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RESEARCH EXPEDITION TO TRY FOR PICTURES AT NEW OCEAN DEPTHS Rational Geographic Socie ty's S p e c i a i Electronic Flash Camera to Be Used in 25.000 Foot Romanche Trench WASHINGTON. — An ocean re- ; search expedition oil the seat coast of Africa wtii try this month for the deepest photographs ever made in ti;e cea. If aii goes weii, the Nationai Geo graphic Soctety-Caiypso Expedition under Captain Jacqttes-Yves Cous teau wiii theii sai) 500 mites west ward along the Equator to repeat the experiment in the 25.000-foot Romanche Trench, one of the deep est holes in the Atlantic. f'ndereea Frontier For four years the society has co sponsored the work of Captain Cousteau and the Caiypso. a diving research ship that already has made scientific history. The project tefiects the society's pioneer inter est in the seas as the earth's iast frontier of major geographical se crets. president John Oliver La Gorce stated. As far back as 1927. the National Geographic Magazine published the world's first undersea photographs in color. Inventor of the new camera for use at great depths is Dr. Haroid E. Edgerton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In tests his instrument has withstood pressures greater than that at the deepest known paint in the oceans. The camera wili be lowered by the longest nyion iine ever woven in one iength—28,000 feet, five and a half miles iong, yet only a quar ter of an inch in diameter. Another cable the same length but haif an inch thick wiii be used to anchor the Calypso over the great deeps. Completed in June at the Sam son Cordage Works in Shiriey. Mas sachusetts, the braided nyion cabies are virtually weightless when sub merged—weightless because they have almost the same specific grav ity as sea water. Thus the iine it self adds little if any strain as the 100-pound Edgerton camera is low ered into the far depths. New Record Deep In addition to eiectronic lights, the camera carries a position Indi cator that operates by bouncing sound waves from the sea floor be neath. At depth, it makes expos ures timed to the split-second flash of high-voltage lights. Large num bers of photographs can be made in orie towering. The deepest undersea photo yet nade was taken by David Owen of Woods Hoie Oceanographic Insti iution in !950 at i8,000 feet. Thus if the Edgerton camera catches , a 2timp.sc of the bottom at 18,500 feet, in the unnamed depth at to degrees west iongitude. it wiii have set a new record. The Romanche Trench. If piumbed. wiii exceed that by neariy a miie and a haS. Both Captain Cousteau and Dr Edgerton wiii be aboard the Caiyp so on the voyage of expioration The vessei. carrying scientists of the French Nationai Museum of Naturai History in Paris, plus Na tionai Geographic staff photogra pher Bates Littiehaies. has been at work in waters of the Guif of Gui nea around, the islands of Fernan do Poo. Principe. Sao Tome, and Annobon. Te!ephone Compony !s Offering Stock To )ts Empioyees An Employee's Stock Plan. the first of its kind for Carotins Tele phone and Teiegraph Company, is scheduled to be put into effect on September 7. The pian wiii enabie employees of the company with more than three months' service to purchase the company's stock on a payroii de duction installment arrangement at the rate of $5 per month per share. Employees of the company will be allowed to purchase one share of stock uhder the offering for each full $500 of annual earnings. The stock will be sold to employees at 83'; of the average bid and asked price of the stock on the last day of the month on which payments are completed. However, the price will not be more than $150 or less than $100 per share. Stockhoiders of the telephone company held a special meeting on Aug. 10 to amend the charter of the company to enable the Em ployees' Stock Plan to be offered The amendment to the company's charter stipulated that a total not to exceed 20.000 shares of common capital stock may be issued to em ployees Directors of the company authorized the offering of 12,000 of the shares to eligible employees. The remaining 8.000 shares may be authorized by the board at a later date. J. F. Havens, vice president in charge of personnel and public re iations. stated . that the company management felt that much would SHWKMG TIME !S HERE - MUON fORTML DurAam Welcomes You! be Mined by having employee! be come stockholder! hi the Hrm. The i company now employs some 2,200 people and Havens stated that pre ! Uminary surveys indicated the ma jority of the employees would par ticipate In the stock purchase plan. Mrs. Henry TiMey Heads Church Group ! BULLOCK. Sept. 6 —On Thurs day night ,Aug. 30. at 3 o'clock in the home of Miss Linville Royster, the Pauiine Gillispie Circle of Bui lock Baptist Church met for their monthly session. During the business meeting, new officers were elected as follows: President. Mrs. Henry Tilley; vice president, Mrs. Franklin Gill; sec retary, Mrs. Tom Cutts. Elected for , mission work were Mrs. Sonny Wil , liams, Mrs. Bob Hyler. Mrs. floyd Hellams, Mrs. Frances Kelly, and Miss Linville Royster. An interest ! ing program was given by several members. Refreshments consisting of Coca Coia. home made cookies, potato chips and nuts were served to Mes dames Franklin Giii. Robert Wai ker. Tom Cutts. Henry Tiiiey Bob Hyier. Royster Hobgood. Sonnyr Wiiitams. John Norwood and Miss Linviite Royster. Fann Cutts. Nan cy Wiiiiams and Mary Lou Morgan were visitors. Former Cop Adjudged Guitty in Lee Court Sam L. Bagweii. one of the state's most controversial cops, was con ; victed this week in Lee County Court on a charge of driving drunk. He was fined $100 and Costs. His op . erator's permit was revoked for a year Through his attorney. BagweR appealed the case to Lee County Superior Court i A former policeman here and in Franklinton. Bagwell more recently waft chief of police at Apex. Bagweti denied being intoxicated. Adult Honte-making Classes Organized BUTNER. Sept. 6—A series of aduit. home-making ciasses began August 28 in the iobby of the Eni pioyees' Residence at Butner. Miss Emma J. Grissom, home economies teacher in the G. C. Hawiey High Schooi, is the ieader Tire ciasses are to be heid at 7 30 p. m. each Tuesday nnd Thursday for six successive weeks At the opening meeting on Aug. 28. the group decided to work on "clothing construction with empha sis on dressmaking " Herbert Cooke Joins Louisburg Low Firm Herbert Cooke, recent graduate of the Wak^ Forest Law School, has joined tile staff of Edward Y. Yar borough. Frankiinton attorney. Cooke, formerly in the undertak ing business at Frankiinton, his home-town, is the son of Mrs. Sai <y Petty Cooke and the iate Waiter W. Cooke. He is a graduate of Fiorida Southern Coiiege The young iawyer has represent ed ciients in court here on a num ber of occasions. , Woke Formers Win Top CPL Prizes Three Wake County farm com munities grabbed the cream of $2, 650 in prizes for the two-state. 1956 Finer Farm contest. Carolina Pow er <Xj Light Company, contest spon sor. announced today. Taking first prize of $350 in the contest based on soil and water conservation was North Wendell community. Second prize of $250 was awarded Olive Chapel. Holly Springs took one $150 third prize and another went to Dawson. Hali fax County (N.C.), the , only non Wake County community to place. Prizes also were awarded county board of soil conservation supervis ors and individual supervisors. *ne firsf board prize of $250 was won by Wake County, the second of $ia0 went, to Darlington County, <S. C.), and Buncombe County C * gathered a $100 third prize. A top $175 prize was awarded soil conservation supervisor Alvin Wil son of Dawson, second prize of $150 went to Marsh Knott of North Wendell, third $100 prize to B. O. Holland of Holly Springs, and L. O. l-age of Olive Chapel took the fourth prize of $75. ihe contest judges Dr T. S. Buie. S. C. state soil conservation ist. and J. Frark Doggett. N. C. ex tension service soil conservationist —selected 15 other communities that achieved superior results" for $50 prizes. Dates are 75 per cent sugar. KKMTKKl FARMER FfMMSd# ^ AtMT JUST HAT; 3 SCOTTSVILLE. Ky -Mod* O. Tayior will tell you t349 tint hay. But he iost the money in the hay baler, just the same His wallet tel! out ot his pocket and into the ma chine. Yesterday the 44-year-old farmer was notified the Federal Re serve Bank in Washington would redeem the loss since serial num bers were still visible on the chew ed-up money. But from now on." said Taylor, j "I will leave my pocketbook at home while baling hay ." There were 463,500 miles of nat ural gas pipelines in the United States at the beginning of 1956. _ Sherwin-WHHama Faints at Mew Low Prices — Mow yoa eaa paint the average hoaae for g5t.O* — two coats, too Let Samuel Barts Hard ware figure with you ou that paint and SAVE. SAVE. SAVE. O 23 ea fri tf YOUR PUBLK SCHOOLS ARE !N . $ HANDS 7%ey neec? your supporf an c? profecfion pujcMic scfiooi aznezzaznenr (THE PEARSALL PLAN) <Safurday *Sepfeznjber 5^ "The carefuity studied and deve!oped p!an overwhe!ming!y approved by the tegis iature !n Speciat Session permits !oca! option safety controis by !oca! schoo! boards in the interest of harmony among a!! our peopie and assurance of the future education of ait our chiidreni OR IT? AT S TO S:!5 P.M. SEPTEMBER 7 OR RAOtb 8:30 to 8:45 PJML FMDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 LUTHER H Governor
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