Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1961)

station contact work in southern California area. GOVERNMENT Stanley Plesent, deputy general counsel, U. S. Information Agency, Washington, named general counsel, succeeding Donald J. Irwin, who resigns to accept post of treasurer of State of Connecticut. He has also been designated to serve as agency employment policy and contracts compliance officer and as space communications coordinator. Mr. Plesent joined USIA in April following more than seven years legal service with Young & Rubicam, New York. EQUIPMENT & ENGINEERING Luther M. Sandwick, vp, Pilot Radio Corp., Long Island City, N. Y., named staff director, Electronics Industries Assn., effective Jan. 15. Mr. Sandwick is 32-year veteran of radio-tv industry sales and management. He has served as EIA director, chairman of association's phonograph section and as member of executive committee of consumer products division. Robert W. Deutsch, sales manager, electronic tube department, International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., New York, named general sales manager, electronic tube division, DuMont Laboratories, Clifton, N. J., division of Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp., Syosset, N. Y. Marion F. Chetty, manager of General Telephone & Electronics' tv picture tube plant in Fullerton, Calif., named manager of foreign manufacturing operations for Sylvania International Inc., division of General Telephone & Electronics Corp., New York. He succeeds David K. Elwell who becomes director of purchases and transportation Mr. Sandwick for Sylvania Electric Products Inc., New York, division of GT&E. E. V. Huggins, vp and chairman of executive committee, Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, elected executive vp for associated activities. Mr. Huggins since 1953 has had overall supervision of Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. on corporate level, responsibility he continues in his new post. His broad area of supervision for some years has been both in broadcast and international activities of corporation of which WBC is subsidiary. Harry E. Smith, industrial sales manager, GE's medium ac motor department in Schenectady, appointed marketing manager for company's technical products operation in Syracuse, both New York. Edward J. Gay, southern regional controller, Bigelow Sanford Inc., Belton, S. C, joins Reeves Soundcraft Corp., Danbury, Conn., as controller. INTERNATIONAL B. A. Olerich, finance division manager of Ampex International operations, appointed general manager of Ampex International and president of Ampex International S. A., wholly owned subsidiary of Ampex Corp. His headquarters will be in Fribourg, Switzerland. Mr. Olerich, who assumes responsibility for all Ampex activities outside the U. S., succeeds A. R. Gale, resigned. Sondra Switzer, formerly with McCann-Erickson Canada Ltd., Toronto, named manager of media department, including radio and television, RonaldsReynolds Ltd., Montreal. Bruce McLeod, manager, CJCH-TV Halifax, N. S., named general manager, CJCH-AM-TV. COMPACT EFFICIENT FIELD TESTED BROADCAST ELECTRONICS, INC. 8800 BROOKVILLE RD., SILVER SPRING, MD. Mr. Marshutz in February Elizabeth Lowry, formerly with AllCanada Radio & Television Ltd., Toronto, appointed information service manager, CKEY Toronto. Hershel Harris, sales manager, Independent Television Corp. of Canada Ltd., appointed firm's general manager. Donald C. McLean named radio-tv director of Needham, Louis & Brorby of Canada Ltd., Toronto. Walter E. Powell, former commercial manager of Canadian Broadcasting Corp., Toronto, was given farewell dinner on December 12, upon his retirement from CBC and broadcasting. He entered broadcasting industry in 1925. DEATHS Elmer G. Marshutz, 66, honorary board chairman and former president, Gardner Adv., St. Louis, died Dec. 7 at his St. Louis home. Mr. Marshutz joined Gardner in 1928 as account executive. He became vp and board member 1934, and was elected president in October 1935, succeeding Herbert S. Gardner. He was elected chairman of board in November 1955 and honorary chairman in July 1959. Harold M. Winters, 57, former regional sales manager for RCA Sales Corp. before resigning in June because of ill health, died Dec. 9 at his home in Kansas City. He joined RCA (then Victor Talking Machine Co.) in 1926. In 1942, Mr. Winters helped develop South American market for RCA as field sales representative with RCA Victor Argentina, S. A. After later serving in sales executive posts in Minneapolis, Kansas City and Cleveland, he was named director of distribution of former RCA Victor Div., Camden, N. J., in August 1947. He was appointed east central regional sales manager in May 1960. Elbert M. Antrim, 76, retired business manager of Chicago Tribune (licensee of WGN-AM-TV Chicago) and active in development of Tribune's radio-tv activities, died at his home Dec. 9. Mr. Antrim was also an organizer of Mutual Broadcasting System. He was appointed assistant to Tribune's president in 1927 and assistant business manager in 1928. He became business manager in 1944. Mr. Antrim retired from Tribune in 1954, after 37 years of service, but remained director of several subsidiaries of Tribune Co. William C. Vance, 46, radio-tv copy chief and commercial production director, Fletcher Richards, Calkins & Holden, New York, died Dec. 8. 90 (FATES & FORTUNES) BROADCASTING, December 18, 1961