Radio mirror (Nov 1937-Apr 1938)

RADIO MIRROR members broadcasts a half hour program of entertainment in song, and Saturdays a one hour program is heard from the stage of the Strand Theater. This Saturday group is a unit of two hundred and fifty boys and girls from four to fifteen years of age. Their hour is generally known as the Krim-ko hour because the commercial portion of the program is a comic strip dramatization supplied by that chocolate milk manufacturer, and_ here Uncle Howdy is surrounded by his juvenile actors as they bring to life comic strip characters. In addition to the comic strip production the hour consists of sparkling musical arrangements from popular hit tunes directed by Uncle Howdy; trios; mixed quartets and other featuresall supported by the two hundred and fifty voice chorus. Among those gaining great popularity in these kiddie revues are little Jack Douglas Morse, five-year-old swing songster; Marda Purchis and "Whitie" Wallace, ballad singers; Joyce French and Donna Winters, popular favorites in the swingsinging department; fifteen-year-old Norma Beam with her surprisingly matured style of classic rendering; and Margaret Garvey, who is an audience winner with the better known blues songs. With all Lansing loving these groups of entertainers and filling the theater to capacity for their broadcasts. Uncle Howdy now has plans under way for the fortyvoiced Juvenile Revue to tour the Butterfield Theaters in all principal Michigan cities. In view of the national attention the club has gained from listeners and distributors of nationally advertised pro Coast-to-Coast Highlights {Continued from page 8) ducts who ask for program transcriptions. Program Director Howard Finch and the Lansing Dairy Company can rightly be proud of their accomplishments. And to those who ask where our future radio stars are coming from — it would seem Uncle Howdy's Lansing WJIM kindergarten at least suggests one place. NEIGHBOR SIGL "Howdy, neighbors!" may not be a familiar program salutation to all radio listeners, but to thousands in the eastern states it means Al Sigl is on the air with the latest news bulletins and another of his neighborly chats. Eight years ago Sigl went on the air for the first time over Rochester, New York's WHAM as a newcaster for the Rochester Times-Union. Two years later he transferred to the Times-Union owned station, WHEC at Rochester, and ever since has talked to his "neighbors" for two fifteenminute periods daily — once at noon and once in mid-afternoon. Although these periods were originally intended for timely news bulletins only, the adroit Sigl managed to give a couple minutes of each broadcast to the mention of "neighborhood needs." The results were surprising, and also the beginning of his unique combination program of news and social service. Rapidly growing, the program idea developed into a much desired, yet quite unexpected, connecting link bewteen radio and his newspaper. Continuing on the same design, Al's broadcasts soon made themselves felt as the friendly microphone voice of the Times-Union, therebv extend ing the helping hand far beyond the scope of normal newspaper service. One of the first times when this friendliness made itself evident was shortly after his initial broadcast. Five minutes before he was to go on the air, while he was preparing late news flashes at his desk in the editorial rooms, from where the broadcasts originate, Al's telephone rang. The man on the other end of the wire pleaded: "Al, my little girl is in the hospital. She's near death and she's got to have a blood transfusion. I can't afford to pay much. Will you help me?" At that time such requests were something new to Al, but he called the hospital and was told the type of blood the youngster needed. He went on the air, told the story, asked for a blood donor, and the little one's life was saved. Out of that early broadcast grew "Al Sigl's Legion," a group of men and women who give their blood in hospitals without pay and who respond to calls at any hour, day or night. _ Today the membership of the "Legion" is nearing a thousand and the service covers eight counties surrounding Rochester. During a recent month, seven persons near death were brought back to health through "Al Sigl's Legion." Each volunteer is catalogued as to name, address, age, telephone number and type of blood, with cards kept on file at the Times-Union office. That's onlv one of Sigl's social services. On another occasion he appealed for a wheel chair for an unfortunate woman and within ten minutes after signing off he had offers of ten chairs. 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