SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1958
HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
PAGE NINE
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HOME OFFICE CONDUCIVE TO WORK Record-keeping chores can be a pleasure
when you work in an inviting atmosphere. This cheery home office has been paneled
in horizontally installed West Coast hemlock, .and built-in corner desk was constructed
of the same materials. Bookshelves lining the wall above and to the side of the desk
are of sturdy Douglas fir, finished naturally with clear lacquer, as are the desk and
wall paneling. '
Hi-Fi Industry Sees An Unlimited Future
By WILLIAM P. GRUBER
CHICAGO (UPD The high fidel
ity industry, which sold a record
300 million dollars worth of records
and audio equipment last year,
sees an "unlimited future" with
the new advance of stereophonic
sound. ,
At the seventh annual High Fid
elity Show here, 126 manufacturers
told 38,284 persons about the won
ders of stereo and demonstrated
their latest "rigs."
For the uninitiated, stereo dif
fers from conventional phono
graphs (now called monophonic) in
that a second amplifier and speak
er are used to create at realistic
three-dimensional illusion of sound
from especially recorded tapes and
disks. 1
To prove its point, the show en
listed Chicago's famous Fine Arts
Quartet to allow listeners to try
to tell the live from the recorded
performance. Many were red -faced
to learn they had guessed
wrong.
The demand for stereo since the
new disks were introduced last
summer has been so great that
some of the companies at the show
revealed they are abandoning pro
duction of monophonic products
and will concentrate only on
stereo.
One record company, British -
owned London Records, said its
future classical releases would be
stereo only. Remy van Wyck -
Farkas, London s American direc
tor, said: "Stereo is the sound
of the future. Its possibilities are
unlimited.
RCA " Victor, which pioneered
stereo tape recordings two years
ago, is more cautious. Along with
an initial release of new disks, it
announced a new four-track tape
which plays at a slower speed
and costs one-fourth less than ear
lier tapes.
Many manufacturers, including
Admiral, Westinghouse, Zenith and
Maganvox, have combined tele
vision and phonograph sets into
stereo units. Others, firms long
identified with high fidelity, were
equally enthusiastic about the future.
Pilot said it had virtually no
Vitamin K5 Extends
Food Storage Life, Says
Oregon State College
OREGON STATE COLLEGE
Vitamins, the wonder workers in
human nutrition, are now taking
on new roles in food preservation.
. One of these. Vitamin K5, need
ed by the human body to help
stop bleeding, can extend the stor
age life of a wide range of foods,
Oregon State College food tech
nologists have found.
Small amounts of Vitamin K5
added to mushroom sauce, crab
meat, cottage cheese, frankfur
ters, table syrup and strawberry
jam greatly delayed spoilage.
Use of natural food additives as
preservatives ' increases food
value, and prolongs shelf life, ac
cording to Dr. H. Y. Yang, food
technologist and author of a recent
article in Food Technology mag
azine. Some chemicals unauthor
ized as food preservatives may
be harmful to the consumer or af
fect food quality, he says.
Vitamin K5 shows definite prom
ise in preserving fruit made with
artificial sweeteners. Sugar, when
added to fruits, acts as a preserv
ative and helps prevent molds. But
low calories sugarless fruits spoil
quickly unless refrigerated. Vita
min KS would also be useful in
helping prevent food spoilage in
unused portions of food. Scientists
are also seeking new ways to pre
serve foods in areas of the world
without refrigeration.
How Vitamin K5 prevents spoil
age is not known, says Yang.
However, some scientists believe
that the vitamin when combined
with water produces an "inter
mediate" compound that kills the
spoilage microorganisms.
Natural foods high in Vitamin
K5 include spinach, kale, egg
yolk, liver, cheese and tomatoes.
Alfalfa is another high source of
the vitamin. A light tan powder,
the Vitamin K5 in OSC tests was
mixed with water and added to
foods in varying amounts. Then
foods were stored.
In Drevious work at OSC, Vita
min K5 has been used successfully
to preserve wines. It aids in fer
mentation of the juices, dui pre
vents "secondary fermentation" or
souring. Later tests will be made
with fruits such as prunes. Berries.
cherries and seafoods, including
ovsters and shrimp. Other re
search workers cooperating on the
study are R. W. Stem, K. J . Lain,
Russell Sinnhuber and W i 1 b e r t
Steele.
calls for old equipment, and thai
stereo sales in the first three
weeks of September alone were 300
per cent above the total for Au
gust. Heath, a producer of comnonents
for the audiophile who wants to
build his own, said sales of its
stereo kits, introduced only a few
months ago, were already double
those of its monophonic.
Electrovoice reported a six-week
backlog in orders and said it was
adding a second shift. .
A big difference between this
year's hi-fi show and those of pre
vious years was that more than
half of the people attending this
one were women. That the indus
try is conscious of this was shown
by the many stylish cabinets which
now house audio equipment.
Also, possibly in deference to
the ladies, most of the exhibitors
this year did not demonstrate their
"rigs" with the ear-shattering vol
ume of the "old" days.
RADIO AID
LOS ANGELES (UPD A new
radio impulse device which emits
140 "beeps" per minute after it is
activated by opening of a para
chute will be a great aid in res
cuing pilots lost in water, desert
or mountain areas, according to
its developers.
The device, jointly developed by
North American Aviation and the
Telephonies Corp. of New York
was approved following tests at El
Centra Naval Auxiliary Air Sta
tion. The low-weight transmitter
can be heard by a homing receiv-
60 to 80 miles away.
Office Corner In Home
Makes Budget 'Easier'
Where's the dentist's statement
for last month? How much do we
still owe .on the vacuum cleaner?
Does our auto insurance cover
that? Can you remember the
plumber's name? What happened
to the Christmas card list?
Questions like these are being
asked in millions of homes around
the nation. In many cases, they
will be greeted by silence because
the answers have long ago found
their way into the waste basket,
or been carelessly filed among the
tea napkins where they won t be
unearthed for many moons.
With so many important odds
and ends to watch in today's pat
tern of living, homeowners can
no longer trust to luck. They need
properly outfitted office space
right in the home where all the
big business of homemaking can
be transacted without fuss and
fuming.
Ideally, the home office should
be a separate room of the home,
a modern counterpart of the 19th
century library wiiere children are
banned and weary adults can creep
for a few moments' retreat. When
separate study is impossible, a
corner of the living room, bed
room or family room can be requi
sitioned and outfitted to meet the
need.
Obviously, the first piece of
equipment needed is a desk, pref
erably one with one drawer deep
enough to take file folders. Book
shelves are equally necessary, and
their size will depend upon wheth
er they are also to house the fam
ily library.
Since, even in the case of the
separate room, space is usually
BY ANY OTHER NAME
HOBBS, N.M. (UPD Gentle
Washington, 20, was charged with
disorderly conduct here after a
carnival fight.
at a premium, built-in furniture
is the favorite, for it guarantees -the
fullest use of available space.
The desk, for example, can be
built underneath a window or into
an odd corner where standard fur
niture won't fit gracefully. Book
shelves can be built round and
about, into all 'the empty wall
area over and adjacent to the
desk.
Desk, shelving, and additional
cabinetry can be easily tailored
from a strong, durable wood like
Douglas fir or West Coast hem
lock. Because this area should be
made as conducive to concentra
tion as possible, clear, natural
finish for the wood is preferred
over bright paints. Both fir and
hemlock have soft, shell beige col
oring which is easy on the eyes
and makes for distinctive decor.
To make the study corner beau
tifully inviting and warm, malls
should be paneled with natural, ver
tical grain fir or hemlock to match
the built-ins. Vertically installed
paneling will heighten a low ceil
ing, while installing the panels
horizontally gives sweeping form
to a wall.
BRIDAL SUITE
TIMBER LAKE, S.D. (UPD
All members of the wedding party
were on horseback when Fay Nord
vald married Delbert Longbrake.
The bride and her father rode
side by side before the Rev. James
Rice of St. Philip's Episcopal
Church, who also was mounted.
She wore a light gray riding suit
with a matching cowboy hat. The
bridegroom and his attendant,
Jess Knight, rode between two
lines of horsemen to the side of
Father Rice. Following the cere
mony, the couple, their attendants
and other riders dismounted and
knelt to recite "The Lord's Prayer."
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" ORANGE USE
LAKE ALFRED, Fla. (UPD
A crew of scientists here is seeking
to find uses for citrus by-prod
ucts peels, seeds, pulp
which would pay for hauling the
big Florida crop to market.
Already, citrus wastes are used
in cattle feed and by segments of
the chemical industry. But it is
the goal of citrus scientists to
find a profitable use for every
part of an orange.
KEEPING 'EM HONEST
YONKERS, N. Y. UPI)
Burglars broke into the Angus
Steak House here and took $3,100
in cash as well as a tin box con
taining $400 in IOU's from the
restaurant's customers.
Apparently appalled at the
thought of anyone getting away
without paying for bis meals, the
burglars telephoned the restau
rant's assistant manager to advise
him where the box and the
IOU's could be found. I
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