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In Portland
This Week
THURSDAY. MARCH 31
TOPS 638 - 7 p m , 217 E Broadway
SATURDAY. APRIL 2
City. school diatrict and water district elections - 7am -
7pm .city hall (Precinct 8). fire station (Precinct 1*),T M
('lark School and Stephen F Austin School (Gregory)
MONDAY. APRIL 4
Rotary Club - 12 noon. Community Center
Lions Club -7pm. Shep's Little Chicken Shack
Fire department auxiliary • 7:30 pm, fire station
Traffic advisory board - 7 30 p m , city hall
hall
hall
TUESDAY, APRILS
Chamber of Commerce board of directors • 12 noon, city
II.
City council - 7 p m ( workshopi 8 p m (agenda), city
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Eastern Star - 7 30 p m Masonic Lodge building
Volunteer fire department 7:30 pm, fire station
WEDNESDAY. APRIL*
Kiwanis Club -12 noon. Shep's Little Chicken Shack
THURSDAY. APRIL 7
TOPS 630 7 p m . 217 E Broadway
Gamma Xi chapter of Epsilon Sigma Alpha
member's home
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Bookshelf
By Mrs. W. C. Sparks
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A recently catalogued
volume in the Portland Library
is certainly timely: "The
Phone Book What the
Telephone Company Would
Rather You Not Know ' With
all the headlines of recent
months about suits, rates, and
so forth against "Ma Bell', the
publication gives much in-
formation that helps the in-
dividual to understand the
furor The book is written by a
former telephone employee -
Bell of course
Before I review the book,
however. I want to say that I
think the telephone is one of the
most fascinating of modem
miracles You see I can
remember when few people
even had a phone; absolutely
no one thought about calling
long distance < If you were in a
hurry, you sent a telegram and
hoped it arrived on time > If
you needed a doctor, a neigh
bor hitched up his horse and
went to find one And I was
living when President
Wtxidrow Wilson made the first
transcontinental call (1815) to
San Francisco to open the
Panamerican Exposition (to
celebrate the opening of the
Panama Canal). Even in the
twenties a long distance call -
even a hundred or so miles
away took hours at limes
As I said, the book is written
by an insider it is an expose of
a tight little empire run with
rigid rules so far as the per
sonnel structure is concerned
The author goes back to the
invention credited to
Alexander Graham Bell, which
was. he says, an accident, a by-
product of Bell's work with the
deaf A German. Hermann von
Helmholtz, had been on the
verge of the discovery as had
Elisha Gray, an American For
years the Bell company was in
iawsuits over the legality of
Bell's patent
One of the moat timely
stories ts what lay behind the
much publicized suicide of T
0 Gravitt in Dallas He had
been sent to take charge in
Texas - a state with very
lenient rules about the control
of utility companies Gravitt
was supposed to run the
company, increase this and
that: The intricacies of the
story are too complicated to
give in a review, they must be
read to be understood
Gravitt's close friend and
associate was closely
questioned, even grilled by the
company afterward The
implications border on scan
dal
Other interesting facets have
to do with the relationship
between Bell and Western
Electric, all combined under
A T T with other companies
which puts the whole thing
under suspicion of trust, a trust
with an iron hand
Chapters on "How to Deal
with Sickles. Salesmen, and
Other Weird Calls" are helpful
lo the customer; "The Tricks
Played on Phone Companies"
makes interesting reading -
and of course the tricks the
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■■ REACT
The question now is. "What
is Sideband’'
A normal AM signal contains
a carrier and two-sidebands
(which are the voice portions of
the signal) on either side of the
carrier
A 100 per cent modulated AM
signal uses two-thirds of its
power lo generate the carrier
with only the remaining one
third actually going to the
sidebands The carrier is Just
there for the ride and is only
used in the process of receiving
the signal at the receiver
If the carrier is eliminated
and only one of the sidebands
transmitted as is the case in
single sidebands, com-
munications. available Iran
smitter power is used to
greater advantage When a
SSB signal is received a carrier
inserter is employed in the
receiver to recover the in-
telligence being received
Assuming that the same final
amplifier is used for tran-
smitting both AM and SSB. it
has been shown that hy using
SSB a theoretical gain of 9 db
can be obtained over AM This
is equivalent to increasing the
transmitter power by 3 times
It's a whole different world
on sideband and a different
language is spoken "Q" codes
are used instead of 10-codes
Nothing sets off a new
sidebander than using the 10-
codes The 10-codes are per
missable. but since sideband
was started in the ham service,
the "Q" codes are still used
Here is a listing of the most
frequent “Q" codes used on
sideband
QRA What is the name of
your station’’
QTG: What's my exact
frequency’
QRH Does my frequency
vary’
QRI How is my tone’
QRK What is my signal
intelligibility’
QRL Are you busy’
QRM Is my transmission
being interfered with’
QRN Are you troubled by
static’
QRO: Shall I increase
transmitter power’
QRP Shall I decrease
transmitter power’
QHQ Shall I send faster’
QRS: Shall I send slower’
QRT Shall I stop sending’
QRU: Have you anything for
me* (Answer in negative)
QRV: Are you readv’
QRW Shall I teU ~ you're
calling him’
QRX When will you call
again’
QRZ Who is calling me?
QSA Whal is my signal
strength’
QSB Are my signals fading’
QSD: Are my signals
mutilated’
QSG; Shall I send —
messages at a lime’
QSK Can you work breakin?
CJSL Can you acknowledge
receipt’
QSM Shall I repeat the last
message sent’
QSO Can you communicate
with — direct’
QSP Will you relay to —*
QSV Shall I send a series of
V’s’
QSW Will you transmit
on — ?
QSX Will you listen for —
on —?
QSY Shall I change
frequency’
QSZ Shall I send each word
group more than once’ (An-
swer. send twice or_-—)
QTA Shall I cancel num-
ber’
QTR Do you agree with my
word count’ < Answer
negative)
QTC; How many messages
phone company plays on the
public are scattered through
the book
I still stand in awe of what
the phone company does - the
constructive side, t mean , they
do work hard, usually and
especially recently, on their
PR and personally I have no
complaints
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have you to send’
QTH Whal is your location’
(JTH What is your time’
QTY Shall I stand guard for
you —*
QTX Will you keep your
station open for further
communication with me’
yUA Have you news of —?
REACT Rap is brought to
vou as a public service by
Portland Area REACT, P O
Box 58. Portland. 78374 Any
questions about radio or
REACT can be mailed lo the
above address and you can be
assured of an answer
SCHOOL
MENU
MONDAY: Italian meat
sauce with spaghetti, green
beans, cabbage slaw, bar
cookies, hot rolls, milk
TUESDAY Chalupas.
buttered corn, tossed salad,
fruit slush, peanuts, hatter
bread, milk
WEDNESDAY Ham
burgers. French fries, pinto
beans, tussed salad. Easter
cake, milk
THURSDAY: TEACHERS
INSERVICE PUPIL
HOLIDAY!!!!!!
FRIDAY PUPIL
HOLIDAY!!!_
Just Facts
A queen termite has been
known to lay eggs for 50 years A
rabbit's heart beats 300 times a
minute Meanwhile, a canary
breathes about 10* times a
minute _
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VIRGINIA RIPPSTEIN
Lou Aksii'npd
New Station
Marine Captain Douglas E
laitt, whose wife. Ellen, is the
daughter of Mr and Mrs G. F
Denkeler of 216 Grant Place,
recently reported for duty at
the Marine Corps Air Station.
New River. Jacksonville, N C.
A 1977 graduate of the
University of Southern
California, lais Angeles, he
joined Ihe Marine Corps in
liecemher 1971
Whale ut» Jump
Whales are the best of all
animal high jumpers They often
leap more than 20 feet in the air
Mushrooms and Eggs
Saute one pound sliced fresh
mushrooms and 4 cup chopped
onion in 4 cup of butter Add one
can condensed cream of mush-
room soup 1» chopped parsley,
a dash of white pepper and six
hard cooked eggs, chopped
Serve over toast or in patty
shells
Auto Service Tips
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CHCVROUt
L. T. Kolb Chevrolet
SERVICE DEPT
1*33 N WILDCAT *43 2JJ* PORTLAND
Elect John Hardin
For A Dedicated - Capable - Dependable
Portland City Councilman
You Will Vote For
John Hardin
(Pol. Adv. Paid For By John Hardin,
125 Fulton, Portland, Tx 78374;
Committee To Elect John Hardin, Steve Shepard, Treasurer)
ELECT- JERRY M. HUNT
Gregory-Portlond Independent School District Trustee
YOUR VOTE WILL BE APPRECIATED
Bi SURE TO VOTE — SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION
APRIL 2, 1977
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Substantial Interest
Virginia Rippstein. who has
purchased a substantial In
teresl in the Sparks and
Tucker, Inc Insurance
Agency, has announced along
with T G Tucker and Maxine
Tucker the purchase of W C
Sparks Jr 's interest in the
agency
The business will continue
under Ihe same name
management and in Ihe same
locations
Sparks and Tucker, which
concerns itself with every form
of insurance, has its main
office at Taft
Mrs Rippstein. who is
manager of the firm 's Portland
office, has been with Sparks
and Tucker since January 1959
and was assistant casualty
underwriter with AFtna In-
surance Company six years
Mrs Rippstein has been an
insurance agent five years,
having an ownership interest in
the firm during that time She
has more than 18 years in-
surance experience
Sparks and Tucker are
agents lor AF.tna, Royal Glove,
American General. St Paul
and Providence-Washington
Insurance Companies
Sparks and Tucker has been
the service representative for
Royal. AKtna and St Paul for
more than 30 years
The agency, which has been
in business for more than 53
years, is proud to now be
serving a fifth generation of
customers, Mrs Rippstein
said The agency still has in its
possession two policies issued
in pen and ink more than 47
years ago
The agency was formed in
Taft in 1924 when the tale
Homer L. Easterwood bought
out tfie late J J. Jenkins Soon
after the formation of the
agency. L A Cage owned an
interest for a short period, and
J. B Cage later was a partner
of Kasierwood, Sparks and
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Leveen, Paul D. Portland News (Portland, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 31, 1977, newspaper, March 31, 1977; Taft, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth870992/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bell/Whittington Public Library.