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December 1944 15 Williams Gets KPO Post SAN FRANCISCO.— Wendell Williams, manager of NBG-Hollywood's continuity acceptance department since 1938, has been appointed pro. ram manager for NBC and KPO in San Francisco, effective November 13, it was announced by Sidney N. Strotz, vicepresident of the Western division of NBC, and John W. Elwood, manager of NBC-KPO. Wendell Williams Williams has been with NBC for more than 10 years, joining the company in New York immediately following his graduation from Dartmouth College. Home Economics Series NEW YORK. — Newest course of the NBC University of the Air is “Home Is What You Make It,” Saturday morning series on home economics, presented under the supervision of Jane Tiffany Wagner, newly-appointed NBC director of home economics. Designed to touch on all phases of home life, program has Don Goddard. WEAF and NBC news commentator, as narrator. News Period for School Use Clicks in Spokane SPOKANE, WASH. “Hottest thing I’ve hit in 20 years of teaching!” That’s the way Joseph N. Tewinkel, director of audio-visual education for the Spokane Public Schools, describes the latest public service feature to he spotted on the KHQ schedule. The program, titled “World News for the School Room,” consists of 10 minutes of straight world news, adapted from the Press Association radio wire, by David Grew7, associate news editor of KHQ. It is not the usual run of PA wire news — despite the recognized readability of that material. Grew s job is to run the hot news of the day through the sifter of his experience as a teacher, editor, and radio newsman, to derive a product which is more appropriate for the student mind, in the intermediate and high school grades. This requires special selection of news items, and almost complete rewriting— not to write down to the student, but rather to eliminate such phraseology and reference to details w hich makes the regular news less clear and understandable to the young mind. The selection of news items is made, as far as possible, w ith concern for their educational, ethical and citizenship value, as YOUNG A EW SC AST ER— Ten minutes oj world news, processed from the Press Association radio wire for school students in Spokane and the ‘‘‘'Inland Empire opens the school day for more than 100,000 students in the KHQ listening area. The daily report is prepared by David Grew, associate news editor of KHQ, and is aired each morning by the editor s son, Raymond Grew, 14-yearold high school student. well as their all-around juvenile appeal. That’s Grew’s job, and the schools devote 10 minutes of every class day to the school newscaster. The 10 minutes of world news is followed by five minutes devoted to school news, administrative messages, reports on student activities, and special messages on the work of the Spokane Rangers, the group of 20,000 school students which has made such an inspiring record in all lines of salvage work, War Bond purchases, and special activities connected with the civilian war effort. NBC-ITES RETURN TO JOBS AFTER SERVING IN UNCLE SAM’S ARMED FORCES Left photo: George Rogers (right), NBC air-conditioning engineer and the first NBC Chicago serviceman to be honorably discharged and return to his old job, gets an official welcome— and his overalls— from Harry C.. Kopf, NBC Central division vice-president. Rogers was given military leave on November 4, 1943, and at the time of his discharge was serving with the Seabees at Camp Peary, W illiamsburg. West Virginia. Right photo: W TAM's first man to enter the armed forces three and a half years ago, is also the first staff member to return to civilian life and his old job. Here is W TAM Manager Vernon H. Fribble returning his old locker key to Engineer Cecil Bidlack, who served as a captain in the Army Signal Corps and who spent the past year in India.