it Weekly THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1#, WATAUGA COUNT*. CBS Head Says Color Won'f?|f Ouimode Present TV Sets New York ? Television sets made to receive program* in black and white won't be useleai immediately alter color broad casting begin* next months Frank Stanton, president of the Columbia Broadcasting System, ?aid this week. Owners of America's present 7,000,000 sets will be receiving - 'programs lor some time to copie, Stanton said in a Nation-wide (CBS) broadcast The Federal Communications Commission authorized CBS to begin color broadcasts Nov. SO in a split decision that is being op posed by the National Broad casting Company and other firms interested in developing their own color methods. Pilot Radio Corporation, a set manufacturer, threatened "in junctive proceedings" against the FCC, and Brig. Gen. David Sarnoff, board chairman for Ra dio Corporation of America, called the decision an "absurd ity." "Despite the fact that some manufacturers are seeking to create the impression that the public's investment in television sets is about to be wiped out, nothing could be further from the truth," Stanton said. The number of color programs will "increase at an orderly rate as the number of sets capable of DON'T COl/GH Your Head Off! Ask for Mentho-MuUion If it fails to stop your cough due to colds, ask for your money back. BOONE DRUG CO. The REXALL Store recti vinjl them increases," Stan ton old. He pointed out that popular black-and-white programs will continue until a large percentage of set* is capable of receiving color, 'Adapter*' Iteadej Most of the present set own eri. he (aid, will be able to re ceive CBS color programs in black and white by purchasing "adapters." ' * ( He said many more sets now equipped to receive only black and -white programs can be "converted" to receive color. Around this issue of "adapt ers" the whole battle over color television is being waged. Opponents of CBS have main tained that its color television process was "incompatible" be cause adapters were required to receive color pictures in black and white. R. C. A. has ipaintained that its method, turned down by the FCC, is compatible in that pres ent sets could receive color pro grams in black and white with no additional equipment. "Most sets -now on the market can be adapted, "t Stanton said, "so that when there is color broadcasting, the program will be received in black and white." "Of course the same sets," he said, "can be converted to re ceive color broadcasts in color. "Therefore, if the manufac turers give you their word that there will soon be available ada pters and converters for the particular black-and-white sets which you are considering, you will have protection against ob solesence," Stanton said. 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The following menu was well patibility. Furthermore, a new combina tion color and black-and-white set may be somewhat less ex pensive and will be more satis factory than an ordinary black and-white ?et adapted and con verted for color. "Therefore, if you wait for, say six months, you may have some money, and you will have a self-contained set with built in compatibility and built-in color." He advised buyers on the mar ket now to purchase Mack-aad white sets "only from a manu facturer who will give you posi tive assurance that there will soon be adapters and converters which will enable you to get color." Basic colors in the approved CBS system are red, blue and green. They filter through a disc rotating behind the lens of the camera picking up the program. I prepared sod elegantly served: steak and gravy, cream spuds, greftn beans, cole slaw, corn sticks, butter, ice tea, coconut cake and ice cream.