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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1952)
1 Ceremony Starts Block of Dimes Collections ji. -s--' :.- x -: 'to '-mi . V. I 1 -r r H, - 4 M 4 !:'. ' v.ri A klayor Alfred Leackx starts the dimes rslilnr SAtordsy br cntttnr the tape peninf the Block Dimes eampalxn In Salem. Lookinx en for the brief ceremony at Liberty and State Streets are (left to rlf ht) Robert Ttelstad, Mrs. Irene Dennis, Drive Co -Chairman Jason Lee, Loneks, C. Barnett, Block of Dimes Chairman William Baldwin, Paul Slaughter, Mrs. David Wrlxht, Mrs. James Clinton, A. C. Case. Thom as Meier, Roy Carter and Dorman Crow. Kneeling are Boy Scouts Jon Haaklns and Jim Johnston, and R. W. Halwecer. (Story and picture also on page one.) Tape Recording Business Jumps Demand Grows By WAYNE OLIVER NEW YORK (yTVRecords that play from invisible magnetic pat terns in a narrow, ribbon-like tape instead of grooved disks are mak ing big gains in commercial use and are bidding strongly lor home use. Industry officials estimate that the manufacture of the metallic- coated tape and the recorders and players to use it has become a 15 to 20-million dollar a year busi ness. Makers of the recorder-players are enjoying sales 100 per cent ahead of a year ago. The bulk of the demand has come thus far from business and industry, radio broadcasting, schools, churches and other fields outside the home. But manufacturers report in creasing sales of their new model, simplified recorder - players for home use. It's the home market the manu facturers would like to reach, as Jt would dwarf all others if tape players and recorders became pop ular with the general public. Additional Instrument However, the magnetic tape ma chine is being emphasized as an additional instrument for the home rather than as a replacement for the conventional record player that uses dishes. The manufacturers are stressing its value for making home recordings of voices of mem bers of the family, for practicing speech improvement, for making "sound albums" of family parties and events, as well as for record ing an entire symphony or opera that can be played back without interruption for record changes. And whenever you have finished with a particular recording, it can be erased and something else re corded on the same tape. Roy J. Gavin, sales manager of the sound recording tape division of the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Corp., which is the largest manufacturer of sound tape, says it now appears that if tape competes with disk records it will be primarily in the long play ing field. Not too Simple Although tape machines have been greatly simplified in their operation, it's still a lot less trou ble to put a cord on a phonograph than to play a reel of tape-particularly for short numbers. It's only recently that magnetic tape with the music already re corded on it has reached the mar ket. And none of the major record companies has offered its artists and musical libraries on tape, al though most would be willing to do so if the demand became great enough. Possibly portending the future of tape recorders and players in the home is a new model Dumont combination radio-television-phonograph set. It also contains a tape recorder attached to a clock switch that can be set to turn the re corder on for your favorite radio program if you have to be away when it's on the air. You can play it back at your leisure. Meanwhile, the uses of tape in business and industry are grow ing rapidly. The master recordings of the major phonograph record companies are on tape. Radio broadcasting companies make wide use of tape for recording programs for later airing. Schools and chur ches use tape for making record ings of lectures, sermons and other material. Tape Is coming into use for dictating machines. It is be ing used to record information for business machines and control signals for automatic devices. Now being developed is the use of a tiny strip of magnetic tape on the edge of home motion pic ture film so you can have sound movies at a cost only slightly more than for silent movies. Recording TV One of the most intriguing fu ture uses of magnetic tape will be for recording both the picture and sound of a television program without the use of photography or film. The electronic video signals will be reproduced from magnetic patterns in the tape the same way sound is now. You could record I your favorite television program and play it over and over again later from the tape and erase it and record another one on the same tape later. No processin would be required, as with film. Bing Crosby's research engineers already have demonstrated the re cording and reproduction of pic tures with magnetic tape but the images were not up to commercial standards. Other researchers also have been able to reproduce crude pictures from tape, but say con siderable development remains be fore the method will become practical. MOW IS mi we To enroll for second term Commercial Courses Now Shorthand, English, Law, Filing, Typing, Accounting, Business Machines. Capital Business College 345 Court - hone 3-5987 Sewing Machine D O Monday Jan. 7th Through Jan. 12th We must reduce our stock every sewing machine greatly reducdl necchi.w If will blindstitch hems I sew on buttons ! make buttonholes ! darn and mend ! o embroider, applique and mono gram easily and professionally 'e finish ALL sewing completely, eliminating tiresome handwork! 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