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Show THE BULLETIN, BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH AN ANCIENT CRAFT Old Art of Glass Blowing Plays Vital Part in Modern Industry It takes a deft touch, a skilled hand, controlled lung power and imagination to apply the ancient art of glass blowing to the demands of today's modern petroleum laboratories. The skill of the blower in making SDecinl glass equipment may mean the difference hetween success and failure of an important research experiment, and the craftsman must be as versatile as his material. The glass experts of the Shell Oil company shown in the col-umns below are making a complicated model distillation column in I ! V Wi Drain tubes are cut to the proper length and slotted to reg-ulate overflow level. Only high-ly trained craftsmen can han-dle such equipment. the company's laboratory at Emery-ville, California. Glass is used it is relatively Inexpensive, to most chemicals, usually to elec-tricity, is easily shaped and, per-Oa-most important, it permits of chemical processes in-li-closed vessels. The glass column as pictured in this story will be used to test and perfect oil refining processes on a laboratory scale. Next step will be to build a large "pilot plant" ver-llo-n, using actual construction ma-terials. After this has proved itself lo the satisfaction of scientists, the design will be Incorporated into a real full-sca- distillation column. ii mmmin.iu.iu i mi in?- - nr i ' ". i 'I flowers) design in glass bowls seemingly lined with multi-colore- d daisies. Knowledge of glass making spread from the Mediterranean area through the barbarous world of the north. The Romans, who carried the craft to a high state of perfection, introduced it into Gaul and it trav-eled thence to Britain, where re-mains of ancient glass works may still be seen. Venice, destined to reached the peak of fame in glass manufacture, began practicing the art not long after the founding of the city In 420 A.D. By the end of the thir-teenth century, Greek artists In Venice were producing fabulously fine and beautiful glass, which con- - The end of a solid tube of glass la flared. This Is the first step In making tiny bubble tray used In ft distillation column. many stories in height. And it all started with a piece of blown glass thousands of years ago. The f'rst use to which glass was put was artistic. It was made to serve man's unending quest for beauty. Thebes (in Egypt) was a center of glass craftsmanship more than 3000 years B. C. Theban fab-ricators first turned out charms, amulets, and beads objects of no practical use but in high demand tor their decorative and supposed supernatural powers. Through acci-dent or design, this early glass was colored. In face, the effort to make glass colorless and transparent was one of the hardest struggles of the glass maker, and has been entire-ly successful only within modern times. When Augustus Caesar conquered Egypt (26 B. C), he ordered that Is I , a.oliiiSMinlii ii.iini.i' Mi.ii The parts are ready and the column is assembled. Each bubble tray must be spaced and sealed with precision, tributed vastly to the city's pros-perity through exports. As early as the sixth century, a description of a French banquet specifies that the fowls were served on glass dishes. Later, Fugger, the great merchant, banker, and in-dustrialist of Augsburg, gave to the Emperor Charles V a vessel of molten, spun, cast and twisted glass at the same time kindly burned up the Emperor's unpaid note for a tidy sum which Fugger had lent him. We think of woven glass textiles as something comparatively new, yet materials woven of silk and glass were known centuries ago, and ladles made dresses of them. They also adorned their headdress with spun glass aigrettes, and a certain prince made a sensation by displaying curls fashioned of glass. The Jeweled glass mirror of ;v ST I w W ffl rm i Machines and deft handwork combine an expert drills tiny holes in the bubble tray at rate of one second. part of the tribute be paid in Egyp-tian glass articles. This seemed hard on the Egyptians for a time, but the affair took an unexpected turn. Wealthy Romans, seeing the Emperor's beautiful objects, flood-ed the Egyptian makers with orders for glassware, and the Egyptians grew rich. Within a few years the Romans themselves were making glass. The Romans were lavish in the production of their glass. During the first century A. D. they produced much marvelously complicated work as the millefiori (thousand Nearly completed the inner column goes into larger glass Jacket and the two pieces sealed together. Queen Marie de Medici was includ-ed in item No. 102 in the catalog of Prftwn 4 aural a K tK t .W?P7J'J0 French revolutionary government in 1791. It was valued at $30,000 gold. The early history of glass was glorious but socially exclusive and expensive. And each country, as It learned the art of glass making, seemed to give it a new twist. Today, al-though there are many manufac-turers turning out beautiful glass, much of it goes into laboratory equipment, telescope and micro-scope lenses, and lenses for eye glasses. ' The practical has replaced the artistic in glass making. After bubble trays are fash-ioned, drain tubes are Installed through their centers by an ex-pert craftsman. ' - bii ir m iinwiaai The finished product is sil-vered to prevent radiation losses. Air from the space be-tween the inner tube and the jacket is evacuated and a distillation column has been fashioned, thanks to an art thousands of years old and a modern touch. By INEZ GERHARD LAIR, one of the first to JOHN the hillbilly field in radio, was well known on the air before he returned to his boy-hood home in Benfro Valley, Ky., to rebuild the old settlement and set up a shrine to American folk music. He originates, produces and emcees all radio programs eman- - JOHN LAIR ating from the Valley, programs based on reality. If a possum hunt is to be broadcast, movable equip-ment is taken to the woods and the hunt is actually staged. All of the program's personnel actually live in the settlement. Lair's music library is one of the biggest sources of music collections in the United States. Debbie Reynolds will probably succeed to the kind of roles that used to assign to Judy Gar-land; apparently she is being groomed for them. So far she has made four musicals in her two years on the screen; now she is to be with Gene Kelly in "Singing in the Rain". There's a long, hard pull ahead of her if she is to take Judy's place. Did you know that there's a movie actress named Theda Barr? Either her mother doted on Theda Bara, queen of the silent pictures, or the young lady thought an adaptation of the former siren's name might bring her fame. Fans of "The Guiding Light", daytime serial, will act as jurors to decide the fate of one of the leading characters who is on trial for murder. Listeners to the current sequence have been asked to follow the testimony carefully, and at the end of the trial, late this month, to send in ballots as if they were jury members. Program's on CBS week-day afternoons. Ben Grauer recently finished one of his most interesting reading as-signmentshe recorded the entire book, "The Brave Bulls", for Talk-ing Books for the Blind, making it available to millions of sightless persons. Harold Lloyd and Jimmy Con-ll- n spent three weeks filming one sequence in "Mad Wednes-day"; they are seen chasing a 400-pou- lion up and down fire escapes, in and out of offices and along narrow ledges of skyscraper. Ted Mack Is amazed daily at the thousands of contributions received as a result of the appearance of the two Godfrey boys on his ABC Original Amateur Hour. The Mus-cular Dystrophy Association, which Is trying to raise $250,000 for re-search for a cure for the ailment, called the boys to his attention. They and their two brothers suffer from the disease. Curt Massey's rating, ior his afternoon show, now matches that of any night-tim- e quarter-hou- r musical, and deserves it. He and pretty little blonde Martha Tilton have two of the pleasantest voices on the air. Terry Moore decided she was being typed, after being seen with a collie 'in "Son of Lassie", a horse in "Return of October", a gorilla in "Mighty Joe Young" and a squir-rel in "The Great Rypert". All she needed was to appear with all those cats in Paramount's "Rhubarb". Instead, she breaks the sequence by with Victor Mature in "Gambling House". Producer Howard Hawks had to put on three additional guards when he sealed the set of "The Thing"; not only the hired help but some of RKO's top executives and pro-ducers were curious about the identity of it. He finally took a dozen of the latter on a personally conducted tour of the sound stages, but first made them promise not to reveal the secret. ODDS AND ENDS . . . Friends of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz say they may name the infant expected on July 4th "Desilu" . . . Paul Lees, the most decorated Marine of World War II, has a featured role in Paramount's "Submarine Com-mand" . . . Rising beef costs and the threat of meat rationing m;.de It difficult for Warner Bros, to lease 500 head of cattle for a stampede scene In "Fort Worth" local ranch-ers didn't want their steers to go into the movies . . . Randolph Scott carries his lunch to work. Eat Dickinson POPCORN I $ti Jaaltklulr-- W Always Tops . fllScr I SEE I Iui NO CONSTIPATION' FOR 25 YEARS "My husband introduced me to ALL-BRA- shortly after we were married. I use it in my cooking at well as for break- - r1" . --f- ast. The result: JV we're regular as """"'"Tk clockwork!" Mrs. f ' Antonina Graziano, 1 j PT 453 Garfield Ave., Vfy Jersey City, N. J. wfc One of many unso- - JJL licited letters from yy ALL-BRA- users. 1 11 you suffer from constipation duo to lack of dietary bulk, eat an ounce (about cup) of crispy Kellogg's ALL-BRA- daily, drink plenty of water. If not satisfied after 10 days, return empty box to Kellogg's, Battle Creek, Mich. Get DOUBLE YOUR MONET BACK I Save $2.00 On This Home Mixed Cough Syrup Easily Mixed. Needs No Cooking. Couth medicine! usually contain a krga quantity of plain syrup a good ingredient, but on which you can easily malt at horn. Mix 2 cups of granulated augar with 1 cup-el water. No cooking! 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Value Your Health More Than Riches Some folks think that fine clothes and fine, big houses are the most important things in life, but these things really don't mean too much if a person doesn't feel well enough to enjoy them. Most folks don't rea- - wiuiuuiihiii lize this, but WMl Mrs. Lucy fr . V3 Braswell, of M - ' lL'f Route 2, Stone W . Mountain, 1k''""''"" V J Ga., realizes it . h 1 very well. Mrs. Braswell takes nJ I HADACOL, fcfVt& I tt "Si V had'acol W she found she is helping her ! system overcome deficiencies of Vitamins B., Ba, Niacin and Iron, which HADACOL contains. Here is Mrs. Braswell's owa statement: "I have been sick for some time with stomach dis-turbances. I began taking HAD-ACOL and I have been taking it about six weeks. I am so much better and much stronger. I will continue to take HADACOL. It sure has helped me. I tell my friends about HADACOL, I canrt praise HADACOL too much. I am 59 years old." If your druggist does not have HADACOL, order direct from The LeBlanc Corporation, Lafayette, Louisiana. Send no money. Just your name and address on a pen-ny post card. Pay postman. State whether you want the $3.50 hospit-al economy size or $1.25 trial size. Remember, money cheerfully re-funded unless you are 100 satis-fied. Adv. 1950, The LeBlanc Corporation. Do you suffer distress from FEMALE nciiss which makes yea NERVOUS several SW-- days 'before'? fp' , tl Do female func- - J jf 1 tional monthly ailments make ifJj , JjJ,b you suffer pain, feel so strangely restless, weak at such times, or just beore your period? Then start taking Lydla E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com-- round about ten days before such symptoms. Pinkham's Compound works through the sympathetic ner-vous system. Regular use of Lydla Pinkham's Compound helps build up resistance against this annoying distress. Truly the tooman't friend I Note: Or you may prefer I Lydla E. Pinkham'a TABLETS f with added Iron. I LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND J Working Time It won't be long now until the hardier anglers those of the gentry who can't wait either for calen-dric- al or seasonal "opening dates" will be forging astream to see about picking one or more of the more venturesome specimens of the finny denizens of the fast waters. All that will be needed to send this type of fisherman to the stream will be waters not. too murky and fully free of ice. And these "experimentalists" will catch fish, too. Naturally not in such numbers as later in the season, but often enough to make the venture worthwhile. These anglers won't be using flies, however, although they may use their fly rods. Being no purists, but practical, down-to-eart- h practi-tioners of the angling art, they will be using Instead that largest of worms, the sprightly, agile "night-crawler- ." This is the long, hardy worm which, as every fisherman knows, is caught on lawns and other grassy spots at night, usually by a flashlight or lantern beam. After a rain, or a particularly heavy dew, these worms come to the surface in great numbers and can be caught comparatively easy, that is, if the worm-hunte- r is quick with arm and finger. These worms have an amazing speed and skill in getting back to their holes before they can be grabbed. But, assuming the angler gets his night-crawler- he's all set for some mighty good fishing, beginning in late February over most of the nation. Technique In this type of fishing, as well as in all others, is impor-tant, and the night-crawl- user will do well to remember these salient facts: The worm should be presented to the fish in as natural a manner as possible. That is, it should be allowed to "roll" along the stream bed with as little interference as possible. To do this, the worm should be draped on the hook by piercing through the middle and fished with no sinker. The worm should be cast up and across stream, letting the current tumble it along, close to the bot-tom, until the amount of line used in the cast is fished out. It is true that strikes will result when the worm is being retrieved in short jerks, but most will some as the worm Is tumbling along down-stream. Distance is not too important. After winter or early spring rains have flooded the streams, fish will be nosing along the banks in search of food which has been washed Into-th-stream. It was in this manner, most likely, that the fish is intro-duced to the ground-dwellin- g night crawler. It isn't necessary to wait for warm weather, for this bait will take fish long before the waters in running streams begin to warm up. While it is true that bass may come seldom to any lure or bait in the still cold months of the year, an occasional one is caught, and myriad are the other fish that may be lured to the net. For instance, the lowly sucker tasty, but not too much sought after because of the seemingly millions of bones it contains a catfish, white perch and almost unfailingly the "rock bass" or "red-eye- " as he is known in many localities. Yes, along about now is truly "worming time," with occasional bream and crapple being taken on the garden-hackl- e, or smaller-typ- e worm. The angler who resists the natural lure to go astream and insists on waiting until the sun has made everything "pleasant" will be passing up many happy and hours on the stream. AAA Dressing Deer Place animal with its head up-hill. First cut around the groin and pull toward the mal cavity. Cut around this area and remove. Cut thrnnfh the flpsh to th nnint nf fh pelvic bone, and cut through that breaking it apart so intestines will pull through freely. Then cut along the belly I.ne up to the throat. Cut the windpipe and pull down to the diaphram. Cut the diaphram free Now, strartdlv the animal's head and grasp the front legs. For deer, give a swift tug and the remaining intestines of the animal should come free readi-ly. For elk, pull the entrails out from neck to pelvis Sever the blood vessel at the back bone and wash the entire inside of the carcass with a clean damp cloth. Prop the carcass open with short sticks so air can circulate freely. v A A Albino Deer Believed to be the first bagged In Alabama in many years, an albino deer was killed in the closing week of the season by William Atkins, of Alberta, according to the Alabama conservation division. Alberta is in northern Wilcox county White in color and pink-eye- marks of the albino, the buck deer stood three and a half feet high and weighed 235 pounds. Its antlers had a spread of three feet. The freak animal was killed with two loads of buckshot I SJP(DCT51P1E mVhoney on wan MCI , VS1 j efqw"' tag. '.. " iV ' SPOR TLIGHT , I New Fighters Are Question Marks I ' By GRANTLAND RICE THE REALTOR, hard at his new profession, was still willing to talk about his old. The name is Jack Dempsey, now a hustling real estate operator up Louis is today. I first got in condi-tion with road work and rope skip-ping, bag punching and the other training aids a fighter uses. I took on the softer ones first. Big fellows who were not too fast to keep out of the way who made bigger tar-gets. I really got in shape. But I soon found things were not working too well. I could still punch. I could still hurt you. But I was also get-ting hit with punches I should have ducked. I was also missing openings I shouldn't have missed. "When you are in your prime, at your best eye and fist and brain work together. You see an opening and punch at the same time, Y Vfew I and down the west coast. The Manassa Maul er, still no pushover for anybody, looks with a rather mor-bid eye on the fight game of 1951. "I see where Joe Louis fought GrantlandRice much ,mPtroed fight against you the time you've thrown the punch the other guy Is out of range or has the punch blocked. It was always easier to fight a big, slow-movin- g fighter than a smaller, faster fel-low who was so much harder to hit. It was much easier to hit Firpo or Willard than it was to hit Greb, Tunney or Gibbons." It might be recalled that Dempsey fought 35 rounds with Tunney and Gibbons with only one knockdown recorded. He knocked down Willard and Firpo a) total of IS times in the first round. Quite a difference. Jack is still a wrestling, fast-movin- g, citizen who Can't stay too long in any one spot. The extreme care he uses in bring-ing up his two attractive daughters is beyond any copying. He has set a record, if any such records are in the books. He isn't too sour on the modern fight game, but he is far from being bullish. "It has taken a terrific dip In the last few years," he says. "It needs much more help than it is getting." Two Aces The time to render Judgment on a case comes when all the evidence is in. The evidence in football ended after the All-St- game in Los An-geles and furnished full proof that Paul Brown is football's leading coach and Otto Graham football's Individual star. Bob Waterfield was just about as good a passer. But Graham was not only a fine passer but also an able ball carrier in times of stress. Graham and Brown, of the Brown football family, compile about tne best combination of player and coach that football has known. This combination doesn't bank on any one game. It banks on five tough, rugged seasons against the best pro outfits in the game where no one has yet stopped this pair from reaching its top objective. The amazing Brown had devised the winning plays and Graham knew when to call them and how to use his right arm and both feet in carrying things out. e." Jack said. "At 210 pounds Louis was nearer his old weight, but he is still toe old and slow to ever reach cham-pionship form, In my opinion. It will be ft miracle if he can handle those old reflexes, which really wreck yon. I mean where you see an opening and are just s split-seco- too late in punching. Or you see ft glove coming and are just ft split-seco-late in ducking. It works bad both ways that , reflex action. I don't believe Louis can get back in shape to beat Es-ta- rd Charles, who is younger, faster and today a better boxer. Yes, I know Louis can hit. He can hit and hurt. But he got Beshore because Beshore waded In and asked for it. Hitting ft moving target Is something dif-ferent. "We've got to wait around to see how a lot of things will come out," Jack said. "For example, they seem to me to be hurrying Bob Murphy and Rex Layne. Young Murphy, a good puncher, looked hot in the east. But remember a fighter out here named Stevens out-pointed Murphy and later knocked him out. And at the time Stevens didn't look too hot. Rex Layne from Utah is another. He whipped Joe Walcott, which doesn't prove too much. I know he has won 27 out of his 28 pro bouts but the fighters he met were not too good. I'm not knocking Murphy, Layne, Stevens or anyone else. I'm simply saying they haven't proved much so far against any real class. There's no use building up a young fighter too high. "If Joe Louis, after the way he looked in two fights against Wal-cott and the one against Charles can reach the top again, it will be an all-tim- e record. He was such a fine champion in his prime that he may make it. But I doubt it, know-ing how tough It is to fight your way back." Fighting Back "After my second fight with Gene Tunney," the Mauler continued, "I decided later to find out just how good I was. I was younger than I SHARPENING SCISSORS making I several cuts through sand paper vsmll sharpen scissors by abrasive action. |