NAB reports (Jan-Dec 1942)

'%>»:aw3 s,.»o CA-STi r's 1626 K St, N. W. WASHINGTON Phene NAtionai 2080 Science and Management War Training was queried as to whether there had been any changes for admission to such classes. He said “no.” Courses are open to qualified civilians as well as to enlisted reserves. He expressed the opinion, however, that students en¬ rolled should be of military caliber and headed for the military or for industry. That’s the latest advice from the U. S. Office of Education. Neville Miller, President C. E. Arney, Jr., Assistant to President Joseph L. Miller, Director of Labor Relations ; Paul F. Peter, Director of Research; Russell P. Place, Counsel: Howard Frazier, Director of Engineering ; Arthur C. Stringer, Director of Promotion SELECTIVE SERVICE (Continued from page 539) before they can be entrusted with even minor responsibilities is needed. VHI Prior to the war the Federal Communications Commission re¬ quired all broadcast stations to have an operator holding a first class radio telephone operator’s license on duty at the transmitter at all times. The Commission recognizing the present shortage of licensed operators has modified its Rules under Order No. 91B. This Order permits stations to be operated by a holder of a re¬ stricted radio telephone operator’s license subject to the super¬ vision and immediate availability in case of emergency of an operator holding the usual first class license. Under no circum¬ stances does the Commission permit stations to be operated by un¬ licensed persons. .-Mthough stations are required by law to have only one first class radio telephone operator available at all times this represents a minimum legal requirement and should not be construed as an indication that it is practical to operate on this minimum basis. Order No. 91 B specifically states that in case of a breakdown of the broadcast equipment repairs and adjustments can only be made by a holder of the first class radio telephone operator’s license. (At this point in your letter to the Local Draft Board outline in detail the minimum requirements of your station for technicians and the reasons for arriving at this minimum taking into consideration hours of operation, station power and plant arrangement.) HAVE YOU WRITTEN LETTER FOR ARMY AIR FORCES ? Have you written the letter that the Army Air Forces asked each broadcaster to write? The request is found on page 531 of last week’s N.^B Reports. If you have not written this letter, we strongly urge you to do so today. Four or five hundred such letters will help get this program in high gear. Right now a force of extra recruiting personnel is in the field literally scraping the bottom of the barrel for trained and semitrained radio technicians for immediate enlistment. In a very few weeks there aren’t going to be many available radio technicians left anywhere in the United States. How Do You Stand? Will you be able to carry on when the going gets tougher? If there isn’t a class in the Fundamentals of Radio in your territory or in your hometown to take care of present and prospective needs, we urge as strongly as we know how that you get busy and ar¬ range for such a course. On Thursday of this week. Dean Crothers of the Engineering, 540 — September 11, 1942 Schools Originate Proposals for Courses The application for a course originates in the field with an educational institution not in Washington. Proposals for courses are sent in by properly qualified engineering schools. The place to start negotiations for a course in Fundamentals of Radio is with the Institutional Representative of a university or college having an engineering department or with the Dean of the engineering school or the President if you happen to know either of them. Some few non-engineering schools giving majors in physics, like University of Chicago and University of Buffalo, are likewise eligible for direct contracts with ESMWT. Most classes are given off campus and in cities many miles remote from the sponsoring institution — where sufficient qualified students may be recruited. Many engineers and technicians at radio stations make good instructors for these classes. They are paid for their work of teaching just as any instructor, after approval by the educators. In our eagerness to help the country win the war we must have capable technical personnel. Otherwise the industry would fold up and be unable to help any longer. If women are going to ferry airplanes from factory to the take-off points you can bet your last dollar they’re going to be employed as broadcast technicians when they learn how. Courses are open to both men and women and enlisted reserves. “THIS WAR IS RUN BY RADIO.” NAB BOARD MEETING A meeting of the NAB Board has been set tentatively for September 24-25 at the Palmer House, Chicago. Developments in the musicians situation will determine whether the meeting will be postponed to October 1-2. DOROTHY LEWIS TOUR Mrs. Dorothy Lewis, NAB Director of Listener Activity, leaves New York next week for an extended tour of the nation. In the course of the trip, itinerary of which is printed below, Mrs. Lewis will meet with radio station operators, station direc¬ tors of women’s activities, schools and colleges, with radio councils and with civic groups to organize such councils. .\mong the subjects which Mrs. Lewis will discuss and upon which conferences will be held are; “Children in Wartime,” “Radio’s Major Role in the War,” “Layman’s Place in American Radio.” Conferences are scheduled in many places where she will visit and the foregoing subjects will be the theme. She will address the Minnesota Federation of Women’s Clubs at Mankato, the University of Minnesota Conference on the “Layman’s Place in American Radio.” She will visit Winnipeg and Vancouver, Canada, under the auspices of the Canadian Broadcasting Corpora¬ tion and the Canadian Association of Broadcasters. She will also be in attendance at the Chicago Educational Conference. This will be the third annual tour which Mrs. Lewis has made under the auspices of NAB. As a result of her first tour, the verv splendid book, “Broadcasting to the Youth of America,” was issued. This has proven very helpful to station operators, radio listeners and school people. The itinerary follows; September 18, Syracuse; September 19, Cleveland; September 20, Chicago (Quiz Kids — (juest) ; September 21, Toledo; Septem¬ ber 22, Milwaukee; September 23-24, Mankato; September 25, Minneapolis; September 26, Minneapolis (Educational Confer¬ ence); September 27, to Winnipeg; September 28, Winnipeg; September 29, to Fargo; September 30, Fargo.