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Coins Edgar Hoover medal to honor ex FBI chief By MORT REED The J. Edgar Hoover commemorative may bo some time in coming, but through the courtesy of Freedoms Foundation Award winner Ralph J. ilen enni, the designer and sculptor, we are able to show photographs of the complele artist's models. The medal will be issued by Presidential Art Medals, of Vandalia, Ohio ii371. Menconi captured the strong determined features of the No.

1 Man" on Hie nhverse, surrounded by '18 stars denoting his 48 years of public service as director nf the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The signature has been reproduced from a letter from Hoover to Menconi dated Feb. 2fi, 1970, during their discission of a portrait medal af Hoover. THE REVERSE depicts various elements from the FBi Stamps Belgium honors Patton Ry PAUL J. WEIS Copley News Service The United Stales Postal Service will produce a souvenir card honoring Belgica '72 for distribution in Brussels during that stamp exhibition.

Three stamp simulations with a Belgium affinily appears in color on the card, which was printed by the Bureau of Engraving and Trinting in limited supply. These are the flag of Belgium, in the overrun conn tries series of 193, the stamp of 1958 which shows the United Stales pavilion at the Universal and International Exhibition jn Brussels, and the a I George S. Patlon, Jr. commemorative of 1933. Belgium has issued a stamp honoring the soldier.

A brief commemoration of the exhibition and a description of the three slamps appears in Flemish and French over the of the Postmaster General. The souvenir cards will be available by mail order from Belgica Cards, Philatelic Saks Unit, Washington, D.C. 20036, at $1.00 each, ff ordered separately from this address, the customary service charge is waived. The card will also be available al the sales window of the Philatelic Sales Unit in Room 1315 at the headquarters building of the U.S. Po5lal Service, 12th and Pennsylvania Avenue N.W., Washing I en, D.C.

20260. IF YOU HAVE had trouble finding, and been disappointed 6 SUNday, JULY 2, sel, dominated by an unblind folded statue of Justice holding a set of balanced scales In her right hand and a sprig of laurel In her left. The main device is flanked on the right by the words Department of Justice and on the lef by Federal Bureau of Investigation. Supporting the figure of Jus lice is a scrolled banner bearing the mofto of the bureau: Fideli ty Bravery Integrity. Thirteen stars punctuate Ihe various components.

The medal will be issued In a limited edifion in antique bronze, 5,000 serially numbered pure silver, and 5O0 one lOih 14 karal gold filled with a 21 karat gold finish, Delivery is not expected until October but due to production limitations, plus advance reservations, R. James Harper, president of Presidential Art Medals, suggests interested readers write for details and availability of Hoover medals in other than bronze. to find that your local post office has not had the two cent Cape Halleras stamp of the National Parks Centennial series, chances are lhai within Ihe next few weeks it may be available. With only an initial printing of 65 million stamps, many post offices were unable lo obtain a supply. However, the U.S.

Postal Service has announced that an additiono! 100 million stamps have been printed and are now in the process of distribution. There has also been a short supply of the 11 cenl City of Refuge stamps The order has now been increased from an initial printing order of 30 million lo 70 million slamps. Top 15 discs Sylvia's Mother Dr. Hook 4 Medicine Shaw Nice To Be Wilh You Gallery Song Sung Blue Neil Diamond (last night) I Didn't Get to Sleep At All 5lh Dimension Candy Man Sammy Davis Jr. Oulo Space Billy Preston Troglodyte fcave man) Jimmy Castor Bunch Oh Girl Chi liles Walkin' In The Rain Wilh The One I Love Love Unlimited Lean On Me Bill Withers 1 Need You America Too Late To Turn Back Now Cornelius Brother Sister Rose 1 Saw The Light Todd Rundgren Diary Bread Amazing Graee Royal Scots Dragoon Guards 1972 Hobbies $3fr Hi fi FM tuners reception By DOW L.

CASE Sun Staff As we recoil it, we were discussing hi fi slereo tuners when last we knoeked oft a column on hi fi. We contuinue today, with the idea of unscrambling a very few of the confusing teeluitcal specifications which the neophyte is apt to find confounding him as be tries to select a Inner for his particular tastes. We will confine ourselves lo FM tuners since the avid au diophile seldom considers the less efficient AM sector any longer. As with amplifiers and speakers, frequency response is important for truest music reproduction. The commonly accepted minimum frequency response to assure hi fi stereo quality is about 30 through If the tuner which strikes your fancy fails to meet or better (say 20 20kHz) the minimum figure, then you aren't buying genuine hi fi stereo.

Sensitivity is another important tuner specification, This deals primarily with the unit's ability to drag in weak signals from distant slations. Usually, senitivity is expressed by a symbol (which newspaper typecasting machines don't have in their type fonts) which expresses, a tuner's sensitivity in microvolts (meaning miUcnths og a volt). The lower this number, the more sensitive the tuner. Today, sensilivily of two or less microvolts appears to bo the acepted norm for highest quality rigs. Any number larger than microvolts presages some problems with weak transmitting stations if you live in a so called "fringe area" away by miles and miles from the nearest FM slation.

Here again, as with all olher things, the better the tuner specifications, the greater the tost. However: INSOFAR AS we personally are conerned, most importanl lu a fine tuner are its ability to limit excess noise from Ihe enr rier waves of weak incoming stations, its frequency response (we insist on the 15 through 22kHz range), its capture ratio performance (ability to reject unwanted FM stations and inter fernce on the same frequency as the station yon desire to hear clearly) and an acurate tuning meter. The latter ineter is more inporanl than one might think. The most sensitive of ears is not as accurate an indicator of a tuner's being set pcrcisely "on the nose" for Ihe slation tuned to as is a meter. When a tuner is even slightly off dead center when tuned to a particular station, the signal is weakened and perephial noise and even aja eent stations can creep into Ihe inoming signal and set your leeth on edge.

Next favorite topic, tape recorders as a part of your sound system and probably the most versatile unit you ever will buy. A Sunday drive is supposed to be fun By DOROTHY NORMAN COOK Copley News Service Another one of those highly touted American rituals has come to puss. George looked up from the Sunday newspapers and said, "Let's take a drive after dinner." "With the children," you breathe before you realize what you are saying. "Naturally, what else?" "Do we have to?" "It would be a change." So promptly at p.m. Ihe car rolls out of Ihe driveway with Orphie and Junior in the back seat, "Does he have to sit hack here with me?" Orpbie screams.

"Yah, yah, yah, yah, yah," Junior serenades. Quiet or I'll throw you all out," George shouls above the din. Orphie's hand is already on the door and George comes to a screeching halt. "Now hear this," he shouts, "we are all going for a Sunday afternoon drive that's all there's to it." He looks ai me. "Control 'em," he orders, 'Junior leans over the front seat whining, "Do we hafto, ma, do we hafto?" "Foreigner," Orphic grunts, "can't even talk right!" YOU IGNORE all of (hem.

Actually you have learned how to shut them out completely by turning off your ears. You learned this little 1 rick years ago when you found out Orphie was a screamer and Junior was a whiner. You think they're throwbaefcs but you haven't decided to what. Goerge heads out on the parkway and after about half an hour you say, "Hdw ahou! a Coke, George? Tnere's a gas station ahead." Interest perks up in the rear. "Yah, dad dad," it's Junior, of course.

"How about a Coke?" "I don't care lo parlake of refreshment at this particular time," Orphie bites through her teeth. George stops at Ihe garage. "Synchronize watches you have exactly fifteen minutes." "OK Scrooge," quip. "Would yon like a Coke?" "Well, naturally as a matter of fact, think I'll stretch my legs, too." AFTER COKES, two sojourns to the rest room, wilh Orpbie grinning safanically, obviously enjoying pushing Junior into the Ladies' Room, (the Men's Room was closed), you breathe a sigh of relief as the troops move out. At least they are al! cooped up in the car, what more can 1bev do? Then the sign looms ahead of you, "Last Exit Before the Toll" and you groan.

Junior starts immediately, "Can I throw the dime in yah, dad. You promised me last time next lime would be my turn. That was two years George turns to you. "You always said he was a throwback. I just discovered what" He Ihrows back his head and howls, "an elephant! That's what an elephant!" Then he is quid, furrows his brow.

"We don't really have any elephants in family, do we "Let's go home, George," you suggest. "We can watch TV." "No, no," the whining echoes from the rear seat, "just when everything is getting good!" Orphie screams, "I want my Coke now; I'm thirsty turn back!" George once again, master of the household, grinds the car to a halt, bellowing. "Now hear this! We are ail going home to watch TV. And don't want to hear another sound!" You smile at George weakly, You are home free. RADIATOR PROBLEMS? GREATER LOWELL'S ONLY EXCLUSIVE COOLING SYSTEM SHOP HOE'S RADIATOR PEARL ST.

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