NBC Transmitter (Jan-Nov 1945)

10 NBC Transmitter A Transmitter Bio; ARNOUX, OFWTAR, ENTERED RADIO AFTER EXTENSIVE NEWS EXPERIENCE Vi,..-. Campbell Arnoux NORFOLK, VA. — Campbell Arnoux, who recently observed his 11th anniversary as general manager of WTAR in Norfolk, had a cosmopolitan background to fit him for his job. Born in New York, Arnoux attended high school in Fort Worth, Texas, and was showing promise as an extra-curricular reporter on The Fort Worth Record, while an undergraduate at Texas University, when the first World War interrupted his education. He served as an officer in the Fifth Texas Cavalry and acquired a taste for travel which sent him around the world in the two years after the war. When he returned, he became a Red Cross publicity man, later a staff writer on The Fort Worth Star-Telegram. When the paper installed a radio station he was assigned to work there. He became chief announcer, radio editor and program director. In 1924 he installed Station KTHS in Hot Springs, Ark., and was director of that station for the next nine years. WTAR in Norfolk, summoned him in “Foreign Policy" Continues NEW YORK. — Continuation of “Our Foreign Policy” broadcasts Saturdays after the San Francisco conference was announced April 6 by Sterling Fisher, director of the NBC University of the Air. Format for the new series will give civic and educational groups rej)resentation in addition to the Department of State, the Senate foreign relations committee and the House foreign affairs committee. On an alternating basis the State Department, Congress, and a public group will conduct broadcasts. Originally only the first seven broadcasts were to he officially representative of the State De|)artment, hut Archibald MacLeish. Assistant Secretary of State, who will continue as chairman of this group, has agreed to continued participation hv the State Department. 1934 and he has been there ever since developing the station from 500 watts to one of the country’s leading 5,000 watt regionals. While at that task he also installed WRTD, The Times-Dispatch station in Richmond, Virginia, and obtained, built and staffed WPID in Petersburg, Virginia. He is a liaison member from the hoard of the National Association of Broadcasters on the labor and code committees. Active in civic affairs, Arnoux is president of the Virginia Club, Norfolk’s oldest social club with a membership of 325 leading business and professional men; vicepresident of the Tidewater Council of the Boy Scouts of America; a director of the Norfolk Association of Commerce, the Boys Club and the Norfolk Orchestral Association. He recently completed a term as president of the Norfolk Rotary Club. Arnoux is married, has two children, Suzanne and Pat, is an ardent fisherman, victory gardener, bridge player and football enthusiast. F.B.I. Show 2 Years Did SCHENECTADY, N. Y. J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, sent WGY a special message of congratulation and encouragement for broadcasting on the occasion of the second anniversary of the Schenectady station’s feature dramatic offering, “The F. B. 1. in Action.” Each week Earle Pudney or Lorraine Theurer ITice of the WC^ staff prepared a half hour dramatization from the files of the F. B. L. using as narrator on each show the special agent in charge of the Albany Field Office of the F. R. I. S\ RA(T SE. N. ^ .—Timekeeper Paul Coleman of Vi S\ R has done something about the food shortage. He gave 300 chicks to .50 boys and girls on Easter .Saturday morning in Svracuse. WSOC “Polio” Coverage Aids Important Charity Appeal CHARLOTTE, N. C.-In 1944, North Carolina and South Carolina suffered a major epidemic of the dread infantile paralysis to such an extent that all hospitals in the two states were taxed to their utmost capacity. The epidemic attained such proportions in the sections around the city of Hickory, in Western North Carolina, that it was necessarv to build an emergency hospital there to accommodate the ever-increasing number of polio cases. This hospital was built in 54 hours. During the epidemic, a total of 170 patients was hospitalized in this one emergency hospital. After the epidemic had been defeated, the National Infantile Paraljsis Eoundation decided to evacuate the victims remaining in the Hickory hospital to the Charlotte Memorial Hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina, where a special polio unit had been completed in the interim. Radio Station WSOC here played an outstanding part in its coverage of the polio epidemic, and the subsequent evacuation of the victims from Hickory. Upon the arrival of the caravan in Charlotte, WSOC’s mikes were in readiness at the Charlotte Memorial Hospital to interview members of the cavalcade and some of the victims, as well as nurses, doctors, hospital authorities, and parents of the victims. This part was also broadcast and recorded. A transcription of tbe whole proceedings has been sent to ' tbe National Infantile Paralvsis Founda i tion, one has been given to the Charlotte i Variety Club, and WSOC is keeping one i to be used in appeals for the charity founded by the late President Roosevelt. HUMAMTARIAN EVE\T n SOCs Program Director, Ron Jenkins, interviews head nurse Ethel Greathouse, of the Hickory Hospital. just before the trek to Charlotte.