Evening star. [volume], June 03, 1937, Page A-14, Image 14

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WIDESPREAD SCALE
ERRORS DISCLOSED
Weights and Measures Par
ley Told of Bureau of
Standards Tests.
Ralph W. Smith of the Bureau of i
Standards told the Twenty-seventh j
National Conference on Weights and
Measures today that inaccuracy was
found in 83 per cent of 343 vehicle
scales tested by bureau equipment In
five South Atlantic States during the
last six months.
The tests were made in co-opera
tion with State officials of Virginia. '
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia and Florida to demonstrate
equipment developed by the bureau
to check on the accuracy of wagon
and truck scales.
Most of the scales tested, Smith
•aid, were used to weigh coal in truck
load lots, and 50 per cent of them
had been used to wqigh loads in ex
cess of their capacity, which gave re
fill ts “not to be depended upon.”
Error l’p to 40 Fer Cent.
He said the bureau tests disclosed
that 37 per cent of the scales were
out of balance at zero by more than
6 pounds. Six of the scales were
found to have abnormally large per
centage errors, ranging from 14.67
per cent to 40 per cent. The aver
age percentage error for all the 343
scales was 1.39, approximately seven
times the accepted tolerance of two
tenths of 1 per cent.
"W’e believe that the testing service
Which we have been rendering has
disclosed conditions unknown both to
scale owners and weights and meas
ures officials,” Smith said. He added
that the bureau desires to further
the procurement of adequate testing
equipment by States and offered full
co-operation to State officials in se
lecting suitable equipment.
150 Delegates Attend.
The more than 150 delegates at
tending the conference saw the bu
reau s equipment in actual operation
yesterday, when it was used to test
the 40-000-pound truck scales of the
Kaval Academy at Annapolis. The
Unit consists of a truck, from which
1,000-pound weights are lowered by
•• hoisting arrangement to the scales.
Smith spoke at the morning session
In the Bureau of Standards Audi
torium today, following a technical
explanation of the fundamentals of
scale design by Kenneth C. Allen,
scale engineer of the Hobart Manu
facturing Co. A tour of the bureau
laboratories was scheduled for the
delegates this afternoon.
The conference will end tomorrow
Vith an address by Secretary of Com
merce Roper, committee reports and
election of officers Secretary Roper’s
sddress was scheduled for today but
postponed at his request.
House-to-House Canvass.
To get out the vote Johannesburg,
South Africa, had 200 registration
clerks visit every house and flat in
the city.
Beetles for Necklaces.
Beetles with hard shells of many
colors haw been found in New Guinea,
»nd women are threading them into
necklaces.
R. A. Unit Spends
$20,941 More for
Shenandoah Land
Adds to Rockingham
Holdings With 327
Acres at Elkton.
Srecial Dispatch to The Star.
HARRISONBURG, Va„ June 3.—
The Federal Resettlement Adminis
tration acquired 327 acres north of
Elkton, in Rockingham County, yes
terday.
The tracts, described by L. Ferdi
nand Zerkel. R. A. project manager,
are in the best farming country in
East Rockingham. The 327 acres
cost $20,941, or approximately $64 an
acre. Previously R. A. purchased the
Omer Hopkins farm of 400 acres for
$30,000 and another farm of 60 acres
for $2,310.
The Elkton unit, of the resettlement
project will be divided into four sec
tions in a radius of five miles because
land owners between units would not
agree to sell at the appraised value.
These sections, Zerkel said, will be
subdivided into farms of approxi
mately 35 acres each.
Zerkel said the land was bought at
prices appraised by V. P. I. farm ex
perts and the Federal Land Bank.
Work on construction of buildings is
due to start the end of this month.
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SEA “FIREFLIES” FOUND
Four New Species Reported Ac
quired in Caribbean.
Acquisition of four new species of
"fire flies of the deep’’ resulted from
a recent scientific expedition through
the Caribbean Sea, Dr. Paul Bartsch
of the Smithsonian Institution said
yesterday.
The "fireflies” are luminous fish
which ordinarily live at about 1,200
feet below the surface of the sea and
are difficult to collect, he explained.
On the recent expeedition they were
found near the surface.
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