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Safety Program Cited
Bob Dillon, vice-president of the Cowles Broadcasting Company and manager of KRNT Des Moines, Iowa, recently accepted the station's National Safety Council Award, presented on behalf of the Council by Ralph Branton, president of the Des Moines Safety Council.
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KRNT won the honor as the result of its intensive 1948 traffic safety campaign and particularly for its "Hey Bob Show," a weekly fun-filled safety program for children. "Hey Bob Shows" are audience participation broadcasts attended every Saturday by nearly two thousand youngsters.
KGO Presents Shows Devoted to California
Introducing a colorful quarter-hour kaleidoscope of San Francisco and Northern California past and present, Ken Carnahan, critic for KGO San Francisco, is presenting a new series of weekly programs devoted to stories of California.
Scheduled to be heard on Monday evenings at 9:15 P. M., the show, with title to be announced, will feature bi-weekly appearances of outstanding literary personalities from the San Francisco-Oakland Bay area. Introduced by Carnahan, guests will relate their own favorite stories of California history and local color,
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SHOW HAS APPEAL
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A boy soprano, he turned into something more comfortable — a light baritone.
Clarinet and sax player as well as singer is Cliff McKay. Cliff has played with the Toronto Symphony, conducted his own band in Bermuda and Quebec. Jimmy Namaro does his bit with the xylophone and piano. He was soloist with the Chicago World's Fair Orchestra. A whirlwind keyboard genius, he also conducts his own orchestra. Bob Gimby is featured on the trumpet.
On the violin, Blain Mathe is featured while the bass fiddle, Joe Niosi takes all bows. George Temple attends to all production details and devotes his full time to supervising matters in the control room during "The Happy Gang" broadcasts.
Winding up the list of performers is
Hugh Bartlett, the show's versatile announcer and "keeper of the Joke-Pot." Hugh selects and stages Joke-Pot stories. The dizzy voices he uses and the hilarious hats he wears are a surprise for the rest of the gang right up until program time, in keeping with the Bert Pearl policy of never letting one performer know what the other is doing until airtime.
"The Happy Gang" has made friends for itself during its radio career. It has also made friends and customers for its sponsors. In the words of Samuel H. Feldman, agency representative for the Lauer Furniture Company in Rochester, who sponsored the show over WVET Rochester, New York: "... I can tell you now the results were excellent. Lauer 's have made a lot of friends and have sold lots of furniture on the strength of this radio advertising ..."
For Foremost Dairies, Mary R. Miller has written: ". . .1 will be more than pleased to recommend The Happy Gang' to anyone looking for an outstanding onehalf hour musical variety show. 'Happy Gang' sponsors will find themselves featuring a show that's sure to bring favorable comment, friends, contacts and best of all — Increased Sales!"
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