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plADio DEFENSE M A N U AL Compiled exclusively for residents Inclu din g "THE of the "BAY AREA". AT O M B O M B AND YOUR SURVIVAL" Atomic Protection Manual Don Lee Latest War Maps Sponsored Broadcasting Bay Area Defense Information by Radio Station System KFRC Subversive Organizations in SAN FRANCISCO the United States IN THE INTEREST OF CIVIL DEFE NSE CO PY RIGHT IN C A M E RICA N RA DIO PU BLICA TIO NS INC. Station Personnel, Facilities OOOOO 4•1111111 OOOOO and Program Photos .11G ..... 0, '.. " 4 2 be .11P.A .1 7 >11! • KFRC'S STAFF AND FACILITIES ARE (Below) Mel Venter, Program Direc- (Below) Dink Templeton, Public Re- tor—Mel came to KFRC after grad- lations and Sports Director — Dink uation from Stanford in 1933 as an is now in his seventh year at announcer. He became one of KFRC, entering radio with a back- Coast's outstanding radio person- ground of twenty years as athletic alities. Named Program Director in coach and newspaper columnist. 1940, and returned from the Coast Guard in 1946 after three years service. (Below) Enes Canata, Network Traf- fic Director—As a result of fifteen years at KFRC Miss Canata has every network operation at her fingertips. She started in '36 in William D. Pabst, Vice President of Sales Services, became Traffic Sec- , the Don Lee Broadcasting System retary in '39, Traffic Manager in '41 and General Manager of KFRC — and in '49, Network Traffic Director. Mr. Pabst joined KFRC in 1932 as departmental coordinator. Went in- to the Production Department and in 1936 was made Production Man- ager. In 1939 he was named Man- ager of KFRC, and except for two years in Naval Aviation, has re- mained at the helm ever since. This RADIO-DEFENSE ALBUM has been presented to you with the compliments of AN D LOA N ASS OCIATIO N (Left) Jim McArdle, SuF MAIN TELEPHONE vising Engineer — This STREET L UC ER NE 2-3297 be Mr. McArdle's 2. year at KFRC. Starting transmitter engineer, tI as studio technician in If you have a friend who would like to have one, made Chief Engineer 1941, and Supervising E have him stop in and order one. It's free. gineer five years later. DEDICATEDj a illill &PUBLIC DEFENSE 1. Reception Desk at KFRC—Located Main Studio at KFRC — One of on the mezzanine floor of the beau- three spacious studios, with famous tiful Cadillac Building at 1000 Van -Budda's Amateur Hour - in prog- Ness where busy operators and re- ress for the seventeenth consecu- ceptionists welcome the public. tive year, creating a full house every Saturday night. Don Lee Broadcasting System KFRC Master Control, Engineer Don Announce Booth, Engineer's Control Cameron— Where all KFRC studios, Room, and Studio Operation — In Don Lee Broadcasting System, Mu- the background you see the news- tual Broadcasting System and over- caster. Center, the engineers and seas news operations and switching foreground, the program announcer, are performed. a perfectly co-ordinated operation. Cadillac Building, home of KFRC, located in the very heart of metropolitan San Francisco at 1000 Van Ness. Studios on the mezzanine floor. Transmitter on the eighth floor. Towers and antenna on roof. KFRC - DON LEE PROGRAMS DEDICATED (Right) News Director Al Berglund — Graduate of Michigan State and four year veteran of World War II, as well as UP and NBC radio bureau, Berg- lund is also a vital cog in Mutual's Pacific overseas news. KFRC News Room in Action—News Director Al Berglund con- sca ster fers with Newscaster Lew Pfeifer on script, as writer-editor kt..0t)O K New K' s Harvey Sachs selects the last minute news. D ave ScoVield -- O lwelve o'Clock. Noon News .is one ol the most 'impor- tan t Bay Area radio pro- grams. Voiced by Dave Scoield, the Full mean'ing every 'item 'is given pact tothe pubhc. (Right) Chief Announcer Lew Pfeifer—At 7:45 each morning many thousands tune in Lew for the best morning summary of local and world news. His keen KFRC Teletype Room — With the great news breaks from all awareness of important over the world pouring in over INS and AP, Berglund and events is always evident Sachs make certain of important flashes for break-in to pro- in his broadcasts. gram in progress. Fulton Lewis, Jr. (6) — His commentaries from Washing- ton have long made national headlines. Glenn Hardy (7)—His Pacific Coast programs at 10 a.m. and 9 p.m. are a Don Lee Fixture. Frank Hemingway(8)- -Twice a day with Hemingway - is a well known slogan from Seat- tle to San Diego. Heming- way s presentation of the news is unique. lij airUBLIC WELFARE AND NECESSITY kBelow) lames rthesH• N\CBUtnel, n 'ReviewIns DiteC- kOtStand." cA the ProkessorNo w tero‘ PubVic Speak- an the School ‘ns d Debate, Dean oi oi Speech, Northwestern Universtty - Northwestern University Reviewing Stand—James H. McBurney (cen- ter), moderator, each week con- ducts a forum discussion of the country's most important problem. This view shows experts discussing -Our Stake in the Pacific. - L. to R.: Rufus B. van Kleinsmid, Chancellor Univ. of So. Cal.; H. Arthur Steiner, Political Science, U.C.L.A.; Ch'en Shore-Yi, Pomona College; Arthur Coons, Occidental College. (Below) -Reporters' Roundup - — Hollis Seavey, MBS News and Spe- cial Events Coordinator in Wash- ington, D.C. and producer of -Re- porters' Roundup, - and Everett Holles, veteran newspaperman who moderates the programs in which "War Front, Home Front" — These other noted journalists appear on alert men in Mutual's New York important questions of the week. studios prepare to speak directly to correspondents in Korea, Japan and Germany, in a brilliant weekly dis- cussion of the war news. L. to R.: Les, Higbee, Art Feldman, Cecil Brown and George Fielding Eliot. Gabriel Heatter (9) — His -- prophetic commentaries have Mutual Newsreel — John Bosman roused the nation, and given Ind Jack Fern, editors of Newsreel, comfort in times of greatest editing sound tape recorded at the stress. ,cene and sent to New York for each evening's selection of news events from -where they happened, Cecil Brown (10) — Years of when they happened. - courageous coverage under enemy fire and fearless in- terpretation of the news have given him a deep insight into the truth. Sam Hayes (11)—For twenty- two years he has been one of the most listened-to person- alities on the air. His two daily news shows on KFRC, 4:45 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. re- quire great speed and judg- ment in editing and writing. T MIG Major General Walter M. Robertson, the state director of Governor Earl Warren of California proclaimed in an emer- California's Civil Defense program on a radio broadcast gency meeting of the League of California Cities on Janu- given January 19, 1951, said — ary 4, 1951 — -EVERY RESIDENT of California should consider it as -This is the greatest of emergencies. The stakes his personal responsibility to get on the Civil Defense we are playing for are the greatest in the history of the team. Just as a fighting force must have its shock country. This is everybody's job — everybody has troops for attack, we must have our shock troops for to pay, everybody has to sacrifice. - Civil Defense on the home front. - A POTE NTIAL MILIT ARY W E AP O N We are currently engaged in a conflict in which use of remembered that constant improvements in design and the atomic bomb is quite probable. It is highly important type, or useage, can be expected. A top military spokes- that you understand the effects of this weapon and how man recently forecast the use of A-bombs as the next you can best protect yourself. We shall present in the probable step in battlefield warfare and said that they following pages a simple digest of such facts from govern- can be used with deadly accuracy against troops, tanks and mental and other authentic sources we feel to be of other military targets. greatest value. RADIOLOGICAL WARFARE — The use of radioactive The atomic bomb is an extremely potent military gases, dusts or mists as a weapon, is a possibility and we weapon but not -absolute - in the sense that its possession should be prepared for it according to Prof. Ridenour of alone guarantees victory. Thus far the United States has the University of Illinois, but because it is a mystery exploded several atom bombs and we have learned of the weapon its most important effect might be psychological devastation that can be caused. In Hiroshima, 71,000 peo- since it probably couldn't be used to kill people. It prob- ple were killed and 68.000 injured in a city of 245,000. ably would force them to abandon homes, towns and mili- About 75 A-bombs, according to Dr. R. E. Lapp, would tary installations, however. probably have done as much damage to target areas in Germany as was done by all the strategic bombing during H-BOMB (Hydrogen Bomb) . It is no secret that re- World War II. With all its tremendous heat and blast search and experimentation on the development of the effects, accompanied by its unique radiation effects, it is H-bomb is going on. It is not possible to predict when, still not unlimited in the amount of damage it can do. or if, such a weapon will be produced. It is interesting to You need not worry, for example, about rumors to the note however that according to the AEC a hydrogen bomb effect that atomic explosions might contaminate the earth.