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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1949
Page
9
Thomasville officials expand science teaching in four elementary schools with new textbooks and basic demonstrations. Superintendent G H Arnold leads inservice training as teachers attend weekly classes to learn proper use of the science lab and materials.
Raleigh February 12 In contrast to alarming headlines about destruction oriented science North Carolina State College textile lab pursues safer aims under John F Bogdan in the research department He works with an assistant on projects seeking beneficent applications in industry and society.
Kinney’s shoe store manager E. E. Baker is among 20 first prize winners in a national contest sponsored by G. R. Kinney Shoe Company. He departs for New York for a 15 day all expenses paid trip, then sails to Nassau and Bermuda aboard the S C Mauretania, with planned stops in Havana and Cuba before returning. The article also notes textile research on neps led by Clarence Asbill at the College of Textile School, funded by a $60,000 federal grant under the 1946 Research and Marketing Act, to reduce nep in fabrics and improve cotton competitiveness against synthetics.
Rev. Wilson O. Weldon of Memorial Methodist Church will address the Conference of City Pastors at Emory University in Atlanta. It marks his second invitation to speak at the event in its ongoing program.
A historical note details Mary Queen of Scots owning a case molded to a skull shape. The item is described as an unusual container or reliquary associated with her. Researchers cite its distinctive silhouette and potential symbolic meaning within her era.
Professor Bogdan leads a team at North Carolina State College in a nep reduction project. They count neps along the fiber path from base to finished product to discover optimal machine speeds and settings. They hope the nep counting template becomes a standard in the textile industry as part of a long-term research effort.
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