Weekly television digest (Jan-Dec 1963)

NEW SERIES VOL 3, No. 39 Trade Personals TELEVISION DIGEST-n William E. Boss, longtime (15 years) RCA TV executive & color TV coordinator, and most recently exec, vp of distributor Southern Wholesalers, Washington, D.C., joins Admiral as b&w TV sales mgr., a new post. Joel J. Zimmer, former asst, to pres., elected vp of Symphonic Electronic Corp. and its subsidiary Symphonic Radio & Electronic Corp. Milton Selkowitz, former national sales mgr. of defunct CBS Electronics' Columbia Phonograph Dept., and gen. mgr. for past year of Sealy Mattress (Vol. 2:49 pll), joins Audio Dynamics, New Milford, Conn, audio components maker, as mktg. dir. John L. Burns, former RCA pres., now Rawlings Corp. chmn. (Vol. 3:36 pll), elected to boards of General Battery & Ceramic Corp. and Russell, Burdsall & Ward Bolt & Nut Co. He's also a dir. of A & P, Oxford Paper Co., Worthington Corp. and State National Bank of Conn. , and a consultant to RCA . Webcor forms 3-man management team— Paul Roth, marketing, John Luttrell, finance, Herbert Gumz, manufacturing-reporting to Chnm.-Pres. Tltus Haifa. John Hanway promoted to ITT administrative dir. Milton J. Shapp, Jerrold chmn.-pres., receives "President's Achievement Award" from alma mater Case Institute of Technology. Frederick T. Henry promoted to commercial product engineering, Sylvania Home & Commercial Electronics Div. S. Edward Franklin joins General Instrument' s F. W. Sickles Div. as operations vp, headquartering at Chicopee, Mass. Harold J. Ruetz appointed mgr. of Dominion Electrohome's new Product Development Div.; Leo F. Fitzpatrick, consumer products gen. sales mgr., also named Consumer Products Div. mgr.; Norman E. Bartlett, private trade label sales mgr., also appointed Private Trade Label Div. mgr. Charles J. O'Donnell appointed Standard Kollsman Industries operations vp. James W, Evans promoted to exec, vp of Hazeltine's Hazeltine Electronics Div. Charles O. Cary named mktg. vp, Hazeltine's Hazel|tine Electronics Div.; M. S, Wilson appointed vp. Theodore L, Jacobsen appointed mktg. dir. of Litton Industries' Westrex International Div. Robert J. Stahl named Sylvania product planning mgr., a new post. . .Harvey G. Foster appointed GT&E Service Corp. security dir. Walter W. Slocum, International Resistance pres. , I elected a Leeds & Northnip dir. . . John H. Rubel, former I Asst. Defense Secy, for research & engineerir^, named ( Litton Industries vp & technical planning dir. I I Lou Burdick rejoins Webcor as distribution mgr. , (I succeeded by Harry Ellis as Argus Inc. tape recorders ■■ product mgr. Ellis also continues as catalog sales merI chandise mgr. I Everett F. Carter named mfg. mgr., Sylvania ChemI ical & Metallurgical Div., a new post. Dr. Elmer W. Engstrom, RCA pres. , receives first annual Aerospace Electrical Society award Oct. 9 in Los Angeles for his contributions to data processing management techniques in aerospace industry; others to be honored by AES are NASA administrator James E. Webb and Rep. George P. Miller. (DCal. ). Dr. Robert N. Hall, GE Research Labs physicist, will receive IEEE's David Sarnoff Award in Electronics at Oct. 30 National Electronics Conference, Chicago, "for his outstanding contribution to the scientific understanding of semiconductors and for their application to electronics." John P. Buchan, Ampex finance vp & treas. , also named controller, succeeding John N. Latter, recently appointed Consumer Products Div. vp-gen. mgr. (Vol. 3:37 pll). Robert G. Shortal, onetime vp asst, financial editor, joins RCA's Public Affairs staff. Leonard L, Rosenleld promoted to Jerrold mgr. of manufacturing. Obituaries Emil J. Simon, 74, radio communications pioneer and founder & pres, of Intercity Radio Telegraph Co. , died Sept. 14 of heart attack at Midtown Hospital, N. Y. He had numerous radio developments to his credit: Simon radioguide, host of military communications devices. Intercity Radio Telegraph, founded in early 1920s, linked 6 cities. It was liquidated in early 1930s. During World War n, Simon directed production of military radio equipment at Radio Navigational Instrument Co. , N. Y. , was a radio consultant in his later years. Howard G. Stokes, 75, retired AT&T radio ad mgr., died Sept. 21 in St. Luke's Hospital, Utica, N. Y. He joined Bell System in 1911 as ad copywriter, retired in 1948. Several of his posts included: educational dept, development mgr. of Western Electric subsidiary Electrical Research Products (1929-31), AT&T ad supervisor (1936), radio ad mgr. (1946). He is survived by widow, son, daughter. Extension of deadline for filing replies to Symphonic's treble-damage anti-trust suit (Vol. 3:29 p7) was requested last week by attorneys for Nippon Electric N. Y. Inc. and Sumitomo Shoji N. Y. Inc. , firms named among defendants. The firms are scheduled to file motions in N. Y. Federal Court Oct. 1 to postpone date for answering complaint from Oct. 7 to Dec. 7. Both firms claimed their investigations required much work in Japan. Attorney for NEC N. Y. is Robert L. Clare Jr. of Shearman & Sterling; Sumitomo Shoji N. Y. 's counsel is Stewart W. Richards of Beer, Richards & Haller. Symphonic is represented by Milton R. Wessel of Keye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler. Admiral has been guilty of discriminating in prices and promotional allowances to its TV, radio and other product retailers, FTC examiner Loren H. Laughlin charged in an initial decision. He reported that Admiral in 1956 & 1957 charged larger dealers lower prices than their smaller competitors for the same products in Milwaukee, N. Y. and District of Columbia trading areas. Promotional allowances to certain retailers were not made equally available to competitors, he also charged, and called for desist order.