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MAROON AND GOLD
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1945
Day Student
Doolings
Open Forum
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Science In The
News
Si! I’m in chemistry lab. as usual
\e Old Editor just came in and in
formed me that I had to hand this
column in prompto. Now what am I
to do in a case like that? Oh well, I
didn’t want to study chemistry any
way; I’d much rather talk about you.
Poor Bonnie, I wonder what she’s
gobna’ do after “Shiek” leaves. May
be she can write to her congressman
sometime between now and Feb
ruary 9 and get “Uncle Sammie s
permission to go with him. It would
be •nice, huh, Bonnifc?
It’s too bad some of our day stu
dent boys can’t remember the date’s
It kinda’ comes in handy
Up to the present time we have
heard little said in regard to the
work that is being accomplished in
our department. In fact, we have
just been too busy to do any writing
for the press. Nevertheless, all our
students appear to keep busy, and
on the average work is commend
able.
Saturday, January 27, Misses Nina
Alice Bowmer and Violet Hoffman,
teachers, accompanied by some of the
By J. W. CLAPP
Under the head of postwar dream
ing; A selfcharging portable radio
developed by the General Electric
company gives the convenience of
playing anywhere without the need of
frequent battery replacement. This
is possible because it contains an
airplane-type leak-proof storage bat
tery and a built iYi battery charger.
Outdoors it plays on the energy stored
YOUTH STEPS IN
By GENE “I. D. CLARE” POE
Why is it, I ask you, that Editors
and Columnists and things like that
so often say “we” when they really
mean I?
Now I use “I” a lot—being blessed
(?) with a warped sense of humor
which goes galloping off in the most
unexpected directions and leading me
into spots where angels fear to tread.
I find that it is a safer subject than
“You.” "I” can say what I please
about me and no one offers any ob
jection except maybe to snort po
t;
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Burlington, N. C.
“We Have a Complete Line of Ladies’ Ready-To-Wear
Apparel”
were Misses Myrtle Shepard,
jorie Dickinson, Marie Boge,
Mar
Pru
dence Todd, Dell Burkhead, and Mrs.
Walter Schwegler; also in company
were Miss Erma Ruth Graham, a
— tv, n ( home economics student, and Miss
when you want to get by the uean oi ^ Biscoe, N. C.
Various offices were visited and
the students were shown some dem
onstrations on different types of of
fice machines. Explanations were
in the battery. Indoors, you simply
secretarial students, went on a trip , plug it in your AC house current and j no wonder the letter “I”
to Greensboro, N. C., visiting the | it will quickly recharge, either j i„
ofices of the Burlington Mills Cor- 1 lently or as you listen to your favorite ,
poration. The secretarial students , programs.
names.
The British, who have been ex
amining unexploded V-12 rockets, |
Women in West Dorm. After last
Sunday night J'm sure a_t least a few
of you vvTll take the hint, NO?
Boland is wearing her silver wings
now. They tell me “She” made Flight
Officer on February 1.
I don’t think Jimmie W. appreci
ated my gossip last time. Should I
offer nly apologies? He’s still “Study
ing in West in case you're interested.
Mr. Danielly is doing a lot of night
work lately, too. His main center of
interest seems to be—oh but that
would be telling! Find out for your
selves, why don’t you?
I’m mighty proud of our Day Stu
dent boys and their basketball team.
They’ve played some mighty fine
games. Won most of them, too. The
girls aren’t bad either, but they have
not played enough games yet to know
how they are going to tv
Here comes the good Doctor
C8 call. I’d best be gong.
See Ya,
Nell.
turn out.
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given informing them of the kind of
work done in each office. They had
the opportunity to observe actual
office work, making more impres
sive the things they have been dis
cussing in the secretarial office prac
tice class.
The class, as well as the teachers,
were much impressed by the fascin
ating office machinery and all seem
ed to enjoy the visit very much. Not
only did. the class note the various
types of machines used, but observed ^
the dress of the employees.
Miss Myrtle Shepard, an assistant
student in our department, seems
to occupy her spare time checking of
fice papers and doing other office
duties. She is also assisting with
the laboratory work in secretarial ac
counting and occasionally teaching a
shorthand class.
During the day, typewriters click
almost incessantly and much interest
is being manifested in the dictaphone
work, under the supervision of Miss
Violet Hoffman.
More work will be scheduled, pro
vided we are fortunate in getting the
bookkeeping machinery recently or
dered. z
Our department was proud to note
that last quarter we had a number of
students on the honor roll. In com
parison with the total, the percentage
was 37, plus. We hope that his good
record can be raised this quarter.
Students, we will depend on you! We
are confident you are capable of doing
it!
New students welcomed into our
department this quarter were Miss
Evelyn Underwood of Burlington and
Mrs. Rachel Neese Hopkins, Elon
College. Although they entered a few
weeks late they are encountering no
difficulty with their courses and are
doing excellent work.
The past quarter Misses Mary Oak
ley and Doris Chandler passed the
comprehensive examination with good
rating. They are doing «*.mii prac
tice teaching in commerce in Bur
lington.
In our department we not only
stress the materials we teach, the ac
curacy, neatness, and speed in the
work, but we endeavor to teach court
esy and appropriate dress for busi
ness employees; and to develop per
sonality traits, build higher ideals
and to stress the importence of being
thorough.
NINA ALICE BOWMER,
ilead of the Business Department.
I-gotistical people have caused “it.”
Now to campus events. About a
week or so ago Brother Whatley, Bill
have recently disclosed some interest-)^ Clapp, and I went swimming. The
ing information concerning them. The ^ Vi'ater was fine and we had a most en-
rocket uses fuel at a tremendous rate joyable time. Before you get any
consuming in its five minute flight as rash ideas about where and why we
much as four tons of fuel. This is went swimming guess we d better tell
equivalent to 1,142 gallons of gaso- you it was at the Y. M. C. A. in
line—as much as eleven “A” ration G’boro. Sure would be fine to have
book holders are allowed in one year, a pool, inside, of course, around here.
This is as much as a four-engined | Seems that the Burlington boys
B-24 Liberator bomber would use on . kinda like this place around here on
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Foster Shoe Company
111 E. Davis St.
Burlington
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GRAHA3I INVENTS POSTWAR
AUTOMOBILE
a five hour mission, carrying a two ^
and one-half ton bomb load. j
The V-12 reaches a point as high as
sixty miles above the earth's surface
in its flight. The starting fuels, alco
hol and liquid oxygen, with peroxide
and permanganate, are pumped into
the combustion chamber by pumps
and ignited. The rocket takes off an
a vertical position under its own pow
er. After traveling straight up for
sixty seconds and clearing most of the
earth’s atmosphere, the rocket goes
under gyroscope control. Changng
froma vertical ascent to a forty-five
degree angle of flight, the rocket
gains more speed in the thin air above
the stratosphere. In its descent it
reaches a speed of four-thousand-five-
hundred miles per hour, according to
most recent British estimates. The
nose of the rocket has been seen
glowing red at night while passing
through the air on the way down. Be
cause the speed of the rocket is great
er than that of sound, its approach is
not heard until after it hits. The
bomb usually buries itself deep in the
ground before its ton of explosive
goes off. 'i’he purpose of launching
V-12 bombs from high mountains is
to be nearer the ratified air above
the atmosphere, so that less fuel will
be consumed during ascent ai!d long
er flights will be possible.
Here in this country, chemical re
search has brought to light many new
things, among them a synthetic rub
ber from sand. It is a bouncing, putty
like type of rubber, which can be
pulled as putty but bounces higher
than regular rubber when rolled into
a ball. Its present uses are for gask
ets of superchargers on B-29 bomb
ers and for supportng lenses of
searchlights near the big guns. This
synthetic rubber (a silicone) is able
to stand temperatures of from sixty
degrees below zero to five hundred
degrees above. This temperature re
sistance is due largely to the presence
of the element silicon in the proper
combination with oxygen to form the
backbone of the silicone molecule.
The most common compounds of sili
con and oxygen is ordinary sand.
The silicon and oxygen combination
in silicone, rubber takes the pllice of
carbon in ordinary rubber. So, in
stead of melting or burning at hi^-
er temperatures, as does ordinary rub
ber, this compound even stands
under fiery, red-nietal heat of air
plane superchargers, and its resili
ency enables it to maintain a tight
sc-al between expanding metals even
at this temperature.
Bob Graham, ministerial major, has
turned something short of being a
scientist, having lately built a wooden
scale model of what he hopes to have
as his postwar automobile.
The model, scaled one inch to the
foot, is tear shaped, and features a
three wheel drive, the single wheel
being in the front and stationary. The
rear two wheels are geared for the
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steering, as well as for another de
vice, which is Graham’s own idea, a
banking apparatus, which would re
verse the laws of gravity on turns,
and put the automobile into a bank
much on the order of an airplane,
thereby increasing the speed around
curves.
The motor is mounted in back of
the rear seat of highly streamlined
vehicle, and is laid sidewise, cross
geared to the rear axle.
The model, not quite a foot in
length, reveals that its prototype will
not be large, and is equipped with all
details, even to working steering rods,
springs, etc. The car body was
turned out of wood on a lathe by Gra
ham.
Alamance Book & Stationery Company
Across From Post Office Burlington, N. C.
Sunday nights. Guess there must
have been twenty-five or thirty visit
ors on campus last week-end. It
seems Ann Strader got hold of one
for herself, too.
Who had the nerve to tinker with
the sirene the other night? Some
ambitious somebody proceeded to
have it blow at 10, 2 and 4 to have
people going to breakfast just like
some people drink their Dr. Peppers.
Ralph Neighbors Is some character.
More than that, he is some actor.
Don't suppose anyone could be so well
in step with the scene as he is in the
on coming production, “Out of the
Frying Pan.”
Wonder if Wallace Owen is doing
the women justice these days? There
seem to be plenty of the more beau
tiful coeds with their eyes on him.
Give them a break, Wallace.
Merit Foushee was back on cam
pus this week. We heard it rumored
be was speculating on a date with
Fl'ances Pegram. He still measures
up to bis old traditions.
"Casey” JoBes goes for the soft
drinks. Think we’re kidding? Ask
him what he needed that quart of
milk for the other day.
Now to get over in the music once
again. From the Holt Humphrey pub
licity agency for Dean Hudson we see
that he is making a tour of the south
ern states and playing at many of the
colleges and universities as he goes.
Carl White, Lorraine Waugh, Lem
Allen and Charlotte Wilson went to
Greensboro to hear him when he was
in this section. Hudson is quite a
fellow to know. Some of you re
member the two days he was in Bur
lington last year and he entertained
for us at the close of each show. A
play by play description of that affair
is 'a tale that shouldn’t be told twice.
From Steve Hannagan we learn
that Dick Haymes has about 25,000
more copies of his life that all you
girls might find interesting. Just
drop him a card.
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