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® AAribute te he eartlest platens
86M Herteltlle industry was paid baal
Wight hy Dro Morrls Wayman, tech:
Hied director of Columbia Cette
Jaye flii's Watson [stand pudtp adil,
Dr Wayman was guest sppaker at
ther tien Muater Award thinquel
“ont wile WoC. danes was named
‘ce Ante Hpert's Good Citizen ol
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SP Wayman sald thot it was
fitting, on the night we later aur
commAMaltys hese citizen Ghat we
‘shoal hettor thor whe have moved |
a4, forward,”

PMS speech, on the Cevclle: tities.
tre Chet deals with making eloth,
-Jabrles for chaties, drapes, phate
ster, protective aml decoratlve
worden meterdils, follows,

have good Egyptian hn
-§,000 years old. .
The first fibres used were flax

ald, cotton from Indian—anat least
5,000 years~-and wool from sheep
and goats in Mesopotamia at
least 6,000 years old. These three
libres are the basic textile {bres

‘after all these — centuries

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The people of Indla were yery

 

huve beet: aiaking cloth On thelr handlooms they made
very fine and delicate cotton
muslins and calicoes. King Solo.
mon's temple, 950 B.C, used cot.
ton hangings tistead of the Jo-

, 4 People
for a long time--at Igost 20,000
ars. Spinntag of fibres toto
gin is probabiy 24 000 vears ald.
Spinning equipnicsit 10900 years bn ne : ;
id Is knuwn. Teas provable that Guy available wool and linen,
thie firsts yas sn wes for Weaving is very old, partly, 1
read for sewing hides together Suppose, because there are many
ee then for fish nets and examples of weaving In nature,
' dnares. The first spunness were Such as birds building nests, But
firobably the Swiss Lake Dwellers “Pinning is nob s_~-vlous. Spin-
Who lived ina dake area north Hing fnvolves twisting together
Italy dnd could use fish nets,; fbres to make yarn.
Weaving is still older and pre-} The Exyptlans become most
ded cloth making. Nets may adept at making linen cloth. Lat-
Fivobeen first, thet, mats, and er when the Greeks becaine the
nally two edges uf the mats dominent sea power in the Medlt-
ined together to form baskets jterranean, Odysseus made sev-
We have equipment for weaving eral trips : Rye to capiire
: eh 1e:19.000 vear: women and children who were
phich vt is12,000 year. old. We skilled makers of fine Hnen,
BO RREREARMMRER MR These people were sold as slaves
a i Mito Greek nobility, An unskilled
@ woman textile worker brought

| four oxen in the market, but for
gic: skilled clothmaker, at least 20
wioxen were demanded. -
mM) Greece also developed its own
Mi textiie Industry based on both
jlinen and wool, but they also
‘traded figs and oils for urinted
g{calicoes and muslin firin India,
mand, after Alexander th: Great
Wi} ‘about 350 B.C.) silk from China,
I mentione’ these women
gistlaves who were textile workers
M because. now i want to pay tri
Webute tua very great woman, the
Hi lady wno invented sitk, The in-

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Most complex human inventions
gj because it combined so many dif-
Miferent elements to produce a
Bi product at once so beautiful and
ace useful, Some 4,505 years ago,

‘Si-Ling, who was the wife of a
ai Chinese emperor, invented silk.
}) «Now how Is silk different from
Bithe fibres that we have been
Bi discussive? Silk is different be-
Bt eause silk ts composed of ex-

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Wd at long individual filaments cotten could be made ‘quid, it]

to make nen, waere we have! together relntively short hairs to.
samples from Egypt 6,000 years g2t yarn—the yarn is ready made

of antiquity—flax, wool, cotton, :
‘It is so Interesting to think that!
of;
earching the plant and animal}
‘Kingdoms, linen, wool and cotton:
fare still the basic textile mater,
{Ling had to develop the culture

qheew es . . _
By DR. MORRIS WAYMAN, PAD. odept_ at making cotton cloth,”

addition, she had to develop the
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could be squirted through a spin.
neret and would also harden to
form a very long filament, But
unfortunately, cotton does not
—and Jt can therefore be so fine, melt, so that direct approach Is
and so beautiful, out, Dot

Silk is secreted by the enters} Well. can cotton be dissolved
pillar of Bombyx Moria moth-- In anything? Actually, there are
when it js wrapping itself In Its very few: solvents, ‘for cotton.
cocoon. It has a double spinner- Even simple rayon, with whieh
ct in its head that It moves back we are so familiar, is made by a
and forth ina figure eight move- relatively complex:chomleal pros |.
ment while It wraps itself up. cess in which the cotton Is first
This caterpillar feeds on mul- transformed Into an unstable
berry leaves, To Invent silk Si- derivative which Js soluble jp
caustic, and the solution is (hen

--up to 1,000 yards long. It ts
therefore not necessary to twist

of mulberry trees and the har-
vesting of the leaves; she had to
undeystand the life cycle of this
moth, the care of the eggs, the
culture of the caterpillars, In

spinnerets Into acid, where th:
cellulase that the cotton js made
of is reformed as a long contin-
uous {Iament, or more nsually as
a bundle of continuous flaments
which are gathered together an?
filament in the eoccon, and spun inte yarn, This was one of
means for unravelling the co- the great contributions of Cross
coun, and means for recling It and Bevan. .
Into bobbins of yarn, There is; The Drevfus brothers ap-
every reason to belleve that SI- proached the same problem. a
Ling not only left explicit diree- little differently. They made a
tlons on all these things, but stable compound of cellulose, the
went on to make improvements acetate, which they could dis-
in the loom that enabled China solve in acetone (nail polish re-
to produce the beautiful cloth mover). When the solutlon was
for which she became famous, ‘squirted out into the alr through
‘Silk Is so fine that the raw exceedingly fine holes in spin-
tllament are two to four denier. nerets, the acetone evaporated,
You are familiar with denier—(5 Jeaving the filaments of cellulose
denier is the sheerest hose, Silk: seetate, lustrous and beautiful,
is so fine and so light that it}behind, .It- must have - been
takes 1,000 milles of it to.welgh ajthritling to have done it first. It
pound! is still exiting to watch It belng

For most uses it Is twisted into; done today. re
yarn of four, six or eight double! | So the first buse for artificial
filaments, by unravelling and|Sik ts cellulose, the material of;
itwisting the yarn fromm that} which cotton fs made, and also
‘many cocoons simultaneously. jthe main chemical substance in
World silk proauction was|treés.. By treating wood with
probably at its height in the|Vartoux: chemicals, ag we. fo! ab’
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Prince Rupert Daily News
Wednesday, March 2, 1055.

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CODFISH OF CANADA'S Grand Banks are so life-like they
“appear to be swimming Jn thelr regular habitat ag T. M, Shortt,
thief of art and exhibits, puts the finishing touches 'tg the three-
‘dimensional display in'the gallery of Canadian fich ab Toronto's
“Royal Ontdrlo Museum. The permanent fish exhibit, a $113,000,

project of the museum’ and the federal fisheries department,

opens March 28, , (CP Pholo)

" ——e yr —— - —_ T° -

OUTDOORS - With Marty
{Our neighbors In Terrace arc, Game Warden Cov Informed
keenly aware of the mighty in-!th? court that these people had!

ctease In fishing pressure now!taken a total of 27 fish. sly of
being sustained by the Copper|them being below five pounds

[Man Charg ed | si

WHITE ROCK, B.C, & —- John
R. MacRae, 43, who sald he }
didn't like the way hls mother”
“tixed his breakfast,” was charge
ed Monday with murder inthe
riranguintion of ‘Mrs. Minnte
Copeland MacRae,

Macha

arrested after’ turning himself:
over to an ROMP offleer lying
in this corstal resort town ‘rbout
aimile north of the United States
border.
The bedy of MacRae's 80-
jolt mother war found-on her &
bedroom floor, (he head show. $f
~ Ing signs of brutal beating: How."
ever, police said the cause ‘of
death was apparently strangu-
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Treaty Urged one
| reaty Urg BCA
VICTORIA (CP)—The ’ British
Columbia government has been
me jisked to urge the federal: gov-

# ernment to halt what was term: ;
ed the “heavy exploitation” of
{lsh by United States and Ja-
panese fishermen,
A delegation from the United
'Fishermen and Allied Workers
Union (nd). made the. recom:
mendations in a brief-presented
to the legislature's labor coir.
mittee. . tO
It urged Canada sign a pink
jsalmon treaty with the U.S. with
in Joint: contrat committee’ to
‘regulate
charged American | fishermen
were exploiting the f8h from the ff the Dominio:
present Unree mile Hmit, and
recommended: terrl\erial waters
be extended to a ning-mile limit.

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Brith |

“pinks” fishing. . It

Set New H
During Febru
“VICTORIA. S2 Fa
anecd payny
Britlsh Cala
of, $2,336,601, W.

of. Natinn
‘wold toda

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behalf of 386,7
747 familles, .
_ During the'mon’
Vitis SAL"

from tho’ rately. Brovinegs:
240 families Jolt for-ather pug

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Old agers sails bist
custered On iiprease durltyly
month witty a total of $339

‘War, when about 30-40,000,000 from it everything which Is not
ipounds per year was produced,
‘This seems lke a lot, but you
‘know, it is a big world. °

| At our mill on Watson Island
“we make about 70,000 tons a year
‘af cellulose for cellulose acethte,
‘and tis cellulose will

ivention of silk was one of the, make 240,000,000 pounds of this!

‘artificial silk~six to eight times
‘the world production of natural
silk at its height! .
| In 1944 on this continent there
was produced 1.4 billion pounds
(of artificial silk of the two maln
kinds, acetate and crayon, and
this is 40 times the total world

 

is made.

Since It Is man-made, there are
many things that. can be done
with it—recently there has begun
the manufacture of colored yarns
golds and greens and reds andj
blues, with the color built in and
all the natural tustre still on the
surface of the fibres,

Also recently substantial gains
have been made in Improving the
textile characteristics of cellu-!
lose acetate fibres. A new fibre
has been introduced called arnel.

wanted, and make from the wood River and Jakes In the vicinity,!welght cach, which fact elasses
pure cellulose, This is the base so much so that there are carly ;them as rainbow trout when in
from which most artificial sik rumblings of the need for some'fresh water, [t would ‘appear
sort of fish propagation so that that the 21 fish over five pounds
anglers may not go empty away./each were a satisfactory bag,

‘but the retention of the other
thalf dozen brought about the
conviction of two of the anglers
he taking rainbow trout during
t
and costs, the other two anglers
had the charge agains, then
dismissed. -

Any visiting angler travels fur
to meet the fish of his cholee.
He sperds a lot more money
than he Ilkes the Nttle lady to
know about, the fish he brings
home are somethnes worth thelr
welght in uranium, the lift the,
successful angler gives his ego
ig beyond price, ,vet he only
grudgingly digs: down for the
Hny {ce his licence costs,

urgent need for self-policing,
besides the crying Inck of en-|

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e closed senson:, fine $200.00

He-e again is pointed oft the

The brief also recommended a
curh on high seas operations o!
the Japanese expeditions ¢’'t
Alaska until it can be found
where the fish originate’ and
whether extensive depletion ef-
fects Canadian fishing opera-
tions.

GO CY TE VSTER
OTTAWA © The works des
partment plans to install two new,
ppd traanstt eho diters th Cnt
Penee ‘Tower of tan pirthement
bubdines ‘The oevituna lo eon
about S370 say be ready Deer's

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{production of natitral ‘silk at its
‘best period, ,

Arnel is a cellulose triacetate:
ifibre which shows: remarkable |
' An the cost Js about one-sixth ‘resistance. to-a variety of dam-,
‘that.of natural silk, aging conditions. encountered in
+ So yeu can see that the great: normal fabtic use: |“ Wdefinitely
English chemists, Cross and! puts ecllulosies In the wash-and.
[Pevan, and the great Swiss{wear category. ‘This hus consid.
chemists, Henrl and Camille‘crable significance for our elty,
Dreyfus, who ploneered the pro- It is a sure sign that regardless
cuction of these artiffelal silks, of other developments in syn-
-have found a way to spread thetle textiles, the use of cellu.
around to so many more people lose will continue; and continue
lhe good things of the world we, to expand.

{live In 1. We here In Prince Rupert can.
; The Invention of artifielal silk n
‘ean be Jooked at this way: To cannot grow siikworms, We ean.

land -streams, ‘to -dotect’ and

ot grow mulberry trees, and we:

How are we (o provide: these forcement officers. Any game or

essary fish, to:police the Ink
MEE a en. te ee tee The is depriving you and me of

that which la ours, “when once
we have legally reduced the {sh
jor animal to possession. The law
will uphold. tls equipotlence so
that the man of Ineans, with
time to spare for fishing while
other worthy men must work,
shall not have things all his own
way to the detriment of our
wildiife resources.

thwart: outbreakk of fish ‘killing
digease, to prevent: and halt pol-
Intion of waters, (itlekg we access
ourselves “An Increase ‘in the
present small Ilcencé’ fee? We
pay more: for a single salmon
plug, or a couple: of streamer
flies, or a simple casting Hne, or
virtually any plece of the multl-
tudinotis components seemingly
vital to “The Compleat Angler,” + + &

How much longer shall we: fuck Macdonald hus received

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rot the colton fires to lle paral- we are surrounded by a lush and
lel and then maken long, lvose wealthy forest, and we can make

- aliver which {s thon extended and heoutiful artifietal silk here, out unit 9 very few ye

$pun as ona spinning wheel to of the trees,

make yarn, In esscnee it is Une) -For that reason our community
ng tn nnd twisting together is richer for the vision of those
short fibres to make tong yarn. pioneers and those who hive
‘The silk worm doesn't do this-- earrled ther work forwird,

Ht has glands which secrete a
‘Thid through spinnerets whieh
‘hardens after seerelion: Into a
very long flument, Now If the

Sweepstakes
Urged by UFAW

VICTORIA (CP The 0,000-
member United Fishermen and
‘Allied Workers’ Union (nd
thas called op the provinelal
Rovernment to operate province.
wide aweepstnkes. nnd to legalize
solterles,

The — recommendation — wat
mide in a brief presented to the
Joglalature's labor committes, |
_t Tt asked that the government‘
oparate sweepstakes stinilar to
those In freland and Austratta

Plane Crash
a finds for provinelal hoa. | F, atal h 0 F; / ve

wore VABE CHARLES, La, h~ A
rippled BedT Jet bomber anagh.
ted {nto a surburbun rosidentia’

; jaren Monday night, killing five

' ns tent a flery swath Into a

‘Arniler park.

' ‘Tho dead Included the thrag

alvinen and a. young couple

whos house vas demolished by
flaming debris,

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peered es en rere ttn niet ee

No Election Need

Asserts Bennett

| VICTORIA’ @--Premler Bens
nett sald yesterday he sees no
need for an early provinelal gen.
eral cleation,

Commenting on predictions by
Liberal leader Arthur Latng that
© provincial eleetion will be held
Jn 1086, the premier sald, "The
people seem 69 well pleased with
this government, I see no need
for an early election,”

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WEDRERDAY Midnight

For ronprvutiqny write at
aN cull City or Donut Office

nature will provide the wonders: Fish and Wildlife Service to the
‘ful fishing we have had nithor. (effect that the pintail duck he

heaneo whatever here inthe north s0ring hateh, tagged on the Bow
ars ano, wo Hiver nrar Ogden, Alta, last
jmuct not consider curselves to, July. An interesting examole of
be hard done by now that the the fact that the Rorkies are!
‘changlng times and wavs haye Met Another bumy to be flown
‘hrugt the need for additianal 2eross, wonderfull
moneys upon tt, Let us alli. t+ oe |
‘cheerfully volunteer to pay more: A inmost Imnortont meeting of:
‘for our angling Heenees and en- the Rod & Gin Chih nest Mone;
leure ourselves a-tong continue; 78 Veh eleation of of flees:
‘ance of what stl amounte tojand Your presense and volee Is:

rpretty darn good (ishing right realy a
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mon A wife ts ty. cesun who enn pp. |
- ‘The Cloyah is providing gout | pies

idiee out of a oman'a bureau:
steoliending for hoe happy i®
stgelhrending for : pt idvawer ie op at) souks that|

soulk who spend bealifle hours eter
‘with the tee thickening aronnd Weren't there, |
thelr wader tops, but the cooler | ag

weather has made the brawline
"10 Gel. Tanks. . $50

stream fixhable and profitable | 3
275 Gol. Tanks... $75

Koh Arnistrong as usual faling
an occasional fish heme, but 550 Gal. Domestic Fual
TONKS $110

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fishorman who faked the woes | Co, Md.
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