Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1957)

PEOPLE CONTINUED HAIL AND FAREWELL party at the local University Club signified the "changing order" of executives at WXIX (TV) Milwaukee, Wis. L. to r: Charles E. Hinds Jr., program director; Frank J. Shakespeare Jr., new WXIX general manager; Robert Uehlein Jr., vice president and general sales manager, Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co., Edmund Bunker, formerly WXIX general manager now vice president and station relations director of CBS-TV, N. Y., and Leon Drew, WXIX program director, who leaves to join KMOX St. Louis, Mo., in similar capacity. Oakland, to KGMS Sacramento, all California, as account executives. Steve Schaffer, formerly sales manager, Guardian Development Co. (product promotion) N. Y., to KRHM (FM) Hollywood, as account executive. James A. Yergin, formerly manager of presentations, promoted to advertising manager of WOR-AM-TV New York, replacing Robert J. Sullivan, resigned. ■< David L. Smith, member of program-production department at WISH-TV Indianapolis, appointed production manager. Clovis Goraum, advertising-merchandising head, E. E. Saunders Co. (food specialists), to WKAB Mobile, Ala. sales staff. Charles L. Mum, formerly with Ted Bates & Co., N. Y., and Ray Downing to WOKO Albany as account executives. Frank McEvoy to station sales staff. Monroe Falitz, formerly salesman, WLIB New York, to WRCA there, in similar capacity. Robert J. Knodell to KTZO Ottumwa, Iowa; Wayne Nelson to WBBM Chicago; Kenneth N. Bunch, WYSR Franklin, Va.; Lee Tabor, KRMW The Dalles, John Kline KOHU Hermiston, both Oregon; Gordon R. Travis, KORN Mitchell, S. D.; Quintilio Cera, KOMU-TV Columbia, Mo.; Jacklyn Cumber, WGEM-TV Quincy, 111., and Rudolf Herrig to KSL-TV Salt Lake City. All are Northwest Schools graduates. Doc Lemon, formerly with KSO Des Moines, Iowa, to WCUE Akron, Ohio as air personality and programming consultant. Bernie Bouma, account executive, KTBSTV Shreveport, La., resigns to form own agency. Red Whittington joins station as cameraman. Bill Clark, formerly with WERI Westerly, R. I., to WKMF Flint, Mich., as sports director. Charles K. Chrismon, chief engineer, WFLO Farmville, to WHBG Harrisonburg, both Virginia, as chief engineer and salesman. O. C. Covington succeeds him. Bill Pierson, news reporter, and John Rickwa, newscaster, to KTLN Denver, as head of remote broadcast section and newscaster respectively. Bob Badger joins station as announcer. Gary S. Franklin, news-public service director, WAVY-TV Portsmouth, Va., to WJZTV Baltimore news staff. Jim Williams, announcer, WWSW Pittsburgh, to KDKA, same city, as announcer and host of Parade of Hits. Robb Busse, assistant producer, WXYZ-TV Detroit, to WSNY Schenectady, N. Y., as announcer. Verne Freeman, formerly announcer, WLBT (TV) Jackson, Miss., to WJQS, same city, in similar capacity. Robert J. Lurtsema, formerly network coordinator, WNAC-TV Boston, to WXCNFM Providence, as announcer. Johnny Goodfellow, formerly orchestra singer-arranger, to WIRE Indianapolis as announcer. J. B. Fuqua, owner-president, WJBF (TV) Augusta, Ga., elected to Georgia House of Representatives Nov. 5. Burritt Wheeler, 73, whose Monday-Friday, Page 124 November 18, 1957 4:15-5 p.m., program of homespun philosophy had been broadcast on KFI Los Angeles since 1948, died Nov. 11, after long illness. PROGRAM SERVICES John Madigan, radio news manager, United Press, N. Y., named S. F. manager, succeeding Henry Rieger, who becomes L. A. manager. Mr. Rieger replaces William E. Best, resigned to enter public relations. George McClelland Sebree JJI, manager, UP bureau, Jefferson City, Mo., transfers to Tulsa, Okla., in similar capacity. Robert L. Debo, city editor, Cincinnati Post, succeeds him. John E. Phillips, formerly in sales-promotion, and Carlin J. Heiman, formerly with MBS, to A. C. Nielsen Co. (station index), client service staff in Chicago and N. Y., respectively. Erwin H. Ephron, formerly v/ith ABC, to Nielsen's broadcast division in N. Y., as assistant public relations-publicity director. MANUFACTURING • • • •••• Russell M. Alston plant manager, Conrac Inc. (tv receivers-industrial monitors) Glendora, Calif., elected vice president in charge of manufacturing. Crump Smith, formerly manager of advertising and sales promotion, International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.'s Federal Telephone & Radio Co., Clifton, N. J., to manager of institutional-export advertising, coordinator of trade shows-exhibits by company's U. S. divisions and subsidiaries. David A. Thomas, formerly chairman of board and president, Babb Co., appointed industrial business development manager, RCA Industrial Electronic Products, Camden, N. J. Fred J. Vogt, chassis and sub-assembly foreman, Hoffman Electronics Corp., radio-tv division, L. A., named division production manager. S. Krinsky, chief engineer, Chromatic Tv Labs, (electronic division, Paramount Pictures), to Western Engineering, Van Nuys, Calif, (division of Telechrome Manufacturing Corp., Long Island, N. Y.), as director. Clarence D. Tuska, patent operations director, RCA Labs., David Sarnoff Research Center, Princeton, N. J., named patent staff consultant. Olin V. Mitchell, manager, home instruments, patent operations, succeeds him. Westinghouse Electric Corp. announces appointments of marketing directors for three of company's major product divisions. Appointed were: S. F. Davie s, with WEC since 1939 and most recently sales manager of Micarta division, Hampton, S. C, to marketing director, General Products division; L. H. Loufek, to continue as manager of customer relations and retail syndicate operation, also will serve as marketing director, apparatus products; and R. M. Wilson, since 1954 sales manager of Defense Prod Broadcasting