The Florence Times, Alabama
February 11, 1983
(Comments by Avon Edward Foote,
Ph.D. Ohio State, 1970, who became
friend
of
Clara May Foote Adams
in 1982
when she was resident of
Mitchell Hollingsworth Annex
in Florence.)
Mrs. Adams parents are James Adonijah Foote
and Ruth Penn Foote. Both are buried in
Oak Grove Cemetery, Iuka, Mississippi. Her
Aunt Clara Woodworth Foote married James
Mhoon Brinkley of Iuka and Memphis. He is
the son of Robert Campbell Brinkley, the heralded
builder of the Memphis to Charleston Railroad
who had his family's summer home in Iuka.
The railroad's Silver Spike was driven with
great celebration near the home site in 1857.
Clara Woodworth Foote was first to be
baptised in the local Iuka Episcopal Church
after its founding, and her nephew,
Francis P. Foote served as Episcopal minister
in California. The father-in-law, R. C. Brinkley,
also built The Peabody Hotel in Memphis in 1869,
which he named in memory of George Peabody.
Mrs. Adams grandmother is Amelia Word
Foote of Eastport, Mississippi, who stayed
with her sister in Rienzi, Mississippi
during most of the Civil War.
Her diary from the War is on-line
with several entries published.
Mrs. Adam's obituary lists three brothers.
The youngest is Emerson Adonijah Foote,
who was born in Sheffield, Alabama.
She and other sisters and brothers,
some deceased
before her,
were born in Iuka.
The boys moved together with their
sister and parents to Los Angeles after
1910.
Emerson's book is newly published
with first printing in 2014. After
Avon Edward Foote left WOWL-TV in
1964 for position in advertising
with Plough, Inc., Memphis, Frank
Howard, Emerson's cousin, served
as an OWL ad account executive.
And Howard's daughter became Shoals
Reporter for WAAY-TV, Huntsville.
"The Radio Annual and Television Yearbook, 1949" FOOTE, CONE & BELDING 247 Park Ave., New York 17, N. Y. Phone PLaza 5-6600 AAAA- ANPA- ABP- PPA- APA- ABC President Emerson Foote Chairman of the Board Fairfax Cone Chairman Exec. Committee Don Belding Secretary-Treasurer William R. Sachse New York Office President Emerson Foote Exec. Vice-Pres William E. Berchtold Vice-Pres. and Gen. Mgr M. P. Franceschi V.-P. Media and Research Sherwood Dodge Dir. of Radio Thomas McDonnell Dir. of TV Roger Pryor Radio Business Mgr Lillian Selb Director of Publicity George Wolf Chicago Office 919 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago 11, Ill. Chairman of Board Fairfax M. Cone Executive Vice President J. H. E. Davis Secretary and Treasurer William R. Sachse Radio Business Manager Harry Dieter Radio Production Mgr James Fonda Radio Time Buyer Genevieve Lemper Los Angeles Office 601 W. Fifth St., Los Angeles 13, Calif. Chairman Exec. Com Don Belding Executive Vice-Pres William J. Pringle Business Manager Eugene Duckwall Radio Time Buyer J. H. Scruggs San Francisco Office 235 Montgomery St., San Francisco 4, Calif. Vice-Pres. and Mgr Ford Sibley Radio Time Buyer Virginia Cain Hollywood Office 6117 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood 28, Calif. Vice-President Robert Ballin General Manager C. Burt Oliver Radio Accounts - Alexander, Ben; Amend Company, Fred W.; American Piano Manu- facturers Association; Argosy Pictures; Ar- mour and Company; Beatrice Foods Com- pany; Carter Products, Inc.; Disney Produc- tions, Walt; Frigidaire Division (General Motors Corp.); General Foods Corporation; Hall Brothers, Inc.; Hat Research Founda- tion, Inc.; International Latex Corp.; Lock- heed; New York Central System; Pepsodent Division (Lever Bros. Company); Purex (product); Rheem Manufacturing Company; RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.; RKO Theatres; S&W Fine Foods, Inc.; Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles; Sierra Pictures, Inc.; Southern Pacific Railroad; The Toni Com- pany; Trend (product); Union Oil Com- pany of California; Van Raalte, Inc. Television Accounts - Argosy Pictures; Liebmann Breweries, Inc.; Marshall Field & Company; RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.; Se- curity-First National Bank of Los Angeles; Union Oil Company of California. 164
Faded Adams-Kinnard Hardware Company
sign on Montgomery Avenue building
in Sheffield, with WVNA painted below.
(2013 photo by A. E. Foote)
Avon Edward Foote (Eddie) with original Coppertone art
Plough, Inc., New York - Miami - Memphis,
Advertising Department, 1965.
When he wrote "Put Your Best
Foote Foot Forward" letter to
Emerson Adonijah Foote.
Later that year in November,
Emerson published a full page
ad in Advertising Age
asking for chance to re-enter
advertising profession.
Emerson's book written 1983-85
Foote, Cone & Belding Ad, 1947
for it's client, Lockheed
Read HistoryNet.com, January 1, 2016, article from Aviation History
about Dick Merrill of Iuka, Mississippi,
pilot for Eastern Airlines and close friend of Eddie Rickenbacker, head of the airline.
The writer, Don Bellwell, Cincinnati, Ohio, includes two footnote references with the article.
Bedwell uses one book about Dick Merrill and second book authored by Eddie Rickenbacker.
Author repeats Merrill's reputation for gambling with his life's experiences and his related devotion to Vegas casinos.
MGM Gold Strike Casino at Tunica in North Mississippi honors
Dick Merrill's 1937 flight for William Randolph Hearst.
MGM exhibit features the Lockheed Electra and London's Big Ben. The European auto represents
German Hindenburg disaster which delayed Merrill's take-off from New Jersey airfield.
The record-breaking flight carried crash photos to London for next-day papers. Auto also became first prize in
January-to-March contest at the Gold Strike Casino.
(Photo by Eddie Foote, Copyright (c) 2016)
Paula Stone, Fred's daughter, has
been signed by Scott R. Dunlap,
Monogram vice-president in charge
of production, to play the feminine
lead in "Atlantic Flight," now in
production with Dick Merrill, trans-
atlantic flier, in a starring role.
Film Daily
...The Daily Newspaper of Motion Pictures
New York, Thursday, July 1, 1937
Foote, Cone & Belding Ad, 1948
for rail transportation client, New York Central System
A Secret Sister of Old Tishomingo Family
And Her Secret Sister
Foote/Foot members of Old Tishomingo County family of Mississippi
(Second photo, Tunica, Mississippi, February 2016, by Eddie Foote,
when North Mississippi casino honored Lockheed, Merrill & Foote/Foot
London family history with lobby exhibit)
Funding Universe History of Foote, Cone & Belding to 2004.
Correction to this link: Emerson Foote served as President of
FCB until 1950 as the following Brigham Young University
account indicates.
Ninetieth Annual Commencement Convocation Brigham Young University George Albert Smith Fieldhouse Friday, May 28, 1965 Honorary Doctorate Degree EMERSON FOOTE Doctor of Public Service Presented by Vice-President Clyde D. Sandgren Emerson Foote was born in Sheffield, Alabama, De- cember 13, 1906. His father, a cotton broker, moved the Foote family to Los Angeles when Emerson was five. There he attended public schools, graduating from Los Angeles High School in 1922. The extent of his formal college education was one semester at University of South- ern California in 1924. Between 1924 and 1931 he held various minor jobs such as junior teller in a savings loan association, actuarial clerk for a life insurance company, and car order clerk for an automobile distributor. In 1931 he entered the advertising business by joining the Leon Livingston Advertising Agency of San Francisco as a research worker. He had previously been secretary
of the Western Statistical Association. Two and one-half years later he formed his own small agency in San Francisco- Yeomans and Foote. An advertisement he wrote attracted the attention of J. Stirling Getchell, head of the agency of that name in New York, and he was asked to join the Getchell Agency in 1936. In 1938 he went to Lord and Thomas as assistant account executive on the Lucky Strike account. He became successively account executive, vice- president and executive vice-president of Lord and Thomas. In 1942, with Fairfax M. Cone and Don Belding, he founded Foote, Cone, and Belding, which took over the business of Lord and Thomas. He was president of Foote, Cone, and Belding until 1950. In 1951 Mr. Foote joined McCann-Erickson, Inc., be- coming president of the agency in 1960 and chairman of the board in 1962. He resigned this post late in 1964 be- cause he felt he could not, in good conscience, continue to derive a profit from promoting the sale of cigarettes when recent medical conclusions showed their harmful effects on the human body. On December 1, 1964, Mr. Foote became chairman of the National Interagency Council on Smoking and Health, a position he presently holds. Since 1944 his principal avocation has been work in the voluntary health field. He was chairman of the Executive Committee of the American Cancer Society in the mid- forties and later vice-chairman of the board of this society until 1952. He was chairman of the Executive Committee of the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation from 1948 to 1950. He also was a director of the American Heart Association from 1948 to 1949, a director of the Chicago Heart Association from 1959 to 1962, and chairman of the Chicago Heart Fund Drive in 1960. Mr. Foote continues as a governor of the Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas, a post he has held since 1951. In 1964 he was a member of the President's Commission on Heart Disease, Cancer, and Stroke, and chairman of the communications subcommittee of this group. On April 9, 1965, he was elected a trustee of the Institute for Advancement of Medi- cal Communications. In 1953 he was awarded the Clement Cleveland medal for his work in cancer control. Mr. President, for his achievements in the world of business, for his integrity, for his dedication to the health and well being of his fellow Americans, and for his service in this cause I recommend that Emerson Foote be awarded the degree of Doctor of Public Service, honoris causa. Ninetieth Annual Commencement Convocation Brigham Young University George Albert Smith Fieldhouse Friday, May 28, 1965
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