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BANNISTER RE -AFFIRMS FAITH IN RADIO

Wilson WillCalls Meeting Of

TV ProducersFebruary 8

Washington Bureau of RADIO DAILYWashington - Possible

changes in the governmentorder freezing production ofcolor television sets will bediscussed by television produ-cers at a meeting which hasbeen called by the Office of De-fense Mobilization on Febru-ary 8. Defense MobilizationDirector Charles E. Wilson,

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McDaniel Reveals

RTMA Meeting PlansWith important government ac-

tions affecting the radio -TV manu-facturing industry expected shortly,industry leaders will meet Feb-ruary 5-7 at the Roosevelt Hotel,New York, for the mid -winter con-ference of RTMA, Glen McDaniel,president, announced yesterday. Theconference will conclude with a

(Continued on Page 7)

New Patriotic AM SeriesSponsored By Jr. LeagueNew series of dramatic radio

shows designed to make history in-teresting will be launched on Feb-ruary 4 by the New York City Boardof Education through its station,WNYE, in cooperation with the Ju-nior Leagues of Brooklyn and New

(Continued on Page 6)

Religious TV SeriesBishop Fulton D. Sheehan has

been signed for a series on WABD.Du Mont television network start-ing Tuesday,February 12.8 to 8:30p.m., EST. Bishop Sheehan, notedas a radio and TV orator, willdiscuss, "Is Life Worth Living."Series will originate in a librarystudio in New York City, it hasbeen announced by the DuMontTelevision Network.

Reconsider Color TV FreezeABC Radio Show Plugged on NBC-TV

Somebody said it would happen some day and it did yesterday on"TODAY." What actually happened was this: two ABC boys with aflair for funmalcing posted themselves out the RCA -Victor exhibition hallaround 8:30 a.m. yesterday. They were peering through the windowwhich displays Dave Garroway and company busily engaged in pre-senting NBC's TV show, "Today." As the NBC cameras panned thewindow. Bill Stedman and Tom Shea, went into action. They displayeda big sign which read: "LISTEN TO HERB SHELDON MORNINGS ONWIZ RADIO, 6:30 TO 8:15 A.M." This NBC-TV plug for an ABC radioshow cost them $4-the price of the sign.

Commission Denies

20th -Fox TV PetitionWashington Bureau of RADIO DAILYWashington-In a memorandum

opinion and order yesterday theFCC denied, as unnecessary andpremature, a petition filed by 20thCentury -Fox Film Corp. to enlargethe issues in the forthcoming the-ater TV hearings, scheduled to be-gin February 25.

To 20th Fox's request that anissue of whether frequencies pre-sently allocated to industrial radioservices might be assigned to the-ater TV, the commission said "to

(Continued on Page 2)

Travis Heads ABC SalesPromotion On West Coast

West Coast Bureau of RADI!_l-L'Azzy-Hollywood-C. Merwin Travis has

been named sales promotion man-ager for ABC's Western Division, itwas announced by William Phillip -son, director for ABC's Western Di-vision, who also announced the pro -

(Continued on Page 2)

Okla. Broadcasters

Hold Annual MeetingLawton, Okla.-Members of the

Oklahoma Broadcasters Associationmeeting here Wednesday voted toinvestigate the feasibility of a state-wide survey of impact of TV on ra-dio, elected officers for the ensuingyear and discussed possible revisionof by-laws to enlarge scope of asso-ciation's activities.

William B. Way of KVOO, Tulsa,reporting for the six stations in theTulsa area, told of the success oftheir campaign to sell radio andurged other broadcasters to adopt

(Continued on Page 3)

Coast Film & Radio StarsTo Aid Brotherhood Week

West Coast Bureau of RADIO DAILYHollywood-Sixteen film and ra-

dio personalities have been sched-uled by the Hollywood CoordinatingCommittee to record a series of spotannouncements featuring the 18thannual observance of National

(Continued on Page 3)

Radio And TV Get CreditFor Success Of Polio Drive

Cleveland-Radio and televisionstations in Cleveland are creditedwith 99 per cent of success of first"Mothers' March on Polio" drive inmajor U. S. city by Rudy Miller,chairman of fabulously successfuldrive.

"Mothers' March on Polio" to berepeated in Detroit and other largecities because of success of Cleve-

land drive, is organized into con-centrated one -hour house -callingcampaign by mothers answeringdoorbells only where porch lightsare lit, indicatihg' desire to con-tribute.

More than goal of $400,000, $100,090more than collected by conventionalweek-long March of Dimes drive

(Continued on Page 7)

Detroit ExecutiveGives Views OnRadio's Future

Taking as his theme, "Ra-dio's not going to fold up, butradio must take cognizance ofthe times," Harry Bannister,general manager of WWJ andWWJ-TV, Detroit, was thefeatured speaker at the Wald-orf-Astoria Hotel, yesterday,before some three hundredmembers of the Radio Execu-

(Continued on Page 3)

DuMont Asks For

Hearing SeparationWashington Bureau of RADIO DAILYWashington - As the DuMont

phase of the ABC-UPT Paramount-DuMont consolidated hearing closedyesterday, William A. Roberts,counsel for the Allen B. DuMontLaboratories, told FCC hearingexaminer Leo Resnick he would fileshortly a motion requesting that the

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VOA Transmitter To BeIn Washington State

Washington Bureau of RADIO DAILYWashington - The .State Depart-

Ment's new seVe n -million -dollarshortwave transmitter, announcedtwo weeks ago, will be located in

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WILLIAM SHAW, general manager of KNX,Los Angeles and the Columbia Pacific RadioNetwork, has returned to the Coast followingtwo weeks at CBS offices in New York andChicago.

JEAN RUTH and BILL LECHNER, contractplayers at Jerry Fairbanks Productions, ar-rived in New York yesterday for appearanceson the Doug Edwards program.

CARL WARD, general manager, DON MIL-LER, sales manager, and HOWARD LALLY,food broker contact for WCBS radio, havereturned to New York following the NationalFood Brokers Convention in Atlantic City.

RALPH .CATTELL, v -p and general managerof Jerry Fairbanks Productions, is in NewYork for conferences with TV and agencyexecs.

JOHN L. AKERMAN, general manager ofKMOX, St. Louis arrives in New York onMonday for a week of conferences at CBS.

ARMAND GRANT, assistant general man-ager and director of sales at WAAM, Balti-more, will be in New York for three days ofconferences with Harrington, Righter and Par-sons, ABC and Du Mont.

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January 30Gene Norman Lawrence LowmanDick Kelly Reg. D. MarshallRenwicke Cary Clarence G. Cosby

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JACK PEGLER, sales manager for ZoomarLens, leaves for Mexico this Week -end for avisit with Emilio Azcarraga in Mexico City.

W. J. REA, manager of KMUS, Mutual af-filiate in Muskogee, Okla., is in New Yorkfor conferences.

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Commission Denies

20th -Fox TV Petition(Continued from Page 1)

single out and specifically to put inissue the frequencies allocated to theindustrial service might imply thatthe other frequencies which havebeen put into issue by petitionsfiled by other parties to the pro-ceeding are not also involved there-in or that the commission is givingsome preference to the use of in-dustrial frequencies for a theatertelevision service."

The commission said that up tonow it has not assigned any fre-quencies to theater TV and thatone of the purposes of the hearingsnext month is to determine theorders of frequencies and the spec-trum space required, if any, at eachorder of frequency which would benecessary to establish a theater TVservice. In other words, the FCCmade it plain it has not yet deter-mined whether theater TV wouldbe in the public interest andwhether the allocation of any fre-quencies for this service would bejustified.

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ALFRED DAVIDSON ASSOCI-ATES has been appointed public re-lations counsel to the Gold PureFood Products Company, Brooklyn.A campaign now being planned forpromotion of Gold's line of horseradish and allied products, will placeheavy emphasis on television, withall media to be used.

HUNTER COLLEGE will open anew course on the basic principlesof advertising on Feb. 19. Course isopen to both men and women.

Coast Film & Radio StarsTo Aid Brotherhood Week

(Continued from Page 1)

Brotherhood Week, February 17 to24. They are Eve Arden, EdwardArnold, Jack Benny, Eddie Cantor,Jeff Chandler, Ralph Edwards,Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., June Haver,Bop Hope, Alanter, Frank Lovejoy, Groucho Marx,Joel McCrea, Dennis O'Keefe andAudrey Totter.

The spots will stress promotingof good will, justice, understandingand cooperation among people ofall religious races and nationalorigins. More than 2,000 discs willbe mailed to radio stations in thiscountry.

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(Continuedtives Club of New York. He wasintroduced to the gathering by I. E.(Chick) Showerman, president ofthe club.

Beginning his remarks with theobservation that"How to run aradio stationside - by - sidewith TV and tomake both prof-itable," was thethinking of hisstations as farback as 1945,Bannister r e -vealed. At thattime he felt thatTV would prob-ably occupysome three tofour hours a day.

However, he said, in March of1947 WWJ-TV came into being,starting all alone in the motor citywithout benefit of the cable and thatby that time station heads were soldon the medium to the extent ofsacrificing two years of radio profitsin order to set up the TV station. Atthat time, Bannister said, he feltthat TV would ultimately kill radio.

By mid -1949, with TV expanding,felt he had to re -vamp

his ideas that radio was doomed;and that the medium not only hada "right to survive" but that alsoradio, in itself, would never die.

However, as radio billings de-clined, as much as 40 per cent earlyin 1951, and levelling off to some20 per cent later in the year, Ban-nister said it was decided to fightback for the radio medium.

Justifies Rate CutWhile he had always felt that

radio was priced too low during theyears it had the center of the stage,Bannister said, it was decided, asa first step, to lower nighttime sta-tion rates by gl per cent, This re-tained a great deal of business onthe station and brought in somenew accounts. This, he said, was inthe face of some $6,000,000 worthof advertising, which had'gone intoTV in the Detroit area by mid -1951.

Re -looking at the radio situationin Detroit, in late 1951, after the

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iner Hugh B. Hutchison, in an initialdecision, pfoposes to grant a con-struction permit -to Spa Broadcast-ers, Inc., for a new AM station atSaratoga Springs, N. Y., to operateon 900 kc with 250 watts daytimeonly. He proposed to deny for de-fault application of Saratoga Broad-casting Co. for the same facilities.

Spa is composed of John H.Woods, transmitter engineer ofWWSC, Glens Falls, N. Y.; RichardO'Connor, dairy farmer and civicleader of Middletown, N. Y., andjoseph E Donahue -of Brooklyn, aU S Government Supply Officer.

from Page 1)newness of TV had worn off, Ban-nister revealed that a return to pro-motion of personalities, plus ap-praising "out of home" audience andmany other "plus" activities of radiolistening were more thoroughly ex-amined. These included the develop-ment of sequence block program-ming, studies of listening audiencesby type of home, opening up earlya.m. to small advertisers, home -owning status and other parts of thewealth -factor, which brought fortha new cost -per -thousand figure,which could be favorably compared,for radio, to other media.

While on the subject of re-evalu-ation, Bannister said he had neverfelt that rating services could beused as more than a faint sign -postas to what a program could reallydo for an advertiser.

Radio Billings UpAs a result of all this activity,

Bannister said that by late 1951, thedecline in radio billings were halted,even opposite TV's draw of some$700,000 per month in the Detroitarea. In fact, he said, a definiteupturn in radio billings has oc-curred since December and earlythis month.

With these facts at hand, Bannis-ter said, his radio station intends tokeep radio on a high level and hasno intention of ever cheapening themedium.

In closing he admonished the ad-vertising agencies that too many ofthem have reached the position oftreating radio, because it has beenaround so long. with the "familiaritythat breeds contempt."

Okla. Broadcasters

Hold Annual Meeting(Continued from Page 1)

the theme of "Everywhere you go,there's radio."

In considering plans for a state-wide survey the broadcasters namedL. F. "Chub" Ellatti of KSPI, Still-water, outgoing president, to head acommittee which will contact theresearch departments of OklahomaUniversity and Oklahoma A. and M.,regarding the proposed study.

Allan Page, KSWO, Lawton, waselected president of the associationfor the ensuing year. Cy Casper,WBBZ, Ponca City, was named vice-president; Guy Farnsworth, KCRC,Enid, secretary -treasurer. Directorselected were Jimmy Barry, KMUS,Muskogee; George Collison, KOCY,Oklahoma City; John Esau, KTUL,Tulsa; Bill Hoover, KADA, Ada; EdRyan, KSIW, Woodward. Page ap-pointed Collison chairman and Esau,Collison, Barry members of specialcommittee to study possible revisionof association by-laws to enlargescope of activities in line with otherstate associations.

Grant License RenewalsIn a revised report the FCC an-

nounced that the following FM sta-tions have been granted regularlicense renewals: WLYC-FM, Wil-liamsport, Pa.; WICA-FM, Ashta-bula. Ohio; KLZ-FM, Denver;WCTW, New Castle, Ind.

The following AM stations weregranted regular renewals: WARA,Attleboro, Mass.; WBEX, Chilli-cothe, Ohio; WMUS, Muskegon,Mich., and WLOL, Minneapolis.

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* * No comment from Ohio radio -TV exec Ed Lamb on the

action of an unidentified man who took out petitions for Lamb'snomination for U. S. Senator at the Secretary of State's office inColumbus. Sec. State Ted W. Brown said 50 petitions were takenout for' the Democratic party. Lamb, who owns WTOD, Toledo,and WTVN, Columbus, campaigned in 1940 unsuccessfully fornomination to the Democratic candidacy for state attorney general,and in 1934 was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republicannomination for U. S. Senator.

* *Ever -mounting popularity of "Famous Jury Trials" on Du

Mont is proof of its complete individuality, being unlike any other adven-ture program-it depends upon the drama and suspense of the courtroom rather than the actual commission of a crime. It is not a Whodunitsince the audience usually knows immediately whether or not the def en -dent is guilty, the suspense lying in the possibility that he will getaway with it. Judge Harold Medina publicly paid tribute to the showbecause of its obvious influence for good. The judge's endorsement hasalso been seconded by religious groups, parent -teachers and law enforce-ment agencies throughout the country. Credit for the high calibre pro-gram go to producer John Clark and director David Lowe.

New Patriotic AM SeriesSponsored By Jr. League

(Continued from Page 1)York City. Entitled "The Price ofLiberty," the series of 12 15 -minuterecordings was produced by lead-ing educational authorities to dram-atize historical highlights of NewYork.

Though primarily designed foruse in seventh -grade history classesas an aid in teaching history, theseries are also suitable for generaladult groups such as patriotic orcivic organizations. Distribution ofthe records is in charge of theJunior Leagues of New York State.

Beginning with the story of theorigin of the- firSt representativegomernment,in the Iroquois Confed-eracy, the series depicts in narrative,form the -constant 'struggle -of allpeople of the state for freedom z -ridjustice, through a democratic gov-ernment. Freedom of religion, free-dom of press and speech are dram-atized in the Flushing Remonstranceand the trial of Peter Zenger, whileremainder of the series emphasizesother, historical :milkstprTs in thegrowth of the state since its settle-

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(Continued from Page 1)the Port Angeles area of Washing-ton State at a point known as Dun-geness, the department revealedyesterday. Planned to have the mostIlpwerful radio signal in the world,the transmitter will carry Voice ofAmerica broadcasts across thePacific to the Far East. A similartransmitter will be built on theAtlantic Coast for broadcasts toEurope and Latin America. A StateDepartment . spokesman said theEastern site will be announced in afew days.- It is expected that the two newstransmitters will be the 'key stationsfor a proposed worldwide networkoutlined by President Truman Mon-day in his budget message in whichhe asked for $35 million to acquire

-lands-andbuild new radio facilities.In addition to the land stations.theVoice of America is completing in-stallation of a new floating transmit-.ter aboard a special Coast Guardship. This station, scheduled tobegin operations next month, will beused to reach remote areas, it was

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who originally requested the halt inproduction of color TV last October,revealed the plans for the meetingin a letter to Senator Johnson (D. -Colo.). The Senator had writtenWilson on December 14 protestingthe ban.

Johnson told Wilson that he un-derstood TV producers were to begiven freedom in using their alloca-tions of critical metals for eitherblack and white or color TV. Theagreement was reached, Johnsonsaid, at an industry meeting withDefense Mololization officials onOctober 25. The understanding wasthat manufacturers would not comeback for more metals once theirallocations were used.

Some misunderstandings are pre-velant in the industry, Wilson re-plied to Johnson. He added that theminutes of the October meeting arenot entirely clear.

The meeting in February will beto see if the ban does not reflect theviews of the industry, Wilson con-tinued. Possible changes or ratifica-tion will be taken up.

Reason given by the mobilizer forthe freeze order was that the indus-try feared possible anti-trust impli-cations if they agreed am,ng them-selves to suspend color TV.

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(Continued from Page 1)last year, was collected in Clevelandsupported principally by radio andTV stations.

"Cleveland was lit up like aChristmas tree on the night of Jan.-16" Miller stated "and we creditradio -TVs three-week saturationcampaign and up -to -last-minute urg-ing after 6:39 p.m. with excellentresponse."

Also nearly half of 22,000 motherswho worked city block -by -blockwere recruited by Cleveland radioand TV stations according to PaulBrokaw in charge of public relationsfor drive.

"Local radio and TV stationsopened drive with 30 announce-nouncements per day on week andstepped up saturation to 250 an-nouncements per day on week andevening of drive," Brokaw said.

TV Outlet WXEL and radio sta-tion WGAR covered dollar -by -dol-lar scoring of results with livebroadcasts from "Mothers' March"headquarters.

Cleveland polio drive officials un-dertook untried "Mothers' March"on insistence of assembled radio andTV program directors. They feltdevice would strike popular noteand that it is especially adapted toflexibility of media. The drive willtake permanent form as "Mothers'March" in Cleveland.

Cincinnati-An all-out appeal forthe polio fundwas staged by WLW-T,in a three-hour telecast of the finalsof the local Golden Gloves Tourna-ment last night. The telecast gotrolling at 9 p.m. when the first twocontenders entered the ring andcontinued until approximately 12midnight and featured the actualGolden Gloves boxing bouts inter-spersed with entertainment and ap-peals for phone-in pledges to thepolio fund from viewers. Three topWLW television announcers were onhand during the evening to handlethe blow-by-blow commentary onthe bouts. Neal Van Ells, familiar toviewers of the Saturday nightwrestling matches: Joe Hill, sportsdirector of WLW-C in Columbus,and Bob Provence of WLW-T's"Three City Final" rotated the ring-side assignment, Many WLW-Tstars lent their talents to the tele-thon effort in appeals between theeight matches that were scheduledfor the Golden Gloves finals.Among. the' top names to appearwere Bill Thall, Mel Martin, VicBellamy, Bonnie Lou, KentuckyBoys, Lee Jones, !Buddy Ross, Briar -hoppers, Marian Spelman, Judy Per-kins, and Ernie Lee.

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**TELE TOPICS**TOPIC of ABC -TV's "Horizons," Sunday, Jan. 27 at 12 noon, will be "The Futureof Atomic Energy." Professor John R. Dunning, dean of the Faculty of Engineer-

ing, Columbia University, and six Columbia University students will participate. . . Plans for a "Mothers March Marathon," tomorrow, has been set up by'WARM, Baltimore, for the "March of Dimes." Program will start at 1 p.m. andrun through early Sunday morning with Nick Campofreda as emcee. Due to thelocal transit strike, contributions slowing inter -city travel to a walk, have causedcollections to be far behind in the Maryland city, hence the special public-serviceprogram. . . . Ed Sullivan barnstorms to more than 100 major department storesto introduce the new Lincoln for 1952, between Sunday evening "Toast of theTown," programs over CBS -TV. . . . Peggy Lee and Carlos Ramirez guest onJackie Gleason's "Cavalcade of Stars," Friday, Feb. 1 at 10 p.m. over Du Mont. . . .

The new "Al Pearce Show," starting Monday, Feb. 11 at 10:45 a.m., and goingacross-the-board thereafter, will be sold in fifteen -minute segments, according toFred M. Thrower. CBS -TV vice-president in charge of network sales.

* * *TODAY'S TV PERSONALITY: BEULAH ZACHARY, business manager for the

Kuklapolitcrns as well as producer of 'Kukla, Fran & 011ie," began her TVcareer when she joined the staff of WBKB, Chicago, in 1944. Following graduationfrom Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C. It was hereschool in her home town of Brevard, N. C. It was hereshe organized a little theater group which led to her firsprofessional experience in the Mohawk Drama Festival aSchenectady. Later, Beulah went to New York where sheworked as stage manager and in costumes with manyNew York productions. Landing in Chicago as stage man-ager for "Cry Havoc" she became one of the pioneers ofTV by working on an NBC show. Six months later, shejoined WBKB, and after several weeks of dolly -pushing,boom -hoisting and other odd -jobs, Beulah started as a di-rector, specializing in dramatic productions. She has beenassociated with Burr Tillstrom ever since she worked ashis producer on "Junior Jamboree." As producer of "Kukla,Fran & 011ie," Beulah has overall supervision of getting the program on the air,

* * *BAND -LEADER Elliott Lawrence makes his dramatic debut tonight on Du

Mont's "Not for Publication." . . . Open to graduate students only, WayneUniversity, Detroit, will offer a full semester course on the place of TV in theschool program and its contribution to instruction. . . . Sen. Owen Brewster,(R. -Me.) will replace Sen. Everett M. Dirksen as speaker on the first telecast of"America's Town Meeting," Sunday, Jan. 26 at 6:30 p.m. over ABC-TV. Discussionwill be "Eisenhower or Taft-What Are Their Chances?"3t *

ZACHARY

Top TV programs in New York for December, as reported by Hooper find "TexacoStar Theater" in first place with a rating of 52.8, followed by "Arthur Godfrey's

Talent Scouts," with a 46.9. In third position was "Colgate Comedy Hour," forthe Dec. 2 show only, with a rating of 38 2 With Danny Thomas in chargethe "Colgate Comedy Hour," this Sunday at 8 p.m. on NBC-TV, will also featureDorothy Lamour and Bunny Lewbel. . . . "Time for Beany." WCBS-TV, at 5:30p.m. will go six days a week, starting next Monday. Program is sponsoredTuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays by Leigh Foods, Inc. . . . The Chicago SymphonyOrchestra, on ABC-TV, will present a special "Young People's Concert, Tues-day, Feb. 3. Program is televised at 10:30 am., EST, outside of New York. . . . Adiscussion of TV's influence on the fashion world will be given at the Hotel Mc-Alpin, today, by Kitty D'Alessio, fashion consultant for some NBC -TV's shows.

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RTMA Meeting Plans(Continued_ from Page 1)

board meeting on February 7 withChairman Robert C. Sprague pre-siding.

Among forthcvnting goVernmentaTactions to be discussed are:

The. expected early ternainationof the FCC "freeze" on TV stationconstruction and its effect on indus-try production.

The Industry -conference calledby ODM for February 8 to reviewthe ODNL order- prohibiting themanufacture of color TV equipment.

The third and probably finaltrade practice conference to becalled by the Federal Trade Com-mission preparatory tit- issuing pro-posed trade practice rules for theradio -television industry.

In addition, governmental mate-rial allocations and the military pro-duction outlook for the year will bereviewed at various group meetingsthroughout the conference.

The reorganized transmitter divi-sion, which will propose that itsname be changed to the technicalproducts division, will hold a seriesof meetings on Wednesday, Feb. 6,to launch its new activitieS. Amongthese will be the newly -formedgovernment relations section, whichwill take some of the major prob-lems involved in doing businesswith the armed services.

Dinner MeetingA dinner meeting Wednesday for

the transmitter division executivecommittee and section chairmen,under chairman 11.-J: Hoffman, willconclude the division's sessions. Theset division executive committee,under Chairman John W. Craig, willmeet Wednesday morning, Feb.as will the exedutive cotrintttqt_I-. SW!section chairmen of the parts divi-sion, under Chairman R. G. Zender,and the amplifier and SO-und equip-ment division, --under Chairman A.K. Ward. The -tutre division, underChairman. R. E. Carlson will hold -

a membership meeting: - -The television committee, under

Chairman W. R. G. Baker, will re-ceive reports on the progress offield tests of the color televisionstandards developed by the NationalTelevision System Cofmnittee and thefindings of a special task force es-tablished to determine effects oflifting the freeze. -

A progress report on the work ofthe association's statistical depart-ment, which started function- -

ing the first of the year, will bemade by director William F. E.Long. The newly appointed RTMAservice manager, Albert Coumont,will meet with the service commit-tee to review its program.

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0 MUSICVILLE GAZETTE-You're going to have to wait abouta year to check me, but about then, when Patti Page's contract withMercury terminates, you will find that during her stay at the Paramountthat young wizard Mitch Miller got her for Columbia Records. . . . BobPoole, the Mutual DJ, starts a novel idea today on his 550 -station hook-up(except N. Y.). He'll feature the whole score of a B'way musical, withmembers of the cast as guests. Today he kicks off with "Top Banana"and his guests will be Judy Lynn and Mike Sloan. . . . As a result ofhis nice work on "A Kiss to Biuld a Dream On" with Hugo Winterhalteron Victor, Johnnny Parker again this week was up at Victor, workingw:th the Three Suns, and cut two more with Hugo. This is the same ladwho wrote the song, "I Wanna Love You" whose Coral record by theAmes Brothers has already sold close to a quarter of a million records.Kay Starr's version will be out next week. (See below).

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Pianist Jose Iturbi, arrived in New York this week torehearse the RCA Victor Symphony Orch. for his Feb. 2, matineeconcert at Carnegie Hall. Iturbi will conduct from the keyboard,on which he'll play four major concertos. Program consists ofMozart's D minor, Beethoven's 3rd, Mendelssohn's concerto, andLiszt's No. 1. He will also record these, probably this week. . . .

Nick Lucarelli of the ABC sound effects department has writtenthe lyrics to two new tunes "Yesterday's Song" and "A LonelyWorld." Both songs have been recorded by Sara Lou Harris andPaul Valentine, respectively, on the Emerson label. . . . With allthe awarding of awards by the various publications, it has alwaysamazed me that "The Hit Parade" on TV has never received thetop awards they deserve for their masterful production, and aston-ishing good taste, on what could easily be a deadly assignment.They are up there with the rest of the best.

* * * *RECORDS ON PARADE-"Where's That Tiger?" cries Dick

Linke of Capitol Records. He's still hunting a live one to use in a LesPaul, "Tiger Rag" promotion. . . . Due to the reception given "NecessaryEvil" as waxed for Decca by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, Colum-bia, is issuing that side sung by Frankie Laine, as a single. It wasissued around Xmas, as part of an album. . . . Nat Tannen is all excitedabout the Victor recording of "Good By Maria, I'm off to Korea" as sungby Montana Slim. The disc will be previewed via Don Larkens show onWAAT, Newark between 1 and 2 today. . . . "Please Mr. Sun" withJohnnie Ray, has already sold 400,000 in the first week and a half. . . .

Danny Thomas of TV and the movies has an album of "Comedy Songs"lust issued by MGM records. . . . Cathie Favaro, Dick Linke's right-handin the Capitol promotion dept., has gotten the promotion to go withher duties. Assistant in the promotion department if you please!

* * * WEDDING BELLS IN TIN PAN ALLEY-Cliff Stew-

ard, Coral recording artist is getting married today. Acting as bestman will be Rudy Vallee. H'mm, nice cast! . . . Tony Bennett whomakes money for Columbia records ties the knot Feb. 14, whilethe boy in charge of pop. publicity at Columbia, Elliot Home, willdo it Feb. 2. He marries lovely Joan Regenstraff.

* *TRY THESE ON YOUR TURN TABLES-"I Wanna Love

You," Kay Starr, (Capitol). Kay breathes electric into this catchy rhythmtune. The flip side, "Wheel of Fortune," good listening too. . . . "BabyDoll," Doris Day, (Columbia): A nice ballad with La Day making the

most of every note. . . . "No Other Love," Billy Williams Quartet,

(MGM). Good listening. . . . "Mountain Laurel," Jane Turzey, (Decca).The type of ditty that has universal appeal; also good "Alleganey Fid-

ler" flip side. . . . "We Won't Live in a Castle," two good records of thisexcellent ballad, which ought to be a real biggie. 1: Guy toUtchell, (Colum-bia); 2:Bill Hayes, (MGM). This song is tailored to his talents.

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(Continued from Page 1)DuMont portion be severed from thehearings and that the Commissionimmediately grant license renewalsto the DuMont stations.

Roberts said he would base hismotion on the grounds that thehearing has developed that Para-mount has no control whatever overthe DuMont operations. His an-nouncement came after corporateattorneys for Paramount and Du -Mont told the commission of nego-tiations whereby Paramount was tohave disposed of its Dumont stockin 1950.

Edwin Falk of New York, cor-porate attorney for DuMont, testi-fied that in February 1950 EdwinWeisl, a Paramount executive andmember of the DuMont board, toldhim he thought Paramount wouldsell its stock for $10 million cash.Subsequently Kuhn and Loeb, NewYork stock brokers, advised Para-mount by letter, Falk said, that theywere ready to sell the Paramount -owned DuMont stock on the openmarket and estimated they couldrealize about $10 million for it.

Not EagerFalk added, however, that "it died

on the vine." He told the commissionthat Paramount did not appear tobe eager to sell its DuMont stock.

James P. Murtaugh of Simpson,Thacher and Bartlett, Paramountcorporate lawyers, told the commis-sion he did not get into the Para-mount-DuMont phase until Marchlast year and that so far as he couldrecall the alleged negotiations hadto do with distribution of the stock.

Frederick W. Ford, chief of thecommission's broadcast bureau hear-ing section who is representing theFCC in the hearings, placed into therecord 1948 testimony of Paul Rai -bourn, president of Paramount Tele-vision Productions, Inc., in whichRaibourn told the commission thatParamount would assiduously at-tempt to dispose of its DuMontstock. At that time, according to thetestimony placed in the record yes-terday, Raibourn said Paramountwould accept $10 million for itsDuMont stock.

The hearings recessed until Feb-ruary 4, when the ABC-UPT mergerphase comes up.

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