Weekly television digest (Jan-Dec 1963)

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NEW SERIES VOL 3, No, 8 TELEVISION DIGEST— 11 Officers & Directors stock transactions as r^orted to SEC for Dec.: AB-PT. Simon B. Siegel sold 2,500, held 6,626. Allied Artist. Roger W. Hurlock bought 500, held 36,600, Ampex. Herbert L. Brown bought 1,125, held 4,923. Robert L. Pappas sold 1,000 in Nov., held 39. Robert Sackman bought 5,250 in Nov., held 17,250. Walter Selsted bought 1,500 in Nov., held 5,125. Arvin Industries. Eugene Anderson bought 150, held 743. Eldo Stonecipher bought 300, held 2,950. CTS Corp. Emil Schram sold 160, held 1,090. Clevite. S. J. Begun bought 500, held 8,000. Matthew Fleming Jr. bought 500, held 1,630. 0. P. Gokay bought 1.000, held 2,800. William Laffer bought 2,200, held 5,183. C. Carver Pope bought 100, held 400. Wilbur Prescott bought 167, held 1,000. Decca Records. MCA bought 15,100, held 1,322,815. Electro-Voice. Walter Schirmer bought 300 in Jan., held 1,350. Emerson Radio. Louis Abrams sold 2,083, held 46,994. Fairchild Camera & Instrument. John Carter sold 38.000, held 41,676. Edgar Hill sold 3,000, held 1,000. Hoffman Electronics. C. E. Underv'ood bought 1,000, held 7,100. I^ear Siegler. Robert Gollhardt bought 129, held 382. Macfadden-Bartell. David Bartell bought 6,250 in Nov., held 325,907. Gerald Bartell bought 7,358 in Nov., held 326,629. Lee Bartell bought 6,250 in Nov., held 324,611. Melvin Bartell bought 6,250 in Nov., held 118,567. Magnavox. Warren Frebel sold 587, held 3,014. David Martin sold 200, held 3,304. Albert Nelson bought 211 in Nov., held 373. Gerald Ungaro sold 5,000, held 31,621. Metromedia. Marcus Austad bought 200 in Nov., held 9,950. Motorola. Edward R. Taylor sold 300, held 7,300. National Video. A. D. Giacchetti sold 1,000 Class A, held 333. Packard Bell Electronics. Robert S. Bell sold 4,300, held 8,480. Pentron Electronics. R. L. Moxley sold 1,000, held 194,380. Theodore Rossman sold 1,000 in Nov., 1,000 in Dec., held 111,000. RCA. Douglas Lynch bought 2,653, held 2,742. T. A. Smith bought 2,000, held 6,086. W. W. Watts bought 8,701, held 11,866. Robert Werner bought 637, held 4,969. Reeves Bcstg. & Development. Morris Schechter bought 200 in Nov., held 300. Republic Corp. Victor M. Carter bought 5,800, held 55,800. Rollins Bcstg. 0. WajTie Rollins bought 100 in Nov. as guardian, held 7,780; sold 1,000 Class B, held 609,400. Terminal-Hudson Electronics. Irwin Hecht sold 1,000 in Nov., held 7,500. Texas Instruments. Jay Rodney Reese bought 500, held 1,905. H. J. Wissemann bought 2,000, held 6,922. Thompson Ramo Wooldridge. James H. Doolittle sold 200 in Nov., 650 in Dec., held 13,281. Dean E. Wooldridge sold 500, held 37,007. TraVler Industries. Hubert Larson bought 200 in Nov., held 875. Warner Bro.s. Wolfe Cohen sold 5,000, held 10,000. Benj. Kalmenson sold 20,000, held 30,000. Herman Starr sold 27,000, held 7,300. Stephen Trilling sold 15,000, held 18,500. Webcor. Robert Moffat bought 175, held 880. Robert Woodward bought 100 in Nov., sold 100 in Dec., held 405. Zenith. Albert J. Franczak sold 320, held 1,040. Reports & Comments: Magnavox, analysis, Schweickart & Co., 29 Broadway, N.Y. 4 • Avco, analysis, Dreyfus & Co., 50 Broadway, N.Y. 4 • International Resistance & Sprague Electric, analysis, L. F. Rothschild & Co., 120 Broadway, N.Y. • RCA, analysis, Reynolds & Co., 120 Broadway, N.Y. 5 • CBS & Walt Disney Productions, discussions, Bache & Co., 36 Wall St., N.Y. 5 • AT&T and Columbia Pictures, comments, D. H. Blair & Co., 42 Broadway, N.Y. 4 • Fairchild Camera & Instrument, comments, H. Hentz & Co., 72 Wall St., N.Y. 5 • AB-PT, comments, Josephthal & Co., 120 Broadway, N.Y. 5 • Standard Kollsman & Loral Electronics, comments, Edward A. Viner & Co., 26 Broadway, N.Y. 4 • AT&T, comments, Bruns, Nordeman & Co., 52 Wall St., N.Y. 5 • Wellington Electronics, prospectus, Wellington Electronics, 65 Honeck St., Englewood, N.J. • CBS, analysis, Orvis Brothers, 15 Broad St., N.Y. 5 • GT&E, review. Courts & Co., 11 Marietta St. N.W., Atlanta 1 • Walt Disney & Coming Glass, reports, W. E. Hutton & Co., 14 Wall St., N.Y. 5 • Emerson Electric, prospectus, Blyth, 14 Wall St., N.Y. 5. TV-Electronics Fund’s recovery from 1962’s market break has been “particularly sharp” in recent weeks and “is accelerating,” reported ^’p John Hawkinson, who’s also pres, of TV Shares Management Corp. He said Chicagobased mutual fund’s net assets declined to some $376 million ($7.31 a share) at close of first fiscal quarter, Jan. 31, from $439.8 million ($8.56) a year earlier. However, assets were up markedly from $6.07 low following market drop. Sonic Electronics 27Vz% Chapter 11 plan (Vol. 3:6 pll) has been approved by creditors’ committee, it was reported at hearing before Referee Asa S. Herzog last week. Plan would start 60 days after confirmation, be payable in 48 equal monthly instalments. Hearing was adjourned to March 21. Sonic, N.Y. maker of phonographs & hi-fi equipment, earned $26,347 from Feb. 1962 through Jan. 31, 1963, company counsel said. RCA Chmn. David Sarnoff sold 20,000 shares of RCA common in Jan. “to discharge a private indebtedness & to adjust my personal affairs,” he noted in report to N.Y. Stock E.xchange. Samoff still owns 30,745 RCA shares, or “7,288 shares more than I had a year ago,” he said. Closed-circuit TV system for Eastern Air Lines at Logan Airport (Boston) has 4 channels, uses flying-spot scanner to pick up arrival & departure information. The 8 & 27-in. monitors were supplied by Conrac, scanners by TV Utilities Corp., switching equipment by General Communications Div., EMI/US Ltd. Common Stock Dividends Corporation Period Amt. Payable Stk. of Record Consol. Electronics Q $0.25 Apr. 5 Mar. 20 Emerson Radio Q .10 Mar. 20 Mar. 6 GE Q .50 , Apr. 24 Mar. 15 Republic Corp. Q .25 ' Apr. 1 Mar. 15