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