NBC transmitter (Oct-Dec 1944)

14 A BC Transmitter Colt Newscaster Saved Is Awarded to Young Listener NEW YORK.— “Cinderella Colt ". story of the young horse which Don Goddard. WEAF news commentator, saved from a Linden, New Jersey, slaughter-house, was dramatized on WEAF in a special broadcast September 15. Following the dramatization, Goddard presented the colt and its mare to 13-yearold Barbara Beck of New Canaan, Conn. The presentation was also broadcast. The colt was born in a freight car enroute from Canada and Goddard spotted the two animals in the corral of the slaughterhouse while he was passing on a train. He made inquiries and learned that both were to be destroyed and used for war materials. Goddard asked the packing company owner to give the colt and mare to him, to which the owner readily consented. The news commentator then told the story on the air and offered the colt to the one selling the most War Bonds. That person was Barbara Beck, who sold $107,000 in bonds and stamps. FREE SYMPHONY PAPER NEW YORK.— Advance schedules and detailed program notes of "General Motors Symphony of the Air” broadcasts I NBC, Sunday, 5:00 to 6:00 p.m., EWT) are now available to listeners in Symphony Notes, a publication distributed without charge by the sponsor. The first issue dated October 1 has been mailed to a nationwide list of music educators and leaders of community music club activities. In addition to advance program listings and detailed program information, the four pages of Symphony Notes contain news and feature material on Conductors Arturo Toscanini. Frank Black, Eugene Ormandy and Malcolm Sargent who share directorship of the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Requests for the free publication should be addressed to Symphony Notes, 32nd floor. International Building, Rockefeller Center, New York 20, N. Y. WLW WAR NEWS DISPLAY CINCINNATI. — Local residents are being given reports of the war in the striking window display above which is kept up-to-date through the cooperation of Station WLW. the Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company and The Cincinnati Enquirer. The display is set up in the prominent downtown windows of the electric company and features two giant maps, each eight by ten feet — one of the European theater of war and the other of the Pacific area. Battle lines are changed twice daily on the maps under the supervision of Major-General J. E. Edmonds, WLW's military analyst. Also changed daily are two panels at either side of the maps. One features the first page of each day's final edition of The Enquirer, surrounded by the latest AP wirephotos from all world fronts. The other is devoted to the latest news bulletins as these are received over a news teletype in the window. Between the two maps is a montage featuring photographs of Arthur Reilly, General Edmonds, Robert Parker and Jack Beall. WLW's news analysts, all of whom are regular members of the NBCWLW “World Front” news discussion program series. WIOD-Miami News Phone Fund For Wounded Vets Launched MIAMI, FLA.— GI Joe s morale is getting a real boost in South Florida through the efforts of WIOD and The Miami Dailv News. The radio station and the newspaper, affiliated, established a “Heroes Phone Fund to enable injured soldiers at the Biltmore AAF Regional Station Hospital No. 1 to talk to their mothers, wives or sweethearts. Listeners and readers are supporting the fund through contributions, which to date have gone well over $2,000. It is especially set up to help those servicemen who are unable to leave their beds and are deprived the use of public telephones set up in the hall of the hospital. Special booths have been set up for those confined to wheelchairs. The first of the men to call his mother was a sergeant paralyzed from the hips down after a crash in the Burma-India theater of war. His call to Ashland. Pennsylvania. was paid for by the fund. Before he was connected with his mother all he could sav was. “Bov. I’m sure sweating this one out. I m nervous as the dickens. Hello. Mom!” Listeners of W IOD were privileged to hear the conversation over the phone from the Miami end. After the broadcast contributions to the fund took a sudden jump. And it s been growing ever since. One Army nurse, as she wheeled the injured man back to his ward, said: “This is one of the finest things I ever heard of. The boys have been talking about this ever since they heard about the phone fund. I think it s the best thing that anv ‘homefront soldier' has ever done.” South Florida organizations and plants have endorsed the WIOD-Miami Daily News fund by setting up contribution centers. Individuals, from little tots to centenarians. are sending their contributions by mail. Even the servicemen and women stationed in the area are helping to boost the total by regularly contributing to the telephone fund campaign. WIOD and its staff are justly proud in bringing joy to the men who have given so much for the safety of the country and the world at large. Men on the staff of the station have started their own individual drives to swell the amount on hand so that newcomers may have an opportunity to sav “Hello. Mom!”