Friday, December 12. 1952
Page Ten
Stratton, McDonald Pool Knowledge
In TV-Radio Service Business Here
Will J. Stratton and Lyle D +
McDonald, Jr., have entered busi
ness together as the Television
and Repair Service, repairing all
makes of TV and radio, also sell
ing and servicing the Bendix line.
Other wanted lines are to be add
ed.
They have a workshop on West
Vermont Avenue extension and
may be reached by telephone at
2-4652 by day and at their home
phones, 2-6934 and 2-7571, at
night.
Mr. Stratton was the first per
son in this area to go into the
television business, hanging out
his shingle in the summer of 1950
At that time he was considered
somewhat over-optimistic, as
there was not a single set in the
Sandhills, except possibly one or
two of an experimental nature. In
fact, the whole industry was still
;n the experimental stage at that
time, and its mushrooming into
an economic giant, penetrating
millions of homes, came with
rush soon after.
In the past three years, of
course, TV antennae have blos
somed all over Sandhills roofs
and Mr. Stratton is seen to have
been not fanciful, but foresight
ed.
As a matter of fact he was one
of the first persons anywhere to
become interested in television,
which he studied with RCA in
1929. At that time it was in a
very early experimental stage. Mr.
Stratton, a horseman, who at one
time managed stables here,^ con
tinued with it as an active inter
est and sideline.
A Britisher born, he entered the
Royal Navy when too young to be
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She Sings Southern Mountain Songs
sent to sea, and was assigned to
Marconi House in London,- where
he was in on some of the earliest
broadcasting, and learned radio
operation from the bottom, up
His naVal duty for the next few
years was all in the field of radio,
and in 1927 while stationed on
the African West Coast he had
two weeks of study under Mar
coni himself.
To this knowledge and experi
ence have been added, in the per
son of Lyle McDonald, a young
man who has just completed
studies of the most up-to-date va
riety. Mr. McDonald has recently
graduated from a year’s course at
the DeForest Schol of Electronics
at Chicago, Ill.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
L.’D. McDonald. He entered the
Navy while a student at Southern
Pines High school, but kept up
his studies and returned in Navy
uniform in June 1947 to secure his
diploma.
In the Navy he was trained as
a hospital corpsman and, for a
time after his discheirge, was em
ployed by the Moore County hos-
piti. He then went with Pied
mont Airlines and was in their
employ for three years at Cincin
nati, Ohio, and Charlotte. Deter
mining on a career in electronics,
he worked at various jobs in
Charlotte until the opportunity
opened up to him to attend the
DeForest school.
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Sally Allen, South Carolina Singer,
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Miss Sally Allen, soprano, will*
present a very varied program as
concert artist at the next meeting
of the Pinehurst Forum, Thursday
evening at the Pinehurst country
club.
The young singer, a native of
Greenville, S. C., who now lives
in New York City, specializes in
southern mountain songs and will
sing many of these as part of her
program. The program will end
with the singing of Christmas
carols, in which the audience will
be invited to join.
Miss Allen’s program will open
with “Come Unto Him’’ and “Re
joice Greatly’’ from Handel’s The
Messiah, and “Jesu Bambino” by
Pietro Yon.
The second part will comprise
German lieder, four numbers
from Schubert and one of Brahms.
The third part wiU be all in Eng
lish, the numbers being “The Wil
low Tree,” sung by Desdemona in
“Othello;” “Early One Morning,”
a 17th century English folk song;
“Greensleeves,” a 16th century
melody arranged by Granville
Bantock; “Drink to Me Only With
Thine Eyes” in an arrangement
by Harry Wilson, and “Oliver
Cromwell,” arranged by Benjamin
Britten.
After the intermission Miss
Allen will sing four mountain
songs, the product of three differ
ent states—“The Riddle Song” of
Kentucky; “Tomorrow, Maw, I’m
Sweet Sixteen” of the Alabama
hills; “I Wonder As I Wander,” of
North Carolina, and Kentucky’s
“As I Went Out One Momin’.”
The artist will be accompanied
by Miss Evelyn Vance at thfe
piano.
The Country Club’s weekly buf
fet supper will precede the con
cert, which is due to begin at
8:30 o’clock.
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