Presto

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PRESTO-TIMES
November 17, 1928
bee, "and got out to get a cold drink. As I stood
on the walk, a huge, dusty truck bearing the name
of the Detroit Electric Company, swung down the
road and pulled up before the hardware store across
the street from me. The drivers got down and the
clerks came out of the store, and between them they
unloaded crates containing 40 Majestic Model 71 and
72 radio sets—this in a town of not over sixty
families.'"
Mr. R. P. Clarkson, well-known radio author, has
been chosen by the Radio Manufacturers' Association
to write the series of articles planned by the RMA
to truthfully advise the public regarding television.
The information resulting from the recent television
survey of the RMA, occupying several mouths, as
well as his great personal fund of information and
contacts with radio engineers and laboratories, will
be drawn upon by Mr. Clarkson for the early series
of articles to be issued by the RMA.
ship. The association will also consider mechanical
and trade problems affecting the industry. One of
its first official acts was to affiliate with the Pacific
Radio Trade Association. The president of the new
retail organization is Roy Nash of the Schwabacher-
Frey Company. The Alameda County Radio Deal-
ers' Association has also decided to affiliate with the
Pacific Radio Trade Association.
SAN FRANCISCO ASSOCIATION.
The Retail Radio Dealers' Association of San Fran-
cisco has just been organized, with a strong member-
A. J. Westwood, formerly with the Piano Exchange,
San Francisco, has opened a music store at 30 Mason
street.
P E R F E C T SOUND MACHINE.
Word comes from Germany that the radio directors
of that country have developed a sound machine
capable of sending forth anything from the howling
of a dog to a pistol shot. The news came from
Gladys M. Petch, who wrote to the officials of KGO,
San Franc'sco. to tell of her work before the micro-
phone of the German broadcasters. The sound ma-
chine is operated by electricity through a key sys-
tem similar to that of an organ manual and handles
sound effects with a minimum of confusion.
SHOW ZENITH TUNING DEVICE
At the recent Chicago Radio
Show, the Zenith Radio Corpora-
tion booth enjoyed the distinc-
tion of entertaining more visit-
ors than any other manufac-
turing exhibitor.
Automatic t u n i n g . Zenith's
latest contribution to the perfec-
tion of present and future radio
reception, was the center of at-
traction, both to the public and
dealer. The four open chassis
featuring automatic tuning were
constantly surrounded and in
operation by the interested radio
fans. On the last day of the
show, it is accurately estimated
that no less than 8,467 persons
personally operated the auto-
matic tuning devices on display,
skeptical at first as to the prac-
ticability of automatic tuning but
c o n v i n c e d immediately at its
amazing performance and simplicity and convenience
of operation.
Among the Zenith distributors seen at the show
were Dave Goldman, of the North American Radio
Corporation, New York city; M. W. Craddick of
Mackenzie Radio Corporation, New York city; Harry
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