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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: Whether penalties for late payment of taxes should be assessed when the check in payment of taxes is dishonored by the drawee bank through no fault of the taxpayer.

Battelle-Northwest is developing a general-purpose data retrieval system. The system is planned to provide almost unrestricted flexibility in application and use, with no limitations on the quantity of data, except those imposed by hardware. This data retrieval system is being programmed in Fortran-V, for batch processing on a Univac-1108. The control, search-and-retrieval, query-input, output, and startup programs have been written in preliminary form, and are in the initial debugging and test stages. Current versions of these programs are presented.

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A test arrangement and procedure has been devised for a miniaturized gap test in which the donor is essentially a length of hypodermic needle tubing loaded with an exploslve. The particular size used in the work reported hereln had an explosive column charge diameter of 33 mils. The procedure was used to determine gap sensitivities of several explosives including tetryl, RDX, PETN, HMX, and PBXN-5. Several of the explosives were tested of more than one particle size and loaded at more than one density. Within the group of explosives tested, both particle size and loading density had more affect upon sensitivity, as measured in these tests, than did composition. The coarser materials were found to be both less sensitive and more variable than the fine explosives. The fine explosives were found to become less sensitive as the loading density increased. This trend was apparently reversed for the one coarse explosive (RDX, Class a) for which data was obtained. The test arrangement and procedure is a promising tool for the acquisition of data for the design of fuzes of minimum dimensions.

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