BILLY & FRANCES WOOD
Across the Fence
By
Arvord Abernethy
August
7, 1980
Mary,
my better half, had complained about so many of the TV programs being
reruns; now she says that the weather forecasts on all the stations are
reruns. Don’t you imagine that if we had a chance to rerun some of the
chapters of our lives that we would change the script a little?
It
is said that necessity is the mother of invention. I have just read of a
new use for the once lowly peanut. The peanut was among the first gifts
the Indians gave to the white man; but it took George Washington Carver
to really bring out its worth when he discovered about 300 ways it could
be used.
Chin-Ming
Chen, associate professor at
Georgia
’s
School
of
Forestry Resources
has used an extract from peanut hulls to replace phenol in making
adhesives and synthetic resins. Phenol is used in making plywood,
particle board and other exterior wood products. It is made from
petroleum and is believed that the peanut extract can replace 80 % of
the phenol now used. The price of phenol has risen steadily since the
Arab oil embargo of 1974.
If
someone would only develop a car that would run on all this good
Texas
solar power, we could tell the Arabs to use their oil to keep down dust
in the desert.
There
is a lot being done in developing an efficient was to produce gasohol
from farm products, and many of us will live to see it widely used.
Experiments are going on at Texas Tech now to find ways to produce
energy from mesquite trees, of which
West Texas
is richly blessed or cursed.
Confucius
say: Man does not stumble over mountains. Man stumbles over molehills.
“The
horse knows the way to carry the sleigh through the white and drifted
snow as to grandmother’s house we go.”
If
you drive down to the south end of
Reagan Street
you will how grandmother and grandfather Billy Wood are getting ready
for coming celebrations with their grandchildren.
Since
each son, Barry and Chris, and their wives each have a child and Pam and
Bobby Horner’s son has just arrived, the Woods are getting ready for
them.
They
have contracted with Bob Jarvis to add more rooms to their home and to
remodel some of the interior. This will make for them a lovely home down
among those huge trees.
Shared by Roy
Ables
ACROSS THE FENCE
