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Show The Cache American. Logan. Cache County. Pajre Two Utah Chemisls Strengthen Low Grade Lumber, Promise Profitable New Field for Fanners Treated Wood Almost New Jersey. TennyilvsnU Three and New York on the and one half million acres ar writ, snd t con-Sider- Hard as Metal. deiirable for shelter belts." The soil fomentation district program, under which the farmers By BARROW LYONS decide what lands art themselves Oft NU Washington Correspondent I suitable for woodlands, today offers The alchemy of modern a practiral opportunity for giving the Du Pont process a real tryout. chemistry suddenly has prefor of field new By means of the process, wood a profit pared manufacture of farmers. By the use of rela- rsn be made for tha and drawers that windows doors, tively inexpensive equipment will not swell and stick, or contract and oy the application of cer- and becoma loose. Wood can be tain cheap chemicals, ordi- made strong enough to substitute for even steel in certain machinery nary soft woods can be transformed into material of al- parts. In a few days woods harder most any desired hardness than ebony, which taka a century to grow, can ba made at small and color. Not only doe thla multiply the expense. Poplar becomes harder than hard viri for which wood may ba used In building and furniture manufacture, maple, which in turn can be made but open possibilities for It use of condition under preure. humidity and moisture that formerly could and plastic only metal value decorative the Also, aatisfy. of many woods can be vaitly enhanced. And fast growing pcclee of tree, use of which wa formerly limited, can now be grown like crop to replace the Iower growing variance. These fact were revealed recently by Dr. J. F. T. Berliner of the ammonia department of E. I. du Font de Ncmour and company, who recently told a group of acicnUsts and writer! about the development of the chemical called methylolurea, the the reagent which transform Inner tructure of wood Into new ON THE FRONTS HOME sary vacuum and pressure in which the wood Is placed. A r.team Jet ejector Is tn effective, simple mean of producing tht vaeuunr . The chamber ahould b equipped with a pressure door or removable head, and with a sourca of vacuum and of pressure. A tank for preparing tha solution, tn suxiliary overflow tank, and means for drying tha wood ara also needed. Mild steel equipment may be used. The chemicals ar no more corrosive than water, and ar neither flammable nor poisonous. To prevent rusting, it is desirable to apply a waterproof finish to tha exposed surfaces of the equipment This type of equipment could be set up and operated in almost any lumber handling concern throughout the country. A chemical change takes place In the actual fibers of the wood under treatment Methylolurea in solution enters the wood structure. In the course of drying It gradually reacts with Itself and with the components of the wood, first to form Insoluble but fusible products. Given sufficient time or heat the reaction is completed and an Infusible product results. If the wood is subjected to sufficient heat and pressure while I the resin is stiU in the fusible stage, the resin will melt, flow and allow the wood to compress. This treatment converts the resin to the final infusible form, maintaining the wood RUTH WYETjfSPEARSJ terest to a corner in your kitchen or dinette and will be extremely By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Wiiuri useful as well. Even if you do not have a jig saw or a coping saw to cut out the graceful curves of the shelf pieces, you may mark tire design on a piece of plywood or other thus wood and have it cut at your nearest woodworking shop. As for the cookie box, it is all straight cuts. Newspaper Union. SMILEY BURNETTE, robust Western comedian, is celebrating his tenth year in films with his current Border TownTrails. Hes had quite a career. After barnstorming the Midwest offora years hs became tho operator radio station in central one-ma- n 0 Illi- nois; he did everything, including writing songs for bis programs. On night Gen Autry heard him; next day Smiley Joined Autry in Chicago, and ahortly afterward they went to Hollywood and into pictures together. Smiley has written more than 200 songs for himself, Autry, Roy Rogers and others in Republic films, and has made almost 100 pictures and an enviable name for himself. 1 Nice spot Allan Jones landed In, with Universal Pictures demanding that he return to Hollywood to star in a new picture, while he, starring in his own radio show on Wednesdays and on "Broadway Matinee" Thursdays, could afford to refuse. HERE i a cookie jar that may at home from odds and ends of wood stenciled with gay peasant figures and quaint lettering. But that is not aU. This jar or box sits on an old fashioned brightly painted corner shelf which may be cut out of thin wood and put together quickly with glue and brads. The combination of cookie box and shelf will lend in Mas. BUTIl WYETH SPEARS New York Bedford BUlt Drawer 1 Enclose IS cent for Pattern No. XO. Kernm Sitdreea You kill obtain complete cutting pattern for Strawberry Quilt (Pattern No. 5397). quantities of materials specified, finishing directions and quilting directions. Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly moie time Is required In filling orders for a few at the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: two-tenth- mate. Income from Woodlot. "Farmers are interested CIRCIE NEEDLEWORK Montgomery St. San Francisco, Calif. Enclose IS cents (plus one cent to cover cost of mailing) for Pattern SEWING 149 New 5 Impregnating apparatus in the Do Pont experimental laboratories Is The wood la placed in the horizontal cylinder. The aver-bea- d tank contain the solution of methylolurea, which flow dowrn and impregnate the fibers of the wood. A vacuum it firit created in the cylinder, then pressure. rather simple. ln the dimension resulting from the woods. The compressive strength of press. wood is so Increased, and other Thus, treated wood may be comIn a to produce a stable, exfact that pressed imparted, properties new material is created, which can tremely hard, dense product with a be called "transmuted" wood. By consolidated closed surface requird this process, species ing no filling, sanding or polishing. It is possible to apply moderate of woods that grow on your own woodlot can be made as useful as pressures sufficient to compress and the costlier, scarcer varieties, many consolidate only the surface or outer of which are imported from distant zone of the treated wood to produce a hard finish. If polished or emlands. bossed platens aie used, these Won't Warp or Shrink. finishes can be reproduced on the Furniture made from the transsurface of the wood. As far as is muted wood can be shipped throughout the world to humid tropics or now known, the treatment does not dry areas with assurance that it will have any adverse effect on the not warp, swell or shrink. A built-igluing and finishing characteristics finish is imparted so that scratches of the wood. Flame resistance is may be removed by simply smooth- improved, and the wood is also more ing and rubbing. By mixing dyes resistant to fungi, rot and pest inwith the impregnating chemicals, festation. ' But from experiments made in Du pine may be given the color of cherry, mahogany or Pont laboratories, it appears certain ebony; or the wood may be made that a process has been developed green, purple or any bright color which will give new value to the trees standing on every farm wood-lo- t. throughout. That should give an impetus to Veneers sufficiently treated beof many marginal come requiring no reforestation adhesive to be formed into ply- farms, bringing back a woodland woods, since heat and pressure fuse the product into a hard, dense substance. Even sawdust, shavings and similar woodwastes may be moulded into articles with dyes incorporated. Methylolurea pronounced is compounded by adding urea to dimethylolurea. Both materials are white and soluble in water. They are produced from ammonia, carbon dioxide and meth- anol, which are synthesized from j coal, air and water. Urea results j from the reaction of ammonia and dioxide. carbon Formaldehyde, which is derived from methanol, Treated wood doesnt swell while condenses with urea to form wet, or shrink when dry. In this dimethylolurea. These chemicals are being pro- test, two dowels of exactly the same duced cheaply on a large scale, but diameter were fitted with brass are under allocation by the war pro- rings that would Just slip off. Then duction board. Small quantities for the dowels were soaked for about investigation and preliminary tests, 24 hours. It was found that the however, can be obtained without ring en the treated dowel would slip formal allocation. After the war off as easily as before, but the untreated dowel was so swollen that large quantities can be obtained. The equipment required may be the ring could not be removed. quite simple. In fact, most of the apparatus now used in impregnating cover to the soil that will conserve wood with various substances, such rainfall and lessen the danger of and flameproofing floods. as creosote The scientists who perfected this chemicals, can be adapted with process say there are in the United minor alterations. Because of shorter treating pe- States some fifty species of tree now riods, however, smaller scale equip- used for industrial purposes, and ment can be used. An ingenious nearly 1,000 types for which no pracmechanic who understood the prin- tical use has been found, largely beciples of the new process could rig cause of their softness. With this new up equipment from elements on magic applied to the very soft hand in most plants, the chemists woods, all can now be added to the resources which will help to make declare. a victorious postwar America someEquipment Simple. All that is required is a chamber thing bke the dream which the techcapable of withstanding the neces- nicians have envisaged. harder than the hardest tropical No ALLAN JONES Name He thought they could have usee him before be signed his radio contracts, that it was his radio work that made them want him back and be still shudders when recalling that he was assigned to a picture called "Paradise Isle, In which he was to play a singing newspaperman. Address Setting Big Ben Right When Londons Big Ben or Westminster clock is fast or slow, the, inaccuracy, which rarely exceeds one fifth of a second, is soon corrected by the added or subtracted weight of a small coin which is placed on or removed from a tray fixed halfway down the pendulum. near-at-han- in wood- lands not only as sources of income with which to pay taxes, buy seed, n light-colore- treated wood Top Compressed becomes very hard and dense. The three balsa blocks in the picture were all originally the same size, but the second and third from the left have been subjected to heavy pressure. The thinnest, at the right, is now harder than any known wood, and 16 times as heavy as the original balsa. Balsa is one of the softest and lightest woods known. Below Remarkable resistance ef treated wood to warping is shown by this test, the result of which Is pictured. Two strips ef veneer, one treated and one untreated, were placed on wet towel. The untreated strip curled up, while the impregnated remained flat. shoes, clothes and put up buildings, Mr. Preston said, "but also as means of building up wood reserves to create an income balance wheel. We might call it an woodbin. Farm forestry has long served such a purpose in European countries. Originally there were 913 million acres of forest land in this country, but 60 per cent of this was converted into farms, and farms now occupy fully half of the land area of the United States. The move now is to reconvert much of this cleared land to farm woodlands. "On farms today, 12,500,000 acres mostly abandoned fields and gulare suitable only for reforeslies tation. Of this large acreage, only 15 per cent is in the south. Sixty per cent is in the central region between Iowa and Missouri on the ever-norm- al 0 be quilted leaf design around border is quilted in pale greep thread. (ubstance. Tht chemicals used In thi process cost only 34 cent to 44 cent per board foot treated, although the cost of equipment and labor will add to that figure In producing the new product. For the average veneer the cost of chemicals used amounts to s of a cent per less than square foot. This development assumes unusual significance in view of recent efforts ot the department of agriculture to bring about a new realization of the potential importance of the woodlot to the fanner. John F. Preston. U. S. soil conservation service, estimated a few weeks ago that the income to farmers from farm woodlands could be increased to $500,000,000 a year, or more. The discovery of the Du Pont chemists may considerably raise this esti- 0 NOTE Mrs. Spears has prepared ait actual tl re pattern tor Uil corner shell and cookie box; also a stencil pattern with complete color guide for the lettering and peaaant figures; all on one large sheet which will be matted for IS cents which Includes cost snd postage. Ask for Pattern set and writs direct to; d meth-il-ol-ur- Twa pieces of wood, one impregnated with methylolurea and the other untreated, were exposed to the flame of an alcohol burner. The untreated wood soon took flame, merely while the impregnated chars. At right is shown a demonstration Two blocks of wood, one treated, the other nntreated, bot otherwise exactly tho same, were sqneezed with a C clamp to the same extent. Untreated wood shows a deep depression, while treated wood was scarcely dented. of hardness. Cantlnflas, Mexicos spectacular comedian, said to combine Will d Rogers acting gifts and Charles Chaplins pantomime, is to make a picture under the auspices of RKO and Posa Films of Mexico. It will Strawberry Patch Quilt be his first appearance in an A "STRAWBERRY patch quilt peaking production, and Meximakes one of the loveliest can and American talent will be combined for the picture, which quilts youve ever seen! Big, fat will get under way within the next berries about 54 inches across are appliqued plain blocks have three or four months. white strawberry flower designs to Dennis Morgans fan mail has been steadily increasing since the release of his first starring picture, Whole Industrial Plants "The Hard Way"; now its reCrated, Shipped to Russia ported that he received more than any other Warner Bros, star during Russia has received and reApril. Hes starred in two pictures now in general release, "The Desert assembled two complete industrial to her last year in Song" and "Shine On Harvest plants shipped and will play the lead in crates by the United States after Moon, it was found that time and ship"Christmas in Connecticut, opKings Heralds Male Quartet! ping space could be saved by sendposite Barbara Stanwyck. FREEf twa siai c,mm,wi cm, ing the plants instead of their jau. jimms eujui nm rosmewu oaM Keenan Wynn says that, on that products, says Colliers. KOTA KEUB KOVO One was a $1,900,000 refinery KTFI trip to China, Burma and practically that XLO XVNTJ KIDO of barrels 240,000 processes the the in GIs, sitting everywhere, XOB KSH KOH oil was crude a the other week; rain, insisted that he and Bill Gar-ga- n Newspaper Logs Show Other Stations a $5,600,000 factory that produces rl work out in the rain. Andy OX5XrtO$ANGILir63CAUR could stay under the canvas 85,000 military tires a month. covering, to keep his instrument dry. And as for Paulette Goddard, she could work under the cover; in fact, the soldiers made every effort to do everything they could for her. English-s- Ar-ca- If anyone thinks that Ginger Rogers is afraid of competition, the Line-u- p for Tender Comrade is the answer. Three women stars whove made their mark on Broadway as well as in films are In the cast Ruth Hussey, Patricia Collinge and Mady Christians. tfe$ Great Anytime top-flig- ht Foods tins are Crest Dix Davis, who plays Judys" brother on NBCs "Date with Judy. has just turned 16, and is a freshman at the University of Southern California, but be seems to have a w, .u , Com Flakes bring 7 tss I CORN M touch of superman in his makeup. He keeps near the head of his class, and maintains a schedule of eight radio shows a week; hes heard on six other radio shows beside "Date with Judy. Arthur Lake, "Dagwood" of the "Blondie series, has spent most of his life as an actor bringing comic strip characters to life. He first came to prominence with his portrayal of "Harold Teen"; then was chosen as a natural for "Dagwood" on both air and screen. ODDS AND ENDS The slogan Sammy Kaye feature on hi Sunday Serenade , Let all do more in 44," ha received commendation from the V. S. treasury department. . . . Nita Rota, 18, new singer on Xavier Cugaf program, made her radio debut on Major Bones' amateur program uhen IS. . . . During tha final day of production on Our Heart W ere Young and Gey Gail l tufjered from tooth trouble ; a teemed that tha greater the ache, the more comic the tcenet. . . . Burgeu Meredith, now an army captain, learned haien't forgotten him. They fan mobbed him for autograph after ho appeared on the Kate Smith Hour." Ru-tel- For that WAR-TU-- tE BAKING RECIPE Guard against baking failures by choosing proved ingredients . . . 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