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The Seaforth News, 1961-06-15, Page 6Making Diatnonrls Dirt Cheap,' in a clearing among Mite levee - More trees two young men placed 4 2 -by -4 board over ao barrel. jhree gtwtarters filled with water. On the.board, they deposited 4pntaitter with a cubic centimeter of smooth black graphite — about 'tie amount found in an ordinary lead pencil, Then, on top of the ggrraphite, they put a 1 -pound iiharge of explosive. Their rig set up, the pair crouched down in a dugout and,. Without benefit of a countdown, 'triggered the blast. The shock wave drove the graphite into the barrel, compressing it . with a force of some 3 million pounds per square inch, In less than a second, metallurgist Paul De Car - 11 of the Stanford Research Insti- 'tute, Menlo Park, Calif., and geo- physicist John C, Jamieson of the 'University of Chicago had pro dated diamonds with an ease that would make a medieval alchemist turn green. The diamonds, admit- tedly, were not the kind that any- one would give his wife. But they promised to be of important use in industrial cutting and grind- ing tools. At the same time, De Curli and Jamieson had produced some thing else: An experimental dem- onstration of where meteors may originate. Scientists have long been divided on this question, One School maintains that mete- ors are the debris resulting from collisions between cosmic bodies as large as our moon. The other school holds that they are frag- ments from small bodies. When diamonds were found in meteors that had crashed into earth, both schools used this as evidence for their positions. Nobelist .Harold Urey argued the diamonds had been formed under the high pres- sures in the interior of a large body, and had later ridden to earth inside the meteor. Dr. Ed- ward Adders and Michael Lip- schutz, colleagues of Jamieson, held the diamonds were formed on earth under high pressures at the moment of impact, In part to test this impact the- ory, De Carli and Jamieson un- dertook the water -barrel experi- ment, creating, in effect, a mete- or impact, Their results, which will be reported in the forthcom- ing issue of the journal Science, The successful experiment also means that the United States :might some day have another means of making industrial dia- monds in addition to the process which requires a catalyst eta! — developed in 1955 by e General Electric Research aboratory. Patents have been applied for and will be held through the institute, a nonprofit rporation. And though mum dividends are still far off, scientists concerned are not tautware of the possibilities. 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The President and his wife gave a luncheon in honor of Princes.; lieeor. ,re,., tier husband, Prince Rainier. RONICLES (4LOWEER If you don't like washing dishes try putting a bird=feeding station within range of your kitchen window. You'll be so busy watching the birds you'll forget to get bored with the dishes. For instance last night I had quite a pile of dishes to do — we had been busy in the garden so the dinner dishes had just been stacked — but I didn't mind a bit because the birds were so interesting. I also 'no- ticed a few things about them T hadn't realized before, To my delight I found the red -wings were `bossing the starlings — and I had thought it would be the other way round, On the other hand, the bluejay, for all his belligerent appearance and rau- cous voice, is a solitary feeder. He doesn't approach the station unless it is empty and if another bird comes when he is eating — even a little sparrow — he flies away. My greatest pleasure last night was in seeing a Baltimore oriole come to feed every so oft- en. It was the first time I'd seen that happen. We also see mead- owlarks and flickers but they feed mostly on grubs especially after Partner has been cutting the lawn. Yesterday I saw a little chipmunk' running along the branch of a tree and today there was a cinnamon -brown bird I hadn't seen before. From my birdbook I gather it is a hermit thrush. So we see plenty of nature from our•one-acre lot and all the little birds and beasts are wel- come except for rats and rab- bits. We get rabbits but it was a neighbour who was visited by a rat, He didn't actually see it but it made its presence known by digging out dirt from the stone wall of his garage. Partner was called in for advice and to- gether they found a runway from the garage to a hole at the edge of the veranda. Poison bait was put well back into one hole, and the entrance and exit filled in with stones. And that was the end of the rat. I suppose there are dozens and dozens of people who read this column, who, just like us, have been busy in the garden the last few days. We found a number of our shrubs had either been nibbled or winter -killed so we were busy getting replacements — and also a few extras. We both like flowering shrubs so we are trying to get a shrubbery well established, but with the shrubs far enough apart to be distinguishable, We put in a few trees and shrubs every year hop= ing a fair percentage of them will grow. Yesterday we plant- ed an eight -foot mountain ash near the bird -feeding station. Won't the birds have a great time with that in a year or two? For shade trees we have locust. weeping birch, three different SALLY'S SALLIES I PSYCinA7RoST "Charge tette Visit 'td tti>I oeyeho•rnedtcal etepenao pelioY," TV STARS VVBD — TV's 'David Nelson, 24, and his bride, ac- tress -model June Blair, 19, are shown following their wedding in Hollywood. David is the eld- est son of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson. like to have a morain locust on her front lawn. "All right", said Partner, "if you get it I'll put it in for you." Quite unknowingly he took on more than he knew. To dig the hole he had to go through 18 to 20 inches of solid clay — just dumped over the ground when the house was built. It all had to be taken out and replaced with good top soil and , peat moss otherwise the tree would never have lived. It took two hours of hard work to plant that one tree. Yet under the clay the soil was fine. I sup- pose when the foundation of the house was dug nobody cared where the dirt went. It'has hap- pened before. Generally the clay is covered with a layer of top soil — just enough to make the grass grow. What is under- neath may never be discovered — unless, as in this case, trees are planted. Well, while we have been busy in the garden, Dee and family made their first trip to the cot- tage this year, hoping to have a long weekend. They took a bag maples and two cotton -tail pop- lars. At the • back and front of the house there is a good stand of native black ash, This year we have also invested in ever- greens for the front of the house under the livingroom window — three sabinas and two pyramidal cedars. That is quite a gamble because our windows have a six- foot overhang so the borders don't get any natural moisture at all, Of course we keep them watered but well water can't compare with rain water for life- giving qualities. And another thing. it is too cold. Our neighbours have been busy gardening too. Next door to us we have a tempotay "grass- widow" who decided she would of coal along with them! A wise precaution. I wouldn't want to be without heat here either. This morning when I woke up the furnace was going full blast. Oh well, some day we'll get nice, warm weather — mayb€ too much.. And then you'll hear complaints corning from this quarter. I never did like hot weather and never shall. Last summer, in my estimation, was just perfect, If it is repeated this year I'll be Well content. "The day will come when girls will take the initiative in propos- ing marriage," says a psychia- trist, Where has he been? About Living Within One's Means Since the early days of .this republic, one economic philos- ophy defies contradiction: Wise Americans live within their means. Yet in this age of easy credit, fewer persons are adher- ing to this time -proven policy. Personal bankruptcies, for ex- ample, have increased more than 300 per cent in the past decade —reaching a total of 114,166 in 1960. Contradictory as it may seem, the average American's personal income in the same 10 years has risen 50 per cent, Total personal savings in the United States have nearly doubled, ' The statistical breakdown of personal bankruptcies is interest- ing. Nine out of 10 bankruptcies filed are the personal, non -bus- iness kind. Of the total 127,722 bankruptcy filings reported by federal courts for the year end- ing Dec. 31, 1960, just 13,566—or 101/4 per cent—were business bankruptcies. T h e remainder were non -business and of these approximately nine -tenths are classified as worker -family cases. The dominant, year -in -year - out reason for debt -ridden fa- milies is simply incompetent management of a "fair -to -mid- dling" family income. Bankrup- tcy is inevitable when a family not only lives up the salary check but also mortgages it to the hilt with no margin for emergencies. One credit counsel- or declares: "We rate mismanagement as the cause of 75 per cent, and misfortune as the cause of 25 per cent of family debt troubles." The consumer market today indeed is tempting. And certain- ly Americans are entitled to the better things of life, They should always remember, however, the admonition of our forefathers: "Save a little for a rainy day." The ."rainy -day" reserve, is worth mentioning because it can soften the shock of minor finan- cial setbacks. It definitely would reduce the alarming number of insolvent families in the United States.—Evening Telegram (San Bernardino, Calif.) "What's the difference if I say bad or badly?" asked the stu- dent. The professor pointed to r shapedly girl: "Son, tell me, are you looking at her stern or sternly?" He Cleans Up On Others' Inventions Giant research labs cannot, wither nor electronic computers stale the infinite variety of America's do-it-yourself inven- tors, This year, as every year, oouletless thousands of would-be Edisons will spend their spare hour tinkeeing with the gim- micks and oontraptions that, are euro to revolutionize the U.S. economy, or at the very least make them rich and tureens. "Always, the idea is going to make a million dollars," says John B. Tigrett, who has amass- ed a comfortable . fortune of his own by licensing, marketing, and sometimes manufacturing home-made inventions. "Very seldom more than that, but never a nickel less." Tigrett ought to know. As the country's leading invention bro- ker, he gets between 14,000 and 16,000 ideas submitted to his of- fioes at Jackson, Tenn., and Zurioh, Switzerland, every year, of which about two or three turn out to be marketable and make any money. He has even dreamed up one lucrative -idea himself - the Play -a -round, an immensely popular, collapsible net playpen. A jovial, . courte- out man who is neither an en- gineer nor a patent lawyer, and who admits that he is "not even very good meo'hanically," Ti- grett says his main qualifica- tion for the job is that he is "the greatest sucker in the world, bar none. The toy that walks up walls, the bobbing bird that drinks wa- ter from a glass, the Zoomeraog (a gun that "shoots" a roll of tightly furled paper) are a few of the more successful devices that Tigrett had been sucker enough to handle. "That little walking toy was developed in the B.F. Goodrich labs," he re- calls. "Fritz Wigal, one of the staff, couldn't see why a suction cup had to be stabile, So he worked out a mobile meohanism —five suction cups on a dowel with a spring. Goodrich studied it, and said there was no use for it. We put a mouse body on it, and in various forme we've sold 25 million units." These are t h e goofy ideas,. whioh go in the toy department. At the same time, most retract- able steel measuring tapes are Tigrett-licensed, a n d nearly every gas -station pump in the world has a Tigrett-licensed hose retractor. "I've written more licensing agreements than anyone else in the world, too," says Tigrett. "I never advertise, People just hear about me. I think the only kind of person we haven't had submit an idea is a President or an ex - President. We've had senators, judges, and high executives. Once the president of a textile firm that grosses maybe $30 mil- lion a year called up to tell me he had a terrific idea. I assumed it was for some new spinning process or something. Instead, it was a balloon with a ball and ring inside that you fastened to your knee with a garter; then you tried to make the ball go through the ring by jiggling your leg. Ridiculous!" Perpetual -motion machines are perpetually coming in. "We've had over a hundred submitted," Tigrett says. "They all almost worked. The drinking duck, I guess, was closest, I'm still hop- ing." Undying hopeis what Tigrett shares with his numberless cli- ents. "I still believe in the base- ment," he says. "The basement ISSUE 23 — 1961 Inventor doesn'taccept what. can't be done, Most of the time, that's only because he doesn't, know anything, but morally it's a good starting point. "You stead in any group of people," he added, suddenly seri- ous, "end you pan be pretty sure that almost every person there has some pet idea, some little gadget, something, It's not true of the Swiss mind, or the Frenche or the English, but somehow it is of ,,the American, It's an apen society we have here. We're all; convinced that tomorrow we're somehow going to be doing something else, That's what sti- mulates the inventor's imagina- tion." — From NEWSWEEK,. Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley Q. I've been criticized for knitting while guests are present. Have I really been discourteous? A. If you are skilled enough to knit while at the same time giving every indication of close attention to what your friends are saying (and if they are close friends), it is quite all right. Q. 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NO DISTRACTIONS PLEASE Just to keep distractions at a minimum, judges at this University of South Carolina beauty contest decreed that the faces of contestants would be hiddeis with paper bags. Winner was masked coed standing second from the left. K%lrnr