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10 Oakland Tribune, Monday, Feb. 22, I960 Santa Fe School Dedication, Open House on Thursday I Radiation Detector Keeps Eye on BAAL) Water Supply Church, parents and the gen A dedication program and Woman Seeks $25,000 for Sidewalk Fall EL CERRITO, Feb. 22 A claim for $25,000 general damages is among items consid eral public will tour the new buildings. open house at the new Santa Fe School will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday.

'Conversations in The new school plant at 915 Among the perils of the atomic age is the danger of contamination of water sup 54th St. has 18 classrooms, Religion' to Begin two kindergartens, multipurpose room with kitchen, facilities, library and offices. ered by the El Cerrito City Council tomorrow evening. plies by radioactive materials. For this atomic menace, however, there is a solution -prior planning and constant BERKELEY, Feb.

22 in Religion" programs will be conducted Adele Silva, of 115 CarmeV The program will be vigil. tomorrow through Thursdays has notified the city of this claim. She seeks $25,000 1 I 111 opened by presentation of colors by the Camp Fire Girls, Although the problem of water contamination here is now slight, officials of the East Bay Municipal Utility and medical and other expenses for a fall on the sidewalk at 131 Carmel Ave. on Jan. 4.

Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and Traffic Patrol. Invocation will be given by. the Rev. James Stewart, Church of the Good 7 District aren't relaxing. To protect its 1,100,000 patrons, by the University YMCA and YWCA.

Ministers and professors attending' the annual Pastoral Conference and Earl Lectures at the Pacific School of Religion will visit the associations each evening for informal discussions with University of California students. EBMUD's Water Production Mrs. Silva charges the city and Distribution Division, in-'-iC with being negligent in main headed by Donald G. Larkin "lias the responsibility of keep taining the sidewalk, which she said caused her to fall and fracture her right leg. ing a constant check on the district's reservoirs and on 5 1 Shepherd.

Entertainment will be provided by the school's choral group and the' school will be presented to the public by Barney E. Hilburn, member of the Oakland Board of Education. Presentation to the pupils and faculty will be made by Selmer H. Berg, superintendent of schools. Following the benediction Also on the agenda for consideration tomorrow is a res 53 rainfall.

RAIN AND Dl ST olution on interim salary and classification rates. This will put in force results of a recent city survey of city jobs. Un 1 FEBRUARY SPECIAL None of the main sources of contamination (atomic energy installations, uranium mills 99 3 and mines, major labora ft 9x12 SHAGS by the Rev. Roy Nichols of Downs Memorial Methodist tories) is on or near EBMUD rttmiininir OPEN HOUSE Landscaping at" the new Santa Fe School is examined by (from left) E. Paul Gemignani, principal; Mrs.

Vivian DeBrunce, P-TA secretary; Mrs. Narvis Daw-son, P-TA president; Mrs, Dorothy and James Sharpe, North Oakland Community Council ONLY i inw mi 1 watershed lands. Local DIAMONDS streams, however, do receive contamination from in and der the change, city halt employees ill work 40 hours a week, with corresponding wage adjustments. Auto Agency Zoning Bid dust in the atmosphere. 20 to 50 Discount TOP QUALITY CASH OR AST PAYMENTS All Other Rug 20 Discount Th bov pric tar cmtomtrt who brinf in nd pick up their rugi at th irin plant.

Addition! chrg for pickup ftp4 dliry Mrvic. Hurryl Endi loon. STEEL, Quality RUG CLEANING Main Plant Phont Ttlegraph at 55th OL 5-2800 Rain and snow can pick up radioactive particles from nuclear tests. Usually the Miller's Diamond Center amount of radioactivity is de Read Critic on the Hearth Daily 1703 Ttlegnph 0k tectable only by very delicate instruments and cannot be termed dangerous. LAP.

MONITORS EBMUD's water contamination monitoring is done at EBMUD's laboratory at the Upper San Leandro Filter riant in East Oakland. There, the radiation count is made by a scaler, which Larkin describes as "a device more delicate and Sensitive than a Geiger counter." Turned Down ANTIOCH, Feb. 22 -The city planning commission has rejected an application for commercial zoning of the northeast corner of A and 15th Streets for an auto agency site. At present the parcel is in a multiple residential zone. George Stamm, the applicant, also was refused a use permit for the proposed agency.

Petitions and letters filed with the planners objected that such a business would pose a traffic hazard for children attending the nearby Holy Rosary School. A-Bom rvival Talk" BERKELEY, Feb. 22 An RADIATION SCALER J. J. Connor, senior sanitary chem ist at EBMUD's East Oakland laboratory, checks the radi ation count in a sample of water from an EBMUD reser voir with a highly delicate radiation detector.

far from hopeless. Rainfall is monitored whenever it occurs, and each ol EBMUD's five reservoirs is sampled for radioactivity at least monthly more often if high-count radioactivity is detected in air or rainfall. Five men staff the "Our existing system can produce water which is drinkable even alter an attack," he notes. "If people can live normal purification process. Coagulation consists of adding alum to water containing foreign matter in a state of suspension.

A chemical read ion 'KehHbTmgs TiltTaHon Another EBMUD safeguard against contamination is a plan to place roofs on distribution reservoirs wood can stop a sizeable percentage of radiation. EBMUD, says Larkin, is "alert and ready." in the area following an attack, then we can supply them with water that is safe to use." ThTTcaTerse sensitive that nuclear tests by other nations eventually show up in district sample counts. However, at no time has there illustrated talk on "Survival of Buildings Under Atomic Blasts" will be given at noon Most radioactive contaminants could be eliminated from the water bv the stand tomorrow before the Berkeley Kiwanis Club in the Hotel Shattuck bv Jack Streblow of been any real danger to EBMUD's customers, according to Larkin. NOT HOPELESS In case of nuclear-attack, ard coagulation operation which is part of EBMUD's the Basalt Rock Co. in Napa the problem of radioactive contaminants would be enormously aggravated.

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