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Fort Lauderdale News from Fort Lauderdale, Florida • Page 5

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THE FORT LAUDERDALE (FLORIDA) DAILY NEWS PAGE FIVE Saturday, December 2, 1939 GOES ON AIR SUNDAY Hurricanes Trip Carolina State New Broadcast Station Will Open Tomorrow BlU'dillCS Miami and Miami Beach 4-s A i-t it A X. ii i -4 Fox Stars In 27 to 7 Football Victory The University of Miami Hurricanes snapped back into winning Formal Dedication Planned, Programs Start on Monday Invite our Ft. Lauderdale neighbors to tune in each iCeek-day morning for excit ing facts about Durdine's. 0 ways by handing North Carolina i State a 27 to 7 lacing at the Orange Bowl Stadium last Terry Fox, big fullback, drove) through the Wolf Pack line to account for two of the touch-1 downs. He did most of the ball- carrying and hardly ever failed to gain.

Miami took the kickoff and marched 88 yards to a touchdown only to have North Carolina State knot the score with its lone sue-! cessful drive. The Hurricanes broke the dead- lock in the second period and dominated the play the rest of the way. The victory was the Hurricane's I' Station WFTL 1000 to 10:15 EACH WEEK-DAY MORNING m. first after defeats by Florida and new radio station that makes its debut on the air waves at 2 WFTL. Ft.

Lauderdale's South Carolina. freauency or isw unuuywea. Ft. Lauderdale's new radio station, WFTL will go on the air Sunday, at 2:00 p. lor a formal dedication ol the -station and it's facilities.

Regular service starts at 7:00 o'clock Monday. Broadcasting on a frequency of 1370 kilocycles, WFTL will specialise in form service, featuring market and crop forecasts and weather reports. WFTL is equipped with the national wire service. Local talent will be used on many shows bands, soloists, orchestras, etc. Auditions may be obtained by calling the station.

Public service programs featuring the Chamber of Commerce, civic organizations arid schools, will also be heard, it has been announced. Headed by one of Lauderdale's oldest citizens, Tom M. Bryan, WFTL represents the latest in radio broadcasting equipment. The transmitter and studios are located at 1700 South Andrews. The staff consists of Francis G.

Caroll, chief engineer, Jim H. Knox, program director and chief announcer, Gordon Eaton, announcer: Bill Jones, production; Marian Moore, announcer: J. Mc-Cormack, engineer; Thomas Moore, engineer. Sunday. The station will operate on a RADIO HEAD Cornell Baffled It-' iJ'3' I 1' Jg.TTS.-aT.T? j3S lY.l-.rrTri?rrrir7Si!lii I'M- ii a- ilamm 1h irn I in I .1.1 rill 1 A MMHI TMPlMn All, Even Backers ii LI 11 vwi ivii -v xxv xx xx www wwww i i 1 1 1 nn i mn i it mi mum ntti'r r- S- jr ITHACA.

Dec. 2. Unbeaten Cornell went to some trouble to baffle everyone, including the paying customers, during the season just closed. Whit Baker's number was 53. Hal McCullough's 63.

Walter Ma-tuszczaks 33. Kelley's 83, ani Kirk Hershey's 93. These men are backs and ends. They carried the ball and fans and writei were confused. The hardest work in the Pennsylvania game at Franklin Field was done by the spectators in trying to solve the puzzling numbers They got to know Hal McCul-lough and Kirk Hershey after i while because each scored twice.

SWEDE'S PICKS HOLLYWOOD KENNE1, ftlB FIRST RACK Red Trader. Red Energy Poison. SECOND RACK Hardway, War rirHe. Our Petit. THIR1 RA'K Dusty Duty, Rare T.v Lnly.

FOURTH RACE Pat OBrine, Miss Iofideti, My Jraciou. FIFTH RACK Duke Starter, Honor Boy. Shirt Klrrvts. SIXTH RACK Chance Laddie. Golden Frlfnd, Sallv Sahnra.

SHVENTH JtAOX Red Bonnet, Ranch Girl, Master Cop. ltty NEW BABY The famous Comstock lode cu i I Nevada has produced nearly $800 000,000 in gold and silver. EE T. M. Bryan, head of the new radio station located at Ft.

Lauderdale on S. Andrews Ave. I- CONGRATULATIONS YOU'LL HEAR BEGINNING T50S-- 3jij NEW We SDAY, TO cp Young Eases sell's Worries PnTSEURG Dec. 2. -T Floyd (Pep) Young today eased.

'PW ON YOUR SV' ALL PAINT AND GLASS FURNISHED BY US about a second baseman lor tne Writing from his home Jamestown, N. Young declared ft I COMPANY Tel. 60 I I 1 8 S. Andrews Ave; jury which caused him to miss 70 games last season. His doctor reported no big leaguer would be in better shape than Young for spring training.

Failure of the Bucs to finish in the first division was attributed largely to the absence of Young after he was hurt at Brooklyn on May 2. Another North Carolina Pirate reported himself in good shape again was Pitcher Mace Brown who was put out of commission during the latter part of last season by an attack of grippe. MeCANN' GLASS CO. Tel. 1360 1 17 S.

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if; Kf-ntniky 7 WILL TELL THE WORLD ABOUT LAUDERDALE! BEST WISHES TO 1 i 5 1 1 III 4 a OUR POLICY CONGRA TULA TIONS Watch WFTL Radio Station Go Over the Top! MIXING, The Florist 240 E. Las Olas Blvd. Phone 404 A CONTINUOUS LIVE TALENT OPEN HOUSE PARTY PRESENTING THE OUTSTANDING RADIO ARTISTS OF SOUTH FLORIDA Bands Soloists Orchestras BEGINNING AT 2 P. hi. SUNDAY, DEC.

3rd, IN OUR NEW 1UXURI0US STUDIOS AT 2700 S. Andrews Ave, Congrattzlations TO FTL All Plumliiiig Fix ii res in These ISeauliful Studios Were KOHLim OF EOIILFI1 4th On the Occasion of their Initial Broadcast We Are Pleased to Hove Been Selected to Do the Drapery Work IN THE NEW STATION (Regular 17 Hours Daily Schedule Begins Aonday, Dec. Let Uh Estimate Voirr Next Plumbing Job CITY PLUMBING CO. (INC.) HI 1 S. Andrews Ave.

Tel. 1318 J. R. ELMORE, Pres. MEACH From seven in the mornin? Hill midnight.

WFTL wil lserve The Tropical Wonderland of Florida with the best in radio entertainment MUSIC Live talent swing bands; soft, sooth -in? pine organ reveries; hoe-down hillbillies and sacred inspirational psalms salon chamber music and military marchers presented throughout the day and evening to suit your mood. The world's greatest "names" in symphonic, classical, military, popular, hillbilly and swing musical organizations in the combined libraries of Associated and Standard Transcription Services, with more than 4,203 selections! NEWS Full 24-hour coverage of international, national and state events by United Press, the major news gathering agency of the world! Full 24-hour daily coverage of local and county-wide events by our own news staff. Complete weather forecasts, frost warning service, market reports and agricultural activity highlights of interest to growers and poultry producers. Style trends, women-in-the-news. Stage, Screen and radio chatter gathered from every corner of the nation by experts, for milady's fancy.

Sports Local, state and national events of interest to visitors and home-folks alike. A complete scoreboard tailored for the busy sportsman. COMEDY From Sunrise Serenade at 7:45 each weekday morning till WFTL'S Nite Club of the Air at 11:30 each night, the schedule is dotted with programs in the lighter vein, presented by natural-born comedians to brighten your day to chase the blues away. EDUCATIONAL "Welcome South Neighber," "That's My Business." "The Flying Farade" and many other productions are b-ing arranged to inform as well as to entertain. Keep your dial set at 1370 and a world of knowledge will come through your radio door.

Homo Furnishers 610 E. LAS OLAS BLVD. Phone 233 WFTL, "The Voice of The Tropical Wonderland," is dedicated to the welfare and best Interests of Broward County. Representing: an invest merit of more than $50,000, WFTL joins America's radio industry fully equipped to render a needed service to this community. To the Grower to the housewife to the busy businessman to visitor and to the younger generation this service Is offered 17 hours daily throughout the year by simply snapping: a switch.

In addition to many outstanding commercial presentations, expertly written and enacted, a number of hours each week will be devoted to tublie service programs hours of information and discussion of matters of vital public interest matters' that can best be discussed and digested by your own fireside. Every second of WFTL's time on the air is designed to entertain, enlighten and amuse the whole family. Every program will be in good taste: wholesome entertainment to which everyone may listen. Naturally "commercials' or sponsored time is the life-blood of every radio station. Only through the sale of time may a radio station continue to present outstanding entertainment and service.

It is, therefore, essential that WFTL cooperate with the merchants of this area In the preparation and presentation of advertising messages to induce the sale of their wares. These messages are skillfully prepared and pleasingly presented in a manner to reflect credit not only upon the merchant and the station, but upon the community. Presented in a straight-forward manner, without misrepresentation, as an Informative guide as to where to get the-roost for yonr dollar, the commercials are limited to a fraction of the total program time. It is only fair, therefore, that the listeners be asked to seriously consider th ad vertisinr mssafs and to rive prtfi-erence to the merchant who cooperate In the pre5entat'on of truly fine radio entertainment. aaias jarmA' sswsitrM jnaaagga.

wsmzsssmi i ii ti UILT at 7 A. COrilE-WITNESS A BROADCAST WFTL 'Ssihvhiq. Uw jAopIcal (jdmidsibLcuui" BROWARD COUNTY'S OWN RADIO STATION 1370 ON YOUR DIAL STUDIOS TRANSMITTER 2700 S. ANDREWS WFTL is completely equipped by WESTERN-ELECTRIC, the Tiffany of Radio! From microphone to tower, through thousands of feet of wire and tubes, WESTERN-ELECTRIC High fidelity transmission protects every tone. From symphonic masterpieces to dramatic sound effects, every note, every word, every sound enters your home exactly as it Is nttere4 In WFTL'a sound-conditioned lixnrlous ttadios, thanks to Western-Electric' years of research in oni4 engineering.

WFTL Chose Western Electric Because It's the Best: Choose WFTL for the Same Reason! 1 to.

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