The Jaysee Echo (Rochester, Minnesota), Volume 9, Number 5

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VOLUME IX
ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4,   1940
NUMBER 5
Prop Wash
by Don Franke
Now that Rochester has two airlines (Northwest and Mid-Continent)
making daily scheduled flights in and
out of the city, our airport will become a controlled airport. A radio
beam is being installed at the present time. Many people think of a
beam as being somewhat comparable to the case of Miss "X", who
ate onions before a date. It was a
very dark night, and every time her
date wanted to kiss her, he just
"rode the beam." With airliners it
isn't so simple, but that is the general idea at least.
I will attempt to explain the actual
workings of a radio beam as it was
explained to me by airline officials
at the airport. In this section of the
country we have, as you may have
noted, a range station located along
the Mendota cut-off to Minneapolis.
This radio range station is comprised
of five towers. Four towers are located at the corners of an imaginary
square, and the fifth is in the center.
The towers send out four beams of
signals. This beam or stream of electrical signals may be directed and
bent. A beam may fan out to be
possibly one mile broad fifty miles
from the sending tower, and then
it meets with another beam. A series
of Radio Range Stations located at
various points connect the beams
throughout the country. When a
plane is exactly on the beam its receiving set gives a steady hum. When
he is off the exact course, he picks
up dots and dashes denoting which
side of the beam he is on. A cone
of Silence extends directly over the
Range Station. The center tower of
the Range Station broadcasts voice,
giving vital information to pilots.
The voice may be tuned in when
desired, in place of the beam signals.
The airport is usually about four miles
from the radio towers. To land and
take off on the beam, the minimum
visibility is three feet. With this
much visibility, the radio operator
can keep various planes shelved at
different altitudes and allow them to
come down one at a time so that no
collisions occur. Planes come in, two
minutes apart, in all kinds of weather
I at large airports such as Chicago,
with   no   accidents.
Besides having the range station,
our air traffic will be controlled by
a tower, and will be installed by next
spring. A control man, equipped with
red and green light guns will signal
every plane using the field as to when
the  pilot can  land  or take off. This
Visual Education for
Social Science Students
All of the social science classes
taught by Mr. Staley saw movies of
two vital national problems last week
when reels pertaining to America's
relief problem and Social Security
were shown. The films were obtained
from the University of Minnesota's
extensive film library. The reels on
Social Security were very complete
and explained in detail the operation
of the Social Security Board.
Using the new Bell-Howell sound
projector belonging to the public
school system, Mr. Satley, who is becoming quite proficient as a movie
operator, brought out the correlation between modern conditions and
the phases of social science which
the classes are studying.
The visual education program will
continue throughout the rest of the
school year. The next series of films
will be on conservation of natural resources and will be shown on December 10 and II. On the afternoon of
December 10 the films will be shown
to any members of the student body
who wish to attend; watch the bulletin board for the exact time.
Junior College Open House is
Scheduled for Monday, Dec. 9
Gamma Rho Plans
for Christmas Party
As the Christmas season rolls a-
round again, Gamma Rho-ites are
beginning to look forward to their
annual Christmas party which is always held on the second Tuesday of
December.
Present members of Gamma Rho
organization who were elected last
year are Edriel Mills, Elfi Ossendorf,
Betty Wright, Doreen LeBlanc, El
Dora Lamprecht, Bettie Jones, Helen
Gambill, Betty Lou Hamlin, Ross
Burdick, Gale Sperry, Don Franke,
Harry Smith and Dick Kirby. Dick
was editor of the "Echo" and was
elected president of Gamma Rho, but
is now working out of town and could
not return to J. C. this year. Other
officers elected last year were Betty
Hamlin, vice president, who is acting
as president, and Elfi Ossendorf, secretary.
Freshmen "hopefuls" will be initiated after Christmas vacation and
will be pledged into the fraternity
at the annual banquet held for that
purpose, but they are all invited to
attend the Christmas party according to the custom of past years.
Typical Classes to Be
Held in Evening
The student body, their parents,
and friends are invited to an Open
House, to be held Monday evening,
December 9th, in the new Auditorium
and in the Junior College quarters.
Commencing at 8:00 p.m. a program will be given, consisting of
appropriate musical numbers, and a
one act play, "Fiat Lux" (Let There
Be Light), by Faith V. Vilas. Members of the cast will be Beverly Barber, Jerald Farrington, John Fitzgerald and Roger Drinkwalter.
Following the program the Junior
College rooms will be open for inspection, and demonstrations will be
given in a Medical Secretarial class,
the Chemistry laboratory, the Zoology laboratory, the Mechanical Drawing classroom. A motion picture illustrating the values of visual education will be shown in Mr. Staley's
Contemporary Problems class.
The committee in charge of arrangements consist of Mr. Gerken,
Miss McGhee, and Miss Peterson.
J. C CALENDAR
Dec.    5—Open House
Rajester Play "Fiat Lux"
Chorus,   directed   by   Miss
Church
Orchestra, directed by Miss
Wagoner
Dec.   10—Gamma     Rho     Christmas
Party
will insure safety, especially for students who have had many a close
shave in landing near other planes
which they failed to see.
17 Football Letters
Awarded at Pep Fest
Seventeen gridders who played in
more than half of the quarters during the past football season were
awarded their blue and gold letters
at the pep fest held last Thursday
afternoon in the Senior Assembly.
Those receiving letters for two
years of service included Captain
Lenny Murphy, Harold Hodge, Al
Sears, Lloyd Wright, Roger Drink-
waiter, and Sid Graves. First year
letter winners were Bill Lenton, Bill
Condon, Wayne Lance, Walt Benike,
Jerry Hilliard, Jim Gambill, Byron
Smalley, Vernie Meyers, Paul Hanson,
Merle Moehnke, and Lowell Zimmerman.
Rajesters, Chorus Unite
in Open House Program
The Junior College dramatic club
will present its third play for candidates on Monday, December 9, in
the new auditorium.
The program for the "Open
House" evening will consist of music
by the college orchestra and choral
group, together with the miracle play
"Fiat Lux," by Faith Van Valken-
burgh Vilas. Incidental music for the
production includes two Yuletide carols to be sung by Miss Church's
Chorus.
The cast includes an elderly, embittered villager, played by Roger
Drinkwalter (a Rajester member);
Father -Ambrose, the Parish priest
who tries to console his old friend's
loneliness, Jerald Farrington; Beverly
Barber, the spirit of the little crippled girl; and John Fitzgerald, the
soldier who fell in the first world war.
It is the small girl and the young
soldier who convince the old man
that their sufferings have not been
in vain and revive his religious belief
which had been stunned by sorrow.
Lighting and properties will be in
charge of Donald Fenske and Bette
Buenger; Miss McGhee is the director. 	
The Salisbury Players
Give  Modern Daughters'
Under the auspices of the University of Minnesota, Ethel Salisbury
Hanley presented the Salisbury Players in "Modern Daughters" before a
joint convocation of the Junior College and the senior high school on
Tuesday,   December 3.
Acted by a clever cast of young
people, each of whom proved to be
an artist in his work, "Modern Daughters" was a clever and delightful
comedy of the headstrong, yet adorable, girl of today.
Mrs. Hanley, who is known in Lyceum and Chautauqua circles as
"The Lady o' Smiles," has been prominent as an actress and entertainer
for many years. She has been manager and director of her own company, The Salisbury Players, for the
past few years, and has toured the
East and Middle West.
Among other well-known stage successes in which Mrs. Hanley has
either acted or which she has produced, are such favorites as Noel
Coward's "Hay Fever," Channing
Pollock's plays, "The Fool' and "The
Enemy,"   and   Davis'   "The   Molluse."