Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

2 RADIO DAILY Thursday. October 13, 1949 Vol. 49, No. 8 Thur., Oct. 13, 1949 lOCts. JOHN W. ALICOATE : : Publisher FRANK BURKE : : : : : Editor MARVIN KIRSCH : Business Manager Published daily except Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays at 1501 Broadway, New York, (18), N. Y., by Radio Daily Corp., J. W. Alicoate, President. and Publisher ; Donald M Mersereau, Treasurer and General Manager; Marvin Kirsch, Vice-President; Chester B. Bahn, Vice-President; Charles A. Alicojjte, Secretary. Terms (Postage free) United States (other than California) $10.00 one year; California, $15.00. Foreign, $15.00. Address all communications to Radio Daily, 1501 Broadway, New York (18), N. Y. Phone Wisconsin 7-6336, 7-6337, 7-6338. Cable address: Radaily, New York. WEST COAST OFFICES 6425 Hollywood Blvd. Phone: Gladstone 8436 WASHINGTON BUREAU Andrew H. Older, Chief 6417 Dahlonega Rd. Phone: Wisconsin 3271 CHICAGO BUREAU Hal Tate, Manager. 360 No. Michigan Ave. Phone: Randolph 6-6650 SOUTHWEST BUREAU Paul Girard, Manager Tower Petroleum Bldg., Dallas, Texas Phone: Riverside 3518-9 Entered as second class matter, April 5, 1937, at the postomce at New York, N. Y., •mder the act of March 3, 1879. JIHA|CIAL= NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE Net High Low Close Chg. ABC 734 71/2 73/4 + y4 Admiral Corp 263,4 26'/8 26'/8 — % Am. Tel. & Tel. . . . 1435/8 M3'/2 1435/8 -f l/8 CBS A 233/s 223/8 233/8 + % CBS B 221/2 221/2 221/2 Philco 31% 31 315/8 _|_ 5/8 Philco pfd. 81 1/2 81 1/2 81 1/2 — Vi RCA Common 123/8 12l/8 12'/4 Stewart-Warner ... 123/8 12% 123/8 + 1/8 Westinghouse 27% 26l/2 273/8 + 5/8 Westinghouse pfd.. 101 101 101 Zenith Radio 28i/2 28i/4 28Vi + % NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE Nat. Union Radio 2% 23^ 23,4— y8 OVER THE COUNTER Bid Asked Stromberg-Carlson 12% 1 3 V2 Wedding Bells Marcia Durant, narrative script writer for CBS-TV's "People's Platform," was married to Robert McKesson Liles, member of the United Press city news staff on Friday, Oct. 7. Also married this past weekend were Charlotte Manson of CBS' "This Is Nora Drake" and Dick Brown, singer on "Stop the Music." RCA INSTITUTES, INC. A Service of Radio Corporation of America One of the leading and oldest firhools of Kadio Technology in America, offers its trained Radio and Television technicians to the Broadcasting Industry. Our graduates have lit Clan* Telephone License. Address inquiries to Placement Director RCA INSTITUTES, Inc. 350 W. 4th St., New York 14, N. Y Manuals For Contest On Democracy Out The Voice of Democracy Committee has mailed out manuals of procedures and rules for the (third annual contest for the best broadcast scripts by high school students to all !NAB stations, 28,000 public, private and parochial high schools, and Junior Chamber of Commerce chapters. The contest, directed by the Committee of the three sponsors, the NAB, the RMA and the U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce, will be held as a feature of National Radio and Television Week, Oct. 30-Nov. 5. Students in the 10th, 11th and 12th grades of high school are eligible. The awards will consist of four scholarships to the national winners who write and voice the best radio scripts on the subject, "I Speak for Democracy." NAB member station will receive, after Oct. 15, special five-minute transcribed programs, featuring James Stewart, NAB president Justin Miller, U. S. Commissioner of Education, Earl J. McGrath, 1947 contest winner Janet Geister and 1948 contest winner Charles Kuralt, for scheduling during National Radio and Television Week as guides for students competing. As in previous years, the winners of the 1949 contest will be given, in addition to their scholarship awards, a week in Washington climaxed by the national awards luncheon. In the first two years, awards were made at the luncheon by former Attorney General Tom C. Clark, in nation-wide broadcasts. Contests begin during National Radio and Television Week in the high school eliminations, after which community competitions pick winners to compete by transcription in the state contests. NAB member stations transcribe the winning scripts, in the winners' own voices, and 'all entries are judged by these recordings throughout the remainder of the national contest. Community winners are to be announced on Nov. 12, and state winners by Nov. 26. The schedule calls for the announcement of the four co-equal national winners on Dec. 15. The four students will be brought to Washington for the week of Feb. 20 next year, >and the awards luncheon, attended by national celebrities, will be held on Washington's birthday. Last year's contest, the second in the annual series, drew more than a quarter of a million contestants in 48 states, the District of Columbia, Alaska, and the Hawaiian Islands. Join WFIL Sales Staff Philadelphia — 'Irving F. Teetsell and Charles J. Hoban have joined the sales staff of WFIL, the Philadelphia Inquirer station. Teetsell formerly was with WFPG, Atlantic City, as sales manager and general manager. Hoban is a veteran of 30 years in selling, advertising, merchandising, and sales promotion. Inter-American Group Board Meets Tomorrow (Continued from Page 1) sion on the commercial broadcasting of government owned and operated stations. Scheduled to be present at the meeting (open only to board members), in addition to Balerio, are: board president Goar Mestre, Emilio Azcarraga of Mexico, Eneas Machado de Assis of Brazil and Gilmore N. Nunn of the Nunn stations in Kentucky. 19th Year As Sponsor V. Da Rosa and Sons, extensive users of Italian-language radio time throughout the Northeast, are now going into their nineteenth year of broadcast on WOV at the same hour Monday through Saturday — 12:30 to 1:00 p.m. La Rosa are leading manufacturers of macaroni products, with plants in Brooklyn, Danielson, Connecticut, and an ultra modern establishment under construction in Philadelphia. YMCA-Day Show On MBS The Mutual network on Saturday will carry from the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles a special half-hour show planned as a salute to YMCA Day on that date. Ten thousand teen-agers will listen to entertainment supplied by radio and screen stars. The program will be heard from 2-2:30 p.m., EST. COmiM and G0ID0 EMILIO AZCARRAGA, director of Radio Programas de Mexico, XEW and XEQ, to New York to attend the meetings of the InterAmerican Broadcasters Association. CURT ADAMS, station relations representative for NBC, leaving for Kansas City, where on Sunday he'll attend the opening ceremonies of WDAF-TV. BILL LEONARD, of "This Is New York" on WCBS, returned Monday from London, where he spent the week-end gathering material for his program. BENEDICT GIMBEL, JR., president and general manager of WIP, Philadelphia, on Saturday will be in Washington to attend the outing given by the FCC Bar Association at the estate of Horace Lohnes in Vienna, Va. JOHNNY OLSEN off for Richmond, Va„ to broadcast his "Ladies Be Seated" program at Virginia's first Tobacco Bowl Festival. CLAUDE H. FRAZIER, commercial manager of WAGA, Atlanta, is back at the station following a trip to New York for confabs with his station reps and with Tom Harker, national sales manager of the Fort Industry Company. MADELYN WHITE, of the CBS television department in New York, vacationing in Mexico City. BERT LOWN, of Associated Program Service, back from Dallas and Memphis, where he attended regional meetings of the NAB. ALFRED E. ANSCOMBE, public relations director of WKBW, Buffalo, N. Y., is at Long Beach, Cal., attending the convention of the Air Reserve Association. "Hey, Mom, can I go Swimming?"-* That seems to be the question the baby polar bear is whispering to its mother. The cub is just two months old, and feels that it's high time to take the first plunge. Are you ready to plunge into the rich Baltimore market for profitable sales? There's an easy, economical way to do it, you know — by advertising on W-I-T-H. A little bit of money goes a long, long way on W-I-T-H. For this is the station that delivers more listeners-per-dollar than any other station in town. Your Headley-Reed man will glady give you all the dope. BALTIMORE, MARYLAND Tom Tinsley, President • Represented by Headley-Reed