The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-06

some time would be ARRANGED for
the local legion. ~
THIS AND THAT
A few noteworthy things that
happened during the month of
March: Nebraska admitted TO the
onlon, 1867 -. First public test
Oh tWo-way oceanic radio telephony
between New York and London.
l926 Standard time adopted in
United States, 1884 Eli Whitney
granted patent On cotton gin, 1894
=. Commodore Perry made ''Open
Door" treaty with Japan, 1854 4.
General Joseph w. StilweI1 of the
burma campaign fame, born 1888
. >. United States Civil Service
commission organized 1883 :.
And four presidents of the U. S.
jackson, Madison, Cleveland and
Tyler, were born in March 4.
And frankly I don't think anyone
could say that March came in like
a lion-eh, what?
IN PASSING
When the president talks from the
White House, nearly 900 radio sta
tons may be hooked up to the
network of Bell system lines which
transmit radio programs from
coast to coast. And everyone ex-
poets without surprise the fact that
radio chains offer network pro.
grams from morning to midnight,
seven days a week. Yet never till
January 4, 1923, were two radio
stations linked for one broadcast.
Early-day fans donned earphones
that evening to listen to three
hour concert originating at WEAF
in New York and also heard over
WNAC in Boston. The first country
wide tie-in did not appear until
the political campaigns in 1928. In
all the networks, through the tele
phone company, are served by
about 1876, 1000 miles of constantly
attended circuits. That, my friend,
is lot of wire. So remember,
when and if something should hap.
pen to cut off a program, be pa.
.tient, such service deserves the
consideration of all listeners.
BETWEEN YOU AND ME
Had nice chat with Mary Mohr
who is back in the city after an
absence of eight years. She was
just bursting with pleasure as she
met so many Of her old friends >.
A word of thanks to N. A. PEBBLES
for his interesting letter. One o1
these days soon IN. A." we will
discuss it -. Clyde Leonard sat
down with me for moment to ex-
plain his idea of how certain sec.
ton of the city could be brought up
to date. It's good plan and more
about it later Ray Galloway
reports a most successful trip to
Charlotte :. R. o. Crock" Grant |
is on the mend after a weeks stay
in the hospital Congrats to
Mary Symmes who will celebrate
a birthday next Saturday A
word of appreciation to Mrs. Duke
and her daughter, Phyllis for their
cooperation on last Saturday morn
ing's program . It's MAN On
The Street" today at 1:45 pm.
Virginia Oliver waves hello as she
is off to Wrightsville.
SPOT NEWS
Post No. 10 will dramatic on &C
tual local veterans problem when
they present another in their weeS-
ly radio series THE Wilmington
american Legion On The Air" pro-
grams over WMFD at 8:45 pm.
tonight. The Legionnaires, in CO.
operation with R. A. Dunlea, own.
er-manager WMFD, present these
shows in an attempt to focus great
err public attention on the problems
facing the returning service peo-
pie in this community. Several
weeks ago the legion suggested
that public opinion poll be start.
ed by the listeners. Since then the
local legion has received a number
of suggestions from citizens of New
Hanover county and the producers
of the show are planning to read
these suggestions of the air in a
failure broadcast. |
AND
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in and around southeastern North
Carolina listen to the STAR-NEWS
Round The Town Reporter at LIS
and 6:25 pm. daily,