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NEWS and VIEWS of WDZ, Tuscola
WDZ'S 200 LBS. OF DYNAMITE
Paulie Grove the dynamic Hillbilly blues yodeler came to WDZ in November, 1938, after, what he terms, a very dull life behind the plow, and here's the inside story:
Born and raised on a farm in Jasper County, near West Liberty, where he attended school, he was one in a family of seven boys and one girl. After seventeen years of struggling to get ahead on the farm, he managed to save enough from the eggs (his chickens laid) to purchase a second hand guitar. He spent many hours beside the old family phonograph listening to recordings, principally those of Jimmy Rodgers, whom, it is often said, he resembles a great deal in style of his performance.
At the age of 24 years the desire to see the world flared up so strong in the breast of this country boy that he took it on the lam, went to Brocton, Illinois — a full sixty miles from home and mother, and got a job driving a transfer truck. One year at this vocation was sufficient to secure for Paulie a ticket back home on the farm, plus a life long companion to support.
After three more years on the
farm, the desire for the great open spaces once more came upon our smiling troubadour. Throwing his "gittar" over his shouldar he took off for the WDZ studios then located in Mattoon, Illinois.
At last his efforts were to bare fruit, for he was given a job immediately and has been with WDZ ever since.
Paulie Grove
Is he good? Well, just watch him. He's goin' places!
He's been in radio but two short years but has achieved for himself in that time an audience that many stars work years to obtain.
A self-made man, if ever 1 seen one, and a mail puller in any man's radio station.
WDZ GETS NEW PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Frank Jennings, who organized the Pals of the Prairie, widely known to the WDZ audience, has been appointed program director of WDZ, in Tuscola, 111. Frank has been in radio six years over stations throughout the middle west, including WHO, Des Moines, KMA, Shenandoah, la., and KVOO, Tulsa, Okla. Since Decatur, 111. is Frank's birthplace, he's right at home with WDZ.
Clair Hull, manager of WDZ, says Frank is "shaping up nicely and promises to be a good man for us."
WDZ ON PARADE
WDZ met a large number of people this summer on a new appearance idea called WDZ ON PARADE. The WDZ artist staff put on a free show at a focal point in the business district of the, one town visited each week in the WDZ area. This free afternoon
show publicized a night show and by rebroadcasting over WDZ by created interest in the audience short wave from the street stage. As evidence of success, WDZ ON PARADE played before an audience of about 75,000 during the fourteen shows. Profit from the night shows, and from sponsorship by the merchants in the town visited each week, aided materially in paying salaries of the artist staff, none of whom were dismissed through slump summer months.
RADIO VARIETIES — SEPTEMBER
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