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Vol. III, No. 3 ...... 25 RADIO STATIONS KWTO AND KGBX, SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI NOVEMBER, 1943 COMEDY TEAM New Sister Team RESUMES SPOT Is Now Featured ~~=k~~:~~r::; Judy -and Joan Carr Helping Our Talent Stalf, ON KGBX, NBC Programs Starring Jim West Abbott and Costello Are Back Favorite Entertainer Is Back With Thursday Night Fun on KWTO After Long Show for Camels Who are those girls singing with Absence Jim West these days? The Carr Sisters, they're called . . Judy Abbott and Costello, who be- apd Jo! Jim West, teller of tall tales, singer of songs and all came radio stars in their own We knew you'd want the an round good guy is back on the right during the 1942-43 s.eason swer to that one, so here it is, air over KWTO after an absence after a session with Edgar Ber- reported not in accordance with of too long. gen and Charlie McCarthy, have the strictest rules of journalism, been partners for better or worse but presented like you want it, as The Long Lane * * * * (there's in vaudeville, the theatre, the is custom in The Dial. a four-letter alliterative word screen and finally the radio, for Judy and Joan Carr censored at this point) who was born in a log cabin in Dallas 11 years. Their future has never their real names) hail from the county minus much in worldly been brighter than it is today. farm . . . 160 acres located one goods but with a voice destined Here is who they are: and one-fourth miles from Maple to spread happiness among peo BUD ABBOTT was born Will- Grove and 11 miles from Golden ple, has just returned from the iam Abbott on October 2, 1895, City. They':re the daughters of West Coast. under a circus tent in Atlantic Mr. and Mrs. Earl Carr, and the There, on Terminal Island and City, N. J . His father was an ad- girls, 18 and 17 years of age re in Los Angeles and vicinity, Jim vance man for the Barnum and spectively, also have a sister who has been entertaining sailors, ma Bailey Circus, later a burlesque is 19 (her name's Mary) as well rines, members of the coast guard, theatre manager. His mother was as a brother, Carl, who's just 12. and defense workers. It was fun, a circus bareback rider. Judy and Jo finished high school he says, but he's glad to be back in the same class last spring, and Abbott's first job was sellin_g long have had ambitions- to get in his native Ozarks. peanuts and his firSt hobby was into radio. Both play guitars and When you say that Jim has feeding them to the elephants. As mandolin, and Judy also plays the been an entertainer all his life, he grew up he operated 'chute- piano. you've summed up his career in the chutes' and worked as a lion a few words. There isn't much he tamer. From theatre ushering he About their appearances: Judy hasn't done in . vaudeville, on went into management, until' the has brown eyes and curly dark the radio and at famous fairs night the straight man for a co- brown hair, whereas Judy has Here are those wonderful people who bring you "Hi Noon With throughout the nation. In fact, median named Lou Costello took blue eyes and also boasts of curly the Home Folks"' for the Barry County Burial Association, every week one time in his colorful biog sick and Abbott was drafted from hair, of honey color. Both girls day at 12 o'clock. Left to right (standing) Al Stone, who is "Pa"; raphy, you'll find that Jim was the box office to take his place. are slender and tall, and have Ann Schaffer, who is "May"; Slim Wilson, "Bud"; Dora Shaffer, a wild-steer rider with a rodeo. complexions of peaches and "Marge"; Paul Mitchell. "Uncle John"; and Hugh Aspinwall, "him He also has written a number of LOU COSTELLO was born Lou cream. (Ed's. Note: we're prac self". Seated is Lee Stone, "Ma'", who in every picture of Home Francis Critello on March 6, 1908, ticing upon our description for hillbilly songs and ballads. Folks deserves the position of honor. in Paterson, N. J ., and kept grow- that novel now in its tenth year Jim's treasure house of mem ing like Topsy until his parents ·of being put off.) ories include three years with decided to send him to military Try 560 on your Dial and hear KWTO, starting in 1939, during His Appetite Pays which he visited every community school. Judy and Jo with Jim West, at HILLOSOPHY Lou had other ideas. He decided 9 :00 a. m., 10 :30 a. m. and at located in the primary territory to become an actor and headed 1 Profit To Thomas of this station. His popularity is : 00 p. m. ABNER WEAVER SAYS: (Continued on Page Four) widespread. More people in this We know other members of We buried Uncle Jeb· Sunday region probably know Jim West their family are tuned in! Of an' I listened to Parson Blake say John Charles Thomas is find- by sight and acquaintanceship as course, when the newness wears a heap o' nice ing that a good wholesome appe- well as by name than any other off, Mr. Carr can get busy again things 'bout th' radio personality, with the pos on his 160 acres, taking care of ol' f e I I er. As tite can pay a profit. sible exception of Slim Wilson. those 10 milk cows and big poul- near as I can All his life the concert star (Continued on Page Four) try flocks. figger, Jeb was (KGBX-NBC, Sundays, 1 :30 p. m . Meanwhile, it's justified if he's a good man. CWT) liked honey. He liked it in a proud papa a.nd tunes in to He hadn't done P. D. ATTENDS. hear his daughters on the r adio. nothin' bad an' his coffee, in his tea anaon his he hadn't made fruit. N. Y. MEETING no m i s t a kes, A few weeks ago he purchased Red·s Side Doesn·t 'cause he just a ranch in Manderville Canyon Ralph Nelms, program director b. a dn't d O n e ABNER near Hollywood and noticed many and editor of The Dial, is grateful Sound Good Now no thin'. So, I've reached th' con of his neighbors were raising hon clusion that all men are good to Broadcast Music, Inc., for a ey bees and providing honey for trip to New York City since the Lawyer: "Yes, you've got the some fer somethin' an' some fer their own table. best case I've . ever heard." nothin'. It's a heap better to take last issue of this publication. th' wrong trail than to stand at He decided to try it. Ralph was guest of BMI at a Ozark Red: "Thanks, goodbye." program managers' confer ence. th' forks of th' road an' never go As a bee fancier, Baritone Lawyer : "But don't leave. I Not only was he the youngest told you it's the best case I ever nowhere. Thomas was an instant success. Starting with a single hive, he p. d. in attendance, but also was heard." the one from the greatest dis found the bees so interesting and Mary Livingstone, sugar and Ozark Red : "Well, I'm going to No Date tance from New York. the dividends so rich a nd palat spice on the Jack Benny show, is dash over and settl(l it out of Seven days in New York gave \Vayl and : I can't see you now. able that he began expanding. back al her old job ol culling court." You'll have to arrange with my Ralph a chance to combine busi her much-travelled husband and Lawyer : "But it's a wonderful Now he has enough bees to secretary for an appointment. ness with vacation. He met many boss down to size in the Wauke case, I tell you." take care of his own palate, dis NBC personalities and executives gans jester's airings over KGBX· Ozark Red : "Maybe it is . . . Man : I've a lready tried that, tribute to his friends and sell on and saw sever al of the top net NBC .on Sundays at 6:00 p. m. for but not for me. I told you the but she's booked up for two weeks the market for enough profit to work programs origina ting in Ra General Foods. other fellow's side of the story!" ahead. pay for the whole· operation. dio City.