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Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; To what extent may the Harris County Commissioners Court to regulate the construction and location of fire-fighting facilities and equipment installed and operated by a water control and improvement district or a fresh water supply district when it is proposed to locate such facilities and equipment in the areal confines of Harris County roads.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Questions relative to College Building Bond Amendment, Article VII, Sector 17 of the Texas Constitution

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Article 2786e, V. C. S., authorizes an independent school district to issue time warrants for purchase of land only, which is desired for school building or classroom construction needs projected into the future.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of Commissioners Court of Brazoria County to rent road equipment and/or enter into a lease-purchase agreement for such equipment.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Industrial Accident Board has jurisdiction to consider the cost or expense of medical aid, etc., under the facts stated.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Taxability for inheritance tax purposes of proceeds of insurance policies taken out by the decedent on his life prior to the 1939 amendment to Article 7117, V.C.S., and subsequently assigned by the decedent after the effective date of he 1939 amendment.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Propriety of comparing Poll Tax list with Property Rolls prior to August 1st and striking name duplications in preparation for compilation of names for Jury wheel; and statutory construction of words "typist" and "shall type."

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether an association of employees under the stated facts are entitled to the exemption of Art. 14.17 of the Texas Insurance Code even though its operating expenses exceed $300 per month.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the County Auditor can approve for payment a claim by a Court Reporter for a transcript made of Grand Jury proceedings under the following facts.

The knowledge of the fraction of decay-heat which is absorbed in fuel elements after a reactor is shutdown is important for many reasons. For example, allowable, reduced flow-rates after shutdown are very sensitive to the manner in which the decay-heat is distributed. Also, the temperature-rise in a discharged, uncooled fuel element is dependent on the total heat generated in the slug. Apart from any heat consideration, the escape of rays from a discharged fuel element is also of importance in certain applications. A significant refinement in the knowledge pertaining to decay-heat in irradiated uranium in recent years warrants a complete review of the fractional heat generation in the Hanford reactors. Earlier work was based on very qualitative aspects of fission product decay rates and energy spectra following reactor shutdown. The results of these early calculations on the original, solid, Hanford slug indicated that about 20 per cent of the energy generated in a fuel element from both fission product decay and delayed fission escaped from slug. The results reported here show a much smaller escape-fraction. Also, the time-dependence of the escape-fraction is considered for times greater than 100 seconds after reactor shutdown. Fractional heat-generation rates are calculated for various Hanford …

The compatibility of Dowex 1x4 nitrate form anion resin with nitric acid, and the compatibility of several types of plastic tubing with nitric acid were investigated. Ignition properties of resin extract, treated resin and mixtures of tubing extract with either resin extract or treated resin were also investigated.

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The Pebble-Bed Reactor Experiment (PBRE) was designed to advance the pebble-bed concept by providing a test of characteristic features and make contriliutions to the general development of all-ceramic gas-cooled reactors. The following objectives were established for the reactor experiment: to investigate key features of the pebble-bed concept, including on-stream fuel handling, movement of fuel through bed, and performance of core; to obtain operation and maintenance experience with a system contaminated with fission- product activity; and to investigate the behavior of graphite fuel elements. A fourth objective, study of the behavior of core materials at conditions occurring with exit gas temperatures in the range 2000 to 2500 deg F, was tentatively included. The preliminary design oE a 5-Mw(t) reactor for achieving these objectives was prepared. The core of the PBRE is a 2 1/2-ft-diam, 4-ft-tall cylinder containing approximately 12,000 spherical graphite fuel elements 1 1/2 in. in diameter. Fuel spheres are added to and removed from the core by gravity flow, and these operations are performed while the reactor is at power by using pairs of valves for passage of elements into and out of the high-pressure system. Exposed fuel can be recycled to the top of the core. Helium coolant …

In some recent theories of the equation of state of classical ionized systems, the free energy depends on integrals of the form {integral}{sub 0}{sup {infinity}}[e{sup -{beta}V{sub s}}-1+{beta}V{sub s}-{beta}{sup 2}V{sub s}{sup 2}/2]r{sup 2}dr, where V{sub s} is a "screened" potential obtained from the real potential by summing certain infinite series of diagrams. This integral has been tabulated for V{sub s} appropriate to a potential {+-}(e{sup 2}/ r)(1 - e{sup -{gamma}r}). The equation of state is also given for a one-component electron gas in a uniform background of positive charge (limit{gamma}{approaches}{infinity}).

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The development of the system and techniques to permit determination of strains at right angle to the axis of loading in the specimen was continued. An additional optical system was developed to accept the lateral image of the gage points and project a vertical image of the same proportion to the apertures of the strain analyzer. Using a dummy specimen of steel in the load train, the automatic pressure control system for the gas-bearing universals was operated. A fluctuation of gas pressure occurred within the bearings. Multiple progressive fracture planes were observed throughout the gage length of fractured graphite and tungsten. (M.C.G.)