Television digest with electronic reports (Jan-Dec 1954)

10 and 150 uv/m ; 174-260 me, 150 uv/m ; 260-470 me. a linear interpolation between 150 uv/m and 500 uv/m; above 470 me. 500 uv/m. Each manufacturer adhering to program would submit one of first 100 chassis of each model, plus one a month from production lines. Lab would also be empowered to check sets obtained from open market and even enter the plants. Actually, it's expected that conformance would be so widespread that lab would need merely to confirm each manufacturer's own measurements most of the time. Confidence of obtaining wide support is so strong at RETMA that its board, meeting in Niagara Falls, Ont. April 29, is expected to announce start of project. Among labs being considered are: Armour, Battelle, Brooklyn Polytechnic, Columbia U, Cornell U, Franklin Institute, Mellon Institute, Mid-West Research Institute, New York U, Stanford Research Laboratory, U.S. Testing Labs, Syracuse U. Membership of Dr. Baker's committee; A. Bliimenkrantz. General Instrxament ; K.A. Chittick, RCA; Leonard F. Cramer, Crosley; T.T. Goldsmith. DuMont; H.L. Hoffman, Hoffman Radio; A.V. Loughren, Hazeltine ; David B. Smith. Philco. Topics & Trends o! TV Trade: TV -radio-phonograph industries were skunked, as expected (Vol. 10:13), in the tax bill (HR-8224) which President Eisenhower signed March 31 and which became law April 1. But, happily, a sizeable segment of the trade will benefit by reason of the reduction from 10% to 5% in excise taxes on refrigerators, freezers and certain other appliances — and the consensus seems to be that it will serve to give lagging business a needed hypo since most of the saving will be passed on to consumers. Since appliance stores are major TV-radio-phono marketeers, increased store traffic may help that trade, too — but that remains to be seen. Meanwhile, for the sake of our numerous distributor-dealer subscribers, we checked at the Internal Revenue Bureau to find out exactly what items are covered by the 5% reduction. These were our findings: HR-8224 simply designates (1) “electric, gas & oil appliances,” and (2) “refrigerators, freezers (excluding air conditioners)” as the categories reduced from 10% to 5%. The Internal Revenue Code’s Sec. 3406 (a) 3 lists the following under the category of electric, gas & oil appliances: “Electric direct motor-driven fans and air circulators (not of the industrial type): and the following appliances of the household type; electric, gas, or oil water heaters; electric flat irons; electric air heaters (not including furnaces); electric immersion heaters; electric blankets, sheets, and spreads; electric, gas, or oil appliances of the type used for cooking, warming, or keeping wann food or beverages for consumption on the premises; and electric mixers, whippers, and juicers; electric belt-driven fans; electric exhaust blowers; electric or gas clothes driers; electric door chimes; electric dehumidifiers; electric dishwashers; electric floor polishers and waxers; electric food choppers and grinders; electric hedge trimmers; electric ice cream freezers; electric mangles; electric motion or still picture projectors; electric pants pressers; electric garbage disposal units; and power lawn mowers.” The Code’s Sec. 3405(a) lists refrigerators and quickfreeze units as follows: “Household type refrigerators (for single or multiple cabinet installations) having, or being primarily designed for use with, a mechanical refrigerating unit operated by electricity, gas, kerosene, or gasoline; household type units for the quick freezing or frozen storage of foods, operated by electricity, gas, kerosene, or gasoline; combinations of such household type refrigerators and units.” Sec. 3405(b) lists refrigerating and freezing apparatus as follows: “Cabinets, compressors, condensers, condensing units, evaporators, expansion units, absorbers, and controls (hereinafter referred to as ‘refrigerator com ponents’) for, or suitable for use as parts of or with, household type refrigerators or quick-freeze units of the kind described in subsection (a), except when sold as component parts of complete refrigerators, refrigerating or cooling apparatus, or quick-freeze units (hereinafter referred to as ‘refrigerating equipment’). Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary, the tax under this subsection shall not apply in the case of sales of any such refrigerator components by the manufacturer, producer, or importer to (1) a manufacturer or producer of refrigerating equipment, or (2) a vendee for resale to a manufacturer or producer of refrigerating equipment if such components are in due course so resold. If any such refrigerator components are resold by the manufacturer or producer to whom sold or resold otherwise than on or in connection with, or with the sale of, complete refrigerating equipment manufactured or produced by him, then for the purposes of this section such manufacturer or producer shall be considered the manufacturer or producer of the refrigerator components so resold by him.” Sec. 3405(c) defines air-conditioners as “self-contained air-conditioning units.” * * * * Distributor Notes: DuMont sets up its 6 factoryowned disti’ibutorships as separate corporations, reports mai’keting v.p. Wm. H. Kelley. They’re DuMont New York Inc., 1114 First Ave., N. Y. (Philip P. Geth, pres.) ; DuMont New Jersey Inc., 579 Scotland Rd., Orange, N, J. (Irvin Sarlin, pres.); DuMont Florida Inc., 7000 N.E. 4th Ct., Miami (Charles H. Combe, v.p.-gen. mgr.); DuMont Illinois Inc., American Furiture Mart, Chicago (Wm. H. Kelley, pres.); DuMont Indiana Inc., permanent place of business undecided yet (Wm. H. Kelley, pres.) . . . John W. Walter Co., Long Island City, N. Y., appointed N. Y. distributor of Capehart-Farnsworth and Coolerator products, replacing now discontinued factory branch I. T. & T. Distributing Corp. . . . Emerson appoints Wholesale Supply Co., 417 S.W. First Ave., Portland, Ore., (Richard B. Banks, v.p.-gen. mgr.) . . . Stromberg-Carlson appoints Paul-Jeffrey Co., 519 Erie Blvd. E, Syi’acuse (S. P. Solomon, pres.; Thomas Marden, sales mgr.) for central N. Y. . . . Westinghouse Electric Supply Corp., Milwaukee, names W. C. Talmadge, ex-Radio Specialties Co., as TA’^radio sales mgr., succeeding Gordon E. Bloom, resigned; R. J. Bittner px'omoted to major appliance mgr. Emerson Radio of Canada Ltd. has been formed to manufacture and distribute complete Emerson line there. Pres, is Selby J. Sinclair, headquarters at 74 'Ti’enton Ave., Mt. Royal, Que. Norton J. Anderson is gen. mgr., Rupert K. Grant sales mgr.