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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1955)
Student Composer's Contest Offers $2,000 A first prize of $2,000 and nine additional awards totaling $7,500 in all are offered in the fourth annual Student Compos ers Radio Awards contest. Spon sors of the competition are the Broadcast M jsic, Inc., and B.M.I. Canada Limited. Established in 19.r>l by Broad cast Music, Inc., S.C.R.A. is open •to students in accredited conser vatories of music, universities, colleges and secondary schools, or of private teachers, in the U.S., its possessions and Canada. All entries must tie submitted before February l.r>, 1950, and the $7,500 in prizes, which lire to be applied for tuition and sub sistence during further study, will be awarded prior to June 1. 1956, when national winners will be announced. Official rules, entry blank* and further information about S.C.R.A. may be obtained by writing to Russell Sanjek, Direc tor of S.C.R.A. Project, Broad cast Music, Inc., Mil Fifth Ave- 1 nue, New York 17, New York. Schleicher to Talk At Friendly House Chnrlea Schleicher, profenuor ot political nclence, will ni>cak 8 p.m. Friday at Friendly house, 2445 Kincaid, on "The Multiple Revolution." Slide* will be ahown to illustrate the lec ture. Glare JLou’ve heard it said that necessity is the mother of invention? “Seems to me plain everyday American ini tiative is pretty inventive, too. Take ihe way Union Oil got into the dry ice business. “Union, you know, supplies much of the natural gas used in Southern California. Well, some years back, we needed to increase the Gard Do you throw it away or make it pay? DRY ICE ON THE WAY TO THE CUTTING MACHINE. heating value of our gas as it came from the field. “We had a choice. We could enrich our prod uct by adding other gases to it. Or we could accomplish the same thing by removing the C02, or carbon dioxide, from it. It was purely a matter of economics. “We experimented removing the carbon dioxide with a process that had, till then, been used for quite a different purpose. It proved so effective it paid us to take out the carbon dioxide, even if we were to throw it away after we got it out of the gas. “But that’s the point. Instead of throwing the C02 away, we surveyed the dry ice in dustry, built an $800,000 plant at Santa Maria, THE PACKAGED DRY ICE READY FOR SHIPPING. CLARE CARD, PROCESS ENCI N EER — THIRTY-FI VE YEARS WITH THE UNION OIL COMPANY. and converted our waste carbon dioxide into dry ice. “That was 1948. Since then we’ve produced and sold over 102,000 tons of dry ice. And the plant’s about paid for. See what I mean by American initiative?” * * * * Part of the initiative and inventiveness was Card’s, certainly. He was Process Engineer on the Santa Maria project. A subsidiary company of ours has since built an ammonia plant which also makes dry ice. Union Oil is now the largest producer of this product west of the Mississippi. So long as you and Card and all of us con tinue to enjoy the encouragement and rewards of America’s free competitive economy, this kind of inventive initiative will thrive. YOUR COMMENTS ARE INVITED. Write: The President, Union Oil Company, Union Oil Bldg.,Los Angeles 17, Calif. Union Oil Comp any OF CALIFORNIA MANUFACTURERS OF ROYAL TRITON. THE AMAZING PURPLE MOTOR OIL
