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V MEDFORP MAIL TRTTUTXR MEDFOKD. Ql?EfiOy, srxn.VT. NOVEMBER 2," tiGS." PAGE THREE i Helen Norris, KGO Playwright 'reflects one philosophy- Another M't'Jis to embrace as much of tho tragic reality of lift as ioss-ibir-. maintaining that the joys and The liroadcast Weekly," of The rniversity or Urccon rxtvn- utNfuetion wimhe wme through ,.Q , . ,.,,... . t-iiiinu the had evidem e with tme article (fiiis week the t'j Status Of Reallocation Awaits Listener Verdict tho Koud ura deeM?r and more tm- nrllcl.- week the t- amI lu.r t.OIUlu., tl. nul, win, ersi, hJ"'"," v ..I',"?'! "t!! the university instruct,, fruved I "Jus, Planni,,," IteM . We reel like akli; Wl to eMM-rienee "They v (hlll11l. , llt,w ycor in draw ynur chair to the fire, me, ,ys Helen Inspiration . -,,, Jt been n.u.luee.l turn tin, llKht out and settle eouruuemeM and best of nil faith iv . (1 aI)ll ,,nvel. lllolls. f.,,fo.tMl,le In your chui. Bui in myself " : , , . fowt.d ,, never in.nd ..Lout tuning In KGO. Al.mu the tl,mKs lu loves we , h mjo Ifl luls. 'I hi time, you ure RoinB to meet will iiKaln let her Knenk for her- ,,,,.. w.litin tul. mill0 Menn the mother of the pluya yoti have self: "j have loved book,, sis far , VMi, ;k.n a ,.onvll,t,sl,iK (,., so often heard from the Oakland l.n.li us. the days of my faw.-ln-, m.r ,.,., 1)erntt(iw nnd tile Ijen. ral Kleetru.- station. . allnn thumb-worn. Jelly stulned . ..ia,.,.;,!,. Im,uved in Kirst let us dash the "nioim- volume of Mother Coose with tin- ,u..lUh ,u.r thou'sands of radio lain kI.T myth down into the tale or J-oor Jiul.in. whirl, never Jfrt.nds m.v h , wita !u,r Yillloy with this very sentence by failed to lii-ins tears. My first IfoliilliiK out timt Helen Norris "(,'rown up" book was larrio'.; was born in Portland, Maine, onj'A Window in Thrums," a read-i fanfit' Fslond Life Juno 1.1, 1SI01. She was a sen- inn whieh led to several others Brightened By WLW Programs Life at the I-cper colony at Ma- sitive. . appre iatlve little girl. Her before I could put it Istek on tliej life was fully of joy and won- j shelf. I have never recovered j tier with only the normal trau-jfrom my early infatuation fot-j edies of the child world. She j Harris's adorable humor. Head-! loved the cold winters with the ' iug is one of my greatest joy. snow niul ire and the happv , principally fiction ami biography. ClirfNliiim hnll)i-w tint down in'l love mil.sir- lh)t iM hit nm Ito'ilil-' tlm- niltltllc of them. She still irul; littl boys from two to Kix:140'1"' ' ' " remember gmherliiK violets und'ea food; dnu-s; mountains unlcm,,i ,,v reception of dance mu.c daisies in the summer; the m il- t tree. I abominate wwlng. I'd ! fl om rim nal. Home lo.uno miles linntly colored maple leaves in j rather use a safety pin any day uw'. lu-t-mMiiiB to letter re the fall; and Dcering Oaks, where Jthnn sew on a button, a shame-; eel veil at station IAS' here. LoiiKfelluw played as a hov.jlo admission, hut true. Ho many! T- -Mleff. medieal superm- There were visit to Urnndmoth- j dear old ladies have said eom-j tenden;. wrote that the program f er a New KnKhmd farm In Ver- firtini:ly, 'of course you haw September l fl "uriw heard strnmrly mont on u Ijthe Champialn ls-!:.'ur fancy work.' Kaney wrk!i 1U(I speaker from 4:3M to lnnd. Tho i-el:ttiimK with Um lU-iWhen I'd rather write anvthiii-; : P- . l'iji time in- country cousins were nt;un"' i iwiia the more interesting and dra-' novels. t r.v IV K. lUtttei field. AssoeUUed , Vvvs Klltr. Ni-;V YOKK il- I.Utenin: ru Uitdtiju has had a tate of tit waveh nt,'th reailoc:itlons. AVhetln r it was bitter sweet may re iinire weeks and even months t de-id.. Those, fans whose s!e delisht Is dtM;:nM' liuittiiif; and the others who depend largely uimii leal re ception i;raluully are bidldin,' their station loss aam and he Kinnniur to anaiyze the situation. H'ine have found It much to then li);inif, particularly in cas.es where both disutiH-e nl leal reception has iniproverd. t)thcr disco veved -flaws that only the practical ap plication of a plan ojt paper could br o i Olio- development to bo expect ed was the absence of hetero dynes or wiueals U the !aek- . tiroiuui of stations assigned to clear channels- The heterodynes ' a re due u o Verla ppint; wave - i h imths. In the east, a slrnmr w.histle - often was nutbeaMe heretofore I buck .of WOII even to New Tori; I listeners. I'nder the reallocation this was e-one. as was the ens with tistf hj;lH tlsle lehutd WKAK and WJ36 and other e i f ul st a t i o ns t hr on shout t he e.Minti v thai now occupy free wavv i-paees. ' In la yiiii: out the new assign ments tin cii:tnelse, the radi eeniiul..sion t k'ared 40 Mf them, on "s of thee were put ilaibns 'f Uizh poHfi- with u elear iJ:iiJ of Way, On the other t weie plac'd i' ( stations retjuired l dntde tune In most vases im other sialioiiK oecupy tlie?c channel-, although oasknully an other transiiiitter was cvniUed limned time r a daylight assign ment thereon. The remaining rtatiwns were put on wi;ionl or vhannvls. d pendim; upttn their puwei-. J,ocaI stations, piven sis ehunnels and 2: or more oH'pyin? vuvh one, do lift have more than 1 watts. The regional tuitions have greater power and from five to I of them are on each of 44 chan nels. Where the stations; are In . the same locality they are re quired to divide them. The regional classifications are at both the top and bottom of the -eah with tmat ytatlwnx only in the shorte? walengths. The clear chHnm-ls estmid from 46S.& mi ters to 1' tum&rs Imausive, . with an occasiinal regional than-, m I in betweriL. n tho . clear seetion ate mix cluiuel juxhiunl vxcttisively to Canada. Canada ut-u yhares six rsiojial and two local channels. It was in Jim regional and local channels with their great atherim of st alums that most i.f the infcerferenw centered. The tjuiet of the clear cnannein o anpeareil Una a urowl of hetr odvms once the livelier pwi usy from them. WliHUva ewuld ie heard behitul Mlwrt every P' gioiial and lueal saaAion. no mati r Its vavr.ss t thf rvm-iver. 'In the reKiunal xU n Iho hi:h waves recrthif was smwettbrt Itctter Elmo the low wavw Some difrcuity was enoHintcml in compilimr now lous bcejiuse of the tnfreinm-y t swinunee ment it cult letUrs hy ime sta tions. This was iwutieulwly Us eoncerllnK in connection with dis tance. An early survey of the new waves showed that the situation had been hettered by ho clear channel, making th in;lnK of more distance m?mmi- in tne other leeetiiiiisi llw iM;'oveienr not s apparnt, BIG RECEPTION FOR NEW OAKLAND SIX An 4.'Ulhu4nMU ii.9n-H'ide re-4-pttou has i niwr4e4i( the new Oakland AH-Amerta six since its I iiriMluctiun n weeh or two aso, at eiudtng to W tt, Tracy, viee- p-esident In v'aarsfl f f hv tklklnfid lt r tniiHiiy, "Although mMnmmin and drtve uai an mitm i'oiiiiae. ! M It'll,, with tlh Rreat-st possible Jiaste U keep ilvulvt' Mvilwrlvs up to tichetluls, th uprevelentd 1 number if purchasers won to the . new line will un(ahtediy keep i production facilities of the com pany huhmiiiiic nt iirak volume i well into Iti'J'j. "In Hum fonnaUw days of the imluMvy, a common belief was that ' the aulMkmohtte hullder gave the , puldic either style r iierformance. He eoitidn't ti (well. If lit con eeiitrjid on f feature he had , for tlMi niikt &l to skimp on tUe ttiher Tmhuy precision innmil'nvtm'Um and aiass produc licti iiiak iosihl n rmbnaibn of style and performance uu d reamed of In the eld days. "In the new Oakland strove to create body lines and jjencrul outward uppearanre of iltotinctive ' beauty nud HiiturtnesH. But wo also endeavored to n U u w the lint i with outsiunding perfornmnee. Tho t degree ef w e attained is shown hy ttViM etmvmvnts on the sinurinmm mnii dtothitthm of the ears nadi.- ta demlwr shm rooms ihixiUiumi iiwv&umity u tul by tit' enthusiasm revealed hy thise thou uds at MolmhUH who aljeady have taken the, wheel trf the latest . All-Americaii, "Sevntl yram were retulriel t develop some of III mechauh'al features incMrpwrtl in the. car. I The exvcriiuental department of . our org&nteatkm tan b e e n at work : over n hTsg iiertsd tetins, unit prtiviriR every part of the chassi. Hetter than a nulltaa mites were run up ih& Cieuerai 3Cytoii j proving Kruu nd hy Uahland test i.'i-H in etU'vt th& finished prv- duct." I j George Crtep 14-yearld boy or I Kvnnston. 111., swam out atin res : cued his mother from drowning in l-afce MMilffan. , . Triplets wcrn horn to Mrsi. Ada i KarirelJ, aged of X-oJJdou, hftl flrwf children. llll unwanted ; "I'he ymopateI music most niiitie because she was a "city Kill." fity children seem ta need the country to brim? out their cutjer joy and their faith In the miiKic of life.. There were chick ens, pins, horses, huy-rides, ndor Idk unclcH and aunts and rides in the family carriage.. How In tensely she must have felt in those days. t$ho still remembers how (certainly was a bright spt In an dull day' Dr. Alleff She savs that she always wants f otherw ise to live in the West and In the ! continued. country. Her mother's oi ido in I Ke.eeptlon of the AVIAV pn 3. A. U, ancestry is shocked when she maintains that , shci would rather be descended from mi Oregon pioneer than n Itev olittionniy officer. Bhe does not know what "lonesome' is, al though she goes days without see the fancy fringe around the ear-j in trionds. Crowds she likes. riant top rippled as the horses trotted along. During the summers spent at Sehaso, thirty miles from 1'onlaml. she not .only learned to swim hut at th ago of seven had earned the admiration of her but solitude hotter Tho many letters Helen receives from her fans make her very proud and happy Besiden a gen uine love and appreciation of her plays there are two other de nied tendencies in these letters in the Fiji Islands was from the t'roslcy short wave of fri-Mlt meters. Dr. Alleff has been asked to listen for Wl.W's 50.000 watt Ions wave set. reix-ptfon of whieh has been reported by tevtrar hundred lis teners in the Hawaiian JsiamLs where it is heard more plainly than the local station KfiIT. brothers by accomplishing every-! Some writers are moved to tell thinj: in the water they were able! of their own troubles and many to do. On land, however .she j want to feel "Sorry for her. The lost her hiKh rutins. .It was the latter tendency Helen has no time lowly worm that proved her down- i tor fall. All of the respect she had pained by 4er fancy diving disappeared when she manifest ed the usual feminine attitude to wards worms. She just "couldn't" learn to bait u hook and the Sob stuff." as she calls it, is not to her liking. A sym pathetic understanding of her dif ficulties, yes, hut no reeonmiend ation of self pliy. fcshe has never pitied herself She wants to com pete in tlie world upon the merits brothers, clontim? over her silly! of her ereative work alone. K .venthvicntalism. provided her with! we should remove from otir boolc- ; her first taste of ignominy. shelves the volumes: written by At the nue of ciht, on the; men and women who suffered eve of' Hallowe'en. IMO'J, while ' distressing illnesses during their expectantly watching an older ! Ufetlmo it would lcavc astonish bfotl'r prepare her pumpkin, the iny; paps. ' sinister hnnd of fate suddenly I Helen says that it is great fun i-eacin d in with pain to trade j to listen to her playj over tlie for the joy in her life. A famous jair although sometimes she does, doctor pronounced it Infantile .' not feel as comfortable about, paralysis. .Months of hideous j them ns she might.. .Thhs , Is n , treatment olluwcd. ..Her parents j splendid Bign.-.; -I'-.explalns - why wuuju not accept the doctors' her plays have improved steadily, ttlii'i that she would never walk ) Helen loves people.. She' nee.. ;ipain. During the following three . them principally in their rela years months were spent in Uos-jllon to herselfiv reiaiitmshu. ; Ion taklny, treatmcnis, She re-j which is influenced much by her ( inemhers with plensun somv own personality. The enforced briKht spots during that Irylm? .confinement with her dreams for period. The affection she had! so many years has sheltered her lor. it kindly traffic policeman, from competitiveness and much racued.' smiling friendly little jf the harsher aspect of exist-J newsboy and her friendship withcnce and developed her very at-' ..u Y . d waitress not lonu fectlonate nature in one direc tvom Stockholm who was kind.iion. Her viewpoint magnifies lu-lptul, generous and confiding. ; one side of human nature, the: When Helen was twelve the tender, trusting. hopeful., timid Norris family was drawn to, side. As a result her plays are Southern Oregon by the magnet f predominately sentimental rath r of fruit lands, too optimistically, i than realistic. When she uses r.he says. So you sec ks in a; the old trick of creating suspense ; farm house hidden among fruit i by causing the audience to sym trees she writes her, plays, nuti pnthrce . with a person who is, In il mountain cabin. School wasKvanted by the authorities it-turns Attended until the lunior highfotit in the end that he isn't guilty! ImoI vear when her illness j after all. This Is a way for pro- j forced her to remain at horn-, i yldlng an escape from life. It Radio Service Laboratory 22 S. Grape St. Expert service on any make of radio Tubes tested with out charge Phones , Office 335 Res. 1442 H. O. Purucker Telephone 90 $18800 S210.00 with Cabinet Speakers COMPLETE WITH TUBES JVtedford and t Benson f Play at Portland on Thanksgiving Day r LET THE NEW : S PART ON; Give You a Play-by-Play Account , For lliosn wlio si'i-k tlio very nncHt of radio enjoyment 11" now amaxiiig !1AIITOX offers inroiiiianiblc reecptwn, toiw, iiinlily and Kcleeth-jty, Tliero's KEAL1SM in frton iWfp- lion Dint can't lie i-yuullod Jiist listen lo it ami you'll agree1. Come in! 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