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rhffelp Manufacture Gasoline Elizabeth Foster,\;2I, cf 738-Bel- By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE Associated Press Science Editor NEW,YORK, April 25. 0*P) -- Lovely, synthetic beads which some women will wear as neck laces after the war,, also will be used to manufacture much of your postwar gasoline. The beads are the size of me dium pearls, translucent, nearly white. Costume jewelers have been asking for them, but getting This`porosity is one of the se crets of the gasoline-making. The scope is almost incredible. An av erage room full of these beads, if spread flat forming an even sheet of every bit of surface in the pores, would cover all of New England 'and also New York State, Pennsyl vania, New J.ersey and Maryland. MIRACLE OF CRACKING If you could do that, the miracle of catalytic cracking would no den street, Monterey, and Dora L. Thomas, 19, of the same address, were arrested yesterday for shop lifting in a Pacific Grove depart ment store. They had in their pos session a large cloth bag contain ing articles which they had assertedly stolen from four different stores in Pacific Grove and Mon terey. Both girls pleaded guilty and were fined $50 each. none, because the beauties are the longer be so, mysterious. You newest, and some , claim the best would see the vapors from hot way, of making warplane 100-oc petroleum spread in a thin sheet .sc., covers two of machine gun fire :tymen on enemy om. Signal Corps) tane gasoline. . . The .beads are catalysts, their composition secret, and called the most important single gasoline making advance in a decade which was already notable for many pe troleum miracles. At present the entire production is planned to go to 30 new.war fuel plants, most of them still- under construction. . EXTREMELY HARD -rgf' These synthetics are extremely hard. They appear absolutely solid but actually they are perhaps the most completely porous things in the world, honeycombs of invisible corridors. Lay one of these beads on a 25 cent piece on the floor, and an other quarter on top of the bead.- Then step on the pile. If you are an average-size wonpan, you will have to stamp. When you do, the bead will break with a crack like a cap pis over all this vast area. Momentar ily the oil vapors would stick to the sheet--be adsorbed (not ab sorbed.) In that moment chemical changes would take place in the layer of oil vapor. .Presently the vapors would rise, changed into a different chemical structure, but leaving the beads unaltered, ready for the next vapora. These changed vapors would condense as gasoline, or if want ed, into some other form of motor fuel. This'is what happens in a crack ing plant. The bead surface which would cover New England the middle Atlantic States Ts concen trated in a tall tower, or towers. The oil vapors enter at the top and flow downward through the.pores of the beads. They stick to as much surface as^they would in an imagi nary outdoor spread, and do it more efficiently. STOP riding on smooth tires your tires om carefully RECAP . . Tire & Radio ; race, judging, skin id horse and rider. that group shared ith Troop 92 in the enderfoot. Troop 46 tol. When you look under the top quarter, most of the bead will have vanished completely. There will be a few small fragments, the rest dissolved into dust. Production of Vitamin C will be about ten times greater in 1944 than in 1941, the Department of Agriculture estimates. 4S5 UKhthmue* Th. GO 1 f New Monterey RADIO REPAIRING ug-of-war and knot- class, while Troop 48 ie water boiling con- Make old, dingy Rooms look like New . ' A single coat does it with WONSOVER McPhillips Paint Store 5th and San Carlos Carmel Phone 818 ce awards went to ie chariot race, skin ot tying, tenderfoot, i rider. Troop 90 was t tying, second class: aoiiing. Troop 92 was he tug-of-war and r second in judging, d 46 obtained enough lifv in the proficient will be duly recogt accomplishment at Honor on May 15th. ;o looking forward to ee on May sixth and o the annual summer will be held at Big close of school. erican soldier has lare feet of sleeping ace in the "tent citi<X:--------- as Bemn b$ Santa Fm