Experimental Radiation Measurements in Conventional Structures: Part 2. Comparison of Measurements in Above-Ground and Below-Ground Structures From Simulated and Actual Fallout Radiation (open access)

Experimental Radiation Measurements in Conventional Structures: Part 2. Comparison of Measurements in Above-Ground and Below-Ground Structures From Simulated and Actual Fallout Radiation

Report concerning the protection offered against radioactive fallout offered by two types of structures at the Nevada Test Site. Differences between above ground and underground structures are measured and compared to data taken from actual fallout conditions.
Date: February 1963
Creator: Burson, Z. G. (Zolin G.)
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of the Fallout Protection Afforded by Brookhaven National Laboratory Medical Research Center (open access)

Evaluation of the Fallout Protection Afforded by Brookhaven National Laboratory Medical Research Center

Report regarding an experimental study to determine how much protection the Medical Research Center at Brookhaven National Laboratory provided against nuclear fallout. Fallout was simulated by pumping a sealed source of Co60 through tubing.
Date: February 1961
Creator: Borella, H.; Burson, Z. & Jacovitch, J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technical Concept-Operation Henre (open access)

Technical Concept-Operation Henre

From Introduction: "As a result of research accomplished during Operation BREN in 1962, it has been proposed that a monoenergetic point neutron source be constructed and operated on the same tower. The field experiment which would be conducted at this time has been designated as Operation HENRE (High Energy Neutron Reactions Experiment)."
Date: February 1965
Creator: Haywood, F. F. & Auxier, J. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Data on Fallout From the Fall 1961 USSR Test Series: Staff Report (open access)

Preliminary Data on Fallout From the Fall 1961 USSR Test Series: Staff Report

From introduction: "Following the USSR announcement of its intention to resume testing, arrangements were made for the three stations collecting individual rainfall samples to begin analyses for short-lived nuclides. Some of the data are now available and are reported here." From Data: "The available data, including samples for Houston, Texas and Louisville, Kentucky are given in the tables at the end of this report."
Date: February 27, 1962
Creator: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Health and Safety Laboratory.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aeroradioactivity Survey and Geology of the Gnome (Carlsbad) Area, New Mexico and Texas (ARMS-I) (open access)

Aeroradioactivity Survey and Geology of the Gnome (Carlsbad) Area, New Mexico and Texas (ARMS-I)

Report regarding an airborne radioactivity survey that took place in the 7,000 square mile area around the GNOME test site near Carlsbad, New Mexico. Topics include the types of bedrock noted in the area as well as their levels of radioactivity.
Date: February 1963
Creator: MacKallor, Jules A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Engineering Evaluation of the Long-Tube Vertical Falling-Film Distillation Process (open access)

An Engineering Evaluation of the Long-Tube Vertical Falling-Film Distillation Process

Report issued by the Office of Saline Water over engineering studies on the long-tube vertical falling-film distillation process. As stated in the introduction, "it is the objective of this report to study the falling-film distillation and to prepare an engineering evaluation of the process and the design of major items of equipment, with particular emphasis upon improving production and operational reliability and upon reducing product cost" (p. 1). This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: February 1965
Creator: Dow Chemical Company
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Saline Water Conversion Demonstration Plant Number 2,  San Diego, California, Annual Report, Volume 1 (open access)

Saline Water Conversion Demonstration Plant Number 2, San Diego, California, Annual Report, Volume 1

Report documenting the ongoing progress and operations of the saline water conversion demonstration plant in San Diego, California.
Date: February 1964
Creator: Burns and Roe, Inc.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Soil Survey, Armstrong County, Texas (open access)

Soil Survey, Armstrong County, Texas

Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Armstrong County, Texas.
Date: February 1965
Creator: Daigle, Jerry J.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Diesel Exhaust Contamination of Tunnel Air (open access)

Diesel Exhaust Contamination of Tunnel Air

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines on investigations of air contamination in tunnels due to diesel exhaust. Air samples were taken inside tunnels and measured for carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxides. This report includes tables and graphs.
Date: February 1968
Creator: Holtz, John C. & Dalzell, Robert W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-992 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-992

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 a County be liable in damages occasioned by overflow (or damages to) lands not condemned for flood control purposes, if the county condemns certain other lands in connection with its flood control project, and related questions.
Date: February 7, 1961
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-993 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-993

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 Legislature has the authority to make appropriations out of the General Revenue Fund for capital improvements at Midwestern University.
Date: February 8, 1961
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-994 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-994

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 State under the Foundation Program Act (Article 2922-11, et.seq.) by way of State allocations has a responsibility to educate, free of tuition, children within the district residenced, enrolled in and under the custody of a private school for exceptional children for all purposes, where the private school determines that enhancement of the children's progress (physical, mental and otherwise) will result from enrolling them in local public schools?
Date: February 13, 1961
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-995 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-995

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: Liability for expenses in holding elections in water control and improvement districts.
Date: February 20, 1961
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-996 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-996

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 Acts Fifty-sixth Legislature, Third Called Session, 1959, Chapter 23, page 442 prohibits the changing in the air duct connections of the air conditioning system in the State Office Building when such changes are necessary to insure proper functioning of such systems.
Date: February 20, 1961
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-997 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-997

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 members of an auxiliary police department, set up by city ordinance, and appointed by the Chief of Police with the approval of the City Commission, are authorized by law to carry pistols while on duty as an auxiliary police, and while off duty as such auxiliary police?
Date: February 23, 1961
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-998 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-998

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: Constitutionality of H.B. 57, amending Article 680, Code of Criminal Procedure of Texas, to provide for alternate jurors in felony cases when a juror becomes unable or disqualified to continue.
Date: February 23, 1961
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-999 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-999

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 consent of the mother to the marriage of a minor child is sufficient under Article 4605, V.C.S., and Articles 404 and 405 V.P.C., where both parents are alive.
Date: February 24, 1961
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1001 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1001

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: Constitutionality of Subsection (d), Section 7 of Article 1722a, The Water Safety Act, requiring every motorboat to carry life preservers of the type approved by the Commandant of the United States Coast Guard.
Date: February 27, 1961
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1002 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1002

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 a channel and dock corporation has the authority to dredge a channel across a State owned portion of Mustang Island, which channel is to be used primarily for recreational purposes.
Date: February 27, 1961
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1003 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1003

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: Reconsideration of Opinion No. WW-922 pertaining to taxability for inheritance tax purposes of bequest to the United States to be used for the retirement of the National Debt in view of new proposal with regard to use of said bequest.
Date: February 28, 1961
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-793 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-793

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: What original records in the office of the District Clerk may be destroyed under the provisions of Article 6574b, Vernon's Civil Statutes.
Date: February 2, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-795 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-795

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: Can the Comptroller and Treasurer clear funds from the Trust Account 923, Insurance Companies Unclaimed Dividends Account, funds with the State Treasurer, to the General Revenue Fund to pay the appropriation to the State Auditor for the cost of audit of the Liquidation Division of the Board of Insurance.
Date: February 1, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-796 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-796

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: Questions concerning the legal determination of restoration of recipients of public assistance, who have been judicially declared to be of unsound mind or mentally incompetent, under provisions of the Texas Mental Health Code.
Date: February 24, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-797 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-797

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 "Hotel Occupancy Tax" levied by House Bill 11, Acts of the 56th Legislature, Third Called Session, 1959, Chapter 1, constitutes a reimbursable expense under the provisions of Section 36 of Article V of House Bill 4, Acts of the 56th Legislature, Third Called Session, 1959, Chapter 23, page 442 (General Appropriation Act).
Date: February 12, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History