Broadcasting (Jan - Mar 1949)

Mr. Peterson TED COTT, WNEW New York vice president in charge of programing, has completed his fourth book, published by Hermitage Press, New York, and titled A Treasury of the Spoken Word. Book contains poems and prose with annotation and nterpretations by Mr. Cott, and was nspired by weekly WNEW program of same name. EDWIN R. PETERSON, formerly in sales department of ABC, has been named manager of Central Division of MBS. He will have headquarters in Detroit. Prior to joining ABC in 1941 where he worked for seven years, Mr. Peterson was with Chicago Better Business Bureau. WALTER HAASE, station manager of WDRC Hartford, Conn., has been named head of Greater Hartford radio publicity for Red Cross drive. BILL SINOR, national sales manager of KOPP and KOPP-FM Ogden, Utah, has been appointed assistant to general manager. He will continue to be responsible for all national sales and station promotion. CHARLES G. BURKE, KFGO Fargo, N. D., general manager, has been elected to board of directors of Fargo Gun and Wildlife Club. He has been named to committee for local Boy Scout Troop 127. Mr. Sinor GLENN PAYNE Killed in Jersey City GLENN W. PAYNE, 53, pioneer of network broadcasting at both AT&T and NBC, was found dead early on Feb. 24 near a crossing of the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks in Jersey City. He apparently had been struck by a tube train of the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad which uses the PRR tracks there. In 1920 Mr. Payne joined the radio department of AT&T where ihe was instrumental in the first network hookups set up by that company. In 1926, when AT&T [transferred its network holdings to ithe newly formed NBC, Mr. Payne ;went along as commercial engineer. He drafted the first network rate .cards, set up the first station relations department, developed the first network research and in many ways laid the foundation for many of the present day network operations. In 1942 Mr. Payne left NBC for war service, at first in Washing Respects (Continued from page A8) Tucson area. The National Safety Council has commended him for his work and Arthur Godfrey, on one of his network shows, called attention to the KTUC efforts for safety. In 1945 and early 1946 the station participated in an extensive fund raising campaign. And on Jan. 22, 1946, KTUC presented an iron lung to the Pima County Hospital. Later that year, when the newspapers went on strike in Tucson, the station re-arranged its schedule to allocate two 15-minute periods a day to the city's papers for the presentation of local news. Events of local interest were aired in the morning at 7:45 by the Arizona Daily Star and by the Tucson Daily Citizen at 5:30 p.m. Another promotion gimmick of Mr. Little's plugged not only his own station but also its rival and one of the KTUC advertisers. KTUC prints a booklet each month in which the program logs of both stations are presented, as well as a feature story spotlighting one of KTUC's advertisers. Mr. Little's theory in running the log of the rival station is: "More sets in use . . . with KTUC getting its share." Active With NAB Mr. Little's radio and public service activities are not confined to his station and Tucson. In 1947 he became a member of the NAB Small Market Stations Executive Committe and also is active in CBS District 9 affairs. Tall and slightly greying, Mr. Little presents that "man of distinction" look. He drinks coffee constantly, smokes one cigarette after another and sports a welltrimmed red mustache. He is sharp witted and has been known to indulge in a few practical jokes. Mr. Little is a member of the Tucson Rotary Club and serves on the board of directors of the local Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the Towncats, an organization interested in the U. of Arizona football team, and last June was elected president of the Sunshine Climate Club. At his home in the Tucson mountains Mr. Little spends many an hour in his workshop. As evidence of his handiwork, he can point with pride to an additional room which he built several years ago. A great lover of dogs, Mr. Little has always had at least one. He is now breeding dogs at his home. Vital statistics : He was born on Sept. 4, 1904, in Decatur, 111., the son of a piano tuner. While in Oklahoma he met and married Lou Wilson. The Littles have no children. ton and more recently on Gen. MacArthur's staff as an executive in domestic communications in Japan. He returned to this country last fall. He is survived by a widow and two daughters. W6T Charlotte General Manager Charles Crutchfield (r) assumes new role as a fund raiser. Kenneth (Red) Johnson, of the WBT Johnson Family Singers, station's manager for a day (Feb. 10), hands him prospectus on Davidson Collegs $2,500,000 development program and sends him out to work on the campaign. To point up the drive Davidson students took over various businesses in Charlotte for a day, and Mr. Johnson got the WBT ossignment. Station also alloted 50 spot announcements and two 15-minute programs to aid the collega. WBT's promotion manager, J. R. Covington, is serving as a radio reprssentative on the campaign promotion committee. DEVNEY APPOINTED Named Rambeau VP APPOINTMENT of Edward J. Devney, formerly on the New York sales staff of Headley-Reed Co., as vice president of the William G. Rambeau Co., New York, was announced last week by William M. Wilson, executive vice president and eastern sales manager of the firm. His appointment is effective immediately. Mr. Devney started in radio as a salesman at WHK-WCLE Cleveland, moving from there to WIBD Indianapolis. Later he joined the Howard H. Wilson Co., as New York manager. CALF SALE KDIX Helps Raise $13,000 OVER $13,000 was raised in the Dickinson, N. D., area for the infantile paralysis fund drive through the cooperation of KDIX Dickinson. Two "Polio Calf" sales were held last month at local livestock pavilions for the benefit of the drive, and broadcast by KDIX. The still snow-blocked roads caused small attendance at the auctions, but phone calls kept the sales going. Bids were called in from a radius of over 100 miles and were credited to their proper counties. KDIX gave five hours and 25 minutes of air time to the project, in addition to 254 spot announcements and 10 quarter-hour shows aired during the drive. Two telephone lines for bidders were available at KDIX and over 250 bids were received at the station. Each calf, contributed by local livestock firms, was sold over 400 times in the two auctions. NEWSMEN BILLS Action in 8 States — NARND" EIGHT state legislatures have received bills that would exempt radio and television newsmen from revealing their source of information, the National Assn. of Radio News Directors has announced. A survey conducted by Tom Eaton, chairman of NARND's standards committee and news director of WTIC Hartford, lists the states as: Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York and Oregon. Mr. Eaton said passage of the bills appears likely in all eight states. A measure to protect reporters of all media — radio, television, facsimile and newspapers — was introduced in New York's State Senate by Sen. Thomas C. Desmond and was reported out favorably Feb. 17 by the codes committee. The NARND survey shows that bills have been introduced in two states — Maine and Massachusetts — to exempt newspaper and wire service reporters only. NARND will fight to have the measures amended to include radio, television and facsimile newsmen, Mr. Eaton said. NARND launched its campaign for privilege laws for newsmen of all media last month, when the board of directors unanimously approved the association's support in the drive to secure passage of the bill in New York. NARND will push for passage in states where enactment appears possible, according to Sig Mickelson, WCCO Minneapolis news and special events director and president of NARND. INTERNATIONAL NAB Committee Expanded MEMBERSHIP of the special NAB committee studying international radio frequency allocations was expanded last week to include clearchannel representation. The committee was authorized by the NAB board at New Orleans [Broadcasting, Feb. 21] after hearing a report by Forney Rankin, advisor to NAB president on international affairs. G. Richard Shafto, WIS Columbia, S. C, NAB director-at-large for medium stations, was named chairman of the special committee. New member is John H. DeWitt, president of WSM Nashville and special engineering counsel for CCBS during FCC hearings. Other committee members are Everett L. Dillard, KOZY Kansas City, NAB director-at-large for Class B FM stations; Henry W. Slavick, WMC Memphis, NAB District 6 director; Calvin J. Smith, KFAC Los Angeles, District 16 director, and T. A. M. Craven, of Craven, Lohnes & Culver, Washington. The committee, named by NAB President Justin Miller, will cooperate in development of a government policy covering U.S. frequency and power requirements prior to the next NARBA conference. ^■3ge 52 • March 7, 1949 BROADCASTING • Telecasting