Evening Express from Portland, Maine • 30

Portland Evening ExpressTuesday Dee 81953 30 i 1 4 SAME ROOM I 3 TL PAT MODELS EASIEST TERMS "AVAILABLE ir Kt 8 7 4 1 I VMM SITte tldMk TM M4l Mak? VUatl Wrawkt Im Sllrtl Istra OH fe'a 4 were sold last' year compared with 175000 in 1047 the first full year of commercial tele casting Coms for jeuraelf way anasinr GE Ultra Vfelon Io eoiuUnlly ptekod over ether leading seta la sidvby aide TV picture World's first'''' Sl lnch TV with Alum inised Picture Tube plan tilted deep tint safe ty rias Enjoy blacker blacks whiter whites' heater fumes obscure inside Television On The Double Makes Spectacular Records IO Ways To Check Reception Lots of things can go wrong with a television set don't need the help of a TV service man but can be remedied bya quick "once by the set owner If your television set working properly there are ten easy ways to check It before calling a TV technician 1 If the set is completely the vine did I not get pulled otit of the wall accidentally 2 If you have a picture but no sounds check the volume control and try another station to make sure the trouble does fere with both and ordinary radio reception If something seems to be wrong Inside the set the best advice to Leave the set alone and call a TV sendeeman Don't be a hairpin mechanic TV sets are precision elec tronic instruments If you tinker with them without knowing what you are doing you may damage the set and cause yourself needless ex pensed a The engineering director of a large television manufactur er explained that the 21 Inch receiver has more than 1600 individual parts includ Ing tiny strips of win nuts bolts screws'tubes 1 condensors and resistor Dur ing asembly more than 200 soldered connections are made Secondly TV sets have much higher voltages than radio sets and will often hold an electri cal charge after the set Is turn ed off and the refnoved from the wall There is no sense in taking a chance on getting a shock If you leave the chassis the set protected by the coyer on the back you are perfectly safe Now as for care of your set Here are four simple tips 1 Protect your set from dampness If you use it on an open porch or on a patio In summer take It Indoors at night 2 Give the cabinet the same care and protection you give all the finely finished surfaces in your home Don't stand drinks on it They may tip over or leave ugly rings which cannot 1 IM WCCWi 95 'Moisture1 Meter May Save Vi Millions A "moisture meter" costing less than 5 Is ex pected to save the Army several million dollars a year In its con fining fight against rust Alic UCV1UC ueoigueu cures I VL XKTWUUU1 VCIIVCI OkUfttrcjau I It uwu mun the moisture of tightly sealed and Kennebunk 'Previous to living room etc ammunition packages or other her present position with the Nothing could be further from electric heaters are uableto stored ordinance equipment put 1 Dairy Council she was a home the truth Actually The Ameri be humming away or at other tinga "picture in rust 1 demonstration agent' in York can Optometric Association has IPear Pno preventive containers It prom County had radio experl stated that the best distance to ises to eliminate the need for ence on WHEB Portsmouth' view television is anywhere from I Lfre spot checking such packages and W1AM Lewistom 4 to lO feet away from the somebody in the vicinity inrougn cosuy time consuming packing and repacking Modal 21729 214Mb table awdel Oasalsa aiobMaay Mart WroogbMrM Wood extra aiois a 8 I 1 i i I In Our 18th Year of Appliance and Radio Service New GE TV at WHITTEN'S 7 to 1 winner of nationwide picture comparisons using diathermy er high fre quency electrical equipment Use of similar devices in the home' cause the same effect If pa live near a doctor and the toturbance occurs during his office hours that probably ex plains It 'To correct it move or get the doctor to move' or double images are caused by one imago being followed In fractional seconds by another The condition 'results from signals 'reflecting off the buildings gas and water tanks and other obstructions These cases can usually be corrected by antenna adjustment Quality is dependent mainly on the antenna with outdoor antennas properly installed by experts providing top perform ance iasiistAVA1LA81I The MlnneaDollsrSt Paul area now haa more tele I I vision receivers in use: than home telephones or bathtubs Most of the TV industry agrees that the first color ide vision will give only a 14 lnch picture ConsennkUve estimates predict that about 90 per cent of the population of th United States win have television service by 1955 In'seven short' years it is predicted there will be 50000000 television sets in use in this country They will receive programs WILL MAKE THEDOWN PAYMENT' 1 OPEN 9 A TO 9 CASH DOWN YOU OLD RADIO A "sr 1 Many are now familiar with the WCSH TV test pat tern which has been telecast sincn Thanksgiving Day The concentric circles shading from black to white are used to obtain the propel contrast range in receivers 'IO of detail Test patterns i Designed for aO channel UH and VH NO CASH DOWN see Dave Garroway and singer Shirley Harmer I on WCSH Daye Garroway J7 nights at tr U'" Garroway Is primarily a product of the old days in I one of those who sparkled In the days when budget I was limited and technique limited His shows from Chi I cago made Dave nationally famous 1 SEE AND SAVE 9 1 1 4 1 Jff A CURRAN ELECTRIC SUPPLY! CO 39f ORI ST Corner of betanga el discussions for television can then be held Identical con trols are being put into the studio jo that announcers will have no mental blocks as a re sult of the change Studio the large radio studio to being made into a nominal television outlet Two live television cameras are to be found here Radio programs will only originate from this studio when a piano and organ are needed The cameras rare port able and have cable connections with Studio Studio 'will house the sets for news and oanel video broadcasts 1 Studios A and both have openings now into Bv Previous ly Studio was bllnd and a window had to' be cut JC will be used almost entirely for video announcing and disk Jockey pro grams ar An tha ift a von Miter wcrh nremites studio The iourwedges show fineness 01 in the past it was a storage I are ireful primarily to the station itself and to television suace Eventually it will hold al ''JUApiCVC IMWMrUa 5Ul WK? 17: 'v Gibbs show and later on a llv Ing room plenty of Ivn space fanner down tne long former dining room for further atMitinn of television studies the total of the WCSH TV physical layout at the pres ent moment Itmav later be changed Many details 'are still 1 the planning stage But by December 20 WCSH TV will be both cleaner and ooerattng Who knows whether the Infapt may not outgrow the parent one day? Chicago Has More TV Sets Than Bathtubs The Chicago now has dead make sure' more television sets use wan telephones" or bathtubs The latest TV census showed 1750000 receivers in use In the Chicago viewing area There are U20000 telephones in homes here according to Dll not lie with the station Also nols Bell" Telephone company eheck and see if the antenna The Census Bureau lists 1260 lead in plug to all the way in 000 bathtubs presumably in ita socket use in the area I 3 If you get and no More than 8000000 TV sets picture make sure the set is purnea io ine i position ana that the brightness control has not been turned down Inadver tently 4 When a picture is fuzzy (check the set by trying out oth er stations The focus change from one station to an other Also the station may be broadcasting a film recorder program which to usually not so clear as a broadcast 5 in cases where pictures are weak on all channels check to (see the antenna has been dis connected 1 8 If the picture hori zontally or vertically readjust the horizontal add vertical hold i controls If the set have Ian automatic gain control the contrast control may have been set i too high Also' check on other stations to see if the rta tlon transmitter 1s at fault 7' Bright diagonal lines in a I nlcture can be caused by having I the brightness control turned too high Turn it down and see If the condition 1 corrects Itself I 8 If the picture Jumps or develops when a station changes a program or shows films frequently the sta tion and not the set Careful tuning wUl help minimize the condition i I 0 'When a small bright spot appears on a tube after the set Is turned "off and then slowly fades out 'forget about lit That condition is norms for many sets and cause concern 10 If a set with an Indoor "rabbit antenna or an antenna' built inxide the hi I net suddenly begins to get poor (reception check to see if new I metal screens have been put on the windows If metal Venetian Dimas have been lowered or if home appliances such as elec tric shavers washing machines (vacuum cleaners etc are run ning They sometimes inter 00 jilR WIIK IQUIPID OR BOTH UH VH vo ree Home Trial SHOWROOM SRRVICR DEPT 104 Oceaa StTMt 4 7574 Saittii Portland CALL WRITE OR PHONE SALESMAN WILL CALL If i $24 Those famUlar with the TV field expect that not more than three or four per cent of all sets will receive color pictures In i955v: As yet the surface of the second television set market has barely been scraped but the Industry to confident that the time will come when two sets in the home win be standard I Azvtr Inland water VMaala hava Installed 1 television sets YORK ELECTRICAL CO 222 MIDDLE STREET PHONE 2757 This Story Huh? i Television has stirred the Imagination of a lot of people but perhaps the weirdest sug restion to date has been tho prediction that the future may bring us something that might 7 be called "smell Speculation centers around 1 the development of ultra high frequencies that would give TV 'more room for operating 7 Bottles of various scents would be built Into receivers Sine perfume would fill the alr wo saw a scene in a forest The camera switches to a meadow and the smell of new mown hay Each actress would have her own special perfume The idea to far tetched now but someday the viewer may bo able to look at a program he like 'and say with all truth "That Motorola TV ufoQouble'fawer Picture Potentod Kidron pomr unit and improved Concentrated ewer Chog's double vp la bring yov TVi moil powerful picture! Got It moil compact porch or game room tgble model High'lmpoct phenolic plastic mahogany color clear 4kmmklo Ma teams Won't rust or twell In base 95 ment Big 17Jnch tube Exclusive a Distance Selector switch Xe Robot 12 UH Vtl Tuning Optional! 3 elt lYeer Warranty en All Parts MODEL 1 77! 5 i Come in sss Ultra vuioB kuou next say other set We need to give a sake this pio taro speaks tor itself I Aluminised Pietaro Tube 1 tinted eatoty ass for Ty picture! Designed foroZUMMsiUH VH Another Game Room avorite! Motorola Mb Nw4iigfl Ebeay plattic ieble MODfL33Wl IT A vWiws giifaaeg tang i9WKvr'jo see a ynRRe RvW hZvwy Green Hgnny mere 4 to 10 feet by somebody in the vicinity Mountainair' in central New ninTK Mexico and termed the bean Seneca Lake In New York capital of the world 1s sur inger Lakes region Is one Bl II III II I 1 1 I rounded by the ancient Indian of the deepest bodies of water In B0B orgunluaSttM nMepth Pimm before you buy! Infant WCSH TV Takes Over Parent never recognize what used to be the studios of radio station WCSH Television has come seen and conquered WCSH TV the iny fant prodigy has forced its patient father to change 'his abode Take a tour 'through WCSH TV and find that it has pushed changes left and right or example there used to be an office out back Now been made into a film room for the television outlet A small dark room and storage space for 18 mm: films take up what used to be closets 5 Right next to the office there used to be a cut out part of the Congress Square Hotel something like an air shaft open to the sky Now where there was only blank void a projection room solidly buttressed on a framework of steel beams with a concrete floor above the framework Thick walls sur round this new room The cam eras and projection machinery bounce while In operation Bouncing would dis turb the emitted Image The projection room is filled with eaulnment There are a 'couple of 18 mm moving and i' slide projectors a film camera power supplies for the cameras controls for the microwave relay to the WCSH TV transmitter a sink generator to synenronize receivers for picture and sound and an escllloscope to check the output of the microwave trans mitten The control room for both radio and TV comes next WCSH TV will use the' Same control desk for television as It 4 does for radio our pictures i are shown simultaneously on the 'TV control board Three people can operate the whole thing both radio and TV a little cubby hole off to one side the American Tele phone and Telegraph terminal equipment puroea xv useu for microwave studies are being changed Studio A will be used for both xadlo and video pro grams An old table seating two persons 'will be exchanged for one where four can sit Pan Take It Easy! I Color TV Still ive Years Color TV sets have already gone on sale In New York City But Jump to buy them Prices for the 14 inch screen seta run in the 8700 to 8950 price range And a good guess Is that be five years before color comes to Maine Experimental broadcasting in color will find an audience of about 5000 viewers televisionAlAervMAvi t6 iR new XU1A VAUe MB latite VAtaMMAM few West Coast cities Philip Johnson A Salesmen think that the first customers will be those people lyT lxLwrxn who like to be first to every JOIUlSOIl thing But noticeable that in the big city areas of the country Th Scores of Inland water vessels have installed television sets sales of TV black and white sets wpYVQ I lirPClAr for the entertainment of their officers and men have begun to drop Leading 11 VWD Al VVl VI business Journals such as 1953 shapes upas a record year for the electronics Industry ness biame wus with television proviamg mucn or uie impews nn the notion that color hews director at wubh av a wnr arrive rapidly SScSPJS Maine Network or the first eight months of 1953 television production This reaction may rve to WHMd the Maine Network! 4g nfa jved thefufl speed the arrival of color TV news serve tbroolc production may top the record year of 1958 when 74 mgllon on the consumerhoon gon' graduated from Tufts Col were produced Whether it will mean that prices I with a major in English! 1 1 will come is another mat In a four year are now close to 28000000 television receivers In use ter won atWwt in the United They serve about 70000000 Americans' George JB Sterling Matoeskroo High He became an an Yet only six years ago the first full year of commercial tele member bn the ederal Com nouncer at WCSH in 1942 43 vision transmission only about 175 000 sets were made munlcatlons Commission thinks let for rftdlo career with varl 1 icolor TV on a national scale Islous stations in New England At Additional television transmission stations have been going still several years away Jack SwNAC Boston he was a Yan fato operation in the United States'at the rate of one a day Atwood WCSH assistantkee Network newscaster There manager figures' that Por tl and followed periods with WHDH The average television station costs 3250000 to baud with will have to wait about five Boston as radio news announcer larger stations costing much more I years for color TV The lag in and with WHEB Portsmouth Portland wouia oe aue lame in pivuuvvavaa umww A ucrnian yawiueu abvbumuah uwv wmamaaav viu aT Ttlrtnm4 to WCSH aS neWSl if nAnra hu wiralau In 1RR4 nf th earliest fore pay a PortlandTV sta and special events aimouncer ot modem television In our own Country one tlotf to convert to color if most 1948 48 Thiswas Just after the jenkins began studying the problem of sending pictures through people afford to buy seta Maine 'NetworkNews was gpace ln 1890 The flrst actual demonstration of television ar it to receive it established At tiita time he WM made by A Scotsman John Logie Baird 1 cvcp John Hogan and Victor uesvn nirora I airtlra Wiir cowred the W47 forest flreg 7 A Jg lutJUllhe YT ui the Boston he first commercial television broadcasting llcerise was Stage Youth bhow for further work in grantea ivu i 1 1949 He attended both Bos telivtalftn industry became billion dollar one in three mMiwaMiftf mw iniimHiam auui Vaiationx train ye took the automobile industry 16 years to maze uro graae ing At the same time Johnson ZL' liwycsYT iGRfi TnhnRnn hAcamel (news director and director of I Strange things sometimes 1 the Maine Network News Serv 1 happen on your television screen nilttodgh he hM ha no di duo to the rect experience in television program you are watching Johnson spent two summers These oddities include black i MfAwUlMiV' tn or theater nro 1 hazv lines snaking through the I I duction He also attended the picture variations in picture I aslJ MWV mamLsUaM I klia 4ha its 1 varairv win a ai iuu ki iti ikjb inaiAiiiiiM uia lxak wH About WCSH TV news service I screen double Images of ghosts Johnson says "well begin with picture jumps into crazy quilt njivifl a nav EL UiBinarrAPng ann whpb Jinv start covering local news sports Of these apparitions Appear Miil a nd weather Each of our news 1 aven th most exnerlenced tele V'U men will have a Polaroid camera viewer 1s likely to grab the which they will be able to phone and call the nearest Te rate well continue general pir man in the belief tnat me the policies set up by the Maine (good old set has finally gone Network News Service 'land blown a fuse A special attraction of the patience such cases is a Olga Lemke WCSH TV news service wmlob money saving virtue There are the facsimile machine which wJ meny things completely unre Jin div be used for world jiatlonal and laed your Whlch can be removed without a reftalshing on WCSH TV over Cav Tn the these vagaries at 7 every Monday £eh a Thfl black llne for 3 K6ep your screen clean The bro gram willbepfesented Rock Tia'dC1Tiia moving vertically through the dirty screen will result in a lin cwwrSiS with the new remits from trouble StatedUk nl Committee aother: somewhere intransmission of side with a chamois with warm ii directed bv Glaa ZAP i the picture Switch to another water If fireplace smoke orlepSSStor 5t the S1ZC Vl KOOUl station If the black line dis 7: irAiMdl alM AM 1 OV: ru? auUTZCU a TULL 11 A11U 1U UV111V screen' try to clean it 1049 9 not yours yourself Call your serviceman la to be a 1Y Or picture sizes Sometimes 4 Aerial lead in wires shouldL Cajata sde to do 4 1A OU1 tCll Uitv be wlaSSJiL1 wsentafkt from Maine high An error which vals for corrosion which weak Idea behind it Is to times make in buying a televi (screen when suddenly the plc ens signals In seashore areas wive son set 5 to imagine that the ture will be reduced to 17 inch wte need cknln every elx Sf the roorn Should deter or lea Where th plctarl YmPkM I AL Pnwr AAMaaW I HnlTnWn IIP? HwDrTaH 5 nYr nflB nrosram titles will De uiiCKing mine wro siw 01 ww With the "Date Data This mteconceptton was born macx nnes i wnern sna siaes rsiMiiv itchAiiia tiav am Am lAfla Tnor TirriiM 1 vww wwvwssss va Go to hd "Safe Drlv lng distance was measured by condition is usually caused uo yuucxcr miu awav bv too heavy a drain on the line Olga Lemke is a home eco from the screen fo? every Inch voltage Of the main power nomlcs graduate bt armington of screen size Under toe erro source State Teachers College She has neous formula a inch set iSifdav taught in high schools at Essexlqulred a 12 foot living room a Vt Bowdota Center Skowhegan 4 Inch set required a 14 foot decorations are Ut at full bril Nothing could be further from electric heaters are liable to 9 Ika UiivMvMiMfv awaw Aw ar Atnav 7 I eiALg rS VJS 4 7'x I 7 I xcHBaRiiM IraUM I I 9 11 1 I Bi VII £3 IIM 1 II AJ 11 LJ trt 7 11 II 1 4L yf nvwr jkw 1 II TW fl a A I' mebm 1 1 A 1 I 'll 1 1 'If il 1 1 4 I 1 3 SEE ALL THE 54 1 i VW i 'T t' 'ft JE 1 A I I I lettms ameerisea 1 :4 Ml wil' IllMo wCTBW 'Ofc 1 I' I I Iff 04 MJH 1 11 nr a fa Mi I flflOMM i IISiH MBHM9lE3MBMHHMiflB9BBBiWA'''z'VBBBBIBHBIIBHM 1 474 A 4 11 II 1 'Wf' SC I a iiiwiiitiNniMiH I 1 3.