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Richard Landsman, former manager oi<br />
the Alamo Drive-In, has been named city<br />
manager for the five Landsman-Richter<br />
drive-ins in San Antonio. John Burkhart<br />
succeeds him as manager of the Alamo.<br />
Barney Poblocki, Poblocki & Sons, announces<br />
the recent birth of a baby daughter,<br />
Mary Christine. The Poblockis have<br />
another child, David, who is now a year old.<br />
The Carrier Corp. announced its anticipation<br />
of a period of growth in the industry<br />
this year by introducing 47 new products<br />
in its 1950 dealer line, including 27<br />
units in size and types not heretofore offered<br />
by the firm.<br />
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New products range from room air conditioners<br />
to system weathermakers in capacities<br />
up to 75 tons, and other models in<br />
the line have been completely redesigned.<br />
John P. Newbury, president and general<br />
manager of the Eastman Gelatine Corp.,<br />
died February 2 at his home in Swampscott,<br />
Mass. He was 58 years old.<br />
Newbury was born in Boston and spent<br />
his entire business career in New England,<br />
associated with the manufacture of gelatine<br />
during most of his lifetime.<br />
Plans for increasing sales activity in<br />
theatre and industrial service during 1950<br />
were developed in Camden, N. J., during the<br />
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annual district managers' meeting of the<br />
technical service division of the RCA Service<br />
Co. recently. The five-day meeting was<br />
presided over by E. C. Cahill, president of<br />
the RCA Service Co. and C. M. Odorizzi,<br />
vice-president of RCA in charge of sei-vice.<br />
The appointment of George L. McKenna<br />
as assistant to W. W. Watts, vice-president<br />
in charge of the RCA Engineering Products<br />
department, was announced recently.<br />
Prior to his new appointment, McKenna<br />
was manager of the industrial products section<br />
of the engineering products department.<br />
Since joining RCA in 1945, he has<br />
served as manager of organization planning<br />
and assistant director of personnel in<br />
the general office, as well as merchandise<br />
planning manager in the engineering products<br />
department sales staff.<br />
McKenna also holds a part-time post as<br />
a lecturer on industry at the Wharton<br />
school of the University of Pennsylvania.<br />
Stuart G. Lyon has joined with Worthington<br />
Pump and Machinery Corp. in organizing<br />
a new company, Lyon Industries,<br />
Inc., to distribute manual and coin-operated<br />
beverage vending machines. This company<br />
has acquired the rights, designs and<br />
patents formerly held on beverage vending<br />
machines by Lymo Industries, Inc., and<br />
Lion Manufacturing Corp., both of Chicago.<br />
Lyon Industries, Inc., will set up headquarters<br />
at 342 Madison avenue. New York<br />
City. Service headquarters and warehousing<br />
facilities have also been set up at Long<br />
Island City, N. Y.<br />
Officers of the firm include: Stuart G.<br />
Lyon, president; Frank J. Whelan, vicepresident;<br />
and Don S. Reynolds, chief<br />
engineer.<br />
The Alton Mfg. Co. is proud of a 1949<br />
production record that details the installation<br />
of air conditioning in an even 50<br />
theatres. Among them the Capitan and<br />
Granada, of the Isley circuit, are but two<br />
of the outstanding Texas houses,<br />
V. W. Sheplin has been appointed sales<br />
manager for the drive-in department of<br />
the Theatre Equipment Co., Toledo, announced<br />
Al Boudouris, president. Boudouris<br />
said the appointment was in line<br />
with expansion of the company's operations<br />
necessitated by increased business.<br />
Sheplin nas been associated with the<br />
drive-in industry for a number of years.<br />
The appointment of Carl A. Day as head<br />
of manufacturing at Bausch & Lomb Optical<br />
Co. was announced in mid-February<br />
by Theodore B. Drescher, vice-president in<br />
charge of manufacturing. Drescher will<br />
now devote full time to development of the<br />
company's methods, processes, and modernization<br />
of manufacturing facilities.<br />
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A NEW SLIDE FILM, "F^'emont Opens the<br />
Door," depicting the history and growth<br />
of the F^-emont Rubber Co.. has been<br />
created for showing at dealer-distributor<br />
meetings.<br />
76 The MODERN THEATRE SECTION
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