Weekly television digest (Jan-Dec 1963)

'I NEW SERIES VOL. 3, No. 3 TELEVISION DIGEST— II , Trade Personals 1 J. A. Winfield resigns Jan. 25 as Philco Consumer j Products Div. special mktg. mgr. to join Knox Glass Co. as ' finance vp; E. E. Bareuther resigns same day as Philco i| asst, treas. Roy J. Benecchi, ex-Lear vp, elected Capehart pres.; I J. D. Winer is chmn. George Simkowski resigns as pres., Webcor Sales Co.; i‘ no successor named . . . Fred Zeller, ex-Benton & Bowles, (. named to new post of ad & promotion mgr., Harman'I Kardon. ! Dr. Robert Adler, Zenith vp & associate research dir., , appointed research dir., succeeding Dr. Alexander Ellett, I who assumes new position of special scientific projects vp; Erwin M. Roschke named asst, dir., & admin, mgr. of ( research. Dr. Bertrand Miller asst, research dir. |, Roy E. Drew, controller & asst, treas. of Plax Corp., (| returns to Sylvania as controller, succeeding John E. Rhodes, who recently resigned to become controller of ' Schlumberger Ltd. . . . J. Robert Peltz, ex-new products i sales mgr., appointed photoconductor operations mgr., : Sylvania Electronic Tube Div. I E. Finley Carter resigns as Stanford Research Insti I tute pres., succeeded by Dr. Karl Folkers. Carter, onetime 1 Sylvania vp, will continue active in SRI research activities, i serve as senior management counselor & a dir. . . . Nicholas I Glyptis, former Multi-Tron Lab pres., named Wen Products j chief scientist. I Earl T. Holst elected NAEDA pres.; Mort Farr elected ' legislative committee chmn., succeeded as Association chmn. by C. D. McMullin. Other elections: Samuel M. Boyd, exec, committee chmn.; Upton Ziesler, treas.; Samuel Singer, secy.; Billy Yates, Dave Brinton & James Fulford, I vps. John W. Craig named Westinghouse special accounts ■| vp & gen. mgr., succeeded as Major Appliance Div. gen. .‘i| mgr. by Charles E. Erb. J. A. (Shine) Milling, Howard W. Sams’ Sams Div. >; pres., appointed acting chmn., EIA Parts Div., pending elecl| tion of replacement for Allen K. Shenk, recently-resigned Erie Resistor mktg. vp, who has joined Van Products, Erie, I Pa., as mktg. mgr. I William C. Waggoner Jr., Warwick Mfg. vp & control" ler, elected a dir. . . . Joseph A. Rider, onetime RCA, '! elected vp & comptroller of ITT’s subsidiary Royal Electric ■| Corp. j Abe Schwartzman, former exec, administrator. Institute of High Fidelity Mfrs., named to new post of mgr., I national accounts, Sony Corp. of America. Dr. E. M. Baldwin, founder of Rheem Semiconductor Corp. & vp-gen. mgr. of operation since it became Raytheon’s Mountain View (Cal.) facility, resigns; Kenneth M. Lord, recently appointed Raytheon Semiconductor Div. vpgen. mgr., will also direct Mountain View operation & headquarter there. 1 John L. Porter Jr. elected exec, vp of TV Shares Management Corp.; Pres. John Hawkinson elected a dir. ! Albert C. Gubitz named GE Receiving Tube Dept, ad & sales promotion mgr., succeeding Richard D. Kennedy, recently advanced to home convenience product sales mgr. Mrs. F. Edward (Patty) Cavin named RCA Washington, D. C. public affairs mgr. Dr. E. Eastwood promoted to Marconi Co. engineering & research dir. . . . Richard J. Goldberg named Technicolor Corp. research & development vp. David E. Rubin appointed purchasing vp by BlonderTongue Labs . . . Dr. Gordon K. Teal named technical dir. of Texas Instruments’ International Div. Hugo Sundberg, recently succeeded as Oxford Electric Corp. pres, by Chmn. Joseph D. Ceader (Vol. .3:1 p9), named pres, of new Oxford Electric Co. sales subsidiary; Sidney J. Unger named vice chmn. of parent company & chmn. of newly formed management-executive directorate. Robert I. Minsky, a dir.. Pres. Ceader, exec, vp Leon Sadacca & A. M. Dresner, a dir., also named to management-executive directorate. Richard S. Leghorn, former Itek pres., named pres. & a dir. of Perini Electronic, San Mateo, Cal., succeeding Mark R. Sullivan, resigned. Seymour Wald named United Scientific Labs chmn.pres., succeeding his late father David Wald (Vol. 2:50 Pl5). Don Cinalia appointed mgr. of Jerrold Electronics’ Industrial Products Div. Obituarfi Edwin Steward Pridham, 81, inventor and co-founder with the late Richard O’Connor of Magnavox in 1911, died Jan. 12 at his Oakland, Cal. home. Pridham had been a Magnavox vp, continued to serve company as an advisor until his retirement 2 years ago. Mrs. Clarissa H. Thomson, 87, the widow of GE founder Elihu Thompson, died Jan. 14 in Beverly, Mass. Nov. factory sales of TV picture & receiring tubes declined sharply in both units & dollars from Nov. 1961, EIA reported. Unit sales of TV pictirre tubes sloughed off to 742,162 from Nov.-1961’s 835,929. Dollar volume dropped to $14,265,231 from $16,896,809. For year to date, sales fell nearly 200,000 units & more than $10.5 million from Jan.-Nov. 1961. Receiving tube unit sales dropped in Nov. to 28,842,000 from 32,636,000 a year earlier. Dollar value slipped to $24,085,000 from $26,561,000. For 1962’s Jan.Nov. period, sales trailed 1961’s first 11 months by nearly 11 million units & $7 million. Here are EIA’s figures: Picture Tubes Receivins; Tubes Units Dollars Units Dollars January 802,061 16,625,304 29,692,000 24,789,000 February 733,670 13,944,313 27,977,000 23,841,000 March 817,8.30 15,680,149 34,884,000 29,748,000 April 768,639 14,263,426 31,016,000 26,838,000 May 703,266 13,676,669 30,341,000 26,802,000 June 740,788 14,262,844 29,649,000 24,687,000 July 666,022 11,064,367 24,122,000 19,612,000 August 796,121 15,035,830 34,646,000 29,222,000 September 866,612 16,637,417 31,640,000 25,327,000 October 879,688 16,678,099 32,267,000 26,440,000 November 742,162 14,265,231 28,842,000 24,085,000 Jan.-Nov. 1962 8,404,548 $160,913,628 335,010,000 $279,026,000 Jan.-Nov. 1961 8,597,571 171,454,087 345,954,000 286,014,000 Westinghouse denied FTC charges that its rebuilt TV picture tubes are falsely advertised as new (Vol. 2:50 pl5). Company said that although some of its replacement tubes are made with used glass envelopes, all pai’ts are new, thus are not rebuilt tubes as term is commonly defined or understood by public, trade or FTC.