NAEB Newsletter (Mar 1938)

5 * right here in our Port Worth High Schools and colleges who can do more than many of the people in Hollywood. You should hear the talent on our school program every Saturday morning.’ jfwpAP is particularly proud of this WBAP-City High School half -. hour feature and so are its listeners, The series.has been on the air every Saturday morning at 9:30 for about 20 weeks, now and^ is fast be¬ coming one of the station’s most popular programs. The show is broad¬ cast from the auditorium of the William P. McLean Junior High School, and a different school puts on the program each week/ The students handle everything, selecting their own personnel and performers. A Collegiate program, similar in nature, and composed of college students is likewise broadcast each Saturday, just prior to the high school ser¬ ies, It, too, is proving extremely popular* 51 Two members of NAEB find themselves recipients of publicity in the current issue of PICKUPS--Garland Powell, WRUF, Gainesville, Flor¬ ida, and Luke Roberts, KOAC, Corvallis, Oregon, but read for yourself: 5i A program similar in its state-wide appeal is the Florida Inphgs- trial and Agricultural Series presented by WRUF (Gainesville, Florida). ’The idea came to me,’ explains Garland Powell, Director, ’after tra¬ veling around Florida and finding to my surprise that Florida people know very little about the diversified industries and agricultural ad¬ vantages of their state. ’ The series started with the Wilson Cypress Company, largest tide-water cypress company in the world. By remote control the station gave an eye description of lumber floating down ^ the river, being picked up at the mill, passing through the mill and loaded on cars. Another broadcast came from the Hav-A-Tampa Cigar Company and followed the manufacturing process from bales to boxes* ^ ’Response has been tremendous,' Powell says, 'Public schools and li¬ braries in the state want WRUF to transcribe the programs into a sort of textbook for the use of students and the general public.’ " Florida Farm Hour and Florida Facts are other WRUF outstanding^ hits. The former, composed of daily talks, music and dramatic sketches is broadcast in cooperation with the College of Agriculture and the Agricultural Extension Division. On the air for the past eight years, the program, Powell claims, has saved millions of dollars for Florida farmers and growers. Florida Facts is a daily broadcast to inform natives as well as tourists of what is going on in the State. "Utilizing a wealth of little known stories concerning forest service adventures in the Pacific Northwest, KOAC (Corvallis,.Oregon) in 1936 inaugurated a weekly series known as Foresters .in Action. The first few programs consisted of straight talks, describing the Fernhop- pers. Members of the Oregon State . College forestry club, who were furnishing story material for the features, soon became interested in active participation in the program. Style of presentation was changec to include a cast of characters to relate true stories through dia¬ logue and dramatized flashbacks. While most of the tales have defin¬ itely constructive themes, they are occasionally interspersed with amusing "whoppers"’ of the Paul Bunyan type. KOAC finds that this method of presenting educational material on forest conservation has a distinct advantage over the conventional radio lecture.“