The Independent-News, Volume 100, Number 50, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 11 July 1974 — Page 5

GIRL SCOUT CAMP OPENINGS Camp Shawadasee, near Law. ton, Michigan, has openings avail, able for the third and fourth sessions, according to Miss Vickie Maurer, Camping Services Ad. ministrator for the Singing Sands Girl Scout Council. Girl Scouts and non-Scouts from 4th through 12th grades are elig. ible to attend Shawadasee. The third session is scheduled from July 21 through August 4, and the fourth session runs from Aug. ust 5 through August IS. There will also be a special one.week session of survival camping from August 5 through August 11. Activities featured at the camp are sailing, horseback riding, theater and panorama, wh.ch in. dudes all camp activities. Camperships are available for financial assistance. For more information or appli. cations, contact Miss Maurer at the Singing Sands Council, 1635 North Itonwood Drive, South Bend 46635. or call 277-0900. Send a gift a week, send The Independent-News.

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SUMMER ART PROGRAM AT NORTH LIBERTY A Summer Art Program will be taught at North Liberty High School this summer. The program will include macrame’, tie dye, and the making of purses and belts from old jeans. Thus program is geared for the teen, ager. grades 7 through 12. There will be no credit given and no fee will be charged. Students will pay for the materials they use. This class will take place in the Art Room from 1:00 to 3:00 Monday through Friday, July 15 through August 16. Miss Michelle Geoffroy, of the South Bend Recreation Depart, ment will instruct the class. EVENTS SCHEDULED FOK SUNDAY The St. Joseph County Park and Recreation Department pre. sents on Sunday. July 11, beg.n. nng at 1:30 p.m., the Bendix Woods Outdoor Tour. A guided

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~ *' * * ' LI — ■ , —— ingenious Triumphs Os Chemistry GOOD NEWS ABOUT SCITNTIFIC ADVANCES

JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING EXCEPT “CABBAGE AND KINGS"

Take a billiard ball. Or false teeth. Or take the disb.es from which you eat, the asphalt on which you drive, the paper on which you write. Look at the color of your drapes, the photos in your album. Listen to your radio, the records on your stereo. Smell the perfume in her hair or the after-shave lotion on his face. Feel the smooth wax sheen on your table or the rough nap of your rug. Taste the succulence of your steak or the sweet-sour olive in your martini. Consider the bath tubs and boats, rain coats and soaps; gargles and colognes or transistors and telephones. Feast your eyes on the colors of clothes--or implants of silicone. Brush your teeth. Bake a cake. Write a letter. Stick a stamp. Polish your glasses. Mix a salad. Stamp out athlete’s foot. What are you doing? Using chemistry, because chemistry is not just mixtures with strange, exotic, frightening, tongue-twisting names that bubble up from contorted vials in a laboratory. Nor is chemistry the white-frocked, bespectacled professor chalking endless equations onto a blackboard. Chemistry, the chemical industry nnd chemical engineering so pervade our lives that only energy and energy production are more important to us and to our life style. The Need for Energy and Oil If it isn’t a chemical end product, then somewhere along the line of manufacture, chemistry touched it or helped make it possible. However, without adequate energy for chemical processing or without adequate feedstocks based on oil and natural gas, none of this would be possible. “Permanent anti freeze,” for example, is a chemical end produet-it’s primarily ethylene glycol. The transistor, the portable television set, hearing aids that fit in the ear canal, heart pacemakers and a whole range of small and large appliances are the end products of electron-

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ics, which uses the techniques of chemical purification and crystallization, among others. Manufacturers of electrical equipment also depend on chemistry. A self-clean-ing oven seems far removed from test tubes, but it depends on the chemical processes of pyrolysis and catalysis. The light weight electric hand tools of today would be impossible without synthetic insulating materials developed by chemistry, just as would man’s trips to the moon. There is no room in a space vehicle for the insulating materials of old. Nuclear energy relies heavily on chemistry and chemical engineering. Chemists and chemical engineers developed most of the processes used in petroleum refining; at its heart, the manufacture of iron and steel is a chemical process. The food processing industry needs chemical knowledge of the basic structure of foods, and better, healthier foods demand knowledge of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals and how our bodies use them to stay healthy. The food processing industry itself relies, of course, on the ready availability of food--the near-miracle productivity of the American farmers. And chemical fertilizers probablv increase by a third the annual US. harvest. Chemistry’s contribution to a bigger, f. Her market basket does not stop with fertilizers, however, because pesticides, insecticides and fungicides prevent much of the harvest from falling prey to a multitude of insects, weeds and disc. es. And the contents of our market baskets are not only healthier, but mire at'.ortive, fresher and are ... ,ulable the year round because of chemistry.

Chemistry Fights Disease । Even the healthiest person is subject to illness, but chemistry, through pharmaceuticals, has made such dread diseases as diphtheria, typhoid, paratyphoid and whopping cough medical rarities, as well as given us our everyday aspirin. The fiber and textile industry has never been the same since chemists introducted nylon less than 10 years ago. Today one can dress completely in clothing made from chemicals, with a different wardrobe for both summer ami win-ter--and all the seasons fashion designers have concocted in between. Drapes, upholstery and carpets surround our lives with color, and we worry less about the ravages of moths and mildew. Industries seemingly fat removed from chemistry are dependent on chemistry. Trucks and cars on synthetic rubber tires speed along asphalt derived from petrole-, uni processing and upgraded by chemical additives. Airplanes land those tires on asphalt runways after control towers give the okay front plastic-housed radios, whose electricity flows along a maze of wires wrapped in plastic insulation. Ships are protected against rust by protective coatings made from chemicals. i The housing and construction industries use asphalt for roofs, plastic for piping and gypsum and chemically treated paper for wallboard. Our windows are e’en er because glass lias been treated with chemicals. Ami none of this could we use without water, made clean and pure with the help of chemicals. The-chemicals and chentleal processing industries are big business, too, giving employment to millions. Ten percent of the national income, in fact, is attributed to the chemical and chemical processing industries. 1 More importantly, chemistry is pervasive and irreplaceable. It touches every facet of our lives, front the time we crawl out of our durable-press sheets in the morning to the time we flick the plastic switch that turns out the lights ut night, j

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