Tenth Of Earth’s Surface
Still Lies Under Glaeiers
Glaciers that covered much of
the earth during the Ice Age
left lasting effects in climate and
geography.
Four times the great ice sheets
ground down from the polar re
gions. First Canada and Scan
dinavia, then parts of Europe and
the United States were sub
merged in the inexorable flows,
miles thick in places. The ice
extended over 28 percent of the
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earth’s land area, scouring the
face of the earth and driving
animal life before it.
The relentless force carved out
the face of North America. Gla
ciers formed the Great Lakes and
gouged deep valleys. 'They picked
up vast quantities of soil and
rock and turned the debris into
greatest rivers vyere bom from
melting wkters at the edges of
the great Ice fields.
The last major ice sheet may
have retreated dply 10,000 years
ago.
Formed From Snow
Today a tenth of the earth’s
surface still lies under ponderous
ice. Antarctica and Greenland ac
count for most of it. but small,
mountain glaciers glisten in many
parts of the world. Any local
climatic changes, such as greater
snowfall and lower temperatures,
affect these small ice fields.
Glaciers are qtiU being formed
by snow accumulating on gentle
slopes. Weight presses the lower
layers into clear, granular ice.
Like frozen, rivers ttyey flow
down mountain sides.
Glaciers that meet the sea
calve treacherous icebergs. The
giant blocks break off and fol
low wandering currents deep into
shipping lanes.
Weather conditions over the
last century suggest a wanning
hills and ridges.
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Tree Is Called Factory
When Adam was gardening in
Eden, a tiny seed fell in a Cali
fornia forest. Today, that tree is
the mightiest living thing in the
world.
For 4,000 years, the General
Sherman Bigtree, or Giant Se
quoia has grown in Sequoia Na
tional Park near Bakersfield.
Today it’s 272 feet tall. Its base
is 32 feet across. It weighs more
than 800 tons. There’s enough
lumber in it to build 57 houses
with 1,000 square feet each.
The General Sherman Bigtree
is the king of the plant world,
its highest form of life.
Once there was an expert who
tried to catalog all the ways peo
ple use wood. He gave up after
finding 4,500 uses.
The raw materials for the
growing tree are the soil’s water
and minerals, the air’s carbon
dioxide and oxygen. Its power:
flows down from the sun, which
changes carbon dioxide and wa
ter into sugars and oxygen
through photosynthesis. Its pro
ducts are wood and bark fiber,
its byproducts starch, fats, resins,
tannins and other sugars.
To Tar Neels and other south
trend. The icecaps on Antarctica
and Greenland appear to be
shrinking.
However, some scientists be
lieve that the earth may be ap
proaching the peak of a warm
interglacial period. Recent studies
show that some isolated glaciers
are actually advancing, while
others are growing thicker.
The Commander Glacier in
British Columbia has traveled 800
feet in six years. The two lar
gest glaciers in Norway are again
on the march, though both had
shrunk considerably before 1950.
Naturalists at Glacier National
Park in Montana are pleased
with chillier weather there. Some
of their attractions were melting
away, but are now making a
comeback.
Planting A Glacier
Enterprising inhabitants of an
arid region of northern Pakistan
are trying to solve a water-short
age problem in the village of
Bunji by planting a new glacier.
They began by selecting a favor
able spot above 16,000 feet and
digging a deep pit.
Then relay teams of villagers
carried a large slice of ice from
a near-by glacier and buried it
in the hole with special chemi
cals and herbs. The method of
the preparations, which deter
melting, has become a secret
tradition, known only in this area
where glaciers have been planted
in the past.
If the glacier takes root dur
ing the winter and begins to
grow, it will reward the local
Pakistanis with an ever-increas
ing supply of water for their
crops.
erners, the loblolly pine is the
most important timber tree. And
in its way it is a giant.
Each year, a well-stocked acre
of loblolly—if it isn't cut—will
grow three tons of usable wood
and bark, Or it may be ground
into chips and put through a
pulp mill.
From the chips can be made
15.000 large grocery bags; or 7,
900 two-quart milk bottle car
tons; or 1,400 copies of a 48
page newspaper; or 900 viscose
rayon women’s dresses.
It might be used to produce
300 square feet of one-inch-thick
boards, plus 2,500 pounds of wood
for pulping.
in a year, 35 acres of loblolly
grow enough lumber to build a
six-room home with 1.000 square
feet of floor space, plus 262,000
grocery bags, or 137,250 two
quart cartons, or 24,500 news
papers, or 16,000 rayon dresses.
North Carolina has 19 million
acres of woodland. From 50,000
to 60,000 acres of open land are
planted to pines each year.
Such a green factory can make
an almost unlimited contribution
to the physical needs and pros
perity of North Carolina’s people.
The Farming
Guidle
By A. S. KNOWLES
County Agricultural Agent
Farmers using gasoline for non
highway purposes in 1961 may
claim the state tax refund after
January 1. They will have until
April 15, 1962, to make their
applications for the refund. All
farmers getting a refund in 1960
will be mailed an application by
the N. C. Department of Revenue.
In case a farmer hasn’t made ap
plication before he may get an
application blank from the County
Agricultural Agent’s Office in
Supply after January 1.
The next application will be
made soon after July 1, 1962.
That report period will be Jan
uary 1, 1962 through June 30,
1962. After that the report period
will be on a fiscal year basis. It
is important that good records
be kept on gasoline used in non
highway work.
Farmers will have to report
their income and self-employment
taxes soon after January 1. As a
matter of fact, farmers can
choose to report by January 15
or February 15. 1962. They can
make an estimate of their taxes
and pay it by January 15 and
then make a final report by April
15. If the farmer doesn’t make an
estimate by January 15, then he
will have to file his returns by
February 15.
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AN EXERPT FROM CAPE
FEAR CHRONICLES. James
Sprunt. Wilmington.
James Sprunt’s remarkable
“Chronicles” is a unique work
which, in its scope defies a “one
sitting” review, therefore, we have
plucked at random from an or
chard the like of which could only
have been nurtured by Cape Fear
soil. The following then relates of
brothers who between them did
much to forward education in this
locality during the pre-Civil War
period.
A Mr. Stephen Jewett, cabinet
maker by trade, came to Smith
ville sometime around 1839. Soon
he was serving as postmaster of
the village, according to author
Sprunt. Where he came from ori
ginally is not revealed, nor his
age upon arrival. At Smithville
he married Mary Gracie, who was
a relative of Dr. John Hill, presi
dent of the Bank of Cape Fear
(presumably located at Wilming
ton). The Jewetts opened a school
at Smithville, which they ran
with lukewarm success. On a trip
to Moore County, undertaken with
her husband, Mary Jewett died
suddenly.
Some years later the widower
remari-ied, this time Lucy Brad
ley, of Wilmington. There is no
record of issue forthcoming from
either marriage.
Jewett, whose academy seems
to have declined, removed to Wil
mington, perhaps upon the insist
ance of his second wife. The
change seemed to disagree with
the pedant, for Sprunt writes:
"He soon died in Wilmington.”
But this was not to be the last
of the Jewetts. According to
Sprunt, George W. Jewett, a bro
ther of Stephen, came to Wil
mington from Kent Hill, Maine,
to open the Wilmington Male and
Female Seminary. Sprunt de
scribes the private school as "a
small, frame cottage on the west
side of Third Street, near Ann.”
Apparently the venture was a
success, for the academy was
later removed to larger quarters
in th» Port City.
Jewett must have been a stern
taskmaster, for Sprunt, who at
tended his school, speaks of “fla
gellation” (whipping) as port of
the regular curriculum at the
Jewett Academy.
At this point allow us to
digress a moment: Note that, in
those dear, dead days, a man had
few limitations. Stephen Jewett,
you will remember, came to
Smithville as a “cabinetmaker”
and yet, a short time later was
running a preparatory school—a
metamorphosis not unlike that of
cocoon into butterfly! What Bro
ther George did up in Maine be
fore coming- South to direct ef
forts in higher education is any
body's guess. He might nave been
in the wallpapering business, in
deed. Ah! land of opportunity!
To return to ivied halls again:
we find George to have been a
man of parts. In spite of laying
on the rod, thick and heavily,
George was a bit of a poet, as
witness the following lyrical lines
dedicated to Smithville:
“Farewell dear Smithville! from
thy pleasant halls
I haste reluctant whither duty
sails.
But for a moment, let me linger
here
To trace a grateful word and drop
a tear.
Great, in the outspread beauty of
thy bay,
Great, in the tiny fleets that on
it play,
Great, in thy sandy streets, and
spreading shades,
Great, in fandangoes, frolics and
charades,
Great, in thy pig-fish, oysters,
trout and clams. .
Now the reader might ask,
what was "George Jewett, of Wil
mington, doing, writing odes to
Smithville—which, after all was
his late brother’s old stamping
grounds and none of his own?
James Sprunt himself answers
that, by pointing out that “due
to its fine, well behaved people,
its salty dishes; and because of
Cushions Of Air May Be
Mode For Future Travel
Future ships may skim across
the Atlantic in half a day while
trains race between cities at 500
miles an hour.
Both types of craft would em
ploy a cusion of air trapped be
neath them to reduce resistance
to motion. Previously impossible
speeds may thus be obtained in
surface vehicles.
Britain, Finland, Switzerland,
Sweden, and the United States
have now deevloped such vehicles,
generally called "hovercraft” or
"ground effect machines.”
How Idea Came
British inventor C. S. Cockerell,
an electronics engineer, got the
idea shortly after he went into
boat-building. He recalls, “I dis
covered that there are two main
resistances which a boat encoun
ters—wave resistance and skin re
sistance. I thought that if I could
make the skin of my craft a skin
of air—that is, introduce a film
of air between the hull and the
, water—the snin friction would be
come negligible and I would then
be free to design entirely around
the problem of wave resistance.”
The hovercraft idea can be
grasped by pointing the whirring
blades of an electric fan down
ward and moving it just above
the surface of the floor. The air
buoys up the fan, freeing it from
the friction it would encounter if
turned off and simply pushed
along.
in a typical novercrait, a cur
tain of air shot from nozzles con
tains the cushion of air between
the bottom of the vehicle and the
surface of the ground or water.
The cushion may be one inch to
20 feet thick.
A propeller or jet gives the
hovercraft its forward motion.
Despite the soundness of his
idea, Cockerell ran into trouble
when he sought commercial sup
port. He said, “Aircraft firms felt
it looked interesting—but since it
was not an aircraft it was not
for them. Shipping experts
thought it might work—but it did
not look like a boat."
By late 1956 Cockerell realized
that to convince people of the
hovercraft’s practicability he need
ed a working model. A friend
built one for him. Assured of its
value, the British Government
made it a state secret. Clearance
for the project came only after
reports that a Swiss engineer was
experimenting on a similar vehi
cle. By this time British manu
facturers were interested.
Crafts Operates
In 1959 hovercraft began mov
ing across the English Channel.
The United States military serv
ices were soon experimenting with
many different models.
Hovercraft offer an answer to
difficult transportation problems,
notably those of underdeveloped
nations.
“These nations could use ground
effect machines for traffic over
the natural highways of rivers,
dry river beds, deserts, marches,
or any relatively flat surface,”
says Peter G. Fielding of Boog,
Allen Applied Research, Inc.,
Bethesda, Maryland. He points out
that a hovercraft road could be
made by merely bulldozing a wide
path through jungle and covering
it with an airtight petroleum com
pound to kill vegetation.
The Soviet Union is reported
interested in hovercraft as a
means of operating on icebound
harbors. Hovercraft can move as
easily over ice as over water. .
Steamship lines may use hover
craft for rapid ocean crossings.
An atomic-powered hovercraft
might shoot across the Atlantic
in 12 hours, according to hover
craft developers.
Meanwhile, the Ford Motor
company hopes that its futuristic
Levacar, using a principle similar
to the hovercraft, will transport
visitors, at high speeds from Man
hattan to the World’s Fair on
Long Island in 1964. Similar vehi
cles might provide rapid transit
between cities.
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