Mr. Speaker. on January 1. 1974. the tristate area of southeastern Ohio lost one of its most popular and familiar voices. On that day Mr. Camillo DeLucia retired as the voice of the "Neapolitan Serenade" after more than 33 years. Mr. DeLucias career in broadcasting has had few parallels. He came to the United States as an immigrant in 1920 with his wife Gilda and settled in Steubenville. Ohio. in 1923. After many years of radio experience in New York. Philadelphia. and Youngstown he joined WSTV. Steubenville in November 1940 to become host of "Neapolitan Serenade." He was a natural for the job and became instantly popular with the large group of Americans of Italian extraction.
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