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-v p. I THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1952 THE PITTSBURGH PRESS PAGE 14 Water Rate Boost Ways Tod to Prevent Explosions ings himself because of "wide public interest" He said it might be impossible for the PUC to reach a final decision before the six-month waiting period ends June 1. If so, the higher rates wil go in effect automatically but water custbmers will get rebate if the decision eventually goes against the May Be Automatic In Hospital Operating Rooms mm -1 1 mm rj Gangster Wins Freedom After 28 Years O'Leary Member Of Blue Bandanas June 1 Deadline For Increases Other News Pages 12, 15, 16, 20 Bureau of Mines Warns of Danger The South Pittsburgh Water; The U. S. Bureau of Mines To Discuss Offer Main interest in the hearings centers around the possibility that Mt.

Lebanon may buy the 50-year-old water system. Co. may get a rate increase by default next "June if its attorneys and those representing here wrote out a prescription today for the prevention of explo sions in hospital operating rooms. Pittsburgh get into a long- winded battle. A meeting, at Mellon Junior Hearings on the proposed 35 High School auditorium Mon Justice may be blind, but she per cent increase were in recess day night will give residents a The Bureau, warning that the danger of such blasts is real, said that a study in 14 hospitals in the Pittsburgh district showed "sparks from static electricity are the most common still has a heart, a member of the Blue Bandana gang of the chance to discuss the project.

With 14 Attachments Forward-Reverse Stitch Course of Instructions today and won't be resumed until late next month, about the 24th. roaring '20s learned here today. Peeking from behind her blind Man Escapes Death At that time, company wit -few: CK VH i -sisj- I I (. I NEW YORK, Feb. 7 Subway fold.

Lady Justice smiled 'kindly cause" of such accidents. In a news release accompanying the 64-page report, the Bureau declared: nesses will be given another two or two and a half days to show on 52-year-old Lawrence O'Leary, the increase is warranted. workers searched for seven hours yesterday for the body of a man who jumped in front of a speeding train. The search was aban- paving the way for him to step Fight Planned Citv Solicitor Ann X. A1tv-n has indicated she wDl fight thB doned when no body was found, It was believed the man must claim.

Public Utility Commissioner from Western Penitentiary a free man. Except for two brief periods, the one-time badman has been an inmate of the Woods Run jail since 1924. O'Leary, formerly of Law- have leaped up again after the train passed over him. John B. Conly took over the hear- IS "There probably Is no combination of equipment and activity anywhere more likely to produce dangerous charges of static electricity than that found in the anesthetizing areas of most hospitals of the nation.

"When are favorable, the static sparks become Intense enough to ignite gases or vapors escaping into the room air and an explosion results. "Many of the mixtures used for anesthesia are rich in oxygen and are easily ignited by static sparks of low energy." 'AMAH raw vTJlSS renceville, put in a 10-year stretch in Western Pen before Gov. Gifford Pinchot turned him free in 1934. He was out about a year when he wandered into trouble and went back to jail again, this time as a habitual criminal. The sentence would have kept him there until 19S6.

Gold Medal Wines California PORT SHERRY MUSCATEL TOKAY 45 Of. -4 Sherry 111 The Bureau checked everything from the clothes worn by hospital attendants to the material of which operating-room floors are composed. Wear Wrong Shoes, Gowns Among other things, it found that more than three out of every five attendants wear the wrong' kind of shoes and many wear gowns and stockings made of materials which could set off explosive sparks. Until special shoes capable of "conducting" electricity rather than trapping it are developed, HDremmmdiistew Matmirnjj lEEectirics Since 1936, however, O'Leary and his attorney, Paul AVolken, have been fighting the sentence. Their plea was that O'Leary is not a habitual criminal.

Today, Judge Samuel A. Weiss handed down a Common Pleas Court opinion which agreed with their claim. Model Prisoner "The mere fact that O'Leary has had an unsavory criminal record does not render him an outcast in the halls of justice," Judge Weiss declared. $50 $2p0 1101 6t THIS ISN'T CARELESSNESS but good practice, soys the U. S.

Bureau of Mines. For by draping wet towels over the legs of operating-room tables, accumulation of static electricity is prevented and sparks thus can't be generated to off hospital explosions. the Bureau recommended that lie took note oi tne tact tnat everyone in an operation room be material which will conduct elec- iary nas now served years compelled to wear leather shoes tricity. in prison, and is considered don.t have rilbbPr lnsoles Keen Chains Clean model prisoner. and aren't waterproofed.

nnv hn.nl, Annarpntiu th nM.t mp mhhpr The Bureau said many nospi' bureau aiso urireu a uan i. and safe-cracker has mellowed j0n "outer garments of wool, silk; tabpg the fioor to provide nis years in jau. tie maae aior synthetic materials such as grounding of electricity. But, it FIRST AT added, these chains shouldn't be painted and they should be kept clean. one-aay DreaK ihjo.

isut nis re-jravoni nyioni orion. etc." How-cent record is good, officials it added, operating-room agreed. workers mav wear undergar- Last November, when O'Leary ments macje of these substances niea nis latest petition ior re without supplving an explosion th dmt do any good lease nere, ne pieaaea: hazard. And in one case it found the I haven heard a kid laugh Cotton Uniforms -Safest chains didn't even reach the floor frr thia nact IT voarc Vtavo lost almost pvpn- nnp" dpar tn Although cotton uniforms also because they were three inches may "build up" static electricity, too short. me Use of wet towels, draped LwU-trl VL i the Bureau said they are the safest and should be worn until Debt Paid In today's opinion, Judge Weiss somebody finds something better.

commented: over table and stool legs, was approved by the Bureau as an effective way of preventing sparks. Even If the floors are of approved material, the Bureau said, the towels should be used an added precaution. The survey was carried out by "His debt to society has been more than paid. Any doubts that stand between freedom and the penitentiary should be resolved in favor of his release." And with the cell door finally unlocked. Attorney Wolken said action will be taken immediately set him free.

The Bureau said floors In most operating room are unsatisfactory because they aren't grounded properly to prevent accumulation of dangerous static electricilv. Ordinary non-conductive rubber and linoleum were named as the worst offenders. Others on the verboten list are marble, hexagon white tile, ceraminc tile and teratzo. 'A Dr. Bernard Lewis, chief of the Bureau's explosives and physical sciences division, who is now on duty with the Army Ordnance Corps; Paul G.

Guest, electricial engineer, and V. W. Sikora, K. The Bureau said the best are physical science aide, floors made of conductive lino-j Dr. George J.

Thomas, head leum or conductive asphalt the department of anesthesio-with special "leakage paths" to logv at the University of Pitts- THE XEW ground electricial charges. burgh, and Dr. II. L. Klein, until recently chief anesthetist at West Don't Paint Equipment Console Model DRESSMASTER BY IIITE 1S9)50 Much of the operating-room Pn Hospital, served as unoffi- equipment in use today also found wanting.

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