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- '-.Line.___ tfteriM fluttered wii» pww^ to be fatal injuries in an acci dent eight mike west of Kins ton on TO 10. Warn Dick was riding In to father’s car which was being driven by Jo Marie *kita«w of Zanesville, Ohio. Hto Whitacre suffered a brsk en shoolder bat was able to fly home Taeoday afternoon. Mar garet Ana Comer, also of Ken ton, the tUni person in the cor plS^of whfch was believed to have come from her being; thrown into reed stpbblewhere the right-of-way had recently been cnt. Miss Dick’s death brought to oeren the Lenoir County total for traffic deaths in 1051. Investi gation blamed slick tires, speed and a net highway as the binatlon which Dick’s life. and * MhJdUetonj Gardfcne e period of Ml bloom can lected to laat another two or more, depending on different times, are lg noW. .Site laven i and White of the end. beautifully with of the roses. uaujkun is «ne name cnosen nr thfe E. I. du Pont de Nemours iompany of Wilmington, Del., Or the newest member of Its lynthetlc fiber family. The slg dfcstnce of the name, u any, las not been passed on to the rabHc, hut DACRON is expect id by the Delaware Branch of he Du Pont Family to do to the iheep what NYLON did to the tlk worm. Those who speak for the Du ?onts of Brandywine Creek, and hey are few, speak with a cau tion that is almost scientific In ts completeness. Exaggeration Is not one pf the habits acquir ed from association with the Dukedom of Delaware. The Lenoir County branch of the family is no exception to that silent, gulden rule. However, if one has an adjec tive df- two and half an eye it Is easy to see that considerable confidence in this new Du Pont baby, DACRON, is shared. From a distance one cant see on High way 55 a tremendous reflection of this confidence in the larg est single industrial effort in Eastern North Carolina: To wit, the plant where DACRON this week Wept into commercial lev els of production. Test runs have been made over the past several'weeks. > 45 - are contained huge . at 'tubes’* In which tans of chemicals perform their molecular magic with a silent but staggering efficiency while professorlsh looking young men flit about like scientists (which they are) In a king-sized labor atory of electrical controls, super-perfect heats, stainless steel vats and pipes and an oc casional odor or two that reminds one that 20th Century alchemy is being performed over one’s head, at one’s side or beneath one’s feet. inis lamtusuc sucep grwws “wool", or will when It hits peak production late this year, at the rate of 35 million pounds per year. It eats a combination of glycol, methol and a dazzling ly white powde* called “DMT." The digestion of these - basic materials Is hoped along through the thousands of feet of stainless steel “intestines? by Other chemicals, pressures, vacuums and temperatures. In much less time than it takes a* sheep to' grow a full “head of hair” this Du Font sheep Is turning out “wool” In the aforementioned staggering amounts; at something near 4, 900 pounds per hour. The Du Pont spokesmen have pot made any vast “brags? about DACRON. It stilt has some kinks in it that cause it, at this time, to work best in combination with other natur al fibers. To mend this weak ness in the DACRON charac ter a three million dollar lab nratory will be built on the plant site where this DACRON ‘sheep” eats its chemicals and {rows its “wool." Already a conslderable section >f this handsome plant is de rated to experimentation with he DACRON fiber and the ap to some of the problems I still cause DACRON to be • in combination rather than' may be perking as you Watching Dacron Come From Oven Above Hike Lindner of Kinston at left and Hugh Parks of Golds boro are seen watching the DAC RON come from the machine which has given it the final stretch, permanent wave and a heat treatment. This is the fi nal step Insofar as chemical changes in the structure of DAC RON -are concerned and from this machine it goes out to be ", .. packaged for the processor ei ther in the staple cut baled sixes or lioxed in lone sections so the processor may eat the staple fi bers to his own' specifications. The “rope” coming out of the machine here is about three inches wide and mashed prac tical flat. It contains 133,000 individual DACRON fibers. In this picture 19 separate “ropes” of Dacron fiber, each containing 9,094 separate DACRON threads are going into the final blending and stretch ing machine from which they will emerge as one piece of 133, 000 threads. read this atop the Bunsen burfaer of some young chemist who’s riding under the Du Pont colors. Hie arrival at the rear of the plant of the three basic mater ials which cause the molecular shiftings which produce the synthetic fiber, DACRON is by rail. The powdered “DMT" and the glycol and methol which act upon it to cause its structural jhanges go Into stainless steel rats where a constantly regulat »d “Dowtherm” heat "cook” the mixture for the prescribed times amd under the prescribed pres sures. Prom this original mixing rat the mixture is pumped to the “still” uhere more heat and more pressure remove the meth jl first and then in another the glycol which have performed their digestive operation on the "DMT” and converted it into a heavy viscous substance that looks about like some of grand ma’s taffy candy, only it’s 'liSiSri&y ,yv -. are taken later fqr further pur ification and are then used over and over again- They are to the EWCRON “sheep” about what water is to ttte real “sheep.” After this boiling and suck ing off of the glycol and mefhol and various other catalysts has keen completed then under the same constantly controlled heats Continued on Page 5 ^ glycol and methol having their Job in the s.vare pumped back “Used” vats from which they
Jones County Journal (Trenton, N.C.)
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