The Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, November 24, 1939 Page: 2 of 22
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Musical, Literary Program Set at TWC Texans Find New Use for Castor Bean
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Plans for a musico-literary pro- ments!
gram Dec. 12 have been announc
Mrs. Rose Lee Lisenby, English
ed by members of the Ex-Student department head will review "My
Assn. of Texas Wesleyan College. Memories,” autobiography of Carl
Mrs. Weldon Bradley, 3524 Ave-Venth, noted composer, and for-
nue E, is chairman of arrange-mer dean of fine arts of Texas
Woman's College.
A musical program featuring
the works of the late dean will be
presented under direction of Mrs.
Ellen Jane Lindsay, head of the
TWC voice department.
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Another step in science. Commodore B. M. H atfield, founder of the Trinity River Basin’s 750-
acre castor bean plantation, sits in on an experiment in the laboratory at Denton’s North Texas
State Teachers College, where Gilbert C. Wilson (left) and W. N. Masters, head of the science depart-
ment, are working at castor bean oil extraction and developing a new plastic from the plant.
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Hardwood Plastic Is Being
Developed at Denton School
NTSTC Provides Commodore Hatfield With a
Laboratory to Study Plantation's Plants
Camp Fire Council
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Catherine Wahlstrom, national
field secretary, at the fall dinner
meeting in the lecture room of
the Woman’s Club at 6 p. m. Mon-
By C. I- DOUGLAS
A combination social, economic and scientific experiment unique
in the history of all three fields is coming rapidly to a head among
the test tubes and Bunsen burners of the laboratory at Denton's
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the rotund figure of whiskered
Commodore B. M. Hatfield, self-
styled "Admiral of the Trinity
River."..
The scientists are developing a
tough, durable new plastic from
the stalks and stems of castor
bean plants produced on a -750-
acre co-operative plantation which
the Commodore organized at Ro-
mayor in the Trinity Basin, and
college officials have become so
the laboratory equipment.
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The Commodore said that the
spring castor planting in the
basin would be near 9000 acres,
and that with the plant the farm-
ers will be able to extract bean
oil that will sell for 27 cents a
pound as compared with the three
enthusiastic over castor chemur- cents a pound market price for
gic possibilities that they are raw beans
equipping a laboratory for the Ropes Are Strong
Commodore's people at Romayor. .
Rope Weaving Started ' Members of -the co-operative
,ie 34 . already are producing from the
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castor beans, making insecticide instead of the 2 1-2-inch hemp
from the leaves, and manufactur- When the Commodore delivered
| inf plastic from the stalks, stems
and leaves.
Already they are weaving, rope
from the stalks.
W. J. McConnell, president of
the first castor tie lines to Capt.
Tom Jenkins of the tug Afnes
M. the captain laughed.
"You're a good old fellow, Com-
modore,” he said, “but you can't
N.T.S.T.C., announced today that expect me to use these strings to
the college will send Mr Wilson expect me to use these strings to
and a group’ of students to the |
Basin to help the river people
learn the basic secrets of process- i
B. R. Presley 32. of 2219 De-
| catur, accidentally shot in the ,
right thigh while hunting yester-
day near Handley, was released 1
from City-County Hospital today '
after treatment.
He told Deputy Sheriff Petta
that the 22 rifle of a hunting |
companion, Sam Cothen, 26, of
2704 E. First, accidentally dis-j
charged when Cothen laid It on
the ground to go after a squirrel
! he had shot
tie together my barges."
But Captain Jenkins did try
them, and now the Agnes M. car-
ries castor rope entirely.
Roots Boll Weevils
ing.
"The Romayor plantation ex-
periment, envisioned and inspired
by the Commodore, has great pos- . . -
sibilities," said Mr. Wilson, "and seen, says Mr. Wilson,
it's a social as well as scientific ’" connection with the rest of
and economic experiment. As a his work the Commodore has
one-man Chamber of Commerce learned something else important
the old man is accomplishing won- * "
ders on the lower river."
- Plants 40 Feet Tall
"Outside of metal they're about
the strongest ropes I’ve ever
Tn connection with the rest of
about, the castor plants,
"If they're planted In the same
field with cotton the cutworms
The castor beans which
the
Commodore and the farmers
planted last April are probably
the finest ever grown in Texas.
Some plants have reached the re-
markable height of 40 feet, with
tree-like trunks as much as nine
inches in diameter at the base.
Some plants carry as many as
250 clusters of beans.
Looking over the 750 acres sev- |
eral months ago, Commodore Hat-
field was struck by an idea that,
his people could make more from
their fields by processing the
csstom themselves. Otherwise
they could get only three rents a
pound for the beans on the east-
ern market.
He put his farmers’ co-opera-
live to work building a "labora-
tory." Farmers cut and hauled
the logs, sawmill men sawed the
lumber, and the rivermen pitched
in with hammers and nails. The
building, 30 by 60 feet and 24
feet high, was completed several
weeks ago, at no cost except la-
bor. But the farmers of the Lib-
and weevils will leave,” he said.
"In the fields down there -where
we've experimented you can't find
a damaged boll.'’
And that, in the opinion of Mr.
Wilson and W. N. Masters, head
of the N.T.S.T.C. science depart-
ment. may he another important
contribution to agriculture from
the Old Man of the River.
Ierty Castor Bean Assn, had no
scientific equipment to put into it.
Wilson Takes Hand
However, the N.T.S.T.C. chem-
ist. at the invitation of the Com-
modore, had Inspected the project
and had gone back to Denton
filled with enthusiasm. He took
with him some of the castor plants
and put his class to work experi-
menting in plastic.
They used a cake of stalks,
stems and leaves, with certain
chemicals to activate the mixture,
until they hit upon something
that surprised even themselves.
They are able to turn out a
plastic which, after being put
through a wringer and dried in
sheets, becomes a material that is
harder than the hardest wood and
has a metal-like property.
“It can be used for flooring,
furniture, tiling or even house-
building,'’ said Mr. Wilson, "and
in my opinion it can be produced
cheaper than many other similar
materials That's because nothing
is used but the castor plants,
which contained their own binding
element. Even the chemicals used
in processing are recovered, so
nothing is lost.”
Chemist Wilson says the for-
mula is simple enough that he an-
ticipates no difficulty in teaching
the process to the farmers who
will operate the Commodore s
Romayor plant.
"Wilson is the answer to my
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Weaver, Don E. The Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, November 24, 1939, newspaper, November 24, 1939; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1685359/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fort Worth Public Library.