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- 2 - Jansky, refuting 3 common misconceptions about HI, pointed out: 1. tfhe range of an HI station is not limited to line-of-sight 'broadcast, it may cover 2 or 3 times this distance. 2. It is. possible to cover large areas with an HI transmitter withou t using interconnecting telephone circuits. 3. HI sets are becoming increasingly available, and many of them at reasonable prices. H-A-E-B elects UEU OFFICERS Hichard B, Hull (Station WO I, Iowa State College) was elected President for 1947-48. Hew Vice-President is John Dunn (Station WAD, University of Oklahoma). Re-elected Treasurer is U. I. Griffith (Station UOI, Iowa State College). Elected to the Executive Committee were Seymour Siegal (Station WiTYC, Hew York City), Graydon Ausmus (Station UTJOA, University of Alabama), Frank Schooley (Station HELL, University of Illinois), Carl Menzer (USUI, University of Iowa), Ralph U. Steetle (ULSU, Louisiana State University), and William E. Sener (University of Southern California). The Executive Committee re-appointed Morris S. Hovik as Executive Secretary for the Organization. Hovik, formerly Director of Station UHYC, Hew York, head¬ quarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, Hew York City. GUEST OF HOHOR AT C01UPFTI0H Dr. Lee dr Forest, the"Father of American Radio,"-inventor of audion tube, and sharp critic of present day commercial broadcasting in the U.S„ was guest of honor at the annual H-A-E-B banquet Sunday night. Dr. de Forest, a healthy, handsome elderly gentleman who has seen the full miracle of modern electronics develop in his lifetime, received a rising vote of tribute when he made his re¬ marks . Dr. de Forest recalled his remarks, made the previous January on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of broadcasting in the U.S., when he criticized the radio industry for having made radio "...a laughing stock of intelligence, surely a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere; ...of having cut time into tiny cubelets...wherewith the occasional fine program is periodically smeared with impudent insistence to buy or try. 11 He hailed the efforts of organizations such as the Rational Association of Educational Broadcaters as the only hope of redeeming from being "cursed more and more, year by year." FCC COMMISSIONER DURR COFVWTIOH BAHQUET SPEAKER Clifford J. Durr, hailed by VARIETY magazine as one of the few Commissioners in the history of the FCC "who has been able to see the woods for the trees... who has insisted that the decisive criterion of radio service...is not the coverage pattern...or the balance sheet...but what comes out of the loudspeaker," pointed out his disappointment and his still prevailing hope that the educators of the country, the great universities, and the foundation would recognize their obligations to the American listening public.