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MANUFACTURING Leroy D. Kiley, general manager of the Friez Instrument Div. of Bendix. Mr. Kiley, who said the Lumicon "will open many new fields in industrial and medical radiography, astronomical, photographic and associated fields," told B»T that the device, as constructed, is not immediately intended for television. He said the company expects to adapt Lumicon for tv use by 1957. The current model, he said, is "too simplified" for television. Mr. Kiley explained that Lumicon applies new electronic concepts to closed circuit television systems. It consists of a detector unit, or image orthicon tube, connected through amplifiers and cables to a monitor unit similar to a standard television picture tube. A "light tunnel" containing a fluoroscopic screen is added to the detector for x-ray purposes. Through light amplification, a television picture "thousands of times brighter than that of the fluoroscopic screen is produced," according to Mr. Kiley. A spokesman of a television network who attended the demonstration told B«T that the industry is seeking improvement in lighting in darkened locations, such as churches and auditoriums where it often is not feasible to set up extensive lighting units, and for various other types of remote telecasts. Mr. Kiley said that an adapted Lumicon for television would supply lighting at an economical cost and with less labor and effort needed currently in setting up an extensive lighting arrangement under certain circumstances. Kelley Named Director, Others Promoted at DuMont WILLIAM H. KELLEY, vice president in charge of marketing, Allen B. DuMont Labs, was elected a director Thursday, succeeding Stanley F. Patten, who recently was appointed treasurer. Mr. Kelley also was named vice president and general manager, consumer products. In his new post he will direct operations for the receiver (radio, tv, high fidelity) and cathode-ray tube divisions. At the same time, the board also elected Arthur Israel Jr. to secretary, succeeding Barnard Goodwin, resigned, and Bert L. Graham, former controller and special assistant to DuMont President David T. Schultz, to assistant secretary. Mr. Goodwin, also vice president of Paramount Tv Productions Inc., continues as president of DuMont Broadcasting Corp. AN ORDER for a Collins 20V-2 transmitter and accessories is signed by Dorothy J. Laird, permittee of WDUX Waupaca, Wis., with Robert I. Hancock, Collins Radio Co. sales engineer. WDUX has been granted a construction permit from the FCC for an 800 kc, 500 w daytime operation. High Intensity Lamp Developed by Sylvania CITING important applications in movie-tv film duplication work and manufacture of color television tubes, Sylvania Electric Products Inc., unveiled in Hollywood Wednesday its newest lighting discovery, a high intensity light source produced by radio frequency. Called the RF Lamp, the device consists of a radio frequency generator and water cooled lamp containing a small 5/16ths-inch disc of refractory material. The radio frequency energy is concentrated on the disc by coils surrounding the lamp, causing it to incandesce brilliantly. By using the refractory material disc as a light source the lamp can be focused directly without complicated optics usually needed to diffuse and evenly distribute the light emitted by tungsten filaments, according to Frank JHealy, Sylvania vice president in charge of operations. The device will speed by eight times the duplication of motion picture tv prints under certain processes, he indicated, and will be particularly effective in color work because of uniform quality and intensity. The RF Lamp already has resulted in pro *Sept.-Oct. Pulse an old Cincinnati Habit: —listening to WCKY; 10 years of 24 hour a day music and news programming has created in Cincinnatians, the habit of tuning to WCKY for , The Best in Music The Latest in News *21% of morning audience 22% of afternoon audience 21% of night time audience BUY WCKY duction improvement in the manufacture of color tv picture tubes, Mr. Healy said. In making color tubes, the three phosphors which are used; red, green and blue, must be fixed on the tube face by a photographic process. To do this, a bright concentrated light source is required. With the RF Lamp, Sylvania has cut in half the time required for this process, he said, predicting economies of production that will help lower color tv set costs. Sylvania engineers now are working on application of the RF Lamp for studio lighting. Since the lamps are water cooled, the working temperature of the studio can be better controlled. The lamps are connected to the generator unit by only two wires, coaxial cable links which carry both water and radio frequency energy to and from each lamp. The RF Lamp is replaceable like any ordinary light unit. At present, its life is rated at 100 hours and costs $96. The complete generator and lamp combination is designed to sell for about $2,000. Sylvania Redeems Stock THE board of directors of Sylvania Electric Products Inc. last week voted to redeem all of the outstanding shares of $4.40 cumulative preferred stock at $103 plus the accrued dividend from Jan. 1-Feb. 29 of 73 cents. Redemption date is Feb. 29. The $4.40 cumulative preferred stock is convertible into common stock at the rate of 3.05 shares of common for each $4.40 preferred. Principal transfer agent for Sylvania is the Second Bank-State Street Trust Co., Boston, with New York conversion or redemption handled by the Hanover Bank. Sylvania Promotes Thomas FRANK M. THOMAS, MR. THOMAS New York. manager of equipment engineering, Sylvania Electric Products' atomic energy divis i o n , Hicksville, N. Y., last week was named manager of equipment developm e n t , Sylvania's electronics division, Woburn, Mass. Prior to joining Sylvania in 1952, Mr. Thomas was chief engineer for Fairchild Recording Equipment Corp., Pay of Emerson Officials Told in Proxy Statement SALARIES of three top officials of Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp. were disclosed in a proxy statement announcing an annual meeting of stockholders to be held Feb. 1 in New York. Benjamin Abrams, president and a director received $60,008 in direct remuneration for the fiscal year ended last Oct. 31, with $12,690 as the estimated annual retirement payment under the company's pension plan. Max Abrams secretary-treasurer and a director of the corporation, is listed as having been paid $39,936 for the yearly period and as having $8,320 in estimated annual retirement payments. Dorman D. Israel, executive vice president and a director, received $31,980 in direct remuneration and has $6,824 in annual retirement payments. Page 68 • January 30, 1956 Broadcasting Telecasting