The Wichita Eagle from Wichita, Kansas • 49

fV -A iiWijD 'm iwt mirm't 1 x- 1 1 -j' 1 i V' A- pi S-! i V-ij' V-1 7 h' A ri -P-- yr -i i -4 i- -'i- I i j- '-V 'il -L -V I i- 'I' iVrJf i J1' 7 is -s T'- 1 1 i y-y- i -u S- 'i- i r4' a isVv (1 mm j- wichita kanasj Sunday morning March sj 1953 1E Z'X jjft i ti in Date in July 'V -i iLocation of Tower fi V' Planned for Seven Miles East ofCity I IftV I I Programming from All Four Networks Now Being Arranged Although initial power will be only 2000 watts tfor an opening sometime in May television station KEDD channel 16 Wichita will have more than 200000 watts on the air sometime in July station officials said Saturday have been promised the larger equipment in June" Stanley Durwood of Kansas City Mo vice president and general' manager pf Durwood Theaters On Youngsters Pointed Out Sociologists are pointing out the influence television will have on future generations Previously 1 the infant during his first few years of life learned everything imitating his family or friends of the family one sociologist pointed out "Television is a new influence in -the home The infant watches the set with interest and sees new mannerisms skills and characters to imitate "These youngsters ordinarily do not have the opportunity of witnessing strangers at work and play until they are much older" he added As an example he cited an 18-month-old boy who witnessed people in a television scene shaking hands It was the first time he had observed this custom and he promptly got up and shook hands solemxUy with everybody in the room Half an hour later the little boy studied some acrobats on the screen Never before had he seen grownups try such antics! The 18-month -old child was next observed studiously trying to stand oxi his head "These are but aTew minor examples of the Influence that television win have oh future generations" the scientist said "Future generations will reach school age for more learned than any of us did" "ft 1 i Mints Given On Care of I Idew TV Set "Take care of your television IsetT advise toe experts! You will get better reception and performance from your set if you do Here are five simple tips for TV care: Protect your set from damp-1 ness If you use it on an open porch or on a patio during the summer take it indoors at night i Give the cabinet the same care and protection you give all thi finely finished surfaces in your home stand drinks I on it They may tip over or leave ugjy rings which cannot be removed without a refinishing job 3 Keep the screen clean A dirty screen will result in a blurred picture Wipe the outside with a chamois moistened with warm water If fireplace smoke or heater fumes obscure inside screen try to clean It yourself Call your Isehrice man -4 Aerial lead-in wires should be Inspected at regular intervals lor corrosion which weakens signals 5 be a mechanic Television sets are complicated so tinker with yours Be safe and call a serviceman Public Offered Many Models May Buy Table Type Console Combination "VA1 jt 1 (: 1 HUTCHINSON KAN Mar A starting date In July Is planned by Hutchinson TV Inc which now is In process of Ironing out obstacles confronting installation of the new television station KTVHW' I Preliminary approval of a tower site has been obtained and an ap- plication for a power boost is in the I making -Preliminary plans also1 have been drawn to a studio y'Pand! temporary office quarters havp been obtained Option has been taken on a 4(1- acre tract approximately seven miles east of Hutchinson and the 750-jfoot overall i tower will be erected oh the site when it arrives in mid-May' Approval of the tower' site was made by fheu regional airspace subcommittee! office at City Mo Filial approval must -be obtained from the parent airspace office in Washington CV but it almost invariably approves recommendations of its reglortal of-flees offlciahT Mid FCC approval of the change in 1 tower location and for the increase maximum power permitted under -'existing rules will be applied for as toon as necessary forms can be prepared Ihe station is VHF channel 12 KTVH bff icials have opUoned a rsitel for a studio building in- the "new Fair crest addition developing to the northeast of the intersection of 17th street and Plum The rtudk will be built at' the north end of a 'business district that is to be constructed near the intersection Option has been taken on a tract i l50 by 300 feet on Plum where a studio and office building 80 by 100 feet WiUj be built Construction will get under way as 'soon as final plans' ate drawn Sb vV A1' STANLEY DURWOOD Complexity Depends On Many Factors -t -n The television receiving antenna is a vital part of the television receiving Installation engineers at Kansas (State college Manhattan are quick to point out Its function is to intercept a a4nar i maximum of power from the tele- vision carrier signals In the an- I tenna intallation Is faulty the to bring his fay to Hutchinson fest television receiver available from Baltimore He will Pffsmn- may giVe unsatisfactory service totallatkra of TVm general the farther the re- equlpihent' it- 1 hk Nationally-known manufacturers offer a variety of models of television table models and console sets as well as combination modela containing radio phonograph and television The tabel models are the smallest in size the lowest in price and are designed to be placed an a table shelf or stand In general they contain the same chassis picture tube and all components except the loudspeakers as the other types The loud-peaker of a table model delivers its sound outpiit on one side of the cabinet Larger Speaker The console type of TV cabinet usually has a larger diameter of speaker which directs its sound forward into the room Hence its performance in volume distribution and quality of sound is superior to the table model although the picture qaullty is the same 3 Combination sets containing radio and phonograph have thje Advantage of saving and of corj-centrattng the home entertainment facilities in one unit Tne disadvantage pf the combination set lies in the fact that technical improvements in any one pf the three components may tend to make the entire unit obsolete Screen size is the dimension Seasured diagonally across the ce of the complete picture tube Ihe smallest standard size' available in current production of receivers is 17 inches-with 27-inch screens the largest Other sizes celver is located from the station the more complex the antenna system required The television receiving antenna- should be directive if it is to have a maximum pf sensitivity these engineers say Human ears are arranged to that they are more responsive to sound coming from the direction in which the person is facing In like manner toe isimplest form of a TV antenna In the Jand of television you I is directive it is Called a folded hear talk of rain and snow and 1 dipole antenna and of ghosts The kind I Reflector a Boost of talk' that would i go well in a I This simple antenna receives haunted house ion a stormy night equally well from toe front or a4 vmi tSollv hd rear' th its maximum reception i Ori? vou at hi to the plane ofjthe miscellaneous broads yuu 1 gtructure additioot fVcr tWS5iiI hft 8 aingle rod or reflector behind the i they are -doing that luUt I dipole loop will greatly increase 1-1r i For these terms'" are only the directivity The addition of tome fof the many thej industry I the reflector to the folded dipole Bell Telephone company The microwave messages zig-zag across Kansas jvia five intermediate relay towers between Kansas City and Wichita Since the micro-wave beam travels irf a straight line the towers have been arranged in a zig-zag pattern so the beam will not cause interference byljumping across its intended tower to the next tower in line (Eagle Staff Photo) PART OF TV RELAY This 312-foqt tower at Cleveland and Murdock is a part of the northern section of a new microwave telephone and television relay route between Kansas City Mo and Dallas Tex used in the transmission' of television programs and long distance telephone calls It is a joint project of American Telephone and Telegraph and the Southwestern principal owner of toe CWC company which is building toe new station said Jn making the announcement "The 200000 watts represent as large an output of anything I know of in toe entire country right now" Test Pattern In May He added that the station would be on the air In May with a test pattern with programming on aU four networks scheduled sometime during the month 'j Location of the' KEDD transmitter and studios will be at 37th and Just off the comer on the south side of 37th with a 27-acre tract about 900 feet wide and 1350 feet long Durwood said that as soon as the location is cleared by the federal communications commission which should be in the next week or 10 days work will begin on a one-story building 50 by 100 feet in dimensions for the studio offices and transmitter control "Later after we are on the air" he added "we win complete the designs for our "Television which win include land- -scaping and larger studios" He stated that the towerwill be the maximum height 'Allowed by the CAA which Is 2049 feet above mean sea level in the area' This means the top of the an- tenna will be 711 feet off the ground "At first the signal should carry 20 to 30 miles with ease" he com-mentedHAfter- we get full power in July the signal should go 50 to 60 miles With excellent coverage and up to 100 miles with good fl Durwood plans a trip to New York City to arrange network service from all four networks "so wa will have complete network programming when we go on toe air" No affiliation has yet been made with any particular network Lauds Cooperation Discussing the new UHF station Durwood said: "I have never seen so much cooperation from a community V' in my Whole ltfe -Everybody in Wichita wants' television The dealers have been extremely cooperative and in return we want 'Dont's in Viewing TV Screen 18500000 Sets Now in Use in Television Too Costly Now Electronic color televion is feasible today an expert recently told the New York Society of Security Analysts but added that color receivers will not be on the market in quantity for at least two years possibly Since the- inception of television lighting authorities have lieen studying television and the severe visual task imposed on those who watch it with some degrees of regularity: These don't suggested ways in which your television viewing can be made more pleasant and enjoyable by reducing toe eyestrain and other He asserted that present costs penalties that frequently accompany it 1 sit too close to toe screen too high explaining that instruments capable of capturing has coined for our developing jwill cauie it to Intercept two and TiA slanguage Unsuspectingrstrangers I one-half times visiting a studio blink puzzle-1 from a I 7 ment until the 4 meaning of the wave i words are explained! to them The directional sensitivity of a i 1: TTr-ftre' some- 1TV antenna may be further im- -nn -ii ThU' tmm -refers I -adding a third element Bltoard me 'ttltn p()d Jn fnmt of ajpo! This ri to a girl a blond I new element called a director 5' Broad This one doesn Itjujd its use will increase the in- 1 means a unit or battery of' in-1 tercepted power to about three candescent or- fluorescent lamps and one-half times that received Big Dish-This is micro wave (by a simple dipole from a given ntenna'-UMRI to netwark ddn As of figures compJLled last Oc tober there were 111 television stations on the air in the United Smaller and larger are available States two-thirds of the Ameri-1 but are not widely used houMhold were range of these stations and more rmatton available Hence if this than 18500000 sets were in use information is spread over a large The improved and expanded I Screen the individual picture ele-system of national television was ipents will be noticeable if viewers designed to the number I are too close to toe screen the of riiawnhi from 12 to 82 making Same as in a motion picture the-possible more than 2000 stations in 1300 communities Screen Sire The federal communications Screen size should be selected commission has received more I to fit the room where the re than 800 applications for new I ceiver is to be placed and may commercial stations lb determined by a trial lnstalla- The proposed 2000 stations will Aon in the home have a radius of 40 to 70 miiwt Naturally the selection of a and will be able to operate around TV receiver Is decided by personal the clock taste plus the cost factor Since all nationally known products are in 1950 when nearly IfiOOJOOO likely to be satisfactory toe- pur-television receivers valued at $2-1 chaser should select from a dealer 235000000 were sold the TV in- who can be expected to fulfill us try achieved the largest dollar the guarantees on the set and to volume in the entire electrical offer service throughout the life field loathe set mlttlng and 'receiving Blbon i An overexposed lightstruck image A mechanlca1 Contfiv ance for suspending a microphone A I three-legged de-vice placed! under a tripod to pre-Tvent cameras from slipping Cans Telephone' receivers or tne same if headphones worn by personnel in receiving antenna the tSW I A perambulator or -four- ln hll cairSefot acamer tenn mey be uyd th men eCrtn vofflttrom toe cameras called multiple antennas Another one which has been 'set designs and arrangements ot I f0Uiid most is to use positions of furnishmjra areumgs 1 one antenna with tome means of etc or other production faciUtles stating toe antenna toward the approved and shouJd be tele- desired station 1 -'-i I special electrical motor-driven undesired see- units called rotators are available by inflec-irtiich rotate the Sntenna to any desired direction by means of I Investigation showsi that many persons sit too dose the picture is blurred On every television screen regardless of the size of the tube a fixed number of ind lines make up the picture The larger the tube the greater the space between these lines which cause fuzzy-ness in' toe picture Your eyes are continually at work struggling to focus properly Their effort is futil the blurring is in the picture! Desirable distance has been fairly well established Try sitting as many feet away from thei pictures as the screen is high ir inches For example if the screen is eight inches sit at least eight feet away from the setj You might even find it more cqmfortable at a greater distance Sit in Front Don't view at an angle! It Is most comfortable to: watch television programs from as nearly directly in front of the screen as possible When vlewjbd at a wide angle the television picture usually is badly distorted: This -places an added burden onjthe eyes and distracts from complete enjoy ment of the progra: stare For to give the best signal humanly possible and get it on the air as fast as w4 can" 1 K-State-Erected Antenna in 1932 1 Vj An antenna 108 feet high wai jfl 'A Vi 'f-X-jf''7 are color signals require approximately1 50 tubes compared with an average of 20 tubes in current black-and-white sets Color cathode ray tubes are expensive at the persent time he added explaining that even in quantities of 10000 they would cost at least $150 each Astronomers See Television Uses Television may prove a great joy to professional and amateur astronomers' according to Rudolph Lippert founder and former president of the Astronomical Society of San Diego highly possible that television attachments to the eye piece of a telescope such as Hale telescope on Mount Palomar could throw an image on a screen so all could view what the camera sees" said Lippert Lippert who also is secretary and founder of toe 8an Diego Astronomical society and a member of the British and Royal Astronomical societies said lunar formations rings and cloud belts toould show up nicely 7 He added that some telescopes have so wide an angle of vision it would take a score of astronomers to make a sufficient study of a single view taken of the sky but that a vast amount of time could be saved by applying the television Manning techninque in analyzing photographs by big telescopes greater eye comfort'1etyo: move occasionally frpm thi picture to surrounding areas! particularly if you watch for a prolonged time Even a fleeting glance permits eye-muscles to relax from the strain of holding vision to one small area think at! the movies! Many people thik of television as at Home" They turn off room lights believing they are approximating motion-picture theater conditions This is one of the worst they can do Television viewing is unlike movie viewing for a number of reasons Picture screens are large! their area measured in hundreds of square feet Movie goers let their eyes roam over a wide area Television is different The screen is relatively small measured In square inches Motion pictures are reproduced by reflected (light from a silver screen Television views look directly into the! ti a light source usually pit brighter than a movie Movie patrons usually limit their viewing to an occasional hour or two Many people watch television all evening long pearly every evening Eye Strain permit dark ings! Differences in within the visual field havi proved to be a common eyestrain Researchers strong contrasts such as the bright television screen a dark or dimly lighted produce eyestrain eral tenseness -or widespread fa tlgue Fortunately there is a simple remedy that will ease the burden needlessly forced upon eye muscles 4nd the tern of toe viewer of Illuminate this surroundin the walls and ceiling of the room without) allowing an indue amount of light to fan oh toe screen When toe walls fithin the range of vision are lighted you get balanced lighting eyes relax when they roamj from the television picture Make certain there te enough general lighting in the where you Wretch television Protect your from eyestrain discomforts and nervous tension let your set get obt of adjustment! Comfortable ief vision viewing is impossible if your set is Improperly or operated Sets with and contrast controls tuned to the sharpest you do not get a sharp bie picture wito lamps and in proper rbom a reputable serviceman to toe set for better bperai constructed of wood by electrical engineering students-' and faculty members of Kansas State college -at Manhattan during toe Christr' mas vacation In 1932 It wasxld erected early In 1933 and sent iW forth TV signals which were re- vlr ceived at such distant points as Maine and Texas Af dark mat to shield a control located at the television camera -from lights jj receiver High A camera! mount for The customers' win be use on a table top or 'other such able to suggest which system to waist-high tmject An incandesceht lamp Nemo-A broadcast Originating 1 I in some otoer location than toe rlCSn V-OlOred dWim television studios Suits Banned an TV The playing of a few JUT5 Dunnea on lv Models in fleshcolored bathing pjwitotionusuaJbeind tiUes1 tighU ordinarily are not Video Simp Life for Wo ifies men 4 A telephone RalnsrVertical interference patterns on toe 'reception screen Spotty interference Luiuw unuuj UWUHnitc Television: Experience's Handmaiden In but a twinkling of time television has become an integral part of the American way of life The square-faced guest that only recently entered the living room on its best behavior has now become part of the furniture Just as surely has it found a place in the main chambers of the country culture ranging from religion and goverxmient to arts and sport The offerings of the young medium are so diversified that there is much to suit every need and taste' 1 Man thrives an experiences They are the of life Experiences feed the mind with real impressions fill the emotions with actual sensations Television by adding toe sense of vision to that of sound provide vicarious experiences that are In many ways second to living itself It is in this fact that dwells tremendous impact as a forte oa society Persons viewing a public event on television say an address before a joint session of Congress are broadening their (understanding of the mechanics of government Viewers of religious programs book discussions news summaries are tiling toe gaps In their own store of knowledge or even perhaps glimpsing tqr toe first time mi entirely new facet of life Thus is television1 as toe electronic handmaiden of experience a great teacher educative possibilities are profound But mare importantly toe television Industry recognizes this fact and is trying to utilise it to the fullest So much for toe social significance of this thrilling new intruder on toe American scene Need raid of derment of its entertainment offerings that is not alreJmownt IUcomedy shows drama operatherestof tlmdanlingspectrum? Television moreover is a steadying infhMnceVein'' American family As an interest held in common by all ntemlxart is knitting toe family together aain as a soda! unity Especially is televisiGn a Godsend far older olks who have neither thelxi- clinatkm nor capacity to get around as much as Ixdte'Farj young as well as old and for all oihera smnewherto'betwer television helping to make lif fuller and more fruitful-atl a- inere flip of the switch 4 -r allowed in a television studio Television officials say that they have had to refute permission to That lust a partial list There ltelecat modela ta Anasa IBM su gult8 because the camera others make From skirt hemk to cheese souffle life for women will be simplified as television ifioves into toe home Short-courses in toe homemaking sewing coi king the use of household equipment baby i are many that any 1 neophyte's ears flop everything jtoo real An experimental 1 lee nee tor operation of TV station iW9ZAK on 2050 kiocydes was granted to the college in November 1932 Regular bi-weekly broadcasts using a college-built mechanical scanning were begun late 1932 and continued for years Thus Kansas State college rates as onejof the pioneers in TV i in -Arnerto'! -I Stage andiVaudeyille Offer BestT raining I Stage and trained iM actors arev most likely to sue-V ceed" in television according to Peggy Wood stage screen 'radio and television I These actors she said have long 1 beeny accustomed to memorizing produced without 4 toe £4 traditional 9 radio -y'- total of 600 television ro--t! ceivers valued at $2000000 were produced in toe closing months of 1948rl when 5 commercial TV was uzidertakenf Most of these' sets They have one wuu Video Just Around the Corner nvthlns for which technical I anything for which -fc technical lr I a a'-' or dang definition id lacking' or 1 has been 'forgotten by he speaker 1 LightBluesBrpwns Greys Best for TY care and beauty be waiting with button Seated in her the homemaker on the television stration in cake-m cult-making or ev ing The demonstrator may turn out a cake piled high with frosting explaining each steplas she brings the cake to completion With dear1' deft strokes ojf a gleaming knife she may tell! the story of how to carve a fcfei or mash potatoes or use the pressure cooker With television just around the corner for the Wichita area this special television tection ofj The' Wichita Eagle sincerely attempts to "give Readers an accurate unbiased informative picture of what too community may expect in the way of television and lte ramifications: Telecasts win ave a tremendous impact on the Wichita area and toe city Is gojng to profit by mistakes' made in other sections of toe nation which received video stations much earlier ln thls revolutionary new field This special section telb readers the advantages of television as well as which may Arise and how best to solve them The material which The Eagle thus presents has been obtained from experts In their individual fields' tr- A Guests on television programs I are advised to weari light blue! light grey or light brown clothing for the most flattering results TV experts point out that these colors are preferred because they telecast the best were sold ln'New York City' -'A -v Si y- I I vr1' 'tf'-g- Ur "vm KiSJ-.