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Features Oi Solar Battery Explained TtK'"""1" Cliih aouinern oeu reiepnon* torn pany'a solar batten', which utilises the tun's energy to generate eiee trlclty, was explained at a meeting of the Wayneavllle Kiwants Club Tuesday night by C. T. McCuitton. manager of the Wayneavllle and Canton telephone exchanges. Mr. MeCulston Mid thai in a J tingle 24-hour period, the tun gen- t< eratei one IhouMnd trillion Uio> u watt houra of energy?more than e ha? been generated by man In all ii of- hiatory. 1 He related that Southern Bell'n c ular battery ?u Ant introduced ? the public in April, 1954, and t tltzed only 0 per cent of the sun's nergy at that time. A year later, a efficiency had been increaaed to 1 per cent. The ultimate in effi tency of the aolar battery, he said. has bwn estimated at 20 per cent ?which far surpasses any other method of power system In use to day. Mr. McCuiaton emphasized the value of the sun to the earth by pointing out that if the sun ceased to shine, the temperature would go down to a minus-459 Fahren heit, alt atmosphere would become liquiAed, and all living matter would die within a few hoo.s. The speaker told the Kiwanians that 5.000 years ago the Egyptians worshipped the sun and put dead bodies In solar boats ? believing that the deceased would return to the sun. Some 2.000 years later, man Arst put the sun to work by inventing the sundial. As early as 400 B.C. at the bat i tie of Marathon, between the Greeks and the Tersians, highly polished shields were used as sig nalling devices, and this device sur vives today in the "survival kits" given to American soldiers which contain mirrors for signalling air craft and ground troops. Mr. McCulston asserted that this nation's stocks of coal and oil are disappearing rapidly, pointing out that "they were put Into the ground by God, and cannot be replaced I by man." He said that atomic power of fers possibilities as a new source of fuel, but explained that two of the principal ingredients of atomic i fuel?uranium and thorium?are natural resources taken out of the ground. He aaaea. nowever, inai atomic research la well advanced because of support from the U. S. govern- , ment. By contrast, he said, all re- , search on uses of solar power is , being carried on by private indus- i try. The telephone executive ex plained that one parabolic mirror , device lias now been devised to { heat a stove hot enough for cook- , lng, and another powers a solar ( still, used to distill 49 gallons of | pure water from the sea each day. < In the French Pyrenees Mountains. ] parabolic mirrors have heated sub stances 3000 degrees above Centl- ; grade. ( Mr. McCulston said that the a Southern Bell solar battery utilizes s silicon disks to harness the sun's energy, and the batteries are actu- I ally used today to furnish the pow- 1 er for a telephone system in Amer- s icus, Ga. He added that batteries on every ftfth telephone pole fur nish enough power to run the sys tem. To store energy for use at night when the sun is not shining, he pointed out, a capacltator has been Invented foir this purpose. Mr. McCuiston pointed out that the cost of using solar batteries in homes today would be prohibitive, but he said that "the future is bright" concerning their eventual adoption Into the household. Kiwanis president Ray Plelness was in charge of the meeting. Rev. Doyle Miller Becomes Pastor F. C. Memorial By MB*. SAM FEBOUSON Community Reporter The Rev. Doyle Miller has ac cepted the pastorate of the Flnee Creek Memorial Baptist Church succeed In* the Rev. Harold Town send. Mr. Miller delivered his first ser mon Sunday following his election to a large number at people. District Superintendent Rev. Frank Smathers has been conduct ing services this week at the Piney Grove Methodist Church on Upper Fines Creek. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon A. Crump of Hickory have returned to their home after spending the past week end with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Brown. Mr. Hayden Rector and his sis ters, the Misses Reva and Kate Rec tor of Gastonia were recent guests of relatives in Fines Creek. Mrs. Woodrow Paxton and chil dren and her eunt, Mrs. Mae Cog dill, spent last Sunday with Mrs. Paxton's parents. Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Ferguson in Madison County. Mr. and Mrs. Avery Allen and family of Spring Creek visited with Mr. Allen's sister. Mrs. FTed Brown in this community on last weekend. Mr .and Mrs. Ray Ratbhou* form erly of this section, who have boon making their homo In Nowport News. Vs., for soaso time, are mov ing bock to Haywood County this weak. Mrs. Norman Arrtagton returned to her home from the Haywood County Hospital Saturday whore she had been a patient for several days. She has had as her guest this, week her sister, Mrs, Claude Clark. WANT ADS FOB SALE?BaM hay, oats, cent Francis M 3g A 5-11 j '? ARE EASY TO FIND AT RAY'S SHOE DEPT. DAD CAN FIND HIS STYLE AND PRICE Black I Brown Tan Cordovan $7.95 to $1?.95 Plain Toe Moc Toe Wine Tips MOM AND SIS CAN FIND EVERY COLOR OF THE RAINBOW Pumps With The LOW FRENCH HEEL or the LOW STURDY HEEL Pink ? Blue ? Yellow ?- White ? Navy < Patent Leather "FLATTIES" Priced To Please $2-95 to $?.95 i LITTLE SISTER AND BROTHER ' PATENTS - WHITES - PASTELS $2-49 to $5-95 You Will Also Get Your Own EASTER EGG WEATHER. BOD DIAMOND BRAND ^ ENDICOTT JOHNSON VELVET STEP ' t cm CLUB Nam# Brands You Knaw .. . For The Whole Family RAY'S SHOE DEPT. 010*01 MAIiNKOV. Soviet Min ts ter of Electric Powei and for mer Premier wear* ? protective radiation badge In Harwell. Eng land, a* he toured Britain's - big atomic plant there Members of his delegation also visited power stations Malenkov met with British Prime Minister Eden for 21 minutes at No 10 Downing St. (international RruUophoto) Asheville Firm Low On Parkway Bid Asheville Contracting Co. wps the low bidder for regrading 2.53 miles of Blue Ridge Parkway in Jaclcson and Swain counties. The bid was $181,065 for the project on the link from Big Witch Gap west into the headwaters of the Mingo Creek drainage. The bids of the Asheville Arm and six other contractors were opened at the C. S. Bureau of Public Roads office at Gatlinburg, Tenn. The contract calls for grading, drainage and laying a crushed stone base. The link was rough-graded in 1941 and 1942 before World War II restrictions stopped parkway con struction work. The bids submitted on the pro ject ranged as high as $342,285. The Big Witch Gap link is part of the parkway section ranging from Soco Gap to Ravensford on U. S. Highway 441. The two links from the parkway's j North Carolina terminal at Revens- i ford were placed under construc tion contracts last winter and are scheduled to be completed in the 1957 construction season. "X Soil Conservation Course In Schools To Be Discussed Conservation education in Hay- 1 rood County schools will be dis cussed Tuesday morning at the ? courthouse at a meeting of Soil < Conservation District supervisors 1 r ith county school officials. Van C. Wells, chairman of the 1 soil supervisors, said that invita- 1 lions to the meeting have been lent to Faraday C. Green, chairman ' if county commisaioners; Lawrence 3. Leatherwood, superintendent of ?ounty-system schools; Rowe ienry, superintendent of Canton District schools; Rev. Lawrence Mewman of St. John's School; Mrs. j Jrace Stanley, Mrs. Carl Ratcliffe, ] md Mrs. Alma Browning, school upervisors. I Also attending will be Virgil L. c ioiloway, copnty farm agent, and c P. W. Bridges, district soil con ervationist. d In a letter to the school officials, a Mr. Wells wrote: "We are equipped to make avail tble to your teachers the latest conservation education teaching lids that have been prepared by he U. S. Department of Agricul ure's Soil Conservation Service ind by our own National Associa tion of Soil Conservation Dis ;rlcts." DEATHS FRED M. SEGLE Fred M. Segle, 71, died at 4:30 >.m. Wednesday in his home in Morning Star Community. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. lessie Farley Segle; a son, Paul >f Benecia, Calif.; and two grand hildren. Funeral arrangements under the Lirection of Wells Funeral Home re incomplete. Francis Cove HDC Members Hold Craft Workshop Br MRS. KHODA RICKMAN Community Reporter 'Women of the Francis Cove Home Demonstration Club held a workshop in the dining room of the Methodist church Tuesday. Participating were Mrs. Walter C. Ensley, Mrs. Roy McCracken, Mrs. Bryce Crawford, Mrs. Cash Edwards, Mrs. Fred Davis, and Mrs. R. C. Rickman. Instructions were given by Mrs. Henry Francis and Miss Evelyn Siske, craft leaders. Several articles were made, in cluding aluminum trays, fruit bowls, ash trays, and brass waste baskets Some copper tooling also was done. A covered dish lunch was en joyed by the group at noon. The community extends a wel come to the Elbert Mills family, who have moved Into Venson Mc Elroy's tenant hous&. Mrs. J. D. Frady, Jr., and son, Billy, of Edgefield, S. C? were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Cosby Frady. Miss Hettie Franklin, a student nurse at Memorial Mission Hos pital in Asheville, spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Franklin. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Cope of Red Springs were the weekend guests Iron Duff CDP Hears Holloway By MBS. RAY MILNER Community Iqorter The schedule ot events for the Haywood County CDP was present ed to the Iron Duff CDP by Virgil Holloway, County agent, at their regular meeting on Monday night. In addition to this schedule Hol loway spoke on the way the people of the community cot)Id increase their incomes during this year. Jonathan Woody, who wag a spe cial guest at the meeting, spoke briefly to the group and congratu lated them on the fine work they were doing in their community in making it a more beautiful and profitable place to live. The president, Jarvis Caldwell, was ip charge of the business ses sion of the meeting and Mrs. Roy Medford led the devotional. Mr. and Mrs. Jarvis Caldwell who have moved to, the Allen Creek Community were presented a silv er pitcher by residents of the Iron Duff section. The presentatidh was made by Ray Milner. - Refreshments and a fellowship period followed the meeting. of Mrs. Cope's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Boone. Norman Mitchell has returned home after treatment in the Hay wood County Hospital, and is do ing nicely. ? 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