NAB reports (Jan-Dec 1942)

5. Violations The telephone facilities of any subscriber who wil¬ fully obtains or attempts to obtain priority for a toll call by fraudulently designating such call as a priority call or by furnishing false information to any tele¬ phone carriers for the purpose of obtaining a priority, shall be subject to closure, removal or other appro¬ priate governmental action. Subject to such further order as the Board may deem appropriate. SUPPLEMENTARY GAS RATIONS Applicants for additional rations of gasoline are urged to arm themselves with the necessary facts about their driving requirements before asking their Local Rationing Boards for supplemental cards. Not only must the applicant sign his statement of fact, but, if he is an employee and the supplemental ration is needed to carry on his work he must also present the affidavit or affirmation of his employer, or an authorized representative of his employer. Under the gasoline rationing regulations, the board is authorized to grant supplemental rations only if it finds that they are “essential to life or to the pursuit of a gainful occupation and that no reasonably adequate alter¬ native means of transportation are available”. The board in granting a supplemental ration will issue a B card “tailored” to provide for the amount of the ration. The applicant must state why his present ration is in¬ sufficient. He must support this reason with facts. Next, the applicant must state what means of public transporta¬ tion are available to him. Other questions ask the applicant to state what vehicles owned by members of his family, or by friends or business associates are available to his use, and to specify what effort has been made to “double-up” with other car owners. Generally speaking workers in the broadcasting industry should experience no difficulty in getting B cards entitling them to gasoline for occupational driving based on their requirements up to 470 miles a month, including the gas provided under the A card. Under Section 1394.506 (k) (2) of the Gasoline Ration¬ ing Regulations, workers in the radio broadcasting industry including executives, technicians or office workers, but not including salesmen, are eligible to apply for preferred mileage (C cards). Again, they must show the need and that no reasonably adequate alternative means of trans¬ portation are available. SELECTIVE SERVICE Stations desiring further deferments on men classified 1 1A or II-B should renew deferment requests on such registrants one month before the present deferment period elapses. Othei'wise the registrant will be classified I-A and no notice will be sent to the station. TEN PER CENT WAR BOND CAMPAIGN The Treasury Department announces an intensive campaign to be gotten under way November 15 and to con¬ tinue to January 1, to secure universal 10 per cent pay roll participation in bond purchases by salaried personnel in all branches of industry. Under the slogan, “Top that 10% By New Years!” the campaign will be conducted on a broad front. The co¬ operation of radio stations is earnestly solicited by Secre¬ tary Morgenthau. While he expressed his deep and per¬ sonal gratification for the splendid manner in which broad¬ casters have already contributed to the success of the war bond campaign. Secretary Morgenthau has urged voluntary 10 per cent payroll plans in each radio station and a campaign on the part of the stations to encourage every type and kind of commercial enterprise and industry to do likewise. This campaign is consistent with the resolution adopted by the NAB Board of Directors at its September meeting. The resolution follows; Whereas, the successful prosecution of the war depends upon adequate financing, and Whereas, the Treasury Department is seeking through the sale of war bonds to secure revenue to the extent of $12,000,000,000 annually from the people of the United States, and Whereas, the investment in war bonds accomplishes the two-fold result of helping to finance the war and to curb inflation. Now, Therefore, be it Resolved, by the Board of Direc¬ tors of the National Association of Broadcasters that we heartily recommend to the broadcasting industry the con¬ tinued whole-hearted suppoi-t of this war bond campaign and further recommend to station managements the desir¬ ability of immediately inaugurating among their own sta¬ tion personnel a campaign to secure the voluntary pur¬ chase of bonds to the extent of ten per cent of the annual salary of each employee. MAIL CIRCULATION SPOTS Six suggested announcements to explain to listeners the necessity for taking their radios to the serviceman instead of asking him to call were mailed to all stations this week. One announcement per day on all stations, on a rotating time schedule, was suggested until further notice. District ^^Meetings DISTRICT 4 District Director G. Richard Sharto, WIS, called the opening session of the two-day meeting of the Fourth District of NAB to order in the Carolina Hotel in Pinehurst, N. C., with 81 broadcasters, government and in¬ dustry representatives present. The meeting was held on Friday and Saturday, October 23-24, 1942. At a dinner for the broadcasters and their guests on the evening of the first day. Governor J. Mellville Broughton of North Carolina paid a tribute to the achievements of broadcasting, emphasized the responsibilities of the medium in the united war effort and spoke glowingly of the future of radio after the war. He pointed out that North Caro¬ lina refused to ratify the original constitution until the first ten amendments — the so-called “Bill of Rights” — had been prepared and added. He credited this renowned “Bill of Rights” as the legal basis for the development of a free American system of broadcasting. The Retail Promotion Committee Plan was presented on Saturday morning and unanimously endorsed by formal resolution of the Fourth District. A resolution heartily approving the policy and activity of the NAB in its efforts to remove the “unfair, undemo¬ cratic and un-American Petrillo ban on recorded music” was unanimously approved. NAB v/as urged to continue an all-out effort to bring about a satisfactory solution of the music problem. Representatives of many of the principal government war agencies were on the program. Carl Haverlin, Head¬ quarters Consultant for Industry Relations OWI; Eugene Carr, Assistant to the Radio Censor, Office of Censorship; Frank McIntosh, Chief, Radio and Radar Section, WPB ; Marvin Beers of OCD; M. A. Milman, of the Radio and Press Section of the Treasury Department, each discussed 624 — October 30, 1942