VOL. Ill, NO. 28 • $1.00 A YEAR "-spot I Ifill JUNE 19, 1958 • TEN CENTS 4,000,000,000 GALLONS OF WATER IN NEW RESERVOIR OPEN HOUSE AT NEW FILTRATION PLANT SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, JUNE 21 AND 22 Scoffers and sidewalk engineers who said it was a ncrazy place to build a dam for a reservoir and a waste of the tax­ payers' money to follow it up with a filtration plant that would never have any water to filter., ••• these critics would do well to visit this new water supply either Saturday or Sunday, June 21 or 22, when Water Disuict No. 1 will be host to the people of the Town of Bethlehem at an open house to be held at the new Filtration Plant. To reach the Plant, drive out New Scot• land Road to approximately 500 feet past the Indian -Ladder Drive-In and turn left. This .week the Spotlight was invited to a preview tour of in· spection of the new Water Supply. The first place we went was to the reservoir 1tself. We took our first picture from the top of the dam (Upper, left), showing a part of the water which stretches back through the valley more than 2~ miles. It was Howard Blair, Filtration Plant Supervisor, who volunteered the information on the 4 BILLION gallons ••• and then he backed his statement with the complicated method of figuring the total. From the dam we went to the the maze of Pipes and valves to Filtration Plant, middle picture, Ruth Westervelt and John Oliver. where our guides posed in front of In the Gallery the water enters the the new building; from left to right, building; is routed through clari.. Howard Blair, Ruth Westervelt, fiers, then is chlorinated and Deputy Town Clerk; Harold Bark.. finally finds its way into the huff, Superintendent of Water mains which take it to the con.. District No. 1; and John Oliver, sumer. Supervisor, TOwn of Bethlehem. This weekend, Saturday and Inside the building, Howard Sunday, you are invited to see this Blair explained that the new Plant latest accomplishment which has is the only one in this country that been brought about by the careful can be walked through without planning. followed by months of crawling over htmdreds of pipes. hard work, by those in whose In the Pipe Gallery, (Bottom hands the welfare of our township picture) Harold Barkbuff explains has been placed. Exclusive Spotlight Staff Photos Notes at Random on Preview and Reception at Kuhn Show BY PEGGY O'BRIEN Governor and Mrs. Averell of the four other Kuhn paint­ Harriman entertained in their ings loaned by the HalTimans and home with a buffet supper be­ at the moment hanging at the fore the preview for visiting Albany Institute of History and dignitaries and out of town mu­ Art. seum officials. The Governor's -O- mansion was too full of people Folio wing the trail from the to be able to miss the "White Mansion to the Institute for the Clown 11 which ordinarily hangs preview was not difficult despite across from the staircase nor (Continued on Page 4) r PAGE 2- JUNE 19, 1958 THE SPOTLIGHT IS EUROPEAN EDUCATION BETTER? BYRON S. 1-!0LLINSI-IEAD This article is reprinted from theEDU· why the more intelligent are say­ CATIONAL RECORD of Apdl 1958 by ing what they are. The training permission of the American Council on of the second or third echelon of Education. workers and citizens who can un­ PART II derstand what their leaders are A first-class illustration of bet- saying is desperately important ter quality where there is quan- in all fields of ende.avor if a tity is textbooks. Publishers can civilization is to advance. 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