president whenever he hasn't any of his Mason, have you cast a ballot for Mr. Locke? own. (Applause.) MR. KIRKBRIDE (Presiding): The doctor is evidently ready to prescribe. It will be next in order to elect the executive secretary and the secretarytreasurer. The committee has nominated Mr. H. A. Mason of San Francisco as secretary-treasurer. We will fill that position first. MR. SUNDERLAND (Fresno): I second the nomination and move that the nominations be closed. (The motion was seconded and upon a vote was unanimously carried.) MR. KIRKBRIDE (Presiding): A motion to have Mr. Locke cast a ballot for Mr. Mason will be in order. MR. BARZELLOTTI (Lodi): I so move, Mr. Chairman. MR. LOCKE (Executive Secretary): I have done that already. There is only one name on the ballot-H. A. Mason. MR. KIRKBRIDE (Presiding): The chair declares Mr. Mason elected. We do not need anybody to escort him up here, so Mr. Mason you will please come forward. MR. MASON (San Francisco): Gentlemen, this is sudden and unexpected and I am not prepared at this time to make a speech. I want to thank you just the MR. KIRKBRIDE (Presiding): I think the secretary has an announcement to make at this time. MR. LOCKE (Executive Secretary): Request is made that immediately following this convention all delegates interested in City Planning will convene near the registration desk in order to organize that department of the League, and those of you who are interested are requested to be over near the registration desk immediately after the convention adjourns. MR. KIRKBRIDE (Presiding): I understand some of the sections are going to meet this afternoon. Are there any other announcements? MR. LOCKE (Executive Secretary): Nothing further. MR. KIRKBRIDE (Presiding): Is there any further business? MR. LINN (Merced): I want to take this opportunity to thank the members of the League for holding their convention here in Yosemite Valley, and I hope our promise came up to your expectation, and that you all had a good time. (On motion duly seconded, the convention adjourned to meet at Sacramento next year.) MR. KIRKBRIDE (Presiding): The convention stands adjourned, gentlemen. PUBLIC HEALTH ENGINEERING ABSTRACTS Treasury Department, Bureau of the Public Health, Washington Refuse Disposal Practice in Six British Municipalities. John B. C. Kershaw, Engineering News-Record, Vol. 97, No. 14, September 30, 1926. pp. 536-539. This article is a description of the processes of handling the refuse of five different British cities in destructor plants and land reclamation in the sixth. The trend has been to handle everything mechanically to reduce labor costs. Such mechanism requires power to operate, and this can usually be generated by the plant. The disposal of power to advantage has been a problem of many American cities. The reduction of the volume of material to be consumed by the furnace has increased the plant capacity and decreased the volume of final residue. This is accomplished by a variety of screening and other salvage methods. Such salvage not only includes those materials commonly salvaged in America but extends to ashes, other fine dirt and the clinker removed from these. The clinker is crushed, graded and sold for concrete aggregate. At one plant the graded clinker is used as aggregate for asphalt paving, the mix being prepared at the plant.-G. H. Hazlehurst. My Experience in the Designing and Erection of a Refuse Disposal Plant. W. H. Sagar, Cleansing Supt., Halifax. Surveyor, Vol. 69, No. 1791, May 14 and 21, 1926. pp. 491-492. Difficulties which have been encountered in the operation of the salvage plant at Halifax and the means adopted for their elimination are outlined and discussed. The plant consists of fine and coarse screens, picking belt and Vegetable Gas Producer. The light combustible matter is effectively destroyed in the latter, the gas produced being burnt in crude state under boilers, the power generated being sufficient to operate the whole plant. The fine screenings are mixed with the contents of pail closets and disposed of as fertilizer.-Rudolph E. Thompson. Garbage Disposal in Grand Forks, North Dakota. J. D. Turner, American City, Vol. 35, No. 1, July, 1926. pp. 41-42. Due to protests of citizens living near the dumping ground, the city council of Grand Forks, N. D., let a contract for the construction of a garbage incinerator in August, 1914. The contract stipulation was $1,500. Subsequently it was determined that one incinerator was too small, therefore two more larger units were built on force account at a cost of about $1,900. Since the plant has been in operation there have been no complaints of any kind. A sketch showing dimensions and table of detailed costs is included in the article.-George N. McDaniel, Jr. Sewage Purification-Real and Delusive. George A. Johnson. American City, Vol. 35, No. 2, August, 1926. pp. 197-200. All sewage works have as their objectives: (1) The removal of the suspended matters from the raw sewage; (2) lowering of the putrescibility with the attendant offensiveness; and, (3) a reduction in the bacterial content. The first objective is imperative, the second almost so, but the third is always incidental. The statement is made that "never has the definite attempt been made on a practical scale deliberately to render the sewage of an American community innocuous to health as discharged into public waters later used for bathing or water supply." Attention is called to the fact that, while present day sewage treatment plants produce, on the average, "good" results, they do not consistently do so. Biological processes, upon which our present-day treatment processes are based, are influenced by the weather and by other factors, so that a dangerous degree of contamination takes place from all of them more or less frequently. No method of treatment has yet produced a sludge which is initially inoffensive, and which will remain so. The author suggests the adoption and development of a treatment process not based upon bacterial processes, but mechanical throughout, depending for proper treatment solely upon efficient mechanical, chemical, and electrical processes, and final sedimentation. He states that such a process is not available, but does not tell what it is. Cost estimates for treatment by this method are given as $15 to $30 per million gallons per day.-W. A. Hardenbergh. INDEX TO VOLUME XL Activated Sludge Processes and Their Recent Developments, by Walter C. Roberts.. Page 333 345 186 All Aboard for Yosemite National Park, Rates-How to Get There-Program. ..167, 256 Allyn, Arthur, on The Disposal of Fines in Recorders' Courts for Violation of State Laws.... 95 49 Auctioneers, Licenses on.. 487 Auditing Committee's Report.. 509 Albers, J. C., on Methods of Handling Traffic During Street Construction.. 417 Berkeley, Cal., Installs New System of Police Signals.. 449 Boulder Dam in Its Relation to Colorado River Development, by Hon. S. C. Evans.. 64 Boulder Dam Project, The, Interesting Commentary, in the Form of a Letter from J. R. Mason. 143 501 Building Heights and Setbacks, Legal Aspects, by Lucius P. Green.. California Municipal Traffic League, Minutes of the Meeting of the. City Planning, What We Do Not Know About, by Carol Aronovici. 49 City Planning, High Lights from the International Conference on, by G. Gordon Whitnall... 53 215 City Planning Section Recognized.. 498 Clerks', Auditors' and Assessors' Page. 429 Coffin, George H., Jr., on To What Extent Should Business Areas Be Limited?. 273 Cole, W. Graham, on The Traffic Problem in the State of New York..... 382 Commerce Department Publishes Revised Editions of "A Zoning Primer" and "A Standard State Zoning Enabling Act".. 463 Commissions for Cities of the Sixth Class, by James H. Mitchell. Developments in Methods of Sewage Disposal, by C. G. Gillespie.. 303 Discussion on the Subject of Recall Petitions, Mayor Edwards of Watts. 494 Discussion on the Subject of Patent Pavements, by Mr. George Warren.. 61 Disposal of Fines in Recorders' Courts for Violation of State Laws, by Arthur Allyn.. 95 101 107 Discussion by T. J. Allen.. 115 Discussion on Alternative Specifications-Gasoline Tax League Program and Other Matters 137 317 Dorton, R. N., on Keeping the Public Informed. Is It an Obligation of the City Manager? 99 Ellis, Ellen Deborah, on The City Manager as a Leader of Policy. 133 Evans, Hon. S. C., on The Boulder Dam in Its Relation to Colorado River Development.. 64 501 Gasoline Tax and Motor Vehicle Funds, How Should They Be Divided, The, Vice President 481 Gasoline Tax Fund, by Mr. Kiernan. 485 Gillespie, C. G., on Developments in Methods of Sewage Disposal. 303 Gragg, H. E., on Advantages of the Conventions... 186 Green, Lucius P., on Legal Aspects of Building Heights and Setbacks. Hickok, Clifton E., on Pension Systems for Municipal Employees.. 97 High Lights from the International Conference on City Planning, by G. Gordon Whitnall.. 53 224 How Regional Planning Is Beneficial to the Cities, by Hugh R. Pomeroy. 432 Information on Yosemite.. 172 Interesting Commentary, in the Form of a Letter from J. R. Mason, on The Boulder Dam Keeping the Public Informed. Is It an Obligation of the City Manager? How Can It Be Done? 99 Kiernan, Mr., on Gasoline Tax Fund.. 485 Legal Aspects of Building Heights and Set Backs, by Lucius P. Green . . 217 League of California Municipalities, How, When, Where and Why It Came to be Organized, Mason, Bruce, on Model Zoning Ordinance for Fifth and Sixth Class Cities. 213 Mason, H. A., on The Traffic Problem.... 399 Mattoon, Everett W., on The Acquisition and Improvement Act of 1925 in Action. INDEX TO VOLUME XL-Continued. Page Methods of Handling Traffic During Street Construction, by J. C. Albers.. 417 501 Minutes of the Meeting of the California Municipal Traffic League. 259 341 339 Model Plumbing Ordinance, A (Discussion).......... 421 Model Zoning Ordinance for Fifth and Sixth Class Cities, by Bruce Mason. 213 497 Moody, H. L., President, Opening Address. . 923 Motor Vehicle Funds, The Gasoline Tax and How Should They Be Divided, Vice President 481 Municipal Regulations of Fortune Telling, Extract from a Paper by Lorna L. Lewis.... 221 380 Myers, John S., on Departmental Auditing for Municipalities.. 183 Municipal Lighting Plants, Discussion Following Address by Joseph B. Kahn. 101 Need for and the Preliminary Draft of a Comprehensive Enabling Act Relative to Public Organized Hold Ups and Police Pensions, from the Municipal League Bulletin. 223 Paving Program of the City of Long Beach, The, by A. J. Van Alstyne. 59 Pension Systems for Municipal Employees, by Clifton E. Hickok.. 97 Pension Systems for Municipalities.. 481 Phelps, Earle B., on Chlorination of Water and Sewage.. 233 Pomeroy, Hugh R., on How Regional Planning Is Beneficial to the Cities. Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Annual Convention of the League at Yosemite Valley- 431 Program, Twenty-eighth Annual Convention of the League of California Municipalities. 448 252 Program, City Managers' Section.. 254 Program of California Association of Dairy and Milk Inspectors. Regional Planning Is Beneficial to the Cities, How, by Hugh R. Pomeroy. Roberts, Walter C., on Activated Sludge Processes and Their Recent Developments.. 333 497 Resolutions Passed at Convention of California Conference of Social Workers in Yosemite 71 |