Vol. VI. No. 9 ~ 25 RADIO STATION KWTO, SPBINGFIELD, MISSOUBI APRIL, 1947 BLACK IS BACK FIRST SINGING BEE WINNERS KORN'S-A-KRACKIN' WINNING AT OLD STAND FRIENDS FOR OZARK REGION IN NEW JO,B THROUGHOUT U.S. CONTINENT 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111[:J The kid from Calico Rock has Six Little Wo,rds Springfield Businessman Finds retur ned to KWTO. "Lou" Hometown Well-Known Black , after a sever al months so Wins Cash Prize Coast-To-Coast journ in the t all corn of I owa during which he was homesick Fifty dollars for .six words is That "Korns-A-Krackin' " is the for t he sweet corn of Missouri, very profitable authorship; just Ozarks best spokesman, chamber has r eturned to the Ozarks fa a bit more than eight dollars a of commerce, salesman of good vorite radio station as manager word. And there's many a strug- will, and chief ballyhoo artist, gling writer sweating for one is being proved everyday in of t he artist's bureau. cent a word. But fifty dollars is plenty of ways. Just recently, just exactly what six words net- Mr. C. I. Stafford, of the Stafford t ed Mrs. Mattie M. Barrett, 320 Operation Company at Spring Nichols Street, Springfield, Mis- field's Union Stockyards, returned In t he center smiles t he Hundreds of inquiries and _ap souri, in the Dial's March Lim- from a six-week tour of 24 eas "m arrying parson of t he Ozarks", plications have been received for erick Contest. Congratulations, tern and southern st at es. M r. the Reverend Gabriel Newman, the Greater Ozark Gospel Singing Mrs. Barrett. Stand by for your Stafford r eports that · in almost director of KWTO's Gospel Sing Bee and large crowds jam into chance to win the $125.00 Bluova 100 per cent of t he places he r e ing Bee broadcast from the stage the Shrine .Mosque to watch the wrist watch at the end of the gistered or showed his credentials of Springfield's Shrine Mosque contestants broadcast their wares. year. with his home-town listed, per- every Saturday night from 9 :00 No definite time limit has been One year subscriptions to the sons immediately recognized to 9 :30 p. rrt., just befor e "Korn's set for the Singing Bee but Dial went to the following for the Springfield, Missouri. Mr. Staf- A-Krackin' ." Surrounding him KWTO plans to continue it as ten next best last lines in the ford said he discovered the reason are t he happy winners of the first long as public interest justifies. March contest: L. E. Newton, for this immediate recognition Saturday night session of the Ent ries in the first session wer e Springfield; Mrs. Carl Weaver, was that they all listen to the Singing Bee, t he Melody Four t he Str afford Trio, the Bellview Oronogo; Mrs. Lucille Barr ett, coast to coast broadcast of Quartet from Harrison, Arkan T rio, t he Uzell Duo, the Woodrum Ash Grove; Mrs. Arie Watson, "Korn's-A-Krackin'" over the sas. · Each Saturday's winners Duo from F air Grove, the More Lebanon; Mrs. Emma Chalmers; Mutual Broadcasting System. are awarded $5©.00 in cash to be lock Quar tet from F air Grove, Springfield; Roa Davis, Lebanon; Mr. Stafford said that when he used by t he chur ch, organization the Stevers Mixed Quartet, and Dr. Jesse Sargent, Springfield; was transacting some business in or community r epresented by the the winners, the Melody Four Mrs. Lester Sisney, Pontiac; a bank in Canada that required from Harrison, Arkansas. winner. Freda Francis, Republic; and Mrs. him to give his address, the ban Hugh Monger, Gr een Forest, kers enthusiastically told him Manes· Hot Shots Arknsas. they listened to the KWTO net- Breakfast Club There's another Dial Limerick work show every Saturday night. Score Another Win in this issue of the Dial with a Similar -incidents occured in Old Visits Big Town chance for you to win $50.00 in Mexico, Mr. Stafford reported. The whirling, twirling, heel cash and an opportunity to become "Korn's-A-Krackin'" further On Two-Week Tour the proud owner of a $125.00 affable "Lou" kickiryg Wright Cou'nty Hotshots spread the fame of the Ozarks in from Manes, Missouri, proved Bulova wrist watch at the end of a recent issue of Variety Maga they were true champion~ when the year. So be sure to enter the zine, the most important publica "Lou," of course, will be right Toastmaster Don McNeil and they outdanced the prancing, Dial Limerick Contest. tion in the radio, stage and screen at home with KWTO and he will the entire star cast of the Amer- dancing square-dance eight from world. Under "Radio Reviews", , be right in his element managing ican Broadcasting Company's Lebanon, Missouri, on the stage Oueen City Queen Variety listed "Korn's-A -Krack the whirligig activities of Breakfast Club will entrain for of Springfield's Shrine Mosque in'" with the names of all mem their annual two-weeks, gala in KWTO's large talent staff. "Lou" Saturday, March 22, just before bers of the cast and production vasion of New York and probably the coast to coast broadcast of staff, and then published the fol has probably played every school several other eastern cities, be "Korn's-A-Krackin' ." lowing review: house, meeting place and theater ginning Monday, April 21, and ex The Lebanon team, 1946 win "Title of.this show ain't a-foolin'. in the Ozarks area and has won tending through Friday, May 2. thousands upon thousands of ners of the Greater Ozarks Poured straight out of the cider friends for his smiling affability McNeill will be accompanied by Square Dance Championship, dis jug, this half-hour session of and homespun humor. '"Lou's" songstress Patsy Lee, Aunt Fanny played superior performance and Ozark mountain culture has a new duties will be many and (Fran Allison), Cruising Crooner smooth professional ability; but genuine flavor of the backwoods varied but they · will r,esolve Jack Owens, Sam (Almanac the Hotshots, buoyed up and ex which, to the natives, should chiefly around that complex hu Man) Cowling, Maestro Ed Bal uberant over their recent winning sound as natural as a Saturday man element - temperament. lantine, and Producer Cliff Peter of the 1947 crown, really set the night social. Pace of this show is terrific with more than a dozen "Lou" first entered radio in sen. stage afire with their enthusiasm. performers wheeling up to the 1926 when the broadcasting bus The Breakfast Clubber's annual Both teams were truly 9f cham mike in a succession of fancy iness was yet a baby. He has eastern tour is one of the most pionship calibre but the audience fiddling, yodeling, crooning, har grown up with the industry and celebrated of radio junkets. In gave the nod most emphatically When one of America's "big monicaing and harmonizing. An knows all its ins and outs. ~n variably, the crowds that turn to the Hotshots and they waltzed name" bands appears in Spring other positive feature is the min those early days "Lou" gained out for every broadcast far ex away with the winner-take-all field's Shrine Mosque on Thurs ceeds the capacity of any studio $100 award. day night, April 17, it will be imal gabbing between numbers. (Continued on PAGE SIX) On the reviewed session (25), in existence. Last year to ac home-coming for a local girl. commodate clamoring New Yo:r The band scheduled for the typical fare was Ann Ryan's kers, the program originated in IMPORTANT NOTICE Mosque is Russ Carlyle's, and vo warbling of "Don't Let It Bother H AP P Y B IR TH'DAY _Madison Square Garden. The calist for Russ' famous orchestra You," a hillbilly quartet version of "California, H ere I Com e," a 17,000 fans , who packed that Don't miss an issue! If the is Mary Mae Morgan. Mary Mae cidered-up rendition of "A Tisket April 16, 1947 arena witnessed spectacular cir numbers 4-47 appear after was in high school in Springfield this time last year. Since, she's A Tasket'' by a vocal trio, instru Major Gillett cus stunts without precedent in your name on the address "made good" with a fine orches mental number s by a fiddle quin r adio. label at the top of page 8, tra and has been heard on every tet, mandolin players and the like. your subscription to t he Dial April 25. 1947 Several unique broadcasts are coast-to-coast net work broadcast Bill Ring handles the emcee job expires with this issue. Renew Ralph Foster planned for New Yorkers on the feat uring the Carlyle band since with a clipped and t wangy now! (Continued on PAGE SIX) last November. humor." ~H'Tv;e;zo~ PAGE TWO ======~DI· ,,,:!!~, __ e,J;., ======~~~APRIL, 1947
Edi torial room is Office of t he P r ogr am Director, 508 St. Louis T he Spotlight swings around, Street, Springfield, M issouri. changed his life. We mean t he leave of Smoky, and headed back a nd picks up for the April edition, bow belonging to Cupid. The my hom e to the Ozarks. H e didn't The subscri ption price is 75c per year, payable in advance. one Buster F ellows,· a fast-fid t hical creatur e aimed an arrow quite m ak e it to the fa rm near dlin', r ed-headed r ambler who's a straight at Buster's heart, and Bolivar. H e got only as far as real Ozarkia n from the heart of he fell in love with a pretty, blue K-WT O where h e stopped and has Permission t o Reprint M aterial from The Dial is hereby given, the hills. eyed brunette, Mildred Cowden remained ever since. Right now, provided a credi t line i s used. He's Polk County, Missouri's who lived on a neighboring farm'. Buster teams up with George favorite son, a nd he was born in On t he 20th of July, 1934, Mildred Rhodes on t he big "Korn's-A and Buster wer e marr ied. Krackin' " shows to give folks YOUNG•STO NE ~ SPRINGFIELD a little town near Bolivar, on August 25, 1910. T he F ellows' Buster and his new bride re Coast-to-Coast a sam ple of r eal Family owned a large farm and mained in t he Ozarks community hillbilly singing. H e's also one u •• Audie Linden (Buster, to youl until 1935, a nd claim ed farming of the famous four fiddler s, a nd ...... •••••••• • •••• •• •••• • ••••• he emcees t he "Oza rk F arm T ABLOID EXTRA ... was their third child. When the as t heir occupation. But Buster family was finally complete, there was still a musicia n at heart. Hour" over KWTO at 11 :00 a. m . were four boys and four girls. He'd been entertaining with his each weekday. In fact, Buster fiddle ever since he returned from Fellows is a pretty important ,.,.,______~ "BuAudister"e receivebefored thehe nicknamewas old K. C., and his partner at many part of our staff. I a n Ozark play-party had been a Off the air, his favorite sports enough to talk , a nd it's stuck ever Bolivar boy, one Slim "Pickens" since. H e got his education at a r e hunting and fishing, a nd he Wilson. By 1935, though, Slim Ingils County School, and he ~lays a better-than-average gam e The big news Inside the Studios this month wa s whispered in our h ad found a niche in r adio at learned plenty a bout farming by of golf. He likes to fly, too, and ear by a not-so-little birdie-namely, -The Stork! This fine-fea thered K WTO. And in t he beginning, helping out at home. h as his solo license. Incidentally, friend paid a call on Mr. and Mrs. Bob Rector (he's Gabby of the "Best r em ember , w e told you Buster 0 Buster told us the m ost t errifying by Request" rec::~,rd show) on Friday, March 14th. He left an adorable, From t he t ime h e w as a child, was a rambler , so he he;;.ded for experience of h is life occurred in black-haired package, weighing six pounds and· 15 ounces, which Bob music pla yed a big pa r t in Bus Springfield, too, wher e h e teamed an airplane. H e was n ew to the and his wife, Jeanne, have named Cindy. The tiny girl, Bob reports, t er 's life. His mother, like most up wit h Carl H aden to do some business of skimming a round has plenty of lung ower, a nd when it comes to lusty crying puts his farm wives, played the organ ; a nd m ountain music-making at t he t hr ough the clouds, and h e came brain-child, Termite, to shame. Termite, as you know, is the incorrigible his father was more than a little K eep - W at ching - the - Ozarks in one day for a landing approach. little creature which Bob calls out of the woodwork to help 'him spin accomplished on t he ba njo a nd stations. Suddenly, Buster looked at the . ·your favorite platters each evening fr om 10 :15 p. m. to Midnight. But harmonica. So it was only n a F rom KWTO, Carl a nd Bust er propeller, a nd discovered it had ·•with a brand-new baby in the family, a nd a girl, too (just what they tural that the Fellows children went to Kansas City a nd a staff st opped its r a pid spinning a nd wanted) it looks like poor Termite will be playing second fiddle as far should be musically inclined - job at WLBF. After ten mont hs was standing complet ely still. · as Bob's affections are concerned from now on. and t hey were. All of t hem either in t he Missouri m etropolis, they for a moment his heart stalled * * * excelled on some instrument or t:raveled on to WIBW in Topeka. out. Of course, if h e'd been a There's another proud, new pappy on the KWTO staff, too. It's sang. 1937 was the year the team a.c- little more familiar with flying, our lanky lad from Tennessee, guitar-strumming Chet Atkins. Chet Buster's older brot her bought cepted a position at KMA in he'd h ave known that this was and his wife announced the birth of their daughter on Monday, Ma rch a five-string banjo, a nd whenever Shenandoah, Iowa, where t hey nothing unusual when making a 10th. She arrived in the world weighing seven pounds and 15 ounces, he ha ppened to leave it lying settled down for the next t wo landing .. . but at the t im e it and she been named Merle. Needless to sa y, both Chet and his wife within reaching distance, Buster and a half years. gave him qu ite a scar e. (Ed. think she's the prettiest baby ever born-but then, they might be just would try his luck at picking out At the end of that time, Buster Note : He made the landing all a little bit prejudiced. We all extend our heartiest congratulations- chords. When h e was 12 year s had an offer from the H enry right.> and, where are the cigars, Chet? o ld.Buster s cousin, a left-handed Fie los station KFNF, in Shenan For anybody who h asn't seen fiddler and pretty good at it , t oo, doah, to do solo work. So he him, Buster is a tall, lean, good * * visited the family. He took a n accepted and took out on his own. Speaking of new events, there's a n a ddition to the KWTO Con looking man. His hair is r ed, and interest in Buster and began to June, 1940, was t he month Bus he's got a few freckles, but the tinuity Department. She's pretty, smilling Helen Greenwade, daughter teach him some of the finer points ter became a papa, for Mildred most outstanding thing about him of Springfield's Postmaster Greenwade, and she's just entering ra dio at of a pplying t he bow to t he strings. presented him with a tiny, blonde the Keep-Watching-the-Oza rks station. Helen worked at O'Reilly is his infectious and ready smile. Before t he cousin left, h e daughter, Connie Jo. Later the And almost every time we see General Hospital during the wa r, and then took an extended vacation, promised to buy Buster a fiddle same summer, Buster met Smoky but she's ,ba ck with her nose to the grindstone again now, (and if her him, he's wearing that smile. It if h e w ould learn to play t he in- May, a guitar-picking radio ar must mean he's h appy - and boss, George Earle, is listening, we really mean it!l strument. Overjoyed, the boy tist, and the two teamed up to we're certainly h appy wit h ;Bus agreed. tak e a staff job in KOAM, Pitts ter. So, judging from that, it burg, Kansas. Smoky and Buster And a s long as we've mentioned George Earle, we'd like to say that So Buster got his first fiddle, a looks like rambling Buster Fel worked together at Pittsburg un if he wasn't completely familiar with the Ozarks before, he's certainly three-fourths size one, and within lows' ram bling days are over, a nd til June, 1941, and then came to had a chance to observe all sections of it first-hand during the past two weeks he could play a mean KWTO will be his home from KWTO for a while. Later on, few months. George has hen traveling . north, south, east and west, hoedown. "At least," Buster now on. they returned to KOAM and all over the Ozark hills, presenting his popular "Tom Brenneman" reminisces now, "I guess it was made the listeners happy there parties. And the folks love 'em. The parties are conducted very much pretty good for a kid." During until 1943. ' like the "Breakfast in Hollywood" show, heard over KWTO and ABC, the next few years, he practiced 1943 was a big year for Buster. Fire Makes KWTO 10:00 to 10:30 a. m., weekday mornings. Tom Brenneman himself send whenever he could find the time First, his second daughter was an orchid and a king-size cigar each time George presents one of these and supplied the scrapin' for a born. She was as dark as her get-togethers, and there are plenty of other prizes, too. There's a gift great many "music parties'" in Flame Burn Bright older sister was fair, and Mr. for the mother of the largest family; for the youngest mother; for the the community. vetera n with the longest service record; and for the person who came and Mrs. Fellows christened their When he was 18, Buster first KWTO's broadcast advertising the greatest distance to see the show. There are prizes for the silliest little brunette Georgianna. It began to feel the sand in his facilities were put to the strain hats, and, of course, there's the famous "wishing ring". At a recent was also the year that Buster shoes, so he said "so long" to 1 party, a local personality who fished a great deal, kept making reference and Smoky dissolved their part ing point by the unfortunate fire the farm; traveled to Kansas s uffered by the Springfield News to one of the prizes - a huge washboard. He ca lled out to George nership and Buster went back to City where two of his brothers Earle that if he only had tha t wa shboard, he could wa sh his clothes in his folks' farm. He decided to papers. Put to the test, KWTO were living. The year was 1929. further demonstrated its already the river when he wa s on a float trip. Then came the drawing for try another business for a while, H e got a job in the shipping de pr oved ability to do a selling job the prizes, and the improba ble happened! The gentlemen held the and he bought a garage in Boli partment of the Sheffield Steel number which won the washboard. And, G. E. insists, "It wasn't fixed, var, which he ran until the for the retailers as well as for Corporation. But he didn't forget either!" Anyway, the shows are a barrel of fun, spa rkling with George spring of 1944. . manufacturers and bulk distribu his music - not by a ny means. Earle's inimitable personality. They're so much fun that the "Tom Then he learned t h at the Shef tors. Brenneman" parties are booked far into May, and it looks like they'll His brothers were playing a field Steel Corporation, which KWTO proved to new adver kep on getting bigger and better a ll the time. dance job in Kansas City two was doing its part in the war ef tisers and confirmed the opinion nights a week , so Buster joined fort, was looking for workers. of old advertisers that retailers them. To advertise the dances, So, with his early experience in can take advantage of radio's Here's this month's flash about Ruel Haymes, The Dial's photo the three Fellows brothers took that field, Buster went to Kansas grapher: He's made another sale - this time to the St. Louis Post ability to reach a greater number on a 15-minute program once a City to help out. From K. C., he of people for fewer dollars. Dispatch. The Post has notified Ruel that they have published a lay week over Radio Station WLBF traveled to Tulsa and a position out of pictures and an article concerning the inundation .of Forsythe, (now KCKN). Buster liked radio with Douglas Aircraft. There he KWTO's air "schedules were al submitted by him and his brother-in-law. Ruel, of course, did the work, or any kind of work that rejoined Smoky May, to do some ready loaded with network and photography, and his brother-in-law, Fred Scharpf, wrote the story. gave him a chance to do some radio work in addition to his job local commercial commitments of The line forms at the right for autographs of our KWTO celebrity. fancy fiddling, and h e remained at the aircraft factory. Smoky long standing and the station was in Kansas City until 1932. and Buster entertainfd over able to supply only a limited It's just a rumor, bllt we heard the other day that Carl Haden Then, with business at a slump KTUL in Tulsa, and later KVOO number of availabilities.- lost his youngest son, Cowboy Charlie for several hours not long ago. and the depression at its height, of that ,eity. They both worked But again it was proved that And G::harlie hadn't even left the house. But the Haden Home. you he returned to the family farm, on the swing shift at Douglas, and lis·teners are loyal to KWTO; know, has 13 rooms, and we think it's very plausible that somebody where he stayed for the next played morning programs when that KWTO delivers accurate, might get lost in all that space. Anyway, so the story goes, Carl has three years. It was during t his they came from work. pwift and faithful ser vice. T he now purchased a half dozen tinkling bells to tie around the necks of his period that another bow, besides In September of 1945, after the story adds a nother bright page children so that he can follow the sound and locate them at any time. t he one he u sed on his fiddle, end of the wa r , Buster t ook his to KWTO's r ecord. ~~ ;;e;z 5~ APRIL. 1947 ~.JJ:Qt• :~ PAGE. THREE --======,e't'!! ~. --~'JJ.«., ======~==
Greetings, friends! And how sense of the word - and I am write to ask me again what a age. The Ozarks are a lovely registration day at Junior High are you? a firm believer in the great bro- Devil's Lane is. One time in my place to go to cool your soul and School in a certain city. The boy Spring is right upon us now, t herhood of man- and of races. newspaper days we discussed the take a vacation. I'm not paid by came to the teacher and said thank heaven- Long has been the But I wish we could have always Devil's Lane thoroughly. I had any chamber of commerce. I "What shall I put here where it waiting! And maybe before you had it lik~ it was once! Never a woman friend, who said she don't exactly take to their sort says 'Father's name?'" read this, the lilacs will be out have had to mingle with strange helped to build . a Devil's Lane of pork-and-town-lots policies of "Why, you father's name, of and m!lybe the "little yaller rose." lands and stranger philosophies. when she was a girl. It is a lane advertising. And yet, if they get course," ,replied the teacher. Lilacs have always followed With alien documents and untri~d built between two neighbors, on results, what matters? It's a "Well," said the kid- "do you our pioneers as they went seas loaded with shipwreck. Oh, adjoining farms, who can't get simple and inexpensive undertak want the man my mother is di through, settling America. I who loved America . . . and along. Usually they quarrel over ing to come to the Ozark hills. vorced from, or the one she's "Mary loved lilacs in long-ago American soil better than any- the fence line, then they get to And did you know that one per going to marry after she gets her Virginia. I n Saint John's Parish, thing on this earth - Who have where they won't speak - and son out of very six in America divorce next week?" on the Mattapony River. .!::_oved given years of my life to the each sets his fence back a few lives within one day's drive of the W ell, after all-did you know study of the pioneer and his lore feet so they won't touch, and Ozark Mountains? 'That's a sta them for the fragrance of fog in that statistics say t hat the O,:arks their blossoms. English fog. and traditions, and the sturdy that land in there-that lane they tistical fact that you always hear have the smallest divorce rate in tramping of feet across our broad used to say was nobody's land us yelling about. So come in and Jemima and Joseph - they America? And t he lowest death land- No wonder I dread the fu- and belonged to the devil. I re- "set a spell," as our inimitable rate? That's something, isn't it? drove a Conestoga wagon to fron ture and wonder what it will member when I was a kid, my Bill Ring always says. tier K entucky. H e took his axe Goodbye and I hope you had a and his bull-tongued plow, and bring ... Even to my children dear little chum and I would g~t Dr. James Vance once said "A good Easter. It was a lovely day she the walnut cradle - and long after I am gone, and to my too mu:h of each other as chil-. home should be so beautiful that - We all dressed up in our best children's children! dren will who are constantly to- . b Id t lilac roots. an ange1 passmg y wou wan and the churches were packed to Well, life flows right on, doesn't gether. ~he stayed at our house to stop and spend the night." Sarilda toiled the wilderness overflowing here in this city .. . it? I was looking over an old half the time, and when we would That's what we think about our trail with her husband to the I told the men on my program radio script of mine written ii} go to bed mad at each oth~r - Ozark country - I hope it mea- muddy M issouri. , Planted a gar Easter morning to be kind and March, 1944, and I said we would. put the old fash10ned sures up t o i·t - f or th e h omes not judge what was in a woman's den through ashes of council-fires t nd - lilacs, peonies and damask "I.}fe is always full of thrills. bolS er pitlo~ between us a that measure up to it are about head, by what was on it ... Give turn our ac s. as. scarce as hen's teeth. roses. I haven't flown this week to Ven- us a chance you know-even a ezuela away in the mountains of You know people make Devil's sardine has a chance . . . We went Margaret followed Jim where British Guina, like our very lively Lanes every day. Nations m ake I've always heard about things through a great deal for our be the winds westward beckoned. being scarce as hen's teeth. I Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt-but MY Devil's lanes. That's the tragedy liefs on Easter- We believed we Across wild plains and the wolf wonder if a hen has any teeth? DAY was a very eventful one. of it all .. . could wear a number five shoe toothed Rockies. Grubbed away Did anybody ever take the time to I went out to a dinner where Several have written to me for on a number seven foot-and we sage brush to stir in the red earth find out? they . gr eeted m e with a huge a copy of what I said a while tried it! the seeds of home! platter of golden, gleaming fried back on the raido about the con And speaking of homes- what's Happy sailing until we meet Mary, Jemima, Sarilda and chicken on the table - Then a tent of an Ozarker - so I am wrong with so many of them __:__ again! Margaret - D eeply your roots very fine old gentleman gave me going to repeat it here for it will reminds me of the little boy · on May bound America together. Give a buckeye to carry in my pocket bear repeating, then you will me faith to plant, by the trail of to keep off the rhenmatiz'! So have it . . strange tomorrows - my lilacs!" that was an eventful day. After all, there is nothing like Yes - women have tried to No airplanes, no naval bases, the content of an Ozarker. I bring beauty to the cup wherever no teas with Maharajahas. Just mean a real Ozarker hillman in t hey have gone. No matter how two chicken legs and a buckeye his back hills - Not even the OFFICIAL ENTRY BLANK poor or how lowly or how hard for the rheumatiz, and hot bis small towns. H e won't be downed worked they were. Our America cuits and gravy, made a day for by drouth or calamity or crop - it is a great country. I am not a plain hillbilly like me." failure ... He'll plant his little an isolationist in the present day I have no illusions about my hill acres again and again with trite, almost politically-worn self - I don't believe I am ever that all-seeing eye of faith that going to dine with kings or rub makes a living where the most of noses with the Zulus. Im like you would starve to death and GOODWILL FAMILY the story I read in Cornet about your bones stick out! LIMERICK CONTEST the movie star Zazu Pitts." Zazu He has that tranquility that the SPREADING GOOD also, as you know, lacks a lot of older generation knew and that h~ing be1J.11tiful. But a M:irine has not entirely slipped from his $50- a- Month- Easy- to -Win I WILL FOR HEEn·s yelled !1t her-"Hi ya, beautiful!" peaceful hills. Twilight · and APRIL, Zazu smiled and said "I know dawns and moons and seasons. l 9 4 7 • LIMERICK why you're calling m e that. It's Neighbors · and brothers of the THE DIAL I'd gladly eulogize The GoodWill Family, t hose because I spent six hours in a good earth. Flocks and herds and In order to gain ·a cash prize. ~riendly ambassadors of folk beauty parlor." The Marine said wild game and flowing waters. ·But cash prize or not, songs and native Ozarks t unes, - "No, it's because I spent six And he doesn't have to eat the are now ambassadors of Good month in the Solomons." bitter bread at the table of the I like what it's got . . . Will for the Heer's Stores. Slim, And still, now and then people black gods of a mad machine ...... -... ·-·····················.. ··················...... ! Martha, George and Junior ------ spread their singing sunshine for (Remember, in a limerick, the last line must rime with first two lines, etc !l Heer's every afternoon Monday through Friday from 2 :15 to 2 :30 CONTEST RULES p. m. Supply the last line to the April, 1947, DIAL LIMERICK by writing your entry on the dotted llne above. Remember, it must rhyme Other new advertisers selling with the first two lines--not the last two. Then put your name and address in the proper space below. OOp this entry blank from The DIAL their products th:rough KWTO's and mail it to the address given at the bottom of the blank. You m_ay send in as many entries as you like, but all must be on Official Entry facilities via spot announcement Blanks, clipped from The D~, or on reasonable facsimiles thereof. To campaigns are the Ash . Grove be eligible for consideration in the April contest, you must mail ;vour entry before Midnight, April 28, 1947. The winner of the $60 cash Lime and Portland Cement Com prize for the best last line to the April, 1947 DIAL LIMERICK will be announced in the May, 1947, issue. Ten censolation prizes pany, Del Monte Coffee, Walker of one year DIAL subscriptions will be given to the ten entries con Remedies, Lucky Strikes Ciga sidered next best by the Contest Judges. This contest ·is open to anyone residing in the United States of America, excepting employee r ettes, Oldsmobile, NR Remedy, of Radio Station KWTO and! their families. To assist the Judges, P & G Bar Soap and Taystee please be sure your Last Line and Your Name and Ad'dress are plainly written, printed or typewritten. All entries become the property of Bread. Radio Station KWTO and the decision of the Judges shall be_final .
Dick York,- Billy on the Jack My Name Is...... :...... irmstrong program , made his stage debut at the age of six I Live at (Street and No.> ...... ~.L ..., ...... :: ...... c ••• sporting a pair of black eyes. City...... ················-················ .··..... State..... _...... _.. ;./·...... ,. :;,:.:; ·_ Address Your Entry To: Lffll't:RICK CONTEST, THE DIAL. Tommy Bartlett of "Wake· Up RADIO STATION KWTO. SPRIHGFIELi>, _MISSOµil'I. . ·\ (Be .sure and Smile" insists that a proper to mail your entry before Midnight, April. 28, .1947. , An4 theme song for the Navy's Waves Sheriff Mark Chase pclnts· an accusing 1'nger at actress Charlot~e watch for another $50 LIMERICK CONTEST · in the .May1 is: "There's Nothing Nicer Than Manson during the climax of a rehearsal of "The Sheriff," broadcast 1947, DIALD ~-,.,., Roamin' in the Gloamin' with a over ABC each Friday. Radio actors often act out their part, before Yoeman." the mike to capture the tnood of the role. PAGEFOUB ~ -======--= , .,;BE o1a1c., -~======A~P~BIL~·=·=94=7 Earle Misses Meals [" ~~.!.~.#.~-- .- -~~~ .· .· -~.!.~.-~.~-.] Ladies Ber!:a:i~!::~a! o Chicago As Breakfast Party Miles Mount Higher By OPAL PORTER Chicago is now the permanent seated, then has them rolling in The Georg·e Earle-Tom Brene the aisles as he unfolds his big Perhaps the friendliest way to greet Fran would be to say home of ABC's "Ladies Be Sea man "Breakfast in Hollywood" "Boo, Mr. Booton!" But we don't wont to startle him. The Spot- ted," since March 31, but to bag full of stunts. Here are some typical gimmicks which have been party continues to be the Ozarks light writer tells us "Fran's a fine friend." We don't doubt it - Windy City radio fans this pro not if he reflects the Sagitarius virtues and the Jupiter joviality. pulled on the show and demon outstanding entertainment at They are an unbeatable combination, no matter who possesses them. gram will be no stranger for strate the originality of Olsen. traction. Seldom less than 500 Fran was born in this extremely versatile Fire Sign on December twice before it has originated A "Toddlers Talking Tourna persons attend an average per ment" featured a search to find 12; when the nights were longest, making him a true son of Sagit- locally. During the one month formance and as many as 2000 - tarius. Fran is a young man with vision; the Book of Books says the youngest child who could say visit in March, 1946, more than have jammed themselves in where "Without vision, the people perish." However, co-ruler with 33,000 requests from Midwest intelligibly "Ladies Be Seated, Jupiter of this decante, was the restrictive Saturn putting stumbling fans, some of whom were willing with Johnny Olsen." A 25-month facilities were large enough. old New York City child won and blocks in the way of dream-fulfillment. Saturn has turned thumbs to travel 900 miles to attend the April will be a busy month for down on more than one ambition. In fact, he occupied Cancer; broadcast. was awarded bonds and a 19-inch t.all loving cup. the genial breakfast party emcee the basic Home Sign, restricting him in some way even in Child An examination of the pro- with the following dates already hood. Saturn rules older people so it might have been a strict gram's foremat and a study of t he There was the sailor who was scheduled and more being re parent or grandparent. There definitely were restrictions of some technique used by emcee Johnny sent to the Palisades Amusement quested every day. "Breakfast in kind in the home. This aspect is what makes boys leave home- Olsen is the answer to the query, Park in N. J. to search for sunken Hollywood" parties will be held or want to! "what makes 'Ladies Be Seated'" treasure in the Park's pool. The in Cabool, April 1; Golden City, Fran has an emotional-spiritual nature. Five of his planets were one of the most popular daytime treasure turned out to be a dozen April 4; Spokane, April 7; Osce in trine aspect in the Fire Signs; the mental-spiritual signs. Mercury radio programs with both pair of nylons for his wife, this ola, April 9; Salem, April 10; conjoined his Sun in Sagittarius while Mars, Neptune and the listeners and studio audiences?" during the nylon shortage days. Neosho, April 17; Eldorado Moon's South Node formed a stallium in the Fire Sign of Leo, which The big secret of Johnny 01- For a time he conducted a sing- Springs, April 18; Lamar, April rules the theatre, dramatic expressions, love and children. Mars sen's success is that, unlike many ing housewife contest in which 21; Rolla, April 23; Camdenton, here shows where his interests center. It is the red badge of courage, of his contemporaries, he laughs he went into the audience with a April 25; · and Willow Springs, supported by a genuine desire, plus energy, that kept him hanging with people, not at them. Instead microphone and let several of the April 29. around theatres, like a "stage door JohnRy" during his form!J.tive of capitalizing on human idiosyn- women sing the choruses of some years. cracies for humor, Olsen counts I well known tunes. The one with Fran has a flair for dramatic entertainment, which might startle on good clean fun to make his the best voice, as judged by the Morning Meal Mends even his friends in the lavish effects his originality creates. Equipped shows go over. Oral proof of the Irest of the audience, might be with Mar's aggressive leadership, we needn't be surprised if some effectiveness of this technique are . given prizes ranging from a per Mike Fright Madness day Fran is on the production end of the theatrieal business, or the good-natured laughs that fill manent wave to a toaster. A heads a worthwhile theatre of his own. • (Saturn showed his approval t he Monday through Friday "Piggy Bank Race" was another "Mike" · fright never attacks to such an eventuality by shedding harmonious vibrations on the broadcast of "Ladies," heard
George "Man-On-The-Street" Earle Neglects Percy The Parrot For More Perso_nal Matters
A little powder in the right places does wonders for baby's disposition. Note the delicate touch with which Papa George Earle handles little Bick Alan as he deftly sprinkles the proper undercoating for a comfortable applied diaper. In picture number two, Daddy seems puzzled as to what next in this bewildering baby world. Note with what infinite wisdom the Mother lets Daddy find out for himself. Daddy goes to the book where he discovers it's not so much "whodunnit" as what to do about it. The solution becomes apparent in picture number three where just like a pastmaster of the art Daddy George holds the pin between his lips as he forms a perfect triangle and little Bick Alan is enscounsed dry and warm. · . ~H'?v .ez s~ APRIL.======::::s:1:r1!trX2!!:!t:~ef:z::._~_H~~11:bi======1947 ~DI• PAGE nvs THE PASSING PARADE IN PICTURES By REUEL HAYMES, Photographer for The Dial
By n.OYD M. SULLIVAN Miss Tommye Quarles, who during the war worked as a mem ber of the KWTO News Depart ment, writes to tell us that news from Springfield has received prominent play during recent weeks by California newspapers and radio stations. Miss Quarles, who is now employed in the News Department of Station KMJ at Fresno, Cal., says that it seemed as if every time she took a look at the United Press teletype she found a new tragedy story filed from Springfield. Incidentally, Miss Quarles plans to spend her vacation in the Ozarks. The Fresno Chamber ' of Commerce won't like that.
Miss Jerry East, who began her journalistic journey from the KWTO News Room, :plans to get back into the field of news re porting. She is now employed by a public relations company in St. Louis, but seems to find the rou tine of editing trade journals and writing publicity blurbs a bit tiresome. In a recent letter, she tells us that she may head to ward California and contact Miss Quarles, which means t hat the reporting team of Tom and J erry may go back into action.
Fred Rains, the KWTO News Reporter whose innocent smile and permanent wave seem to make it easy for him to get news from women secretaries, is plan ning to purchase a cabin on Lake Taneycomo. His partner in this venture is Jack Powell, young Springfield attorney. Miss Pauline Roques, former KWTO news writer, has accepted a similar position with a St. Louis radio station.
When the plant of the Spring field Newspapers, Incorporated, was destroyed by fire, the three major press associations, United Press, International News Ser Vice and the Associated Press called the KWTO News Room on the morning of the fire for their first stories of the disaster. Later, newspaper reporters sup plied Associated Press, but our department continued to feed United Press and International News Service.
Major Gillett, champion golfer of the KWTO News Room, al I. That's Chief Engineer Fritz Bauer happy over Foster himself, on the violin, aided and abetted in this ready has started his Spring Jhe successful operation of KWTO's new tape recorder. musical attack by George Earle at the piano. Les training. However, a few days Fritz is really surrounded by gadgets. Kennon on the banjo and Ralph Nelms plunking the ago he had to let a local auto 2. That's Goo Goo Rutledge and his pal Skeeter big bass. When the bosses play who is to say nay. dealer beat the daylights out of cutting capers on the Shrine Mosque stage during a 8. Howard Lee Arthur of the continuity depart him, so as not to increase the coast to coast broadcast of "Ko.rn's-A·Krackin' ". Wotta ment ·passes on instruction to pretty Helen Greenwade odds of getting a new car out of shame it couldn't have been televised. who is taking over copy traffic duties. ' the next shipment the dealer re 3. Bill "King Corn" Ring opens wide that big ceives. mouth from which falls his famous clipped and twangy 9. Supersalesman Si Siman grins as transcription humor. This time, however, it's to stuff it full of pop librarian Benny Edmondson hands him a new pressing Myron Wallace, ABC Fact or com. of the Shorty. Sue and Sally "Saddle Rockin' Rhythm" Fictioneer, says the charge up 4. Goo Goo who seems to be every place at once transcription series. San Juan Hill in the Spanish coyly cocks his head and smiles wistfully at dimpling I 0. Step right up, pardner. and have a touch of American War was really up Corrine who sings so sweetly on the Ozarks Farm Hour. K eetle. Hill. refreshment. That's Carl Haden, Jr .• wetting his whistle 5. Ozark Red. who is almost as big as Goo Goo, before going on the air with "Korn's-A-Kraekin'." fails to get his "all' into this picture snapped during a Tom Breneman, Breakfast in 11. That's Mrs. Ethel Martin. of the Ike Martin Hollywood emcee, sent one of Saturday· noontime broadcast from Ike Martin's. The juvenile customer is avidly following his script like Store, chatting into the mike in Bill Ring's hand as a those silly hats to Kay McNeil, crowd of customers wish her well in her radiorcrting. wife of Chicago's ABC Breakfast er radio oldtimer. Club. 6. Out at the Springfield Stockyards "Pappy" 12. Here's the man who knows all and tells all Haden interviews some of the men who bring those about the soy bean. the com stalk, the oats and the Margaret Truman scored a steaks and roasts to market on the hoof. barley. It's C. C. Keller. farm expert and Greene Hooperating of 18.02 when she 7. What virtuosity! What obligato andante County Farm Agent. just before one of his talks on the sang with the Detroit Symphony. allegro fortissimo--aw shucks, it's the boss. Ralph Ozarks Farm Hour. ~N/?Q ;e;z ~~ =PA=G=E=S=IX======-~======A=PR=IL-=..,=!_9=4=7= OUT OF THE OILTSJID€ ~ TT-€R., WOODWORK 2tr GwRGfi (-"mJ€n,u~. By BETTY By "Termite" "April showers bring May wax paper and store in refrigera Combine egg, evaporated milk, Spring has sprung! flow;ers." . tor. With a very durable corsage cherry juice, drained cherries and (I hope !) -change ribbon daily to match shortening. Add sifted dry in What we can add to that trite And if you're wondering if I'm your suits • . gredients and bran. Mix .only Maybe, this will teach you the and hackneyed phrase is that going to From flowers to food, here's a until flour disappears. Fill walls do have ears . . . it's my showers of good food on your buy a lot of garden seeds such main dish that you haven't tried greased muffin pans two-thirds favorite listening post . . . what table during April will make your full and bake in moderately hot as lettuce, for a long time, and it will pro with spring and warm weather peas, corn, beans, radishes, family forget the gloomy weather bably be a welcome novelty to oven (4OO0F.) about thirty min Bill Ring is searching frantically rhubarb and rutabag~, among outside, and concentrate on your family. It's good old-fash utes or until done. This yields about fifteen muffins, 2½ inches for his golf socks (the ones with other things praising you for your appetizing ioned Baked Corn and Sausage, Nope! and on damp, rainy days it gives in diameter. 18 holes in them) .. Dale Parker meals. No soap! you something warm · and sub Here's just a little housekeep says he knows a place where the I'm confessin' mind, With that thought in stantial to go on. ing hint we'd like to add to this housing shortage is worse than I've learned my lesson. what could be fresher and more BAKED CORN AND SAUSAGE month's Home-Keeper's Korner. it is in America and where thou Year after year I've hoed and spring-like to serve as an April You'll be cleaning like mad, now planted. 3 / 4 pound link or bulk sausage· sands of people are living in tents appetizer than some Sunshine that spring is upon us. Little I've sweated and ached and 1/ 3 cup chopped onion chores you've put off ·during the -Arabia . . . Fran Booton tried Salad? It's healthful, like all wheezed and panted. 1/ 3 cup chopped green pepper dreary months, will just have to to find a suitable wedding story, And yet salads, and it's bright and tasty 2 tablesoons flour be done now. So, for those extra and went through all his jokes What do I get? and just a little different from I cup oven-popped rice cereal washings and the care of your on bells and still couldn't find any Potato bugs, what you usually have. Here's I teaspoon salt washable clothing and linens, re- Tomato bugs, ¼ teaspoon pepper good cracks ... Marvin Tong, the recipe: member this. A snow-white wash Cut-worms, cabbage worms, 2 ½ cups whole kernel corn is not something that comes KWTO newswriter, is writing a plant lice, SUNSHINE SALAD 2 ½ cups canned tomatoes natcherly .. . hence, our bleach play on only two sheets of paper And even mice! (Serves six) If bulk sausage is used, form ing tips on cotton tubbing. on account of, he says, it's going Not to mention snails. I envelope plain unflavored into shape of link sausages. Soak all extra-soiled clothing. to be a bedroom farce .. Howard It rains, it sleets, it hails! And then, just about the time gelatine Brown sausage in heavy frying Twenty minutes cool-water soak L ee Arthur, continuity expert, I think ¼ cup cold water pan; drain well. Brown -onion loosens persipration and food said on a recent visit to the city I cup hot pineapple syrup and pepper in meat drippings. spots that set if plunged dry into I'm going to salvage a few things ½ cup orange juice Add flour and seasonings and mix hot water. Bleach either in he found bus . passengers so to keep my garden from .being ¼ cup mild vinegar well. Add corn and tomatoes and washing or first rinse. One cup crowded they were sitting on top a total ¼ teaspoon salt simmer until juice has partially of bleach to 16 to 20 gallons of of those who were standing on loss, well . . . ! We have a long dry spell! I cup grated raw carrots evapor.ated (about half an hourl. soapsuds in washer; mix thoro- those who had fallen down ... I cup orange segments, cut Pour into casserole; arrange Tell Pearl Blick she can keep ughly before adding clothes. Be Reuben D avi'd son, stud1'0 en- small browned sausages on top like the sure of at least two rinses; The Good Earth, It I½ cups canned pineapple, cut spokes of a wheel. Sprinkle rice change wash and rinse water be- gineer, claims to have been a Isn't worth it! into small pieces. cereal over top. Bake in mo fore washing colored things. big athlete in high school and For me, no more slaving in the derately hot oven (4OO°F.) about hot su,n Soften gelatine in cold water To bleach in the first rinse, use star on the tug-of-war team with a push-plow and rake and fifteen minutes. This makes si~ above proportions. Leave whites (played third jerk from the end) and dissolve in hot pineapple to eight servings in a one and a hoe, in bleach for 15 minutes; stirring - Slim Wilson, who's quite a far syrup. Add orange juice, vinegar half quart casserole. No sir! occasionally. Follow with two mer as . well as balladeer, says Hereafter, when I want fresh and salt. Cool and when mix To go with this main dish, you rinses in clear water. there's nothing with as many vegetables ture begins to thicken, fold in might like to serve something a For bleaching success you must I'll see my grocer. always measure bleach; mix with aliases as the Ben Davis apple carrots, orange and pineapple. little different in the bread line No more tilling of the sbil, Turn into mold that has been - and of course, hot bread is al water before adding clothes or unless it's rabbit fur . . . Carl No more muscle-wrenching toil; ways a treat to everyone. A very rinsed out in cold water and chill. dilute and pour in very slowly; "Pappy" Haden says the way I say emphatically I'm through, special treat is Cherry Bran give bleach time to work; two prices have gone up on every When firm, unmold onto greens Less painful hobbies I'll pursue. Muffins, delicious to the taste and thorough rinsings· · to follows; thing else you oughtn't to be able Henceforth, I'm glad to have you and serve with mayonnaise. appealing to the eye when never use bleach on silk, wool or to get turnips at all for ten• cents know Speaking of spring, on those dressed up with shiny marschino uncertain colors. -Aunt Martha's advice to women That only two things I shall grow; days when you're sure it's just cherries caught on toothpicks. . So, happy washday and every fretting over cook stoves is that No rake, no hoe, no toil, no seeds, around the corner, lurking in the They're wonderfully moist and other day, until we meet again in a round steak won't curl if you For dandelions and jimson weeds. nearest bed of daffodils, a crisp filling, too. this very same corner next month. nick the edges with a wire cutter Yes, spring has sprung, corsage is the Midas touch for CHERRY BRAN MUFFINS -According to Junior Haworth, The Weather's hot, your new spring suit. All you I'm heading for my garden spot. I egg, well beaten a husband is a feller who, acord need is flowers, fine wire, scissors, SIT-'DOWN STRIKER ing to his wife in the back seat, What's this I carry in my hand? ½ cup evaporated milk Cellophane tape, and a wee, bit can't see a load of hay coming- A spade? I hope you'll ¼ cup cherry juice of ribbon. Fresh flowers should • ½ cup chopped canned cheeries Margie Estell the switchboard understand be cut the day before you wear I'm going to dig a bit it's true, ¼ cup melted shortening girl and receptionist, says she's them. Begin by inserting fine I can't resist; I always do. I ½ cups silted flour never seen a-special delivery mes wire one-half inch into· flower But I state in no uncertain terms, 3 teaspoons baking po~der senger out of breath . . . Chet base; wind firmly down stem. My trip is just for fishing worms! ¼ cup sugar Atkins, who's learning to wash Snip off excess wire. In using 11/• teaspoons salt baby clothes, says nothing ever hollow-stem flowers, such as pan I½ cups bran shrinks when you want it to . . . around . . May Kennedy McCord, sies, run wire through the stem. Milt Dickey claims he's noticed Hillbilly Heartbeater, wonders Be careful not to pull wire so that what's to be is going to be how many Ozarkians can remem that it severs stem. In doing a and what isn't is liable to,be .. . ber those old signs reading: corsage of several buds, make the BLACK IS BACK Goo Goo Rutledge insists the rea "Don't Hitch Here" . . . B enny final arrangement before binding son brides are so happy is be Edmondson hasn't dropped out of with Cellophane tape and adding AT OLD STAND cause it's safe at last to turn sight - he's just living within ribbon. loose their real dispositions . . . his output . . . Reuel Haymes, (Continued from PAGE ONE) One down, one on the way, Petite paper doilies add a lacy Si Siman, super-salesmaii., has al Dial photographer, says the cam two on base. Keeping KWTO's gaiety. And you might use very valuable experience and dis ready started to save for next era never lies but it would be busy telephone lines straightened fine hairpins for your wire. To played remarkable talent at such year's income tax ... Major justified in lots of instances . . . out and everybody happy is a keep a corsage fresh, cover with successful stations as KXBY, Gillette, newswriter and head of Beulah Nunn, continuity gal, says thirsty occupation. Pretty Margie KCKN, KCMO, WDAF and a family, says universal peace after she finally gets somebody KMBC. He joined KWTO for the Estell drowns her switchboard sorrows · in · drink. (Soft, to be sounds impossible . . . L iz Cole, on the telephone these times the Breakfast Club first time in 1940. In 1944 he sure.> the smilling secretary, says duty day is pretty well used up . . . . spent a few months at KMA in never gets hoarse calling if you Jeanette Mahan, secretary, says Visits Big Town Shenandoah, Iowa, but soon re like your job ... Bob White, the she's glad she doesn't live in a turned to KWTO. Nancy Patton, ABC Breakfast (Continued from PAGE ONE) big bass man, says he'll never bigger city and have to worry all I n May, 1946, "Lou" married Club songstress, learned to sing forget the war 'till the price of the time about new places to eat forthcoming tour, but their. exact pretty Pat Evans, KWTO voca imitating the instrumental parts cigars comes down .. . don't know -Flash told Whistler the other nature is still to be announced. lovely, and the two left the in orchestras heard on the radio. whether C ... C. Williford's fore day, with a knowing look, that The schedule of programs in Ozarks for a traveling honey ' casting weather, prices or, fash he'd known lots of fellows to be other citi('.s also is pending. moon. Soon the fish became a Ted Malone's real name is ions but he says bathing suits will gin at the top and work their way The Breakfast Club cast will bit stubborn in their biting and Alden Russel and he assumed the be less than one-half what they down .... well, it's time to crawl return to their home studios · in Lou took over chief announcer name Ted to prote·ct himself from were before the war . .. Zed Ten, back in the woodwork so that's Chicago's · Merchandise · Matt on duties at KMA Shenandoah, 'Iowa, kidding when he first read poetry nis' wife says · he isn't much on all for- now. Monday, May 5. once again. ·over the · air. shopping but is great on looking Termite APRD., 1947 K/VTV ~ o~ IAGE SEVEH ~======-M'..1 rKWTO DAILY SCH ·EDULE ~..Aa>>lt;======KEEP THESE SCHEDULES 8T TOUB BADIO 1 ======IG'l\..~
5:00 a. m. 12:00 p. m.. 6:00 p. m. Yawn Patrol ...... Daily exc, Sun. Baukage Talking-ABC ...... Mon. thru Fri. Newscast ...... Daily exc. Sun, 5:45 Cl. m. Johnny Thompson-ABC ...... Sun Court ol Missing Heirs-ABC ...... Sun. Bev. Hitchcock Daily exc. Sun. 12:15 p. m. 6:15 p. m. 6:08 a. m. Missouri Farmers ...... Daily exc• . Sun. Whirlaway Time ...... Mon. thru Fri. Junior and Buster ...... Tues.. Thms.. Sat. Melodies to Remember-ABC ...... Sun. Song Spinners-ABC ...... Sat. Goodwill Family ...... Mon.0 Wed.-Fri. 6:38 p. m. 6:15 a . m. 12:30 p. m. Lum and Abner ...... Mon.-Tues.-Thurs.-Frf. R. F. D. Roundup Daily exc Sun, Newscast Daily Spotlight on Industry ...... Wed. 6:30 a. m. 12:45 p. m. Furlough in Music ...... Sat. Baden Family Daily Man on the Street Daily exc. Sun. 6:45 p. m. Sunday Serenade Sun. 7:80 a. m. Sports Spotlight . . . Daily exc. Sun. Homesteaders ...... Daily exc. Sun. 12:55 p. m. Rev. Floyd Hitchcock 7:01 p. IL ...... Sun. Facts and Fiction-ABC ...... Sun. This Is Music ...... Sun. 7:15 a. m. 1:00 p. m. John W. Vandercock ...... Mon.-Tues.-Wed. ~- / Slim Pickens Wilson ...... Mon.-Wed.-Fri. Facts and Fancies ...... Thurs. Kenny Baker Show-ABC ...... Mon. lhru Fri. llomlng Serenaden ...... Taes.-Tlnus.-Sat. Famous Jury Trials-ABC ...... Sat. Man on the Farm ...... Sat. Fat Man- ABC ...... · · · · Fri. 7:30 a. m. Danger Dr. Danfield-ABC ...... Sun. The Baptist Hour ...... Sun. 7:05 p. m. Newscast Daily exc. Sun. 1:30 p. m. Mon.-Tues.-Wed. Meet Your Neighbor ...... Sat. Serenade 7:45 a. m. Bride & Groom-ABC ...... Mon. thru Fri. 7:15 p. m. Southland Echoes ...... Mon.-Wed.-Fri. Deep River Boys ...... Sun. Goodwill Family ...... Mon.-Wed:Thurs. Shorty and Sue ...... Tues.-Thur~. Haden Family ...... Sat. 1:45 p. m. · The Skip Farrell Show-ABC ...... Tues. 8:80 a. m. Congressman Bennett ...... '...... Sun. 7:30 p. m. Barbershop Harmonies ...... Daily exc. Suri. 2:10 p. m. Broadway Bandwagon ...... Sun. Newscast ...... Sun. New Adventures ol Sherlock Holmes-ABC ...... Mon, Judy and Jane . . . Mon thru Fri. Boston Symphony-ABC ...... Tues, 1:15 .... Phil Brestoff & Orch-ABC ...... · . . Sat. Willie Piper-ABC ...... Wed. Bill Bing and the Jesters ...... Mon. thru Fri. Sermons in Song Sun. Town Meeting ol the Airs-ABC ...... Than. That Farm You'd Like to Own ...... Sat. 2:15 p. m. This is Yom FBI-ABC ...... Fri. Sermons in Song ...... Sun. I Deal in Crime-ABC ...... Sat. . Goodwill l' amily Mon. lhru Fri. 8:25 a. m. 8:00 p. m. Westward Ho! ...... Mon. thra Fri. · 2:30 p. m. Walter Winchell-ABC ...... · . · · Sun. Linda's First Love ...... Mon. lhru Fri. 8:30 a. m. Treasury Agent-ABC ...... - . - Mon. Ra nch House Round-up-ABC ...... Sat. Breakfast Club-ABC ...... Mon. thru Fri. Paul Whiteman Assembly-:-ABC ...... · . We~. Alex Joselfer--ABC ...... Sun. Wake Up and Smile-ABC ...... Sat. Break the Bank-ABC ...... · · · . · · Fri. May Kennedy McCord ...... San. Z:45 p.~ m. Gangbusters-ABC ...... Sat. 8:45 a. m. Ladies Be Seated-ABC . . . . . Mon, lhru Fri. 8:15 p. m. Al and Lee Stone S1111. Voice of lhe Army · ·· ...... Sun. Louella Parsons-ABC ... Sun. Southland Singers ...... Sat. 3:00 p. IL 8:30 p. m. 9:00 a. m. Kitchen Talks ...... : . Mon. thru Fri. Jimmie Fidler--ABC ...... Sun. Goodwill Family ...... Tues.• Thurs Stars in the Afternoon-ABC ...... Sat. Easy Listenin' ...... Mon.-Tues.-Thurs.-Sat. The Hilltoppers ...... Mon.•Wed.-Fri. The House in lhe Country ...... Sun. Your Home Beautiful-ABC ...... Sat. Beulah-ABC ...... · · · - .. . · · · Wed. llles11age ol Israel-ABC ...... Sun. 3:15 p. m. The Sherill-ABC ...... · · · · · Fri. 9:15-.-. Wilson Brothers Mon. thru Fri. 8:45 p. m. Weatherman C. C. Williford ...... Mon. thra Fri. 3:30 p. m. The Police Woman-ABC ...... Sun. Sat. Dialing the Editor ...... Sat. Telephone Quiz ...... Mon.-Wed -Fri. It's Your Business-ABC ...... 9:21 a. m. Ozark Farm Hands ...... Tues. Thurs. 8:55 p. m. Tony Thornton's Quartet ...... Tues.-Thurs. This Week Around the World-ABC ...... Sun. Sports Commentary-ABC ...... - · Fri. Slim Wilson ...... Mon.-Wed.-Fri. Treasury Program ...... Sat. 9:00 p. m. 9:25 a. m. 4:00 p. m. Theater Guild on the Airs-ABC ...... Sun. Hymns of All Churches-ABC ...... Mon lhru Fri. News ...... Daily exc. Sun. Doctors Talk It Overs-ABC ...... Mon. Tony Thornton's Oaartet ...... Sat. Daris lor Dough-ABC ...... Sun. Bing Crosby Show-ABC ...... Wed. 9:30 a. m. 4:15 p. IL Cavalcade ol Sports-ABC ...... · . . Fri. Weatherman C. C. WllllfGld ... . _ ...... Sat. Gospel Singing Bee ...... - . . . Sat. Markets Daily exc. Sun. The Southernaire~BC ...... Sun. 9:15 p. m. 4:25 p . .Ill• 9:35 a. m. East Listenin ...... Mon. Bill Ring ...... Sat. Mid-Afternoon Meditations ..... Daily exc. Sun. 9:40 a. m. 4:30 p. m. 9:30 p. m. Markel& ...... __ ...... Sat. Fantasy in Melody-ABC . . . . . Mon. and Thurs. Weatherman Willilord ...... Daily exc. Sun. Henry Morgan Show-ABC ...... Wed. 9:45 a. m. 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Sea. HtP. L & a. U. S. POffAGB PAID PAGE EIGHT Springfield, Mo. Permit No. 753 Wilson Brothers Sh.ow How ~ ...... ~·L""f To Keep Peace In Family l000000··············0~ -=•----= I Five Years Ago This Month Slim "Pickens" Wilson wins popular vote for picture appear ance on front page of Dial. Lou Black (who r ejoins KWTO this· month) r ecovers from strep throat infection. Bill Ring wins Most every ABC B reakfast Club program poll and ABC placed accolade of Magic Ring for broadcast is attended by repre- five progr ams on t he favored list sleight - of - h and shows. Lee sentatives from at least half the - The H ymns of All Churches George, KWTO spor tscast er, sells choir has added four voices and two sports articles to _Esquire 48 stat es · · · H enr y Mor gan of now numbers three women and Magazine. J ack B ak er visits· Morgan's Cor ner says street car seven men ... A teen-age Fort O'Reilly Hospital. conductors are pugnacious and Wayne, Indiana girl, who is get by with it 'cau~ they'r e al- blind, told Ted M alone, heard Four Years Ago This Month ways t elling s~meone where to three mornings a week on KWTO-ABC, that his story-telling Jim and Charlie Haden receive get off . . . Patsy L ee, oftimes gift of pony from Carl "Pappy"· is the eyes wit h which she sees Breakf ast Club guest songstress, the world . .. If you hear a fog Haden. George Earle conducting· has t:bree diamond rings won as horn coming out of your radio Community Sings in American Legion Home. George Earle, Bill first prizes in as many cont~sts. early Friday morning, April 25, it Ring and Al Stone pictured" will be because ABC's Breakfast - K enny Baker, who has his own broadcasting Midnight scripts in KWTO-ABC program, says an Club is being broadcast from a Brooklyn ferry boat in New York snapshot sectfon. Liz Cole joins· aviator is the only person who Business Department as secretary· Bay . . . Barbara Eiler told Taking into consideration their Staff Sergeants and Jack was a to Les Kennon. (She's still here; can work all week and take off K enny B ak er that there is one accomplishments in archery and T echnical Sergeant. During the more efficient than ever) Reuben seven days . . . Tom Breneman bat htub for every five people in the picture printed above, you war years, Norman fought what Davidson, KWTO engineer, writes has bee~ hunting hats for ~even the U. S. but K enny doesn't be- might think the Wilson Boys ar e he calls "the battle of the Paci- friends from army assignment in lieve five people can get in one bit mayhem-minded. It's not fie." He joined a crew of com years on ABC's Breakfast in a Africa. (He's back safe and tub . . .. Jimmie Fiddler confided so. It's just t hat Howard, who's m ercial fishers and was many sound twisting dials) Hollywood · · · Tom Casey, ABC on a recent ABC broadcast t hat about t o be choked by Bob, times under fire-from American a nnouncer , says to avoid radio he felt as wild as. a Mar ch hare stabbed by Norman and slugged warships holding target practice! Three Years Ago This Month stroke turn it off .and listen to and was going to act like it by wit h a hooked rug frame by Jack, After Bob, Jack and Howard your consicence but T om a dds telling some hair-raising stories. is generally in the middle of any were discharged from the army Cast of Ozarks F arm Hour smiles out from Dial front page he's not r esponsible for the con V i a nd Jerry W agner, heard over muddle in which the Wilsons find and Norman quit his fishing bus ABC late Sunday's from the themselves. Howard's not a bro- iness, the boys once again turned picture. Virge Phillips wr itten sequC?nces ... Drqw P earson, ABC Graemore Hotel, h ave accumu ther; 'he's a" nephew the young'n their minds t o m aking and mar up in Spotlight oectkn Lee Washington - Merry - Go - Round lated over 3000 recipes in t heir - and n aturally subject to a bit keting hooked rug needles. The Geor ge writes pals from some commentator , has ha d his con travels . . . Roy Engel, t he Sky of pickin'-on. family r eturned to Springfield; w here on Anzio Beachhead. Betty tract renewed for 104 weeks . . . King, had a bad attack of the flu The Wilson Boys have been in the needle was r e-designed. by Hindman and Mary E lizabeth in Mar ch but kept r ight on broad H aden giggle at each other in The cast of J ack A rmstrong all radio since 1930 - which is a adding an extr a set of points for casting contrar y to his doctor's record not equalled by many en- yarn and enlarging t he handle Passing P arade in Pictures. Mar had a bubble bath w hile fully orders . . . Bill Gargan, who tertainers around KWTO. J ack and re-named (it's now called t he vin Tong, KWTO newswriter, clad during a recent broadcast D eals I n Crime, says he was not and Norm an were t he original "Tru-Gyde" Hooked Rug Needle) hom e on fur lough from Walker when some prankster poured a like the boy in t he "Yearling" act, on the air over KFEG, .St. Howard joined the raido act, and Field. George Rhodes plays leap qox of soap powder in a wave-· who got himself a deer - Bill J oseph, advertising Dad Wilson's the Wilson Boys started broad frog with Milt Dick ey in Snap shot section. making sound-effects machine . . says he got everybody's goat . .. Rug N eedle - invented and man- casts over KWTO. Willie Piper says he won the pul ufactured by t heir father. Bob On April 7, the Wilson Boys Paul Whiteman says some of to let-ear prize by crossing chick ens joined t he act in 1931. started a 5-t imes-a-week schedule· Two Years Ago This Monih day's song hits are inspired py the with rabbits and growing pullets During t he years between 1931 of broadcasts at 3 :15 p. m. over Phillips "66" sponsors "Korn's- phrase: "Julius tried to Ceasar with very long ears . . . ABC's and 1939, the Wilson Boys were KWTO. They're also hear d over A-Krackin' over KWTO. W ay but she was a slick chick" . .. G-ang Buster program is credited on the air on KMMJ , then at KHOZ, Har r ison, Ark., W WVA, land Fullington joins OWI and Jack Smart, ABC's Fat Man, with causing the capture of a Clay Center, Nebr ., KFAB, Lin- West Virginia, and KMA, Shen- waiting for assignment to Orient. claims he heard Sam Schlepper Connecticut murder suspect ... coin, Nebr., WAAW, Omaha, andoah, Iowa- the latter thr ee Spotlight features Carl "Pappy" man reply to a police judge who General MacArthur wants a pro Nebr., XERA, Del Rio, Tex., and stations by transcription. Haden and pictures him writing fined him for a traffic violation gram like ABC's Town Hall for KWTO. On all these stations No story about the W ilson Boys a song. Ray Keltner, local sales and threatened him with jail if Japan .. . Bob White, ABC's di they were selling Dad Wilson's would be complete with<;mt a manager, and wife celebrate wed it happened again-"! get it. rector of agriculture, says tele Rug Needle. There was a time story about their prowess i n ar- ding anniversary. George Earle Fine today, cooler tomorrow" . . . vision will be a wonderful aid in - in 1935 - when the boys chery. Bob and Howard star ted interviewing General Foster and Radio Life Magazine honored the illustrating the latest in plowing, branched out for themselves and practicing with the ancient wea- ,Governor Donnelly pictured in American Broadcasting Company planting and harvesting . . Don't joined with the "Grari.d 01' Opry" pon in 1936. Jack and Norm al Snapshot section. with 12 Distinguished Achieve be surprised when some ABC at WSM, Nashville. Jack, who took up the sport in 1939. ment Awards . . . The Akron programs begin originating from now serves as business manager All four boys took to archery One Year Ago This Month Ohio Journal conducted a favorite KWTO ... ABCeeing ya. for the group, headed a "Grand like a duck takes to water. Bob C. T . Patterson, C. C. Keller, 01' Opry" traveling unit as mas- was Springfield city champion for and John Kirby, big three of ter of ceremonies for a few several years, and state runner KWTO F arm Hour, pictured on months. up for two years. H oward was front page. Korn's-A-Krackin' Part of the time, during the four times Missouri junior cham cast visits Lou Black's home town S U B S C R I P T I O N O R D E R B L· A N K f '30's, Dad Ira Wilson was with pion. Jack was Long Beach of Calico Rock. Zed Tennis gets his boys, telling the folk about champion for two years. new set of store teeth. Milt Editor, The DIAL his needle. When he died a few In 1946, t he· boys showed the Dickey featured in Spotlight Radio Station KWTO months ago, the radio world lost entire nation that archery was a Revue. Lampost Four shine out Springfield, Missouri an engaging personality and the most serious pastime for them. from Passing Parade in Pictures. boys lost a good friend as well Jack won the ·Missouri state Pie throwing contest precedes Dear Sir: as a father. championship last year and the Korn's-A-Krackin' and t urns the In 1939, the Wilson Boys other t hree boys were runners-up. Shrine Mosque stage info mer- Please enter my subscription for The Dial for one dropped out of radio. T he four Wilsons t hen m ade .t he ingue mess. year ( 12 issues) starting with the next issue. I enclose The entire family (rug needle trip to t h e nation al tournament, 75c (stamps, coins, check or money order). business and all) moved to Long wher e t hey won First in t he Beach, California. A shop was national team shoot. I n national in addition to t heir hooked r ug set up ; m anufacturing continued individuals, Bob won Third and needle m anufacturing, also mak e My Name Is ...... ,...... and t hen came the w ar! J ack won Fourt h. They hope custom-ma de bows and ar rows for Street & No. H oward went into ser vice first to attend t he n ation al tournament other archery enthusiasts. It's or Rural Route ...... - in July, 1942. Bob followed in in August , 1947, in Amher st, a business t hey'r e now building August of the same year , and Mass. If t hey do, ' chances are toward ' extensive future opera City State ...... J ack was •induct ed in December . t hey'll bring home another box tions. They feel that someday it All three boys went into the air full of cups to place on an al- may equal the volume of the now force. When they were dis- r eady crowded mantle. famous "Tru-Gyde Hooked Rug charged Bob and Howard were Not so incidentally, the boys, Needle with Two Sets of Points."