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Heinl Radio News Service
7/17/46
::: TRADE NOTES
Reported David Samoff, President of the Radio Corporation of America, now in London, has been offered a high diplomatic post. If so, he is the first one in the radio industry who ever has.
Though newspaper publishers have been frequently given diplomatic plums for their work in campaigns or elsewhere, as yet no Administration has thus recognized either the broadcasting or the radio manufacturing industry. They have been so weak politi¬ cally, in fact, that they have never even been able to name a Com¬ munications Commission member.
By way of easing the shortabe of office space in the Capital and increasing organization efficiency. Charter Heslep, Washington Manager of the Mutual Broadcasting System, this week moved his office from 712 Jackson Place, in the rarified atmosphere of Barney Baruch’s park bench and the White House (both almost across the street) to 1627 K Street, N.W. , two blocks north, the habitat of Cowles Brothers, Station WOL, the MBS outlet in Washing¬ ton.
The A. T. & T. has joined the Television Broadcasters' Association,
A new 250 watt station, WARD, Johnstown, Pa., which goes on the air for the first time August 1st, becomes the 15Qth affil¬ iate of the Columbia Broadcasting System, The station operates on 1490 kilocycles.
The Army denies that exposure to radar waves causes bald¬ ness and sterility. It was said that tests proved the electro¬ magnetic pulses of radar have no harmful effects.
The experiments ?/ere ordered because of lack of knowledge of the exact effects of long exposure to the waves and ’’disquieting rumors” among radar men, Lieut. Col. Richard Follis, now of Duke University, conducted the experiments at the AAF aero-medical labor¬ atory at Wright Field, Ohio.
The Radio Corporation of America was assigned the patent right last week on a development in radar which permits the immed¬ iate recording of received information. The exact positions of various radio wave reflecting systems may be plotted on a tape or strip of paper for obtaining a strip map. One use is for develop¬ ing a strip map of distant ships on a body of water, or of build¬ ings on a strategic piece of land.
William H. Myers, a pioneer in automobile radio develop¬ ment lias been appointed Chief Engineer of the Receiver Division of Farnsworth Television & Radio Corporation. Mr. Myers succeeds J. H. Pressley, who has been retained as a consultant to the com¬ pany.
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