Television digest with electronic reports (Jan-Dec 1959)

VOL. 15; No. 15 19 Trade Personals: Arthur L. B. Richardson, gen. counsel I & secy., Sylvania Electric Products, elected v.p. Raymond ^ R. Chapman named Sylvania plastics plant (Warren, Pa.) mgr.; Frederick G. Plett appointed mfg. superintendent, semiconductor plant, Hillsboro, N.H.; Allen B. Pitts, mfg. superintendent, TV picture tube mfg. plant, Seneca Falls, N.Y., placed in charge of Sylvania’s “bonded shield” picture tube mfg. program, succeeded by Joseph D. Connors. Robtr G. Lynch named mgr. industrial equipment sales, based in N.Y. Robert A. Starek appointed entertainment sales mgr., midwest region; Craig D. Lataste, named eastern region sales mgr., Ciaran B. Kennedy, appointed industrial sales mgr. for Pacific region. Robert McCarthy, ex-Zenith Radio Corp., named to new post of product . mgr.. Bell Sound div. of Thompson Ramo Wooldridge . . . Robert J. Clarkson appointed sales planning & service mgr., RCA custom record sales dept. . . William W. Davis appointed TV-radio dept, mgr., Montgomery Ward, succeeding Clyde K. Huxtable . . . Thomas F. Horton, ex-Litton Industries, joins Washington office, Hoffman Labs . . . H. Lawrence Schmitt resigns as exec, secy., California State Electronics Association. Jack Williams, former mgr. of adv. & sales promotion, RCA Victor TV div., named to same post in RCA Sales Corp., adding radio & Victrola products. R. E. Conley, former mgr. of adv. & sales promotion, RCA Victor Radio & Victrola div. reassigned to the corporate advertising staff . . . Raymond C. Horn promoted to mgr. of personnel at Somerville, N.J., RCA semiconductor & materials div. Earl L. Nissen, formerly sales mgr., exAdmiral Inter' national & Admiral Corp. Interamericana, Chicago, named I consumer products sales mgr.. Motorola international opf erations. Stuart F. Malcolm named staff asst, to dir. of international operations . . . O. Lee Ballengee, Midwest regional mgr., equipment sales, promoted to equipment i sales mgr., receiving tubes, CBS-Hytron, succeeding Louis f H. Niemann, named sales mgr., semi-conductor operations, b .loe C. Harmony named general engineering dir. — receiving tubes, succeeding E. K. Wimpy (Vol. 15:14) . . . David H. e Foster named gen. attorney, Collins Radio Co., suc 1. ceeding Richard J. Flynn now finance dir., systems div. le Robert W. Landee appointed research & development dir., ts Collins’ Western div., airborne data communication . . . ; William S. Wheeler named military electronics div. v.p.. Motorola. Rear Admiral John C. Parham, USN (ret.), ^ named mgr., military div., headquartering in Washington. Earl H. Blaik & James R. Kerr, Avco Corp. v.p.’s, ^ elected directors . . . William Hyslop promoted to mgr. of Raytheon receiving tube plant, Quincy, Mass . . . Ross Yeiter appointed to new post of mktg. administration mgr., semiconductor operations, CBS-Hytron. ■ Distributor Notes: Motorola names Philadelphia Distributors Inc. (Arthur E. Hughes, pres.), replacing Elliottar Lewis . . . RCA distributorship in Rochester has been taken over by RCA Victor Distribution Corp., Buffalo, which pur|j[. chased M. E. Silver Corp. . . . Hoffman Electronics Corp. ]jj| appoints 3 South American distributors: A. Casal Varela Ltda., Montevideo, for receiver line; Casa Musical Ltda., San Jose, Costa Rica, for Trans-solar radio; and Compania “Diamantina B-H,” Lima, for radio. Hassco Inc., Denver, **”■1 for TV, stereo hi fi & radios. " Admiral Corp., Oklahoma City div., appoints Robert E. Lawyer, ex-Paul Davis Co., as manager, succeeding John Conger, named mgr.. Admiral Corp. Denver div. . . . Hoffman appoints Cladco Distributors, Buffalo, N.Y. for consumer products in Western N.Y. & Northwestern Pa. Electronics Personals: Dr. William H. Martin, ex-Bell Telephone Labs v.p., resigns as Army research & development dir. May 22 to undertake industrial consulting assignments . . . Richard H. Griebel named mfg. mgr., heavy equipment, in Raytheon’s govt, equipment div., continuing as mgr. of N. Dighton, Mass, plant. Robert E. Sonnekson named mfg. mgr., light equipment unit. Reporting to div. chief Homer R. Oldfield Jr. will be Glenn R. Lord, light equipment asst. div. mgr. and W. Rogers Hamel, in a similar post for heavy equipment. Jesse L. Kiefer, exArtophone Corp., named to new post of commei’cial credit mgr. . . . William H. Westphal named v.p., Daystrom international operations. Lewis E. Minkel, ex-Mack Trucks Inc., appointed v.p., human relations; Robert Jerritt Jr., management services dir. becomes controller. Daniel P. Knowland Jr. named v.p.. Heath Co. div., Benton Harbor, Mich., and Louis Arleson appointed v.p., & gen. mgr.. Day strom Transicoil, Worcester, Pa. Walther H. Feldmann, pres., Worthington Corp., elected a Daystrom director . . . Brig. Gen. Joseph A. Bulger (U.S.A.F. Ret.) named dir. of plans & systems, countermeasures div., Sperry Gyroscope Co. . . . Douglas M. Fouquet promoted to p.r. & adv. mgr., general atomic div. of General Dynamics. H. Rowan Gaither Jr., board chairman of Rand Corp., & Dr. Luis Alvarez, assoc, dir., U of California’s Lawrence Radiation Lab, elected directors of United Electrodynamics Inc. . . . Dr. Don R. Scheuch, Stanford Research Institute weapons systems lab mgr., appointed asst. div. dir. for supervision of research in radio systems, electromagnetics, weapons systems & communication & propagation labs. Anti-trust spotlight will be focused this year on corporate mergers in electronics fields, according to Asst. Attorney General Victor R. Hansen. “Newly emerging industries” will be watched for infractions of anti-mergei' Sec. 7 of the Clayton Act, the Justice Dept.’s anti-trust div. chief told a Fordham U law institute in N. Y., adding: “By this approach we hope to prevent in the incipient stage the development of industrial max’ket structures which, if not inhibited by govt, action, would ultimately expand the concentrated sectors of our economy.” Hansen said that special attention now to “such new & growing industries of tomorrow as chemicals, plastics & electronics” will be insurance against the “pattern of concentration which today plagues autos & steel.” “World Advertising Man of The Year” is the honor bestowed on Sies W. Numann by the International Advertising Assn. He supervises a $40-million ad and p.r. budget for Philips of Eindhoven, world-distributing Dutch electronics complex. Numann worked in the U.S. for Paul Block & Assocs., newspaper reps, and GM Export Corp. before returning to the Netherlands in 1928. The lAA meets in Vienna May 14-16. Philco has received military contracts worth more than $32 million in the last 2 weeks. Last week it was awarded an Air Force $18,715,141 pact for modernization of Aircom, the worldwide long-range air communication system. The preceding week, Philco won a $13.5 million Navy prime contract for Sidewinder air-to-air homing missiles. Pocket clock-radio was introduced recently by Roland Radio Corp., div. of Herold Radio & Electronics, Mt. Vernon, N.Y. “Transiclock” has 7 transistors, plays 200 hours on 4 penlight batteries. The price of the unit has not yet been set. Motorola enters instrumentation field with a batteryoperated transistorized AC voltmeter at $166.