Column documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died; this issue discusses lawyer, judge, and civic leader Frederick Page Branson.

Safety precautions utilized for control and cominement of fissionable and radioactive materials in the various aqueous reprocessing operations performed at the Idaho Chemical Processing Plant are presented. Three primary nuclear safety controls, geometrical, mass limitation, and concentration control, are used. Operations are penformed according to standard operating procedures which are set up to prevent circumvention of the primary nuclear safety controls. The various processing operations with their particular safety features are discussed. The operations include receipt, handling, and storage of irradiated fuel elements, dissolution of the fuel elements in various reagents, separation of the unburned fissionable material from fission products and fuel element structural materials by solvent extraction, salvage or recycle operations of off- specifications product or waste solutions that exceed the dispossble fuel concentrationalimits, product packaging, storage and shipment, fission product recovery, and waste collection, handling and disposal. The originai plant design and later additions and modifications included built-in geometrical control wherever practical with allowances for possible neutron interaction between vessels. The standard operating procedures specificaily state mass limits and concentration controls required for certain operations which involve appreciable quantities of uranium. Administrative control insures compliance with the standard operating procedures. (auth)

The beta spectra of In/sup 114/, P/sup 32/, and Y/sup 90/ were stud ied closely in an intermediate-image beta-ray spectrometer and compared to theoretical predictions in terms of a linear shape factor of the form (1 + aW). The values obtained for a were s for P/sup 32/, and (-0.0047 plus or minus 0.0008)/mc/sup 2/ for Y/sup 90/, all for electron kinetic energies from about 200 kev up to near the maximum beta energies. Tests were made to give indications for spectrometer fidelity. Because of the linearity of the shape-factor plots and the similarity in energy range, the comparative results from In/sup 114/, P/ sup 32/, and Y/sup 90/ are tak en as a definite indication that for at least two of these activities the shape factors have nonzero slopes, irrespective of questions of instrumental fidelity. (auth)

Notes and Documents column including a document about the life and career of American Indian artist Acee Blue Eagle and the quarterly staff report of the Oklahoma Historical Society.

Notes and Documents column including a list of the life members of the Oklahoma Historical Society and a list of recent accessions to the library of the OHS.

This section includes the minutes of quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on April 27, 1961.

This section includes the minutes of quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on January 26, 1961.

This section includes the minutes of quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on July 27, 1961.

This section includes the minutes of the quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society, that was held on October 26, 1961.

Article explores the life and work of the author's great-great-grandfather, William L. McClellan, agent of the Choctaw Nation in the early nineteenth century. Ben Collins Pickett's uses correspondence from the time to construct a picture of McClellan's operations as he procured his appointment and constructed the Choctaw Agency building.

Article discusses the history, growth, and development of the town of Bridgeport on the Canadian River. Chrystobel Berrong Poteet describes the industries that gave birth to its location, the transportation methods used to cross the river, and the businesses established in the area.

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Article discusses the activities of Comanche raiders on their plunder roads that swept from Kansas to Mexico. Ralph A. Smith focuses on their exploits below the Rio Grande from 1843-1844.

Article honors the life and career of Otis Hoover Richards, a scribe and pioneer of Oklahoma Territory who made the 1889 land run. Glenn A. Welsch includes a memorial tribute to the man written by Mr. O. F. (Fant) Word.

Article summarizes and provides details for the report written by Colonel Douglas H. Cooper, a commander in the Confederate Army, about the Battle at Round Mountain fought against Muscogee (Creek) leader Opothleyahola. Muriel H. Wright provides excerpts of the report and includes maps and information about other Civil War battles.

Article introduces and includes the description of Lieutenant William W. Averell's journey from the Washington D.C. to Fort Smith at the outbreak of the Civil War carrying an order from the War Department. Muriel H. Wright explains the contents of the order, which was the withdrawal of troops from Indian Territory, and what it meant for the people of the area.

Notes and Documents column including a document about the publication of a cumulative index for The Chronicles of Oklahoma, and a story about the name of Oklahoma, which is derived from the Choctaw words for "red people."

Article provides an introduction to and includes the memories of Sarah Ann Harlan, a pioneer woman who was able to live in the Choctaw Nation with her husband on account of her heritage. Harlan's account includes stories of her family and upbringing on a plantation near the Alabama-Mississippi state line.

Article continues the memoirs of Sarah Ann Harlan, a pioneer woman who was able to live in the Choctaw Nation with her husband on account of her heritage. Harlan discusses life on the frontier, running a plantation, and the aftermath of the Civil War.