The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1952-03-06

field, points the way to a truly
nationwide television service
with nearly 1000 stations blan-
keting the nation"
Television right now is still
largely a regional service confin-
ed to large centers of population.
To find room in the radio spec
trum for more stations, RCA
scientists explored these hither-
to unused ultra high frequency
air waves.
The other new development,
the transitor, is tiny device "a
bout the size of kernal of corn
which can do much of the work
of electron tubes. 1t needs little
current to operate, needs no
warm-up period, and is ex-
tremely rugged. RCA scientists
and engineers say it will find
its highest uses in "electronic
devices now undreamed Of"
BUBBLE CHASERS - Scien>
lists have been chasing bubbles,
and it has paid off in improved
food quality.
They've devised an apparatus
to measure the amount of quail
ty-damaging air trapped in GER
tain types of foods on the pro-
cessing line. The device, fruit
of three years laboratory re-
search by A and P food stores,
enables food professors for the
first time to successfully police
this enemy of palate-appeal in
such foods as mustard, peanut
butter, catsup and preserves.
The invention measures the
volume of the produce before
and after vacuum is applied. The
difference in readings, which can
be as small as 1900 of fluid
ounce, shows the amount of in
corporated air in the product.
This knowledge enables process
sors to check exactly the effic-
iency of machines normally used
to remove air.
H. R. Mcdonnell, chief of the
firms research programs, says
the device is now in use as a
quality control sentry" at the
A and P's five Quaker Maid"
plants. 1t is helping eliminate,
he says, such old-time process
ing headaches as off-colors, off
flavors and the separation of SOL
ids and liquids in air-damage-
able foods.
THINGS TO COME - A new
type coffee can opener avoids
fuss with the winding key. The
device is punched into the top of
the can in much the same man.
ner as beer can opener and acts
as pouring spout. Those
who live in small apartments
or homes where space is limited
will be interested in newly
marketed chest seat which has
two spacious storage drawers i.
A colorful rolling pin plaque for
the kitchen wall is now avail
able. \ 1t features salt and pep
per shakers, a flower or recipe
holder and hooks for three pot
holders Ten of the smaller
coffee houses have banded to-
Agether and will soon market a
new instant coffee under ten
different labels.
, TEXTILE WOES - In 1851
alone IS wooden and worsted
mills in New England were re-
ported to have closed - either
O liquidate or move South, Some
mills are accepting orders at
prices below costs in order to
keep running; and a grim bat
tie is shaping between New En-
gland workers and mills over
wages - the mills wanting cuts
to put them on a more equal ba-
sis with their southern competi-
tors.
The latest sign of the time
comes to light in Massachusetts,
where a company which makes
worsteds is buying goods from a
Pennsylvania mill at 80 cents a
ward cheaper than it can make
them - and then selling them to
its customers.
The dominant factor in region
al cost differences is labor, but
other things contribute to the
disparity. Some of them: lower
power costs in the South in many
cases, lower real estate taxes and
the fact that the plants, being
newer and more modern, can run
more economically than the older
New England mills.