NAB reports (Jan-Dec 1948)

SSSIMMIU 1771 N St., N. W 535 Fifth Ave. WASHINGTON 6, D. New York 17, N. Y. C. Phone DEcatur 9300 Murray Hill 1-1963 CHARLES A. BATSON, Editor JUSTIN MILLER, President A. D. WILLARD, JR., Executive Vice-President C. E. ARNEY, JR., Secretary-Treasurer KENNETH H. BAKER Director of Research RICHARD P. DOHERTY Director of Employee-Employer Relations HAROLD FAIR Director of Program Depart¬ ment ROYAL V. HOWARD Director of Engineering DOROTHY LEWIS Coordinator of Listener Activity (New York City) FRANK E. PELLEGRIN Director of Broadcast Adver¬ tising DON E. PETTY General Counset ROBERT K. RICHARDS Director of Public Relations ARTHUR C. STRINGER Director of FM Department The AWB officers and executive board were guests of the American Newspaper Women’s Club at an annual reception in the hotel ballroom in the evening. Washington was awhirl with lady broadcasters by Friday morning when business sessions of the con¬ vention, which had the theme, “The Woman Broad¬ caster in Public Affairs,” began with a retail adver¬ tising clinic, conducted by Lee Hart of NAB. Panel members participating were Enid Day, WSB, Atlanta; Nancy Grey, WTMJ, Milwaukee; Mildred Bailey, WCOP, Boston; and Dorothy Shank, WEBB, Buffalo. The convention delegates were welcomed to this business session by Ruth Crane, WMAL, Washington, acting AWB president. “Washington is honored in welcoming a record at¬ tendance at this convention,” Miss Crane said. “This convention is the most widely attended of any yet held.” Bert Down, of Associated Program Service, Inc., spoke at the morning session on the Petrillo emer¬ gency, and Hugh Feltis, president of BMB, explained the uses of the BMB findings in their three forms.^ ,, Judge Miller’s greeting to the AWB delegates foL lowed at the Friday luncheon. The NAB president then introduced Gen. Bradley. Asks Clearer Concept. Speaking to the women broadcasters on Universal Military Training and the need for it, Gen. Bradley asked that they use their influence in bringing to their listeners a clearer con¬ cept of the UMT plan. Mr. Willard’s address, at the afternoon session, was followed by a presentation of the AWB contest award to Iris Haverstack, of Canton, O. The presen¬ tation was made by Bond Geddes, of the Radio Manu¬ facturers Association, who gave Miss Haverstack the radio-phonograph her letter on her favorite radio program won. Also in the Friday afternoon session, the Girl Scouts of America presented to Mrs. Dorothy Lewis, NAB Coordinator of Listener Activity and AWB vice president, the Girl Scout Radio Badge for her years of service as national radio advisor, and “in recogni¬ tion of the time and knowledge and understanding which she so generously gives to guiding the radio activities of the national Girl Scout organization. The radio badge was presented by a team of three Girl Scouts representing more than a million in the organization. Following the presentation, delegates went to the White House for tea with Mrs. Harry S. Truman. A feature of the evening was a WMAL-TV television show featuring AWB members and conducted by Allan Prescott, of ABC. ’ , , t The convention’s adjournment was scheduled for Sunday (1), with a closed luncheon for the AWB Board to follow. Awards Luncheon Ends Busy Week for Girls ^ Who Won Radio Voice of Democracy Contest ( Continued from page 81 ) both boys and girls,” the Attorney General called the result “significant of what can happen in America.” “This could only happen in a land where equality of opportunity is a part of the national creed,” he con¬ tinued. “I do hope it symbolizes an era in which women will take a more active interest in public life. Challenging Age. .“Our American heritage is some¬ thing more than a rich continent lying between two oceans,” the Attorney General told the four winners. “You are living in the most challenging age of .all times. You now have wonderful tools with which to explore and utilize the rich resources of the earth for the betterment of mankind. “Although many of the geographical frontiers are closed to exploration, there are still frontiers of science, of medicine, of law, and of thought— all frontiers of fuller living that challenge each of us to the highest endeavor. The winners who received the awards from Attorney General Clark, with the stations cooperating in their entries in the contest, were; Janet Geister, Cuyahoga Falls, O., Station WHKK, Akron; Laura Shatto, Hagerstown, Md., Stations WARK and WJEJ; Alice Wade Tyree, Lawton, Okla., Station KSWO; and Rose Ellen Mudd, Missoula, Mont. Dr. Studebaker told the 200 or more attending the luncheon that he considered the timing of the contest “significant,” and called on “our schools and colleges, together with the radio, the press, and other instru¬ mentalities of free inquiry and free communication . . . to make clear to our own citizens, and indeed to all men wherever they can be reached, the crucial differ¬ ences between democracy and its rivals.” The Commissioner of Education also congratulated the broadcasters of America on their “growing interest and effort” in the field of educational broadcasting. He explained that he referred not merely to academic education for young people, but to the continuing work of radio in adult education and information. He added that the Office of Education will endorse and support the “Voice of Democracy” contest again next year, and work to extend the competition into “tens of thousands” of additional schools. The awards luncheon brought to an official close a busy week of activity for the winners. Arriving with (Continued on next page) FEBRUARY 2, 1948-82