European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 24, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes monday. October 24,1988 ers to use menu of music to make tapes los Angeles a a device being introduced in record stores monday crosses a Jukebox with digital technology for a service that allows Consumers 1o Cus Tom Maki cassettes from a variety of artists and labels. The new Gadget has drawn mixed reviews from some major record companies which fear it May Cut into album sales and some Are not participating. Customers can select from up to 2.500 songs. A store clerk punches in he buyer s selections in the cider chosen and the customer gets a 90-minute tape with up to 25 songs. The Cost is 50 cents to si.25 a song. The store s copy of the Mut in is recorded on an optical disk allowing All of the selected songs to be copied onto the tape in five minutes. Per sonics system co. Of Menlo Park. Calif., Hopes 1 have 15,000 songs available eventually in its monthly Catalon. I ers onit a spent is million and five years to develop and Market the system. It is introducing 25 systems at Reimi stores in California and Hopes to expand to other areas of the country. Per sonics from Day one will offer a vast Constella Tion of musical Anisis. You will be Able to person Alize music like never before said Charles Marvin founder and president of per sonics. The pc sonics system will give smaller record store pressed for space a deeper offering of songs. The Price includes fees and royalties for artists Anil their labels who otherwise would t get a Penny if Consumers made their own tapes from radio or friends record. Per sonics has attracted a least 30 labels including poly ram Mca Warner Elektra Allan tic and Chrysa Lis pc sonics however has been unable to Al Kracl giant lbs records Home of Bruce Springsteen and Michael Jackson or the boo group formerly Ria records. Am records Wilh such artists As sting and Janet Jackson is not interested spokeswoman Diana Baron said. Record companies Are cautious about per sonics be cause sales of single songs could Cut into album sales said Michael Greene president of the National facade my of recording arts and sciences. For the most part the idea is a Good one said Greene who praised any system thai would Cut into illegal Home taping and give artists their  billions of dollars a year Are lost worldwide through record pirating and Home recording Industry experts have estimated the problem i m concerned Wilh is what happens when people go into a record store and Start doing compilation tapes of hits Greene said the artist May have other material in the album they consider an Aerial in of artist stun Herd s creation he Ottawa Beanfield Coll War depict Lar two crushed soda pop cans. 700 people on far afe a artist in creating Down to Earth pop Art a. Kan. 1aih about to be a Par of art1. " said Richard on a Field near Dodge i Nolc wearing red and Blue Rudzinski 45, of Vic Hiya who stood of sunflowers on a Che Natii i in in a in Hcan Field to near the Boito of the Pepsi can. Cloth slowed on a Fickli Ottawa. T 70 1 people shirts gathered n soybean Fiel t i arranged into a piece of Art by an artist known fur his unusual creations. Stan Hiti in saturday popped the top off Hii latest land Art creation a five acre depiction of two partially crumpled Pepsi and coca cola soda pop cans the people provided the color Herd and his unique ability to sculpt farm land added the design. The title of the work the Ottawa a Canfield cola  when does a person gel a Chance t a Trudzinski Wachila Nea Herd. 38, said one of the messages of the work was a reminder that peo ple need Lotaki a Cir care of the environment. The crumpled cans of pop rep resented trash thrown on the Side of a Highway. It also was a Tonguc in Chat Elk slap at the Way advertising people depict us he said. The Battle for the con Sumer Dollar. The Pepsi generation.  before cola War Herd s Field Art included an Indian chief sculpted o Fiel r City and a vase of sunflowers o Check ered table clot Field near Law rence. Fur his latest creation the Field was Cut about 10 Days ago. The past week was spent mowing in design of the two cans Onlo the ground. The bases of the cans were pm soybean Lime was used to High Light the cans and the red and Blue shirts provided the Brand s familiar colors. Three helicopters and several air planes circled the Field As the participants bowed to create the illusion of the cans. Necessary for a listener to understand what they a doing  Garvin said pc sonics test marketing in two stores showed to Ltd system brought royalties from new con Sumers who would not have been album buyers and people who would nol have bought the music at All but probably would have Home taped in growing record companies like 6-Ycar-Otd Enigma arc making available their entire Catalon. It s another Way to sell songs like a Tel compilations said Enigma co founder William rein who said pc sonics could be a Way to rekindle the dying Market for singles. Other companies arc More cautious about the sys tem. Capitol records one of pc sonics principal owners has made available its current single releases and older albums for instance but not Cru Lerial from its current albums  As singles. And while the Capitol Beach boy Catalon will be available the Legal tangle surrounding the beatles music Means their songs won t immediately be in he per sonics Catalon said pc sonics Board member Elliot Goldman. The Industry has a right Lobo sceptical Garvin said. But i think we have convinced everyone this is an Effort of by and for the music business for continued control Over its product Illinois diocese offering cosh to help formers Springfield 111. A roman catholics in Central Illinois offer prayers for Farmers in trouble but they re also sending a Little Cash along with the Good thoughts this year the diocese of Springfield which Cov ers 28 counties is offering interest free Loans of up to 12,000 to area Farmers regardless of religious affiliation we would like to give some generous help which comes from the same heart that our prayers come from says Bishop Dan Iel Ryan who Heads the diocese applications will be accepted starting next month for the 1989 loan program dubbed project Isidore for the Patron Saint of Farmers. For the 1988 growing season the program s first about 40 Loans averaging $1.000 were made the purpose of the project is to provide funds for Farmers who arc hurting funds which would help them not to turn away fore closure on their properties i m sorry to say but which would give them some Money for seed or fertilizer or important things like  Ryan said. The Loans arc intended to help Farmers with Spring planting needs for fuel seed feed fertilizer and chemicals. Farmers can apply Between nov. 1 and feb. I and loan checks will be mailed by the end of february. Ryan said the Money for the program was not from the collection plate but from donors who have chosen to remain Anonymous the size of this year s program will depend in part on future donations As Well As on the ability of the Farmers helped so far to repay their Loans. We do not demand but we certainly expect repayment so that we can help others who arc in similar plights Ryan said. The Bishop said there could be an in crease in the number of applicants this year because of the drought which hit Illinois hard. The . Department of agriculture estimated earlier this month that the slate s Farmers will have the worst Corn yield in 28 years and the Low est soybean yield in 14 years. Harold Dodd president of the Illinois Farmers Union praised the diocese for getting involved. I think it s a very commendable thing for the diocese to be doing this Dodd said. "1 would have to agree that that s nol going to cure people s problems but every Little bit