A new 500-watt daytime station, WTMT, will go on the air in Louisville early next spring, its president said yesterday.

V.F. Hash, who is also president of Industrial Engineering Corporation, 525 Woodbine, said he and four other Louisvillians had capitalized the new Jefferson Broadcasting Company at $100,000. 

Federal Communications Commission Examiner Elizabeth C. Smith in Washington yesterday recommended a grant to the company to operate on 620 kilocycles. 

Hash, owner of the soon-to-be broadcasting KPID in Payette, Ida., said the Louisville station will have studios in downtown Louisville.  He said it has already leased 30 acres of land for its directional antenna on the northeast corner of Allison Lane and Middle Road near Jeffersonville. 

He identified the other incorporators as John Davenport, Percy Brown, Jr., D.C. Summerford, and Henry Fitzhugh.

Louisville's newest radio station will go on the air about August 15. WTMT will be heard at 620 on the dial with 500 watts power from sunrise to sundown. 

Earl Hash, general manager, says the general policy will be "listenable music and news, with some variety in programming." 

The station will be a member of the Mutual network for the sake of the news, with three 15-minute local news shows. 

WTMT can be heard, Hash says, on the basis of test programs that have been going on for several weeks, over the Louisville area and west through Southwestern Indiana, Southeastern Illinois, and Western Kentucky. 

Studios are in the I.B.M. Building at Fourth and Ormsby. The transmitter is northeast of Jeffersonville. 

Jack Dunhaver, formerly with KIRO, Seattle, will be program director. Hash says most of the staff jobs are still open, since each mike personality will have to prove himself to get a regular job. Auditions are going on for a woman's director. 

"We will play no rock  'n' roll, don't even own such a record," Hash says. "No hillbilly. Only the so-called classic Westerns. Our music will be easy-listening music. 

"We hope to serve an adult audience. People who talk on our station will have something to say and be able to say it interestingly."

Hash worked his way through engineering school as a radio engineer in Tacoma, Wash. In the mid-1930s he went into engineering and was in the Navy four years. While there, he married Mary Moynahan, daughter of E.P. Moynahan, then of Louisville and now of Shelbyville. 

"When I was discharged from the Navy," Hash says, "we stopped by Louisville for two weeks and never left." 

He worked for an electronic company here and later in research for the Seagram distillery. He formed the Industrial Engineering Company, now the Industrial Engineering Corporation, at 525 East Woodbine. The firm manufactures automotive- and airplane-testing equipment. 

"I got back in radio," Hash says, "because I have always loved it since I got my ham license at 14. I am convinced there is a place in Louisville for a new type of station with character. 

"One thing I have learned in Louisville is, if you are going to give a service to Louisvillians you must give them the best there is. That will be the sincere aim of WTMT."