NBC Transmitter (Dec 1945-Jan 1947)

March 1946 7 WIOD Celebrates Twenty Years Of Service MIAMI ANNIVERSARY— Local and state officials turned out January 19 to extend their congratulations to WIOD on its 20th birthday. At the microphone, left to right: Mayor Perrine Palmer, Jr., of Miami, Congressman Pat Cannon, Mayor T. C. Mayes of Coral Gables, Mayor H. A. Frink of Miami Beach, and J. M. LeGate, general manager of W IOD. WHIS Program Director Airs Big Mine Story to Nation] BLUEFIELD, W. VA.— Melvin Barnett, WHIS program director — recently discharged from the Signal Corps— was on his way from the mouth of the mine at II avaco, West Virginia, where 13 men had just lost their lives and 234 more had miraculously escaped death, when he was stopped by a member of the station staff and told that in one hour and 50 minutes, WHIS was to feed NBC with an eyewitness account of the mine explosion. Mental calculations revealed that in that hour and 50 minutes there were 39 miles of icy mountain roads to travel back to the studios. Then there was the business of writing the script. Melvin reached the station in time to prepare his script and enter the studio just in time to see the lights flash, “On the Air.” Melvin stepped to the mike and told the world via NBC about the terrible mine tragedy, thus giving an eyewitness account without a hitch. Minnesota School Series MANKATO. MINN. -What modern education is accomplishing in a typical Midwestern city was told in a series of 15-minute broadcasts, “Mankato Schools on the Air,” five mornings a week at 8:45 a.m. during February on Station KYSM here. Designed to familiarize parents with the many-sided activities at Mankato High School, the series included interviews, round tables, classroom discussions, student government meetings, assembly programs and concerts. Planning the broadcasts with Bob Gardner, KYSM program director, were two faculty members, C. J. Arnold, who heads the department of audio-visual education, and Lucy Joyce, director of the radio workshop. Arnold believed that the series would develop into an all-inclusive community educational service through the medium of broadcasting. MIAMI. FLA. — Station WIOD presented a 90-minute broadcast January 19 as the climax to the observance of its 20th anniversary of broadcasting in Greater Miami. Congressman Pat Cannon. Mayor Perrine Palmer, Jr., of Miami, Mayor Herbert A. Frink of Miami Beach and Mayor Thomas C. Mayes of Coral Gables headed a group of 18 prominent civic, military and religious leaders who participated in the broadcast. Congratulatory telegrams were read from Senator Claude Pepper of Florida; NEW YORK.— Margaret Cuthbert. NBC director of programs for women and children, has been chosen as one of the 10 women cited by the Women s National Press Club as “makers of news and promoters of progress.” Miss Cuthbert joined the staff of NBC’s key station. WEAF. New York, in 1925. She was named director of women’s activities in 1935. and in 1942 was appointed to her present post. To her credit may be listed the “Gallant American Women" program series, presented in cooperation with the United States Department of Education, which told the story of women who helped to develop the American way of life and were named co-makers of history; the “American Story” series; “Consumer Time,” presented by the United States Department of Agriculture; as well as “The Julian F. de Solorzano. secretary of the presidency, in the name of President Ramon Grau San Martin of Cuba; Dr. Carlos Prio Socarras, Prime Minister of Cuba; Dr. Miguel Suarez Fernandez, President of the Cuban Senate, and G. J. Gallego, Consul General of Costa Rica. At the conclusion of the program, Daniel J. Mahoney, president of WIOD and vice-president and general manager of The Miami Daily News, read messages from Niles Trammell. NBC president and Frank A. Mullen. NBC vice-president. World s Great Novels series of the NBC University of the Air, and “Storv to Order.” Recipients of the award were feted at an “achievement dinner” held by the press club on February 9 at the Hotel Mayflower. Washington, at which President and Mrs. Truman were honor guests. The outstanding women so honored for their work in the arts, professions, business and government were: Virginia Gildersleeve, Dean of Barnard College; Agnes de Mille, the dance expert ; Mary Norton. Congresswoman from New Jersev and chairman of the House Committee on Labor; I. A. R. Wylie, author; Ruth M. Leach, vice-president of International Business Machines; Georgia O'Keeffe, artist; Anne 0 Hare McCormick, of The New York Times, and Dr. Esther Loring Richard, of Johns Hopkins University. Melvin Barnett NBC’s Margaret Cuthbert Honored by Press Women