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RADIO SERVES THE 3 YARDS Radio and public address service of the three yards is a well organized business. These systems fill a vital need in disseminating information to yard workers, broadcasting music for entertainment, and relaying news and features from KGW-KEX. NEWS BROADCASTS News broadcasts are relayed from downtown KGW to the control rooms in the three yards. Special programs which are not broadcast generally, come by direct wire from downtown to the three radio rooms, carry news at lunch periods on every shift in all three yards. These newscasts, besides being complete in respect to war news, domestic and local news, contain announcements of importance for Kaiser yard workers. WEATHER REPORTS In a new service to Kaiser yard workers, station KGW reports the weather conditions in districts in and around Portland. These reports are actually broadcast first, between 5:45 and 5:55 for Swan Islanders; again at 6:30 and 6:55 for Vancouverites; and finally between 7:15 and 7:30 for O.S.C. workers. On. the air, weather broadcasts refer to Portland district corresponding to the street numbering system - N.E. Portland, S.W. Portland, etc. They also cover Longview-Kelso, Camas-Washougal, and Battle Ground highways in southern Washington, and reports from other areas are covered by name. |
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| These three KGW-KEX announcers broadcast lunchtime news to workers in the three yards. Left to right, Dick Rand broadcasts to Vancouver; Gordon Bambrick is heard at Swan Island, and, right, Hartley Sater dishes it out to Oregon shipbuilders. Not shown are Ed Bennett, who reports swing shift news to all three yards, and Eddie Richmond, who reaches men and women on graveyard shifts. | ||||||||||||||||
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| Don Kneass, heard on "Kneass With The News," brings the day's happenings and weather reports to shipbuilders at 7:15 to 7:30 every morning. | Glenn Howard, KGW news editor, checks copy coming off the teletype, edits it for presentation on KGW's many newscasts. | |||||||||||||||
| Well-equipped radio control tower at O.S.C. is headed by Page Kuchenthal, left. Control room handles local yard and radio broadcasts over the public address system. | ||||||||||||||||
| Just before going "on the air" at Vancouver, Bill Lanphear, public address control supervisor, left, Lois Stephens, singing electrician, and Bob McCoy, yard program manager. | ||||||||||||||||
| At Swan Island, Bill Williams, radio room supervisor, announces an important message to workers over their P. A. system. | ||||||||||||||||
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