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o 0 - O o o MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Monday, Jly 14, 1938 3 o Peffroefoemical Industry Shows Pep Cent Gain in Few Years Jf BiJIER C. WALZER Ufl Finncil Editor New York OJPI The pet rcehehffcal industry which has own from $2,110,000, S00 to S4,750,000,000 from 1950 to 157 is heading for another spurt in the years ahead, ccorng to experts. Recfds cited by Harris, Upham and company, stock exchange members, in a study on the petrochemical indus try, shw that petrochemicals 3 gained 115 per cent in the pe riod note4 bov while Jther chemicals ros 57 per cent. The study looks for a gvth of about 18 per cent annllg for the industry which means it would double in aout five and a half years to a size of nearly $10 billion. The Engineering firm of Ford, Bacon f Davis, has just estimated that the synthetic ammonia industry (branch of the petrochemical industry) mustgxpand its production by about 80 p cent to meet O farm and industrial demands Oby 1975. This would involve O a capital investment of $450 million. F&lilizr Synthei ammonia Is a . chf tourcS of chemical nitro gen fertiler. It is made from natural gas and air. Tfte nat ural gas yielda the hydrogen and the air the nitrogen. Natural gas is a hydro-car bon contains hydrogen and carbon. The air we breathe contains oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide. The job of producing ammonia is to get rid of the carbon and oxygen and leave a product that con tains one part of nitrogen and three of hydrogen. The oxygen is combined with carbon and passed off in the form of car bon monoxide and carbon dioxide. The resulting am monia has a whiff that would give you a real jolt if you O stood over it and inhaled the fumes. R. P. Westerhoff, vice presi dent of Ford. Bacon and Davis, notes that total existing ammonia capacity now is about 10 billion pounds a year with a value of $500 million. The expansion he suggests wguld make it a billion dollar Industry alone. Explosives Demand for a nitrogen fer tilizer and for ammonium ni trate for explosives in con trolled blasting is growing steadily. Farmers are fertiliz- - ing their land more heavily to make it more fertile. They - will need more as time goes on and we get into the 200 million mark in our popula tion by 1975, Westerhoff ex plains. The Harris, Upham study -lists many products of the pet rochemical industry under such general headings as plas tics, synthetic rubber, deter- - gents, plasticizers, dyes and pigments, medicinal?, flavor and perfume material, insecti- cides, and many miscellaneous uses. The most important in the miscellaneous are alcohols which are used as solvents and anti-freeze. The big chemical companies and the big oil companies are the chief producers of petro chemicals. Biggest Growth Harris-Upham looks for the biggest growth in the field to come into the plastic segment. Plastics, the firm notes, have displaced steel in many appli cations and have made in roads into markets previously held by non-ferrous metals. Here are a few things that can come from petrochemi cals: Your clothing, the vita mins you take, the antibiotics that prolong your life, your tires, the paints and varnishes in your home, perfume for the ladies, and the dyes in your clothing and household articles. Someday autos may be made of plastic, walls may be covered with it so they never have to be painted, and some day there may be a paint-free home with color-impregnated plastics used for both inside and outside surfaces. New Tests Show One Drink Too Many for Driving Vancouver Plants Damaged by Flames Vancouver, Wash. (UPI) A general alarm fire early to- . day burned through almost a . square block of plants and businesses in the west side in- ; dustrial area here. Fire Chief Vance Galbraith . said loss "could amount to a half million dollars." The blce was discovered about 1:20 a.m. in a building of a plastic processing firm. It spread rapidly to other buildings in the block, Includ ing an ice and cold storage plant structure which housed a frozen food locker plant, a cafe and a barber shop. It also burned a large storage and distribution plant of the . Washington farmers Co-op. Flames for a time threat ened a row of houses nearby. Roofs of four homes two blocks away were3 set ablaze by sparks as was a paper mill roof about three blocks away. Portland Woman Admits Sjabbing 0 Portland (UPI) Phyllis (Torchy) Jessing, 28, has ad . mitQd the stabbing last Fri day night of Alfred E. Kiefer, her boy ff?end who was ar rested recently on extortion cfraBjDS, police said today. Miss Jessing, a barmaid, was held under $10,000 bail . on a charge of assault while armef) with . a dangerous weapon. Kiefer was reported covering in a local hospital. Polios quoted Miss Jessing as (feying she loved Kiefer and did not know why she stabbed him. Police also arrested Wil liam Fgntr. aga material witness in the stabbing case and were seeking James Q. Jenkins as a material witness. Kiefer and Jenkins were ar rested June 4Qand accused of 1 attempting to extort money I fronhursing homes. J By DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor New York (UPI) A new and probably more meaning ful test of the effect of alco hol on a driver's ability to drive safely has turned up proof that even one drink is one too many. The investigating scientists were so impressed they said there ought to be laws forbid ding driving after even the smallest drink, until enough time had passed for the ef fect to wear off. Previous tests measured the degree to which dring affect ed the reactions and the skills of drivers. On the basis of those tests, the National Safe ty Council considers that a blood alcohol level from zero to 0.05 per cent does not in itself make a driver less safe. The new test measured what alcohol does to the minds of drivers to their judgment and their willing ness to take chances. On the basis of this test, any level above zero, no matter how slight, can lessen a driver's judgment while increasing his sense of daring. Old Is Meaningless The old way of testing is meaningless for drivers who have had only a few drinks, said Dr. John Cohen and his associates, E. J. Darnaley and C. E- M. Hansel. Perhaps their reaction times and driv ing skills are unchanged, but if so, so what? The "decisive" question is what alcohol has done to their thinking. The scientists tested vet eran bus drivers with con spicuous records for safe driv ing. All were sober family men; their average age was 45. If alcohol upset their judgment, then the "conse quences" of drink would be much more serious "in young er, less experienced, or less skillful drivers," it was rea soned. Two white - painted posts were set up on a testing ground. One post was mov able and thus the distance be tween posts could be varied. Each man sat behind the wheel of a stationary bus eight feet wide pointed at a seven-foot gap between posts from a distance of 12 feet. The gap was widened two inches at a time until the driver selected the width of the gap which he thought he could drive the bus through without touching either post Drivers Select Gap That was the test of judg ment. It was followed by a test of daring-do. Each driver was required to select the narrowest gap through which he was willing to try to drive his bus five times without touching either post any time. He was then asked to do, to see if he could. The drivers were divided into three groups. Those in one group drank 1.76 ounces of scotch with soda, group two downed some fast ones totalling 5.5 ounces of scotch. Group three got nothing. The results were statistical ly calculated to get scientific accuracy despite "variables," such as the fact that the same amount of alcohol will have less effect on one person than another. These "statistically significant" results were: the cold sober drivers correctly estimated the width between two posts through which an eight-foot bus could pass, and when they undertook to drive a bus repeatedly through the narrowest possible gap, they succeeded .The one-drink drivers were less successful, and the multiple-drink ones did even worse. Dr. Cohen is professor of psychology, University of Manchester, England. He has a world reputation for studies of the psychology of drivers and gamblers. Santa Barbara Notes Earthquake Activity Santa Barbara, Calif. (UPI) Residents of this quake-conscious area hoped today the region's latest earth shaking activity was over. 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