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...communities last year (Richland and North Richland, Wash.), said the doctors in the Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Medicine, there were two deaths, one near-fatality and four cases of hospitalization caused by carbon tetrachloride poisoning. Investigation showed that one teaspoonful of the fluid* taken by mouth, or the fumes from one cupful breathed in a poorly ventilated room, could cause death. It is especially dangerous to people who have been drinking. The doctors' recommendation: manufacturers of cleaning fluids containing carbon tetrachloride should label it poisonous, attach the usual skull & crossbones and explain the conditions under which...
Thus emboldened, the council three weeks ago passed its first "ordinance," setting up the office of dogcatcher, requiring licenses for Richland dogs and specifying eight-foot leashes in public places. Nothing happened; the council was told that AEC lawyers would have to think it over. Last week, the Richland city council tried again. Angry over the way the Government was issuing rules about how householders should leave their garbage, the council decided to draft its ordinance No. 2, expressing its own ideas for garbage disposal in the model city. This time it was mad, and so were the townspeople...
...first blush, it was hard to believe that there could be much wrong with life in Richland, Wash., the Atomic Energy Commission's model residential city for the big Hanford Plutonium Works. Its 24,000 residents seemed to live in an atomic-age Utopia. With no effort from them, Government planning had methodically channeled the city's burgeoning population into neatly curving rows of comfortable frame houses. Sputtering Government sprinklers had drawn green grass from the arid Columbia River basin in defiance of the gritty desert winds from the Horse Heaven Hills...
...Richland's inhabitants, for the most part, seemed fairly satisfied with their lot. But the city's young Mayor David McDonald, an earnest, 34-year-old atomic chemist, missed the leavening of free enterprise. It was little things that set him thinking. Once he tried to stop some youngsters who were robbing his backyard peach tree, and got a sassy, truthful reply: "Our teacher says that everything in Richland belongs to the Government." A neighbor came home from work one evening to find his carefully nurtured flower bed torn up; that was where the Master Plan decreed that...
...bottling plant in Kennewick, Wash. (pop. 6,800) two wartime Navy buddies, ex-Lieutenants Robert Philip and Glenn Lee, started the Tri-City Herald, first daily newspaper in Washington's close-linked triangle of Kennewick, Pasco and Richland. In the next two years, their hard-hitting editorial campaigns on local issues earned them a reputation as fearless crusaders, pushed their circulation up from 2,000 to 10,258 and put them in the black. Fortnight ago, they got into their toughest scrap...