Broadcasting Telecasting (Jul-Sep 1962)

Mr. Lewine NATAS chief re-elected Robert F. Le wine, CBS-T\". Hollywood, has been re-elected president of National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Ted Cott, president. Oakland Production, was elected executive vp of NATAS: Loren L. Ryder, Ryder Sound Sers'ices. was reelected secretary', and Mort Werner, NBC, was elected treasurer. New vps representing their chapters are; Thomas Van A. Dukehart (Baltimore I .James W. Beach I Chicago) . Seymour Be rns i Hollywood). Don Tuckwood (Phoenix). Mark Russell (St. Louis). Kenneth Langley i San Francisco). Lee Schulman (Seattle), and Robert M. Adams (Washington). Frankel fill posts formerly held by Reuven Frank, who will produce several NBC News specials next season. Allan Armer, former executive producer of The Untouchables, signed to develop new properties for future tv production by Desilu Productions, Holh'wood. John Durant named film editor at Essex Productions. Hollywood, for color film footage shot of Frank Sinatra's world tour on behalf of children's and youth organizations and charities. Film is being edited for possible network tv showing to raise money for underprivileged children in U. S. Robert Walker, associate producer for Tandem Productions, named director of casting department of Four Star Tv. Hollvwood. ALLIED FIELDS Russell S. Tate Jr. elected president and chief executive officer of Market Research Corporation of America. New^ York. He succeeds Samuel G. Barton, founder of 23-year-old company, who has been named chairman of board. Since joinina MRCA in 1952. Mr. Tate has'ser%-ed as director of marketing, vp for corporate planning, and president of Mathematical, Princeton-based subsidiary specializing in application of mathematical Mr. Tate sciences to business and government. Previously, he was vp for sales of Continental Milk Co., Chicago. EQUIPMENT & ENGINEERING R. F. Herr, Philco vp and former head of corporation's TechRep Div., named director of long-range planning and overall corporate-government relations, reporting to Charles E. Beck, Philco president. Other changes announced: H. E. Hockeimer, to general manager of new communications & electronics division: Dr. S. Dean Wanless, to vp and general manager of computer division, and E. F. Canfield, to director of corporate-government product planning and marketing staff. R. Paul Comstock Jr., Jack E. Ross and Gerald L. Shroff join TRW Computers Co.. division of Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc., Los Angeles, as district sales managers in electronics firm's Canoga Park, Calif.. New York City and Houston. Tex., regional offices, respectively. Mr. Comstock was executi\e vp for marketing at ITA Electronics Corp.. Philadelphia: Mr. Ross was staff planning engineer for Arabian American Oil Co. in New York: and Mr. Shroff was chief of technical computer sen.-ices for Signal Oil & Gas Co. in Los Angeles. James J. Badaracco, New England regional sales manager of RCA Senlce Co.. named manager of company's educational tv receiver and distribution systems sales in New York. INTERNATIONAL Ralph Foster, former president of Meridian Films Ltd.. Toronto, joins Key Film Productions Ltd.. that city, in similar capacity. Wally Rewegan, manager of CKWS Kingston. appointed manager of CHEX AM T\' Petersborough. both Ontario. He succeeds Jack Weatherwax, former manager of CHEX. and Keith Packer, former manager of CHEX-TS". who resigned to join Northern Broadcasting Co. Ltd. and Thompson Daily Newspapers, respectively. Mr. \\'eatherwax will ser^-e as national radiotv sales director of Northern Broadcasting, with headquarters in Toronto. Roy Hofstetter appointed manaaer of CKWS-AM-T\' Kingston. J. Robert Kerns, with Storer Broadcasting Co. for 21 years, named general adviser of ABC international's associated tv station in Beirut. Lebanon. While with Storer. Mr. Kerns was vpmanaging director of several Storer stations. Among Storer stations with which he sen.-ed were: WAGA-T\' Atlanta: ^^AX■E-T^■ Philadelphia; WBRC-T\' Birmingham. Ala.: WSAl-AM-FM Cincinnati, and N\'HIZ Zanesville, Ohio. Dennis Woolings joins news department of CHLM Toronto. Peter A. York, executive vp of Bureau of Broadcast Measurement, Toronto, resigns to become director of Ontario government's industrial deN elopment department, that city. DEATHS Ralph MacFarland, 50. founder of Hawaii's Aloha Radio Network, died July 16 of heart attack in Miami (Fla.) Heart Institute. Harvey Dinkins, 61, farm ser^-ice director of WSJS-AMFM-T\' Winston-Salem. N. C. died July 1 6 in that city. He had been confined to hospital since May 15, when his iUness was diagnosed as cancer. Mr. Dinkins began broadcasting farm program on WSJS in 1946, and soon afterward was named farm ser\'ice director. 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