Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 176, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1928 — Page 21

DEC. 13, 1928.

PURDUE STARS TO BROADCAST FORFIVE DAYS 'Threshing Ring Program’ Is Counted as Bigger Hit Than Last Year. By Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind., Dec. 13. Latest information on timely agri culture topics, musical entertainment, and other novelties will be mixed in the comprehensive program that will be broadcast form Radio Station WLS, Chicago, for five days, beginning Dec. 17, under sponsorship of the Purdue Agricultural Ilumni Association. “The Purdue Threshing Ring Program,” as it is called, made an immense hit with the radio audience in the middlewest last year, and with notable addition to the program this year it is expected to be more popular than ever. The “Purdue Threshing Ring,” a real novelty band in every sense, will appear at least twice on every day’s program with its surprising music. The Purdue program will be on the air over WLS approximately two and one-half hours each of the five days, from 11:45 o’clock in the morning to 1:30 o’clock in the afternoon and from 6:45 o’clock to 7:30 o’clock at night, with exception of the final night, Friday, Dec. 21, when the program will run to 8 o’clock. In addition to members of the Purdue staff, a number of special speakers and entertainers have been obtained to add to the attractiveness of the daily broadcasts. The Threshing Ring will appear four times on the opening day’s program, along with an address by Fay C. Gaylord of Lafayette, pres-

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ident of the Purdue Agricultural Alumni Association, on “Why the Strawstackers Stack” and two talks by Albert A Hansen, weed specialist, on “Chemical Warfare in Weed Destruction” and “Winter Insurance for Velvet Lawns,” respectively. “Silver Lining the Milk Pail” and “Sane Sanitations” are other topics that will be presented the opening day along with novelties. The Purdue Threshing Ring will continue its work as the program progresses through the week with talks on dairying, electricity on the farm, household pests, livestock, landscaping the farm, and other intereting and aleild topics. Special entertainment will supplement each day’s program of addresses. Among the special speakers who will appear before the microphone on the Purdue program are William Herschell, Indianapolis, the Hoosier poet, and Chic Jackson, Indianapolis, cartoonist-writer, both of

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