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Million-Dollar Chemical Plant Nears Completion; Production Expected To Start December 1

— continued Fnom Page One — ed with sea water, which has previously been carefully treated. The result of this reaction is the ■ precipitation of magnesium hy- ■ droxide in a crystalline form, which is filtered, and washed before being fed to a second set of rotary kilns, in which the water is driven off and the^finished product fully burned. ‘This product is then conveyed ’ to storage and shipped by rail for use in basic refractories. This type of refractory is used chiefly in basic open hearth furnaces, for the manufacture of steel, in electric furnaces for copper refining and other metallurgical industries. “Throughout the process both fresh water and steam are re- . quired at various stages, and for this purpose there arc provided a complete fresh water treating plant and a boiler plant. “The process used here is licensed from the British interests represented by Dr. Chesny. and the Northwest Magnesite Company’s rights extend t* the production of refractory magnesite.” While the combination of elements of sea water and dolomite to produce magnesite has been attempted for some time, the process and plant necessary to effect the combination successfully is 1 comparatively new and revolu-

tionary.

Dolomite is shipped to the local plant from Chester County, Pa., where it is quarried extensively, and where Northwest owns a substantial deposit of the high-

est quality rock.

In its "final state, magnesite is granular -in form and

tremely dense, both of these properties being essential for the best

quality of basic refractories. With approximately 40 workers

now on the operating payroll, applications are being received from local workers who will fill most of the permanent positions, ac-

cording to the company’s plans. While the Chesny Process ii

used widely in England to produce the base metal for making magnesium metal, the local plant will not produce the metal and

is therefore not subject

hazards of such plants, Mr. Mor-

row explained.

Lari jest enterprise in Cape May County, the plant covers approximately 15 acres along the bayshore, occupying a section of land which is a part of the Witmer Stone Wildlife Sanctuary. The plant consists of numcrand storage of sea water and ous concrete tanks and silos which are used in the treatment other elements of the process. A /fireproof building approximately 400 feet long by 100 feet wide is the nerve center of the plant, housing four units used in the process, and there are five other buildings in addition to a modem and efficient office building and a fully equipped control

laboratory.

Millions of gallons of sea water are drawn from Delaware Bay through a large intake pipe. After the important elements have been extracted, the water is returned to the* bay through a second pipe extending beyond the mean l<rw water mark. Clearing and grading of the plant site started last November, and actual construction of tanks and buildings began during the

winter.

In the course of the construction work, contractors have employed on average of 260 workers for the greater part of the time, providing employment for a large cross-section of craftsmen and laborers from all sections of south : ern New Jersey in addition to the nucleus of skilled workers brought here by the various contractors.

IS diLqh School <Boija Jjuvuunq, (Radio Qn 7l&w CdaA-Jjbm (?laA&,

Preparing for signal corps service in the event of their subsenuent induction into the Army, 18 Cape May High School- students are receiving basic training in radio communication as part of the war-time extra-curricular activity program launched recently in the local school. The students are receiving instruction on sending and receiving International Morse code in the communication class, which is taught by Principal Paul S. Ensminger dujing activity periods. At present the boys arc engaged in the construction of practice buzzers on which they will learn to send and receive code. The course being given in the local school is patterned after courses taught at U. S. Army training stations, school officials said. Besides instruction in sending and receiving, the class will learn the basic theory of radio and will probably receive rudimentary instruction in maintenance of radio equipment, although the course is designed primarily for communication only, Mr. Ensminger said. He explained that maintenance in most schools is taught as a separate course, and pointed out that the course involves such a wide sphere 1 of' study that it is impossible to handle it adequately in the comparatively short sessions local students could devote to it. "The communication course as we are teaching -it,” Mr. Ensmingcr explained, “is designed to fit the students to take their places with very little additional training in the Army Signal

Corps if they are called into service after their graduation. "We are attempting to give these students sufficient instruction and training so that they will be on a par with the average student in Signal Corps schools now operated by the Army,” he

added.

Mr. Ensminger said he hopes to have the class to a point where the students can send and receive at least 20 to 25 words of code per minute and be sufficiently familiar with the principles of radio communication to take positions in the Signal Corps. Students who are enrolled in the radio communication course are Charles Keeler, Floyd Brown, Larry Mears, Ralph Gallagher, David Fox, Charles Taylor, Melbourne Schellenger, Joseph Pocher, Robert Lemunyon, Shull Rutherford, Thomas L. Lemmon, Jack McPherson, William Weinberger,\ George ' Reeves, Ronald Barber, Elwood Coleman, Leonard Halloway and Paul Carroll. “Once the students become* skilled in sending and receiving code messages,” Mr. Ensminger explained, “they can develop speed by diligent practice. A good speed for most men in the Signal Corps and in regular radio schools as well as beginners engaged in commercial radio is approximately 30 words a minute, so with the basic training we hope to give our students will have an excellent start if they desire to follow radio either in the service or to continue their studies with a view toward making radio a career.’

Mail ’42 Yule

Gifts Early, Miller Urges

— Continued From Page One - power is hard to find and is inexperienced. Facilities of railroads and air lines are heavily taxed by movements of huge quantities of war materials and personnel. Extra trucks are almost impossible to obtain. Winter weather, hampering transportation, is '

ginning.

“The free-mailing privilege granted to members of the armed forces has raised their mailings some 30 per cent, it is estimated. Expansion of those forces also is adding rapidly to the postal

burden.

“The deadline already is past for mailing gifts to Army and Navy personnel overseas with assurance that the parcels will arrive by Christmas. The New York post office reports that in late October 350,000 such parcels were handled daily in that office alone. “The Post Office Department is making strenuous efforts to avoid such a terrific-jam as it faced in 1918 under similar conditions, during the First World War. It can succeed in those efforts—and ^vojiL many heartaches for its patrons—if the public will operate by mailing early,” Miller continued. Business generally in the local post office is considerably greater than during 1941, Mr. Miller ex-

Obituary

MRS. ELLEN L. ELDER Mrs. Ellen L. Elder, 82 years of age, died Thursday morning, November 5th, at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, -Mr. and Mrs. Harry Entriken, 112 Decatur street. Mrs. Elder was bom in Cham.bersburg, Pa. jmd made her home there for many years. She had made many- friends in Cape May during the past few years. Under the direction of Earl L. Hollingscad, mortician, the body was taken to Chambersburg. Pa. for funeral sen-ices and interment in Cedar Grove Cemetery on Sunday, November 8th. Mrs. Elder is survived by three daughters and a son, Mrs. Entriken, of Cape May; Mrs. H. Parmley, of Lancaster, Pa., Mrs. J. H. -Baker, of Aubudon, and Frank Elder, of Bristol, Pa., and a brother, John W. Lehman, Of . .Shippensburg, Pa.

SELECTEES’ FURLOUGH

PERIOD REDUCED

Effective on Monday, all southern Cape May County selectees inducted into the Army will have a week’s furlough from the time of their induction until they begin active duty, members of Local Board No. 2, in charge of Selective Service Administration

Hess Re-elected By Religious Council Ira P. Hess, of Sea Isle City, was re-elected president of the Cape May County Council of Religious Education at the 17th annual convention of the organization at Seaville on Friday. Other officers elected are Albert Wells, Palermo, first vice president; Aaron Stephenson, Ocean City, second vice president; A C. Wilsey, Sea Isle City, secretary and treasurer; R. E. Reeves, Cold Spring, recording secretary; Ira P. Hess, Sea Isle City, state council; Rev. C. W. Dannenhauer, Cape May Court House, county chaplain. Miss Rachel Tozour, of Court House, and the Rev. Samuel Way, of- Green Creek, were named chairmen of children's work; the Rev. A. S. Layton and Miss Dorothy Brown, of Court House, were named chairmen of Young Peo-

ple’s Work.

Miss Helen Carroll, of Dcnnisville, was elected chairman of the Home Department. Mr. Hess was named song leader. Mrs. Carl* Sharp, of Seaville, as elected temperance chairman; the Rev. Benjamin Allgood. Ocean City; leadership training chairman; Carl Sharp, of Seaville and Francis Douglass, of Court House, church administration; Mrs. Mary Fisher, Green Creek, missionary chairman; Peter Totten, Palermo, and Leon- Ewing, of West Cape May, publicity chairmen. Gilbert Smith, of Avalon, and Mr. Reeves were named to the nominating committee.

Farmers Will Appeal

Gas Allotments

COURT HOUSE — Reports are being reteived by the Cape May County Farm Truck Transportation Committee that many farmers who have' received Certificates of War Necessity from the Office of Defense Transportation, Detroit, have been allowed only a third to a half of the gasoline they considered necessary to carry on essential farm work. The only recourse in the event

insufficient allowances,*

Weddings WILL WED SATURDAY The Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea will be the scene of a wedding Saturday evening at 7:30 o’clock when Miss Elizabeth Ann Lepore, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lepore, of Sixth avenue, West Cape May, will become the bride of William Leonard Franer, 2c machinist mate, U. S. Naval Air Station, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Franer, of Lebanon, Ohio. The double ring ceremony will be used, with the Rev. Kelly performing the ceremony. The bride will wear a gown of royal blue cMffon velvet and will carry a bouquet of pink Joses. She will be attended by her sister, Miss Florence Aurita Lepore, who will wear *^gown of ^ color velvet and her bouquet also be of roses. The best man will be Frank

Cocchiarale.

Following the ceremony bride and groom will make their home at the Victoria Apartments

i Broadway.

The bride was graduated from the Cape May High School, class

of ’41'.

CHURCH—SCHAEFFER Announcement has been made of the marriage of Miss Alice E. Schaeffer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Schaeffer, of North Wildwood, and LeRoy A. Church, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Church, of 1115 Washington street, this city. The ceremony took place in Philadelphia on October 22nd, with the Rev. Herbert Benton officiating. The couple will reside in Philadelphia. CZECHOWSKI—EWING A quiet- wedding was performed i Saturday evening, October 31, in the Church of Our Lady, Star of the Sea when Miss Eleanor Marie Ewing, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. .Donald^ Ewing, of West Cape May, became the bride of Walter L. Czeehowski, a marine, stationed in Macon, Ga. The couple was attended by the bride’s sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Banks, of West Cape May. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Paul

N. Fairbrother.

A reception was held at the home of the bride’s parents, after

Plane Spotters

Hear Lecture

Would you know a Jananese Zero or a German Stuka bomber if you saw one winging its way

'or Washington street?

Probably not, and neither would most of the patriotic volunteer spotters who lend their eyes and ears to the local observation post. However, on tne ability to identify friendly and hostile aircraft may depend the safety of millions of people along the Atlantic seaboard. Alertness may stave off a calamity as great as Pearl

Harbor.

Toward this purpose of identifying planes, Lieutenant B. H. Fisher, of a Cape May Naval air squadron, lectured and showed motion pictures to a few women spotters last Thursday at the Naval Air iStation. He explained the WEFT system of identification (wings, engine, fuselage and tail) and the numerous ways parts may differ i various planes. Scores of small wooden models (like those your airminded youngsters make) helped to illustrate

his talk.

Words like "blister”, "greenhouse”, “buffalo” and “parasol” took on new meaning for the spotter, audience as the afternoon pro-

gressed.

Although there was more information than any of .the women spotters could absorb’ at one meeting, the lecture gave them a starting point from which to advance in the study of plane identification. “In this war of the air the importance of identifying planes cannot be overemphasized,” Lieutenant Fisher declared. “Mistakes in identity have been costly to both sides. The Italians once bombed their own fleet. The English have mistaken German planes for their own and some Polish daredevils once destroyed 15 German Messerschmitts o« the ground because the Germans couldn't tell an English plane when they saw one.” The afternoon was so instructive and inspiring that Mrs. Ernest Corson, chief observer of the Erma post, felt all spotters should have an opportunity to see the motion pictures and hear a similar talk on aircraft identification. She has obtained permission through the cooperation of Lieutenant V. G. Lambert, U.S.N., commander of a local scouting squadron, to have a repeat lecture at the Consolidated School

plained A. S. Walker, ^airman the~ceremony. 1 ”'

ice? "is to

of the county committi

prepare to appeal to the Atlantic City District Office of the ODT 30 days or more after receipt of

the certiFicates.”

Walker suggested that farmers planning appeals should write to the local committee reporting how much gas was asked, how much was allowed and stating clearly what use is planned for the gaso-

line.

SCHOOLS HAVE SPECIAL ARMISTICE DAY PROGRAM Police Chief John J. Spencer, Jr. addressed the student body of Cape May High School Tuesday afternoon at a special Armistice Day program. A veteran of World War I, Chief Spencer, who is also chairman of the local defense council, spoke interestingly of the

observance.

Jack Trout, a high school stu-

thU are*, announced this week. . dent, gave a reading on Armistice Under the previous system, se- Day. The program wag conducted lectees were granted _ two weeks’ by Steven J. Steger, of the facfurlough during which ^time they j ulty^ and music was furnished by

STIEFEL—SOLOMON ERMA — Miss Lorella Solomon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Solomon, of Wildwood, and Mr. Ivins Stiefel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Stiefel, Sr., of Erma, were united in marriage on Sunday afternoon at the Calvary Orthodox Presbyterian Church by the Rev. Leslie A. Dunn. , Miss Clara Solomon, sister of the bride, was bridesmaid, and Mr. Wilson Thompson was best

man.

After a reception at the home of the bride’s parents, the bridal party motored to Cape May Court House where dinner was served. Mr. and Mrs. Stiefel will reside at the home of the bridegroom’s parents. Mr. Stiefel is employed in a chain store at Cape May Court House.

Curfew May Be Discussed At Town Meeting — Continued From Page One — “I feel that a matter of this kind is important to every citizen of Cape -May, particularly tc parents, and I believe that a town meeting is the logical way in which to obtain expressions erf honest opinion on this important question,” the Senator said. Agreeing that a town meeting would be the most feasible way of obtaining an expression of publie sentiment, the Commissioners and Dr. Pickard decided to put the matter before the Board of Education for approval. For some time, individuals and organizations concerned with the morals of Ca’pe May youth have discussed the possibility of a curfew as a solution to the problem, although no formal request for official action has ever been made. A vear ago, the problem broached to high school stud who voted to impose a voluntary curfew, which remained in effect for some time. Commenting on the results of that attempt. Dr. Pickard said that it was highly successful with students who gave no cause for concern, but that with the minority which presented the problems it had little effect: Principal cause of concern at the present time is the influx of a larger population, and the effect of such an influx on the young people of the community. At Friday’s conference, it was pointed out that many reports which have circulated about various aspects of the general problem have been found to be untrue and many others highly exaggerated. Expressing the view that th£ problem was principally one for parents to solve individually, the officials said that they would welcome a representative expression of public opinion on the subject to determine whether or not it seemed generally desirable for the city to enact a curfew law and attempt to enforce its provisions.

Navy nurses, like Navy men afloat, have no idea of their destination when they board a ship. Navy nurses enlist for three years and may extend their time indefintely.

“Distilled spirits”, say Navy Regulations, “are allowed aboard ihip only for medicinal purposes.

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