Nickel is one of the most widely used metals on the planet. According to the Nickel Institute, the metal is used in over 300,000 different products. Most often it is found in steels and metal alloys, but it is also used in the production of batteries and permanent magnets. About 65% of all nickel produced goes into stainless steel. Austenitic steels are non-magnetic stainless steels that contain high levels of chromium and nickel, and low levels of carbon.
1 Special guest: Grandma (Ellen Corby). 2  Notes: Rev. Bradshaw, the fourth Baptist minister to appear in The Waltons, is introduced in this episode. 3  He replaces Rev. Andrew March who replaced Rev. Buchanan, the second minister. 4  Rev. Matthew Fordwick was the original minister at the Waltons Mountain Baptist church.
Judy Norton-Taylor, now 54, who played Mary Ellen Walton, now runs a dinner theatre chain in Canada. Papa Walton: The eldest of the actors, Ralph Waite, 84, who portrayed the Walton's father John Senior, tried his hand at politics but failed three times to get into Congress for the Democrats. David Harper, 50, who once found fame as Jim Bob Walton, but now works as an art dealer in Los Angeles.