NBC Transmitter (Jan-Nov 1942)

12 NBC TRANSMITTER DENVE R EVADNA B. HAMMERSLEY NOTATIONS The KOA News Staff has been enlarged and augmented with seasoned writers and pressmen. Stan Brown, former Continuity writer, is now in charge. Poss Parsons, Associate Editor, was for 18 years Sports Editor of the Denver Post. Ed Sproul moves in from Traffic. Your correspondent, newest member, is now KOA Continuity Editor and Woman’s News Editor. . . . Don Martin, former KOA News Editor, has been transferred to San Francisco to handle network war news during the emergency. T. Ellsworth Stepp is Acting Production Manager in Don Martin's place. . . . Lloyd E. Yoder, General Manager, has been placed on the committee, appointed by Governor Ralph L. Garr, to raise funds for the establishment of a memorial to those brave defenders of Wake Island. It is believed that this Golorado movement is the first of its kind since the United States entered the war. . . . Assistant Manager Robert H. Owen is smiling over a new Mobile Unit, now the pride of KOA Engineering. A very trim station wagon, natural wood body, with blue and silver metal. . . . Jim MacPherson, National Spot Sales, got the piece de resistance for Ghristmas dinner without moving from his own backyard. A flight of wild ducks, forced down by a blizzard, flew so low over the MacPherson country home that cne hit the chimney. The impact knocked the duck down and out — and right into the MacPherson roaster. . . . General Manager Lloyd E. Yoder entertained staff members with a day-before Ghristmas egg nog party. Andy Gainey led the Ghristmas Garoling. . . . Gharles Scheurman, for more than 1 5 years on the music staff at KOA, and Mrs. Scheurman, celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary recently. Two days later their son. Bud, was married at the family home in Denver while home on furlough. . . . Milton Shrednik, KOA Music Director, and Mrs. Shrednik, have adopted a war orphan. The new member is a baby girl, 8 months old, cared for in London with funds sent abroad by the Shredniks. ... Ed Brady, winner of the Davis Announcer’s Award for the Mountain Time Zone and formerly with KVOD in Denver, is now on the KOA Announcing Staff. KOA in Denver listens in to the nation-wide celebration of NBG’s 1 5th Birthday Gelebration. Denver spoke to the other parties scattered from San Francisco and Hollywood to Gleveland, Chicago and New York City. "SQUADS LEFT" (CONTINUED FROM PACE 61 tion in the Pacific. . . . Paul Crowley, Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps, was at Wheeler Field in Hawaii when hostilities began. He was in his pursuit plane, ready to take off, when he was machine gunned from above. Wounded in the chest, he is recovering. . . . Although no actual word has been received from jack Streeton, former page, he was en route to the Philippines, late in November, as a Lieutenant in the Infantry. . . . Bruce Anson, former announcer, is now in camp at Cheyenne, Wyoming, while Lefty Leffler and Miles Auer of Traffic enlisted in the Navy as Yeomen, First Class, Intelligence Service. . . . Leland Kendall, Guest Relations, resigned to join the Marine Corps. . . . John Aidem, page, is a flying cadet in the Army Air Corps. . . . John Margraf, Robert Herrington, John King, Paul Kent, Paul Jones and Bob Lehman, all of Guest Relations, are recent draftees. . . . That’s all from Hollywood. CLEVELAND Flying Cadet Fred M. Lloyd, formerly of Stenographic, is stationed at Lakehurst, New jersey, with a balloon barrage unit. . . . Private jack Fern is now stationed with the Air Force Combat Command at Bolling Field, Washington. Fern is a former NBC newsman in Cleveland, Denver and Chicago. . . . First Lieutenant Cecil Bidlack, with the Signal Corps at Fort Knox, Kentucky, received a two weeks Christmas furlough and was able to attend the WTAM Yuletide Party. Bidlack was an engineer at WTAM before being called to service. . . . Harold Winters, of Stenographic, enlisted in the army and was assigned to Air Corps Ordinance in Texas. . . . That’s the news from Cleveland. CHICAGO With fifteen boys from NBC Chicago in the armed services at the Yule season, the staff here, in cooperation with the NBCAA, sent each of the boys a large package containing a sewing kit, toilet kit, cigarettes and candy. . . . The fellows on the receiving end were: Lieut. William Rosee; Corporal (CONTINUED ON PACE 13)