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By ADELAIDE KERR
a, AJE Nawafantures Staff Writer
Gladys Swope will try to solve
this year a problem that has baf
fled the pulp and pape industry
for years—the problem of dispos
ing of its waste.
Miss Swope, one of America’s
outstanding young chemists, was
formerly district chemist for the
^North Shore Sanitary District of
GLADYS SWOPE . . .
She fights pollution . . .
Waukegan 111. She was in charge
^of 11 sewage plants belonging to
small cities on Lake Michigan’s
north shore and her job was to
return to the lake daily from
three to 15 million gallons of
waste, free of pollution.
She will spend next year as a
research fellow at the Mellon
Institute in Pittsburgh, working
with two men fellows on the
pulp and paper waste problem.
“This waste is pollutional in
^ streams. Sometimes it kills fish
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and colors the streams/’ Miss
Swope explained when she was
in New York for the recent an
nual meeting of the American
Chemical Society.
“Big industries that have
enough money have been trying
to treat their own waste. But it
is a very expensive process, be
cause pulp and paper waste is
! 98.99 percent water. So we are
going to see what improvement
can be made. Th other two fel
lows will work on the utilization
of the waste. My job will be the
pollutional problem.
“It has been suggested that I
i ackle it from two angles. In the
first place the waste colors the
streams. So my job will be to find
the nature of the color and and
how it can be removed. Secjnd,
the waste uses up oxygen which
the fish need in order to live and
here the job will be to find out
how much oxygen the waste uses
up and then learn how to treat
it so it won’t use so much.”
Miss Swope is goodlooking, tall
; dark-eyed, dark haired, a little
lanky and very casual. Her smile
is a friendly grin, her handshake
has the gusto of a western cow
boy’s. She reminds you of the girl
with whom you went tohigh
school—the one who wore the red
I sweater. Encounter her in street
i clothess and you will see a cas
i ually tailored blue suit and beret.
Meet her at the cocktail hour and
you will fird her dressed in a
slim brown frock.
Miss Swope abhors talking
about herself as nature abhors
a vacuum. Any information
about her accomplishments has
to be levered out of her. Her
friends do better in this re
spect. They will tell you that
Gladys is really a whiz.
She got mixed up with chem
istry by accident. She chose it in
stead of physics for pre-college
credit and found to her amaze
ment that she loved it. At the
high school in Oak Park, 111.,
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where she moved from her birth
place, Detroit, she spent hours
after school in the chemistry
lab. Thereafter she worked her
way through college—two years at
the University of Illinois and two
years at the University of Chi
cago, from which she emerged
with a B.S.
zAfter school she became a
chemist for the sanitary district
of Chicago, working on stream
pollution. Next she worked on
f'-e problem of boiler wa*er treat
ment for the National Aluminate
Corporation and la+er headed the
laboratory of the Division of San
itation of the Kansas Sfate Board
of Health, at Lawrence, Kans.
After that she went to her Wau
kegan job.
She says her greatest ambition
is to take an automobile apart
and get it all back together again.
CARD OF THANKS
“I wish to express my heartfelt
thanks to the host of friends
whose flowers and other expres
sions of sympathy sustain me in
m yhour of bereavement. I rely
upon their asistance in carrying
out in my humble way my belov
ed husband’s plans for showing
some beauties of The Creator to
the world at large.—Mrs. Henry
Joseph Lalley.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
ORDINANCE NO. 307
An Ordinance of the City of
Nome, Territory of Alaska in
relation to Intoxicating Li
quors and Beverages; declar
ing certain acts unlawful; and
providing penalties for violation
thereof:
SECTION I.—It shall be un
lawful, within the limits of the
City of Nome, for any person to
sell, barter, or give, either indi
rectly or directly to any person
under the age of twenty-one (21)
'years any intoxicating liquor or
! beverages: Provided that “any
i person” as herein used shall not
' include a father or mother of
the person under twenty-one
(21) years, or any practicing
medical doctor or nurse.
SECTION n.—It shall be un
lawful, within the limits of the
City of Nome, for any person un
der the age of twenty-one (21)
years to solicit, incite, or induce
any person to furnish him or her
with any intoxicating liquor or
beverage.
SECTION III.—Any person
violating any provision of this
Ordinance, on conviction thereof,
shall be punished by fine in any
amount not exceeding the sum of
One Hundred Dollars ($100.00); or
by imprisonment for any length
of time not exceeding (30) days;
or by both such fine and impris
onment in the discretion of the
Magistrate.
Passed by the Common Council
of the City of Nome, Alaska, in
regular meeting assembled the
23rd day of October, 1944.
Approved October 23 1944.
EDWARD ANDERSON,
Mayor, Nome City.
Attest: CARRIE M. McLAIN,
Clerk Nome City.
NEW BOOKS !
AT LIBRARY
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Among the new books just plac.
ed on the shelves at the Kegoayah
Kozga Public Library are two
current best sellers, “The Razor’s
Edge,” a mature and deeply
thoughtful novel by Somerset
Maugham, and “Leave Her to
Heaven” by Ben Ames Williams.
This is a story of a woman who
dominated the lives of those |
p"nund her as implacably as she
war dominated by a consuming
iealousy.
Other books are: “Lost Island,”
by James Norman Hall, a short
novel in which he has shown the
human impact of the war as it
strikes home, even in Polynesia;
“The Letters of Alexander Wooll.
ootV’ edited by Kaufman and
Hennessey, are ready to delight
the friends and admirers of the
unconquerable Woollcott; A short
but engaging and colorful history
of the City of Quebec, by Mazo
De La Roche, the author of the
Jalna Series, and Vicki Baum’s
latest novel, “Ifotel Berlin”;
“American Folklore,” edited by B.
A. Botkin, is a treasury of stor
ies legends, tall tales, traditions,
ballads, and songs of the Ameri
i can people; “The Lost Week-End,”
by Charles Jackson is a most un
usual story of five days out of a
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man’s life. It is a study in the
perverse depths of the alcoholic
mind; “Yankee From Olympus,”
by C. Bowen, is a story of the
great American, Justice Holmes,
and his family. Incidentally, it
provides one of the best pictures
of Oliver Wencrell, Senior, ever
written. For mystery lovers, “In
trigue for Empire,” and “On The
Danger Line,” are two top-notch
thrilling spy stories.
The library, located in the City
Hall, will be open to the public
each Saturday afternoon from
2:30 until 4, and also on Friday
evenings from 7:30 until 9 o’clock.
Placer Location Notices now on
sale at The Nome Nugget.
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