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petroleum reserves diminish, plas— appropriated the sum of $7,500 same time we will also endeavor to
tics, chemicals, and C)€l)lOS1V€S will for each year of the biennium in discover the fundamental answers ,
be derived from coal IH increasing order to further this work. Later inherent in the process or proces- —
quantities. the University made funds avail- ses developed. This is the long l
qt is already known to all in- able for the construction of a range viewpoint and in the last  
_ dustrial chemists that gasoline and building to house the contemplat- analysis probably the more im-
l€1`· · other Petroleum products may be cd pilot plant and still later the portant. Our plans are well laid,
obtained from coal and lignite by Governor released $10,000 for based on work already accomplish-
om both direct and indirect hydrogen- equipment aud operating ex- ed and data obtained but what
om · ation_ Both processes were invent- Pehses- The result has been that ramifications we will be led into
lril, Q ntl and nrst put into commercial at the present time, january 1944, as the work progresses or where
211*   scale production in Germany .... lli€ btlildiiig li3$ l)eeI1 COm])leted we will end we cannot, of course,
]_,_ In the United Statgg, where the and a large part of the necessary foresee.
lug   tlelnsion of inexhaustible petrol- etluilliiiieiit is Oli hand. So I will end where I began
al$<> t eum resources lingers tenaeiously, However, due to the difficulty Coal is Ol1l` one great source of
SOl‘   we have been able, SO far, I0 make of obtaining certain materials dur- cheap carbon without which our
luch j only a gesture toward solving the ing these times most of the neces- present civilization cannot con-
ja€t$ _ liquid fuel problems that inev- sary castings have had to be made tiuue. It surely behooves US to
Q itably will be ours if additions to and machined in the laboratories utilize it scientincally and con-
ottt. ‘ our known reserves keep on di- ol the College of Engineering, serve its potcntialities and this, in
ithc minishing at the present rate, to This has taken time but every- brief, expresses the reasons for the
ging say nothing of the difhculties we thing is now well under way and work that we have done on this
j the may encounter if that pace be- it is expected that this pilot plant, problem and that that we propose
Pm, comes accelerated." So writes Mr. the only one of its kind, will be in t0 do iii the future.
Coll· lCl*CS· operation in the not far distaht lu- ` 
;thc  — It would appear certain that tui`e· l · l TWO FORMER STUDENTS
rpon- one result of the nations present I think that it 1S agreed that _ _ _
crgy. synthetic rubber program is going there are two general types of re- fC°"""""I fm"' mg" hl
» to be a new market for coal. The search. The first, for want of a North Africa and Sicily into ltaly.
and 1na_jor raw materials for this sub- better term, might be called fun- After being a reporter in his home
ge of stance are styrene and butadiene. damcntal research. This consti- town on the Harlan Enterprise,
pSgl\'(}   The former is derived from coal tutes an inquiry into the basic and Mr. Whitehead joined the .—\s-
ns oil   and although butadiene at the underlying reasons for certain oc- sociated Press in 1936 with the
ei-eas   liresent time is being recovered currences and does not necessarily positive intention of being a
ntirte   ‘ lll`iIlCilJ2llly from petroleum and have to have any apparent eco- foreign correspondent. His writ-
tn-oil   alcohol it can, and undoubtedly nomic or useful application nor is ings have been read with great
ill lit   Will, be made from coal as our pe- the time element of accomplish- interest and his success decisive.
Cndts   troleum supplies diminish. ment a factor. The second type Mrs. \~Vhitehead was Miss Marie
  Finally, in weighing the value could be called spot research. In Patterson of Pineville. ‘
H-etell Ii i of coal processing we must consid- this instance, the attempt is to de- —————
what .  er the economic advantages result- Vel0l> $0metliiu§ l0i` it Patti€ul¤i` HARRY BOLSER i
ientctl _ lllg li`0m the production in asingle and immediate use and the time Fighting Conespondcm Harry  
it ncl _ Plant of Such a range of products Clement IS l'S“allY FXl’]°l‘l€lY ““‘ Bolser is it Marine. As a combat ‘
L For ,  as motor fuel, lubricating oils, raw I)Oii?l_iii· The Pxalllllllllloll Of lll} tjorrespontlent he has seen action `
oleum  i “"ll€l`l‘llS [Ol l`llbl)Cl`t Plzlsllcst cx` ‘l""li"“g l)mlGl)1CS.ls Ohm Sui} in the South Pacific both in the  
ttlv in   PlO$i\‘€S. pharmaceutical eliemi- ordinate to immediate- results in jungles {md in the ain One Ot his  
is l’l`ll`   Bemis all of these facts iu lllat ls ’€‘“l’l?“S‘l‘*‘l ”“‘l l”`“S""l *0 snaptam of an air raid on a lapa-
l$lllllC   lilihd and feeling that anything Completion in tunes such as those UCSC base in the South Pncitic
(lt) lllll   (lone fOl` llle coal industry in Ken- through which we are l’“$Slllg· Hat-t—y Bglggrj [()]`l]](;‘l` $[Ll(lCl`|[ of _
itity tl   tueky would benent everyone in Actually of course each of these the University was a newswriter ou _
V or llll  i lll€ Stale and also having know]- general methods of l`CSCal°Cll em· the Lexington, L0lliS\’ille illlil l’a·  
al<€ llll   else of the research work already bodies more or less of the Other tliicali papers. `T
cielltlll   llllllc at the University over a per- type and such is the CaSe Witli OUi` ———— -— ———— ———— h` t j
, lllll  { loll of many years with the low coal research. l»Ve hope and   Thc Alumni Assodatimt win l` j
slmull   temperature treatment of coal and pect to develop something ol im- _ __ N gu _ lll .
'llalcl-il   Other Cal`l)0l·laCC(`)uS materials [l]Q ]]]Cdi{l|_(§ \'§llll(j {llld [ISC, which is llllilvc li cycry glndualc "il `pal I l 'fl tl
· . at-  .. ’ . it ~ .|tcr. i e
g2illl—f  Genchll Assembly, two years ago, the short range angle, but at the (lLlCS Oll June l, l9l1, Oi SOOO 'i I  
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