now MANY
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YOU ANSWER?
“ If you got more Ilian 15 correct
answers, give yourself a grade of Ex¬
cellent; If you get 13, 14 or 15, you’re
good; 10, 11 or 12, you're fair.
1. Identify Captain Bruce Buirns-
father.
2. What well-known woman should
you think of in connection with
"bubbles”? (Never mind about Bub¬
bles in the comic strip.)
3. What was the dialect expression
for “kiss” 150 years ago?
4. What Australian opera singer
adopted and adapted the name of her
birthplace as her pseudonym?
5. In what field of commercial ac¬
tivity did these men make their
money? Kresge? Kahn? Guggenheim?
6. Is dynamite detonated by igni¬
tion or percussion?
T. What was the name of the
world’s most famous strong man about
fifty years ago?
S. What adjective of color are ap¬
plied to the Tiber and Danube rivers?
9. What product used to be adver¬
tised by this expression? "I’se in
town, honey!”
10. You’ve heard of "Eliot's 5-ft.
Shelf of Books." What was Eliot’s
first. name?
11. Who was it, when told that the
poor of France had no bread, made
the remark: "Lot them eat cake"?
12. What two varieties of snakes
grow to the largest size ?
13. What was Bed Granges football
jersey number while at U. of Ill.?
14. Who wrote ‘Tigs is Pigs”?
15. We haven't asked this question
in four or five years: Can you give
the names of the Dionne quintuplets?
16. What was the name given in
Irish and Scotch folklore to the spirit
supposed to warn families of the ap-
proaching death of a member?
17. In each of the following cases,
figure out a word in which the first
syllable is exactly like the second syl¬
lable, and also spoilt exactly like it.
A kind of musical instrument. A
kind of dance. A kind of bird.
Diminutive of a woman’s name.
18. Is a pantograph an instrument
for copying a drawing, a device used
by tuilors for cutting trousers, or a
panoramic camera ?
19. Give the names of well-known
books, each of which starts with these
numerals: Three Four ... Five .
20. There’s a well-known opera
singer, whose last name is composed
of one syllable. Add another syllable
to this and you gel the last name
of another famous opera singer.
(Answers on page 32)
mines Are Busy
As a result of war conditions, re¬
newed efforts are being made to
get copper, coal, iron and other
minerals in various parts of the
state.
By BILL
MEN are digging, drilling and
scraping over North Carolina
.like they never have before in
an effort to find and extract minerals
for material-hungry industry, Dr.
.1. L. Stuckey, State Geologist, re¬
vealed in a summary prepared for
the Board of Conservation and De¬
velopment in its meeting here this
week.
The report revealed that manganese
already is being mined in Alleghany
County on a small scale; that the
RFC has advanced money for new
copper prospecting in North Caro¬
lina ; that there is "fair prospect” for
reopening the state's old corundum
mines; and that the long awaited ex¬
ploitation of the state’s spodumene
deposits is underway. The coal de¬
posits centering around Sanford,
which have produced in past years,
arc now being explored and old shafts
cleaned. Some coal already has been
taken out.
Other developments of the year in¬
cluded mining of olivine for refrac¬
tory purposes and renewed interest in
this mineral as a source of metallic
magnesium; the increased production
of vermiculite; the phenomenal in¬
crease in mica production and prices
and “significant” renewed interest in
the state's iron deposits because of the
proposal to resort to sponge iron as a
remedy for the metal shortage.
In June of 1942. Dr. Stuckey re¬
ported, the Mineral Resources Divi¬
sion in cooperation with the TVA
made studies of the copper deposits in
the Culloshec area, the Adams prop¬
erty near Fontana, and at Ore Knob
in Ashe County. As a consequence,
he said, the RFC lias advanced loans
for drilling near Fontana. The Bu¬
reau of Mines is drilling for copper at
Ore Knob and near Virgilina. An¬
other copper mine near Troy, -N. C..
has been producing about a ton of
copper a day for several months.
The old Cumnock coal fields in
Sanford have been taken over by a
new syndicate and some work has
been done in cleaning out the old
SHARPE
shafts preparatory to production.
This coal deposit has been worked be¬
fore, but has been abandoned ever
since an explosion several years ago.
Some coal already has been taken out.
and volume production is anticipated
in 1943.
The Solvay Process Company is
erecting a plant near King's Moun¬
tain to extract lithium, feldspar,
quartz and tin from the large deposits
of spodumene in that area. Originally,
it had planned to be in production
early in 1943.
A vein of manganese near Sparta
has been opened in the last few weeks,
and several tons of ore already have
been recovered, it was revealed.* Man¬
ganese is a metallic mineral used for
metallurgy, and is essential in making
certain alloys. North Carolina con¬
tains large deposits of low-grade man¬
ganese scattered through the Moun¬
tains and Piedmont.
The price of mica has quadrupled
in the past 18 months, Stuckey re¬
ported, and while production has been
greatly stepped up, it has not yet met
the demand.
Recently, the Mineral Resources
Division completed a survey of old
corundum mines in this state at the
request of the WPB. Most of the
known United States deposits of this
abrasive lie in North Carolina, and
the WPB is attempting to stimulate
domestic production to meet war-time
demands.
The division is attempting now* to
have a survey made of the state’s iron
fields, which have not been worked
for several years.
In addition to these minerals, the
state in 1942 produced tale, pyro-
phylite, feldspar, kaolin, quartz, mar¬
ble, gravel and clays.
Dr. Stuckey estimated the total
value of minerals produced in North
Carolina this year would be among
the largest in the state's history. Tin-
Division has answered more inquiries
about minerals in the past six months
than in any other similar period in
recent years.
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