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TECHNICAL APPLIANCE CORPORATION
SHERBURNE, N. Y.
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Box MG,
Technical Appliance Corporation,
Sherburne, N. Y.
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ARTHUR L. B. RICHARDSON has been
elected secretary and general counsel
of Sylvania Electric
Products Inc. He
succeeds John S.
Learoyd who retired
on August 1st.
Mr. Richardson
has been general
counsel for the company
since 1953. He
joined the firm in
1945 as patent attorney and in the same
year was appointed manager of the patent
law department. In 1950 he was
named general attorney for the company
and in 1953 was elected general
counsel.
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JFD MANUFACTURING COMPANY has
expanded its facilities to include a new
electronic penthouse - laboratory atop
its main plant at 6101 16th Ave. in
Brooklyn ... Expansion of facilities and
personnel of OAK MFG. CO.'s Advance
Development Laboratory in Rockville
Centre, Long Island has been announced
by the firm's Chicago headquarters .
A new $100,000 building housing offices,
studios, and laboratories has been
opened by NORTHWEST RADIO AND
TELEVISION SCHOOL in Portland, Oregon.
The modern building contains 7000
square feet of space to help serve the
more than 500 new students enrolled
each month . . . BURTON BROWNE AD-
VERTISING has opened a branch office at
562 Fifth Avenue in New York . . .
TEMPEL MANUFACTURING COMPANY
has added a new administration building
to its facilities at Bryn Mawr and
Damen in Chicago. The company now
has 14 modern buildings comprising
43,000 square feet on an 81 acre tract
. CHICAGO TELEPHONE SUPPLY COR-
PORATION of Elkhart, Ind. has opened
a West Coast office at 928 S. Robertson
Blvd. in Los Angeles. Robert A. Stack -
house is in charge of the new facility
... JEFF MARKELL ASSOCIATES has
moved to 764 Sixth Avenue in New
York City.
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WILLIAM W. WEXLER is the new advertising
and sales promotion manager of
the equipment sales
division of Raytheon
Manufacturing Company.
In his new post he
will be responsible for
advertising and sales
promotion for the industrial
and compo-
nent products groups,
the marketing servicing
reporting to
manager.
Before joining the Waltham firm, he
was with Murray Manufacturing Cor-
poration of Brooklyn, N.Y. where for
the first three years he was responsible
for advertising and sales promotion and
for the past year for the marketing research
programs.
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THOMAS M. BLAKE has been named
president of Littelfuse, Inc. of Des
Plaines, Ill. For the
past eight years he
has been executive
vice -president of the
firm.
In his new position,
Mr. Blake will
take over the re-
sponsibilities f o r -
merly handled by
E. V. Sundt, chairman of the board. Mr.
Sundt, who will continue as a technical
consultant to the company, retains his
chairmanship of the board.
Mr. Blake joined the company at its
incorporation in 1938. Prior to that,
time he was with the Chicago office of
General Outdoor Advertising Company
for nine years.
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RICHARD G. BENNETT has joined the Andrew
Corporation as sales engineer with
headquarters in Chicago . . Rockbar
Corporation has named ED STRAW as
national sales and advertising manager
for Collaro record changers, turntables,
pickups, etc. He has been with the
company's distribution program since
1951 ... MILTON C. PERLMUTTER has
been elected executive vice -president
in charge of sales and merchandising
for TeleTone Co. of America. He will
continue his present duties as vice -
president of B & R Electronics, the
parent company . . . JOHN C. TAYLOR
is the new merchandising supervisor for
Sylvania's equipment picture tube sales
department . Mycalex Corporation
has named RICHARD A. HUMPHREY as
chief of research and development at its
Clifton, N.J. plant ... JAMES M. FAR -
RELL. formerly eastern regional sales
manager for Crosley radio and television,
has been promoted to the newlycreated
post of field sales manager for
the division . . . ANDREW H. BERGE-
SON. who recently retired from active
duty with the U.S. Navy with the rank
of Captain, has been retained by Strom -
berg- Carlson as a consulting engineer
. The Potentiometer Division of Fairchild
Camera and Instrument Corpora-
tion has named THOMAS H. BAY to the
post of sales manager. He succeeds
STUART EDGERLY who resigned recently
The appointment of E. R. SLIGER
to the newly -created post of assistant
general sales manager has been announced
by the Electronic Tube Division
of Westinghouse . LAWRENCE
J. STRAW has been named general sales
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