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Show THE LEADER, 2. 1954 Thursday. September VISIT IN KANSAS member-newspape- Climax of the event, open to high school junior and senior students, will be a Newspaper Week luncheon scheduled for September 30, in Salt Lake City. Cooperating on the contest are the Utah Headliners Chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, national professional journalism fraternity, and the U.S.P.A. A. N, Rytting, publisher of The LEADER, announced that contest rutes have been set up state-wid- e as follows: 1. Essay subject "What My Newspaper Means to Me;" with length to not exceed 1000 words. Open to registered senior and QGGOG'D'GQ Upperclattmen freshmen "GIF Sept. 2324 - Sept. 25 The Uoivcm'ty of Utah it YOUR tat school, established and maintained to provide the finest possible educational oppornini ties for college students of Uuh. The "V is recot nixed as one of America's outstanding institu tions of higher learning. College of Instruction Includes: Engineering, Education, Medi ' cioe, Pharmacy, Nursing, Law, Mining, Fine Arts, junior high school students. 2. Deadline for entry, Sept- Business and 1 Social Work. gen. Job For America The chemists found that a bolt of lightening converted the air nitrogen into "fixed" nitrogen, and rain brought it down into the ground, and it renewed the soil's productivity. This occurance-wanot wide spread enough to be of any consequence, but it gave them a clu. The job was far too big, however, for test tube chem- LOOniHG rs Me." '..otto or animals can use this air- - nitrogen, it must be extracted and made into a different kind of chemical called "fixed" nitro- Utah Newspapers Plan Contest For High School Essayists Mrs. Ardella Peck and two children returned home Monday evening after spending the past month with Air. and Mrs. W. A Peck, grandparents of the child In commemoration of Nation ren at Eldorado, Kans. al Newspaper Week, The LEADER will join other of the Utah State Press Association in sponsorship of a state-wid- e essay contest on "What My Newpaper Means to nncaD fcrOKCavpllvM L SMCAftON s MOOMM Nitrogen Study Is Salvation istry. Of U. S. Farmers Fifty-si- x years ago Sir William Crookes, noted chemical scientist, forsaw the possibility of the end of life on earth. He wasn't forecasting a another great plague, Deluge, the development of the or bacteriological warfare. He was merely calling to the dwindling supply of usable nitrogen in the earth's farmlands. Unless a way could be found to replenish the nitrogen being draw from the soil by crops, the soil gradually would become unproductive and wholesale starvation would face the human race. Pitifully Small The pitifully small earth deposit of usable nitrogen in Chile's nitrate mines wouldn't fill a hollow tooth in the earth's hunger for this chemical ele. ment which sustains all plant life. Chemical science was being challenged. And echoing in this challenge was God's own lid-tmonition Adam and Eve: "Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue , H-bo- ember 20. Submit essay to local chairman through your high school English teacher, or direct to The LEADER office. 3. Local winner will compete In the state contest, and state prize will be a $100 savings bond. Second prize will be a $25 savings bond. 4. Entrants should write on one side of the paper only, using Take advantage of the unexcelled ink or typewriter, and should study opportunities; outstanding acuity; and friendly home en retain a copy of their essay. vironmeot. Inasmuch as the time between For full information, write the opening of school and the Office deadline for the essay contest of the President is comparatively short, local senior and juniors should begin UNIVERSITY now checking up on essay con. OF UTAH strliction .and on subject mater. ial on t'What My Newspaper Sail lak City 1, Utoh it." Means to Me." Mankind had multiplied all right; and had scattered, in the millions, over all the globe. But mankind had not replenished 3-D the earth, as they took from it. Must Be "Fixed' When Crookes made his im portant observation, the world's population was swiftly growing, as it is now; while the product ivity of the land, on the whole, was diminishing. These two related facts were what concerned the chemical PRICES: ADULTS 50 1 KIDS 20 1 scientists. They forecast not a land of plenty, but a land of growing food scarcity. Long before Crookes lived, pure scientists had discovered the place of nitrogen in the scheme of life. ftCTUKS pnwtl I Plentiful Element Tlx Animal Kinf And strangely enough, they tf the Wilderness had found that there was more apinst the Outnitrogen on earth than any law King of the element. other West! air we breathe is 80 per The ' 1 cent nitrogen, and thus in the M air column over each acre of with land on earth there are approx Phil Dorothy CAREY PATRICK imately 70,000.000 pounds of nitrogen. Billy But before the soil, or man, GRAY lit m e Tremcraioa, Utah o In time small chemical plants of Europe developed a cumbersome process for "fixing" air nitrogen so that it could be put into the soil and used by the plants. It is doubtful that the European production ever would have any substantial commercial value. It took the genius of American industry to get the big job done. Industries Experiment In 1924 some of our bigger chemical industries began ex. Willard Tests Garland in Crucial Game By winning their upcoming game against Willard on Labor Day, Garland's baseball club could cinch the championship of Utah ldaho League. As league play nears the end, the fate of several teams hangs in the outcome of this game, to be played at Garland at 2:30 p.m. Monday. If the locals win the tilt, they will wind up with a slight mar gin which will win them the title. But if Willard, dumps Garland, there will be a four, way tie for first place. Either way, the game is expected to draw the season's '- - gasses, and out of it comes vast quanities of "fixed" nitrogen for converting into fertilizer. Lion is building a second big plant Other big plants are goperimenting with "fixing" nit- ing up throughout the South rogen. DuPont and others ac- throughout America. Farmers Learn quired European formulae and then plowed vast resources in American farmers meantime men and money into developing have learned how to use the mass production of "synthetic" stimulating nitrogen in every agricultural production nitrogen fertilizer. By 1940 the fertilizer busi- job. ness had been revolutionized, It is performing amazing and Sir William Crooke's spect- feats in increased production of re of starvation was erased. bcrops and livstock Alan gets One of the big new nitrogen his nitrogen from the meat, plants was built at El Dorado, vegetables and grains he eats, Arkansas, by Lion Oil Company. and it keeps him alive. It reaches up into the atmosAmerican Thus, industry, and in to grow, with we the its freedom with phere air pulls breathe; it reaches down into jts powerful incentive inherent the South Arkansas earthen in our competitive, profit sysreservoirs and pulls in petrol- tem, and with its great capacity eum gas. ' for research, is helping manThen, this monstrous and in- kind to be "fruitful and multtricate plant, covering 600 acres, iply, and replenish the earth, pressuries, mixes, and heats the and subdue it." life-givin- g, Mrs. J. T. Palmer has turnwatch the biggest crowd, to, ed home after spending two Garland squad try for the title. weeks in Winnemuca, Nevada ner son Jim ana his famil y. wun John the at Weekend guests and Barfuss home were Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Summers and Mr. Mrs. Eldon Weston and of their Logan spent Sunday St the and Mrs. Elmer Mahnke Marion Summers home. families of Plain Ci?. LIBERTY THEATRE TREMONTON TVew Adult NEW LOW PRICES THURSDAY. Children 50 20 1 FRIDAY. SATURDAY SEPT. 2. 3. 4 IN CINEMASCOPE litrrr'" NEW VENEZUELA' COLORED CARTOON e MONDAY - TUESDAY SEPT. 6. 7 Closed All Day Sunday Plus "THE SABLE SCARF- NEWS WEDNESDAY. THURSDAY. FRIDAY. SATURDAY. 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