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Southern Oregon News Review, Thursday, October 14, 1&48 Ftrat Automobile It was in 1892 that C. E. Duryea drove the first gasoline-powered automobile In the United States. Fifty years later the U. S. govern ment terminated all civilian pro duction of motor cars because of the war. In that 50 years more than 86 m illion vehicles had been pro duced. Washington Digest? W ill Stratovision Arrive? They're Working on It Now HIS By BAUKHAGE Airtt» Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON.—“ Is television h ere to s ta y ? ” T hat has been the favorite crack in AM (reg u lar b ro a d casting) circles for som e tim e. Now it's been displaced by another: •'W ill stratovision a rriv e *” If it doesn’t, say the enthusiastic stratospheric promoters, millions of people in rural areas w ill be unable to receive television programs for years, if ever. ---------------------------------------------------- What is " i t ” ? "The stratovision system simply culations formulae, logarithms and puts the antennae and television assorted humorous material which transm itter in an an electronic engineer toys with in airplane flying in stead of reciting limericks to him laxy circles above self to pass away the time, he sud the earth." they denly thought: explain, "and the " I f I only had a television shortwave sent out transm itter with me, and my from this airborne folks had a set, and if I had antennae blankets some other planes for relays, the earth's sur they could get the same televi face like a great sion programs New York does.” inverted ice cream " I suppose long hours of intense cone and covers an area approxi work on m ilita ry radar had so mately 500 miles crowded my mind with details of its operation that I looked for radar across.” Since television possibilities in everything I saw,” waves travel in a the young stratovision creator said B A l’KHAGE "Radio already had straight line and afterward. not in high, leaping loops like long proven its adaptability and value wave radio, their range is limited, for airplane communications and just as human sight is lim ited. You in navigational aids, including blind can't see nearly as far on a level flying. Turning these facts over city street as you can from the top mentally, I concluded that Westing- of a mountain. That parallel isn't house already had at hand basic information which an exact one, but it ’s a good rough engineering seemed to justify the ambitious comparison. So television waves have to travel plan.” on a special cable underneath the He sold the idea to Westinghouse ground (co-axial cable), or else and Glenn M artin and they went leap from one high tower to an ahead and backed his extensive, not other (microwave relay). And the farthest they can travel is some 35 to 50 miles. But stratovision waves come from a transm itter as high as the plane carrying the transm it ter can fly, 30,000 feet, we ll say. What about storms? Well the stratospherites say they miss mest of them at that height, and anyhow, they can use more than one equipped plane, so they can shift the point of transmission of a program from one to the other and thus dodge the storm. They insist that they have al ready demonstrated that this is possible, that they can deliver. C. E. Nobles, originator of the stratovision airborne television 1 haven't seen any of the recent | system, is shown at the twin video tests so I don’t know. Naturally monitoring boards in the experi the oldtimers (although the oldest 1 mental stratovision plane. oldtimers in television are still pret ty new) are skeptical. After a test to say expensive, experimentation. I caught some of the enthusiasm held recently in Zanesville, Ohio, for the benefit of newspaper and ra which I know “ C hili” must radiate dio folk, many were still skeptical. from the young man who sat across It was admitted that conditions on the table from me explaining the the test day were not ideal by any drawings. "T hink of what stratovision would means and it was claimed that there was interference from other stations mean to the readers of your col- umn,” he said. which would be eliminated. Variety magazine’s correspondent, “ We only asked for a license for a keen observer of radio, said: one station but with more we could "Demonstration proved that the link up the Pacific and Atlantic higher the altitude, the clearer and coasts so that we could pick up more extensive the pick-up. For all Hollywood and New York studios practical purposes, though, the spe (I don’t know why he left out Chi cific, physical certainty of the un cago) w ith only eight planes flying derground co-axial or the thru-the- 400 miles apart. By adding six air, microwave relay would seem planes to the system to cover the to have the networking edge for the Northwest and Southeast we could time being.” serve 78 per cent of the popula tio n !” ("Be not the first by whom And once we got the rural the new is tried. . . .” ) televisers looking, I thought, The backers of the new system, what a lot of new material Westinghouse Radio Stations, In would be put into the telecasts corporated, think differently. Their to say nothing of the greatly broadened market for television sets and advertising which would be created. The first stratovision experiments established the surprising fact that there were lots of television sets in areas which could not possibly be reached ordinarily (by co-axial ca ble or microwave). At the first call for response to the test pro grams many letters came from such areas. Probably amateurs who had built their own sets, and This is the experimental strato perhaps erected their own anten vision station—a modified B-29, nae on some high elevation. flying at an altitude of 25,000 feet. It would seem that the country is w illing to try the Nobles experi request for a commercial license ment if it gets the chance. was turned down by the FCC last to e month but they expect require The Russians, after claiming that ments to be altered. not Marconi but a Russian invented Glenn Martin, whose aircraft wireless telegraphy, now are say company thought enough of the idea ing that the electric bulb, the flash to work out the developments of the light, the transformer and electric aviation end said: welding all started in Russia. Next thing you know they’ ll claim an in "F ly in g the transm itter is vention of the one thing which could one of the greatest single ad make Ananias turn in his grave. vances in the history of televi • • • sion.'' To get the most fun and enjoy I talked with one of the very earnest young men who are at ment from bicycling, it is well to tempting to convert the skeptics. know a few simple things about He seemed to have no doubts that buying one, says the bicycle in the method equalled any other. In formation bureau. One thing it fact he thought that competitors might be well to know is whether would fight it because it was so you have enough money to pay for it. good. • o 0 The whole thing is a young man’s The biggest microscope can’t see idea. He is C. E (Chili) Nobles, 30-year-old radar expert whose work the cold germ but you can hear a couple of thousand coming in a in that field was a valuable war tim e contribution. He is a Texan sneeze. • • • (hence the nickname, I suppose) The garden-type apartment is the and the story is that the idea first «truck him when he was flying a latest thing in “ tenant convenience,” says the Urban Land Institute. plane high above his home. As he ran over the various fig About the only thing I was ever able ures which were in the back of his to plant in an apartment was an mind, the number of miles his home electric light bulb but any Wash was from the nearest big city, the ington flat-dweller can raise quite altitude and the various other cal a herd of buffalo moth«. happens to C O M M O N SENSE.. p ro v e d tho usand s u p o n tho usand s o l lim o s I ^/ALL-VEGETABLE LAXATIVE be a world with trouble. There is a Better Care, Feeding T packed new trouble for each season — • rainy spring, a hot summer, a foggy fall, a wrecking winter. Now with another autumn here, with football moving in. some inter loper starts new trouble. It happens this way: "W ill you pick," he writes, "the most valu able lineman, the most valuable back, the greatest kicker, the great est passer and the best pass-receiv er you ever saw?" The odd part of this complicated request is that it is quite a simple one — w ith one or two possible excep tions. No. 1 The great est lineman — The vote here goes to Cal Hubbard of Cen tenary, Geneva and several pro outfits. F a t H e n ry was a great tackle—one of the greatest. Ger Grantland Rice many Schultz, Bull dog Turner and Mel Hein were all great centers. Pudge Heffelflnger was a great guard. But Cal Hub bard was an entire line. "P u t old Cal out there to back up your line.” Bo M cM illin used to say, "and he'll stop a whole team. He is the most valuable player I ever saw.” Increase Hog Profits Improved Rations and Cleanliness Stressed Extra cure for the brood sow and her litter, with emphasis on clean liness and better feeding, w ill assure extra profits whether the herd in cludes one sow or a hundred. Proof of that assertion is con tained in the experience of Joseph O'Bryan of H latville, Kas., nation ally-known breeder and exhibitor of purebred Hampshire«, who raises about 3,000 hogs a year, most of them for market. Although O’Bryun raises hogs on a wholesale scale, he keeps his op- Beware Coughs From Common Colds That HANG ON Creomuliion relieves promptly beiaute it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial mucous membranes.Tell yourdraggist to sell you a bottle of Crcomulsion with the understanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. TO-NIGHT ML NIGHT FUSSY STOMACH? RELIEF FOR ACIO INDIGESTION GAS ANO HEARTBURN CREOMULSION for Coughs,Chest Colds, Bronchitis I f P eter , P ain IU M O IIO W X FOR THE TUMMY! clubs you with > O'Bryan with part of his herd of 3.000 purebred H am pshire gilts. Cal is around 6 feet 5 or 6 inches tall. He weighed around 260 and he was both fast and shifty. He eration on an individual farm basis could k ill off a running game better as a means of insuring proper care. than anyone I ever saw. Cal was f program of better care and better like a fast-moving mountain mov feeding for sows and their litters. ing in on you, tackling at both ends Introduced on his farms in the fall of 1947, already has paid dividends, and the middle. O'Bryan reports. With 100 litters No. 2. The greatest all-around last spring, he raised as much pork back—Two men fit in this picture. as he form erly raised from 150. One is Jim Thorpe The other is Early in the gestation period Bronko Nagurski. Thorpe could rip sows were given a special ration of his way through a line. He could 80 per cent oats, 5 per cent meat circle an end. He was a good passer 1 scrap, 4 per cent pelletized m ilk and a good pass-receiver. He was i product and the balance either corn a great defensive back when he j or wheat. Sows were sprayed and felt in the mood. And he was the washed thoroughly prior to farrow greatest all-around kicker of the lot ing. Clean pens and a brooder for —punting, place kicking and drop the little pigs also were provided. kicking. The sow’s ration was changed when the pigs were about two weeks old, Nafiurski IT os Powerful cutting down oats to about 40 per Nagurski was a greater power cent and increasing portions of back. He was also a great tackle wheat or corn. and a star end. Bronko was the At less than two weeks of age best all-around football player, in little pigs were started creep feed cluding both backfield and line play, ing in a low pan or trough. Their that football has known. ration consisted of 80 per cent oats, No. 3. The greatest kicker—He 4 per cent meat scrap, 8 per cent has already been mentioned. Thorpe pelletized m ilk product and the bal and Strong were the two best I ’ ve ance coarse wheat. Pans and troughs ever seen. Ralph Kercheval of Ken were washed and disinfected regu tucky was magnificent. Sammy larly. As the little pigs grow, oats Baugh has been a great kicker for in the ration is reduced while corn over a dozen years. O’ wheat is increased to about 70 to 80 per cent. No. 4. The greatest passer— Summarizing the program, O'Bryan It is at this point that one can maintains that he had much strong wander off into the jungle. The er pigs at birth, with earlier, faster choice gets down to two men— and cheaper gains and a marked re and if you know football at all, duction in m ortality. you know who they are. Gus Dorais, Benny Friedman, A r nold Herber and Ace Parker ‘Police Force’ were all fine passers among many more. But there are only two In that plateau country above the field. They are Sam my Baugh and Sid Luckman. I ’ve talked with many a pro and run into many an argument that involves this pair. Baugh is a great kicker. Luckman is rated a better j field general. But when it comes to i passing you can make your own selection. I talked recently with one of the best coaches in the National league. “ For all-around team value,” he said, “ I would rather have Luck man than Baugh and Hutson com bined. Plenty of organic m atter is a good " I know how valuable Baugh is. I also know how valuable Hutson "police force” for ridding soil of was. But in running a team, com bacteria that cause diseases of bined with his deadly passing, Luck growing crops. R. C. Thomas, asso man is the most valuable football ciate pathologist of the Ohio agri cultural experiment station, esti player I ever saw.” mates that 50 m illion bacteria live Few Coaches W ould A w ee in a single ounce of soil. Some of I m ight add that the coach re these are beneficial. Others are ferred to wasn’t George Halas but harm ful to crops. The good kind an eastern entry. He would also rot the organic m atter and release find few coaches w illing to agree plant nutrients to build a fertile that Luckman was more valuable soil. The harm ful kind cause plant than Baugh and Hutson combined. disease. Adding organic m atter to soil w ill This combination could wreck two help increase the good kind and at leagues. the same time cut down the harmful Both Baugh of the Redskins bacteria population. Adding organ and Luckman of the Bears are ic m atter makes the soil a better heading for the sunset country home for the good kind so they at the end of the road. They flourish and grow. Extracts from have taken heavy punishment organic m atter contain viruses that for I I or more years starting make disease • causing bacteria with T. C. U. and Columbia. In harmless to plants. the way of exceptional skill and A good soil management program unsurpassable competitive spir w ill increase the soil's organic m at it, they have done more for pro ter supply and help free the land of football than anyone I ’ve ever disease-causing bacteria. known. H arry Gilm er, Bobby Layne and Johnny Lujack have enormous shoes to fill when Sam and Sid decide to leave the field—which may be in 1949. No. 5. The greatest pass-receiver —Hutson of Green Bay. There have been many good ones. But only one Hutson. It m ight be noted in this connec tion, with pro football under dis cussion, that the All-America con ference has turned In a good job in leveling the league by balancing team strength. N A T U R E 'S R I M I D Y (N R ) 1 AH LETS— A purely vegetable laxative to relieve constipation without the usual gripin g, sickening, perturbing sensa tions, and does not cause a rasli. 1 ry N R —you w ill sea the diOrreuce. 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