The Chattanooga News. (Chattanooga, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 1, 1922 Page: 3 of 6
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THE CHATTANOOGA NEWS r
In The Wichita Mountains
* ■.
Cruteivllle i'ark Canyon ami Hathing Pool iu tin* Wichita Mountians,
three miles north of Cache, Okla, just outside of the National Wichita Game
Keserve, where many Boy Scouts will spend two weeks this summer in
a camp equipped by the Oklahoma Grand Lodge oi Masons on five acres
• it land deeded to them by Frank Kusli for this specific purpose, there will
be a new group each two weeks all summer of from 80 to 250 Scouts.
PREPARE FOR GREAT CROP
Sho.vs Oklahoma's Average Yield is
on Decline
Stillwater.—The average yield o/
crops in Oklahoma is on Ihe decline,
according to ;f .survey of farm statis-
tics just competed by experts of the
extension di":sion of Hie Oklahoma
Vgrlc'iit iirai «d Mechanical college.
Hut while the average farmer is rais-
ing less an acre, those planters who
are working under the supervision of
farm demonstration auents those
adopting more improved practices,
both adults and juniors are pointing
the way to increased yields, the sur-
vey shows.
The survey, which covers a period
of twenty-five years going back to
I lie earliest decade for which figures
.<re available—compares the average
yield lor the ten vear period, 1896
1905. with the average for 1911-1920,
then adds a comparison with the av
erage yield of Oklahoma farms in 1921,
the yield of demonstrators for that
same year and the yield of junior club
members.
Grady County To "Swat the Rooster"
Chickasha. "Swat the Rooster."
That's the slogan for a county wide
campaign to he conducted here dur
iug the week beginning Monday, May
29. under the direction of the county
home demount ration agent's office,
('hickasha poultry houses are assist-
ing the farm club women of Grady
county in the "Swat the Rooster"
campaign. During the week, they will
pay a premium of two cents a pound
lor roosters.
FROM OVERSTATE
£VENTS OF INTEREST TO ALL
OF THIS STATE
HUGE BRIDGE IS DEDICATED
New Structure is Last on Postal Hiph
way System to be Completed
It is Announced
Calvin, Okla. Hundreds of persons
from all towns of Oklahoma along
the Poetal highway and scores from
Arkansas and Texas were at Calvin,
Hughes county, recently to witness
the dedication of the new steel bridge
across the South Canadian river on
the Postal highway.
An extensive program was, rendered
end continued the entire day J. A.
Whitehurst, president of the Postal
llighua> association, delivered the
dedication address. B. K. Clark, state
highway commissioner, and E. S. Al
derman state engineer, participated
in the program.
The bridge was erected by county,
state and federal aid at a cost ol
$90,000. It is nearly 800 feet long and
built on concrete substructures sunk
to bedro<k. Construction was started
Jimp 1. 1920, and completed May 1.
3922.
Among the entertainment attrac
tlons was a barbecue, athletic events
and band concerts. The program was
arranged by a committee represent
lug Hughes county and public road
officials.
With the dedication of the bridge
the opening of all bridges on Ihe Pos
tal highway between HI Paso. Texas,
and Little Rock, Ark., will have been
completed.
ST. COTTON GROWERS MEET
New Directors Are to be Electeed
Next Week.
Oklahoma City, Okla. The first an
filial convention of the Oklahoma Cot-
ton Growers' associailon closed with
a banquet, at which Carl Williams
v. as the principal speaker.
The new board of directors, which
was to have organized and elected of
liters, will not meet until next week.
The association recommended to
congress enactment of h permanent
agricultural credit law so cooperative
farmers' associations may finance
their operations on a basis of collat.
eral loans; that the banks loaning
money to cotton farmers arrange the
maturity of the loans to coincide with
the time growers will receive returns
from their crops; that a field service
department be added to the associa
tion.
CRYSTAL DETECTOR
EASY TO CONSTRUCT
Telephone Condenser and Re-
ceivers Can Better Be Pur-
chased—Mounting the Set.
The material needed to construct a
simple crystal detector Is a« follows:
Piece of silicon or galena molded j
iu a metal button, 1!5 cents.
Two binding posts, 20 cents.
A block- of shellacked or stained
wood 3 by 8'a inches.
A thin strip of sheet? copper or
brass \ inches wide by two Indies
long.
Mount the two binding posts on the
block of wood as shown, fastening un-
der one binding post a strip of copper
or brass— see sketch—and under the
other binding post a colled up spring
of fine springy copper or brass wire.
By placing the button of metal o»n-
uients. the tuner, the crystal detector
and the telephone condenser, can be
mounted on a stained base of wood,
say, el«ht Inches square and one-half
Inch thick. This will keep the com-
ponent parts of the set together, mak-
ing a compact unit of the whole and
also be advantageous iu that it will
hold the instruments while adjust-
ments are being made.
-'•etch shows how the Instra-
i connected with each other
.e ground. The condenser is
Co. »ed to one side of the tuner and
to the crystal detector. The ground
is connected to the other side of the
phones and the condenser and the
tuner.
Lamp cord is excellent for connect-
ing up small radio sets of this kind-
it being a good conductor, weJI insu-
lated and easy to handle.
HOW TO LISTEN IN
There are two variables In our radio
receiver that require adjustment
when it is desired to listen in; tlrst,
the detector, and second, the slide po-
sition on the tuner. Once the slider
position has been determined for any
given transmitting station, It Is only
necessary to adjust the detector to
pick up that same station again.
To operate the receiver for the tlrst
time It Is best to wait until some
station like KI'KA Is transmitting be-
tween H :;io and H :.'<0 p. in. Then ad-
gmPmCt
POSTS
ALLURING DINNER GOWNS;
HAPPY MEDIUMS IN HATS
\I7ITH a reservation In the matter
of length, this handsome dinner
gown undertakes to a<<ent the modes
of the season. It Is made of crepe de
chine and georgette, it takes ad van
tage of the continued vogue for bead
trimmings, the sleeves make the most
of their opportunity to be featured.
It affects the last thing It) neck lines
and the approved low waist line—but
it is shorter than the length decreed
by style arbiters. In this one partlcti
lar It lags, with plenty of good coin
pany, behind the very long skirt com
The chic small hat arrives* early
and has many devotees — midsum-
mer brings hats with generous hrinm
that compel our adoration, but be-
tween them stand hats that strike a
happy medium. They go ban<l iu band
with summer the length of its journey,
and mirrors reflect them more often
than talis to the lot of these small or
large rivals; for they are the becom-
ing and useful trimmed bats that are
designed to tit In with many back-
grounds.
Four hats of the character, as showu
The Crystal Detector.
on o n it a
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PLAN ARMY TRAINING CAMP
Committee of Ten Named to Arouse
Interest in This Movement
Oklahoma City, Okla —ElToi Is to
arouse interest among young men ol
Oklahoma City and surrounding terri
tory in llie citizens' military training
camp io be conducted at Fort Sill un
der the direction of I lie regular army
July 27 to August 2ti will he begun im
mediately by the Chamber of Com-
merce, it was announced b* Stanley
C. Draper, acting manager. A com
niittee of ten men was appointed by
the president, W. J. Pettee, to lake
charge f>f the work.
Applications for entrance to the
camp will be accepted by any mem
her of the committee.
Won to Purebred Hons by Son's Work
Pawhuska, Okla.—A. U. Copeland,
farmer living ten miles north of Paw
huska. Osage county, has been won
over to purebred hogs by the work
of his son, I.eslie Copeland. In pig
club work, according to S. M. McCuis
ion. farm demons!ration agent. Mc
Culston had been talking purebreds
to Copeland lor two years, without
results. I.ubI year the boy took up
club work and. in the one year, made
more mouey on one gilt and her far-
low than lils father did on his wbols
herd of scrubc.
Values At Old Figures
Valuation for permanent 1922 as
cessment on property of the South
western Bell Telephone company was
tlxed at $14,128.17(1 by the state board
of equalization. This is the same
valuation fixed for 1921.
Other permanent assessment Talti-
ations were also reached American
Pipeline company, valuation for 1921,
$249,210; return for 1922, $208,030;
valuation fixed by board, $225,000;
Blackwell Oil and Oas company,
permanent assessment for 1922 fixed
at $326,112, or an increase over 1921
ol $26,112. Umpire Pipeline com-
pany, valuation for 1921, $1,546,183;
return for 1S22, $1,388,034; assessed
as returned. Empire Gas and Pipe
line company, valuation for 1921, $72,-
222; return for 1922, $57,086; fixed for
1922. assessment al $63,914. Em pi re
Natural Gas company, valuation for
1921, $2,524,295; return 1922, $2,522,-
696; fixed for 1922 assessment at $2.
522.700. Okmulgee Northern Hail
way company, valuation fixed by
board tor 1921 at $207,161; fixed for
assessment at $185,000.
A number of tentative assessment
valuations were reached, the amounts
to stand over a ten day period after
which interested parlies may appear
before the board to show why such
valuations should not b» made per
manent.
Lawton Oas company, returned at
$206,277, tenlalive valuation set by
board, $300,000. Lawton St Duncan
Rleclric company, returned'at $365,
715; tentative valuation. $500,000.
Mangum Electric company, returned
al $78,605; tentative valuation, $100,-
000 Ripley (las company, returned
at $3,371; tentative assessment, $11,-
611 Washita Electric company, re
turned at $!< 751; tentative valuation
$76,000, Yale Natural (las company,
returned at $19,185; tentative- vali]
ation. $40,000 Guthrie Railway com-
pany, returned at $17,670; tentative
valuation, $35,000; Oklahoma llailwav
company, returned at $2,665,680; ten
tatlve valuation, $5,000,000
TUKER
IOI ' t
0t.TC.CTOR
TCW tttlivcn
Dinner Gown of Colored Crepe.
Set Mounted on Base, With Connections Shown.
talning the crystal of silicon or gale-
na ou the strip of metal and allowing
the spring (o make contact with the
surface of the crystal the detector is
complete and ready for operation.
A complete crystal detector can be
purchased from 75 cents to $•, de-
pending upon the type.
Two other pieces of apparatus are
necessary that cannot be readily con-
structed—they are the telephone con
denser and the receivers. A tele-
phone condenser to be used In shunt-
ing across the phones can be pur-
chased for about 50 cents.
For with a radio receiver of
this type It Is recommended that a
pair of it.OOO-ohm, Murdoch type, No.
60 receivers, costing $ti, be purchased.
These are all the necessary parts
needed for the complete receiver.
If it is desired, the three Instru-
Best Wheat Is In Southwest
"The wheat of the northwest ha?
so deteriorated that the. only really
good virgin wheat upon which millors
may now depend is being produced in
; the southwestern wheat belt," said
.1, A Whitehurst, president of tho
state board of agriculture, upon his
! return from Topeka, where he attend
j ed the meeting of the $outhwes
iteru Wheat Improvement association
VAGARIES OF VACUUM TUBES
Peculiar Actions That Always Astonish
and Sometimes Frighten the
Amateur Radioist.
* Everybody who has had anything to
do with vacuum tubes has from time
to time had them do unexpected things
and give results that at the moment
, seem beyond explanation.
! The explanation of several charac-
teristics of these miniature giants
which are met with In daily operation
Is sure to prove of great Interest to
the amateur. In cases where the ac-
tions of the tube are not understood
these peculiarities have sometimes
frightened people.
one instance of a newborn fan's
fright was hi ought to attention it) a
letter of inquiry. The instrument had
Just been set up and was being oper-
ated for the first time. The tubes had
been firmly adjusted and were Just at
the spilling point and—over they went,
giving vent to the most unearthly
sounds. The embryo enthusiast who
looked upon the audion tube as an
electric light, thought It was going to
explode. He jumped away from the
Instrument and out of the room, and
; did not venture near It for several
! hours, and then only after reaching
round the corner of the door with a
! long stick and pulling the battery
J switch off.
Similar instances have come to, at-
tention when bulbs generate vari col-
ored Aipors In the vacuum chamber.
Moonshiners Using Radio.
Revenue officers seeking distillers of
the far famed and hardhitting "white
llghtnln." In the mountains of Ken-
tucky say that many raids made In
the last few months have proven tin-
successful. due to the adoption of ra-
diophone as a means of communica-
tion among the moonshiners.
Just the detector by changing the
point at which the spring and crys-
tal of the detector make contact until,
when a nearby electric light Is snapped
on and off. a dick Is heard in
tlie head phones. The detector Is now
adjusted on a sensitive spot on the
crystal. Hy changing the slider po
sitlon, the transmitting station should
he picked up.
After a station Is once picked up
It Is un easy matter to adjust the de-
tector and slider position until maxi-
mum response is obtained In the tel
ephone receiver. With a simple set
of the kind described In this and pre-
ceding articles and a little practice
one soon becomes adept at picking up
a given station. The entertainment
derived from listening in is usually
well worth the time spent and the
money Invested.
TIPS TO THE RADIOIST
Fired .22 caliber rifle shells
make good switch points for tun-
ing c»il.s and receiving trans
formers.
A single wire aerial KM) to
150 feet long Is sufficient f<»r
tycal and long distance reception
of broadcasting stations.
Do not string aerials across
the street or across electric
wires. Keep antenna wires off
electric light and telephone
poles.
Stranded copper or solid cop
per wire should be used. Phos-
phor bronze wire if obtainable
Is stronger hut not superior t«»
copper.
(iood contact with a piece of
mineral like galena can be had
by wrapping it in tinfoil, of
course, the top <>f the crystal
Is left exposed.
The brass ends of large car-
tridge shells make splendid
crystal detector cups. They
should be cleaned out thoroughly
before they are used.
The winding of cardboard
tubes from oatmeal boxes may
be improved greatly If the tube
Is first heated In an oven for
about l.~) minutes to take out
the moisture and then wound;
or better still shellac it while
It Is still warm and leave it
to soak In.
In winding tuning colls with
bare wire a thread should be
wound ot.i with the wire. This
will separate each turn. When
the col' Is finished the thread
can he taken off. Shellac should
be applied Immediately. When
the shellac Is dry the copper
wire wljl hold Its place.
puny and takes Its stand among those
models that have made a compromise
j between one extreme and the other.
I There are wonderful colors this
| season and women have grown cour-
ageous in using them. When consld-
! ertng dinner ami evening frocks they
I may allow themselves to he daring,
but for the street they refuse the
reckless and have approved beige, tan.
wood and other browns, green ami
dark blue. (Jayer colors and many of
j them make afternoon and dinner
frocks and they are elaborated with
embroideries and contrasting colors
In fabric combinations. When black Is
used it is worn over a color or bright-
ened with vivid colors In embroidery
here, imlicute something of the divers-
ity t«» he found among them. The
group leads off with a shape of black
IIsere faced with blue crepe and very
simply trimmed with a sash of wide
ribbon and a handsome ornament. It
can afford to be simple for it is the
possessor of most becoming lines. Near-
ly all faces are flattered by It. .lust
below It at the left Is a fabric hat of
a crepey material trimmed with two
kinds of beads aud ti little ornamental
stitching. Its shape suggests the poke
bonnet and Is best suited to youthful
faces. Next is a hat made of another
millinery fabric with an odd sash and
hanging ends of crepe. Little pearly
sea shells are set about the upfurueJ
>sm
Showing Diversity in Hats.
or handed with a gay color. Light col-
ors for evening often make use of
crystal beads ami the deeper tones
| choose beads In shades «»f their own
color, sometimes combining them with
crystals.
The gown pictured is developed In
amber-colored crepe de chine and ha
sleeves and drop skirt of a lighter
tone In georgette. The beads begin
with this light tone and shade t » rust
color. Deep cuffs of the crepe de chine
take up the unused width In the
sleeves and the girdle Is made of the
crepe de chins.
portion of the hrim. This hat has the
lines that matronly wearers like.
The tlower-trimmed hat with round
crown that bells and tlat hrim Is a
great favorite In many braids. It la
shown with a sash of plcot-edged rib-
bon that Is arranged In four loops, tho
two longer ones slipping through 4
slash In the brim.
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