Word: dilday
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...William Dilday, comfortable as personnel manager for Boston TV station WHDH, had no intention of moving -particularly not to a small Deep South city. Says he: "I'm a product of the hustle-bustle megalopolis." In 1972, however, he could not turn down an offer to become the first black general manager of a U.S. TV station-WLBT in Jackson, Miss...
...Dilday earns more than $40,000 a year and lives only a 15-minute drive from his office. But while his wife Maxine, 35, and their two daughters relish Jackson's slow pace, Dilday restlessly misses the Celtics and Boston's other professional teams and live performances by top jazz groups. Says he: "When I got here, I couldn't understand why, when something needed to be done, it wasn't done today. There is not the competition here that there is in the big city." He complains also that the conservative white caste system that...
...Still, Dilday prefers to stay in the South, which he regards as "a mecca for young blacks." Says he: "If I were offered a comparable position in Chicago, Boston, New York or Atlanta, I'd probably take Atlanta...
With Neptune and Telophase enjoying such good business, old-fashioned undertakers are jumping aboard. In San Diego, all 32 licensed mortuaries will now provide sea service if requested, some for as little as $187.50. In Huntington Beach, Dilday Bros. Funeral Directors estimate that some 30% of their trade now involves a watery finale. Dilday charges $350, but because the scattering is done from a private plane, three family members are allowed along for the ride at no extra charge...