Broadcasting Telecasting (Apr-Jun 1958)

PEOPLE ADVERTISERS & AGENCIES MAURICE G VAUGHN, v.p.. Ross Roy Inc.. Detroit, elected to executive board and named creative director. JOSEPH G. MOHl, v.p. on West Coast for Ross Roy. appointed account executive of Dodge Truck account and ROY M MARSHALL, formerly with Brooke. Smith. French & Dorrance. joins Roy agency as account executive. RAYMOND W HEFFRON, account executive with N. W. Ayer & Son. Boston, elected v.p. and manager of office succeeding E. CRAIG GREINER, who will retire on July 1 after 41 years of service with Ayer. Mr. Heffron has been with agency since 1942. MURRAY BOLEN, in charge of radio and television production. Benton & Bowles. Hollywood, elected v.p. Mr. Bolen has been with agency for past 10 years. EMORY WARD, copy group head, Sullivan. StaufTer, Colwell & Bayles. N. Y„ elected v.p. E. M. SINCLAIR, account executive at Leo Burnett Co., Chicago, elected v.p. and director and member of operating committee of Leo Burnett Co. of Canada Ltd., Toronto. WALTER A. SPIRO, director of advertising for Gimbel's, Philadelphia, joins Lavenson Bureau of Adv. Inc., Philadelphia, as executive v. p., effective July 15. TYLER DAVIS, senior v.p. of Endorsements Inc., N. Y., appointed executive v.p. and chief administrator of company. Mr. Davis also will continue to function as chairman of company's executive committee. DONALD C. HEATH, formerly v.p. of William C. Remington. Springfield. Mass., joins Jackson Assoc.. as executive director. A WEEKLY REPORT OF FATES AND FORTUNES MR BOLEN DOUGLAS C MANSON, former v.p., Benton & Bowles, to Joseph Katz Co.. New York and Baltimore, as direcor of public relations. NORTON T. GRETZLER, account executive, Ketchum, MacLeod & Grove. Pittsburgh, transfers to N. Y. office where he will supervise radio-tv activities. PHILIP MORRIS, formerly in sales promotion with Digest Publishing Co., joins Ray Barron Inc.. Boston. NORBERT J. DELVILLE, advertising manager. Allied Chemical & Dye Corp.'s International Div., to International Div., MacManus, John & Adams, N. Y., on Dow Chemical Co. (Export) and assistant to International Div. v.p. JACK BYRNE. FILM EARL D. AUSTIN, manager of Alexander Productions Alexander Film Co. production department, promoted to resident v.p. in Los Angeles area for company. THOMAS V. McCUE, director of physical operations for NTA Pictures, joins Atlantis Films Inc., New York, as general manager. ALLEN HUNDLEY, sales specialist, Katz Agency, Dallas, joins Gross-Krasne as southwest division manager. HERBERT B. PEARSON, sales manager WPEN Philadelphia, and before that with WRAL Raleigh, joins Guild Films as eastern division manager. CHARLES ZAGRANS, veteran motion picture industry executive, joins NTA Pictures as mid atlantic district manager, headquartering in Philadelphia. RICHARD T. THACKER JR., head page, ABC. Hollywood, named supervisor of guest relations, radio-tv. for ABC in Hollywood. He succeeds late PAUL GATES. ROBERT R. OSMUN, manager of audio-visual department, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., joins Wilding Picture Productions, Cleveland sales office, as account executive. ALEX SHERWOOD, formerly with RKO Television as southern representative, joins ABC Film as south and southeast account executive. LOU KRAVITZ, 35, v. p. and sales manager of Fred A. Niles Productions Inc., died following heart attack May 25. MERRIMAN HOLTZ, northwest-Alaska representative for Guild Films, died last month following heart attack. STATIONS WILLIAM H. RINES, v.p.-general manager of WCHS-AM-TV Portland, Me., named president of Maine Radio & Television Co. (WCHS-AMTV), Maine Broadcasting Co. (WLBZ Bangor and organized to operate WLBZ Television, parent company of present WTWO [TV] Bangor) and WRDO Inc. (WRDO Augusta). All stations are in Maine. ELMORE B. LYFORD, formerly with NBC, has been named Mr. Rines' executive assistant. Mr. Rines succeeds MRS. HENRY P. RINES, who has retired and is expected to be active in advisory capacity to Rines stations. FRANCIS H. CONWAY, account executive, WDAU-TV Scranton, Pa., named general sales manager, succeeding TONY MOE, who has joined KSO Des Moines, Iowa, as general manager. MALCOLM W. DALE, local sales manager of WILK-TV Wilkes-Barre, Pa., named sales manager of WNEP and WILK-TV Scranton-WilkesBarre. MR. CONWAY WILSON EDWARDS returns to KSDO San Diego as executive v.p. of San Diego Broadcasting Co He has been "on loan" to Breast-O'-Chicken tuna for past year as special marketing consultant. Other appointments: VERN MILTON to station manager; NORMAN KAY to general sales manager, and PETER ANTHONY McMAHON, director of national sales. JOSEPH A. FLAH1VE named manager of national sales in N. Y. for WGN-TV Chicago and HARRY MILLER, assistant to general sales manager of that station. Mr. Flahive's appointment signaled separation of radio and tv sales staff in New York. Mr. FlaMl hive, formerly with George ^k^OMgn^^ Hollingbery & Co., station ' m 'Mii representative, reports to MR. FLAHIVE BRADLEY BIDMANN, WGN-TV general sales manager. Mr. Miller was promoted from national tv sales coordinator to Mr. Eidmann's assistant in Chicago. JOHN CUMMINS, assistant general sales manager, KFMBTV San Diego, joins WFGATV Jacksonville, Fla., as local sales manager. VICTOR A. BUCHANAN, commercial manager of KRSI St. Louis Park, Minn., joins WCCO Minneapolis-St. Paul as supervisor of merchandisA am mSMR. CUMMINS CAWOOD LEDFORD, sportscaster for WHAS-TV Louisville, Ky., promoted MONOPOLY IN GAVELS Liaison between the Huntington, W. Va.. Chamber of Commerce and the Junior Chamber is going to be simple this year. Robert R. Tincher, vice president and general manager of WHTN-AM-FM-TV Huntington, W. Va., has been elected president of the senior organization. His Jaycee counterpart is George Saunders, account executive at WHTN-TV. Election of the two Cowles Broadcasting Co. executives is reported to mark the first time two men from the same firm have been chosen to head the Huntington chamber organizations concurrently. THE LEADER I ATTENUATORS FOR 28 YEARS Write for the most complete catalog on attenuators in the world. MOV.' CARRIED IN STOCK BY YOUR LOCAL JOBBER '-r LIVINGSTON, NEW JERSEY WORLD'S LARGEST MANUFACTURER OF ATTENUATORS Page 102 • June 2, 1958 Broadcasting