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Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1954-02-10
WED. FEB 10. 1854 THE TABOR CITY TRIBUNE

and Mrs. j. d. Long Tuesday night.
Mrs. Harry Jenrette visited Mrs.
Kathern Faulk Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. ID. Stocks were
in Lumberton last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dillon Jacobs were
in Tabor City recently.
Mrs. Lester Long spent some
time with Mrs. j. d. Stocks We'd
nesday.
Mrs. Paul Common and Mrs.
Ralph Long visited Mrs. J. d.
Long Friday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. j. Long made a
business trip to Tabor City Friday.
Mrs. Lester Long visited Mrs.
Cathern Faulk Thursday night.
Miss Mary Jane Jacobs visited
Miss Dorothy Long Sunday after
noon.
Mir. and Mrs. Alton Faulk visit
ed Mr.. and Mrs. James Faux re-
Gently.
Mrs. Lester Long was the Sun
Gay afternoon guest of Mrs. j. D.
Long.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1954-02-10

Cox, treasurer; Miss Bernice Gar
rclI, and Miss Ann Fowler, pro-
gram chairmen, Miss Jane Par
am stewardship and Miss Betty
Je.nigan, Community missions.
Mrs. r. M. Carroll, Sr. is leader
of the auxiliary.
Officials attending the organi-
rational meeting were Mrs. b. A.
Carroll, Young Peoples Director,
and Mrs. Richard Gordon, Coun-
selor for the High School Y. w. A.
Mrs. Spivey is assistant director
for the Young People.
Following the session Mrs. Spi-
vey served sweet course to her
guests.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1954-02-10
Junior R.A.'s
To Meet

The Junior r. AS of the Mount
Tabor Baptist Church will meet
at the home of Mrs. b. A. Carroll
Thursday, Feb. IL, at 700 p. m.
All members, both active and as
sociate are invited TO attend.
A social hour will be held with
refreshments being served.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1954-02-10
Business VIVA.
Organized Here

A Business Young Woman's Aux
iliary of the Mount Tabor Baptist
church was organized Monday
evening in the home oc Mrs. Ralph
w. SpiVoy. Officers elected to
serve for the year are Miss Bunny
Buftkin, president: Miss Eioise
Powell, vice president; Miss Mary
Bow, secretary: Miss Smithy 10
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1954-02-10
GuiIeWav
News
BY MRS. LESTER LONG

r. j. Long made a business trip
to Whiteville Monday.
Mrs. Lester Long and son. Geo
rye, and Selma Faux were visit
ors in the Pireway section Monday
afternoon.
Dottie Long and Jimmie Dale
Long visited Mrs. Quillic Long,
recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ebert Soles visit
cd Mrs. Lester Long Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Buck of
the Pireway section visited Mr..
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1954-02-10

United States poultry flocks laid
record 5.26 billion eggs in De-
cember last year. The 1853 total
was 6l.96 billion, a 2 per cent in
crease over production in 1852.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-10-08
X. E. Midkiff Chosen
Chairman of Amelia
County ASC Group

r f. Midkif. of Route 2. AM
ella. is chairman of the Am La
County Agricultural Sterilization
and Conservation committee nam
ed last week by a vote of COM
munity ASC committee chairman
Others on the county commit
tee are d. A Hillsman, Jetsees
vile, vice chairman. and w T.
Chimney. regular member. T..
Ford is office manager Of the
ASC.
The community committeeuen
elected by vote Of farmers inWhe
county's three districts last week
are.
Leigh. R. W Joyce. chairman.
c. J Wingo, vice chairman. and
J. NJ Borum. regular membet
Giles, Howard K, Duncan, chair
man. Howard T Filppen,, vice
the National Association Of C9un-
ty Agricultural Agents. Oct 1915.
He is an official delegate Of the
Virginia agents association, TO-
eether with A G. Brdsall of
Gloucester T. O. Scott. Of Char
lottesville, J B Flora Of Rocky
Mount, and Melvin w Bryant. Of
Suffolk.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-10-08

pasture and corn These provided
LABOR income Of S3.072 that
year
Father Son Team
USING TINS capital as a stepping
Stone r c. entered into a bust
ness agreement with his father
and continued to expand his aeri-
cultural program following eradu-
fton Ii the years since have been
acted a wife and farm Of his own.
Mrs Reams. an excellent home
maker helped out for a while as
tymst Workiua together this
pair She was Anne Ford also of
Amelia county built then HON
on tle newly acquired farm and
r c did most OF the building
4mseH
Much Of the ability to do that
work was learned ~ his school
fFA days for Reams was Virgin
la's TOP FFA'er ia farm mechanics
la 1850
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-10-08

knowing the value of profess
slonal advance, T. c has used the
service Of SOL Conservation men
and the county agent to build his
crop practices by contour farm
ing, clearing land and fence build
inc 1t was wise management, well
directed and hard work that
made his start successful in a big
enterprise daring.
Leadership, Too
An American Farmer degree
winner must show leadership and
T c. accomplished that in high
school where he held FLA offic s,
PLAYED in the band. was active in
Hi-Y SEA. Safety Patrol and
Dramatices. He also engaged in
FLA contests such as forestry
judging dairy judging and degree
team work
They viii wrap up r c. Reams
Jr S hard work. wise management
and used Of improved agricultural
practices in one package, tag it
and hand it back to him at Kan
sas City labeled American Farm
en-.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-10-08
JetersyiIle

MI and mrs. Guy White and
daughter Karen. spent Sunday
with Mrs. Whites parents. Mn.
and MIS- Henry RoWlett
Mrs r II Clarke HAD An of
Ter children with her Sunday.
MI. and Mrs Frederick Clark and
daughter Betty Mr and Mis- Es-
pl- V CLARK and Miss Margaret
CLARK. all n Richmond and Mr..
and Mrs Billy Vaughan ana two
daughters of Newport News
Mrs Noel S-mons IF Wilson,
spent the week end WITH hor par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. ] "A stone.
Mrs Lizzie HenkeI- and MIS-.
r Il Lacy and tW1 dauahtcrs NJ
Halifax spent Sunday with Mrs.
r W. Vaughan. also Billy Waugh
an and family II Newport News.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-10-08

chairman, and II D Vaughan
regular member
Jackson F S. Duncan Chair
man l. E Allsn, vice chairman.
and B B Brandon, regular mem
Der
The committees which begin
functionlng this month. replace
the former PIMA groups, and will
perglse the federal program Of
acreage controls, pr.ce supports
and conservation payments
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-10-08

MI and MIS- Pc.o plEno and
children. of Crow. and MI. and
Mrs. Norman PAYNE, spant sun
day with Mi and Ms f j. So.
Mrs. w. J Elan arr So" RI
sell, spent Sunday viii N'~7
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-10-08

Elam's daughter. Mrs. Warner
Beaver, Mr.. Beaver and daugh-
ter in brakes Branch
Mr. and Mrs A r. Morris left
Sunday to spend the winter with
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-10-08
Amelia County Agent
At Utah Convention

County Agent E /. Wood of
Amelia, left Wednesday for Salt
Lake City, Utah. where he will
attend the Week-long sessions of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07
Future Appears Bright for Both HF and FM Broodcosno

third Of the aural hearing range
despite the fact that the tele-
phone company has established
tariffs for 5000 and $4,000 cycle
service. This is at the same
time that two of them (CBS
and NBC) have record-making
affiliates columbia and RCA
Victor) that are producing re-
cordings with the full hi-fl
range.
Costs to Blame.
The higher costs of intercity
relay circuits is undoubtedly an
important deterrent to their use.
But still, these tariffs are much
lower than equivalent mileage
costs for TV transmissions.
If and when the public de-
mands better network sound
transmission as hi-fi goes into
Nationwide acceptance. it seems
quite likely that the AM net
works will then go to better
intercity sound transmission cir
cults.
One Of the things a radio sta
ton can do best is to transmit
music. Delete music from the
radio entertainment package and
radio withers on the vine. Do
a better job of transmitting
music and radio is improved
and strengthened.
Americas ears are being tuned
to hi-fi. In fact, one often won-
ders why it has taken so long
in this modern electronic age
for natural sound reproduction
and radio reception to be given
to the American public on a
widespread basis. Hi-fl and FIN
are growing in public fancy to-
day. principally because they are
long overdue. The public has
been waiting a long time.
Radios most successful chal-
lenge to TV may yet turn out
to be hi-h and FIN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07
'Hi-Fi-F Fad or Musical Millennium?

standpoint Is becoming identihabe part of the Nations
economy. H-f Is definitely not fad.
Granting this much significance the question then be-
comes just how much more widespread this sound
consciousness Is likely to become.
Some Hurdles Ahead
1t to little early to predict that every house,
hold within certain length of timesay five yearS-w have
hi-. 1t has taken about five years-or 25 if
look back to the first aspirations of engineers-fo
acousical realism to reach its present popularity.
One of approaching the question: however is to look
at the hurdles that have to be vaued these
considerable.
In the first place the hifi owning public while
growing with gratifying rapidly is still relatively small
About 40 cent of Washington radio listeners according
those in the field, FM but good many of these
undoubtedly still have to update their monographs
The reSurgent popularity of monographs of all types
and expect this to be boom
proves people longer welded solely TV but tele
vision continues to present formidable competition
mostly not hi-f-at least far)
In the second place, the public whole still doesn't
really know what hi is all about This is partly
high fidelity something that has to be discovered every
1t yet The other that the high fidelity
Term Is Abused
1t is paradoxica situation that the popular high
fidelity becomes the abuse of the likely This
has already been illustrated More manufacturers
and Dealers spotting good thing, have stuck high
fidelity tag on their merchandise. Unfortunately isn't
always
For two years committees Radio Eectronics
Continued Page E-2. Col 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07

What is high hdelity-a fad significant advancement
of our civilization?
Not too many people. suspect, have yet given much
woofer the tweeter does not to be primarily
philosophical
HITS acoustica impact however certainly far enough
reasons why some among us-especiaIy in the Nations
Capita-shoud be giving this fact deeper study.
What high fidelity amounts to is pretty well known
at least in a verbal sense.
When one sits hall, he hears the sound of
vons rombones drums and whatever other instruments
playing their natural state In ones living these
natural rarely heard The home music listener
generally depends on electrically achieved likeness
High fidelity" simply that the likeness is faith
full Applied to the mechanism creating the likeness it
means that the mechanism does its task accurately.
Hi-Fi an Aspiration
High fidelity is really, of course aspiration rather
than reproducing system has yet exactly dup
Gated musical original. But systems available
come remarkably close.
Six years ago both the term and the acoustica reality
describes almost the exclusive property engineers
Today thouands-probaby tens of thousandof citizens
possess the mechanism of high fidelity at least some
approximation of it, in their homes
Many citizens possess wonderful recordings
which they could appreciate than they do already
they had suitable monographs Events like this week ends
HFi Fair here being promoted the Nation to
encourage the extension of this capacity for enhanced
pleasure
The Washington High Fidelity Fair itself reflects another
aspect growth Something like 200 products being dis
played the fair proving that hih from the equipment
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07

Richard Wagner once be-
moaned the fact that his art
could only be communicated
through the intervention of other
persons. He required musicians,
conductors and singers before
his work could be heard. He
wished Though heetingly) that
he had been born a painter or a
writer. Painting and literature
require no middlemen.
What would he have said of
the new art" of electronic pre-
sentation of music? What would
he. exigent taskmaster that he
was, have thought of the phono-
graph record which requires not
one but two go-betweens. per-
Torrance and reproduction, be-
fore the music can reach the
audience?
Performance and reproduce
ton, those are the two criteria
by which a good record must be
judged. That is an obvious truth,
and yet in the history of record
ing (and not in ancient history
only that truth has occasionally
been pulled lopsided. We have
Of necessity had great perform
ances reproduced like blurred
photoStat. And today we find
some mediocre performances
etched in overtime detail
through High Fidelity.
Concert Hall Sound.
What is high fidelity? It is
or it ought to be. in my opinion
an attempt to bring reproduced
musical sound closer to the sound
of music "in nature" in the
concert hall.
The pleasure we derive from
musical sound consists Of several
ingredients. as the taste of a
good wine consists of the kind of
grapes used. their blend. the
aging of the wine and the stor-
ing. In sound the ingredients
are timbre. which is the tone
characteristics of particular in
strumentS or voices. In modern
high fidelity recording we have
tried to make the flute sound
like a flute. giving it its Silvery
simmer, and we try to repro
duce the English horn with its
unique wall.
Then there is completeness
of tone. No musical tone Is a
simple tone; it contains over
tones: It is a whole cosmos Of
sound.
And music is a mixture or sue
ceSsion OF high sounds (high
frequencies) and of low. High
fidelity methods Of recording and
equivalent reproducing instru-
nlents have widened the spec
trum Of sound both at the low
and at the high end. The Spec
trum ranges today from about
80 to about $4,000 cycles, though
even greater ranges are claimed
In advertising.
Wide Dynamic Range.
Still another ingredient is the
volume Of sound. its gradations,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07

Hi-fi and FIN are synonymous.
They started together in a big
fanfare of publicity about 1885.
World War II set them back, and
then television. But now there is
a resurgence of public interest in
both and the future looks bright.
When FIN first came into
being, industry and the engi-
neering world we'll knew what it
could do in the way Of better
coverage and its marvellous capa-
city for the reproduction of
sound. They knew that FIN
created sound so natural that the
performing artists seemed trans
ported to the listeners living
room.
It was at this time that the
term high fidelity was born.
But there were still not enough
sets in homes. or enough sta
lions on the air. to acquaint the
general public with these new
sound marvels. Inv fact, most of
the public's reaction was mega
tive. Photograph records then
as move comprised a great part
Of many stations program fare.
The old Is r. p. m. records-lim.
tied to a top range of $500 cycles
out Of the 15,000-cycle hearing
range-produced too much noise
and scratch.
People with good sets decided
they didn't like thigh fidelity"
If that was what they were hear
ing-which it wasn't. FM suf-
fered accordingly.
New Records Help.
After the war came television.
Hi-fi and FIN again retrenched.
The poor design Of many early
FIN sets didn't help.
TV hurt even AM radio. Con-
trary to predictions, however.
radio revived, and one Of the
biggest factors was the new
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07
High Fidelity Broodens
SCOPE of Jazz Records
New Recording Techniques and LIP Discs
Convey SubtIeties Formerly Out of Reach
By George Avokion
Official Of Columbia Records and A


Long-playing records, tape re-
cording and high fidelity equip
ment have wrought revolution
in recorded jazz, just as they
have in the classical field. Quail
ity of sound and broadening of
repertory have been advanced
enormously.
Nowhere are the possibilities
so clearly dralhatized as in the
beSt-Selling jazz album of all
time - Benny Goodman's 1888
Carnegie Hall Concert, an his
toric document whose existence
On records was unknown until
1949.
This album could not have
been produced on Is rpm. disks.
The cost would have been pro-
hibitive and the factor of unin-
terrupted reproduction, so i'm
portant in this set, would have
been lost. Tape was vital to its
completion, not only as a means
of transferring the original
transcriptions to IN m ercia !
masters but in removing innu-
merable snaps and clicks. This
was accomplished literally, by
shipping out tiny bits of tape.
And thanks to hi-fi equipment,
it was possible to "equalize" the
tapeS-to vary the frequency
responses throughout the entire
sound spectrum of the originals,
so that the distortions and in
adequacies of the 1888 recording
were corrected and the final
sound was as close as possible to
the actual live sound of the
Goodman band. trio and quartet.
Even the surface hiss of the orig
inals was greatly reduced.
Hear Past Masters.
The same processes have en-
abled the public to hear the
great past masters of jazz
Bessie Smith, Blk Beiderbecke,
the Louis Armstrong of the '2Os,
Jelly Roll Morton-more clearly
than ever before, and in guam
titles heretofore available only
to ardent collectors with large
purses.
In transferring original metal
mothers" to tape, we discov-
cred something which is a major
factor in the improved sound of
these old classics: That early re-
cording equipment was better
than any of us had realized. For
hidden in the grooves, there were
frequencies which. until recent
years, had never been reproduced
because photograph equipment
had not been as highly developed
as recording equipment.
OF course. preSent-day equip
ment and skill can do much more
with flrst-class studio recording.
Tonally, the Subtleties of a jazz
performance are best captured
under controlled conditions. A
jazz orchestra (as opposed to a
small jazz combo) is capable of
the most exciting gamut of
sound.
HIN enthusiasts have latched
onto one particular LIP as their
darling among jazz items: ELL
ington Uptown" 12-inch Co.
lumbia disk consisting of five
elongated interpretations by
Duke Ellington, one of which
(''Perdido'') won the Audio En-
cheering Award as the outstand-
ing jazz recording of 1852.
It is appropriate that LIP
brought Ellington into his own
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07
By Everett [. DiIIord

uiions W0ON and WASH-FM
four major networks can be
heard on FIN, SO that favorite
network programs are available
on FIN as well as AM. All WASH
ington AM stations have affilia-
ted FM stations. Only a few
nearby Maryland and Virginia
stations do not.
Washington is fortunate in its
locally produced programs. Prac-
tically all are of good fidelity.
Fine live concerts - including
those Of the Army and Navy
Bands on WASH and the Lii
brary Of Congress, the National
Gallery Of Art and occasionally
the National Symphony on
WGMS-FM--have delighted hi
A enthusiasts.
WASH until last month was
the originating point for the
Continental FM Network, which
operated $4,000 cycle telephone
line from here to New York, be-
lieved to be the only such line
ever put to regular use on an
intercity network. The network
had an 8,000-cycle line from New
York to Boston and served at one
time more than so stations. Con-
tinental ceased operation two
days after the tragic death of
Maj. Edwin Armstrong, inventor
Of FIN and its hacker.
WGMS-FM has just started a
new FIN network, serving Balti-
more, Lancaster, Pa, Philadel-
phia and New York. WGMS-FM
also transmits concerts of the
Baltimore Symphony here.
The situation with the major
networks. viewer. is both
strange and paradoxical. The
major networks continue to use
intercity telephone lines which
are limited to 5000 cycleAE IA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07

the difference between loud and
soft. which we call dynamic
range. In old recordings the
engineer at the control board
had to turn down the volume in
loud passages because he knew
that the record could not take
the amount of sound that the
orchestra was making. The gil
gantic storm which opens the
first act of Verdi's Otello had to
be tanned to an everyday rain
storm-or else the record would
blast.
These improvements were
brought about first by the de-
velopment of recording on tape,
second by the development of
more sensitive microphones and
third by greater skill in record
ing techniques. The result is a
record which sounds better and
is truer to life. Provided. en-
phaSize, this record is played on
a reproducing system able to
get off the record what's on the
record.
The good Of high fidelity is
obvious. "Hi-Fi" has stimulated
interest in reproduced music by
making records sound more
exciting. It has given a new
impetus to and thrown a new
spotlight on the whole subject
of records. But I don't think
we ought to be so dazzled by that
spotlight as not to recognize
certain abuses Of high fidelity.
Peep Of Piccolo.
Some of us have fallen in
love with sound. per Sc, as If
sound were the be-all and end
all of music. Some of us have
become SO interested in per-
fectly reproduced peep of the
piccolo. or a sharply defined
PUNK of the harp. that we have
forgotten that sound is only a
part of music, as color is a part
of painting.
What happens to performance,
the quickening force which
turns some funny looking hen
tracks on a printed page into
something that is alive and
moving and thrilling?
Recordings have been artifi-
cially "Souped up" to make the
sound sensational. Like the frog
in Aesop's fable, seconds rate per-
formanceS have been blown up
to bursting. Even in good per-
formances instruments have
been accomplished at the ex-
pense Of the total effect. It's
fine to hear the clarinet distinct
ly, but the clarinet in a concert
performance is just one instru-
ment. sitting in the middle of an
orchestra, and even in a living
room performance I don't want
to hear it as If it were playing
right in my lap.
Truer Picture Needed.
The early italian painters
painted far-away objects just as
distinctly as nearby objects,
though smaller in size. It was
only at the height of the Rem
aissance that painters learned
the secret Of atmospheric paint
ing. of indistinctness, Of that
beautiful quality called sfumato.
Now that we have learned to
make instruments distinct we
must also learn to make them
blend into the background, II we
tsee RECORDING, Page Esq j