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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1937
Page
3
Coral Crandall, a student at Elton College, and her chemist professors, led by Prest Norton, announce a breakthrough in extracting gold from sea water and bromine for anti knock gasoline. The discovery, kept secret in details, promises lower costs and broader industrial uses.
In a large auditorium, Professor Arthur Maxwell Professor Andre Bendorff and Professor David Armstrong are lauded for a new process that expands knowledge and could spark significant scientific progress. Coral contemplates David's future while rivals, including Donna, press for details and face questions about trust and secrecy surrounding the discovery.
Former German Chancellor Heinrich Bruening, who once wielded power through presidential decrees, is elected to a political theory fellowship at Oxford. Nazis, angered by his anti Hitler stance, view his honors in England and the United States with gritted concern as he continues to challenge their rise.
Meadowlarks share a closer evolutionary relationship with blackbirds than with true larks, indicating a reclassification in avian family ties based on genetic and morphological data.
Mrs Sally Frances Sink 56 wife of Gideon Sink a Shiloh area farmer died in a Davie county hospital from injuries after an automobile collision on Highway 64 near the Yadkin river bridge. Edward Williams 21 of Fork is hospitalized with a lacerated ear and other injuries. Investigators seek to determine the car drivers as two of Mrs Sink's daughters were also injured. Funeral services were held at Reeds Baptist church.
Surviving are the husband and nine children including Mrs. Andrew Sink and Ida Sink with several daughters and sons listed. The obituary notes three brothers Tom and Billie Wood of near Lexington and John Wood of Mocksville, plus a sister Mrs Zeb Snider of near Lexington, all of Davidson county.
Historical note credits early internal combustion engine concepts to around 1680 using gunpowder as the working substance. The development marks an early exploration of converting explosive energy to mechanical work. This snapshot highlights initial experiments shaping later engine design.
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