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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM. OREGON PAGE SEVEN . HEALTHY YOUTH ANTICIPATED IN RADIO INDUSTRY SATURDAY, QECEMBER 21, 1925 ATWATER KENT CONTEST TO BE HEARD LOCALLY New York VP) Sinking youth of the nation will come to the radio to determine which boy and girl are the country's best. Over a coast to coast NBC net work Sunday evening, December 15, during the A. K. hour, 10 boys and girls will participate in the finals of the third annual national radio audition, sponsored by the Atwater Kent foundation. The contest will be heard locally from Pacific coast stations In the NBC chain between 0:15 and 7:15 o'clock. The 10 are winners In five dis trict con teste, each sending a boy and a girt as 1U representatives. They were selected in elimination tests that ranged from local to dis trict contests, conducted through the cooperation of various radio stations. All finalists art to receive- mu sic scholarships, in additions to cash aw: . Identical prises wilt go to both ooys and girls. The boy and girl winning first place will each receive $5,000, a gold decoration and two years' music scholarship. Other awards will be: second $3,000 each and a year's scholarship; third. $2,000 each and a year's scholarship, fourth, $1,500 each and a year's scholarship, and fifth. $1,000 each and one year's scholarship. A jury of noted musicians will act a: Judges. One of the finalists, Calvin Hen dricks of Los Angeles, has been blind since birth. Four of the boys are tenors and the other is a bari tone. Two of the girls are sopranos while the others are coloratura so pranos. The five district winners who thus will have an opportunity to in crease their chances for musical careers are: Eastern district Agnes L. Skill lng, coloratura -soprano, of Spring- vale, Me., and Charles E. Carlile, tenor, of Central Falls, R. I. Central Genevieve Rowe, color atura soprano, of Wooster. Ohio. and Carlyle W. Bennett, tenor of Chicago. Southern Frances Tortorlch. soprano, of New Orleans and Ed ward Kane, tenor, of Atlanta, Ga Southwestern Josephine Louise Antoine, soprano of Boulder, coio. and John Jameson, tenor of Den ver. Colo. Pacific Flov Hamlin. ' r.atura soprano, and Calvin 1 jndricks. baritone, both of Los Angeles. to time for the promotion of the ! public welfare and progress by ex pending of public funds. At Uie same time they say the most satisfactory answer would be the wiping off of the tax rolls of any apparent bank tax indebtedness by the first of the coming year. By such method It is stated the repre sentatives of national banks could appear gracefully in the future and advocate any measures they might see -fit for the city, county or state. BANKERS BACKED INCREASED TAX (Continued from page 1) SCIO SAWMILL DEAL PENDING Sclo Parties from Portland In terested in the proposed Ballin mill deal in the Liska and Beran lo canty recently visited the premises, presumably on business connected with the pending negotiations. It Is believed by some that the sale of the Ballin milt will be consum mated and that operations in the timber will start as early In the spring as climatic conditions will warrant. Satisfactory headway Is reported on the extension of the Lulay rail track 2000 feet Into timber acquired some months ago by the Lulay com pany. The work will extend well into January, it Is stated. The saw mill Is closed during most of the track-laying operations, although the company's planer at West Sclo and shipments from that point con tinue on part time. EIGHT YEARS AS ENTERTAINMENT MEDIUM CLOSE have been more or less in the fore' front of such moves, state citizens and taxpayers of the county. In the light of these money spending activities the same per sons have expressed surprise that the national banks of the county have not been just as anxious to furnish their fullest financial sup port to such moves by paying in full taxes assessed against their cap ital stock. Even though the national banks have been guarded in their stand by a federal court opinion, state those interested, nevertheless trte . surprise has been just as great be cause they say bankers are certainly aware. If anyone is, that all such activities cost money and a lot of it. And they cannot understand why, with the bankers advocating progressive measures they should stop in their advocacy and not throw In to the fullest extent of any moral obligation that might exist their financial backing as well. Some such questions are expressed daily on most any street corner, in lobbies of public buildings, or where citizens happen to meet and discuss public questions. It has been intimated that these questions are apt to be asked bank ers on future occasions when they appear to advocate such other pro posals as may come up from time RADIO WRITER QUITS PRESS ASSOCIATION New York (IP) William J. Fagan, radio editor of the United Press, has resigned that post to Join the staff of the Columbia Broadcasting system. In addition to executive duties, he will be heard on the air over the coast-to-coast Columbia network announcing news and sporting events and as a concert baritone. Fagan came to the United Press organization in 1918 as office boy. He worked up through a number of positions to that of radio editor, to which he was appointed in 1924 when broadcasting became an im portant factor in American life. In addition to writing a weekly column and supervising radio news for the United Press, he has reported de buts and premieres at the Metro polian opera house and other mu sical events of nationall importance. His summertime nightly sports talks over WEAF and associate N. B. C. stations for the past four years have gained Fagan promin ence as a broadcaster. He also has made many concert appear ances as a singer. U. S. ARMY BAND OPEN FT. SNELLING STUDIOS St. Paul, Minn. (P) An army broadcasting studio has been opened at Fort Cnelling, Minn., under the direction of post officers and radio engineers of KSTP. The Third Infantry band, organ ized in 1784 as a unit of three men, a fife and drum corps, played the inaugural program. The band now has 28 men. Sergt. Wayne Lovejoy, who direct ed the first program, will wield the baton during future broadcasts planned from the new studios over KSTP at 3 p.m. on alternate Sun days. He Is acting in the absence of Warrant Officer Carl Dillon, who is on leave after 30 years of army service. Fort Snelling is the first post in the country to undertake boradcast ing on an extensive scale. West Salem The play "The Path Across the Hill," was given Friday night by a cast of players from the Epworth League 6f Ford Memorial church. The parts were well tak en and the large audience was very appreciative. The league will pre sent It in a number of nearby communities a little later on In the season. ii'lWJ$ New York, Better broadcast radio, with television slowly becom ing more distinct In the background, led the 1929 parade of the air. Radio awaits 1930 with a feeling that its eighth year as an enter tainment medium has taken It into healthy youth. Within the industry itself there has been further evidence of stabi lization In an effort to find a more even keel. Prosaic figures give an Insight Into progress. Estimates made by Bond P. Oeddes, executive vice president of the Radio Manufac turers' association, place the num ber of radio receivers sent from the factories at 4.000,000 compared with 2.600.000 the year before. A total of 75.000,000 tubes have been put on tne maricet compared with 50,uw, 000 In 1928. Mr. Geddes said these figures represented a value of $850,000,000. Last year the amount was $650,000,- ooo. Television was given somewhat of a spurt. In the laboratory at least, with the announcement of the development of a tube a spe cial cathode ray "kinesope" that eliminates moving parts In tele vision reproducers. Broadcasting, as represented by the two national chains, National and Columbia, introduced many novelties together with a general advance In program presentation. Individually, stations also sought the best in program building, with an Increased trend toward high power transmitters. Stations using 50,000 watts grew in number, and plans were announced by others to boost power. Programs themselves showed more of the influence of the drama, and sketches of all sorts took up more space in the air channels. Often strictly musical programs were altered to include a hint of the stage. Impetus was given edu cation by radio as more of the class room type of programs were pre sented. The year experienced the suc essful rebroadcast by an NBC group of stations of programs orig inating across the Atlantic. Pick ups from airplanes of important events was climaxed with the broad cast oi tne experiences of a par achute jumper as he dropped to earth. Special short wave transmit ters and rectlvera were used. Increased use of the radio for sponsored programs added many new entertainers to the ether lanes. More electrically recorded features were presented. Outstanding In the news broad casts were the inauguration of President Hoover, and the arrivals and departures of the Graf Zep. pelin. Screen grid tubes, operated by the house current, came to produce a better receiver. Remote control and automatic tunning devices ap peared In greater numbers. Eclipse of the table model set by the con- .sole also wni accompanied by the virtual passing of the metal cabi net to be supplanted by wood. The I condenser speaker, or talking "wall paper, ' was introduced in competi tion with Improved dynamics. In chain broadcasting, a fatality occured. The American Broadcast ing company, with headquarters at Seattle, Wash., passed from the picture. Purchase of a half interest n the Columbia chain by Paramount pic tures made closer the tteup of screen and radio. The National net work already was indirectly affiliat ed with R. K. O. Probably the years most lmpor- tatnt technical development was the coupling of radio with air naviga tion for the guidance or. planes in flight and for communication pur poses. Special lightweight rectivers and transmitters were improved in design. Relocation of wavelengths, with the setting up of 40 cleared chan nels for the country's better stations a year ago, was given a thorough try out. The plan seemed to work so well that a movement was set on foot to clear 10 more wavelengths. STATE REVENUE FROM FORESTS OVER $265,000 $79.50 ALETHA BOULDEN IS CALLED AT DAYTON Dayton Miss Aletha Marie Boul- den, 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Boulden, died at their home in Dayton Thursday after three years illness. Funeral will be held at S o'clock Sunday afteroon at the Macy li Baa funeral chapel in McMinnville', with burial In the Evergreen Memorial park at McMinnville.. HANDWORK CLUB IS GUEST BOSCH HOME Broks The 4-H handwork club met at the home of their leader. Mrs. II. H. Bosch, the business meeting conducted by the vice pres ident, Arleta Wood. The afternoon was spent working on lunch cloths. Refreshments were served by the hostess, Mrs. Bosch. In the group were Hattle Aspinwall, Arleta wood, Mary Chastaln, Clara Umemoto, Genivcve Chastaln, Gladys Epley. Evelyn Molsan, Edna LePlemme, Millie Tschlda, Pearl LaFlcmme. The next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. H. H. Bosch with Gladys Epley; Hattle Aspinwall and Evelyn Molsan on the refreshment committee. YATES CHANGE ADDRESS Silverton Lave Yates and wife have moved from the Potter house accross the bridge to the G. A. Steelhammer house on South Sec ond street. Mr. and Mrs. Yixtes have lived In this Potter house for the past seventeen years. BI.At KWKI.L GOES SOUTH Jefferson James Blackwell left Thursday morning for Los Angeles, where he will spend the holidays at the home of his sister and fam Uy, Mr. and Mrs. William Thomp son. . The largest federal forest re serve in Oregon Is the Whitman national forest reserve which extends over Baker, Grant, Mal heur, Umatilla, Union and Wallowa counties, totaling 1,352,416 acres. Tlie state's 25 per cent of the rentals timber sales and other sources from which the government derives an income from the forests amounted to $13,649.94 from this one forest for the fiscal year ending June 30. As distributed among the six coun ties according to the area in each it returned to Baker county $4,770.63, Grant $5,323.29. Malheur (32.62, Umatilla $832. Union $3,074.32 and Wallowa $440.76. The total federal forest area to the state Is 13,29743$ and the total amount received by the state from the government was $265,039.51 Some counties, of course, contain part of the area of several national forests. The several federal forests In Oregon, the counties In which they extend, their total acreage and the amount they returned to the state are as follows: Cascade forest Douglas and Lane counties: 1,027,440 acres: $34,- 308. 52. Crater forest Douglas, Jackson, Josephine. and Klamath counties; 815,507 acres: $84312.60. Deschutes forest Deschutes, Jef ferson, Klamath and Lake counties; 1,303.113 acres: $57,066.10. Fremont forest Kamath and Lake counties; 849,286 acres; $17, 487.52, Klamath forest Jackson county; 8.723 acres: (7.65. Maheur forest Baker, Grant, Harney and Malheur counties; 1,- 051.191 acres: $12,439.95. Mt. Hood forest Clackamas, Hood River, Jefferson, Marlon, Multnomah and Wasco counties; 1.036.936 acres: $9,125.65. Ochoco forest Crook, Grant, Harney and Wheeler counties; 721, 973 acres: $4,253.71. Santlam forest Clackamas, Jef ferson, Lane, Linn and Marlon counties; 614.914 acres; $8,788.08. Siskiyou forest Coos, Curry, Douglas and Josephine counties; 1.033.252 acres; $1,263.52. Siuslaw forest Benton, Coos, Douglas, Lane, Lincoln, Polk, Till amook and Yamhill counties; 531, 314 acres: $727.06. Umatilla forest Grant, Morrow, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa an Wheeler counties; 939.464 acres; $5,937.65. Umpqua forest Coos, Douglas, Jackson, Josephine and Lane coun ties; 1.015,731 acres: $4,158.47. Wallowa forest Union and Wal lowa counties; 969,618 acres; $11, 516.11. Whitman forest Baker, Grant, Malheur, Umatilla, Union and Wal lowa counties; 1,352,476 acres; $13, 649.94. SILVERTON BEACON N EARING COMPLETION Silverton The department of commerce now has a crew of men at work at the local airport instal ling a 24-lneh, 2,000,000 candlepower beacon which Is expected to oe ready for use soon. The Portland Electric Power company will wire it as soon as they receive orders from the government. DALLAS CRASH VICTIM DIES KIRKWOOD IS BACK Hopewell Tom Kirk wood has re turned from California, where he went to visit his son wlio had been in poor health for some time. COMPLETE A few left for Xmas delivery THE GIFT SUPREME Beautiful Cab- inets Tone-Tested. All models oh display. OPEN EVENINGS. Radio Headquarters "JUST RADIO" 175 So. High Street Phone 1161 SCREEN -GRID THE BEST CHOICE ON CHRISTMAS BOSCH RADIO Dallas Elmer Hayes, 23, died Fri day morning from injuries received a week ago wnen ne and irvine hoi man were caught between the bumpers of two cars while pushing their own car. Funeral arrangement have not yet been completed. He Is survived by bla parents, two sisters and a host of friends. Irvine Holraan was operated upon Friday morning. He withstood the ordeal well and the doctors think now that he will recover. HI right leg, which was torn at the knee, was amputated several Inches above the joint and the left leg was put in an extension plaster cast after set ting the broken bone. MEETING PLACE BEING SOUGHT DALLAS CLUBS Dallas Rer. Orval D. Peterson has been appointed by chamber of commerce as chairman of the com mittee In charge of general arrange ments for the annual meeting of the club to be held January S at 6:30 o'clock in the evening. Dinner ticket, and program com mittees will be announced later as they were not appointed at the last meeting of the club Wednesday. A Joint committee consisting of R. 8. K reason, Earte Richardson and N. L. Guy, chairman, repre senting the chamber of commerce, and R. R. Turner. TJyod Soehren and Dr. A. B. 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BILLY JOHNSON IS WINNER OF CONTEST 8Uverton In the poster -contest held by the local Junior high school. which advertised the Junior high operetta, "Tommy Murphy's Christ mas," given at the Eugene Field auditorium Thursday evening, Bil ly (Edna) Johnson won first prize Ruth Strand, second, and Michael Hannon, third. The school received about $150 at the doors Thursday night for their operetta, and played to packed bouse. WEEK IS OBSERVED Hopewell The S. D. A. church Is now having its week of prayer. Two meetings are held dally in the afternoon and night. Rev. Watson spoke at the church Wednesday evening. Services begin at 7:30 o' clock. STAR HAS MEETING Jefferson At a special meeting of Euclid Chapter O. E. 8., Wednes day evening, Mr. and Mrs. Kingsley Thurston took the Initiatory de grees, and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lytle of Scio, were received by transfer. At the close of the meeting re freshments were served to a large crowd of members. just arrived Mill City Alfred Ward, a student at O. 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