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NBC TRANSMITTER
PATRIOTIC GRAIN STORAGE PLAN
STARTED IN N. DAKOTA BY WDAY
# Millions of bushels of grain — and no place to put it. That is one of the most critical problems facing farmers on the United States grain belt this year — a year when Government officials have asked farmers for an immense crop of food to win the war and write the peace.
In North Dakota, preliminary estimates show that the state may harvest its greatest all-time crop this fall. Government statisticians reveal the startling fact that between 50, 000, 000 to 80,000,000 bushels of this grain will be left to rot in the fields unless sufficient storage space is found right in North Dakota.
Throughout the grain belt, local and terminal elevators are plugged with grain, and there’s little room left to store this fall’s harvest. Yet, more than ever before, th is is the year when it is imperative not to waste a single hushel of grain.
MIKE CLOWNS
Dave Murphy, If Ci (Schenectady, New York) announcer, has satisfied the yen that grips many youngsters; he’s performed with the clowns in the sawdust arena. For an interview with the Ring/ing Brothers clowns in Clown Alley of the dressing tent, he was made up and worked the entire afternoon performance with the clown brigade. For the past two years, Murphy has spent two weeks each summer working out as novice clown with the Ringling funsters. Here’s Murphy (right) interviewing Lew Jacobs (left) and Felix Adler.
Through the Commodity Credit Corporation, many storage bins are being constructed, but it won’t meet the demand by any means.
It was natural that many thinking people became worried about the critical situation, but it remained for a radio attorney to expound a plan that was to become radio’s answer to the emergency. Attorney Harold Bangert, general counsel for Station WDAY in Fargo, North Dakota, decided there must be hundreds of empty garages and buildings throughout North Dakota which could be adapted for grain storage.
He took the plan to WDAY’s war service committee and the result was a statewide “Garages For Grain” campaign conducted through the cooperation of state and county war boards of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. County hoards are registering the buildings and then sending official inspectors to determine whether the buildings are suitable for grain storage. From this sign-up, a reserve pool of storage space is made available for rental by farmers.
“Garages For Grain” was inaugurated in a special statewide broadcast July 7 originated by WDAY and carried by KFYR, Bismarck. These two stations are directing the campaign. A special pick-up was made from the Governor’s garage in Bismarck, where Governor John Moses signed up his own garage as “Number One” in the state. The Governor officially endorsed the radio plan and urged all North Dakotans to cooperate fully in the registration.
Milwaukee's Radio City Opens, Old Studios Kept
• WTMJ (Milwaukee I moves to its new' “Radio City” Building on Sunday, August 23. The changeover does not mean the abandonment of the older studios; the previous setup will be retained at the Journal Building which has housed the station for many years. An architect’s drawing of the new’ Milwaukee “Radio City” appeared in the May issue of the NBC Transmitter.
JOHNNY OLSON AND MAIL
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WTMI Listeners Join Radio Turntable Whirl
• If the mail piles up much higher, Johnny Olson’s Rumpus Room program — a five-times-a-week WTMJ (Milwaukee) feature — will have Wisconsin postmen working overtime. Primarily a record stunt show, the program each Friday highlights a “Sing With the Record” contest that has caught on like wildfire.
Public clamor for spots on the program— in which six persons are chosen to sing with their favorite records — has reached astonishing proportions. The demand for studio tickets has also been tremendous. A recent single day’s mail count totaled 2,973 letters and post cards.
KSD's Service Paper
• Fifteen men in the Armed Forces who left jobs in the continuity, engineering and announcing departments of Station KSD ( St. Louis I are now receiving copies of a special monthly paper, “Brief Transcribed Interludes,” telling the news of their former co-workers at KSD.
Teacher Takes Control
• Louise G. Newton, erstwhile first grade teacher, is South Carolina’s first woman radio control operator. After completing a Government-sponsored radio defense training course at the Lhiiversity of South Carolina, she joined the staff of WIS, NBC affiliate in Columbia.