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PROGRAMS ► Taxpayers who found their income tax forms read like Chinese puzzles were interested in the new 5-program series that started February 4 over WKAR-TV, Michigan State. Visiting experts ex¬ plain how to fill out the form, deductions, filing re¬ quirements and exemptions. ► Graduation exercises for the 760 adults learning to read and write via WKNO-TV, Memphis, were held with a special TV ceremony February 16. The second phase of the literacy project began February 18. Also, WKNO received a $2500 grant from the ETRC to evaluate its first literacy course. ► A landmark in musical and TV circles was made when the San Francisco Symphony Association and KQED, San Francisco’s ETV station, began to pre¬ sent seven hour-long musical programs. Beginning February 15, the series marks the initial presentation of a behind-the-scenes view of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra on TV. TV TECHNICAL TIPS NO. 30 —Cecil S. Bidlack, NAEB TV Engineer In the February Newsletter we led off this column with a story about the revised NAEB Technical Di¬ rectory. If you anticipated receiving a copy of the Directory before this, it isn’t lost in the mails. As I write this, stencils are being cut, and we have a promise that it will be in the mail the first week in March. The Test Equipment Inventory has been completed; the stencils cut, and it, too, should be mimeographed and in the mail that week. The Technical Directory will go to the complete Engineering mailing list; the Test Equipment In¬ ventory will be sent only to chief engineers. *•***• We’ve had a note from John Brugger, chief en¬ gineer for the closed circuit TV experiment conducted by the Board of Education of Washington County at Hagerstown, Md., in conjunction with the Radio- Electronics TV Manufacturers Association and the Fund for the Advancement of Education. He states that during the summer months from June to September they will be expanding their tech¬ nical facilities. He will need extra technical help for these months and will be happy to employ at least three and possibly six persons to help with this work. If any of our readers are available for the sum¬ mer and are interested, you can write direct to John in care of the Board of Education at Hagerstown, Md. * * * * Here’s a tip from Robert F. Lewis, chief engineer of WFBE (FM) Flint, Michigan, which may foster better engineering-production relationships. Due to the difficulty in cueing microgroove rec¬ ords and their susceptibility to damage, WFBE (FM) does not use them directly for program pro¬ duction work, such as in themes, bridges, etc. In¬ stead the music for each production is tape recorded in proper sequence in advance. The tape is then used during the production. This method cuts down the error potential to practically zero, plus reducing wear and tear on discs. For playback a fast-starting tape unit, such as the Magnecorder PT6 series, works very well. * * * * Fifty thousand engineers are expected to attend the 1957 Convention of the Institute of Radio En¬ gineers and the Radio Engineering Show in New York City at the Coliseum and Waldorf Astoria, March 18-21. The program includes 275 papers re¬ porting new developments with 840 exhibits of new apparatus covering all four floors of the Coliseum. Page 6 NEWSLETTER