Weekly television digest (Jan-Dec 1963)

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NEW SERIES VOL. 3, No. 7 TELEVISION DIGECT— 11 Trade Personals Douglas Y. Smith named vp-gen. mgr., RCA Electronic Components & Devices, a new post. Former vp-gen. mgr. of RCA Electron Tube Div. will continue as executive head of that division and have over-all responsibility for both Tube Div. & Semiconductor and Materials Div. Harrison Van Aken, head of GE’s mobile radio activities since 1952, named gen. mgr. of computer dept., Phoenix, successor not yet announced. Robert B. Sampson, ex-market research mgr., named head of newly created market development activity for distributor products of RCA Electron Tube Div. . . . Robert B. Franklin, ex-lighting products industrial relations mgr., named Sylvania dir. of procurement & facilities services, succeeding David K. Elwell, recently named dir. of new product planning (Vol. 3:6 plO). Robert M. Andrews, ex-export sales mgr., named sales dir., Tung-Sol international div. Norman Kormetz, one time engineering mgr. for Westinghouse’s TV-radio Div., named engineering vp of Lear Siegler’s Bogen Communications Div., a new post . . . Charles P. Smith appointed mfg. superintendent of Sylvania’s Naugatuck, Conn., Parts Div. plant. Lee D. Webster named Electro-Science Investors pres. & chief exec, officer, succeeding Joseph F. McKinney, elected exec, committee chmn; James H. Bond appointed chmn. Appointments follow James J. Ling’s resignation as chmn., chief exec, officer, exec, committee chmn., and a dir. Stanley D. Zemansky appointed administration \-p of Standard Kollsman’s Kollsman Instrument subsidiary . . . A. G. Bodoh named Seeburg vp and engineering dir., succeeding M. W. Kenney, advanced to & research dir. Donald A. Sayles joins International Resistance as Plastic Products Div. mktg. mgr. . . . Emanuel Davis, exGE, joins General Instrument as Rectifier Div. quality control & reliability dir., a new post. Dr. James J. Brophy advanced to technical development vp by Armour Research Foundation of 111. Institute of Technology. William S. Hepner Jr. pi'omoted by EIA from Office of Information mgr. to Marketing Ser\ices Dept, as industrial electronics mktg. seiwices mgr. & special projects & publications mgr. George I. Harrison, vp-gen. mgr. of Montreal-based Tappan-Gumey Ltd., appointed vp of Canadian Electrical Mfrs. Assn. & chmn. of CEMA’s newly formed Canadian Council of Appliance Mfrs. Albert F. Cassevant named Raytheon Electronic Services Operation mgr., succeeding 0. L. Dewey, who will devote full time as pres, of subsidiary Raytheon Service Co. Paul W. Wheaton named vp of Noble-Oak Ltd., Japanbased TV tuner maker co-owned by Oak Mfg. & Teikoku Tsushin Ltd. R. L. Moxley appointed Pentron Electronic pres., succeeding Osborn Andreas who continues as chmn. & treas.; Harold Ballonoff named corporate vp; Samuel Grode, Tape Recording Div. exec, vp, also named corporate vp. Dean C. Bradford elected pres, of ITT’s newly formed Electron Tube Div.; William C. Schmitt elected vp, Howard E. Cobb comptroller. Obituary Joseph E. Cain, 59, P. R. Mallory co-chmn. & exec, committee chmn., died Feb. 12 in crash of Northwest Orient Airlines jet in Florida Everglades. Cain joined Mallory in 1920’s, was widely known in electronics parts industry. Cyril Frank Elwell, 78, radio communications pioneer, died Feb. 11 in Palo Alto, Cal. after a long illness. In 1908, he teamed with Dr. Lee de Forest in early test of radiotelephone. Pioneering transmission covered 5 miles between Palo Alto & Los Angeles. B GT&E scored record revenues & earnings in 1962 & anticipates that 1963 “will bring further increases in revenues, sales & earnings,” Chmn. Donald C. Power reported (see financial table). Earnings rose 17% to $86.3 million from 1961’s $73.8 million as revenues climbed 8% to $1,328 billion from 1961’s record $1,227 billion. Figures on Sylvania’s performance were not released, but Power reported income from manufacturing operations rose 16% to $29,025,000. GT&E invested $277 million in new telephone & manufacturing facilities last year, will spend additional $280 million in 1963. RCA reported record Jan. home instrument sales, with dollar volume 23% higher than that of Jan. 1961. Marketing vp Raymond W. Saxon reported color TV dollar volume 45% higher than year-ago levels, total TV sales up 28%, tape cartridge recorder dollar volume up 20%, radio dollar volume up nearly 10%, with FM radios setting new sales records. Experimental beam-plasma tube for amplification in frequencies near the infra-red range has been developed by RCA under Air Force contract. Noting that tube may “open new communications & radar channels,” RCA Labs vp Dr. James Hiller explained that this development marks first time in Western Hemisphere that such high frequencies have been amplified by use of a beam-plasma tube. ITT has formed an Electron Tube Div. to consolidate all phases of “special purpose tube business for ITT in the U.S.,” reported vp & North American area gen. mgr. John J. Graham. Unit of new division will be located in $3.5 million, 125,000 sq.-ft. plant to be erected this spring near Easton, Pa. Graham said ITT’s special purpose tube business has doubled in past 3 years. EIA membership has approved split-up of its Tube & Semiconductor Div. into 2 separate divisions. Tube Div. will be headed by George W. Keown, Tung-Sol; Semiconductor Div. by acting chmn. Stephen L. Levy, Lansdale. “Scratch-proof” phono cartridges are spreading to hi-fi component field. Shure is producing “floating” cartridge for Garrard changers at $49.50, is developing another for Miracord. Distributor Notes: Emerson Radio appoints Mason Distributing Co., Kansas City, Mo. (Robert Mason, pres.) home electronics distributor in western Missouri & eastern Kansas • Emerson Radio appoints DeMambro Radio Supply, 169 Spring St., Springfield, Mass., distributor for Telectro tape recorders in western Massachusetts • Olympic appoints new sales mgrs at 2 factory branches: Robert Whitelaw, Olympic TV of Western N.Y. (94 Pearl St., Buffalo); Charles Corman, Olympic Mid-State Inc. (18 Interstate Ave., Albany).