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Show George Hatch and I cannot put my finger on how come or why but George said in effect, "Well, if you ever want to move to Salt Lake, let me know because my father-in-law has a radio station in Ogden and a newspaper and we're putting a new radio station on the air in Salt Lake City, as soon as the war ends and we can get the equipment." The big thing was equipment. You couldn't get electronic gear during the war. When the war in Europe ended, by that time I was in 4-F. I had an ulcer. I was really pretty well exhausted from working nine days a week, nine hours a day. And decided the next time I was in Salt Lake I'd really look this guy up. When the war did end we carne to Salt Lake to see Marjorie's folks. And I went up to Ogden on the Bamberger. That was the electric trolley line and, indeed, there was George Hatch and his father-in-law, his naffie was Abe Glassman. Abe was not Jewish. The family was German, I think. At any rate, there was indeed a newspaper, there was indeed a radio station going on the air in Salt Lake and he said, "If you want to come to work, come tomorrow." So I went back to New York, signed off. ~ve shipped our thwngs to Salt Lake, fixed up a little apartment and there we were. In maybe a month's time. I helped put KALL is what their station became on the air, set up their news department. And almost simultaneously, I don't quite know what the financial situation was, but the Tribune-Telegram. In those days, there were two newspapers owned by the Kearns |
