Armed Forces
Radio Service To
Celebrate Its
7th Anniversary
*
Sunday. May 29, The Armed
' »rees Radio Service—“The Voice
f Information and Education” will
observe its seventh anniversary.
r' will be celebrated at the local
WXLN Radio Station at 7:30p.m.;
with a special radio program.
Old you ever pause to consider
just what it means when you hear
the announcer at Radio Station
WXLN say: “This is the Armed
Forces Radio Service—The Voice
»f Information and Education”?
Vou are listening to, and being
entertained by, the largest radio
broadcasting network in the
world—AFRS—which brings you
r inscriptions and short wave
broadcasts of the best commercial
network programs (de-commer
ci ilizedb besides many programs
written and produced entirely by
AFRS
‘ Command Performance" is one
('■ hie outstanding programs writ
(»n and produced weekly by
AFRS It features the best per
formers in radio, screen and stage
— inti though it is literally a
‘command performance,” the
.tar. fee! honored to be so “com
m rinded.”
Just a few statistics as to ‘‘how
come” AFRS is the “largest broad
casting network in the world.”
' FRS overseas outlets now total
G'i standard wave broadcasting
rrtatums and in the Zone of the In
irior the AFRS Bedside Network
consists of 167 carrier stations in
the Army. Navy, Air Force and
Veterans Administration hospi
i Is
Each week AFRS writes and
produces 16 hours of “H” pro
trams About 60 musical numbers
ire recorded weekly. About 34
11ours >t programs taken from the
major network progams are de
•ummercialized and recorded. At
present about 45,000 16-inch
33 1/3 rpm. transcriptions are
.hipped 'ay high priority air trans
port to the many AFRS radio sta
' ions scattered throughout the
world, so the latest and best pro
grams may be enjoyed locally.
Most, of the recording is done
WXLN
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Friday. May 27. 1949
5:00 p.m.—Serenade
5:15— Supper Club
5:30—Music of the Masters
6:00—AFRS Sports Reel
6:15—Words With Music
6:30—From the Bookshelf of the
World
in Los Angeles.
AFRS is on the air 510 short
wave broadcast hours per month
from 11 powerful transmitters lo
cated on both coasts. These trans
mitters have a combined total of
over 2,200 transmitter hours per
month.
As “The Voice of Information
and Education,” AFRS provides
service personnel overseas and in
stateside hospitals with a broad
variety of programs designed to
instruct as well as entertain.
Troop Information Programs, pro
! duced at Los Angeles, embrace
past and current history, science,
literature and other topics. Pro
gams of classical music give serv
I icemen the world’s greatest sym
, phonic works played by leading
; orchestras. Popular music, of
; course, is generously represented
by various musical programs and
band shows.
AFRS today has, according to a
1949 State Department estimate, a
; world-wide listening public of
i over 90 million persons. Although
' its primary function is to serve
1 troops overseas, it recognizes the
! responsibility to give its huge non
service audience an undistorted
picture of America and Americans
while it attempts to make a spokes
man for democratic good will of
every U. S. serviceman stationed
aboard.
The commanding officer of the j
Armed Forces Radio Service is
Colonel William M. Wright, Jr.,
AGD, U. S. Army.
In charge of the local WXLN
Radio Station is amiable Sgt. John
nie W. Mock; who with his able
assistants Pfc. Jack Conerly and i
Pfc. Robert Forbes, are ever anx
ious to do all that is humanly pos
sible to make their programs'
enjoyable to their listening audi-1
ence and are doing a bang-up job
of giving the personnel of Marks
Air Force Base and the citizens of
Nome and vicinity high quality'
radio entertainment.
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[ 7:00—News
i 7:05—Blondie and Dagwood
7:30—Hill Billy Hit Parade
| 8:00—News
8:05—Family Theater
8:30—Harvest of Stars
9:00—You Asked For It
10:00—News
10:05—Abbott and Costello
10:30—Melody Hour
11:00—News
11:05—Sign Off_
Saturday, May 28. 1949
7:00 a.m.—Red Harper
7:15—Morning Devotions
7:30—Musical Clock
8 00—Let’s Pretend
8:30—Record Shop
9:00—Morning Melodies
9 15—G. I. Jive
9:30—Passing Parade
9:45—Bob Carlton
10:00—Turntable Time
10:30—"I & E” Special
11:00—Impressions In Melody
11:30—Album Music
11:45—Personal Album
Noon—V Disc Varieties
12:30—Serenade
12:45—Hymns From Home
1:00—Arond the World in History
1:15—Dick Jergens Spotlight
Revue
1:30—You’ll Be Surprised
2:00—Musical Varieties
2:30—Westward Ho
3:00—NBC Symphony
4:00—Solitary Singer
4:15—Today’s American
4:30—One Night Stand *
5:00—Baseball (Short Wave)
6:00—AFRS Sports Reel
6:15—Words With Music
6:30—Science Magazine of the
Air
7:00—News
7:05—Grand OT Opry
7:30—Lone Ranger
8:00—News
8:05—Life Of Riley
8:30—Hit Parade
9:00—A1 Jolson
9:30—Joan Davis
10:00—News
10:05—Noah Webster Says
10:30—Manhattan Merry Go
Round
11:00—News
11:05—Sign Off
Sunday, May 29. 1949
10:00 a.m.—Disc Jockev Round-Up
11:00—Chapel Call
11:15—Passing Parade
11:30—Piano Playhouse
Noon—Music America Loves Best
12:30—Serenade
12:45—Skyway to the Stars
1:00—Show Time
1:30—Angelus
2:00—Concert Hall
2:30—Fellowship Hour
3:00—Sunday Serenade
4:00—Meredith Wilson
4:30—Academy of Music
5:00—Baseball (Short Wave'
6:00—Dining With Jack
6:30—Greatest Story Ever Told
7:00—Jack Benny
7:30—A.F.R.S. 7th Anniversary
Program
8:00—News
8:05—Theater Guild
9:00—Amos and Andy
9:30—Music By Faith
10:00—News
10:05—Milton Berle
10:30—American Album of Famil
iar Music
11:00—News
11:05—Sign Off
Monday. May 30. 1949
7:00 a.m.—Melody Round-Up
7:15—Morning Devotions
7:30—Musical Clock
8:00—News
8:05—Fred Waring
8:30—Record Shop
9:00—Morning Melodies
9:15—G. I. Jive
9:30—Jack Berch
9:45—Chiquita
10:00—Turntable Time
10:30—“I & E” Special
11:00—Impressions In Melody
11:30—Album Music
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"ROLL ON TEXAS MOON"
Roy Rogers
1 Show, Saturday, 7:30 p.m.
"MIRACLE ON 34th ST."
Maureen O'Hara - John Payne
Also "Raiding the Raiders"
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2 Shows. Sun., 7:15 and 9:00 p.m.
"THE THIRTEENTH HOUR"
Richard Dix Karen Morely
Whipmaster Says
Congress Will Act
WASHINGTON, (A5)—Congress
may be asked to work well into
the sizzling Washington summer
to put through more of President
Truman’s broad legislative pro
gram.
Mr. Truman said as much yes
terday. He told a news! conference
11:45—Personal Album
Noon—V Disc Varieties
12:30—Serenade
12:45—At Ease
1:00—Arond the World in History
1:15—Club Fifteen
1:30—You’ll Be Surprised
2:00—Musical Varieties
2:30—Music From America
3:00—Matinee Melodies
4:00—Strike Up The Band
4:15—Today’s American
4:30—One Night Stand
5:00—News
SYDNEY, Australia, </P) — A
| large brown snake has lived in a
' well at Marryatville, South Aus
tralia, for three years. It fell in
there when half grown and made
its home on the roots of trees
which have broken the cement
walls of the well. It has no way
of escaping.
he hopes to see a major part of
his program enacted before Con
gress quits—and then added flat
ly that this doesn’t mean Congress
will adjourn July 31. Some mem
bers have talked -about such a
quitting date.
House speaker Rayburn (D.
Tex.) commented:
“Before Congress adjourns it is
going to enact a very full and con
structive program. There has been
no agreement among leaders of
Congress and the White House for
the exclusion of any legislation.’’
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