KWK's Television Antenna, twice as tall at the 40-foot "clover leaf" antenna once used for FM broadcasting, will go up on the Globe-Democrat Tower Building at Twelfth and Cole streets. Workmen are shown as they strung cable and telephone lines to the top of the 500-foot tower yesterday preparatory to dismantling that FM antenna portion and replacing it with an 80-foot "bat wing" antenna for TV.
Dressed for Bicentennial: The Globe-Democrat newspaper vending machine outside The Globe-Democrat building gets new paint job to honor the Bicentennial.
From left: Mrs. Frank A. Frawley, Community Responsibility; Miss Helen Graves, Fine Arts; Mrs. Gilbert Harris, Civic Service, Miss Louise Knapp, Education; Mrs. Clay E. Jordan, Lifetime
From left: Mrs. C. Oscar Lamy, Social Service; Mrs. Elbert Leaders, Homemaker; Mrs. Holton R. Price Jr., Youth Leadership, and Mrs. Chadbourne Taylor, Community Welfare. Missing from the picture is Mrs. Frank E. Pelton Jr., Creative Philanthropy
Watching their mother receive her award as Good Citizen are Miss Jane (left) and Miss Judy Sutter. Miss Judy flew home from Bradford Junior College for the occasion.
. The new all-FM broadcasting station is a part of the Globe-Democrat Publishing Company's 1947 expansion program to further serve the great St. Louis area.
The New Globe-Democrat frequency modulation radio station KWGD will be housed in the modern building on the northwest corner of Cole street and Twelfth boulevard. The architect's drawing shows the entrance to the structure from which the area's first exclusive frequency modulation broadcasting will originate.
Cab Driver Patriotism. Laclede Cab Co. drivers display American flags that all Laclede cabs will be flying on radio antennas during the VP Fair/July fourth period. Many drivers and employees are lifelong area residents and veterans from as far back as WWII. (From left to right) Robert Russell, Vietnam; Issac Bonner, Korea; Harold Dallas, WWII.
Queen of the Big Top Semi-Finalists are (standing, left to right) Sandra Cox, Patricia Shebik, Kim Bergman, June Enos, Norma Adams and Marilyn Stalcup; (seated from the left) Marcia Cole, Lynette and Diana Austin. Judges are (from the left) Joseph New, Tom Reardon, Vic Take and Jack Murdoch. "Pictures of the six finalists will be published tomorrow with the official Globe-Democrat ballot on which the readers may vote for the girl they wish to represent the St. Louis area in the Tournament of Roses parade in Pasadena Cal., New Years Day."