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Helnl Radio News Service
7/24/46
HOWARD K, SMITH TO SUPERVISE CBS COVERAGE OF PARIS CONFERENCE
Howard K. Smith, Chief of the Columbia Broadcasting System* s European News Staff, will head Columbia network’s delega¬ tion assigned to cover the Paris Peace Conference which begins in the French capital next Monday, July 29th, it has been announced by Wells Church, Acting CBS Director of News Broadcasts.
Those assisting Mr. Smith include Larry Le sueur, CBS* Washington news analyst now enroute to Paris; Stephen Laird, recent addition to the CBS news staff who will be assigned to Germany and the Balkans after he completes his assignment to Paris; Don Pryor, CBS regular Paris correspondent, and David Shoenbrun, special Col¬ umbia newsman assigned to the meeting.
Mr. Smith, inhose headquarters are in London, is now in Paris making preliminary arrangements for CBS' coverage of the open¬ ing ceremonies and additional plans for covering the more important sessions of the conference of 21 Allied nations which is meeting to consider the Big Four drafts for enemy nations,
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STATE DEPARTMENT SHIFTS WEST COAST BROADCASTING TO EAST
Shift of all West Coast international short-wave voice broadcast facilities to the East, in a move to concentrate the origination of the overseas broadcasts in New York, has been announ¬ ced by the State Department,
After August 1 broadcasts directed to the Far East and the West coast of Latin America will be transmitted by landline to the 10 transmitters located on the Pacific Coast. Only about 50 of the 185 State Department employees in San Francisco will be transferred, the announcement added.
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ELECTRONICS WILL NOW CHASE THE BIRDS AWAY
Electronics has entered the field to rid Washington, D. C. of some of its less desirable bird life. The District Committee on Cleanliness and Sanitation has awarded an electronics firm of near¬ by Arlington, Va. , the contract for high-frequency sound wave gen¬ erators which, it is hoped, will frighten the sparrows’ big brothers away from the Capital. * Officials say the noise will not be audible to humans. The generators will send sound waves over an area of 200 feet and it has not been determined how many will be needed in the city’s downtown area.
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