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Plane
A call for ARMS.
No, this call has nothing to
do with gun control.
the United States—plotted
the exact location of the lost
source; it was approximately
two feet down the embank“nds Cobalt Source.
ment of a limited access highway near St. Joseph,
Missouri. It had been found
within three and a half days
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_ Wednesday, J
of the request for assistance,
and less than 48 hours after
the ARMS aircraft took to
the air.
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anuary 15, 19
Nevada County Nugget 3
Step On It
69 The
It was a calli for a small
plane—one carrying highly
specialized and _ sensitive
equipment. The © aircraft
needed was equipped with
ARMS, the Atomic Energy
Commission’s Aerial Radiological. Measuring Survey
system.
The orders: Find a tiny but
potentially hazardous radioactive cobalt source lost
somewhere along the vast
reaches of 1,200 miles of
highway stretching from Salt
Lake City, across the Rockies
and the Great Plains, to
Kansas City, Kansas.
The source was. being
shipped by truck from Salt
Lake City, Utah, to Houston,
Friends of Libraries preparing
for annual book sale in February
drive, headed by Mrs, Tyler
Micoleau, has made it possible
to offer more help to the libraries,
rite photo visitors to
Louisiana like to take home is a
shot of themselves on their-homestate step of the Capitol. Each of
the forty-eight steps has the name
of a state chiseled into it,
the libraries may help in a
formal way by contributing any
amount from $1.
Response to.the membership
Friends of the Grass Valley
and Nevada City Libraries are
planning their fifth annual book
sale Feb, 20, 21, and 22. The
sale is traditionally held on the
weekend nearest Washington's
birthday to raise money to help
the local libraries expand and
improve thir collections.
Financial help from the
Friends has enabled both libraries to offer a substantially
WE’RE SPENDING
$340 MILLION KEEPING
Texas, via Kansas City. When larger selection of books -esthe truck arrived at the pecially books for children, refUP WITH THE ONESES.
Kansas City Terminal, a erence books, and magazines.
routine inventory was made
of the.cargo. It was -then
discovered that the shipping
container’ “tad upset and
opened. The interstate carrier
requested assistance from the
AEC.
The Commission put into
effect its Radiological Assis‘tance. Plan established in
‘1958 to protect the public
health and safety from the
‘accidental loss or release of
radioactive material. The
AEC sent a radiological assistance team which promptly
determined that the source
was not in the truck or the
terminal. Therefore, the AEC
had to find out whether the
As book budgets are never large
enough to meet every need, this
help is invaluable, Library patrons can recognize books purchased by money from the
Friends of the Libraries by
stickers inside the covers.
The annual sale offers books
of every kind at every price,
beginning at five cents. The
more valuable books are sold
by means of a silent auction
whereby potential buyers write
their bid (at or above a determined minimum) and the highest
bid at closing time Feb. 22 receives the book, or set of books,
Among the fine books in this
year's silent auction is-a 14volume, uncut, limited set of
than expand and improve PG&E
facilities. This investment creates
new jobs and businesses. New
industries.
New PG&E facilities pay
additional local taxes which share
the costs of your local schools and
government.
Whatever your name is, we’re doing
all we can to keep up with you.
The Joneses. The Smiths, the
Browns. Customers whose needs for
gas, light and power continue to
increase. Also, new customers to
serve. We’re investing $340 million
during 1969 to expand our facilities
to keep ahead of the growing
demands for service.
Injecting this kind of money into
the California economy does more
source had indeed been Sir James M. Barrie, 1931 Peaboard the truck when it left ter Pan edition, Barrie is the
Salt Lake City. famous Scottish author of plays
and fiction.
Books for the sale come from
many sources. Both libraries
donate duplicate copies and
books no longer used. Individuals donate books of every
sort, new and old. Increasingly,
Friends of the Library receives
books from estates,
In past. years, the demand
for ~childrents books has exceeded the number donated to
the sale, Anyone having books
of any type to. contribute may
have them picked up by calling
Mrs, Alan Sheffel, 265-4293, or
Mrs, Floyd Fisher, 273-6272.
In: addition to the upcoming
sale, the group is conducting
a membership drive to acquaint
as many as possible with the
aims of Friends of the Library.
Anyone interested in improving
The Commission’s Division
of Compliance determined
that it had.
Somewhere the container in
which the cobalt rested came
open, and the source—omnly
two inches long and a half
inch in diameter—fell out
and rolled around the truck
bed. It must have dropped
out of the truck: onto the
highway.
But where?
So the Commission widened the search.
ARMS—the most sensitive
and accurate civilian aerial
radiation detecting system in
By BARBARA BEE
Women’s Home Consultant
Bruner Corporation ° Supers act
on airport
lot buying
We live in a magic world of .
science today, yet people often
fail to take advantage of it simply because they don’t ask
questions.
Anyone who’s ever tasted—
or even had a whiff of—water
containing hydrogen _ sulfide
Nevada county began its
with its nauseating “rotten
ege” odor and taste Kcowswhat 'fiendly cordemnation" Tuesit’s like to have really bad waday to buy 6.6 acres to expand
ter. Some people haveeven been _. the airport. ss
ea ~ move just to escape The new board of supervisors
e propiem.
This is sad, because nowadays unanimously agreed with action
started by its predecessors in
filing an eminent domain legal
action to secure lot five next to
Nevada County Airpark.
The lot's owner, Charles Litton, reportedly is agreeable to
selling the property to the county for about $29,000, but the
supervisors feel it would look
they caused nausea, illness and _ better if the condemnation pro:
_in extreme cases, death.. ceedings take place. :
R Such instances are rare. * ws ,
any plumbing contractor can do
something about rotten egg
water.
And odor and taste are only
two of the problems caused by
hyd sulfide. It.makes the
water highly corrosive and will
i the your silver to tarnish in
“just seconds. There even have
‘“béen a’ few areas where concentrations were so high that