Secrets Revealed
This Thing Called Glass
Man has been making glass foi
at least 5,000 year,,, but he still
Is not sure what it is.
The atomic structure of glass
is known only in a general way,
and scientists disagree over its
details, the National Geogi'aphic
Societys ays.
Research, however, is reveal
ing more secerts of this curious
substance, which technically is a
supercooled liquid, not a solid. As
chemists learn more of the nature
of glass, they are able to ex
ploit its full potential.
Consequently, glass is no long
er a fragile mateial of limited
utility. In recent years scientists
have created an amazing array of
tough, versatile “wonder glasses.”
10 Inches Thick
A lead oxide cast in massive
slabs 10 inches thick is nearly as
heavy as steel. Used to shield
radioactive isotopes, it remains
clear even under heavy atomic
radiation.
Photosensitive glass changes
color or structure when exposed
to ultraviolet light and developed
by heat. Ane variety produces pat
terns soluble in acid, which are
dissolved to produce precisely
formed electronic components. In
one instance 360,000 minute holes
were etched in a two-inch square
of glass.
Some heat resistant glasses can
be baked cherry red and plunged
into ice water without breaking.
Tempered glass has the stren
gth of cast iron. It is made by
heating the glass until it begins
to soften, then quickly colling
the surface. The cool surface
forms a rigid skin around the
still-warm, expanding interior.
When the interior glass cools, it
shrinks and tides to pull the sur
face inward. The resultant inter
ior tension and surface compress
ion must be overcome before the
glass can be broken.
Fiber glass, the toughest form
of glass, is stronger than any
other material of the same weight
provided its surface is perfect.
One experimental fiber forces up
to almost a million pounds per
square inch, but a damp finger
rubbed over the surface may cut
its strength nearly in half.
Fiber glass is used in more than
30,000 products, including elect
rical insulation, fabrics, building
insulation, roofing shingles, win
dow screens, helicopter rotor bla
des. boats huls, automoblie bodies,
air filters, an filter papers. Recent
tests show that gass fibers added
to ice airport runways, which are
common in polar regions, incre
ase the strength of natural ice
tenfold.
Though special glasses are in
creasingly inmortant, conventional
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window and container glass ac
counts for nearly 75 pel cent of
the 8,000,000 tons of glass pro
duced annually in the United
States. Ordinary glass is made of
silica in the form of sand fused
at high temperatures with soda
ash or limestone.
One large glass works, which
has tested 65,000 glass formulas,
develops new ones at the rate of
30 a day. Almost half the 102
elements are regularly used to
make various glasses.
Glassmakers see a shining fu
ture for their product. They en
vision glass rocket ships, strong
structural glass beams, and phos
phorescent glass highways that
glow softly at night.
'“We’ve got a great substances
to work with,” says one glass
engineer, “and it's made from the
cheapest raw material in the wor
ld.”
Teen-Age Bicycle Rider
Killed Near l abor City
A Tabor City elementary school
student, returning home after a
happy afternoon at a class party,
became a traffic victim when his
bicycle was hit by an auto on US ,
701, a mile south of the N. C.
S. C. boundary, near T.ibor, |
Thursday night.
Larry Keith Fowler. 13, was
killed instantly, fte was the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Loman Fowler
of Tabor City.
Horry County, S. C. Coroner
Littlejohn Blanton of Conway said
that the driver of the death car,
Roger Floyd, 18, of near Gore
town, on Loris, Route 4, had been 1
placed under bond of $1 000 pend
ing an inquest.
According to Blanton both the
dead youth, riding his bike, and
the auto, driven by Floyd, were
moving northward, toward Tabor
City at the time of the fatal acci
dent. The fatality occurred short
ly after 7 p. m., Thursday.
The victim was a member of
the seventh-grade class at Tabor
City Schools and had attended a
party and weiner roast at the
home of Mrs. Albert Goldfinch,
at Howard, S. C. Mrs. Goldfinch
and Mrs. Albert Schilds, of Tabor
City, had reportedly entertained
the class. The two are class
mothers of the Tabor City
seventh-grade.
Following the party, young
Fowler and a friend. Joe Scott
of Tabor City, were Returning
home on their bikes.
Coroner Blanton said that Floyd
told him he failed to see the bikes
of Scott and Fowler until he was
near them, that the two bicycles
were traveling in the center of the
highway and, as he approached,
one went right the other left. The
coroner said Floyd claims that the
Fowler bike remained in his lane
of traffic and he was unable to
avoid hitting it from the rear.
Electronics Friend To Dairy
Electronics have a big part in i
putting milk on your table.
The use of high-speed compu
ters has helped North Carolina
State college develop the dairy
records center of the Southeast.
Housed in the basement of the j
college cafeteria, the machines
| process dairy production records
j from 10 states in the area.
Many a Tar Heel dairy farmer
! might have quit the dairy busi- :
ness without the help of the elec
tronic brains. A machine can tell
whether he's making money this
month on his cows. And it can ■
give him feeding and breeding
tips to help him make more
money.
Each month, individual records
on more than 10.000 cows in the
Southeast are sent to the center.
The “brains” complte and analyze
information supplied by the farm
er on his cows. In a couple of
minutes, they can tote up sum
maries that would take the farm
er ten hours or more to make—
even if he knew how to do it.
The summary is returned to
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the farmer, who uses ; it to ad- i
just his herd management pro- |
gram. It helps him tc get more
milk per cow, at less cost. And
it improves the efficiency of his
dairy operation.
Machine processing of dairy re
cords began to replace human
calculating in January of 1958.
State College began with an en
rollment of 1,689 cows in 27
herds.
‘'In March of this year, we had
102,410 cows enrolled from 1,894
herds,” says Marvin Senger, Ex
tension dairy specialist at the
college. “Enrollment of cows in
the ten-state area in production
sampling programs has jumped
more than 25 per ce rt in the past
two years, and it’:; quite likely
that machine proc jssing of re
cords stimulated this increase.”
In North Carolina, more dairy
herd improvement association
cows are getting on machine pro
cessing each year. There were 517
herds with 23,617 cows enrolled
on April 1—71 per cent of the
DHIA herds in the state.
"An average of 11 to 12 herds
have been transferring to the
new system each month,” says
Senger.
Eighteen of the 46 associations
in the state are on the system
100 per cent, and several more
are nearly 100 per cent.
::At our present rate of trans
fer, all herds on hand-calculating
will be using the central machine
system by a year from now,”
says Senger.
Is the 1961 Legislature set
ting the stage for the election f
of a Republican Governor in |
1964?
They won’t talk about it for
publication, but just a lot of
good Democrats here* laboring
over money items and redistrict
ing believe deeply that the
Democrats will have to fight
harder than ever before a short
three years from now to keep
the State from a form of Re
publicanism it has not known
since the turn of the century
Jonas And Food
Most of the legislators—
j hough certainly not all of them
"—have about come to tjae con
clusion now that the only sura
\yay of raising the money for
Gov. Terry Sanford's education
al Program is to put a tax on
fiod.
'Three solid months of confer
riig with revenue people have
convinced them only the tax on
faod plus a handful of other
itdms now exempt -will fulfill
the State’s money needs during
the next biennium.
They know that two per cent
j straight across the board will
not do the job. Even raising the
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j yield the amount of money
| needed—unless they go for a
1 sales tax on a lot of items not
, taxed at the present time.
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a long line of legislators from
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two weeks.
Beginning To Show ?
Sales of new cars in North
! Carolina in April were down
j sharply as compared with April
I of I960, reports the Motor Ve
j hides Dept.
In April of 1960 total new
car sales were 10.837. This
April: 8,065.
There was an even wider dif
ference between truck sales for
April of 1960 and the recent
April. Last yead for the month:
2,291. This April 1,752.
Now we are talking about
good times in this State. But [
they do not look too good for
the automobile dealer. It may
be that the recession we had
thrown at us during the winter
is at last beginning to show in
vehicular trade.
A beach of cockleshells serves
as the air-port for the Scottist
island of Barra in the Outer He
brides. Airplanes land at low
tide.
Because diamonds take on sur
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examine them in natural light
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