August 7, 1951 - Linus Pauling Day-by-Day

Check from AHP to American School of Dance for $9.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, September 1950-December 1952), Box #4.021, Folder #21.2]

Check from AHP to Sears Roebucks Co. for $33.65. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, September 1950-December 1952), Box #4.021, Folder #21.2]

Letter form J. H. Sturdivant, Caltech, to LP RE: Says that a grant of $5000 was received from Parke, Davis & Company on July 13, 1950. Of this amount, Dr. Jack Dunitz was paid $4550 for 13 months of work and the balance was applied to Digital Computing Laboratory bills other expenses. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Parke, Davis & Company), #310.3]

Letter from A. E. van Arkel, Anorgaisch Chemisch Laboratorium, to LP RE: Thanks him for the invitation to visit Pasadena. States that an immediate visit is impossible, but that he may be able to arrange one later in the year. [Letter from LP to van Arkel, July 31, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (V: Correspondence, 1951), #427.11]

Letter from Frank Aydelotte, the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, to LP, RE: Encloses a copy of the letter that he wrote to Colonel King after receiving LP’s letter of August 2nd. Explains his hope that LP will appear before the Industrial Employment Review Board and make a strong statement of his case. [Letter from LP to Aydelotte, August 9, 1951] [Filed under LP Personal Safe, Drawer #1, Folder #1.032]

Letter from Frank Aydelotte, the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, to Lt. Col. W.J. King, Department of Defense, Army-Navy-Air Force Personnel Security Board, Department of the Army, RE: Informs him that he just received a letter from LP about the information the Board has saying that LP is a member of the Communist Party. Discusses his opinions of LP and defends his case. [Filed under LP Personal Safe, Drawer #1, Folder #1.032]

Letter from Hugh W. Handsfield, Editor, College Department, McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc., to LP and Samuel A. Goudsmit, Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, RE: States that 5 copies of their text, The Structure of Line Spectra, will be sent to them under separate cover. States that he has asked the production department to destroy the plates. Says that there are still 100 copes of the book in stock but that it will be declared out of print when the stock is exhausted because much of the material is out of date. [Filed under LP Books: 1930b.6]

Letter from Hugh W. Handsfield, Editor, McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc., to LP and Dr. Samuel A Goudsmit informing them that due to the outdated material, the book will be declared out of print as soon as the last hundred books are sold. [Filed under: LP Manuscripts of Books, 1930b.6]

Letter from Jurg Waser, Chemistry Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to LP RE: Says that he is concerned about a letter to the Journal of Chemical Physics by Galloni and Busch, and asks about his recent work with protein structures. [Letter from LP to Waser, August 15, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Waser, Jurg), #431.8]

Letter from L.A. DuBridge, President of the California Institute of Technology, to LP, RE: Tells LP that he would be glad to write to the Army-Navy-Air Force Personnel Security Board. Says that he was not surprised by their action and would have been surprised otherwise. [Letter from LP to DuBridge, August 9, 1951] [Filed under LP Personal Safe, Drawer #1, Folder #1.032]

Letter from LP to Mr. Robert Casamajor, Chairman of the Board of Director of the Mira Loma Water Co., cc: Mrs. Hodges. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Materials re: Other Pauling Residences and Properties, 1938-1994.), Box #4.054, Folder #54.2]

August 7, 1951

Mr. Robert Casamajor, Chairman

Board of Directors, Mira Loma Water Co.

2036 North Pasadena Glen Road

Pasadena 8, California

Dear Mr. Casamajor:

I am writing to you to have presented to the Mira Loma Water Company the water pressure provided at our property at 3500 Fairpoint Street, by the Mira Loma Water Company. I hope that action can be taken on this matter without further delay. My wife has telephoned to the secretary and written to the Board of Directors in care of the secretary, without causing any action to be taken and without having any reply to her communication.

Our water pressure has always been low. During recent months it has been lower than before. Also, we have installed a dishwasher and the pressure is so low that the dishwasher does not operate properly if any other faucet is open. In addition, the pressure is so low that two rainbird sprinklers cannot be operated at the same time.

I have made an investigation in an effort to find out what the trouble is. The static pressure of the water delivered to our property ranges between 30 and 35 psi. The pressure measured at the meter, at the north edge of our property, drops to about 20 psi when one faucet is opened, and to 10 psi when three faucets are opened. There is very little drop in pressure from the meter to other parts of our property, so that the low dynamic pressure is not due to too great resistance or an obstruction in the pipes on our property.

It is my opinion that the static pressure of the water as delivered to our property is too low, and also that there is too great resistance in the meter, the delivery pipes, or valves involved in delivering water to the north boundary of our property. Possibly there is an obstruction of the pipe of the Mira Loma Water Company used for delivering water to the north boundary of our property. I request accordingly that the static pressure be increased, and also that an investigation be made as to the source of large resistance to flow and that this be rectified in such a way that the pressure drop when water is flowing be far less than at present.

Sincerely yours,

Linus Pauling:W

cc: Mrs. Hodges

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