Broadcasting Telecasting (Jan-Mar 1961)

Gene Levitt, writer-producer under multiple assignment contract, to alternate with Richard Goldstone as producer of 20th Century-Fox Tv Adventures in Paradise. Jim Leighton, formerly NBC-TV writer-producer-director, named story editor and associate production aide to Peter Tewksbury, producer-director on Don Fedderson Productions' planned tv series Byrnalene. Robert Kraus, formerly of Screen Gems, Cincinnati, joins Sterling Television, N. Y., as account executive. Suzanne Holeton, formerly of Arthur Lodge Productions, N. Y., joins Filmex Inc., that city, as news director. Andrew Jaeger, Jacques Liebenguth and James Strain appointed to sales department of Filmaster Inc., New York. Mr. Jaeger will become regional director for northeast; Mr. Liebenguth, director for middle eastern states and Mr. Strain, director for western area. Stanley Yentes joins staff as manager of sales and station services. Conrad Nagle, appointed to newly established office of fourth vp of Screen Actors Guild, will serve until annual election next fall. Headquartered in New York, appointment gives guild national officer on East Coast. John Rhone, winner of UCLAScreen Gems fellowship for study in tv industry, joins production staff of tv company after completion of his fellowship-study period. Herbert Gottlieb appointed to ASCAP west coast office. He was formerly with Robbins Music Corp. EQUIPMENT & ENGINEERING G. Richard Tingley, formerly head of Television & Passive Detection Branch, Norden Div., United Aircraft Corp., N. Y., appointed vp, military and industrial systems department, CBS Labs, Stamford, Conn. William S. Strout, formerly director of purchasing of Oak Manufacturing Co., Crystal Lake, 111., elected vp. Joseph D. Portanova, formerly vp for styling of Hoffman's Consumer Products division, Los Angeles, named to head new department dealing with industrial design. Hans R. Richner, administrator of planning controls, Packard Bell Electronics, Los Angeles, named director of planning of Home Products Div. Peter WargO appointed manager of engineering for Cathode Ray Tube department, General Electric Co., Syracuse. Dr. Wargo was formerly with company's power tube department, Schenectady, N. Y. GOVERNMENT Edwin S. Rockefeller III, formerly legal assistant to chairman of Federal Trade Commission; Ralph S. Cunningham Jr., formerly legal assistant to chairman of FTC, and Blaine S. Butler, formerly with Securities & Exchange Commission, to Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn, Washington law firm which Earl W. Kintner, former FTC chairman, joined earlier this month. Charles R. Escola, assistant FCC general counsel since May 1957, resigned to return to Topeka, Kan., home to establish private practice and as special counsel for Kansas Corporation Commission for oil and gas matters. Robert D. L'Heureux, Washington attorney and one time legislative liaison officer for former FCC Chairman George C. McConnaughey, named counsel for National Community Television Assn. INTERNATIONAL ■HHHk. Don Jamieson, gen eral ma mm or of m CJON AM TV St. Johns, Nfld., elected president of Canadian Assn. of Broadcasters. Mr. Jamieson succeeds Murray T. Brown, general manager of CFPL-AMTV London, Ont. Other officers: Allan Waters, president and general manager of CHUM Toronto, and Jean Pouliot, general manager of CKMI-TV Quebec City, vps; T. J. Allard was reappointed executive vp. H. Hollis Brace, formerly of Cockfield Brown & Co. Ltd., Montreal, and MacLaren Adv. Co. Ltd., Toronto, to advertising and sales promotion manager of Quebec division of Molson's Brewery Ltd., Montreal. He succeeds John P. Rogers, who was promoted assistant to executive vp. Mr. Jamieson J. Remi Crasto, formerly general manager for Far and Near East for National Telefilm Assoc., appointed foreign sales supervisor with headquarters in London. ALLIED FIELDS Richard N. Robbins, formerly advertising director of Canaveral Groves Inc., Florida land developing firm, joins Community Club Awards Inc., Westport, Conn., as advertising and pr director. Jack H. Gainey appointed sales representative for West Coast. He was division manager with World Broadcasting System. DEATHS Irving Sarnoff, 60, executive vp, Bruno-New York Inc., and brother of Brig. Gen. David Sarnoff, RCA chairman, died March 19 of cancer at Roosevelt Hospital, N. Y. Robert F. Degen, 60, vp and account executive, Ted Bates & Co., N. Y., died March 17 in New Rochelle (N.Y.) Hospital. Lloyd L. Lind, 49, vp and general manager. Interstate Television Corp., N.Y., died March 19 in Norwalk (Conn.) Hospital after an operation. Glenn Clark Miller, 47, assistant general manager of WCPO-AM-FM-TV Cincinnati, died March 20, following series of heart attacks. Charles A. Worcester, 46, died March 21 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in automobile accident. Mr. Worcester was director of public services for WMT-AMTV Cedar Rapids. Morris Shultz, 56, died of heart attack March 13 at his home in Sunnyside, N. Y. Mr. Shultz was assistant treasurer, controller and director of Arco Electronics, Great Neck, N. Y. George H. Moore, 77, retired account executive, actor and program director for WCKY Cincinnati, died at his home March 18. When you think of Kansas City, Mo i remember our A. P.* TALL TOWER Broadcasting House Kansas City is the trade hub of the entire 200-mile-wide MidAmerica market. And in Kansas City. . KCMO-Radio and KCMO-TV give you 2,320,499 cash customers .. at a low-costper-thousand. KCMO 810-Radio is Kansas City's most powerful station. .and KCMO-TV on Channel 5 operates with 100^000 watts full power from America's tallest self-supported tower. * AREA POTENTIAL Y^LTUQA UaJVfyTV-Radio-FM 6. K. HARTENBOWER, V. P. and Gen. Mgr., R.W. EVANS, Radio Sta. Mgr.. SID TREMBLE, TV Sta. Mgr Represented Nationally by Katz Agency A Meredith Station Affiliated with "Better Homes and Gardens'" A " Successful Farming"" Maga BROADCASTING, March 27, 1961 101