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From
ALMAR FARM
In Transylvania
BY CAL CARPENTER
Farm work is a good occn
pation for thinking. Not that
it is necessarily so simple or
monotonous, just that work
ing outdoors, with the beau
ties of nature so close around
you, is condusive to letting
your mind quietly wander,
where it will.
On the tractor plowing, disk
ing; spreading fertilizer on the
pastures, I find myself enjoy
ing a feeling of kinship with
the land that is almost a tang
ible thing. For after all, man
sprange from the earth, and
he has lived close to it for
many more years than he has
hidden from nature in a high
rise apartment. He had watched
the sky, smelled the green
growing things, and turned his
back to the wind for a hundred
centuries before he built his
cities, paved his streets, and
became a latter day cave dwel
ler.
Civilization, it would seem,
has progressed in direet pro
portion to man’s indepen
dence of nature. And I don’t
know whether this is all good
or not. Certainly I cannot be
lieve it is for me when I’m
contentedly farm • working
on a Spring day with the
World so fresh and new
around me.
But with, certainty I know the
change that has taken man from
the cave dwelling days to now
is only the beginning. Greater
change is yet to come, leading
to what only the livliest of im
aginations can begin to see.
For change is the very
breath of life; life is change
and change is life. However
dear the old things and the
old ways may be to many of
us, they are bound to change.
And there has been and
there will be a change in the
change; that is, in the rate
of chaiige.
I need not remind those of
my older generation who read
this of the truth of this conten
tion, for they know it is so;
they have seen it. Those born
at the turn of this century, if
they will look back, will see
they are now living in an en
tirely new world. I can see this
too, although I was born 20
years later. People born after
World War II can say the
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sawe; even youngsters born no
more than a decade ago can
see a great difference in the
world.
What brings this about?
Mostly knowledge — mostly
science: New and better ways
of doing things, the better un
derstanding of nature; new
powers over nature: New
ways of bending the physi
cal universe to the wishes of
Man.
We are capable now of creat
ing a safe physical environ
ment for man anywhere on the
planet, even in the depths of
the seas. We have taken man’s
environment into space, onto
the moon. We have conquered
distance to the point where the
circumference of the globe is
less than a day’s journey for a
commercial traveler; less than
two hours for the orbiting as
tronaut.
We have the power of the
atom; uncontrolled in the fis
sion and fusion bombs, controll
ed in the fission pdwer plants.
It is obvious that change will
continue, but why say the rate
Of change will increase?
Look at it this way. There
are now alive and at work, 80
to 90 percent of all the scien
tists, researchers and inven
tors that ever lived on this
earth. This is because of the
world’s rapidly increasing
population and the better
chances for scientific train
ing. These people are busy
right now, working, studying,
experimenting.
And because more people
are at work learning the things
that cause change, more change
will occur, based on new know
ledge. And the more new know
ledge there is, the more will
be learned from this new know
ledge: knowledge begets know
ledge. Thus knowledge has
been and will be increasing
on an exponential curve. The
resultant change will take place,
in the same manner.
You say, What is there to
change? The answer is most
. everything! I can think of two
things, as an example, now
botjh being pursued with some
success, that would remake
our world. One is a practical
fusion (hydrogen bomb-type)
power plant — not the pres
ently operating fission (atom
bomb-type) plant. The other
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is micro-wave broadcast of
power.
The thermo - nuclear, fusion
reactions as opposed to the
simpler fission reaction, is on
the orcier of a million or more
times more powerful. And the
needed material for this reac
tion is the most common ele
ment in the universe. Power
plants using this technique
could make power — all the
power needed for heating,
cooking, cooling, transportation,
all machinery — dirt cheap.
The drawback is that the ther
mo - nuclear reaction takes
place at a temperature off some
thing like a hundred million de
grees. The problem is, what do
you use to contain such heat
that would instantly melt and
destroy any known material?
Progress is being made, how
ever. Non - material, magnetic
fields have contained such tem
peratures for minute fractions
of a second. The technique must
be developed to where it will
hold the heat for much longer
times, then thermo - nuclear
power will be possible.
Broadcast of power is not
possible now because of the
unacceptable power loss be
tween transmitter and re
ceiver. At the distance of
even a mile by this method,
the power Of the most power
ful transmitter (like a radio
station, for example) is re
duced to only a minute frac
tion of that which was sent
out. But, again, progress is
befog' B^RreTExperiments of
as late s* 5 years ago, using
micro-wave frequencies, were
showing real promise.
Now, put the two break
throughs I’ve just mentioned
together: thermo - nuclear pow
er and micro - wave broadcast.
Your house could be on the top
of the tallest mountain, all your
power needs taken from the
air, like a television signal, by
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an antenna. You could com
mute to work in a helicopter
which received its power the
same way; drive an automo
bile with a power - receiving
antenna; trains, buses, airlin
ers, trucks, factories, power
machines — all could receive
power the same way — even
the tractor I’m riding as I
think of this!
How much change in the
world do you think this would
make? And, remember, this is
possible within the next 30
years!
So much for thinking while
doing farm work in the bright
sun: the blue sky over you
and a fresh breeze around
you, fresh • smelling with the
new-green of growing things.
I can’t imagine a more en
joyable thing to do on a
Spring day.
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In the last ten years, outpatient
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Carl Horn Succeeds McGuire
President Of Duke Power
Garl Horn, Jr., became presi
dent of Duke Power Company
last week succeeding William B.
McGuire who has retired after
12 years at the helm of the
Carolinas - based utility.
The elevation of Mr. Horn,
former Executive Vice Presi
dent and General Counsel for
Duke Power, was by action of
the company’s board of direc
tors in session following the
annual shareholders meeting in
Charlotte.
In other board action B. B.
Parker was made Executive
Vice President and General
Manager; D. W. Booth was ele
vated to Senior Vice President
Retail Operations; and W. S.
Lee was named Senior Vice
President - Engineering and
Construction.
Mr. Horn, a native of Salis
bury, joined Duke Power in
1954 as an assistant general
counsel after five years of
private law practice in Char
lotte. He is a graduate of Duke
University and also received
his law degree from that school.
He was made General Coun
sel and named a Duke Power
director in 1959. He became
Vice President and General
Counsel in 1964, Vice Presi
dent - Finance and General
Counsel in 1966, and Executive
Vice President and General
Counsel in 1970.
Mr. McGuire, who will re
main a director of Duke Pow
er, last week became Chairman
of the National Electric Re
liability Council. Long active in
regional and national electric
industry affairs, McGuire ex
pects to devote much of his
time in this direction while re
maining available to Duke Pow
er in other capacities.
Dr. L. G. Sumner
HENDERSONVILLE, N. C.
702 Fleming Street
693-6048
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First Baptist Youth Choir Will
Present Folk Musk Sunday Night
On May 9th at 7:30 p.m. the
Youth Choir of the First Baptist
churfch, under the direction'of
Mrs. Art Fore, will present a
sen ice of Folk Music with a
Christian message.
The young people will begin
the service with two songs by
'Ralph Carmichael, “You Can
Touch Him Now” and “A Liv
ing Circue”. Then they will pre
sent the folk musical, “Now
Hear It Again” by Bob Bur*
roughs.
The speakers l&t the musical
ire Phyllis McCrary and Joe
Parker. Soloists will be Lita
Wyatt and Ann Britt. Instru
mentalists are Marie Goodwin,
piano, Danny Bennett, guitar,
Gary Parker, bass guitar, Rob
ert Baughn, drums.
The public is cordially in
vited to the Sunday evening of
worship through music.
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