Television digest with electronic reports (Jan-Dec 1953)

13 lift to market these days is to be expected, what with new network shows, and the upcoming football season, World Series, etc. * # * * TV production totaled 141,522 (5437 private label) week ended Sept. 11, down from 160,070 preceding week and 166,383 week ended Aug. 28. It was the year's 36th week, compared with 156,987 corresponding week in 1952, and bring' s year's total output thus far to approximately 5,150,000. Radio production also declined, totaling 225,978 (92,369 private), down from 233,864 week ended Sept. 4 and 239,454 week before, compared with 208,809 in 1952. Week's radios: 88,724 home, 29,734 portable, 32,148 clock, 75,372 auto. Trade Personals: Sol W. Gross rejoins Emerson as sales v.p., having resigned in 1944 as a director and v.p. for production & purchasing to form Tele-tone, now out of business; most recently he was Pacific Mercury’s eastern sales rep. David J. Hopkins continues as sales & adv. director, reporting to Gross . . . Robert E. Peterson, exec, v.p., Standard Coil Products Co., has taken 3 months leave of absence to recuperate from recent illness . . . Wm. L. Dunn, Raytheon v.p. for sales & engineering, resigns to accept undisclosed connection outside TV industry; Dan Halpin, DuMont, succeeds him as chairman of RETMA sales mgrs. committee . . . Harry Schecter, ex-gen. mgr. of CBS-Columbia Distributors Inc., N. Y., elected CBS-Columbia sales v.p.; Mort Barron promoted to adv. operations mgr. . . . Elwood W. Schafer, ex-GE & RCA, recently v.p. of National Union Radio Corp., named asst, to Charles F. Stromeyer, CBS-Hytron manufacturing-engineering v.p. . . . Glen McDaniel, RETMA president, appointed chairman of international & comparative law committee, American Bar Assn. . . . Henri G. Busignies, technical director of IT&T’s Federal Telecommunications Labs, appointed a v.p. and member of management advisory hoard . . . Edward Schulz, ex-NYU professor of management & industrial relations, named RCA Labs personnel director . . . Nathanial M. Marshall promoted to eastern district mgr., General Precision Labs, in new sales setup under TV dept. mgr. E. Arthur Hungerford Jr.; Edward Manzo assigned as southeastern mgr. out of Atlanta, and Robert F. Johnston, exWILL, Champaign, 111., named midwest mgr., Chicago . . . Jack D. Hughes, Littlefuse sales v.p., promoted to v.p. & operations gen. mgr. . . . Stanley Niciejewski appointed sales mgr., Sarkes Tarzian rectifier div.; Alfred D’Urso named asst. mgr. for distributor sales, Fred Lucas asst. mgr. for industrial sales . . . Isadore Waber, ex-Radio Electric Service Co., named sales v.p. of C-B-C Electronics Co., Philadelphia, producing TV tube brighteners . . . Allen N. White, exBendix Radio, named sales promotion mgr., Westinghouse TV-radio div., succeeding Fred S. McCarthy, resigned . . . Ed Berliant has organized Ed-Berl Products Inc., 7 Garden PI., Baldwin, L. I., manufacturing electronic tool kits. New RETMA committee chairmen, elected at industry conference this week in N. Y. : Max Balcom, Sylvania, for TV-radio industry; F. R. Lack, Western Electric, for electronics industry. Other RETMA actions: (1) Authorized 9 new div. directors. (2) Added 14 new members, bringing membership to 355. (3) Authorized pres. Glen McDaniel to oppose any move to classify subscription TV as common carrier. (4) Approved office of paid mgr. for electronics affairs. Walter S. Marder, Daystrom Furniture, elected pres, of National Assn, of Furniture Mfrs., succeeding Wm. Brenner, Wm. Brenner Industries. John M. Snow, exNational Sales Executives Inc., elected exec, secy., succeeding J. C. McCarthy, retired. Distributor Notes: CBS-Columbia Distributors Inc., New York, appoints Martin L. Scher, ex-IT&T Distributing Corp. (Capehart-Farnsworth) , as gen. mgr., succeeding Harry Schecter, new CBS-Columbia sales v.p. . . . Capehart-Farnsworth appoints Callander Distributing Corp., Columbus, O. (D. G. Callander, pres.); Allied Distributing Co., Omaha (W. H. Ricke, gen. mgr.) and Appliance Wholesalers Inc., San Antonio (Emory A. Roscheni, pres.) . . . Emerson appoints Woodward Wight & Co., New Orleans (L. C. Deckbar, pres.) . . . Lone Star Wholesalers, Dallas Bendix distributor, adds Crosley TV line; Apollo Distributing Co., Newark (Crosley & Bendix) appoints Wm. H. Jarvis sales mgr. . . . DuMont N. Y. factory branch names Harry Ripps as sales mgr., succeeding Philip P. Geth, now gen. mgr. . . . Arvin names Banks-Miller Supply Co., Huntington, W. Va.; McCutcheon Distributing Co., Pittsburgh (Arvin) elects Charles E. Klein pres., succeeding Earl McCutcheon, resigned . . . Olympic Radio forms Olympic of So. California Inc. (John Tracy, pres.), 6101 So. Central Ave., Los Angeles, as L.A. area distributor . . . Bruno-New York Inc. (RCA Victor) names Norman Axelband sales promotion mgr. . . . Sacramento Electronics, Sacramento (Raytheon) appoints Edward C. Berick sales mgr. . . . Westinghouse Electric Supply Co., Los Angeles, names George W. Oliver, ex-Leo J. Meyberg Co. (RCA) as sales promotion mgr. of consumer products . . . Canadian Admiral Sales Ltd., 207 Second Ave. W., Vancouver, B.C., has been set up to distribute in British Columbia and the Yukon . . . Capehart appoints Coby Distributors Inc., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (Stanley Green, pres.) and PaulJeffret Co., Syracuse (Samuel P. Solomon, pres.). New National Electronic Distributors Assn, officers elected this week at St. Louis convention: pres., Dahl W. Mack, Scranton Radio & Television Supply Co., Scranton, succeeding W. D. Jenkins; exec, v.p., L. B. Calamaras, Chicago, reelected; 1st v.p., Anthony Dabowski, Dymac Inc., Buffalo; 2nd v.p., J. V. Tonahill, Scooter’s Radio Supply Co., Ft. Worth; secy., Albert Steinberg, Albert Steinberg & Co., Philadelphia; treas., R. C. Whitehead, Whitehead Radio Co., Columbus, O. Reelected chairman was Aaron Lippman, Aaron Lippman & Co., Newark, with following board members: J. G. Prestwood Jr., Prestwood Electronics Co., Augusta, Ga.; John G. Bowman, J. G. Bowman & Co., Chicago; R. V. Weatherford, R. V. Weatherford Co., Glendale, Cal.; H. Tory Horn, Western Electronic Supply Co., Seattle; Henry F. Morrison, Morrison’s Radio Supply Co., Ashtabula, O.; H. M. Carpenter, Thurow Distributors Inc., Tampa. Dr. Colin G. Fink, 71, one of world’s leading chemists, whose inventions included discovery of tungsten filament, died Sept. 17 in Red Bank, N. J. As a GE researcher, he developed copper-clad nickel and steel lead-in wire to substitute for platinum in electron tubes and lamps. Walter M. Skillman, 55, mgr. of marketing administion for GE’s TV-radio div., ex-GE district mgr. in Dallas, died in Lankenau Hospital, Philadelphia, Sept. 15.