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Show JIVING OUR WORLD THE ' MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE 6eHx. Utah. Thurs. April 11. 157. ' except that the sound-creating In- i b... j,.ients are steam locomotives, car wheels, air brakes, crossing bells, etc. It is quite an experience to hear my radio laboring up a hill as if pulling a long string of cars. And when the Diesel Streamliner roars past, you feel a little safer not standing directly In front. "Safety is everybody's "business", you know. Rail Dynamics might have been recorded on any class I Once Over By Dick Morrison Fascinating Sounds The main objects of most hi-fi artisans is to reproduce music in the most life-like manner possible. The majority of listeners are interested inter-ested in hearing good music, primarily, prim-arily, and even among the do-it-yourself set builders, you seldom find an enthusiast who does not enjoy the music at least as much as he, enjoys the electronic science with which he works. Even the practice of improving upon a live performance, which can sometimes be done, is frowned upon "by the elite, who consider it their mission in life to' reproduce sound exactly as it would be .heard without the interposition of reproducing equipment. equip-ment. V- - Some hobbyists, however,, refuse to be limited to the field of music, and have a lot of fun in the larger realm of sound. Quite rightly, they regard their art as applicable to everything the ear can hear, and, in fact, some sounds that it can't. Along this line, I recently bought an LP record called Rail Dynamics. It is every bit as enjoyable as a lot of symphonies. More so than some of them. It was made 'by an outfit named Cook Laboratories, at 101 Second Street, Stamford, Connecticut. Con-necticut. It is one of a series of Sounds Of Our Times. Cost, $3.98 plus postage. i Sitting by the record player, guessing what is going on from the sound of Rail Dynamics is very much the same as trying to interpret inter-pret a mood of Sibelius or Debussy, "General yard noises" serve as an iuuuuucuuti, lu.lv.'lni; wli'ctu the composer Introduces the prin-' cipal theme with "Beautiful whist-1 ling approach steam as loco-' motive passes by. Finally train screeches to a shuddering step, tnen puns out. aaqqaq wagon clatters along platform". A second interlude of yard noises is followed by a Diesel horn. The streamliner approaches, passes at railroad, but they made it on the ( high speed, and diminishes with New York Central, which sounds just like the Union Pacific, the Pennsylvania, or the Santa Fe. The "A" side Is of a trip on a train. It pulls in and stops, and you get on. You get quite a run as it starts, picks up speed, rushes through cuts that echo the sound, over hollow-sounding bridges, rattles rat-tles over rail crossings. The "B" side is of sounds at a station. The station is Peekskill, N. Y., which is the end of the run for the commuter trains, but just a way station for the limiteds, the clicking of jheels In the dis tance. This passage is repeated as the second section goes by. A enmax is reacnea in mo great oncoming rush of presence and perspective in passing" of a heavy train, and the finale is described in the words, VTraln with mournful mourn-ful whistle passes, whistling once In distance". Realism is enchanced by the doppler effects in several instances. instan-ces. This accounts for the change in pitch of the crossing bells as we, on the train, move past them, Just as symphonic recordings us- and of the whistles as the trains ually include program notes, Rail pass us. Dynamics does the same. ..ii?jt.- ? 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Presumably, if they get enough votes for any specific sound they will make a recording j of it. j In addition to such railroad re-, re-, cords, recorded sounds on the mar-j mar-j ket include Jet plane engines; ten thousand hens; katydids, frogs and 1 forest birds; and night rain and surf. There must be some subtle 1 difference between the sounds of night rain and day rain, or they wouldn't have specified it that way. Also, there are some records the dealers might keep under the ! counter for select customers, such as uncensored burlesque. Some of these are commonly used as background for amateur theatricals; and, of course, in movies, sound men have long been catching the sounds of everything Imaginable. Now when it comes to-favorite sounds, that opens up quite' a field. What Is your favorite sound? Did you ever stop to name it? Among my favorite sounds, a CANCER RESEARCH FUNDS INCREASE Summary of ACS Appropriation! For Reiearch 1945-1057 Holp rototrch fight cancer. Giva to the American Cn.-. -'. y. e t. y $8,000,000.00 2 ,' J979047.43 ' CANCER SOCIETY; t4J 1857 $1-25 to $3.00 long-established new deal innova-j During his second campaign, he tions, though he had tempered was not a sick man in the sense some of the more extreme ones, j that Roosevelt, having already suf-He suf-He had cut the federal budget, fered mental lapse;;, was a sick brought about a reduction in the man during his fourth. Yet the income tax, even though a rather) heart attack and the operation had small one, brought an end to the j undoubtedly taken their toll. And fighting in Korea, though an end . the -persistent cough, plus his evi- sans victory. His administration was free from the class antagonisms antagon-isms which had characterized those of Roosevelt and Truman. It al- dent irritability when confronted by a news man's question about use of helicopters to convey him to the golf links, could be taken most looked at that time as if he; to mean that all was nut well, lie has become sensitive to criticism, unable to ward it off, and unable to take it in his stride. The snubbing of McCarthy, who was the only member of Congress not invited to the president's reception, re-ception, wns certainly a snide, spiteful thinT. A t"'-t leader, a tolerant jres; -'cut, neer could have done such a thing. The best that can be said for it is that it was trying to combine the best of new-dealism with the best of conservative con-servative Republicanism, quietly, yet confidently. I then made the long range prediction that he would be renominated and re-elected in 1956. Well, he was, but today, early In his second administration, things don't look quite so good. With the new term only in its fourth month, Eisenhower is getting a bad press, was put over, not by the president This is almost the first time that but by some member of the palace has happened. The report of speed-1 guard. But to say that is to say ing from Washington to his Gettys J the president is not responsible burg farm, which might have been for official acts. Well, is he? ignored In a favorable atmosphere, j The foreign policy, today, is a stirred up plain resentment. Worse j shambles. About the best and the lapses ty Franklin Roosevelt, at 'worst that can 'be said for that is the height of his popularity, often that It is no worse than when the served only to heighten the degree game underlings in the State De-of De-of adulation in which he was held, partment were running things un-Two un-Two vears aero. Eisenhower see- jler Pnrveovolt nnri Trnmnn F'nt part from music, are rain on the,med . franv accessible, confident whteh hfnr nil tmnBnrannn nf hoinr roof: thunder, if not too close; ( ijor t whothor throno-h nisnn c,,,...,!,...,. v, splashing water in ft mountain! p, management or design, he internationalism have dominated ! unity he will be starting some- stream; a smooth auto engine, oia flppears an Isolated extremist, in- our costly, and disastrous foreign Klaxon horns; steamship whistles; j accessjbiei surrounded by a palace policy now for a quarter century, a baby laughing: the surf; coyotes guard Hls presentlng of the high-j Summing it all up the aband-howling aband-howling on a winter night; wlnd.e8t fecjerai budget in peacetime onment of all pretense of govern-swishing govern-swishing through tall trees; and, history was no act of a "moderate" ment economy, the failures in for-flnally, for-flnally, one which no recording It was an act of an extremist. His j elgn policy, the evidences of irri-machine irri-machine is ever going to catch ' statement that Congress might go tabllity and personal vindictlve-the vindictlve-the profound silence of our west-1 anead and reduce the budget, 1 ness, the inability to work with all em desert on a windless day. followed later by his obviously t factions, the evidence of poor j angry defense of It, did not add ! health, I get the feeling that our Eisenhower Slipping up to friendly and cooperative ship of state is moving dangerous- Toward the end of 1954 I wrote leadership. There was something ly, without direction, without a little item here headed Eisen- contemptuous about it all; some- strong leadership. It is like the hower Half Way, the tenor of thing suggesting some sinister di- Titanic, moving swiftly through which was that Eisenhower had rectlng Influence. ' the night, everyone aboard feeling proved a pretty gooa president in a moderate, middle- of- the- road way. He had not put an end to any that all'ls well when disaster lies" ahead. Like tha unsinkab'e shl;i headed for the iceberg. And there seems to be nothing in the world that anyone can do about It. Anyone who senses the danger, that Is, in view of the obstacles ob-stacles in the way of any who would point that danger to those who are in a position to do something. some-thing. Certainly there is nothing I can do about it. Hut one thing I can do, in another line, Is to make another prediction. Anl I an willing to predict that Richard Nixon will be the next president of the United States. Trading Stamps Will just take space today to view one more thing with alarm. That thing is trading stamps. I'm against them. Trading stamps have stirred up quite a furore in many business circles. They seem to represent an unsound practice which, once it starts in a community, every business busi-ness man must adopt in order to meet competition. Yet they don't 'npl'.e senso. They give some people peo-ple a sense of getting something 'or nothing, when in actuality 'here Is no such thing in the world. They raise the costs of doing business, by some two or three per eent as nearly as I am able to learn, And since all such costs must be Included in the price of goods, they result in people getting get-ting less rather than more for their money In the long run. It is to be hoped no one will start them in Delta. There are some moves afoot to have them prohibited by law. Yet, to me, this is the wrong way to stop such silly practices. Free enterprisers, en-terprisers, to he deserving of their freedom, should possess the capacity capa-city for self discipline. Asking laws to prevent such practices strikes me as on a par with advocacy of laws restricting the giving of unsound un-sound credit. It is as if businessmen business-men were saying, "If they don't pass a law to stop me from granting grant-ing credit on unsound terms, I'll go broke from granting credit on unsound terms". To me, the principles of freedom of contract are too important, too basic, to be overridden just to prevent pre-vent businessmen from engaging In such silly practices. So with trading stamps. Simply let each individual business man recognize the fact that if he starts a trading stamp craze in his corn- thing which will prove detrimental to himself, tils competitors, and his customers. And it may be some thing which though very easy to start, will prove very hard to stop. Mllll VV II FIND IT ANT ADS ( , 1 Who rates what for performance and smoother riding in the low-priced low-priced three? Chevrolet has laid the answer and the proof on the line! First, Chevrolet won the Auto Decathlon over every car in its field, and over the higher priced cars that were tested, too. 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