Heinl radio business letter (July-Dec 1946)

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He ini Radio News Service 7/17/46 Mr. Myers Joined the Farnsworth company as a sales engi¬ neer in Jai uary, 1940. Prior to that time, he had been associated with the Engineering Department of the Crosley Corporation for 11 years, and previously had been with the Automobile Radio Corpora¬ tion (Transitone) and the Packard Motor Car Company. Governor Ellis Arnall of Georgia will be heard as Drew Pearson's guest when the noted commentator goes tc Atlanta on Sunday, July 21, to air his weekly WMAL-ABC broadcast from the steps of the Georgia State Capitol at 6 P.M. , EST in the heart of the Ku Klux Klan country from which he has received threats of per¬ sonal violence. The broadcast from Atlanta will make one of the few occa¬ sions on which Pearson has not spoken from Washington and also will be his last broadcast before his six-week vacation. The War Department yesterday ordered its officers and employees not to record any more telephone conversations without notifying the other party to the call. Cries of anguish rose from members of Congress when it was brought out in hearings before the Mead Committee recently that recording devices were attached to many War Department tele¬ phones. Among other things, they termed the practice "wire tapping and "mean". Station WNAX, YanktonSioux City, has completed arrange¬ ments with the U. S. Weather Bureau to do a daily weather forecast direct from the U. S. Weather Bureau office at the Sioux City, Iowa airport. Thus the farmer will be better able to plan his work and protect his stock. A five State forecast North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa and Minnesota will also be given. Two new end highly specialized transmitting tube test installations, for complete static and oscillator testing of highpower tubes for broadcasting and industrial applications have been installed in the RCA tube plant at Laraster, Pa. In telephoning overseas, voices cross the water in the form of radio waves. Traveling at lightning speed, they arrive at a ra,dio receiving station which, in turn, sedns them to their desti nation over land lines. Receiving equipment used by A. T. & T. Long Lines in con¬ nection with ra dio-telephone waves coming in from Great Britain includes oscillograph where a dodging pin point of light indicates the angle from which the best incoming radio signal arrives. By following this light, an observer is enabled to adjust the receiv¬ ing equipment associated with the antennas so as to pick up and isole.te the strongest signal and hence send on its way the clear¬ est message from abroad. xxxxxxxxxx 16