Heinl news service (July-Nov 1950)

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Helnl Radio-Telephone News Service 7/12/50 General Sarnoff replied with a smile that, speaking for "a not inconsiderable part" of the industry the Radio Corporation of America the answer was distinctly "no". He believed that the rest of the industry would have the same answer, for, he added, this was a time when urgen national interest required something to be done that could not be done by private enterprise. He told the subcommittee that the use of television as a part of the American propaganda effort should not be neglected, even though at the moment it was true that television signals could not jump the oceans. He recommended the establishment of a commission to study the whole broadcasting subject and come forward in sixty days with a plan to submit to the President and Congress. Drawing on his personal experiences in the Soviet Union, General Smith said "the highest compliment the Russians ever paid anybody is their jamming of the Voice of America broadcasts." He said the Kremlin decided to silence the American broadcasts after the Kasenkina incident, when masses of Russians believed the American account of the Russian school teacher who jumped from a Soviet con¬ sulate window in New York. Mr. Baruch declared that an a.gency standing apart from the State Department was necessary because of the complexity of the struggle which would have so high a status as to report directly to President Truman. This group, he said, could be connected with or be made similar to the National Security Council, and it should have in its hands not only the outgoing American propaganda but the highest and most secret incoming intelligence reports. These currently are in the charge of the Central Intelligence Agency. "Our problems", Mr. Baruch declared, "are military and economic and psychological and spiritual and moral. We cannot sep¬ arate them at all. You must have some central body that deals not only with the international situation but with the national situa¬ tion. This body ought tc be under the direction of the President." XXXXXXXX G.E. PLANS TO BUY NEW RADIO, TV PLANT The General Electric Company plans to expand its radio receiver manufacturing plant in Utica, N. Y., and increase employment from 600 to 750 persons. Dr. W. R. G. Baker, G.E. Vice President and General Manager of its Electronics Department, said the company would purchase the building housing its receiver works and construct a 25# 000 sq. ft. addition. G.E. now occupies the property under lease. Dr. Baker said the addition would be a one-story concrete block and steel structure, and that work on it was expected to start August 1st. xxxxxxx'xxx