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U. S. ENGINEERS
STUDY DAM
. . SAFETY
Stimulated in their investigation
* of safer reservoir construction by
the recent St. Francis Dam tragedy
In California, engineers of America,
tinder the leadership of the En
gineering Foundation, are with re
newed vigor attacking the problem
of safety and economy in the con
struction of arch dams.
The United States Government
is taking a hand in the research, a
series' of small model dams being
under construction and study at
the University of Colorado, through
the direction of the Bureau of
Reclamation.
“Efforts of these engineers al
ready are yielding valuable knowl
edge,** said a statement by the
Engineering Foundation. “The in
vestigation will be continued with
the aim of providing answers to
fundamental questions making less
remote the probability of disasters
such as the breaking of the St.
Francis Dam.
Preparing Report
Director Alfred D. Flinn, of the
Engineering Foundation, will issue
soon a report covering the progress
of operations on the experimental
arch dam constructed by the foun
dation’s arch dam committee, with
the co-operation of engineering so
cieties. United States Governmental
bureaus, power companies, banks
and other organisations, on Steven
son Creek in a canyon of the
Sierras near Fresno, California The
American Society of Civil Engineers
is preparing the report.
The Stevenson Creek dam, 60 feet
high and 140 feet long, cost SIOO,OOO.
Erected for the purpose of being
destroyed in the interest of science,
it probably will be extended to a
height of 100 feet, so that it may
undergo tests of greater rigor until
it finally bursts. .So far the dam
has resisted the waters that have
been loosed, according to the En
gineering Foundation.
“The dam is shaped like a sym
metrical, triangular piece of the
side of a round can and stands on
its point, curved upstream,’’ the
preliminary report showed. “It is
of cement concrete without steel
reinforcements, and with thousands
of parts of instruments embedded
for maklpg tests.
tasks Measurements
‘thousands of measurements of
strain, deflection and temperature
-*nave been made with the water at
various depths up to 60 feet, as
well as with no water in the reser
voir. Despite the artificial floods
sent against it, the dam still stands.
“Engineers and scientists in charge
of the experiment declare that the
dam should be built higher and
tested until it bursts In order that
nothing may be left undone in min
imizing further human and eco
nomic loss through lack of facts
upon which more accurate theories
and computations may be based.**
The tests are being directed oy
Dr. W. A. Slater, chief of the divi
sion of concrete and masonry of the
Bureau of Standards.
Parents Pray, But Bar
Medicine for Sick Boy
< BLUEFIELD, W. Va., April 20.
A father 1 mother continued their
prayers and Bible reading today as
David Lepper, city health director,
oeclared their son. Roy Richards, 7,
ill with diphtheria, was improving.
Dr. Lepper visited the home in
.'forth Bluefield, but the parents re
fused to permit him to administer
medical treatment.
ADMITS BIGAMY, FLEES
WILMINGTON, Del.. April 20.
Mrs. Antonina Failkowski asked the
police to aid in finding her husband
Andrew, 47. Mrs. Failkowski said
she found a note from her husband,
written in Polish, in which he ex
pressed sorrow for having lied to
her at the time of their marriage
eight years ago and stating he has
a wife and several children in Po
land.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1928
Sale of 250 Small
Boys* Topcoatslfß
$ 2' 69
Regularly selling for m
$3.33 ami $4.97 /■ <
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