The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 3, 1931, Page 2

a rere PRSCERSEHwUMCoeteedde CoNeteunn NeW CALIFORNIANS ARE - FOLLOWING ADVICE OF THOMAS EDISON Guayule, Form of Sagebrush From Which Rubber Is Made, Being Harvested PRODUCT HAS MANY USES 6,000 Acres Under Cultivation Should Produce 300 Tons of Rubber Annually Salinas, Calif. April 3.—(NEA)— Thomas Edison's dream—domestic production of crude rubber of a qual- ity and price that competes with the foreign product—is being realized in Salinas valley, seven miles north of here. Four hours after a load of guayule, a form of sagebrush, enters the plant of the American Rubber Products Company, it emerges in the form of 200-pound blocks of rubber. The product is not a rubber substi- tute, but a pure gum rubber suitable for use as automobile tires and tubes, or for any of the multitude of uses to which rubber is-put. Experiments in guayule rubber date back more than 26 years. In 1905 the Intercontinental Rubber Com- pany, of which the local firm is a subsidiary, sent its chief botanist, Dr. 'W. B. McCallum, into Mexico to test the feasibility of producing rubber from the wild guayule plant. In 1910 21 million pounds of gua- yule rubber were produced in sev- eral Mexican factories, 19 per cent of this being used for American consumption. To date some 160,000,- 000 pounds have been produced and used. Experiments in domesticating the wild shrub in Texas, California and elsewhere were started as early as 1910. After several years McCallum hit upon Salinas valley as the logi- cal site for operations on a large scale. Can Be Cultivated Intercontinental satisfied itself that guayule could be grown in this soil and climate, It also proved the shrub would thrive under domestica- tion, thus eliminating the hit-and- - Cultivation on | = By WM. E. MCKENNEY (Secretary American Bridge League) ‘When the Boland conventional club bid is being used by a pair, an open- ing bid of one of a suit, excepting onc club, shows a minimum hand, there- fore the partner of the original bid- der should endeavor to buy tne con- tract as cheaply as possible unless holding sufficient strength for a game contract, with the undcrstand- ing that partner does not hold over two to two and one-half high card tricks. miss method of seeking the shrub wild on the Mexican desert. ‘The original experimental tract of 500 acres expanded until today over 6000 are under cultivation. It is fig- ured these will produce a yield of 2,- 400,000 pounds of crude rubber every four years, or 600,000 pounds each harvest season. Process of producing guayule is by no means secret. It requires four years for the plants to reach matur- ity at which time the plant contains from 14 to 17 per cent rubber. At harvesting time it is up-rooted to a depth of nine inches, spread and left te dry in the field, As the moisture recedes from the plant, a specially devised “shaker” Passes through the rows shaking out dirt and foreign substances. Another special machine, resemb- ling a grain harvester, gathers the plants, chops them to small bits which are blown into a trailer. Tak- en to the mill nearby the shrub is ground up under water, in large roll- ing ball mills, the grinding being done by flint pebbles rubbing against rub- ber. Pressed Into Cakes The produce is then run into set- tling tanks where the rubber, being lighter than water, floats to the sur- face and is skimmed off. The wood fiber becomes waterlogged and sinks. ‘The rubber ts then dried in ovens and Pressed into 200-pound cakes ready for the manufacture of tires or into other rubber products. “There is nothing new or mysteri- ous about guayule,” says George H. Carnahan, president of the Intercon- tinental Rubber Company and de- veloper of the present “continuous” system of producing rubber from guayule. “Improved methods of extraction and preparation have kept it second or. the list of commercial rubber producing plants, but up to this year its supply has been limited by na- ture's slow and unaided reproductive Process. “Only domestication and commer- cial cultivation in the United States is new. Then, too, it has taken 20 years of painstaking and intensive research to isolate from the 1000 or more species of guayule the six or seven varieties which carry the high- est rubber percentage.” ‘Small Part In Big Industry Carnahan explained that America consumes 61 per cent of all the rub- ber. produced in the world, some ,000,000,000 pounds in the raw state. It is customary under this system for the partner of the opening bidde: to give a raise only when he holds one raise in reserve, e. g., if South were to open with one spade and had agreed to use the club convention, he would deny holding a hand strong enough to bid one club, therefore if Partner bid two spads; he would say “Partner, if you have slightly more than a minimum you can bid three spades and I will go to four I am reserving one raise when I give you If the partner of the opening bid- \der has sufficient strength to assure game in partner’s suit. the ‘game should be bid immediately. i Denials are made the same as in auction and the denying land should hold at least one and one-hal! quick tricks, e. g., South bids one spade, you bid two hearts. You show a biddable heart suit and at least one and one-half tricks. If you have a hand strong enough to indicate game, even when partner holds a minimum, you should bid one more thar. neces- Sary; e. g., one spade, three hearts. This is a demand bid and requires Partner to keep the bidding open. He must either assist your bid, bid shis own, or bid another suit or no trump. If the original bidder oper; with ‘one club, he now shows the interme- —A Series Explaining the Contract Bridge System— diate hand between a minimum and @ power-house. If you hold two quick tricks, you respond with one of a ma- jor, one no trump, or two in either minor. As soon as the positive an- swer is given, it is presumed that the combined hands will make gare and the bidding must not die unt} game bid has been arrived at in some suit or no trump. The users of this con- vention do not believe in hurrying to @ game contract. They will endeavor to plug the holes for no trump by bidding their various sults, or wiil arrive at the proper suit deciaration by denying or supporting a particular suit bid. - When the partner of the origine! one club bidder holds three quick tricks or better, he must make a fore- ing response. This is done by bid- ding one more than necessary in the majors or two more than necessary in the minors; e. g., one club, a fore- ing bid, partner bids two spades. This now advises the club bidder that you hold at least three quick tricks and there is a possibility of a slam. The most important thing that the advocates of this system claim {s that two. minjmums 9] ite each other will not make a game, and this is cuick'y determined by the opening =1inimum bids of one. Remember that if you hold a minmum one club foreing bid and your partner responds with one diamond, in all probability there 1s not game in the hand. i When the original one club forcing bidder receives a positive response from partner and he then immediate: ly supports this bid. both partners must consider that suit as being set and further bidding is considered as ace showing, which will be explained by the writer in a later article. Examples employing this club con- vention will be given in following ar- ticles. (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) Lein By OLGA M. RISE > The township board met at the C. M. Bjerke home Tuesday. Nina Waiste, Olga and Joseph Rise and Eddie Arneson attended the bas- ketball tournament held in Bismarck Saturday evening. Miss Nellie Dance spent the week- | end at her home near Menoken. Ed Nygaard and Arthur Bjorhus motored to Driscoll Friday afternoon. A large crowd from this vicinity attended the oyster supper and dance given at Driscoll Monday evening. Clarence Rise of Wing spent Sun- day at his parental home. Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Severson, Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Barkman and daugh- ter Dotty, Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Ar- neson, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Arneson and family were dinner guests at the Alfred Arneson home Sunday. | Sunday afternoon at Harold tianson’s. Valdemar Lein, Joseph, Clarence, Arthur and Ernest Rise spent Sunday eiiernon at Ole Spilde’s and Ole ik’s. Ernest Rise, who is attending high school in Bismarck is spending his easter vacation at his parental home. Tilmer and Marion Lien and Arnold Christianson called at J. O. Rise’s Sunday afternoon. | Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Brenden and son Byron and Kenneth Brenden ;Spent Sunday afternoon at Alfred F ogen, who is attending high school in Bismarck, is spending her Easter vacation at her parental ; home, Mrs, Seymour Arneson called at J. O. Rise’s Monday afternoon. MO R t NATURE'S CURIO SHO} | Olaf Olauson and Olga Rise spent | iers, Chris- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1931 From harvesting of the guayule plant, as shown at left, to pressing out the blocks of rubber shown at. right, is a matter only of four hours, at the Salinas Valley, Calif., plant of which George H. Carnahan, inset, is chief. Businessmen Seek Friendly Solution Of Removal Issue (Continued from page one) North Dakota, and particularly tothe of Jamestown and Bismarck, to force this question of removal toa vote at an election. f Text of Petition “We therefore request that the “Committee for Petitioners,” with- draw the petitions heretofote filed with the secretary of state, in order that proceedings for the rebuilding of the capitol building may not be fur- ther hampered.” * is Bl List of Signers a following names were ed to the petition: ae | man county. A. J. Rulon, house member, Stuts- man county. F. G. Kneeland, house member, Stutsman . R. E. Strutz, house , Stuts- oe Ligon, chief clerk, Gladstone E. B. Murphy, Murphy Lumber Co. | E. M. Nelson, contractor. H. J. Morris, publisher, Stutsman County Record. McElroy, president, James River National Bank and Trust Co. HT. Graves, chairman board of di- rectors of James River National Bank and Trust Co. . J. E. Mattison, assistant cashier, James River National Bank and i Rex Hatton, James River National ink and Trust Co. G. I. Feton, Feton Lumber Co. Marvin Solien, Solien Bros., cloth- Christ Fleutsch, county commis- er, Oscar Amundson, manager, Bridge- man-Russell Co. J. A. Coffey, lawyer. . ing. R. M. Stangler, Trust officer and cashier of National Bank and Trust Co. Ed Mueller, National Bank and ‘Trust Co. R. R. Wolfer, president, National Ethel M. Newberry, National Bank Trust Co. H. C. McCulloch, Carpenter Lumber Co, Wm. F, Steward, auditor, Thompson crit i i ae $ i Gordon, N. A. G. Lund, bookkeeper for-E. A. Moline. Wile A. J. ell, manager, State theatre. : J. L, Kurtz, Buchanan farmer. C. R. Hodge, postmaster. Earl Eels. Sidney farmer. L. E. Wright, Service Station. * C. R. Weber, county treasurer, H. F. Johnson, N. P. Railway Co. OC. 8. Buck Jr., lawyer. Bert Wininger, photographer. 8. .. Moore, traveling salesman. John F. Olson, superintendent, Thompson Yards, Inc. R. R. Muntz, druggist. Lloyd E. Mushburger, dentist. Sigurd Grande, secretary, Clothing Co. Hans J. Peterson, manager, Opera A. V. DuVall, DuVall Electric Co, O. W. Fode, Midwest Motor Co. C. A. Finch, Gamble Stores. H. P. Taylor, plumber. G. D. Roth, Battery Service Station. L. Robertson, secretary, W. B. ” Perry Johnson, farm machinery. R. ‘| articles ‘on home gardening, written Beck | who usually has a good garden and Cyour ome sert Hastens Rubber Growing Industry . KEEP THE GARDEN PRODUCING ALL SUMMER ‘, BY HAVING NEW CROPS FOLLOW OLD This is the eleventh of a series of especially for NEA Service and The Tribune. By WILLIAM 8. BEATTIE Bureau of Plant Industry, U. 8. De- partment of “Two fresh vegetables from the gar- den ‘every day in the year” is the alo- gan adopted by members of the ree garden clubs of the Gulf coast 8 It would be physically impossible to |’ northern have ‘crops growing in the garden the whole year through, but that does not prevent keeping the garden at work every day of the grow- ing season. 4 ‘The gardener who plants early, sec- ond early, medium and late is the one plenty of vegetables all summer. If you want your garden to pay big dividends you must keep, every foot of space occupied and producing some useful crop. If nothing better, sow it to cowpeas or rye to improve the soil. There are two ways of getting the most out of the garden, succession cropping and companion cropping. By succession cropping is meant making several plantings and having a new crop follow immediately in the place that had already matured a crop. Many Plantings Needed In order to have plenty of snap beans for the table a planting should be made every two or three weeks throughout the earlier part of the sea- son. Four or five plantings of sweet corn should be made, two or three year- |. Keep every foot of space occupied Firat of all, only those varieties that are: resistant to disease should be planted wherever it is known that dis- eases such as the wilt disease of to- matoes are present in the soll. Mulch- ing around the plants with. manure or mulch paper will often help to keep them in a good growing condition. Selection of suitable varieties is one of the most important points in keep- ing the garden up to standard the whole season through. Fresh Peas for Weeks Eee en teeoe! with peas Gilbert R. Horton, architect. pastor, St. James’ county. 8. W. B. Still, insurance and loans. John G. Bensch, insurance. H. C. Brennen, merchant. August Jansick, tailor. C. O. Mastrud, hardware. Harry Goldberg, furniture. H. L. Wallace, Auto Electric Co. J. E, Smith agent, Monarch Weath- erstrip. H. Nannenga, Bloom township farmer. . A. E. Rowan, manager, White Drug P. W. Eddy, state senator, Stuts- | co, J. C. Arneson, manager, Machine Repair Co. M. J. Mulready, secretary, Machine Repair Co. John A. Syverson, manager, 8. & L. Store, Harold A. Crossman, Isensee Motor Sales Co. Albert E. Powers, Isensee Motor Sales Co. D. F. Winkler, insurance. Jerome E. Webber, pastor, Presby- terian church. FE. J. Cronin, Jamestown Ice Co. L. E. Nierling, gasoline and oils. E. G. Ringuette, Jamestown Steam Laundry. Albert M. Nelson, Jamestown Steam Laundry. . Geo. T. Richmond, tax supervisor, Fourth district. John W. Carr, lawyer. Logan Powell, insurance. C. E. Boardman, superintendent of the ‘Wheat Growers Warehouse com- U 1S PLANNING CLASS REUNIONS Class of 1891 Will Celebrate 40th Anniversary During Commencement Week Grand Forks, N. D., April 3— Plans ‘are under way for class re- unions during commencement June 7 to 9 at the University of North Da- kota, according to Frank J. Webb, alumnt secretary who is-in charge of arrangements. Classes which will hold reunions plantings of carrots, at least two of beets, three or four of spinach, two of cabbage, and so on down the list, and all of the land occupied all of the time. Companion cropping means plant- ing one crop in the spaces of another. ‘This system of cropping works fairly well in some cases, but has objection- able features. It is much better, es- pecially where plenty of land is avail- able, to have only one crop on a given piece of ground at a time, but keep the land occupied all of the time. Extending the productive period of certain crops is another way of keep- People’s Forum Editor's Note.—The Tribune wel- comes letters on subjects of in- terest. Letters dealing With n= troversial religious subjects, which Sink aman eat ad eats which offend go will be a the If you wish to use & DI sign the pseudonym first and fess own name beneath it, We will re- such requests. We reserve ight to delete such parts of ‘3 as may te spect fet ‘be necessary conform to this policy. CRITICIZES EDITORIALS Bismarck—April 2, 1931. Editor, Tribune: Re John Carr editorials. I have read them. They are rotten. If you do not know what is best for Bismarck it is time some one told you. F, E. McCURDY. LIKES TRIBUNE POLICY Kintyre, N. Dak., March 30, 1931. Editor, Tribune: Several times after reating some of your editorials I have been tempted to write and tell you what I think of them, but I've always put it off, but today after reading your answer “An Interested Bystander,” I fecl that I must say a fervent “thank you.” In this day and age not paper in a thousand evei trouble to quote some of the wonder- ful, beautiful truths of the The Tribune, time and not only dares to quote them but also ap- plies them in such a way to everyday incidents as to make the home to everybody who takes trouble to read them. Your s are: '89, '90, 01, ‘96, ‘Ol, '06, ‘11, '16, °21, and '26. Mr. Webb is correspond- ing with class secretaries.to make ar- rangements for which he believes will be the largest alumni reunion held at the university. ‘The class of ’91 will- celebrate its 40th. anniversary when the ‘class members meet at commencement, said Mr, Webb. M. Beatrice John- stone, of the University Extension di- vision, is class secretary. Affairs in which returning alumni will participate will be the reception given at the home of President Thomas F. Kane, Sunday, June 7, for seniors, alumni and friends of the university. The alumni business meeting will be conducted the fol- lowing day when reports will be made and election of officers will take place. Representatives of the various classes will be speakers on the pro- .| gram at the alumni banquet at the University Commons on June 8. Fred | ij J. Traynor, Devils Lake, who is alumni president, will 5 {ter _ comme! it exercises, A! neement A plement | which will be conducted Tuesday morning, June 9, 9 dinner will be held forall seniors, alumni and guests at the university. Davis Hall, a woman's dormitory on the campus, will be Placed on for begs ed Cid by the university, Mr. Wel about Gandhi some time ago was magnificent. Would that some of our statesmen would see our national dif- ficulties in the same light! I’m glad you denounced Sinclair Lewis, too, when he was so in the limelight for receiving the Nobel prize., Such cads need to be shown Ip. I have never been an admirer of Gov. Shafer nor of the political group he represents, but I have never seen any articles in your paper that haven't given him his just dues. I think he took the right stand on the capitol question and he may win a friends for himself on that, He’ them by the time the next rolls around if he is going to Faia 33 i sé 5338 ggEzaen init + aH i & HH $1.50 to $3.00 Single Write or wire for reservations. g EF g re Orthodox Greeks At Dawson Have Priest man arrived from New York Satur- day to take over the Dawson parish, which includes between 30 and 35 When throat is burning and raw paler rcpt is like the scrap- ing ofa some Mistol quick, a8) membranes, and, the surfuces relax. Geta bottle today! Misto O80. U.6/0at.erm Candidate for City Commissioner ‘Your support will be appreciated. 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