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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada County Nugget

January 15, 1969 (12 pages)

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ar ae ae et ar Ta) 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 POOL Af vanes Kean _ Wednesday, J of the request for assistance, and less than 48 hours after the ARMS aircraft took to the air. ad beeen en 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