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i next season. Twenty-six mystery stories I I already have been picked for filming here and abroad. On the assignment: Mr. Robinson, executive producer; Fletcher Markle, producer and James Cavanaugh, associate producer-story editor. Name stars are being engaged. 'Ryder' rides • Twenty-three Red Ryder feature pictures, each 53Vi minutes long, have been acquired by Hollywood Television Service Inc., L.A. The cartoon strip is currently syndicated in over 500 newspapers. The pictures are available for immediate telecasting. No antitrust shadows over NCAA — Byers The National Collegiate Athletic Assn. has managed to steer clear of monopoly and antitrust charges because it has not utilized tv in "restraint of trade" and includes non-professional teams, an NCAA official suggested last week. Walter Byers, executive director, told a Chicago news conference that if any such question had ever arisen since NCAA restricted college pigskin telecasts in 1951, the Justice Dept. would have moved against NCAA "long before now." Mr. Byers made known his views in connection with questions involving the planned new American Football League. He suggested monopoly or restraint-of-trade implications might be posed if an established professional circuit (in this case, the National Professional League) would "use television" to thwart a proposed new league before it got off the ground. He noted reports that the infant AFL might televise Saturday afternoon games in direct competition with NCAA's national or regional game-ofthe-week. The news conference culminated a three-day meeting of NCAA's 1960 tel evision committee in the LaSalle Hotel. Rix N. Yard, Denison U., was appointed chairman of the new group and Asa S. Bushnell, Eastern College Athletic Conference, was re-elected secretary and program chairman. The committee reviewed the 1959 tv group's report, held hearings for "interested parties" and set up administrative organization and procedures. It will meet again, in either Squaw Valley or Reno, Nev., about Feb. 22-23 to draft a specific telecasting plan for this fall. NCAA already has approved general controls for 1960-61 (Broadcasting, Jan. 18). The new tv unit, comprising the same membership as last year, discussed several television plans, one incorporating a combination of national and regional tv dates and another with national and split-national (network) features. The trend in recent years has been to more national and fewer regional dates (from eight and five in 1955 to ten and three in 1959). Broadcast Advertising Mr. Strauchen Mr. Quackenbush • E.R. Strauchen, founder of Strauchen & McKim Adv., Cincinnati, becomes president in agency reorganization. Others elected: John V. Quackenbush, partner since 1952, named vp; Robert W. Willen, office manager and head of accounting, to treasurer and Betty J. Morgan, secretary. • Raymond F. Sullivan, board chairman of Sullivan, Stauffer, Colwell & Bayles, N.Y., elected chairman of board of Noxzema (skin cream, shaving cream) Chemical Co., Baltimore. • Jack Page, vp and head of local market operations for O'Grady-AndersonGray, Chicago advertising firm, named executive vp. • John H. Pinto, chairman of New York management committee of Grant Adv. and vp of Chicago office, appointed director of creative services for business development. • James D. Kysor, media supervisor for past 1 6 years at Foote, Cone & Belding, Chicago, and advertising veteran for 44 years, retires. FATES & FORTUNES • John P. Atherton, in charge of radio-tv at Kastor, Hilton, Chesley, Clifford & Atherton, N.Y., named vp in charge of creative activities. • Alvin A. Achenbaum, Robert S. Zimmern and Aldon H. Sulger elected vps of Grey Adv., N.Y. Mr. Achenbaum is director of research; Messrs. Zimmern and Sulger are account supervisors. • Lester A. Weinrott, vp at Reach, McClinton & Pershall, Chicago, appointed account supervisor on Pratt & Whitney (machine tools) account in New York office. • Monte J. Sanders, formerly with Klau-Van Pietersom-Dunlap, Milwaukee, elected vp of Fensholt Adv., Chicago. • Allen D. Patterson, account executive on Chase Manhattan account, becomes vp of Ted Bates, N.Y. Mr. Carver Mr. Vitt • Jack K. Carver and Samuel B. Vitt, media supervisors at Doherty, Clifford, Steers & Shenfield Inc., N.Y., elected vps of agency. • Richard W. Solon, formerly product advertising manager, Post Cereals Div. ALLIED always has the BROADCAST TUBES you need IMMEDIATE DELIVERY ON RCA 7038 f allied is the world's largest supplier of power and specialpurpose tubes for broadcast station use. Look to us for immediate, expert shipment from the world's largest stocks of electronic supplies and equipment. See your allied 1960 Complete Buying Guide for station equipment and supplies. Get what you want when you want it. Catalog copies are available on request. ALLIED RADIO 100 N. Western Ave., Chicago 80, III. Phone: H Ay market 1-6800 TWX: CG-2898 BROADCASTING, February 8, 1960 85