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Septic Tank Most Suitable Rural Sewage-Disposal Unit Editor's Note: "Proper Sewage Disposal" it the last of a series of three articles written to give the people of Haywood County more knowledge about water protection, plumbing and sewage disposal. * By JACK ARRINGTON Health Dept. Sanitarian This article will be directed to ward rural residential sewage dis posa' There are two types of units built to dispose of sewage in the rural homes. One is the pit privy and the other the septic tank. PIT PRIVY The pit privy, or "back house" is a satisfactory type of sewage disposal provided it is constructed, installed and maintained properly. Following are specifications in J building and installing a privy: 1 The framing should be of 2 x 4'g six feet long in front and 5 feet long in the back. This should be well braced. 2. The siding should be of 1"; tongue and grcve lumber. 3. The flood should be of con-1 crete 6 feet wide by 6 feet long : and four inches thick reinforced ( by ten guage wire mesh with a { concrete riser and fly-tight seat, i 4. The top should be made of tin or lar paper shingles. 5. The pit for the privy should be 3'6" x 3'6" x 6' deep and curbed by 1" thick boards. 6. When the pit is filled to with in 18 inches of top of ground, a new pit should be dug and the old pit filled with dirt. 7. Keep all sewage disposal units .10 feet from water supplies, and, if on sloping lands, should be lo cated below water supplies. The msin idea to keep in mind in the construction, installation and maintenance of a sewage dis posal system is to keep flies, rats and other carriers of germs from coming into contact with the sew age SEPTIC TANKS The septic tank and nitrification field is the most satisfactory type of rural residential sewage dispos al system. With the proper design, installation and maintenance, a septic tank should last for ten years without cleaning. However, a septic tank should be checked every three years to see if it is functioning properly. Following are the specifications for til" *:ma]l est septic tank, which will serve 6 or less people: ( Overall length of tank is ten feet and two inches <10'2"i; width of tank is 3'10" and depth of tank is 5'4'V. The tank is broken down into two compartments, with three walls (bottom und a top. ulso). The first compartment is seven feet | 1 long <7i; 3' wide; 4'9" deep and it serves as a digestion and storage i compartment. The second com | partment is two feet long <2); 3' wide and 4'!)" deep. The outtside . walls are 5 inches thick and 5 feet 9 inches high The baffle wail is 4 Inches thick and 5 feet fi inches hiRh There should bo an opening (4" x 4 > in the bottom of the baf fle wal lto allow water Into both compartments while filling. This keeps the water pressure equal on both sides of wall when filling and the wall will not fall. There should lx- 4-inch openings all the way a cross the baffle wall 3'6" up from bottom of tank; The baffle wall should extend up to within 3 Inches o top. The bottom of tank should be 4 inches thick and the top 3'x inches thick, reinforced with 3/8" steel rods Tlie lids should never be more than 20 Inches wide so as to make handling easier Thp inlet pipe should be 4'2" up from bottom and at end of tank The outlet should be 4' from the bottom to lot aew age into nitrification line. The out let should be a 4" T or combina tion Y and 1/8" bend. Nitrifica tion lines should be 150 feet long by 30 Inches wide and 30 Inches deep. There should be 6 inches of gravel underneath the 4" IMm and gravel sloped to top of pipe. Tar paper strips should be put over tops of the joints. The tile should be on a grade of 1/4" fall in every ten feet. A gravel pit 3' x 3' x 3' should be at end of line. Never should there be more than 30" or less than 0" of back fill or dirt over the drain tile. No one should ever use and acid or lye solution in a septic tank, for it kills the bacteria In the tank and the tank will not function properly. Local and state ordinances for ? bid the placing of a septic tank and i nitrification lines within the fol j lowing boundaries: 10', property I lines: 25'. streams; 50', water sup | plies; 20', buildings. 10', water | lines. No metal shall be installed in i Haywood County septic tanks. For further information, and plans, consult your local Health , Department located at the Hay wood County Courthouse, Tele phone 6-4112. The percentage of U S children between 5 and 17 not attending any school increased from 12 7 in 1031 to 13.2 in 1953. How To Kill Athletes Foot Germ Quickly relieves ltrhhw. kills fungi of Athletes Foot on rot)'net, sJOs rapid Lea!U.g of red. raw. cracked skin Helps ramove soil corns ?nd csllasss. 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Today the Woman's Army Corps is part of the regular Army and ( Army Reserve. The Corps, which ( observed its 12th anniversary May ( 14, now is readying a formal declar ation of a permanent home like ( other branches of the service ? a new WAC center at Fort Mc Clellan. Ala., where basic training began in June this year. The out fit even has its own Woman's Army Corps Veterans Assn. with 28 chap ters. Some 300 to 400 veterans are holding their eighth annual con vention here this month. Less than six months after Pearl Harbor, with manpower short, Congress passed a bill to enable the Army to use women in many jobs, the first of a series of such bills that eventually covered all the services. Full military status was not at first granted to Army women. Of ficials said "the American public still believe women will be safer in an Auxiliary." Hence the establish ment of the Women's Army Auxili ary Corps (WAACI, Col. Oveta Culp Hobby, of Houston, Tex. was its first director. The wo. ton be- ' ean their military training on July 20. 1942. at Fort Des Moines, la. They became a full-fledged part of 1 the Armv Sept 1, 1943. as the Wo- 1 men's Army Corps (WAC'. Col. Irene O. Galloway, of Templeton. 1 la. is current head of the corps. 1 Many commands were slow to requisition WACs at first, but as , the manpower shortage became \ more acute the Army suddenly ' realized women eould handle 406 of the 628 jobs it had. Soon they were all over the place. On their, first birthday 60.000 WAACs were on duty at 100 military establish- 1 ments. When the fir*'. two WACs ar- j i rived in India, a photo caption of ' Ihem read: "General arrives too, I but who cares?" Today WACs are , stationed all over the United i States, in France, Germany, Aus- j Iria. Italy, Okinawa, Japan and Ha- 1 waii. " ( Bookmobile Schedule Friday. Oct. 1 FINES CREEK H. L Rathbone 9:30- 9 45 I R. G. Rathbone 10:00-10:15 | Paul Ferguson 10:30-10:45 j C. R. McElreath 1100-11:20 Fines Creek School ll:30-J:00i Trantham's Store 1:15- 1:30 Francis Rogers 1:45- 2:15 1 Violet Moore 2 30- 2:45 j: _! j1 .Monday, Oct. 4 LAKE JCNALl'SKA RATCI.IFFE COVE Jack Long 9:15- 9:30 J Jessie Hannah 9:45-10:00 j Orvil Shelton 10:15-10:30 ' Junaluska Supply 10:45-11:00 Oliie Mack 11.30-12:15 H F. Francis 12:30-12:45 Hugh Francis 1:00- 1:15 Ratcliffe Cove Grocery 1:30- 1:45 . Mt. Experiment Station 2:00- 2:15 j W iley Franklin 2:30- 2:45 ' i Henry Francis 3:00- 3:15, Tuesday. Oct. 5 IRON Dl'FF-CRABTREE-IIYDER MT. Mrs. E. W. White 9:15- 9:30 j Grady Davis 9:45-10:00 Helen Sanford * 10:15-10:30 1 Duckett's Store 10:45-11:10 ; C''abtree-It ~n Duff Sch. 11:15-12:30 | C. H. Hill 12:45- 1:00 Matt Davis 1:15- 1:30 Troy McCracken 1:45- 2:00 VV. J. McCrary 2:15- 2:30 , W illis Smith 2 45- 3.00 The big moment for Private Charles T. Milner. son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Milner, of 625 Lee Street, Waynesville, who is ready to make a parachute jump with the famed 82d Airborne Division at Fort j Bragg. N. C. He wears, his main parachute on his back, his reserve J parachute and combat pack "front1 and his rifle in a canvas container ] deft'. The jump, his fifth from a C-119 aircraft, marks the end of three weeks of intensive physical and technical training and will qualify him as a paratrooper. Pvt. Milner is an Ammunition Bearer with the 504th Airborne Infantry Regiment, a unit of the famed 82nd Airborne Division. "America's Guard of Honor". Red Bank Singing To Be Held Sunday The regular fourth Sunday sing ing will be held at the Red Bank Baptist Church Sunday evening j beginning at 7:30 o'clock. Ray Parker of Canton is in ' ?riarge of the program and has: innounced that a number of quar- j lets and singing groups are expect-1 ?d to participate. 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