technical background recording engineer. Audition record on request. Available immediately. Stan Gordoni, 1258 S. Michigan, Chicago. Phone: Webster 2162. Announcer. Veteran with college degree. 4 years announcing and production. Desires affiliation with station willing to advance man who can prove worth. Presently employed southeastern network outlet. Box 458, BROADCASTING. A non-drinking, veteran announcer seeks permanent position with progressive station, network or independent. Married. Age 28. Background includes all phases announcing: staff, news, sports and variety. Know production and copy techniques. No floater. Best references. Box 460, BROADCASTING. Announcer wants opportunity at production work. Five years experience announcing: special events, drama, news, studio shows, television. Background, training, some experience in production. Box 456, BROADCASTING. Scripwriter — Daytime serials or plays, with merchandising tie-in approach. Copywriting, publicity, radio trade mag editing, radio production and buying experience. College grad, 32. Army officer available early December. Box 455, BROADCASTING. Veteran, 32, married with 8 years experience in administration, selling, programming and promotion. Would like to be associated permanently with a progressive, wide-awake station. Midwest location preferred. Box 454, BROADCASTING. Announcer — Navy veteran, 22, married, sober experience, news, commercials, controls. Third class ticket. Prefer west coast or middlewest. Permanent. Available January 1st. Box 461, BROADCASTING^ Available on or about first January. Hold radio phone first license since 1936. Experienced control room and transmitters. Solid time on ticket 1937 through 1941. Jan. '42 to Jan. '43 asst. radio engineer civil service. Army through ranks from private to captain in Army Airways Communications System, two years overseas supervising installation radio navigational aids, control towers, point to point and ground air stations throughout far east. Any reasonable salary to start. Age 31, married, one child. Interested also in sales engineering deal, with possibility of overseas. Captain Burton Reiman, 414 N. Gaylord Ave., Ludington, Michigan. Program director-production, newscaster employed wishes locate Florida or southern California. Knowledge programming, musical production supervision, hiring of announcers — ability give consistent Al news presentations. Start at $90.00, job with future, no 250 watters please. Box 462, BROADCASTING^ An energetic, sincere family man, 30 years old, desires radio sales position in progressive community. No radio experience, but 6 years sales background. Discharged veteran willing to start at moderate income with aggressive station. Excellent record. Request prior employers be contacted for statement of character, abilities and potentialities. Box 463, BROADCASTING. Chief engineer. Five years' experience. Year as chief. All phases operation, maintenance and supervision. Very best of references. Box 465, BROADCASTING. Script writer — Veteran, 36, creates own programs. Also direct and produces continuity and commercials. Howard Leviton, 527 Aldine Ave., Chicago 13, Illinois. Announcer, honorable discharge; 3 years announcing, production and writing experience. Diversified special service and public relation background while in service. Married. Desire affiliation with progressive eastern station. Box 466, BROADCASTING. Announcer-veteran. Limited experience. Studied announcing and commercial script writing, Radio City, N. Y. College graduate. Good radio voice. Will go anywhere. Transcription available. Jay Arnold, 1087 Blake Ave., Brooklyn 8, N. Y. Announcer — Ex-serviceman. Age 23, allround experience with NBC affiliate. Will travel anywhere — capable and willing to learn. Good references. Available immediately. Box 469, BROADCASTING. Wanted to Buy Wanted — RF Bridge and Field Intensity Meter, William Benns, Columbia, S. C. Poppele Praises Radio For 25 Year Progress IN A TRIBUTE from the television industry to "radio, the granddaddy of all forms of electronic communication", J. R. Poppele, president, Television Broadcasters Assn., praised the broadcasters of the U. S. for "25 years of remarkable achievement". Declaring that "radio's greatness may be traced to its very foundation — a foundation based on free enterprise," Mr. Poppele stated that "the precedents which broadcasters set. . . . during the past quarter of a century may well be absorbed by the television broadcaster who now faces a new era with equal resolve and astuteness." Current Food Problems Discussed on Broadcast NBC PRESENTED a series of interviews with prominent grocery manufacturers on quarter-hour network broadcast last Friday noon conducted by John MacVane, NBC commentator recently returned from the ETO, climaxing the 37th annual meeting of the Grocery Manufacturers of America, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York. Broadcast featured discussions on food problems, both domestic and foreign. Speakers were Paul S. Willis, president of GMA; Harry A. Bullis, president of General Mills Inc., and Austin Iglehart, president of General Foods Corp. At opening session of convention on Wednesday, Mr. Willis said that a recent GMA poll indicated that 53 out of 72 food companies plan to expand their advertising during the coming year, 40 of them by 20 per cent or more. Collect Food BESSIE BEATTY, WOR New York women's commentator, will officially launch the victory collection of canned foods in the metropolitan area with three special Thanksgiving food parties all to be held Nov. 14 at the WOR-Mutual Playhouse. Contributed foods will be sent to the hungry people of Europe, Philippines and China. The first party will occur during Miss Beatty's regular broadcast 10:1511 a.m. with Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt as guest of honor. Second party will have Helen Hayes as feature guest at 1:15-1:30 p.m., and the last party at 4-4:30 p.m. will present The Better Half Matinee to be emceed by Tiny Ruffner. Sports Questions SPORTS QUIZ is latest feature of "Sports Clinic" on WKBZ Muskegon, Mich., every Thursday. First four to send in correct answers to questions asked on show receive a sports book of their own selection. Barrett Is Heard RAY BARRETT, war veteran and announcer on "Modern Farmer" program on WEAF New York, is making a series of talks before Rotary Clubs in the New York area on "What the Returning Serviceman Expects". ANNUAL ENGINEER'S MEET IS RESUMED ANNUAL Broadcast Engineering Conference will be resumed next year under joint sponsorship of Ohio State U. and U. of Illinois, with NAB and IRE again participating. Meetings were suspended in 1943 for the duration. Date set for 1946 conference is March 18-23, at Ohio State U., Columbus. Thereafter the sessions will alternate between Ohio State and the U. of Illinois. Director of the project is Dr. W. L. Everitt, of the Illinois Dept. of Electrical Engineering, with Prof. E. M. Boone, Ohio State, as associate director. Some 400 engineers from all branches of the industry are expected at the 1946 meeting. Prof. Boone is considering the agenda, with emphasis to be placed on effect of developments since 1942 on operating problems in broadcast engineering, including FM and television. Two Die in Plunge WIFE and eight-year-old son of Robert Donley, WINS New York announcer, plunged to their deaths from a 12th-story window of William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh Nov. 7. Deputy Coroner James Hart said Mrs. Katherine Donley, about 32, apparently threw the child, James Patrick, out of the window and then jumped. He said Mrs. Donley left a note saying she was grieved over a divorce suit filed by her husband, who, she wrote, had told her he "wanted to go on with his career . . . that Pat and I were obstacles in his way." Mr. Donley, former announcer of WCAE Pittsburgh, said he talked with his wife two weeks earlier "and she seemed her usual self." AMA Officers Elected LYMAN L. HILL, director of Servel sales research, last week was elected president of the American Marketing Assn., succeeding Donald M. Hobart, research director of Curtis Pub. Co. Other officers include: Paul W. Stewart, Stewart Brown & Assoc., N. Y., and Robert T. Browne, director of commercial research, Pillsbury Flour Mills Co., Minneapolis, vice-presidents; Wilford White, chief, special studies unit, Bureau Foreign & Domestic Commerce, Commerce Dept., treasurer; Harvey W. Huegy, assoc. prof, of marketing, U. of HI., secretary. Arthur Hurd, director of media research, J. Walter Thompson Co., N. Y., is among those serving second year as directors. Leyden at KMPC WILLIAM THOMAS LEYDEN Jr., for past two years AAF pilot and prior to that, announcer of WJBK Detroit, has joined KMPC Hollywood announcing staff. Hayes Reports LT. COL. JOHN S. HAYES, chief of American Forces Network, previously headquartered in Paris, has reported for temporary duty at Armed Forces Radio Service, Los Angeles. Lt. Hendrick Booream, USNR, and former Hollywood producer of Young & Rubicam Inc., is now in charge of AFN operations.