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X-w:' PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1968 >ut* 1218 CoUf Stpwrt NEWBERRY, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1987 at the Postoffice at Newberry* South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 8, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance: six months, $1.26. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR Are the Russians ahead of us? We Americans don’t like to think that and we are prone to doubt it. But is it true? We need not be alarmists; nor need we become hysterical, but we would be wise to ascertain the truth. The greatest being who ever visited the earth said “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” Of course He spoke of spiritual truth, but truth even in earthly affairs is the surest basis of life and progress. I’ve read quite a stimulating article on Russia’s achieve ments in metallurgy. “Soviet scientists are making spectacular gains in metals research and development, says several U. S. metallurgists who have visited the U.S.S.R. and looked into their labs. Many of these American metal men, attending meetings of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Pet roleum Engineers say this nation must speed its metals re search of it is to maintain its present slim lead in the de velopment of better materials for such items as jet engines, missiles and rocket motors. ‘The next five years will tell the story,’ asserts Dr. John P. Nielsen, head of the department of metallurgy at New York University and organizer of several scientific tours through the Soviet Union. ‘We might well spend the years after that trying to catch up with Russian technology, he cautions. Thomas Lippert, marketing director of Titanium Metals Corp. of America, declares, ‘They’ve almost caught up. 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Entire plant becomes toxic to insects, thimet later breaks down, leaves no harmful residues in lint or seed. For more details and seed treated with THIMET, call. o ■ MOUNTSVILLE GIN & SEED CLEANERS Mountsville, S. C. OF AMERICAN CYANAMID COMPANY DIVISION . NEW YORK 20, N. Y. . they mean to pass us.’ Adds Nicholas Grant, metallurgy professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology: ‘There's no doubt about it, they’re spending more time and effort on metal research and development than we are.' U. S. scientists insist that Russian military hardware so « far exhibited shows no evidence of using more advanced metals than are used in this country’s Wjeapons. For ex ample, alloys known to be used in one of the Reds' most powerful jet engines also are being used by our own Air Force. But what worries American metal experts are the ad vances their Russian counterparts appear to be making in basic laboratory understanding of why metals behave as they do. For one thing, they argue, Russian researchers are using new instruments, such as powerful metal microscopes, to probe behind a metal’s behavior at extreme low and high temperatures and under a variety of stresses. Some of these instruments are more advanced than any the U. S. has. The Russians, they claim, have shown an amazing ability to speed basic research findings into actual production. ' American rpetal experts emphasize, of course, that any Russian lead in metallurgical research could be equalled if the U. S. greatly steps up efforts in this science in the next few years. If either Russia or the U. S. should turn up an advanced alloy well ahead of the other, it would give that nation a clear advantage in aircraft and rocket weaponry, say many metallurgists. One of the things holding back develop ment of higher speed and more reliable engines is the lack of materials able to stand up under temperatures of 1,600 to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Jet engines built of materials that could withstand tem peratures higher than today’s limit of about 1,600 degrees would be able to produce more thrust. Raising the working temperature of these engines by 400 to 600 degrees would boost the speed limits of operational aircraft to ap much as 2,600 miles an hour, compared to today’s 1,400-mile-an- hour limit. Alloys now available to the U. S. and Russia are made of almost identical materials, scientists note. Such metals as nickel, chromium, vanadium and molybdenum are used widely in alloys that must meet severe tests. Some alloys also include the expensive metals tantalum and columbium. The secret to development of new superior alloys lies in finding the right combination of these metals and in de veloping methods to fabricate and machine them to desired shapes and sizes. Russian researchers, say U. S. metallurgists are ad vanced in testing boron as a basic ingredient for super al loys. Metallurgists believe that if boron’s brittleness can be mastered, alloys made of this material will be able to stand temperatures up to 3,000 degrees. Soviet scientists also are said to be pushing development of ‘cermets’ more rap idly than the U. S. These are metallic-ceramic combinations able to stand up under 2,600-degree heat. Materials such as these would almost certainly have to be used in jet and rocket engines propelling aircraft and mis siles faster than 2,500 miles an hour. In addition, there is evidence that Red researchers are making faster headway than this country’s metallurgists in the field of powder metallurgy. This is the pressing of metallic powder under heat and pressure into fabricated products. Berrylium, for example, probably is a metal best molded this way. On a strength-to-weight raio it is three times stronger than steel and theoretically could reduce aircraft weights by as much as 50 per cent. U. S. scientists who have visited Russia are impressed by the importance attached to metallurgical education in Russia. About 4,500 metallurgists were graduated last year from top Russian metal schools, such as the Moscow Steel Institute and the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute. In com parison, the U. S. produced only 800 graduates in metallurgy at such schools at M.I.T., California Institute of Technol ogy, Carnegie Institute of Technology and N.Y.U. To en courage better students, Soviet educators provide a minimum stipend of $40 monthly, about half the average Russian wage earner’s salary. Thus far, Russian pronouncements on metallurgical gains have been confined mainly to steel production figures. These are impressive in themselves, say American steelmen. Soviet steel output last year is estimated at about 56 million tons, nearly double the amount turned out in as recent a year as 1950. U.S. steel output last year totaled 113 million tons, up from 97 million tons in 1950. Russian production people have said they are aiming to produce 135 million tons by 1975. T don’t think we can laugh at their ability to produce what they say they will’, warns Dennis J. Carney, product ion superintendent of the Duquesne (Pa.) Works of U.S. Steel Corp. He adds: ‘They’ve just about met their product ion quotas in the past; there’s no reason they can’t double their production again in 15 years’. Although U.S. metals research may already lag behind Soviet efforts, there has been a ‘definite stepping-up of metals research’ in this country, says Dr. Walter R. Hibbard, manager of alloy studies at General Electric Co. One piece of evidence; The number of scientific papers on metallurgy has jumved 10 percent in the U.S. in the past five years, according to Dr. Hibbard, who also is president of the Met allurgical Society of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers” Quoting from the Wall Street Journal. Russian education may be one-sided; it may be unsuitable for a free country, but we know that might has upset this world in every age, so that someone must be fore-armed because fore-warned. In the crash of war we can’t afford to have our men slaughtered as were the British or Canadians at Kemmel Hill in the First World War, when the Germans sprung gas on the unprepared troops. The Russians may conscript men for laboratory work if they wish to do so. We must prove that a despotic nation cannot destroy civilization. It is not encouraging, naturally, when we have bickering in the Armed Services. We Americans are disposed to be argumentative, even disputatious, perhaps to our disadvan tage at times. It is part of our freedom that every man may talk, but if we talked only when we knew what we are talk ing about we might save time. In the First World War Secretary of War Baker was in favor of the Browning rifle against quite a lot of opinion, both military and civilian. I don’t know who was right, but we had a terrific war of words, I recall; Some Senator, like Senator Kefauver, is quick to raise a point, as did the Senator in his effort to have Power ad vertising restricted. We have too much politics, though that is part and varcel of a so-called democratic government. It probably is better than the secrecy practiced in Russia but is of doubtful wisdom, frequently. It is a dangerous trend we have today toward Socialism. We may not live to see the full development of the peril but we are moving toward a kind of government that Wash ington and Jefferson would be ashamed of. Friends, if you think I am exaggerating let me suggest that you re fresh your recollection of our early history. Friends Invited To Anniversaiy Mr. and Mrs. Mims A. Jonas Sr. will celebrata thair 60th wadding anniversary with opan house Sun day, the 16th of March. Thair friends are invited to call between the hours of three-thirty to five- thirty ip the afternoon at their home, 2125 Nance street. They re quest no gifts. PROSPERITY NEWS The Prosperity Cub Scouts en joyed a banquet Thursday evening, February 27, in the recreation hall of Wightman Methodist Church. The families of the Scouts were also invited. About 80 enjoyed this delightful affair. The mothers of the Scouts pre pared the banquet. Scoutmasters H. O. Newman and Eugene Abrams had charge of recreation. The Ira Kinards moved into their new home Saturday. The Kinards recently lost their home by fire and have built on the same spot. Mr. and ‘ Mrs. David Lee and their two children of Seneca were weekend guests of Mrs. Lee’s par ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Ballen- tine. Mrs. Pat E. Wise will return home this weekend from a visit with relatives in Buffalo, N. Y. and Portsmouth, Ohio. Mrs. W T ise’s sister, Mrs. S. S. Bierloy of Portsmouth will accompany her home for a visit. Miss Joan Hunt of Columbia College spent the weekend with her grandmother, Mrs. A. B. Hunt. Mrs. J. B. Goldman of North Augusta spent the weekend with her sister, Mrs. J. A. Sease. Miss Jewel Connelly of Colum bia College spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dove Connelly. Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Hamm Jr., and their two children, Danny and Susan, spent the weekend with relatives in Anderson and attend ed the Little Four basketball tour nament being played in Anderson. Mrs. H. E. Counts Sr., Mrs. C. K. McWaters and, H. E. Counts Jr., spent Sunday in Columbia with Mrs. R. L. Courtney. Mrs. Ira Caldwell of San Fran cisco, Calif., and Mr. and Mrs. Lawton Manor of Allendale visit ed D. M. Caldwell Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Hamm Sr., Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Barnes, Dr. and Mrs. George W. Harmon, spent Sunday in Charlotte, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. Walker Ross and Mrs. J. E. Ross spent the week end in Prosperity. Mrs. J. E. Ross has sold her house here to Elbert Bowers and came to move her furniture to Atlanta. Mrs. Joe White Jr., and her little daughter, Clarissa of Char leston spent last week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. R .Chappell. Mr. White came up for the wekend and his family re turned home with him. Mr. and Mrs. Quay Fellers and Mrs. L. J. Fellers visited Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wise in Columbia Sun day. Craig Scott of Spartanburg Junior College spent the weekend with his parents, Rev. and Mrs. Paul Scott. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Riley and their son. Gene of Union, and Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Riley of Spartanburg were guests Sunday of Mrs. A. B. Hunt and Mrs. Frances Spotts. DEED TRANSFERS Newberry No. 1 Drayton L. Nance to Carolina Milling Co., one lot and one build ing (brooder house), $5.00 and satisfaction of two mortgages. Daniel A. Bowers to Jesse L. Dickert and Ruth L. Dickert, one lot and one building on Higgins Circle, $5.00 and assumption of mortgage. A. P. Faris to Virginia T. Pay- singer, one lot on Henry Ave., $5.00 and other valuable consid erations. Lonnie M. Sanford to Nelson Sanford, one lot and one building 408 Wright St., $5.00 love and af fection. Newberry No. 1 Outside R. O. Livingston to Farmers Ice and Fuel Co., one lot and one building or by-pass, $5.00 and sat isfaction of mortgage. Silverstreet No. 2 Julian B. Lake to Lucretia Neel, two lots, $150. Whitmire No. 4 L. D. Abrams to Jack H. Wil son, one lot and one building on Union St., $10.00 and other val uable considerations. Whitmire No. 4 Outside Samuel Wesley Adams to D. M. Vaughan, Sr., two lots and one building, $2,800. Pomaria No. 5 Hannah R. Pool et al to H. M. Hentz and William S. Hentz, 196 acres (W. Clifton Rutherford es tate), $8,000. Little Mountain No. 6 B. F. Sheely to Lizzie E. Sheely, 15 acres, $150. Cora C. Ross to Pearle D. Bow- ers, one lot and one building, 1-3 acre, $5.00 and other valuable con siderations. CARD OF THANKS We, the children of the late Mr. and Mrs. Ben H. Caldwell, would like to take this means of ex pressing our heartfelt thanks to our many relatives, friends and neighbors for their kindness dur ing the illness and passing of our parents. W* also wish to thank Dr. E. H. Moore and nurses, pastors and Whitaker Funeral Home for their kindness. May God bless and keep you. Kin Of Chappells Residents Dies funeral services for First Lt. Sallie H. Scurry, 26, of Green wood were' held Monday from Blyth Funeral Home, Greenwood, by Rev. J. Walter Johnson and Dr. R. L. Alexander. Burial was in Greenwood Memorial Gardens. She was found fatally shot in her quarters at Laredo Air Force Base, Texas, Friday. Base head quarters said she killed herself. Lieutenant Scurry was born in Greenwood, a daughter > of Ralph and Mamie Holloway Scurry, both natives of Chappells. Survivors include her parents; one brother, William R. Scurry, and one sister, Nancy Carroll Scurry, all of Greenwood; her grandmothers, Mrs. Nannie B. Scurry of Chappells and Mrs. W. O. Holloway of Greenwood. Recent Movings Mrs. Victoria Bradley is new making her home at 1109 Purcell Street in an apartment in the home of Mrs. Rosine Longshore. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Shealy have moved to 1616 Pope street to make their home. ' Mr. ,and Mrs. E. K. Stephen* are now residing in apartment O- 2-3 of the Carol Court apartments on College Street. Miss Anne D. Jones is now Hv- ing at 1604 Johnstone Street in v Apartment A of the Carpenter ‘ apartments. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Coopt * and two children have moved to 2313 College Street to make tpurir home. m m jaws rr, zm PURCELLS for ait auto loan to buy a new carpet!’ “Sec, dear? Fve been after you and after you to see The friendly Purcell people roll out the carpet for folks who need cash for new furnishings. Just 'phone; then trip in for your money. Purcell* “Your Private Bankers” 1418 Main Si. Newberry ■ msm mm toigl 'Or.:'' jr> ^ 'imm m “Are You Up A Tree With Your Home Loan”? 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