WHIS to Broadcast Sugar and Rose Bowl Games
Radio WHIS will air two major bowl games New Year’s Day NBC service arrangements completed manager J Lindsey Alley said Sugar Bowl from New Orleans features Boston College vs Tennessee at 2 p m Eastern Sugar Bowl announcer Pearson will handle New Orleans coverage Rose Bowl from Pasadena features Nebraska vs Stanford broadcast at 5 p m Eastern with Bill Stern and Ken Carpenter Alley notes WHIS joined NBC December 15 and will carry the games on NBC Blue network with a special ceremony for Graham McNamee between halves
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WHIS
J. Lindsey Alley
New Orleans
Ena
Alley
National Broadcasting Company
NBC
Boston College
University of Tennessee
Pearson
Minnesota Golden Gophers
Michigan Wolverines
Army
Tennessee Volunteers
Bill Stern
Ken Carpenter
Nebraska University
Leland-Stanford University
Graham McNamee
Nbc-Blue Network
First Presbyterian Plans Special Music for Services
The morning service features Beethoven Adagio Cantabile prelude, March of the Magi offertory, Jubilant March postlude, and Percy Buchanan will sing The Living God. Vesper service includes Twilight Song prelude, Pastoral offertory, Andantino postlude, and a duet O Little Town of Bethlehem by Mrs Spencer Armistead and Mrs Charles Giberson.
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First Presbyterian Church
Beethoven
Harker
Percy Buchanan
Presbyterian Church
United States
Living God
O'Hara
Shackley
Plagler
Lowden
Spencer Armistead
Charles Giberson
Bethlehem
Student union attacks New Deal defense policy in convention
Speakers at the American student union convention condemned the New Deal national defense measures as anti-labor. Roy Lancaster of the CIO youth division said the defense commission favored war over labor progress and urged a third party and unity within labor against such policy.
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New York
American Student Union Today
New Deal
Roy Lancaster
Youth Division of Labor
Nonpartisan League of the C. I. O
Defense Commission
Great Britain
Lancaster
Labor
Electrical power production hits new 1940 high
U S power output rose to about 142 billion kilowatt hours in 1940, an 11.1 percent increase from 1939. Growth driven by population and industrial demand and broader use of radios and appliances, with defense production boosting year end takings.
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New York
United States
City studies parking building to ease Bluefield traffic
Business interests in Bluefield plan a joint inquiry by chamber and Business Men's Association into erecting a parking structure. Committee members include Lon Rish C I Cheyney Eugene Kammer J Saes E Wagner and A J 0. City officials may back revenue bonds if private capital cannot fund the project.
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Bluefield
Business Men's Association
Chamber
Lon Rish
C. I. Cheyney
Miss Men's
Eugene Ans
Harry Kammer
J. Saes
E. Wagner
Rish
Chamber of Commerce
Roe
Errol Flynn’s Yacht Safe in Harbor at Catalina
Avalon California reports Errol Flynn’s yacht Sirroco safe in harbor after heavy winds. The craft, 600 miles from California, faced 60 mile per hour gales on December 24 and another 200 miles before Captain William Keil turned back. The radio failed on day two, and Prynn did not complete the voyage.
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Avalon
Catalina Island
Calif
Errol Prynn
Sirroco
Honolulu
al Wetzel
Warner Bros
Camerman
California
William Keil
Prynn
Massachusetts Lottery Debated to Fund Old Age Pensions
Massachusetts debates a state lottery to boost old age pensions and reduce real estate taxes. Proponents led by Charles C. O’Donnell cite pensions gains, while opponents warn of moral decline and business harm to racing and gambling interests. Despite voting in 30 districts, legislators likely will defeat the bill.
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Joseph A. Haley
Boston
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Society For Old Age Pensions
Home Owners’ and Tenants’ League
Society For
Old Age Pensions
Charles C. O'Donnell
Lynn
V. Leverett Saltonstall
William Cardinal O'Connell
Special Music at First Christian Church Services
Morning 11 o'clock service features Mrs C G Harris and Miss Charlotte Bivens singing The Bright Star of Hope. At 5 o'clock Miss Orphin Lynn Ball plays a medley of Christmas carols and the choir performs Lo This the Hour from The Savior's Birth cantata by Florence Chipman. Rev Virgil ie of Chicago will be Vestry speaker. Lew visits his Mrs C E Lowder on Hancock street. Public invited.
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First Christian Church
C. G. Harris
Charlotte Bivens
Orphin Lynn Ball
Florence Chipman
Virgilie
Chicago
Lewis
Bluefield
C. E. Lowder
Hancock Street
Thomas Nast’s symbols shaped party caricatures
Thomas Nast popularized the donkey for Democrats and the elephant for Republicans. He also used the tiger to symbolize Tammany Hall and its influence in New York politics.
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Thomas Nast
Spanish War Vets Elect Officers at December Meet
Mercer Camp No 21 United Spanish War Veterans elected officers for 1941 at their December meeting. Commander Thomas F Henritze Welch led the slate with senior vice commander Charles W Garrett and junior vice commander E E Smith. Other posts went to Bluefield, West Virginia members with trustees and officers named. Installation set for January 19, and a Battleship Maine Memorial Service is planned for February 14 in Bluefield led by William W McNeal.
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Mercer Camp No
United Spanish War Veterans
Thomas F. Henritze
Welch
Charlies W. Garrett
E. E. Smith
William W. McNeal
N. A
Walter Perkins
P. C
S. Henley
W. W. McNeal
Bluefield
W. Va
John W. Sigg McComas
LN. Hodges
P. B. Durrell
Myron C. Taylor Undergoes Gallstone Operation
Myron C. Taylor 66, Roosevelt representative at the Vatican, underwent gallstone surgery this morning. Dr. Frank Lahey said the operation lasted three hours and described the prognosis as serious but not malignant. A week or ten days remain for the crisis to pass, with Mrs. Taylor at his bedside at New England Baptist hospital.
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Boston
Myron C. Taylor
Roosevelt
Vatican
Frank Lahey
Lahey
Taya Fdr
Taylor
New England Baptist Hospital
U. S. Steel Corporation
Big Pulaski Plant to Start Within 30 Days
Hercules Powder plans a 10 million dollar bag loading plant near Pulaski in the Newbern farm district. Land appraisals are to be finished within 30 days as officials from the powder company and the war department inspect the site. Three Norfolk and Western branch lines may be built to serve the facility, which will operate with Radford Ordnance Works. Construction of the Radford plant is ahead of schedule due to favorable weather.
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Hercules Powder Company
Newbern
Pulaski
Powder Company
War Department
Norfolk and Western Railroad
Radford Ordnance Works
Radford
Romance Begins In Courtroom Argument Ends In Marriage
Delphine Meyer a 24 year old deputy district attorney and H R Shire an assistant United States attorney married after meeting in a federal court trial. The ceremony occurred in Yuma with Meyer described as the youngest deputy prosecutor in California. Mrs Shire is USC law school graduate with high honors and was admitted to the bar last July.
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Loseles
Delphine Meyer
H. R. Shire
United States
Fred 8. Meyer
Hollywood Motion Picture
Yuma
California
University of Southern California Law School
First Rose Bowl broadcast credited to Graham McNamee
The 1927 Rose Bowl broadcast marked the first coast to coast network hookup. Graham McNamee, announcing for NBC from WHIS and NBC Blue on January 1 1941, is celebrated for pioneering this landmark transcontinental program. The piece notes subsequent radio plans and other WHIS programs and staff activities in Bluefield.
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First National Bank of Bluefield
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Will Rogers
Robert Ingersoll
Florence Nightengale
Lee Tolstoy
Thomas Edison
P. T. Barnum
Radio Sunday Schedule Clatters Through Dec 29
The program list runs from 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM featuring White's Quartette Morning Salon Vocal Variations Concert Gems Morning Church Organ Melodies WPA Orchestra Musical Moods Concert Melodies Concert Gems Musical Memories Ray Block's Swing World Military Band Melody Lane Music by Masters Echoes of the Opera with stations or venues unnamed and a mix of religious and entertainment pieces.
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White
Melody Lane
Masters
Farm Income at Billions in 1940 Nasdaq Year
Chicago reports American agriculture earned about nine billion dollars from cash sales and government checks in 1940, with cash income at 8.5 billion. Favors included domestic demand, payroll growth, and rearmament. Record crops and high livestock prices supported farmers despite foreign market losses.
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J. Franklin Mullin
Chicago
France
Fifth Sunday Rally At Midway Christian Church
A Fifth Sunday rally is held at Midway Christian Church with Charles M Sublette of Mountain Mission School Grundy delivering the morning sermon and Ben E Johnson of First Christian Bluefield speaking at 2 46 PM The Pine Grove choir and Meade family quartet will sing The public is invited
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Midway Christian Church
Charles M. Sublette
Mountain Mission School
Grundy
Pine Grove
Ben 8. Johnson
First Christian Church
Bluefield W. Va
Pine Grove Choir
Meade Family Quartet
Radio Schedule Fragments From 8 to 11 PM
A garbled listing shows 8:45 to 11:00 PM broadcasts across networks. Programs include drama pieces, news, variety segments, music, a family feature, and a dance hour with noted names like Walter Winchell, Irene Rich, Bill Stern, Phil Spitalny, and Bob Hawk.
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Chicago House
JFG Coffee
JFG Coffee Co
Coca-Cola
Heckin’ Co
Bluefield Supply
Mineral Springs
Home
Carter Coal Co
Dan Wilson
Ari
Bob Jones
SUN Rise Varieties
Sun Rise Bottling Co
Weaf
Sherlock Holmes
Nbe
Wjz
Cbswabe
Dorothy Thompson
Mbswor
Elmer Davis
Nbe-Weaf
Walter Winchell
Sunda Evening Hour
Mbs-Chain
Parker Family
Nbewiz
Irene Rich
Nbc-Wiz
Bill Stern
Nbe-Wiz
Phil Spitalny
Girl Weaf
Via -Nbe-Wiz
Bob Hawk
Cbs-Wabe
Mbs-Wor
CBS Workshop
Cbs - Wabe-West
Hayes
Orch
Mitenetl
Teat
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Pasadena
First Presbyterian
NEW Deal Defense
Chamber of Commerce and Business
Errol Flynn
Willis O. Hunter
Capt
J. W. McCall, Jr
Tournament of Roses Assoiation
Don Ean
O’dell
Duck
Donald
Stuart O'Dell
O'Dell
Red Clark
Donald Duck
Mortimer Snerd
Cardinal O'Donnell
Co. O'Donnell
First Christian
Graham
Nbc-Blue
McNamee
Stanford University
University of Alabama
Roy Riegels
Aletta Jo Looney
Granada Theatre
Granada
Aletta Jo
Barney Nash
Sport Arena
Gabriel
Louis Armstrong
Touts
Ed Kitts
Sammy Snyder
Janie Marie Lambert
Janie
Shirley Sue White
Roanoke
Five Keys
Pat Flanagan
Gene Coleman
Opal Clark
Red Glad
Lice & Zombie
Missus
Tom Stewart
Margaret Sublette
Let's Waitz
Bernard Jirre
Larse Comiern
Alec Randolph
NAVY
Nehi Bottling CO
Church OF the Air
First Baptist Church
Bi-Tone Corp
Gus
Black Draught
Lilly Mountaineers
Lilly Land Company
Buskirk Brothers
Walford Wrecking Co
H. D. Hart
Women 'S Radio
Poca Fuel Co
Uwrachink
LEE Moore & Tomchin's
Feuchtenberger Bakery
Oys
Rhythm & RC Bird Supply Co
C. L. Cheyney
Ymance
NEWS
Eventide Echoes
Parade OF Bands
American Oil Co
Vocal Varieties
THE
Little Show
Rhythm Revue
Ohman & Arden
Rendezvous With Romance
Nbeweaf
Radio City
Cbs-Wabc
March of Health
Mbsmidwest
Nbcweaf
Josef Marais
Cbs - Wabc
Ted Malone
N. Y. Philharmonic Orchestra
Nobody's Children
Kaltenborn
Nbec-Weaf
Young People's Church
Mbs
Yvette
Peter Quill the Wizard
Tony Wons
Mike
Nbc-Weaf
Andre Kostelanetz Cone
Cbs
New England
Cameran
Ga Arm
Yodeler
Women's Symphony Orch
the Music Steelmakers
Mbschain
Tucker Orch
Col. Lemuel
Chs-Wabc
Mbs-Wor-Chain
Conrad N
Friends of Music
Gene Autry
Chs
Wabe
War
Mary
Dining Sisters
Nbc - Blue - West
Wythe Wiliams
Ntw
Bergen
RADIO
U. S. Agriculture
CARTY
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WBRW
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