NAB reports (Jan-Dec 1946)

day meeting of the NAB Small Market Stations Ex¬ ecutive Committee on January 29, 30, and 31, at the Statler Hotel, Washington, D. C. The agenda will include such topics as : Methods for developing local business, increasing national spot sales, FCC engineering requirements, public interest programming, group selling, local news, FM for small towns, rate structures, NAB Radio Management Study, station promotion, excessive use of spot an¬ nouncements, surviving in a multiple-station small town, etc. This will be the inaugural committee meeting under the chairmanship of Wayne W. Cribb, KHMO, Hanni¬ bal, Mo. The other members are Marshall H. Pengra, KRNR, Roseburg, Ore. ; Robert T. Mason, WMRN, Marion, 0.; R. Sanford Guyer, WBTM, Danville, Va. ; A. E. Spokes, WJOY, Burlington, Vt. ; John F. Meagher, KYSM, Mankato, Minn.; Simon Goldman, WJTN, Jamestown, N. Y. ; Frank Mills, WDWS, Champaign, Ill.; and Lefton L. Hendricks, KRRV, Sherman, Tex. NAB Board Liaison members are Michael R. Hanna, WHCU, Ithaca, N. Y. and William B. Smullin, KIEM, Eureka, Calif. J. Allen Brown, head of the NAB Small Market Stations Division serves as acting secretary. General FTC Chairman Becomes Head of Agency for Fifth Time under Rotation Policy Under its policy of rotating the chairmanship each calendar year, Garland S. Ferguson assumes the chair at the Federal Trade Commission for the fifth time on January 1. He is the only member of the Commission who has been chairman five times since the agency was created. He held the post previously in 1930, 1934, 1938 and 1943. First appointed by President Coolidge in 1927, Commissioner Ferguson has served on the Commission longer than any other member. He was reappointed twice by President Roosevelt for seven year terms. Musk Advisory Committee When membership of the NAB Music Advisory Committee was published last week, (Reports, p. 1009) the names of three committeemen and two board liaison members were omitted. The three committeemen are A. L. Ashby, NBC; Julius F. Brauner, CBS; and Louis G. Caldwell, MBS. Board liaison members are Campbell Arnoux, WTAR, and Harold Hough, WBAP. m the mwm€ Jan. 5-6-7 Board of Directors Meeting San Francisco Jan. 8-9 Area "A" Meeting (Districts 15-16-17) San Francisco Jan. 10 District 15-16-17 Meetings San Francisco Jan. 13-14 District 14 Meeting Salt Lake City Jan. 15 Radio News Clinic Salt Lake City Jan. 22-23-24 Sales Managers Executive Committee Washington, D. C. Jan. 27 Employee-Employer Relations Committee Jan. 29-30-31 Small Market Stations Executive Committee Washington, D. C. April 21-22 District 13 Meeting Houston April 28-29 Area "G" Meeting (Districts 4-7) Roanoke, Va. May 5-6 District 2 Meeting New York City Public Interest Programming Ad Council Network Campaigns The following public interest campaigns have been given top priority on Network and National Spot Al¬ location Plans during the week of January 6-12, 1947 by The Advertising Council and the Media Program¬ ming Division of the OWMR. Copies of individual Fact Sheets, and Schedules showing exactly what mes¬ sages will be carried daily by the programs of the net¬ work with which your station is affiliated may be ob¬ tained on request from George P. Ludlam, Radio Director, The Advertising Council, 11 West 42nd Street, New York, New York. Atomic Energy Man’s control of atomic energy has created the most serious problem ever to face this nation and the world. With the discovery of a new principle of the universe, weapons of war have assumed immeasurable powers of destruction. In addition to the atom bomb, recently perfected methods of germ and gas warfare offer further possibilities for mass extermination. The problem of how to prevent the use of scientific knowledge for destructive purposes, and to promote its use for the benefit of man¬ kind, is one that is immediate and personal to every man, woman and child. It is the problem of life itself. The overwhelming majority of scientists and experts who de¬ veloped the atomic bomb agree that: 1. The atomic bomb is primarily a weapon against cities and concentrations of war industries. 2. Present-day atomic weapons could kill 30 per cent or more of a country’s population and destroy most of its industry in attacks on its major cities over a short period of time. More powerful atomic bombs are possible. 3. There is no effective defense against (Continued on next page) DECEMBER 30, 1946-1025