RADIO PROGRAM
Iv O M O
Sunday, January 15
7:00 Fisher Mills Program.
7:15 Talk by David Lawrence
7:30 Homespun Melodies.
7:45 Sunday at Seth Parker’s.
8:15 Andrew Jergens Co.
8:30 People’s Bank Program
9:00 Fisher Mills Program.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Crazy Crystal Quartet.
10:30 Bridge to Dreamland.
11:00 Silent.
Monday, January 16.
7:00 The Alaskans.
7:30 Demi Tasse Review,NBC
8:00 Amos ’n Andy, NBC.
8:15 Old Song Contest.
8:30 Voice of Firestone, NBC.
9:00 Gold Shield Symphony.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Dollars and Cents.
10:30 Orchestral Music.
11:00 Ambassador Hotel Orch.
11:30 Organ Concert.
11:35 Organ Concert, NBC.
12:00 Silent.
Tuesday, January 17.
7:0G Lucky Strike Hour, NBC
8:00 Amos ’n Andy, NBC.
8:15 Memory Lane, NBC.
8:45 Adventures in Health.
9:00 Fisher’s Blend Hour.
9:30 Blue Ribbon Orchestra.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Ghost Story.
10:30 Mark Hopkins Orch.
11:00 AmbasEador Hotel Drch.
11:30 Organ Concert, NBC.
12 :00 Silent.
Wednesday, January 18.
7 :00 Corn Cob Pipe Club.
7:30 Homespun Melodies.
7 :45 Fox Co., Tuneful Two.
8:00 Amos ’n Andy, NBC.
8:15 Hotel St. Regis Orch.
8:30 Wesson Team Mates.
9:00 Arzen Melody Time.
9:15 Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes, NBC.
9:45 Dollars and Cents.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Washington Hour.
11:15 Ambassador Hotel Orch.
11:30 Organ Concert.
12:00 Silent
Thursday, January 19.
7:00 Lucky Strike Hour, NBC
8:00 Amos 'n Andy, NBC.
8:15 Standard Symphony.
9:15 Thurston, the Magician.
9:30 Montag Fireside Hour.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Ghost Story.
10:30 Mark Hopkins Orch.
11 :00 Ambassador Hotel Orch.
11:30 Organ Concert.
12 :00 Silent
Friday, January 20.
7 :00 Big Six of the Air, NBC.
7:30 Wanda Hawley Chats.
7:45 Concert Orchestra.
8:00 Amos ’n Andy, NBC.
8:15 Gilmore Circus, NBC.
9:15 Thurston, the Magician.
9 :30 Fisher Mills Program.
9:45 Dollars and Cents.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Mozart Concert Hour.
11:15 Ambassador Hotel Orch.
11:30 Organ Concert.
12:00 Silent
Saturday, January 21.
7:00 Lucky Strike Hour, NEC
ABOUT OUR PRESIDENTS
Some interesting personal
facts about our presidents:
Washington was born on a
Friday, and died in the last
hour of the last day of the
week, in the last month of the
last year of the century.
Adams and Jefferson died on
the same day, July 4, 1826.
Van Buren was'the first pres
ident who was not born p Brit
ish subject.
Taylor, being a regular army
officer, never voted prior to his
election as president.
Adams lived longer than any
other president, more than 90
years.
Tyler was a member of the
provisional Congress of the
Confederate states, and was a
i member-elect of the perma
nent Confederate Congress at
the time of his death.
Lincoln was the first presi
dent to wear a beard. Grant
was the first to wear a mous
tache, and also wore a beard.
Buchanan was the only pres
ident who never married.
Cleveland was a bachelor when
inaugurated, but married after
ward.
William Henry Harrison was
the oldest president upon tak
ing office, 68; Roosevelt was
the youngest, 42.
Why shiver while waiting for the
i fire to start? Use old papers from
the Herald Office.
] 8 :00 Caswell Coffee Concert.
8:15 Bal Tabarin Orchestra.
9:00 Fisher Mills Program.
9:30 Spotlight Review, NBC.
11:00 Tuneful Two.
11:15 Ambassador Hotel Orch.
11:30 Hotel Hopkins Orch.
12:00 Silent
BRIDGE FIEND TEST
Considering the spread of the
bridge-playing industry, it is
strange that none of our legis
lators has had laws passed for
its regulation. Now comes a
suggestion that players be
compelled to pass an examin
ation before being licensed to
indulge in the game.
The suggestion comes, not
from a United States Senator,
but from an editor, whose zeal
for the public welfare has been
aroused by a report from Kan
sas City, where a wife shot her
husband. The victim was al
so the lady’s bridge partner, it
appears, and when he bid one
spade and another player
plunged on a different suit the
wife raised four spades. The
husband was set, blaming his
wife for reckless bidding, and
as a result of the argument
she shot him. Now the afore
said editor asserts that all per
sons who aspire to play bridge
should be caused to pass a rigid
test, not with reference to their
skill, but to determine their
mental poise. If the applicant
is unable to be set or to have an
ace trumped without showing
undue emotion a license should
be denied. The trouble is that
such a law would practically
eliminate all who take the
game seriously.
Did Not Want Them Perfect
The late Lord Northcliffe,
famous British publisher, did
not think so much of people
w'hose conduct seemed always
to be perfectly correct. He
said: “I don’t want men around
me who are not capable of
making a dam fool of them
selves once in a while. It is on
ly by such capers they have a
true appreciation of the best
things in home and business
life.”
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
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In the Commissioner's Court; Terri
tory of Alaska: Division Number One,
Hyder Precinct. In Probate.
In the matter of the estate of Daniel
Lindeborg, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned administrator of the es
tate of Daniel Lindeborg. deceased,
to all persons having claims against
said estate to file the same within
the time required by law. with prop
er vouchers, at my office in the town
of Hyder. Alaska.
Dated at Hyder, Alaska, this "til
day of December. 1932.
E. D. Haddon
Administrator.
Publish December 10. 17, 24, 31, 1932.
Hyder
Chamber of Commerce
Incorporated
l Regular Meeting Second
| Wednesday of the Month
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KliKCTUR'ITY PLAYS PART IN
ASSEMBLING MATTER.—Matter
is built of minute units of positive
electricity called protons and
equal units of negative electricity
called electrons. Ordinarily, these
are present In equal numbers, and
the electrical character of matter
becomes evident only when this
equality is disturbed. Aggregates
of protons and electrons constitute
atoms. The simplest atom, hydro
gen, consists of a single proton
acting as a nucleus around which
one electron is circling; heavier
atoms have positively charged nu
clei consisting of more protons
than electrons; enough additional
electrons move in complex patterns
about the nucleus to maintain elec
trical neutrality. There are 92 va
rieties of atoms, each character
ized by the charge on its nucleus.
In some substances, atoms exist
uncombined; in most, atoms are
Joined with others forming mole
cules. as a result of electrical and
tnagentic forces. Elements consist
of molecules containing only one
variety of atom; compounds con
sist of molecules containing sev
eral varieties of atoms.
How Irreplaceable Soil
Is Being Carried Away
So much has been said and written
on the subject of soil erosion, that the
menace of this factor to the soil fertil
ity of the country is met with indiffer
ence. Some figures gathered in Texas,
however, are sufficiently startling to
center attention on the problem.
Federal experts carrying on studies
of the problem report that in one rain
of a few days’ duration, more than
]00,(NX),000 tons of fertile soil were
washed out of tlie fields of the "Black
Belt." The affected land was not un
duly steep, being little more than a
gentle slope. One single rain in one
morning swept away 23 tons per acre
of rich black soil and at least 3,000,
000 acres were affected.
The seriousness of the situation Is to
be seen in the fact that the eroded
' soil is permanently lost, and the aver
1 age depth of top soil in this country
is about nine inches. The destruction
of forests has brought the soil erosion
question to the fore, for few, compara
i tively, have made any effort either
through the planting of belts of trees
i or the construction of terraces to over
come the destructive wash of accumu
lated waters down slopes during rain
! storms.
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How We Get "Scratch”
In the days before the carefully
marked-out running trnck of today the
starting line was merely a scratch In
the ground or turf. It followed that
the man who started from that mark
became known as the "scratch" man
as opposed to those who received a
start, says the Montreal Family tier
old. Hence, too, the term "scratch
race" applied to a contest where ail
the competitors start level. A similar
scratch in the ground in the old box
ing ring, up to which the combatants
had to stand when starting a fight,
gave currency to that other term "com
ing up to scratch.”
How Sail Fi*h Wai Named
The sail fish takes its name from
the fact that its dorsal -in is high and
undivided. A variety of this species
rather common in the vicinity of the
Florida Keys grows to a length of six
feet. Its great blue "sail” with black
dots presents a striking appearance.
In addition to their distinctive sail
like dorsal fins the sail fishes are
| characterized by their brilliant me
tallic coloration and by the fact that
their jpper jaws are prolonged into
bony swords. They are excellent food
: fishes.
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How to Waterproof Paper
The bureau of standards says that
there is a large number of methods in
; use for rendering paper moisture-re
sistant ; among the methods applicable
to printed papers are coating with
j clear varnish or lacquer, immersing
! in a bath of paraffin or oil, surface
| sizing with glue and hardening with
formaldehyde, or parchmentizing by
i passing through a bath of zinc chloride
or sulphuric acid and subsequently
I washing and drying.
ALASKA NOTES
Culled From the Newspapers
Of the Territory.
The Salvation Army has been
serving hot soup daily to 35
children in Petersburg.
One Alaska bank is listed
among the borrowers from the
Reconstruction Finance Corp
oartion.
Anchorage Chapter No. 1,
Ancient Order of Ice Worms,
recently held an initiation in
Anchorage.
A Petersburg, Alaska, coal
dealer who has been losing
coal by theft this winter is ad
vertising in the local paper for
the thief to return the empty
sacks, as the coal firm is out of
them.
Mrs. A. A.Budnick and her
son, Robert, aged five, promi
nent residents of Fairbanks,
were burned to death there a
few days ago in a fire which
destroyed their home.
Live turkeys are such a nov
elty in Fairbanks that the
teacher of the first grade
school dismissed her classes
and took her pupils to isee some
on display. It was the first
time any of the youngsters had
seen a live turkey.
Noel Wein of the Wein Air
ways, of Fairbanks, recently
flew from Nome to Fairbanks
in 3 hours flat, establishing a
i record for the trip.
Through the efforts of W. D.
Gross, manager of the Colise
j um theatre circuit in Alaska,
$849.75 was collected for the
old timers at the Pioneers’
Home at Sitka as a Christmas
present. This gave the inmates
of the Home $8.25 apiece. Of
the total collected, $412.50,
| or almost half, was secured in
) Juneau.
How Earth Rotate*
Due to a deflecting force arising from
the earth’s rotation, all natural mov
ing bodies—such as cyclones and wa
ter draining from a funnel, whirl
toward the right in the northern hem
isphere and toward the left In
the southern hemisphere. — Collier’*
Weekly.
How to Kill “Wriggler.”
Wrigglers in cisterns may he gotten
rid of by adding a small amount of
powdered alum dissolved in hot water.
If the wrigglers are bad, as much as
one-fourth of a pound of alum may be
added for every 30 barrels of water.
How Bee Make* “Hum”
The humming noise made by bees is
produced by the rapid vibration of the
wings. Bees do not make a noise with
their mouths, as often supposed.
How Pyrite Got Name
The mineral pyrite got its name
from a Greek word meaning fire, be
cause sparks are produced when pyr
ite is struck with iron.
How Petroleum Occur*
Petroleum occurs in certain porous
layers of the earth's crust, just in
the snme way that water collects in
porous sandstones.