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7/19/44
COWLES GETTING ALL SET WHILE AWAITING FCC GREEN LIGHT
Extensive personnel changes in the Iowa Broadcasting Company and subsidiary companies, effective on the approval of applications now pending before the Federal Communications Commission were announced last week by Gardner Cowles, Jr,, President of the companies involved.
When pending applications are approved, the Iowa company will no longer own or operate KSO, Des Moines, or WMT, Cedar RapidsWaterloo, Its two Midwest stations will be KRNT, Des Moines, and WNAX, Yankton-Sioux City, Its three eastern stations will be TOOM, New York-Jersey City, WCOP, Boston, and WOL, Washington, D, C,
T. A, M. Craven, a Vice-President of the Iowa Broadcasting Company, will be the executive head of WOL, Washington, in addition to his duties as technical advisor on all engineering matters to all five of the company's stations,
Craig Lawrence, Vice-President and lAanager of KRNT and KSO, Des Moines, will move to New York to become head of WHOM, New YorkJersey City, and WCOP, Boston. A. N, Armstrong, Assistant Manager of WCOP and WORL, Boston, will become Manager of WCOP, Phil Hoffman, Manager of WNAX, Yankton-Sioux City, will move to Des Moines, suc¬ ceeding Mr, Lawrence as Manager of KRI\IT.
Don Inman, formerly Manager of the Waterloo offices of WMT, Cedar RapidsWaterloo, has moved to Yankton as Manager of WNAX, Art Smith, formerly Program Manager of WNAX, has moved to Sioux City as Manager of the WNAX studios in that city. Gene Loffler, formerly announcer at KRNT, has moved to Yankton as Program Manager,
Ted Enns, National Sales filanager of the Iowa company, will move to New York in his same capacity representing all five stations. Karl Haase, Assistant Treasurer of the Iowa Company, will move to New York in his same capacity on the three eastern stations.
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CAPITAL ANNOUNCER PLUNGES TO DEATH FROM PRESS CLUB
The body of J. Robert Ball, 2d years old, an announcer for Station WWDC in Washington, was found at 5:30 A. M, Monday following a 13 story plunge from the Press Club, shortly before he was to go on the air in a news broadcast. Officials at the studio said Mr,
Ball suffered a nervous breakdown two years ago, forcing him to leave Harvard University Law School.
He was likewise said to have been in good spirits recent¬ ly. Mr. Ball's sister, Mrs. Dorothy Campbell, wife of J, Forbes Campbell, Federal Deposit Insurance Coro, public relations officer, said her brother's health had improved during the past year,
Mr. Ball was graduated from the University of Utah before going to Harvard. His father, James H, Ball, is a, prominent Salt Lake City attorney. His mother also survives.
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