Weekly television digest (Jan-Dec 1961)

VOL. 17: No. 7 21 Trade Personals: Frederick J. Kopesky, ex-Packard Bell planning dir., formerly with RCA, named product sales mgr., Sears sales dept., Warwick Mfg. Corp., with responsibility for Silvertone brand line . . . Richard W. Hanselnian promoted to mgr., radio & “Victrola” product line development, RCA Sales Corp. John Dundas Campbell elevated from exec, vp to pres., Canadian Westinghouse, succeeding George L. Wilcox, now vp & asst, to pres, of parent Westinghouse Electric (Vol. 17:6 pl9); D. C. Marrs named Canadian Westinghouse consumer products vp . . . J. Howard Schumacher Jr., ex-SMPTE, named EIA staff engineer for parts div., headquartering in N.Y. Walter H. Powell, operations vp, elected to International Resistance board; Robert A. Bailey, former industrial sales mgr., named dir. of special product mktg. . . . Warren C. Wilson, ex-Servomechanisms, joins Eitel-McCullough as ad & sales promotion mgr. . . . Hamish T. Law, ex-Ferranti Ltd. (Scotland), appointed microwave engineering mgr., Westinghouse tube div. A1 Silvers, ex-Philco Distributors (N.Y.), named national sales mgr., Transistor World Corp. (Toshiba) . . . E. D. Graham appointed operations vp for Casco Products Corp., appliance-manufacturing subsidiary of Standard Kollsman . . . Richard A. Campbell named exec, vp., Pacific Semiconductors Inc. (Thompson Ramo Wooldridge). Henry F. Callahan named a senior vp, Sylvania, taking charge of lighting-products div. operations. He replaces Frank J. Healy, who continues to head semiconductor div. operations. Kevin J. Joyce named supervisor, entertainment equipment sales, Midwestern region, Sylvania electronic tube div., succeeding W. J. Peterson, who was recently named receiving-tubes & cathode-ray tubes product mgr. . . . Richard L. Knight appointed finance senior vp, General Dynamics; Edward J. Williams named mfg. vp . . . William A. Rabe, ex-Avco, appointed mgr., new surface-radar & electronic-warfare development lab, General Dynamics /Electronics military products div. Robert S. Senator, ex-ITT, named mgr., Philco computer systems engineering lab . . . William J. deFremery, Intel-national Rectifier Corp. foreign sales dir., named a vp . . . Robert Bruce promoted from govt, sales mgr., RCA electronic data-processing div. to new post of mgr., govt.mktg., commercial-systems dept, in the same div. . . . Richard A. Campbell promoted from Pacific Semiconductors operations vp to exec, vp in charge of 4 new divs. formed by the company to accelerate mktg. & development in semiconductor operations . . . Lewis T. Stein promoted from product merchandiser to dealer-div. mgr., Allied Radio, succeeding Sanford Levey, resigned. Jerry Drapekin promoted from merchandise controller to succeed Stein. Promotion committee of 5 TV retailers to coordinate the activities of “Operation Snowball” was named last week. All are NARDA members: NARDA Pres. Victor P. Joerndt (Joerndt & Ventura, Kenosha, Wis.), Mort Farr (Mort Farr, Upper Darby, Pa.), Joseph R. Whelan (Gerhard’s Inc., Glenside, Pa.), M. B. Majors (Vesta Co., North Kansas City, Mo.), and Samuel M. Boyd (Bailey-Wagner Inc., Springfield, Mass.). Obituary Samuel A. Ferguson, 44, vp-gen. mgr., Sylvania Electronic’s Mountain View operations, died Feb. 5 of a malignant tumor in Palo Alto, Cal. His wife and 3 sons survive. EIA Spring Conference in Washington March 14-17 will be highlighted by an address by Lt. Gen. Bernard A. Schreiver, commander of the Air Force Air Research & Development Command at the annual govt.-industry dinner March 16 at the Statler Hilton Hotel. Other top items on the agenda: (1) EIA Electronic Imports Committee, headed by Robert C. Sprague, will present recommendations to the Association’s Board. Horace B. McCoy, pres, of the Trade Relations Council, will address the March 16 luncheon on the subject of imports, following which the legislative outlook for import controls will be discussed. (2) Govt.-industry panel discussion on the Darnell Report on Parts Specification Management for Reliability will be featured March 15. (3) “Planning for Limited War Requirements” will be the topic of the first-day session March 14. (4) Committees & sections will meet March 15, divisions March 16, EIA Board March 17. Electronic component output suffered a contra-seasonal 5% drop in 1960’s 3rd quarter, the Commerce Dept.’s Business & Defense Services Administration reported. Most of the decline in the period, which normally brings the year’s peak in component shipments, was attributed to cuts in output for military end-use. However, a leveling-off in consumer equipment also was noted. Shipments of TV picture tubes, quartz crystals and transformers exceeded 2nd quarter levels last year, but other 3rd-quarter component shipments either dropped or stayed static. ‘Kill the antenna, not the bird,” advertises Levittown, N.J. home-builder Levitt & Sons, adding: “We felt the rooftop was beautified neither by the antenna nor the birds. So in doing away with one, we said good-by to the other. What we did was build inside the house — a TV-FM antenna system. The view outside is unmarred, yet reception is better than ever. As for the birds, they’re off to find new places to roost.” “Cook-it-yourself” electronic cafeteria, which uses radar beams to transform pre-cooked, refrigerated dinners into steaming-hot meals within 60 seconds, was demonstrated by Raytheon recently. The Radarange microwave oven is designed to replace steam tables & automatic vendors. Radarange dept. mgr. Ralph E. Leader predicts that more than 3,000 industrial plants will be equipped with the electronic cafeteria by 1965. New approach to packaged-component hi fi: Choose your cabinet, then pick your components. York County Chair Co. and Rek-O-Kut Corp. have joined forces in the venture, which gives consumers a choice of 3 component packages ($150, $350, $550) and a variety of 72-in. cabinets (about $200 each). Any package may be mounted in any cabinet. The cabinets are matched to other York County furniture ensembles such as dining room suites, etc. EIA’s latest manuals for electronics servicemen: Satisfying Customers for Profit (Howard W. Sams & Co.), a guide to the solution of servicemen’s customer-relations problems. Industrial Electronics: Laboratory Manual for Electronics Technicians (McGraw-Hill), which presents 39 experiments “to provide the student with an understanding of basic circuits & their application.” The manuals arc being distributed by EIA member-companies. Raytheon has developed an electronic switch that turns off or on in less than one-billionth of a second. The company says the switch is faster than any other available type, and can more than double the output of computers. Webcor will spend $900,000 this spring to advertise its ’61 tape recorders, portable & console phonos & radios,