Broadcasting Telecasting (Jan-Mar 1960)

• Thomas W. Hafer, formerly member of staff of industrial director of Raytheon Co.. Waltham. Mass., appointed manager, corporate manufacturing engineering. • Frank H. Bower joins Semiconductor Div. of Sylvania Electric Products, Woburn. Mass., as engineering administrator. • Edwin Lex Bacon, Raymond C. Babcock and Ralph Sackett Jr.. with Graybar Electric Co., N.Y., all promoted. Mr. Bacon, in advertising and sales promotion department, becomes general advertising and sales promotion manager. Messrs. Babcock and Sackett named advertising manager and sales promotion manager, respectively. • Dr. Harvey Fletcher, dean emeritus of college of Physical and Engineering Sciences at Brigham Youns U., appointed consultant to Shure Bros, (electronic components). Evanston, 111. He is credited with pioneering development of stereophonic sound transmission and reproduction 25 years ago. • George C. Grogan named general sales manager of Pennsalt Chemical Corp.'s Industrial Chemicals Div., Philadelphia, succeeding George R. Lawson. named general manager of Chemical Specialties Div. Other changes: W. G. Keyser Jr.. named sales manager and Arthur Bixby appointed manager of sales, both of Organic Chemicals Div., and Melbourne P. Binns named product manager. • David P. Hall named district sales manager of New England area for Motorola Semiconductor Products Div., subsidiary of Motorola Inc. Clifford J. Woodka. formerly with Wright Air Development Center, appointed market research specialist. Dr. Robert J. Gnaedinger Jr. named senior solid state chemist for Semiconductor Products Div. • Col. Robert F. Sladek (USAF. Ret.) joins Page Communications Engineers. Washington, D.C.. as assistant director of engineering for administration. • Donald B. Whittemore. East Coast sales manager of Raytheon Co.'s marine equipment, appointed mid-Atlantic region commercial manager. • Dr. Ernest A. Keller, staff scientist with Motorola Inc.. Chicago, appointed to fellowship in Institute of Radio Engineers. He will be honored at annual banquet at Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York March 23. for "contributions to sound recording and telephone switching systems." Hugh Bowler, formerly purchasing officer manager in Motorola's communications division, appointed administrative assistant to Frank J. O'brien, vp, purchasing. Government • Harvey Otterman, acting chairman of State Dept. Telecommunications Div., retires. He had previously retired in 1953. after 40 years in government as associate chairman Telecom Div., but had accepted temporary service. International • Andrew Maxwell Henderson, chief financial officer of Canadian Broadcasting Corp., Ottawa, Ont., named to post of auditor-general of Canada. Mr. Henderson has been in CBC post since 1957. • W.E.S. Briggs, supervisor of Maritime Region of Canadian Broadcasting Corp.. since 1945, named vp of CBC. succeeding Ernest Bushnell, who resigned to form own consultant firm. • Don M.E. Hamilton, director of advertising of CKOY Ottawa, Ont., named general manager of CKSL London, Ont. • Malcolm MacFarlane joins CKY Winnipeg, Man., as supervisor of sales promotion and advertisers' services. • William Ellement, formerly of CFJR Brockville, Ont., joins CJKL Kirkland Lakes, Ont., as announcer. • Larry Henderson, formerly newscaster Canadian Broadcasting Corp., Toronto, rejoins CBC, there as host of Newsmagazine tv program. He had resigned last October. Deaths • Raymond Caddell, 42, general manager of WHSC Hartsville, S.C., died Jan. 27. Mr. Caddell also was president of South Carolina Associated Press Broadcasters. • Laura Hall, 45. chief timebuyer at Henri. Hurst & McDonald, Chicago, died Jan. 31. She joined agency's media department in 1951 and was appointed head timebuyer in 1956. • William Maloney, 55, salesman for WHAY New Britain-Hartford, Conn., died Jan. 23, following short illness. • Frank S. Baker, 80, publisher of The Tacoma News-Tribune, president of Tribune Publishing Co. and president of KTNT-AM-TV Tacoma, Wash., died Jan. 30. • Earl Berkley. 60, editor-reporter with Washington Bureau of Associated Press, died of heart attack Jan. 29. WESTERN STATES— VHF TELEVISION STATION — Network affiliate operating in black. December's cash gross was $30,000.00. Priced at S420.000.00 with S120.000.00 down and balance over seven years. ROCKY MOUNTAIN STATE— 1 kw daytimer— excellent dial position. Can go full time. City zone in excess cf 30,000 population. Price is S125.000.00 with 29ff down and the balance paid out over ten years. HAMILTON-LANDIS & ASSOCIATES, Inc. BROKERS • RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS • NEWSPAPERS WASHINGTON, D.C. CHICAGO DALLAS SAN FRANCISCO Ray V. Hamilton Richard A. Shaheen DeWitt 'Judge' Landis John F. Hardesty 1737 DeSales St. N.W. 1714 Tribune Tower 1511 Bryan Street 1 1 1 Sutter Street Executive 3-3456 DEIaware 7-2754 Riverside 8-1 175 EXbrook 2-5671 NATIONWIDE • NEGOTIATIONS • FINANCING • APPRAISALS BROADCASTING, February 8, 1960 91