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Monticello, Ky. — Mrs. Rosie
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had eleven children in her eleven,
years of marriage — five sets of
twins and one single birth.
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Explains Needs for Filter
Plant at Site of New Well
Eddice King, superintendent of
the Goldsboro water department,
who lives in Mount Olive and has
worked with this city’s water sys
tem in an effort to alleviate the
iron-colored water condition aris
ing from the new well, urges the
people of this town to give more
thought to the bond issue for in
stallation of a filter plant.
King asserted he is giving his
views on the issue, not because of
any political motive or in support
of any candidate, but because a
number of citizens had asked him
to pass along information which
may be overlooked by the general
public.
The $40,000 bond issue for instal
lation of a filter plant at the new
well comes up for public vote
Monday. Such a plant, if properly
operated, will correct the trouble
now present in the city’s water
system, King said.
For some time, many residents,
particularly those in the north
east section, have complained of
heavy iron sediment in their water.
Water from the new well has over
five times as much iron as the
amount engineers estimate will
cause trouble.
Authorities report, King' said,
that iron in the amount of 0.3 parts
per million—that is 2.2 pounds in
a million gallons of water—will
cause trouble. The new well here
has 1.7 per million of iron, he de
clared.
Some people in town are not
bothered by iron in the water, King
said, because they get their sup
ply from the treated well at the
high school. He predicts, however,
it will not be long until all' of
Mount Olive will be depending on
the new well for most of its water.
King, in coming out in support
of the issue, said, “I sincerely hope
the people who are not bothered
at the present will give considera
tion to the town as a whole and
take advantage of this opportunity
to unite together for a cause that
will make our town a better place
to live and and to attract others
who would like to join us.” King
himself gets his supply from the
Luby Bell
Candidate For
The Board of Aldermen In
Monday's Election.
Your Vote and Support
Will Be Appreciated
well at the high school and'is not
bothered by heavy iron sedimerft.
"Water,” he continued, “is the
most essential commodity, other
than air, for the continuation of
life. Without it man quickly dies.
The existence of the great concen
tration of population in our pres
ent-day cities and the pursuit of
the myriads of activities therein
would be impossible without the
availability of water.
“A city with restricted water
supply is a city with restricted
growth,” he declared.
With a treatment plant, King
said the city will be in a better
position to attract industry to lo
cate here.
Among the greatest benefits to
be secured from an ample public
water supply are protection against
disastrous conflagrations and re
moval of disease-bearing organ
isms, the water engineer said. In
recent years, he continued, the
public has become more demand
ing of a better quality or water;
such as: removal of iron, manga
nfese, copper, zinc, chloride, sul
fates, and phenolic compounds.
He declared when these chemi
cals are present in certain-amounts
they cause serious trouble to the
water system, especially the iron,
which ruins plumbing fixtures and
plays havoc with the launder
ing of clothes, giving them a rust
color that is impossible to re
move without injuring the mater
ial.
In stating his belief that a fil
ter plant will eliminate the pres
ent trouble, King pointed out the
well at the high school contained
1.8 parts of iron per million, 0.1
more than the new well, before
a filter plant was installed there.
Now those getting their supply
from this well have no trouble
with iron.
Faison also had trouble with
high iron content in its water sys
tem until a filter plant corrected
the situation, King, a native of
that town, pointed out.
Historical
Treatment of water supplies is
nothing new. Indeed, King stated,
it is as ancient as history. He point
ed out waterwork structures are
found in the excavation of prehis
toric ruins. The remains of Lake
Moeris in Egypt indicate its con
struction about 2,000 B. C., the
water engineer said in bringing
out it was the largest of the re
servoirs of the Nile Valley, which
supported 20 million people—four
times the present day population.
In ancient time, he continued,
the valleys of the Euphrates and
Tigris, now almost a desert, were
densely populated, but four thous
and years ago rulers of Assyria
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For Alderman in the City Elections
Next Monday, May 2, will be
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had converted these sterile plains
and valleys into gardens of ex
treme productiveness by the con
struction of artificial lakes for the
conservation’of flood waters of the
rivers and great distributing
canals for irrigation.
Of these canals, King said, the
Nahravan, supplied by the Tigris,
was over 400 miles long and from
200 to 400 feet broad and with suffi
cient dept for the navigation of ves
sels of that time.
In India, tanks, reservoirs and
irrigation canals were constructed
many centuries before the Chris
tian area, and the greatest part of
that country was in the highest
state of cultivation. King said some
of the tanks and artificial lakes
covered many square miles and
were often 50 feet or more in
depth. Evidence also exists, he
pointed out, in New Mexico and
Arizona that in prehistoric times
a race, now extinct, had extensive
irrigation works and culivated
large areas.
Biblical references to water
works are frequent. King used as
an illustration 11 Kings 20:20 and
said “ . . .And the rest of the acts
of Hezekiah and all his might, and
how he made a pool and a conduit,
and brought water into the city.
Reference to a water system and
purification of the system in re
lated in II Kings 2:19-22, King stat
ed.
The water supply for the City of
Rome is one of the marvels of
ancient times, he declared. The
water was brought from surround
ing hills in aqueducts totaling
about 381 miles in length. The
first aqueduct, King explained, was
built in 312 B.C. and was 10 miles
long. The Claudia aqueduct was
constructed along the hydramatic
grade lines in order to avoid the
necessity for building pressure
conduits.
Iron pipe was unknown at that
time, with' lead being the only
material available to carry water
under pressure. However, lead was
not suitable for' high’ pressures,
fling said, and therefore it was
necessary to convey the water in
aqueduct at atmospheric pressure.
King threw a sidelight on Rome’s
water system, reporting that Fron
tinus, water commissioner of Rome
about 100 A.D., who kept records
of njost human documents, reveal
ing the intimacies of the life of
the people, had trouble with peo
ple stealing water from the aque
ducts. King grinned, and then
turned serious and stated that dur
ing the middle ages in Europe
there was more destruction than
construction. “It is very probable
that the use of polluted water was
the cause of the epidemics that
swept the continent in that period,”
he remarked.
Purification
The first water purification prob
ably began in China -and India
thousands of years ago, King de
clared, and related that for centur
ies it has been the practice of the
Chinese to put alum in tubs of
water to clarify it. Alum also was
used in Egypt, and today still is
the most widely used chemical for
the clarification of water in the
United States.
The first filter was constructed
in 1829 by James Simpson, and this
filter, King said, was called the
“slow sand” filter or the “English”
filter.
Treatment of water to remove
pathogenic organisms had its be
ginning about the middle of the
nineteenth century. King said that
after Koch had made known his
findings, filtration of water for
the London metropolitan district
was made compulsory in 1855, and
about the same time the so-called
English filters were installed else
where in England and on the con
tinent. One of the earliest filters
installed in the United States was
at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.-, in 1870.
Thirteen years later, Prof. Wil
liam R. Nichols, who had studied
the filter systems in Europe, pub
lished the first authoritative book
on the subject of purification. A
year later the first filter plant for
a public water supply in which
alum was used as a coagulant was
constructed in Somerville, N. J.
The first filter plant constructed
along modern lines was at Little
Falls, N. Y., 'in. 1902. This followed
a notable step in the advancement
of scientific knowledge of rapid
sand filtration, which took place in
1895, and since then the number
of rapid sand filters have increased
greatly in the U. S., King asserted.
summary
Waterworks includes the struct
ures and equipment necessary for
securing, purifying and distribu
tion of a wateir system, King re
marked. The construction of such
works is in the field of the civil
and the sanitary engineers. “The
magnitude of their work, as meas
ured by their, cost, their size and
their importance, is second to no
other engineering activity,” the
Mount Olive man declared.
King concluded by saying, “We,
the people of Mount Olive, have a
chance to pass or reject this issue
of vital importance to our town
by going to the polls and casting
our vote the way we honestly feel
about our water situation,” and
by repeating his support of the
issue is politically motivated.
LONG SMOKER -
Freeport, 111. — Eli Bennethum,
who recently celebrated his 100th
birthday by taking it easy at his.
son’s farm home, doesn’t think
much of today’s excitement over
smoking. “I think I was smoking
at 2,” he told a reporter. “I know
I was smoking cigars at 5,” he
declared.
Men who can’t find something,
to occupy their minds usually have,
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PEACEFUL PATROL PACKS PUNCH—Freighter seen at upper left plods along peacefully
under the Watchful eyes of Uncle Sam’s air defense network, somewhere off the U. S. coastline.
\ Humpbacked plane is a radar-equipped Constellation, and humps on back and belly of fuselage
contain radar scanning equipment; under attack conditions plane would radio approach of enemy
aircraft to combat-ready carrier, which might be many miles away.
All Americans Should Soon Know What
'Conelrad' Signal on Radio Stands For'
Spot announcements to make the
public “Conelrad conscious” are
being beamed at Americans over
some 2,700 standard AM radio sta
tions.
Unlike most commercials, these
lively, 30-second “spots” could be
a life or death matter. For their
purpose is to publize the Federal
Civil Defense Administration’s
Conelrad radio system for warning
civilians of impending aerial at
tack, and how to survive it.
In rural areas especially, where
people are scattered and fast com
munications are difficult, know
ing the Conelrad frequencies of
640 or 1240 would be like being
able to listen in on a huge party
line whose sole purpose was to
keep the country folks informed
of the situation in an H-bomb
blasted city. At the same time, it
would warn them to'take cover or
evacuate if necessary from areas
threatened with heavy radioactive
fall-out. v
Nat S. Linden, director of FCDA’s
radio-television section, with Louis
E. Aiken, a member of his staff,
found that the cosmopolitan per
sonnel at FCDA headquarters pro
vided an ideal cross-section of
voices and accents from all parts
of the United States to dramatize
the question: “What is Conelrad?”
Conelrad, an abbreviation of
“Control of Electromagnetic Radi
ation” is actually more technical
than dramatic, however. It is a
special system to make possible
broadcasting of Civil Defense in
structions over standard radio sta
tions, even while enemy bombers
are approaching, without allowing
them to follow the radio beams in
to their target. During World War
II all radio stations had to go off
the air as enemy planes approach
ed.
Since radio stations in the Conel
rad cluster will broadcast only at
640 and 1240 kilocycles on the ra
dio dial, FCDA officials hope to
make those numbers as familiar
to citizens as their own telephone
numbers. Already almost all new
radios for the home and most of
the new cars, have dials specially
marked at 640 and 1240 to indi
cate the emergency Conelrad fre
quencies.
To fix these important numbers
in people’s minds, Aiken, one-time
'<pera singer in Chicago, begins
and ends each announcement with
a unique tune, sung to the words,
•640-1240, Conelrad.”
In one version, his singing is in
terrupted by a smooth, southern
drawl. An FCDA secretary from
Columbus, Ga., wants' to know:
“Conelrad? What’s Conelrad, mis
ter—some kind of Yankee talk?”
He replies with' the message on
Conelrad.
Other stylized voices vary the
routine. The cheerful voice of a
housewife in one of the “spots”
offers variety from the gruff voice
of the labor leader or the voice
of a child (played by. an FCDA sec
retary).
Other voices represented in the
announcements are those of. an
“old timer,” a “farmer,” a “teen
age girl,” a “Brooklyn office girl”
(her home and accent are from
nearby Staten Island, N. Y.), and
the sharp, quick tones of a “busi
nessman.”
All the voices are deliberate
stereotypes, for they are planned
to be used later as the voices of
cartoon characters in a series of
Conelrad “spots” for television.
VOTE FOR
Billy Cobb
FOR ALDERMAN
Dr. Thos.E. Shaver
OPTOMETRIST
Office. 104 S. Center
Mount Olive
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Radio-TV Director Linden ex-<
pfains that the purpose of the dif
ferent voices was "to show how the
knowledge of the Conelrad fre
quencies 640 and 1240 is important
to all different types of people
in saving their lives’’ in a Civil
Defense emergency.
Health for All
LIFE-SAVING RAY
A chest X-ray is no cure for
tuberculosis, but it could save your
life.
When the mobile X-ray unit
comes to your community offering
free miniature chest films, you are
taking a chance with your life if
you pass up the opportunity. You
say you’d rather not know if you
have tuberculosis? You don’t really
mean that. Maybe you’re a little bit
afraid of what the qye of the X-ray
will see.
If you are worried that you
might have tuberculosis, here is
something you should know. Pul
monary tuberculosis is a disease
which gives its victim very little
trouble in its early stages. Once
established in the lungs, the germs
usually go to work quietly to de
stroy lung tissue. Rarely is the host
aware that anything is wrong. Yet
it is just such an early stage that
TB can most easily and surely be
cured. With modern treatment, an
early case can often be restored to
health in only a few months.
Most of the people X-rayed in
community surveys of apparently
healthy people are found to be just
as healthy as they look. However,
every case found and treated is an
important step toward eradication
of tuberculosis. The longer a case
of TB goes undiscovered and un
treated, the more dangerous it is
to the health of the individual and
to those close to him. By the time
serious symptoms are apparent, the
disease has usually progressed to
a point where it is more difficult
to cure.
It is important to remember that
tuberculosis in its early stages
often has no outward symptoms.
You, may feel perfectly well and
still have TB. With modern treat
ment, doctors can cure the disease.
Even a person with an advanced
case has a better than even chance
of getting well. You can give your
self the best possible chance by
taking advantage of the opportuni
ty offered by the life-saving X-ray.
Cue For Laughter
If you were writing a tragedy
you wouldn’t give your hero a case
of hiccups. On film or on stage,
■hie” is a signal for laughter. But
all joking aside, while hiccups may
be just a nuisance to most people,
a serious case may exhaust the
patient to the point of death.
The danger of long-continued
hiccups was dramatized for all of
us when Pope Pius XII suffered a
series of attacks which endangered
his life. Cases have been recorded
which lasted as long as nine
months. Drugs, inhalations, and
even surgery have been used in the
past to control hiccups. A new
drug, chlorpromazine, seems to
promise good results ip most dif
ficult cases.
Hiccup is due to a spasm of the
diaphragm, resulting from an ir
ritation of the nerve pathways. The
irritation may have a simple cause,
such as overeating or drinking or
even a fit of laughter. When hic
cups come from such simple caus
es, they usually end of themselves.
But they may also be caused by. a
disease or toxic condition. Hiccups
may make it difficult to treat the
disease which caused the spasm in
the first place. 4n some cases, it
may be necessary to block or crush
the phrenic nerve which controls
the diaphragm.
It isn’t enough to stop the hic
cups. The cause must be found and
eliminated, or they will return. As
few as five days of continued hic
cups can leave the patient in a
stat§ of exhaustion. If hiccups con
tinue for more than a day, it is
wise to consult the doctor. Why
suffer unnecessarily when the doc
tor can stop the spasms and then
get at the cause?
All of the good and a little of
the bad is done by men who are
sure they are right and go ahead.
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