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Heinl Radio News Service
11/27/46
Carle ton D. Smith, NBC General Manager in Washington, and Mrs. Smith were among those attending the White House diplomatic dinner launching the first season of White House entertaining since Pearl Harbor. Mr. Smith is NBC*s official presidential announcer.
Texas* newly-elected Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, and Attorney General all have press or radio affiliations. Governorelect Beauford Jester, a Sigma Delta Chi member, is principal owner of the new station KWTX at Waco. Lieut-Gov. -elect Allan Shivers is associated with KFDM at Beaumont, and the new Attorney General, Price Denied, Jr. , is owner of the Vindicator, a weekly at Liberty, and also a Sigma Delta Chi.
A national sale of telepnone and telegraph equipment which originally cost the Government about $1,400,000 was announced (Advance Release for Friday A.M. , November 29, 1946) by War Assets Administration. The equipment includes wire and cable (sold in reels only), cords, switchboards, telephones, tools and miscellan¬ eous items. The bulk of the material is located at the Atlanta, Ga. General Depot and the sale will be conducted through the WAA Regional Office at Atlanta.
The property will be sold at fixed prices. Offers to purchase must be submitted by 5 P.M. , December 21, and no sales will be made prior to that date. Bids must be delivered to the Atlanta Regional Office by 10 A.M. , December 20, when they will be opened publicly and read.
A complete line of industrial power equipment, including gasoline and Diesel engines, power units and electric generator plants for supplying power and electricity to hotels, farms, factor¬ ies, lumber mills, railroads, airports, villages and cities, has been added by the Radio Corporation of America to its list of manu¬ factured products for sale outside of the United States.
Participation by United States firms in the First RadioElectronic Exposition, to take place at Lima, Peru, in December 1946-January 1947 is greatly desired by its sponsors. Insofar as is possible, correspondence, literature, and films should be in Spanish. Manufacturers and exporters maintaining agencies in Lima should deal through them; others should address communications as follows: Ingeniero Jorge Vargas Escalante, Director-Ge rente, Primera Exposicion de Radio-Electronica, Casilla 538, Lima, Peru.
The new radiophone system of the New York Telephone Co. which makes it possible for anyone in a radio-equipped car or other vehicle in the New York City area to call or be called by any landwire telephone subscriber, got under way early yesterday. By even¬ ing it had carried more than 100 calls, one to Paris and another to California. The first call, the Paris one, was made by the Chairman of the Board of the CrowellCollier Publishing Co., from his own radio-equipped car, which was then in the Times Square area. About 75 percent of the calls completed, it was said, were from cars to land-wire phone outlets.
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