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Show hands and both feet busy, and sometimes you wish you had four arms. I A few rules apply to both instruments, in-struments, for instance, full throt-I throt-I tie is always effective on (lie take ! off, after which a decrescendo is j in order. If the going gets rough ! slow down. In case you spin out of a turn and get rattled, just neutralize all controls and things will be OK. You'll fly (jut of it auto matically. An airplane can fly itself it-self better than a novice can fly it, and a Hammond organ ca,n do likewise. What gets me, though, is just why, of all my friends, the only two families having Hammonds in their home are the past and he present owners of the variety store Dan Manning, now of Richfield, and Spence Wright. It makes one wonder if maybe some of the rest of us must not be in the wrong business. CLAYTON HEARD FROM ... The idea of changing the name of the Delta Rabbits didn't take; neither does it die. Fred Clayton, Woodrow farmer who spends his spare time inventing a device to make one farm scraper do the work of two, (when he isn't driving driv-ing to from his wife's work at the high school) says call 'em the , Desert Rats. Do we hear a second? Incidentally Fred is quite an in-I in-I ventor. No doubt he will bring 1 forth a better mouse trap in time; in fact his scraper attachment looks rather like a better mouse-i mouse-i trap to me. Like many inventors, he just overhauled his own car, and has been bothered to death ever since by a strange tap in it. He can't get it off his mind; neither nei-ther can he locate it. nor does it do any harm. Fred has told me some of the many stories he has picked up as a big time bus driver and mech anic. The one, for instance, of the man who went to a garage to get his timing checked. There be-i be-i ing nothing wrong with the ignition, ignit-ion, the mechanic questioned the car owner, only to learn that it was the speedometer that didn't work. This brings to mind the old one about the man who took his car to a garage to have a cracked wheelbase repaired. Then there I was the driver who told a mech- anic to fix his "straddle bug", a request that perplexed the mechanic mech-anic until he learned the spider gear was meant. And we mustn't skip the one who said the noise in his motor was a "piston ring". NORMA'S HAMMOND . . . I It has been said that to be a great artist, one must have lived and suffered. If so, Norma Wright, must have endured a great deal. The other evening she invited us down to hear the new Hammond Organ, which is her pride and joy and she played several numbers on it, very beautifully. Norma is a gifted artist at the Hammond, as well as the piano, and so is her daughter, Grace Brown. Norma and Grace treated us to several piano and organ duets, as well as organ solos. They can even play boogie woogie, startling as that may sem to their friends. Norma has invited me to come down and play her Hammond when ever I want to ,a standing invitation invit-ation for which the Wrights may yet be sorry. I like organ playing about as much as flying, and while I haven't told them so yet, I am making plans to shack up with the Wrights, and then I'll play the the organ about all the time. I have found organ playing a lot like flying. Both give you plenty to do with your hands and feet. Left rudder with left aileron; then neutralize after establishing a bank Medium vibrato, easy on the bass, and a hint of that overtone three octaves up. Yes, handling one is just like handling the other. Both Wingovers "ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT FROM THE DELTA AIRPORT" DICK MORRISON NEW STEARMAN . . . Del Aero has acquired -a new Stearman biplane for use as a crop sprayer this season. It has a capacity of 150 gals, liquid, which would weigh some 1200 lb It is powered by a 9 cyl. Pratt & Whitney Whit-ney radial engine of 450 hp. The large total wing area and external bracing which is possible in the design of a biplane make this type plane unusually sturdy for aerobatics and such work as crop dusting, which require handling hand-ling in close quarters, at low alt-itude. alt-itude. The 9 cyl. 450 hp engine gives it plenty of power. This is about 3 times the power of the Aeronca sedan, which is a fine per former. The Stearman's first spray ing job will be at St. George on May 20. Carl and Leon Theobald made the flight to Burley, Idaho, last week. Stuart Smith made his dual XC to Salt Lake and Provo last week. La Mar Peterson and his father flew their new T-craft to 'Garrison Sunday. BETTER RADIO IS POSSSIBLE . . . standard broadcast band, can "reach out" for hundreds of miles, effectively. FM, in the frequencies now assigned as-signed to it, gives the finest possible pos-sible high - fidelty broadcasting, static free, over limtied areas. It does not "reach out" like a 50 kw AM. station, such as KSL, from Salt Lake far out into the Pacificj Ocean. It seems obvious, then, that stations sta-tions operating on shared channels, chan-nels, might better be shifted over to FM, which would enable them to serve their trade areas with bet ter quality broadcasting than is now possible, which all AM channels chan-nels should be cleamed for wide-area wide-area coverage. This issue has been taken up in Congress. Sen. Johnson, of Colorado, Colo-rado, has favored elimination of all clear channel AM stations. If this were done, NO NIGHTTIME RADIO of intelligible quality could be receivd outside the metropolitan metropoli-tan areas. Sen. Connolly, of Texas, prodded by rural intersts, favors giving more power to clear channel stations, stat-ions, which would provide us with better radio. If all shared AM stations were shifted to FM, their listeners would have to replace their sets with FM receivers. Such a transition would be difficult, but, if made gradually, not too much so. And if the change were made, we, in this locality, along with most other rural localities, could have a choice of some fifty clear stations at night instead of the present' six or so. Desirable as such a change would be, the fact that it would make obsolete millions of receivers, receiv-ers, and much broadcasting station stat-ion equipment, means that it may not happen for a long time, and maybe never. For the present Sen. Connolly's proposal to permit clear stations to raise their power, from 50 kilowatts to 500 or even 750 KW offers our best chance to get better radio. Meantime, anyone spending mon ey for radio advertising, without knowing what type stations he is hiring, its wavelength, its range at different times of day, etc., may be wasting his money. Commercial radio, as it is now is a mess. This refers to the technical tech-nical aspects of broadcasting, and is not concerned with program qual ity. Many people wonder why large sections of their dials bring in only noise and jangle, why they can't receive Provo, Richfield or Cedar City at night; why they can hear only two of the dozen or more stat ions in Los Angeles, one in San Francisco one in Denver, and so on The reason is that the system in which the so called Standard Broadcast stations operate just grew. It was not planned at all at the start, and it fell into a a pattern that is far from ideal. When broadcasting started, no pro vision for policing the air waves existed.No one ever dreamed there would be radio waves to regulate, for one thing. Stations started to broadcast on wave lengths which were first discovered to be effective, effect-ive, and chaos reigned. The FCC was set up later, to pol ice the radio broadcasting business and is was empowered to assign wave lengths to broadcasters, and thus it brought a measure of order to the industry. Still ,much of the original chaos remains, of the 107 different wave lengths available in the Stanard Broadcast band for AM radio, only 26 are "cleared", that is, assigned to one large station. stat-ion. These 26 clear channels, on which such stations as KSL, KOA, KOB, KFI, and other oprate, provide pro-vide the only radio servic now possible pos-sible at night for people living in rural areas as we do. The other channels, are "shared" by anywhere any-where from two to a hundred small stations and while the signals of these shared channl stations reach rundreds of miles, their effective range is only 25 or 50 miles at best at niglit. Beyond that, they only, spread interference. Obviously, the assignment of many small stations to one frequency, fre-quency, or wave ength, means that these wave lengths, about three fourths of all channels ,are useless use-less to people living in 90 of the geographical area of the nation. There is, however, a possible way to end the chaos of the air waves. There are now two basic kinds of radio broadcasting. AM (Amplitude Modulation), which was first developed, and FM (Frequency (Fre-quency Modulation), which was per fected about 1936 by Maj. Armstrong. Arm-strong. AM radio broadcasting, in the |