Broadcasting Telecasting (Jan-Mar 1956)

PERSONNEL RELATIONS TRADE ASSNS. ered actors who appear on programs produced by Electronicam. Though AFTRA agreed in May 1955 to grant jurisdiction to SAG for actors appearing on Electronicam programs, Alex McKee, then acting national executive secretary of SAG, said that AFTRA had altered its position because the Electronicam system had changed. He said the Electronicam system in operation last May was not precisely the same as the one in operation last fall [B»T, Oct. 10, 1955]. Petrillo at White House JAMES C. PETRILLO, president of the American Federation of Musicians, attended a luncheon meeting at the White House Thursday with Sherman Adams, Assistant to the President, and Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell. The meeting was arranged, Secretary Mitchell said, so Mr. Petrillo could outline his opposition to the 20% federal cabaret tax on live music. DuMont, Labor Union Renew A NEW two-year contract was signed last week by Allen B. DuMont Labs and Local 420 of the International Union of Electrical & Radio & Machine Workers (AFL-CIO) at Paterson, N. J., providing a 3% wage hike each year for the next two years. The increase represents an additional four to eight cents per hour. Other benefits included in the contract, which went into effect March 4, were liberalization of eligibility for holiday pay, vacation pay and attendance bonus. NARTB CONVENTION ASSIGNMENTS MADE Areas for display of both light and heavy equipment designated. Special meeting feature will be labor relations clinic on second day. ROOM AND SPACE assignments for exhibitors at the NARTB convention in Chicago April 15-19 were announced Friday. Heavy equipment displays will be shown in the lower lobby of the Conrad Hilton Hotel, with light gear and service companies exhibiting on the fifth and sixth floors in sample rooms. A feature added to the 1956 convention will be an off-record labor relations clinic, scheduled April 16 at 4 p.m., following the tv membership business meeting. Outside labor relations experts and industry speakers will appear, with panel discussions on multi-employer bargaining, management rights at the bargaining table and union and non-union wage problems. Final event of the clinic will be a "giveand-take" discussion of station labor problems. Leslie C. Johnson, WHBF-AM-TV Rockford, 111., will preside. A second convention feature covering employment matters will be a wage-hour breakfast, scheduled April 18. This is a repetition of the successful breakfast held last year, according to Charles H. Tower, NARTB employer-employe relations manager. Formal opening of the convention is scheduled Tuesday, April 17 [B«T, Feb. 27]. The annual Engineering Conference will open April 16, with joint management sessions scheduled the next day. The annual NARTB Golf Tournament for the B*T trophies will be held April 15 at Midwest Country Club, Hinsdale, 111. B*T will supply buses at 9 a.m. The Exhibitors Exhibitors in the lower lobby display of heavy equipment are (with space number) : Adler Communications Labs., New Rochelle, N. Y., 19; Alford Mfg. Co., Boston, 9; Andrew Corp., Chicago, 21-B; Bell System (AT&T Long Lines Dept.), New York, 26; Caterpillar Tractor Co., Peoria, HI., 17; Century Lighting, New York, 18; Collins Radio Co., Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 28; Dage Television Div. of Thompson Products, Michigan City, Ind., 5; Allen B. DuMont Labs., Clifton, N. L, 22; Elgin Metalformers Corp., Elgin, 111., 11; Gates Radio Co., Quincy, 111., 4; General Electric Co., Syracuse, 23; General Precision Lab., Pleasantville, N. Y., 24; General Radio Co., Cambridge, Mass., 1; Harwald Co., Evanston, 111., 16-A; Kay Lab., San Diego, Calif., 20; Kliegl Bros., Universal Electric Stage Lighting Co., New York, 21; Lambda-Pacific Engineering, Van Nuys, Calif., 27; Philco Corp., Philadelphia, 14; RCA, Engineering Products Div., Camden, N. J., 15; Raytheon Mfg. Co., Waltham, Mass., 10; Rust Industrial Co., Manchester, N. H, 16; Sarkes Tarzian Inc., Bloomington, Ind., 3; Standard Electronics Corp., Newark, N. J., 2; Telechrome Sales Corp., Amityville, N. Y., 12, and TelePrompTer Corp., New York, 25. Exhibitors in rooms on the fifth and sixth floors (with first room number) : M&A Alexander, Hollywood, 53 5 A; Allied Radio Corp., Chicago, 61 OA; American Research Bureau, Washington, 610; Ampex Corp., Redwood City, Calif., 529; Associated Artists Prod., New Kansas Personal Incomes Reach An ALL-TIME HIGH/ Kansas with its "Bairn) anced Economy" is one of your best markets To reach this rich Central Kansas Market, your best buy is KTVH, with unduplicated CBS coverage in Wichita and 14 other important communities. 7<» Sell "Keutuu . . . Sucf, KTVH VHF 240.000 WATTS KTVH, pioneer notion in rich Centrol Kansas, serve* more thon 14 important communities beiidei Wichita. Main office ond sludioi m Hutchinion; office ond studio in Wichita (Hotel Lcmen). Howard O. Peierson, General Monoger KTVH HUTCHINSON *ANSA* CHANNEL %*% CBS BASIC ■ A Represented Nationally by H-R Represenfarives, Inc. Page 58 • March 12, 1956 Broadcasting • Telecasting