r ?AGK SIX Second SectiouJ
THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER
Oil Industry
Observing
SOth Birthday
Scientists ami nil men have
worked hand in h:uul for almost a
century. In fail, the diilling of
Ameiicu's t i i t Mii i e-tul oil well
just 90 yt jis jnu uj; due largely
to research conducted bv one ot the i
nation's di-llih.'ui-in d chemists. -- !
Professor Benjimin Silliinan. Jr
of Vale College. I
Professor Si'liinan's roniioition
with the peti uliii in imhi:-try came
about in lf,f4 when I v o struggling
young Now York l.:wr: (leorge
II. BisM-ll and Jonathan l Kvel
Cth -- skimmed -nmo crude oil
from a sprint; en a farm thc had
acquired at 'l it n- i!le. I'.i.
Convinced that Hie ml w.e, val
uable, thev had 1 1 1 ! I lite h.i.'ie-t
ideas as to its piojn ir", Thev
hoped to form a company to pro
duce ami m. ol.et the liquid in
quantities, lint ! t,.re proceeding
they decidi l to h.o. e it miaKed
by a reco,;r d i heim-'
Silliman. who hid made a na
tionwide 1 1 pn'.it ii n a tin- lii -1
man to lei line mi tin u o of i hem-
lstry in am u u !t in e. vjs selected
for the j 1 1 ! ) .
Profess,, r Si!'!ui:.ri agreed to
make a liu:,;. j! ;::;n!'.si of the
petroleum for .1 :Ve of Jl 200. Even
though hi ciu i:: v. ere unable to
r:ii (!-.. r.r, promptly he be
came so m't. : 1 -ted that he proceed
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South Clyde To Name
Beauty Contestant
A young lady to represent South
I Clyde Community Development
group in the third annual Tobacco
Harvest Festival beauty contest will
be elected at a meeting to be held
Monday night.
The meeting will begin at 7:30,
and will be held in Louisa Chapel,
according to William. Osborne,
chairman of the South Clyde group.
FRINGED BOB . . . By Jean
de Chant. Wear it with his pixie
cap in fall colors.
AT
By BETTY
Nowsfealui e
SHADES OF THE TWENTIES
. . . Sleek "little boy" bob vvi'ii
new dash.
CLARKE
. Beauty Editor
the work.
liie mot:! lis of laboratorv
experimentation. Silliman turned
.in his report, dated April 16. 1855.
' Its findi: js eceedcd the wildest
. hopes of Hisspil and Eveleth. In
part it read :
"it appears to me that there is
much H'vur.d for encouragement in
"the bel'oi thai your Company have
in their possession a raw material
from which, by simple and not ex
' pensive process, you may manu
facture very valuable products.
"It is worthy of note that my
experiments prove that nearly the
whole of the raw product may be
manufactured without waste, and
this solely by a well-directed pro
cess vi Inch is in practice, one of
the most simple of all chemical
processes. . . I am prepared to
make suggestions of a practical
nature as to the economy of your
manufacture.'
Silliman's "suggestions of a ;
practical naliirr" took 'lie form of,
the puichase ,, 200 shares of
slock in the l'eniisv l ar.ia Rock!
Oil Compare of Connecticut, which i
lis client, eti'.im. d. He aho acted :
as president m the f'.riu and ar- j
ranged lor much-iu-edf d financing.
Moifo-.ii. lie g.ivi valuable coun-i
sel to Co!,, ml i-dwin L. Drake!
when the l.iti-.r da hiied to hegm I
drilling the liisf ml Well on the
Titiisvillo proiert m tin spring;
of 1858. Alter Drake made his'
strike at a depth of 8.;';: feet oil
August 27. 1,'iay, Silliman helped'
in working out processes by which
crude oil could he refined into
kerosese and a lubricant known as
In no time at all. you and your brother probably will be wuarins
twin hairdo;, llairdro-.ci', always last men with the shears, arc
wielding their sci-sois with ev 1 r-inci i-asiiiR gusto. New coiffures show
more of the ears much more of the neck, and when you don a hat,
leave the hairdo strictly to the imaaiiuuion of the onlooker.
If you plan to sport one of these new short-shorts a hairdo
vvinch is cmpieleiy concealed Dv your cnapeau De sure thai vour
gown is strictly feminine.' Your beau might have admired your short
hairdo of last year, but lie might not like this new scalped effect, if
you wear tailored ensembles to bool.
There is no doubt that some of these new coiffures are pretty, if
you have pretty features. Two shown by Jean de Chant in his New
York salon are clean ant; sleek, and yive a "not a hair out of place"
look.
One is a "little hoy bob" closely resembling the boyish bob of
two decades ago. not at all popular with the menfolk then. This one
has more appeal, is more feminine and might please even a critical
maiden aunt
Another "fringed bob" is startlingly like the "windblown," also
of the flapper ma
If you've been chopping away at your hair ever since the shoS't
hairdo became popular, perhaps you can take another big whack at
it. without distressing results.
But whatever happens don't junin from a shoulder length hairdo
to a young lad coiffure unless the hairdresser promises he can grow
you a new head of hair, if the menfolk don't like it.
The tried-and-lrue method of springing a new hairdo on the family
is the "take it ea-y" routine. Girls who have tried it claim that all
you need do is have it cut shorter each time. Pretty soon you'll he
down to that boyish hob. if that's what you want., and the change
won't set-m so drastic.
Ccvarc Coughs
From Common Colds
That HANG ON
Crtomulsioo relieves promptly becaus
it goes right to toe seat of the trouble
to help loosen and expel germ laden
phlegm and aid nature to soothe and
heal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial
mucous membranes. Tell y oar druggist
to sell you a bottle of Crccmulsioa
with the understandinc you must like
the way it quickly ailays the cough
or vou are to have vour monev back.
CRE0SV3ULSS0N
for Coughs, Chest Colds. Bronchitis
black oil.
From that day to this, oil men
have continued their close rela
tions with srientilic experts Today
our 34.00(1 oil companies "plough
back one hundred million dollars
of their earnings an-iually on re
search progiams looking tow ard I he
development of new and better
products to serve the public.
Science aid, oil 11,111 in Ilieir
search for new sources of .supply.
A small army of geologists, geo
ph.vsicisls. paleontologists and oth
re experts with jaw breaking titles
i.s constantly prospecting Ameri
ca's hinterlands and even its off
shore sea bottoms. These nu n use I
seismographs, magnetometers and ' w previously
other scientific marvels to locate
underground rock formations which
I may contain petroleum.
The explorer1; already have lo
cated nearly a trillion gallons of
oil still uiuh-r the ground almost
I -as much as the Cnited States has
i consumed in the past 90 years.
:And they are continuing their
search in the mountain and des-
; erts as well as in the sea.
' After an oil field has been lo
cated, production men take over
' the job of getting it to the sur
face. They have learned to drill
wells almost four miles deep, and
they arc able to drill wells at an-
! gles so they can tap deposits under
rivers, cities and other obstacles
Traffic Figures Show
Public More Cautious
CHICAGO 'U.I'.i American
motorists arc learning lo drive
inure safely, the National Safety
Council rnuoiineod.
There were more cars on the
load last year than at any time in
the nation's history, yet the mile
age death rale was the lowest on
record.
There were :!2.000 traffic deaths
In the U S. in 1948700 fewer
1 than in 1947.
Calls Newspapers
Best Ad Medium
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (U.P.)
Newspapers are the most success
ful advertising medium for pro
ducts which require advance plan
ning by the ourcliaser, a Univer
sity of Michigan marketing spec
ialist believes.
J. Howard Westing, associate
professor of marketing, reported
that newspapers offered the small
manufacturer coverage that fitted
closely the market for the product.
Radio has made "tremendous
progress" as an advertising me
dium. Westing said, but it is "most
successful for products which are
bought frequently, at a fairly low
pi ice and w ithout a great amount
uf advance planning."
"For this reason radio is domi
nant in the advertising of food
and drug products," Westing said,
""'but still is outstripped by news
paper and other types of printed
advertising for products requiring
mything except the briefest sell
ing arguments."
Washington-Baltimore Highway Is Gfien
Called 'Boulevard Of Broken Bodies'
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AMBULANCES line up after a major crash on the Baltimore-Washington
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Blizzard Bound Couple
Tune Out Cold Waves
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (U.P.
During the long winter evenings
when Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Dunham
were isolated on their farm during
the 1949 blizzard they got tired of
listening to the radio resumes of
the cold weather.
So they started tuning in on
short-wave broadcasts from Aus
tralia. The thing they enjoyed
most, says Dunham, was the weath
er forecasts from Radio Aus
tralia which usually were for warm
weather.
Read the Want Ads for bargains.
AP Newsfealures
BALTIMORE A boulevard of
broken bodies -- that's the 111)
mile stretch of U. S. Route 1 link
ing Washington with Baltimore.
Sume 25,000 wheeled monster:,
whiz along the road every day.
Persons living along the high
way there are more than fid.OOO
of them in about .ri7 cities, towns
and villages usualv refer to it
as the boulevard. But they have
other names for il loo. Like Hell's
Highway and Bloody Lane. Another
is Suicide Pike.
Sirt. J. K. Cushwa of the Mary
land State police estimates there
are about 1.500 accidents on the
boulevard every year. He says
about half of these never are in
vestigated because they involve
only minor damage and are not
reported to police.
The others range from collisions
which injure no one but tie up traf
fic for miles lo spectacular smash
ups involving several vehicles.
Most of the automobiles and trucks
in accidents which arc investigat
ed are from out of state.
Cushwa's files contain pictures of
twisted autos, bloody corpses and
hysterical survivors.
Smashups this year already have
claimed at least 27 lives. For (lie
first six months of the year the
injured rate was about 18 for every
fatality.
Among the summer accidents
was one involving a bus, a tractor
trailer, and a passenger auto.
Witnesses said the tractor-trailer
jacknifed, swinging ils rear section
across the highway. The bus, trav
eling in the opposite direction,
plowed into the trailer and sent il
spinning into a convertible.
Two occupants of the convertible
were killed and 20 bus passengers
were hurt.
Although the boulevard contains
many dangerous curves and is dot
led with traffic lights, state police
point out two curious factors about
its death rale.
One is the relatively high num
ber of pedestrians included
among the fatalities; the other is
that most of the accidents occur
on straight runs, not curves.
Cushwa thinks there may be a
psychological element behind the
preponderance of collisions on the
straightaways.
"Apparently many of the victims
.were laminar with the road or
watched road signs warning them
about the dangerous curves,' Cush
wa said. "Once they passed the
curves, tliey probably were eager
lo resume their faster pace and re
laxed their caution."
From time to time engineering
improvements on the boulevard
have been suggested. The Mary
land state roads commission has
carried out many of these, but late
ly it has been reluctant to tackle
those which involve major expendi-
agreed Ii
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The state has
lor tmiiutng a
a splil-tlie-cost has,., ,
federal government,
project has been given
over more expensive imp,
011 the existing Baltimore
ton boulevard. The state
some progress on the -ei ii,,,, ,,
to build, hut lack of leil, r., ,,n
priations has retarded u,,n. t tlt.
stretch to be built by tl. ; ,.,,,,.
ment.
But regardless of what . ,..
pie say about the condition ot u,,,
existing road, authorities co,,t111(j
it all really goes back to that bai
cause of accidents: the cundii ii
of the man behind the wheel
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made them diffi
cult or impossible to reach.
Science also has developed many
methods for conserving our oil
re oiines. To cite just one ex
ample, it is now common practice
to pump back into the ground much
of the salt water and natural gas
which comes out of the wells with
the oil. This artificial subsurface
pressure pushes the oil through
the pores of the rock toward the
wells and produces more oil than
previously was possible.
Science, plus the competitive en
terprise of more than 500 refining
companies, has fulfilled Professor
Silliman's prediction that "nearly
the whole of the raw product may
be manufactured without waste.''
Modern refiners, using high tem
peratures and pressures combined
with inert chemicals called cata
lysts, break crude oil into its com
ponent molecules. By close distilla
tion control the volume of prod
ucts can be adjusted according to
consumer demand. Out of these
come some 1.200 useful products
ranging from high-octane gasoline
and inexpensive fuel oil to plastics,
medicines, synthetic rubbers and
even some of the components of
perfumes.
In the marketing field, experts
have developed equally striking
methods for storing, metering and
delivering gasoline, fuel oil and
other products to the ultimate con
sumer. For example, many marketers
now make use of government
weather reports to determine, with
only a two per cent margin for
error, just how much fuel oil each
customer has in his home burner
tank on any given day. As a re
sult, deliveries can be made auto
matically without danger that any
tank will go dry, even during sub
zero weather.
Yes, the ball which Professor
Silliman set in motion in 1855 with
his brilliant scientific analysis of
the value of petroleum keeps
rght on rolling, thanks to the in
itiative and foresight of America's
two million oil men.
As a result, Americans obtain
almost half of their fuel and pow
er needs from oil products. They
use more petroleum Jn two weeks
than the rest of the world con
sumes in an entire year. And they
can look forward With confidence
to a future in which the continued
progress of the oil industry will
make their lives even more com
fortable, happier, and richer than
they are today.
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