From Abstract: "The results of an investigation of lightweight, precast cellular concrete planks are given. Fire tests were made of two floor and five roof specimens made up of these planks. Variables, included density of the cellular concrete, thickness and span of the planks, reinforcement, and cover for the latter."

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 person who refuses on February 1, 1961 to answer the census trustee as to a child under his control and who is within the prescribed age, is subject to be prosecuted for such failure under the provisions of Article 294 of Vernon's Penal Code.

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: Under the facts stated, whether the Corsicana Independent School District is entitled to the 1959 taxes collected by the County Tax Assessor-Collector on the territory added to it by the County Board on August 28, 1959, and related questions.

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: Authority of Commissioners Court of El Paso County to convey 1.67 acres of land, dedicated and used as a county park, back to its grantor, the United States of America, under the facts stated, and related questions.

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 City Clerk may return absentee voters' poll tax receipts, now being held by the Clerk under Subdivision 6 of Art. 5.05, Texas Election Code for 30 days after such voters have voted absentee in a city election, so as to enable such voters to use the poll tax receipts again to vote absentee in school and primary elections, occurring within less than 30 days of the preceding city election.

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 surveyor may make private surveys for compensation of lands in his county without being licensed under Article 5282a, V.C.S.

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 under the facts stated, a baby sitting facility comes within the purview of Section 8a of Article 695c, Vernon's Civil Statutes.

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 a person who has been convicted in a justice court, and does not have the money to pay the fine and court costs is entitled to lay out the fine and court costs at the rate of $5.00 per day, without being required to stay at least five days in jail.

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 the Attorney General could approve bonds supported by the fifteen cents per one hundred dollar valuation, should S.B. No. 419 with the amendment be passed by the Texas Legislature.

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: Appointment and Compensation of attorneys to represent accused persons in examining trials.

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: When the commissioners court has enlarged a wet justice precinct by adding additional territory to same which was in a dry precinct, whether the territory within the original wet precinct remains wet, and related questions.

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: Whether the County Court of Cass County has jurisdiction of eminent domain matters.

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: Whether the Board of Chiropractic Examiners has the authority to determine the schools and state associations whose programs of refresher work will be acceptable to the Board as meeting the annual renewer requirements.

From abstract: Seismic waves resulting from a 5 kiloton nuclear detonation 1200 feet deep in a salt bed near Carlsbad, New Mexico were measured by strong-motion seismographs operated by the Coast and Geodetic Survey on the surface in the distance range from 0.5 to 8.8 miles and underground in a potash mine 8.7 to 11.2 miles distant.

From abstract: This report presents information generated during a six month feasibility study of an engine which uses a supercritical working fluid as the secondary portion of nuclear powered electric generating system.

A structural evaluation is presentsd of the Hallam Power Reactor fuel elements. The fuel rcd spacer examined is an interim design, but the final spacer is considered to be adequately represented by the analysis of the interim design. Loading of the spacer is considered at temperatures up to 600 deg F. The maximum stress in the hanger rod is found to be 4700 psi. Creep in the fuel rod cladding from internal pressure is predicted to be 5.2% after 48 months of operation, based on a predicted volumetric growth of 15% caused by irradiation. Data indicate that the actual volumetric growth is only 6%, so that the predicted results are quite conservative. (T. F.H.)

SPERT I: The characteristics of the boiling process and its relatin to moderator expulsion in Spert I were investigated in a series of capsule type experiments. A fuel-bearing oapsule, instrumented to provide pressure, volume, and temperature data during transient power excursions, was placed in a high flux region of the Spert I P core. Five step-induced transients initiated from boiling indicate that the kinetic behavior of the stainless steel clad P-18/19 core is dependent on initial temperature in a manner similar to that of previously tested aluminum clad spert cores. Reactivity oscillator techniques were used in the P-18/19 core to determine the phase and magnitude of the reactivity-to-power transfer function from 0.01 to 18.4 cps at low power and at temperatures below boiling. Criticality data on relatively simple lattices, both rod-free and containing a single poison rod, were obtained from a series of clean critical experiments performed on a number of light water-moderated and - reflected slab configurations of Spert III fuel elements. Changes in water height during the critical water height experiment were measured to plus or minus 0.0013 inches by means of a simple remoteindicating system designed and built for this purpose. SPERT III: The operational loading was …

A design analysis of the Turbine Power Control Valve was conducted to investigate its suitability for use as a Diluent Control Value. Factors of safety used in the analysis were 1.25 for yield strength and 1.50 for ultimate strength. All margins of safety calculated for the components were positive. The results of this design analysis indicate the valve is suitable for use in cryogenic service.

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It is noted that in high-temperature He-cooled graphite reactors, sufficiently high levels of gaseous impurities can lead to transport and corrosion effects. The possible effects of these reactions in graphite-moderated reactors designed to operate at a He-coolant pressure of a about 20 atm. were investigated. Results are included on C transport, steam-graphite reactions, and deposition of C on surfaces. (J.R.D.)

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Heat-transfer data are presented for the Experimental Gas Cooled Reactor Title I seven-rod fuel-assembly design. The effect on heat transfer of (1) the radial location of the outer six rods of the seven-fuel-rod cluster and of (2) the addition of helical-finned spacers at the midpoint of each of the seven fuel rods is discussed. The heattransfer data were obtained to verify preliminary general assumptions pertaining to the heat-transfer characteristics of the seven- rod fuel-assembly design and to obtain local heat-transfer correlations. The heat-transfer tests were performed at near-atmospheric pressure using air as the coolant medium. Plots and equations of heattransfer correlations over a Reynolds Number range from 12,000 to 80,000 are included. The test set-up and test procedure are also described. (auth)

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