Television digest with AM-FM reports (Jan 1951-Jan 1952)

9 Nobilizaiion Notes: Happy over kudos it’s getting for the striking full-page institutional ads it placed in big dailies Aug. 21, relating how big business must team with little, RCA policymakers frankly hope other big electronic contractors join in explaining to public that they can’t “hog the govt, business” even if they wanted to. Ads captioned “Mr. K. A. Swanstrom, of Doylestown, Pa., teams up with RCA for national defense” won praise of Sen, Sparkman (D-Ala.), chairman of Senate Small Business Committee, who inserted it in Congressional Record with these remarks: “The advertisement calls attention to a very important fact in the economy of this country; that is, that the very lives of so-called big businesses or big corporations depend upon hundreds of and thousands, and in some cases tens of thousands of small businesses.” He then went on to praise RCA president Frank Folsom for his World War II work in procurement for Navy and WPB, and urged “careful reading” of the RCA ad. Ad relates how Mr. Swanstrom’s Penn Engineering & Mfg. Co., employing only 26, is contributing to defense effort by work on new light-weight walkie-talkie, along with 118 other suppliers of precision parts — 87 classified by Govt, as “small business.” It tells how RCA calls on “literally thousands of small companies” to help with its military contracts, cites 3 current Air Force contracts “requiring the skills and facilities of 560 different suppliers.” It winds up: “This same kind of teamwork in peacetime has made more and better TV and radio sets, records and transmitting equipment. It has contributed materially to our standard of living — the highest the world has ever known. “We are proud to tip our hat to our 5000 suppliers . . : Together, in peace and in war, we serve America.” :js ❖ * To ease manufacturers’ transition to CMP in fourth quarter, NPA this week issued 7 changes to basic CMP, steel, aluminum and copper orders. Idea is to avoid disruption of normal flow of those metals from mills to consumer durables manufacturers, such as TV-radio, while manufacturers await their allotments from NPA. Thus, until Sept. 10, metal producers are to give “unrated” orders equal preference with authorized controlled materials (ACM) orders. But manufacturers are warned to convert unrated orders to ACM status by Sept. 10, since mills are directed to cancel all orders unconverted by that time. NPA is also riding herd on steel-aluminum-copper producers to see to it that they don’t delay accepting or rejecting NPA-authorized orders. This is to give manufacturers time to get on mill schedules of other producers in time for fourth quarter deliveries. New orders are: Dir. 3 to CMP Reg. 3, Dir. 3 & 4 to M-1 (steel). Dir. 2 & 3 to M-11 (copper). Dir. 1 & 2 to M-5 (aluminum). ^ :J: W. W. Watts, DPA deputy administrator on leave from duties as RCA Victor engineering products v.p., has returned to company on part time basis. He’s now spending 2-3 days weekly in Washington, assisting new deputy administrator Clay P. Bedford, Kaiser-Frazer executive v.p. Bedford also takes over chairmanship of DPA’s powerful Production Executive Committee, authority of which was expanded this week. Edmund T. Morris, chief of NPA’s Electronics Div. and member of the committee, gets additional title: Asst. DPA Administrator for Electronics. Nickel situation is “awful rough,” according to NPA officials. “Up to now,” says Electronics Div. director Edmund Morris, “the tube makers having been living off the fat. The fat’s all gone. CMP allotments should help some next quarter, but manufacturers are going to be in bad shape pretty soon unless we can find more nickel.” Move of NPA Electronics Div, to Temporary Bldg. T, 14th St. & Constitution Ave., has brought new lineup of room and phone numbers. For handy reference, here are assignments of top officials; phone numbers are extensions of STerling 5200: Director: Edmund T. Morris Jr., Room 2362, ext, 3585; deputy director, Donald S. Parris, 2354, ext. 3587. End Equipment Branch: chief, J. A. Milling, 2350, ext. 5911 & 4305; radio & TV receivers section, Lee Colder, 2343, ext. 4498; radio communications equipment, W. E. Dulin, 2331, ext. 3300; broadcast & sound equipment, J. Bernard Joseph, 2339, ext. 4541 ; broadcast equipment unit, Donald Cooper, 2339, ext. 4541; military equipment, N. C. Harris, 2335, ext. 3911. Comjmnents Branch: chief, Louis H. Niemann, 2314, ext. 3750; capacitor & resistor section, R. D. Parker, 2324, ext. 3769; transformers, E. MacDonald Nyhen, 2331, ext. 3300; electron tubes, N. H. Stewart, 2316, ext. 3909; special components, Delmus J. Fagge, 2310, ext. 4611. Programs & Requirements Branch: chief, James A. Mendenhall, 2346, ext. 3929; CMP section, O. W. McDaniel Sr., 2351, ext. 4338; programs & statistics, Eric D. Bovet, 2338, ext. 5608; foreign, Robert R. Burton, 2416, ext. 3380; plant expansion, Wm. J. Bapst, 2323, ext. 5602; conservation, E. W. Glacy, 2420, ext. 3429. * * * * NPA eased metal allotment restrictions on production runs of laboratory models of various products by amending order M-71. Companies may apply to NPA, on form NPAF-109, for authority to make trial production runs “only in the minimum number and the minimum size required to determine the suitability of the article for commercial production and use.” Selenium has dwindled to 3-day supply for some rectifier makers, industry group told NPA recently. NPA said it will work on new allocation method to replace present system after Sept. 30. Financial & Trade Notes: International Resistance Co.’s interim report to stockholders last week shows total income of $7,310,208 first half of 1951 (Jan. 1-June 24), compared with $4,689,803 for comparable 1950 period. Net profit after providing $870,055 for taxes was $522,160 (49^ a share) as against $340,346 (37^) after $371,366 taxes for same 1950 period. IRC’s total 1950 sales were $11,085,109, profit $1,056,638 ($1.01). Strong demand for resistors will follow summer dip, report says, and statement by president Earnest Searing predicts “good year” despite materials shortages, govt, regulations and tax increases. Wilcox-Gay Corp. (Majestic) reports net income of $260,986 (8^ a share) on net sales of $6,236,052 for first 6 months of 1951. First quarter profit was $355,787 on sales of $3,707,658 (Vol. 7:18). Comparable 1950 figures ax’e not available, but in first 8 months of 1950, prior to merger with Garod-Majestic, Wilcox-Gay sales were $1,953,397 and loss $444,720, and consolidated statement for all 1950 showed sales of $8,002,572, net profit $28,205 (Vol. 7:13). Dividends: Sylvania, $1 on pfd., 50^ on common, payable Oct. 1 to holders of record Sept. 30; Sprague Electric, 50<; payable Sept. 14 to holders Aug. 30; Oak Mfg., 35<^ payable Sept. 25 to holders Sept. 10; StewartWarner, 35^ payable Oct. 6 to holders Sept. 14; Globe-Union Inc., 25c payable Sept. 10 to holders Sept. 1; I-T-E Circuit Breaker, 40c payable Sept. 1 to holders Aug. 23; Aerovox, 15^ payable Sept. 15 to holders Sept. 1. Raytheon placed new $4,000,000 note issue this week with New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. and State Mutual Life Assurance Co., due serially 1952-64; proceeds are for plant expansion and refund of $2,000,000 notes previously sold to same companies.