Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 2, Number 37, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 18 August 1939 — Page 12

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[right out of the air! By EARLE FERRIS ..—.5.

JESSICA DRAGONETTE, famous J radio soprano, stopped off in New York between concert engagements I Wh |MjBL I \ MUM SL. / long enough to appear as the guest star with “Raymond Paige, 99 Men and a Girl” over CBS on August 18, the last program in the series. • • » Forrest Lewis, of the team of Lewis and Hearne, heard on “Scattergood Baines” programs, got his radio start by accident. He was summoned by mistake for an audition, then won the role by doing a better job than any of the other fourteen applicants. • * • Doing two different programs, one right on the heels of the other on cthe same network, is a rare occurrence for a bandleader. However, X x \ \ i H A I wwwß ■' I v '' '' I X. VjPyz this distinction belongs to Peter Van Steeden, above, for the second year in a row. He now batoneers “What’s My Name?” and George Jessel’s “Celebrity Program” Wednesday nights. • • • Barbara Jo Allen, who has been playing the part of Beth Holly in “One Man’s Family” for over seven years, surprised radio listeners by essaying a comedy role on the Charlie McCarthy show. She did the eccentric character of Vera Vague, a spinster type.

CCC WOODCHOPPERS TO VIE FOR TITLE DURING STATE FAIR Champion woodchoppers from five of the state forest Civilian Conservation Corps camps will compete for the title in a contest to be staged during the state fair, Virgil M. Simmons, rommissioner of the Department of Conservation, annohnsed today. Preliminary elimination contests to determine camp winners will be held under the direction of the Division of Forestry and CCC officials in camps at the Clark County state forest, the Jackson County state forest, the Salamonie River state forest, the Wells Couny state forest and game preserve, and the JasperPulaski state game preserve. Dates far the camp contestants will be set by the camp officials. The final contest, to be staged as a part of the Department of Conservation’s state fair exhibit, will be held on Thursday, September 7, in the circular plot between the Fish and Game building and the forestry building. The time of the elimination events and the finals will be announced later. Mock's Boat Livery Motor Boats—Row Boats Canoes and Cottages for Rent Welding—Johnson Motors Phone 504 Road 1®

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If you hear Freddie Monroe’s orchestra on the air, featuring belltone rhythms, don’t think that there is another orchestra leader pirating Frankie Master’s idea. Masters has waxed a series of transcriptions, using the Monroe name. ♦ ♦ * The smallest actor in radio has one of the longest working schedules in the studios. He’s Johnny the Call Boy, below, who does four “Johnny z \ Presents” programs weekly, the early and repeat shows over NBC and CBS and also does the two “Breezin’ Along” programs for the same sponsor over MBS. It totals six •shows weekly. • • • Her characterizations as radio’s “Ma Perkins” have aroused the interest of Hollywood in Virginia Payne. Although currently one of the busiest network actresses, she may make a flying trip to the movie city for a screen test, sometime during the Summer. • • • Producers call Mary Mason’s voice "radiogenic” because it is one of the easiest to identify on the kilocycles, Mary, pictured here, works exclu- / aMf sively in the CBS daytime show, “The Life and Love of Dr. Susan,” in which she portrays the adolescent Nancy Chandler. —a- —

Officiating for the final events staged at the state fair grounds will be in charge of Paul (Bunyan) Criss, who holds the world’s wood-chopping championship. A match between the CCC champion and Criss will be arranged as a special feature. Laduskaud Balacs of Karczag, Hungary, who attended his wife’s funeral at 10 o’clock morning, filed application for a new marriage at 4 o’clock that afternoon. Peter Hatcher and Davie Miller o f Culpepper, Va., who hive each lost a different leg and wear the same size shoe, buy their footwear jointly so that one pair of shoes does for both. The mystery of the missing golf balls on the Taconic Club fairways at Pittsfield, Mass., was solved when a Jersey cow was butchered and 29 golf balls were in her stomach.

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ELECTRIC FARM FEATURES ON DISPLAY AT STATE FAIR The farmstead of pioneer days contrasted with the modern electrified farm will be a feature of the farm electrification section of the exhibits in the Purdue Building at the Indiana State Fair, Sept. 1 to 8. The display will also provide information on wiring and show some of the many uses of electricity on the farm. Operation costs based on 14 years of research by Purdue University on the expense of operating various pieces of electrical equipment on Indiana Farms will be available at the exhibit. The role of electricity in the modern farm home will be shown in the exhibits of modern kitchen, bathroom and laundry equipment. Electricity will be used for refrigeration, cooking, washing, ironing, and for pumping and heating water. The part devoted to productive farm uses of electricity will show equipment especially adapted to the poultry and dairy enterprises. Major equipment in operation will include an electric brooder, feed mill, water warmer, milking machine, and milk cooler. Savings made by the reduction in labor and the substitution of electricity for more expensive forms of energy aid in the more profitable production of poultry and dairy products. There will also be lights and alarm for burglar-proofing the farm. . Truman E. Hienton, S. A. Anderson, and J. M. Fore of the agricultural engineering staff and Miss Starley Hunter and Miss Virginia E. Berry, extension specialists in home economics at Purdue University, will be the attendants at the exhibit. They will provide information on wiring, the use of electricity, and the selection and use of electrical equipment for the farmstead and farm home. After the death of Ed D. Donahue, of Somersworth, N. JI., packages containing old bills to the amount of $18,755, wrapped in newspapers published in 1915, were found in his cellar. Rats and mice are multiplying alarmingly in New Zealand where an epidemic of infliienza killed most of the cats. ■ a Antiques Noe’s Ark JAMES R. NOE -Near Ideal Beach - Rd. lU - II . Syracuse Auto BODY AND PAINT SHOP N. E. ON RD. Fender Repairing Welding

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Chicago has a company of amateur actors, all of whom are blind. They study their parts in Braille and give plays for the aid of other sightless persons. The group has been organized about' eight years.

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An opossum is reported to be doing duty as rat catcher at the jail in Bellville, 111. John Linta, 17, a high school bay of Mansfield, 0., has made a pole vault of 13 feet 10 inches, only a little more than 5 inches under the Olympic record.