A Half-Hour From Home

Enemy radio propagandists have never had any luck with attempts to homesicken U.S. soldiers; thoughts of home only seem to make them fight harder to get back sooner. Now the G.I.'s are going to get a heaping helping of genuine hometown news--at the special request of General Eisenhower.

Some time this month, to receiving sets on the world's war fronts, the Army's 138 radio stations overseas will begin broadcasting a new show called Let's Go To Town. Produced by the National Association of Broadcasters, with strictly hometown casts, the show is a happy half-hour rambling of homey news, gossip, music, gags, carefully sidestepping sighs and tears.

In the sample record made in Richmond, Va., the unmistakable sounds of home set the scene--the chimes of St. Paul's church, the yelp of a newsboy, the tapping of tall heels, the clack-clack-clack of traffic over the Ninth Street Bridge. Neatly interlarded are remembered voices telling of remembered places, and quiet-spoken promises:

P: Announcer, to a woman streetcar operator: "How about when the men get back? Do you plan to continue on the job?" Woman: "No sirree. . . . It's back home for me to take care of the house and fix some real good dinners. . . ."

P: Jack Kilpatrick, columnist for the Richmond News Leader: "The Saturday night crowds at Sixth and Grace look about the way they used to. The Hotel Jefferson is just about back in commission after that disastrous fire. . . . William C. Herbert succeeded Gordon Ambler as mayor.. .."

P: Mayor Herbert: "I feel we can find jobs for all ... returning war veterans."

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