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AUDIO OSCILLATOR: 400 cycles at 60 ohms
output impedance ie n vailable for external use
-terminals on panel
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4/dÁth the
INDUSTRY
AEROVOX CORPORATION is building a
condenser plant in Monrovia, California
to provide components for West
Coast electronics manufacturers. Production
is expected to start early this
summer ... K. C. BURCAW & CO. has
moved to new offices in Suite 207, 22128
Grand River Ave., Detroit 19. The company
represents several well -known
electronics manufacturers ... PCA
ELECTRONICS, INC. has recently moved
into a new plant at 2180 Colorado St.,
Santa Monica, Calif.... Construction
has been started on an extensive addition
to the existing TECHNICAL APPLI-
ANCE CORP. plant in Sherburne, N. Y.
This is the fourth such addition since
the firm moved to Sherburne in 1948
. . . The Rectifier Div. of SARKES TAR-
ZIAN. INC. is adding a two -story structure
to its present plant in Bloomington,
Ind. . RAYTHEON MFG. CO.
will erect a 100,000 square foot plant
adjacent to its present receiving tube
plant on Centre Street in South Quin -
cy. Bass. . . . HICKOK ELECTRICAL IN-
STRUMENT CO. has completed a new
assembly plant at 10626 Leuer Ave. in
Cleveland ... AUDIO & VIDEO PROD-
UCTS CORP. has opened a new office in
Washington, D. C. at 100 Indiana Ave.,
N.W. R. E. Hadahay will continue to
direct the Washington operation . . .
PEERLESS RADIO DISTRIBUTORS has
added a complete new wing to its present
warehouse at 92 -32 Merrick Rd. in
Jamaica, N. Y.... PACKARD -BELL CO.
has broken ground for a new factory
addition at 12333 W. Olympic Blvd. in
Los Angeles. The new building will
provide 95,000 sq. feet of production
facilities.
* *
ROBERT C. SPRAGUE has resigned as
itii',itltvlt t1( Spr,tpiie Electric Co., according
to an announcement
made
by Julian K.
Sprague, spokesman
for the company's
board of directors.
Mr. Sprague found-
ed the company in
Quincy, Massachusetts
in 1926. The
firm has now grown until it operates
nine plants in six different cities. Details
of Mr. Sprague's future plans will
be announced at a later date.
The board of directors elected Julian
Sprague to the post of president, succeeding
his brother. The new president
has been with the firm since shortly
after its founding.
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RIMA has promoted two men and added
a member to the staff at its Washington
headquarters.
Peter H. Cousins, who has been information
director of RTMA for sev-
eral years, has been appointed special
assistant to the technical products
division.
Tyler Nourse, who served as assistant
information director under Mr.
Cousins, has been promoted to the post
of editorial director in charge of RTMA
publications.
Herbert Francis Hodge, Jr. of Silver
Spring, Md., formerly in government
information service, has joined the
RTMA headquarters staff as an edi-
torial assistant to Mr. Nourse.
s i
MONTE COHEN has been elected president
of Ccncrul Instrument Corporation,
radio, television,
and electronic
component manufacturer.
He was formerly
executive vice- president
of the company
and president of the
F. W. Sickles Division,
a wholly -owned
subsidiary since March 1951. He is now
president of both companies.
Mr. Cohen has been in the radio industry
since 1916 and has since been
identified with several well -known
firms. He is a former director of RTMA
and a member of the IRE and VWOA.
s
WALTER LEFEBRE is the new director of
new television market development for
the radio and television division of Sylvania
Electric Products Inc. . . Motorola
Inc. has named WALTER SCOTT
to the post of vice -president in charge
of manufacturing in the consumer
products division and JOHN SILVER
vice- president in charge of operations
for the communications and electronics
division ... DEMPSTER McINTOSH has
resigned as president of Philco International
Corp. to open his own export
offices in New York. SYDNEY CAPELL,
vice -president and general manager of
the company's Canadian operations,
has been named to fill the post . .
PAUL DYE has been named to the newly-
created post of general sales manager
of Admiral Corporation. He has
been with the firm since 1946
Brush Electronics Co., formerly The
Brush Development Co., has made two
new appointments of interest to the
industry. ROBERT P. LEON is the new
manager of the vape recorder department
while D. L. DALE has been named
to an executive sales post with the
same department .. . JAY J. GREEN -
GARD is now the general manager for
Waldom Electronics, Inc. of Chicago
Airborne Instruments Laboratory,
Inc. has appointed MATTHEW T. LEBEN-
BAUM as supervisor of the newlformed
applied electronics section of
its research and engineering division
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