News-Journal from Mansfield, Ohio • 22

22 Mansfield, News-Journal Sunday, July 26, 1 1953 OPERATES FILTER CONTROLS Assistant chemist Emil Paul is put into operation last month, a large number of water department shown above at one of the control tables which operate the four filter officials from other cities have visited the plant and pronounced it tanks inside the water treatment plant. Since the $550,000 plant was on of the finest in this section of the county, City Chemist Knorr said. New Filtration Plant In Use Mansfielders Like Clear Fork Water By MARGARET MATTOX Mansfielders apparently like the taste of drinking water from the Clear Fork lake--at least they aren't registering, any complaints. For residents have bragged about the merits of their drinking water, supplied from the city's seven deep wells, but when plans announced to construct the Clear Fork reservoir for an additional source of water, many feared the taste would be impaired. However, the $550,000 filtration plant has been operating now for more than a month and the majority of users have been unable to detect any difference in the taste.

This is due to the fact that the new half-million dollar plant been equipped with the modostis ern and highest quality facilities for filtering the water, as well as daily tests made by City Chemist Warren G. Knorr. THE water is pumped from the lake to the filtration plant through a 24-inch main where it undergoes series of treating processes before it is ready for consumption. The raw water is treated with chemicals to purify it, churned with huge paddles to remove most of the foreign matter and then filtered through five-feet of sand and gravel to bring it to the stage of purification required for drinking. The water first enters the chemteal feeder room at the plant where lime, alum and at the present ASSISTANT MEASURES CHEMICALS--To make certain that the proper amount of chemicals are time, charcoal, is added.

Charcoal, added, raw water from the lake passes into the feeder room, above, where assistant city chemist, is being used to eliminate a small Emil Paul, weighs the correct amount of lime on specially designed scales. In addition to the lime, amount of algae, a green plant or- alum and a small amount of charcoal is added to the raw water, as well as a little chlorine when ganism which develops in the necessary. lake during hot summer months. The organism creates a slight odor would be capable of filtering basement which are inter-con- the city's water requirement has and would probably affect the 000,000 gallons a day if operated nected with the wells still in use to been varying from six to eight miltaste of the water if not eliminated, on a 24-hour schedule. However, supply Mansfield.

At the present lion gallons a day. The water enhours half a time water from the Clear Fork ters the filtration plant at a temKnorr said. the plant is operated only eight From the feeder room, the wa- a day, five and a days' twelve week at the present time. reservoir is providing only from perature of about 65 degrees and ter is channelled into the flocculation tanks outside, the plant All filtered water is carried one-fourth to one-third of the dai- cools off to an even lower temperwhere motor driven wooden pad- through giant pipes to tanks in the ly requirements. Knorr said that ature in the tanks.

dies churn the water at varying rates of speed to help remove the foreign matter. After three churning processes, the dirt and other unwanted substances settle and are scraped off the bottom of the Scientist Reports Findings Older Fathers Produce More Girls boys, compared to girls, than younger mothers. What has been forgotten is that the fathers are older also. The study is based on reports of the U. S.

Bureau of Viital Statistics for three years. The net result of the study, he says, is the conclusion "That about 23 per cent of the variance in sexration wth age of the parents is due Balloon Comes Home OKLAHOMA CITY (UP) A weather observation balloon made history here by going up to 85,000 feet, drifting six miles away, then coming down 100 yards from its starting point. G. P. Crawford, weather observation history a meteorologist, said never in before, balloon fallen so near its point of release.

to a direct effect of the age of the father, 1.6 per cent to a direct effect of the age of the mother, and 9 per cent to a joint effect. The latter two effects, however, are, not statistically significant." THE findings may be explained, he says, by physiological changes in the male with age. The analysis indicates, however, that such changes would have to be confined to the male exclusively. The nature of any such change is not known. Much the same results have been found, it is pointed out, in genetics studies of insects and other lower animals where conclusions can be based on data from very large populations and many generations.

Whatever force is at work, it seems to exist throughout the animal kingdom. ALUMINUM BASEMENT WINDOW STEEL WINDOWS DOUBLE HUNG WINDOW Mansfield Structural and Erecting Company RESIDENCE CASEMENT 429 Park Ave. E. Phone 4215-6 Protect Bin From Rats Richland county farmers can protect stored wheat from rodents by rat-proofing bins, using poison bait and surroundings clean, Chester N. MGrew stated yesterday.

McGrew said all holes more than one-half inch wide must be closed to keep rats and other rodents out of bins. Best materials for this, he said, are half-inch hardware cloth or galvanized metal, BLOCK CLIMBERS we we CHECKS CONTROLS DAILY-City Chemist Knorr makes daily checks of the control panel at the filtration plant, above, from which readings are taken for monthly reports which are forwarded to the water department of the State Board of Health. CHEMIST MAKES TESTS--City Chemist Warren G. Knorr, a graduate of Purdue university, is shown above checking the "mixers" in his laboratory. Here experiments with dosages of lime and alum are made to determine the exact amount needed to make the raw water from the Clear Fork reservoir pure.

Knorr says Mansfield can be justly proud of its water treatment plant, one of the best-equipped Soviet Sailors At Coronation Went On a Shopping Spree LONDON (NANA) Somewhere in Russia today men are wearing red, white and blue socks and women are putting on coronation headscarves. They are the wives and sweethearts of the men who took the Russian Cruiser Sverdlov back from the coronation review at Spithead. The Russians were not allowed to go shopping ashore at Portsmouth, SO Robin Parkhouse, 36- year-old ex-fleet air arm lieutenant commander, who runs a drapery bazaar at the port, asked permission to take his shop to the ship. THE Sverdlov's commander, Captain Rudikov, rang the Russian embassy, which consented. In a launch loaded with coronation souvenirs and fancy goods, Parkhouse-with eight women as-' sistants and five -reached the carpeted gangway of the Sverklov, but was turned back.

"Eight women are too manybring only two," the Russians told him. "After that," said Parkhouse, "the Russians were most friendly. The ordinary sailors had about 28 to 30 shillings to spend ($3.92 to but the officers spent 12 ($33.60) or more each. "They were anxious to buy anything with a picture of the Queen on it. We completely sold out our in the nation.

stocks of coronation souvenirs, and could have sold hundreds more." Anything with bright colors scarves, handkerchiefs, compacts, even women's wear and men's red, white and blue socks. were snapped up by the Russians. Parkhouse took in $5,600. MISS FREDA BULL, who was an assistant at the shop on the top deck of cruiser, said: "They asked so many questions about the royal family--how old the Queen Duke are, how many children they have, where they live. "They pulled at my shoulder and jostled each other to be the first to buy when I showed them souve-: nirs with pictures of the Queen." Testimonial from Russia-Captain Rudikov was quoted by the Moscow radio as saying: "I was most impressed by the attention and genuine friendliness with which the British people welcomed us, Russian sailors and the representatives of the Russian people." The word "reverend" occurs only once in the Bible in the ninth verse of the 111th Psalm.

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The water drains into holes fathers produce which surround the tanks at a they do boys. depth of 18 inches below the top The age of the and into a large flume which car- little to do with ries it into the treating plant. births. WHEN the water returns to the THIS is the inside of the plant it flows through Edward Novitski one of four filter tanks which are of Missouri, after divided into two sections each. istical analysis Five feet of sand and gravel are National Cancer placed at the bottom of each filter Public Health' tank, and these are cleaned out ev- It.

has long four days by flushing with Novitski points fresh water. lished by the In for the Advancement cleaning the filler tanks water is forced up from the bottom at a that older mothers rate of 150 pounds of pressure per OKAY, COPPER! square inch, vigorously rubbing the tiny grains of sand together SOUTHPORT, to loosen any trace of dirt. The Most policemen waste water then drains off called "cops," through a waste pipe to a lagoon John G. Carlson back of the building. with the Water in the tanks can be fil- down and wrote tered at the rate of about 7,000 gal- titled "Don't Jons minute, Knorr said, and appeared in a (NANA) Older more girls than mother has very the sex ratio of conclusion of Dr.

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