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Show Wliigovcrs All The News That's Fit To Print - From The Delta Airport. By Dick Morrison TAKE OFFS AND LANDINGS . . . Don Bothwell passed his flight test with flying colors and received receiv-ed his private license last week. Mel Beckstead and Tex Searle did some practice aerobatics in the Cessna Friday. Don Searle and a passenger flew down from Provo Friday. Leo, Lola and Lloyd Dean Bur-raston Bur-raston made a trip ot Goshen Sunday. Sun-day. A CAA inspector is tentatively scheduled to be in Delta April 10. Anyone wanting an ID card, take notice. News of a plane crash at Para-gonah Para-gonah was heard at the airport Sunday afternoon. Incomplete reports re-ports one person died instantly and another was seriously injured. LOOKIE HERE ... The Lookie is here. The Walkie-Lookie, Walkie-Lookie, that is. The Walkie-Lookie is a newly developed portable television tele-vision broadcaster that can be carried car-ried by one man. It can transmit video signals that are picked up and re-broadcast by the regular stations. This means that roving television reporters will be lable to turn their cameras on almost any event anywhere, and transmit to home receivers whatever they happen to see. The possibilities of the Walkie-Lookie are almost endless, end-less, according to a story by Jos. M. Guilfoyle in the Wall Street Journal. One of the first public services expected to be rendered by the new device, according to the WSJ article, is that of bringing to the televiewing public intimate, inside scenes of goings on at the political conventions this summer. For the first time, the whole American pub lie will be able to see right into the "smoke filled rooms" where the real deals are made - - the deals that determine how the votes will be cast on the convention floors. The Walkie-Lookie is but one of many TV developments deriving deriv-ing from a trend toward miniaturization miniatur-ization in electronic devices. It will open new possibilities in TV broadcasting, and will also cut the high cost of such broadcasting and so help to make possible better bet-ter programs. In another field, miniaturization will bring direct benefits to the general public. It promises to make home receivers both better and cheaper. Parts like vacuum tubes are being displaced by the newly invented ."transistors", which are at once smaller, longer lived, and potentially cheaper. It is anticipated that TV receivers receiv-ers with full size viewing tubes but of more compact overall size will be made -to sell at only $100. And that use of the transistor and other new inventions will result in pocket radios the size of a cigarette cig-arette case, and also a batteryless watch size radio receiver which could operate solely on heat from the human body. As they must to all sections of the nation, TV signals will someday some-day come to Delta, and when they do television promises to be both better and cheaper than it has ever been before. "I DO NOT CHOOSE TO RUN" President Truman's anouncement last Saturday night brought to mind the statement years ago by Calvin Coolidge when he said, "I do not ohoose to run". Coolidge like Truman, moved up from the vice presidency, and then served a full term after being elected in his own right. If political prognostication runs to form, we may look forward to many weeks of "expert" analysis of just what Harry Trumian really meant when he said, "I shall not be a candidate for re-election. I shall not accept renomination". Commentators may speculate to their heart's content, but I'm betting bet-ting Harry meant what he said, and the Democrats will find another an-other candidate. There's a feeling in the air that Truman's retirement brings us to the end of an era. It is as if American Am-erican politics, after twenty years ' of the new deal, is getting back i to "normal". And normal means j a wide open field, a sort of free for all. This type of normalcy was suspended during the Roosevelt re-1 gime, which was dominated by ' one personality. Perhaps the nearest near-est thing to Roosevelt worship in public mind today is Eisenhower worship; but there's a difference. For one thing, the two term tradition trad-ition has ben restored, this time in the written law. Confession is good for the soul, and this seems a good time for Dick Morrison to confess that ,in spite of his rabid Republicanism, he has come to accept, and would stand up and defend, certain innovations in-novations which were inaugurated by the new deal. Not that I like statism; that part of the new deal which was characterized by direct government participation in the processes of producution and exchange ex-change leads toward socialism, and should be abandoned. |