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Collection: Glover (Robert E.) Papers Author: Glover, Robert E. (Robert Ellsworth) Title: 1951
Date: 1951
File Name: WREG02803.pdf Date Transcribed: January 2021 Editors: T. Barker
Transcription Platform: Microsoft Word BEGIN TRANSCRIPTION Perpetual Datebook Robert E. Glover 1951 Legal Holidays Perpetual Datebook Robert E Glover 1951 January 8
Mr Blanks says go ahead with the investigation of earthquake resonance effects with yielding of the steel accounted for. Satisfactory to change to Geologic Research 0-3500-0-3-1. REG
January 9
Temperature rise test of insulated 2’ cube started at 9:00AM today. Starting temperature about 55 degrees instead of 50 degrees. REG
January 10 [scratched out] January 12
Pete Terrell requested that we help them out on surge studies for the Unit 9 layout of the Coachella system. He was advised that we will be able to assist them. Terrell and Fienup will come over Monday to discuss details. Val Jones says Balmer and Florey can help out, Ball says Simmons can help with the hydraulics. McMillan says we have funds Blanks says go ahead. REG (Contract on Spec 3219 let Dec 18 1950)
January 15
Monday. Discussed with Mr Schmitt the question of the form of the report to be made on the Delta Cross channel studies. He suggests a report to be signed by one person and referring to the individual reports and memoranda on the various items. The report to be made to the chief engineer. REG Pete Terrell requests check computations on surges in unit No9. Balmer and Florey will make computations. Charge to 3-212-06-09-01 (MacMillan) Coachella Unit No 9. Avl American canal. REG January 23
Conference with Curtis, Terrell and Fienup of Canals on Unit No9 Coachella surging. REG Jan 24 1951 Medal for Jake Warnock presented to Mrs Warnock in Chief Engineers office presentation by Mr Blomgren. REG Jan 24, 1951
January 24
Went to hospital this afternoon. REG Feb 8 1951
February 8
Returned to work this afternoon after being on sick leave for operation. (went to hospital afternoon of Jan 24, operation performed Jan 25, Returned home Jan 31, returned to work Feb 8 PM) REG
February 9
On sick leave today REG Feb 12 1951 February 12
(Monday) Dr Rufus Oldenburger of the Woodward Governor Company in today. REG 2/13/51 February 13
On sick leave in the morning. REG 2/15/51 February 14
On sick leave in morning to be treated by Dr Hager. REG 2/15/51 February 19
Worked part time. Rest of day on sick leave. REG 2-28-51 February 20
Worked part time. Rest of day on sick leave. REG 2-28-51 February 21
February 23
On sick leave. REG 2-28-51 March 6
Mr Esmiol in today to talk about installation of accelerometers at Cachuma Dam. Consideration given to installation of two accelerographs with provision for purchase and installation by USC and GS and operation for one year. Possibly desirable for USBR to operate after the first year.
March 8
Charges for work on unit 1, Coachella for investigation of dynamics of systems with lids to be charged to 3-212-06-09-2 Coachella laterals dmt 9 A.A. Project (from McMillan) REG
March 14
On leave all day. REG 3/15/51
March 15
Prof N.D. Morgan (Civil Engr) Univ of Wyoming, in today to inquire about analogs for flood routing. REG March 19
Conference with K Fienup and Timblin on data needed for design of surge control measures on unit 9 Coachella. It was agreed that resonance data on systems with covered pipe stands is most urgently needed now. These data would include input and output flow variations. REG 3/20/51
March 22
Mr Warner from Baltimore in today. REG March 23
Time on unit 9 for the work beginning Mar 19. Daum 0.5 day
Timblin 1.0 day Kumic 1.0 day Glover 2.0 days
Data given to Dale McMillan REG 3/28/51
April 9
Returned to work this morning after one week and two days vacation at the Terrell ranch in Texas. REG 4/13/51
Jury duty at Judge Steele’s court (Div 1) in the morning. Reported to court at 9:30 AM. Released at 11.35 AM. On duty at DFC 1:15 PM. REG
April 17
Reported at Judge Steele’s court at 9:30 AM. Excused at 9:55 AM on duty at DFC 10:50 AM REG April 18
Reported at Judge Steele’s court at 9:30 AM. Excused at 9:40 AM on duty at DFC at about 10:40 AM. REG 4/19/51
April 19
Reported to Judge Steele’s court (Div 1) at 9:30 AM. Excused at 11:40 AM. On duty at DFC at 1:40 PM. REG
April 20
Reported to Judge Steele’s court at 9:30 AM. Sent to Judge Walsh’s court (Div 3) Excused about 11:45. On duty at DFC at about 1:30 PM. REG
April 23
Reported at Judge Steele’s court at 9:15 AM. Sent to Judge Black’s court (Div 4) Excused at about 11:25 AM. On duty at DFC 1:05 PM REG
April 24
Reported to Judge Steele’s court at 9:30 AM. Sent to Judge Day’s court (Div 5) chosen on jury for case of Haslack vs Cassidy and Cassidy. REG Apr 26 1951
April 25
On jury in Judge Day’s court REG 4/26/51 April 26
Reported to Judge Day’s court at 8:45 AM. Case of Haslack vs Cassidy and Cassidy completed. Jury excused at about 9:30 AM. On duty at Denver Federal Center at 11:00 AM REG
April 27
Reported at Judge Steele’s court at 9:30 AM. Jurors directed to obtain vouchers for pay. Received pay 19.50 and certificate of service signed by F Lillehaug came to DFC on the noon bus. On duty at Denver Federal Center at about 12:20 PM. REG
Auditors No 10179. Warrant No 15376 Date 4/27/51
May 1
Delta Analog described to the local Hydraulics Division of the ASCE by Glover and Daum. (Albertson presiding) REG
5/2/51 May 9
Meeting at Panel on Dams. During discussion on galleries Glover suggested the use of precast, prestressed circular concrete pipe as permanent gallery forms in dams. REG 5/17/51
May 15
Strange over today to discuss means of stopping penstock vibration at Grand Coulee. One of Pete Bier’s men came with him (Burton) REG 5/16/51
May 16
Electric analog of water hammer vibrations and vibration absorber used today. REG May 18
Friday Mr Strange over to see the analog representing water hammer vibrations in a pipe line and the arrangements which cover be made to model the Grand Coulee situation. REG
May 21
Monday: Mr Strange called to say that they had a telephone conversation with John Parmakian at Grand Coulee this morning. He talked to the chief. They have cut the big vane out of the pump and trimmed some of the others. (This means the contractors responsibility for the performance of the pump is ended and we must accept the pump as it now is) The report is that the vibration has been cut down about ¾ and the prospect is that they will be able to operate this summer. There are 5 more pumps to be furnished. REG
May 25
Fred Scobey in today. REG
Check between computations, analog resonance points and hydraulic model tests for resonance periods of a pipe line with covered pipe stands obtained today. The correspondence is good. REG
May 27
Sunday May 27 1951
Came out with Mr LD Conkling today. REG 5/28/51 June 4
Messrs Phil Goodrum (Atlanta, GA) Lowell Adams (Montana) in today. Messrs Adams and Kresting (Isle Royal) came to the house in the evening to talk about game cycles. These men work with Mr Hickey in game management. REG 6-5-51
June 5
[scratched out] June 6
Mr Leach of Australia in today. REG
Analog for investigating the effect of an air tank for stabilizing the pressures in the laboratory pipe lines used today. It appears than an air tank will be beneficial. Hebert will devise ways and means of
installation. REG 6/7/51 June 7
Witnessed appointment of EW Lans as member of member of faculty of Colorado A and M College for the period of July 16 1951 to July 211951. RE Glover
June 12
Mr and Mrs Ward Terrell at the Federal Center today. 1 hr leave taken. REG 6/13/51 June 13
Mr and Mrs Ward Terrell and Pete Terrell visited the lab today. REG 6/14/51 June 14
Mr Weathers of the Austin Texas office was in today to discuss a wave problem below a water power plant to be built near Corpus-Christi was given rough figure for analytical study $1000. Analog study $200 (including overhead) with coat of a possible model study to be estimated later if necessary. Studies discussed with Blanks. REG
Mr EL Weathers Engineer representing the Austin (Texas) Area Office. REG 6/15/51 June 18
Kidder and Swain came over to discuss details of the report being prepared on “Compilation of Technical Data on the Delta Cross Channel Central Valley Project.” Mr Swain has appended notes and prepared a memo relating to certain suggested changes. Mr Kidder believes there will not be use for the data before about Sept 1 1951. Mr Swain will look into the matter of getting about 50 copies reproduced. The tentative completion data is about August 1 1951 REG (Bill Evans will be asked to write something on the graphical methods)
June 22
June 27
Mr Leach of Australia in today to talk about mathematical groups and computing machines. REG July 2
Mr SC Carney in today. John Gilliland and I met Mr Carney in Mr McClellan’s office in the morning. Mr Blombren was also present. Mr Carney, John and I came back to 1B and discussed details of purification of sea water by freezing. In the afternoon Mr Carney brought his wife out to see the relief map and the big testing machine. REG
July 5
Mr H McDonald of Project planning was over several days ago to discuss the depletion of river flow below Cedar Bluff dam by pumping on lands adjacent to the river. He had with him a chart by Thies and Conorer USGS 1947 which he wished to have checked. I told him I would look into it to see how long it would take. I called McDonald this morning to say it would take about one day of my time to prepare new formulas plus some additional for writing a report etc. He called later saying he had talked with Honnold (of Reg 7) was suggested that since the among of work was small, it be done with funds now available to the Chief Engineer. Dudgeon confirmed this with Production Control for $200 less to be expanded before the end of July. Charge to Cedar Bluff Dam No 7-372-01-01-01. REG
July 6
Dr Rinn of Israel in today. REG July 13
On annual leave. REG 7/13/51 July 30
Returned after 2 weeks vacation. REG (vacation began Friday 13 1951) July 31
Conference with Mr Nalder on the Letter to Hale. Messrs Brannam and McCullough in today. REG (San Luis)
Henry Plumb over today to talk about wind turbines. My ideas on Cable drive with a generator mounted on a vertical shaft concentric with the vertical axis of rotation of the mill were explained. This scheme includes a speed increasing devise as an integral part. The use of cranks and connecting rods was also mentioned as one of my ideas for transmitting power to a generator on the ground. Ball and Simmons present. REG 7/31/51
August 1
Compilation on the Delta Problem taken over to Poe for reproduction today. REG August 4
Saturday. Pete Terrell and I came out to the DFC to draft letters on control of surging in pipe lines. The purpose of these letters was to arrange a test of the analytical and experimental findings in the field and then to arrange to use the data obtained to save money on the Central Valley system through
substitution of overflow pipe stands for the Junction boxes now being used. REG 8/8/51 August 6
Meeting with the Chief Engineer on the surge problem as related to the Central Valley installations. Nalder, Curtis and Glover present. Drafts of letters to Hale and to the Central Valley people to arrange a test and demonstration of surge control by covers with the purpose of demonstrating the feasibility of replacing Junction boxes with pipe stands on the Central Valley system were shown to Mr McClellan. Savings of $1000 to $3000 per replacement with a possible total of around $100000 were gusted. He decided against the meetings. REG 8/8/51
August 7
Four copies of the memo of Oct 9, 1950 by Glover, Florey, and Balmer on “Computation of Temperatures in Concrete Placed in Forms” given to Carl Wilder. REG (With Blanks’ approval) August 8
Letter to Hale relating to technical aspects of surge control and asking for a field test to be made initiated today. REG
Tentative scheme for separating sweet water from salt water described to Gilliland. Salt water is spun in a magnetic field carrying charged ions along. Moving ions act as an electric current and are deflected by operation of the motor rule to leave intermediate zone sweet. REG
[diagram] August 10
Mr Dodson from Missouri in this morning. REG
Copy of Memo on “Computation of Temperature of Concrete placed in Forms” sent to Schnarr at Toronto today over Blanks signature. REG
August 17
I suggested to Hebert and McBirney the possibility of using the level changes in the Walnut Grove cut, following a gate closure, to find the velocity and discharge in the cut. REG
August 23
Mr Durell M Finch Box 17, Route 1 Arvada, Colorado Arvada. 1148J
Mr Finch came in to talk about solar energy. His idea is to use the energy to synthesize some chemical compound to store the energy for future use. One possibility would be the production of Calcium Carbide. Another, the production of hydrogen. The original products might be converted to some product such as gasoline. John Gilliland was in too. REG
August 25
Saturday: Mr Gerald Pickett in Denver. REG 8/27/51 (Address after Sept 15, 1951
Mechanics Dept Univ of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin) August 26 [scratched out] August 30
Mr Vanneman of GE Supply called about heat requirements for winter protection of concrete. REG September 5
Mr WH Longenecker of the Coachella Valley Water Users Assn. in Today to discuss means of control of surging in pipe lines. REG
September 7
Discussed brittle fracture with Jim Richardson today at lunch. I described the results of the work of E. Yaffe who solved the case of stresses around a crack in a plate at various velocities of propagation. REG September 13
Mr Robinson of Australia in today. REG 9/14/51 September 14
Mr Blanks announced his resignation. REG September 18
McDonald and Kramer over today. REG September 24
Mr Benedict (Paul C) Regional Engineer USGS on Missouri Basin Quality of water. Mr Stowe at Rapids City, who is Mr Benedicts assistant and Warren Hastings of the Washington Office of USGS were in today to talk about the sedimentation test. Mr Benedicts office is in Lincoln Nebraska. Mr Barland was also present. REG 9/25/51
Discussed the problem of heating the automotive rain gage housing with Frank Allen and Dale Lancaster, Frank will estimate heat losses recommend insulation.
October 5
Dr Binney of Cambridge in today to talk about hydraulics. REG October 25
Mr Vartia in today to work on Oakville power plant channel. REG October 17
Meeting of Dams Panel today. Black Canyon Dam repair was considered. John Hammond stated that both the Chief Engineer and the Commissioner had been advised of the poor condition of this dam. REG 10/25/51
October 18
Transferred from the Engineering Laboratories Branch to the Chief Designing Engineer (Sec Office memo 590 Supplement No 1 D&C 148)
REG 1/2/52 October 25
Mr KO Vartia left for Austin today. He left the office about noon to catch the 2:30 plane. He took a set of analog data with him. REG
November 1
Talked with Mr McClellan about effect of changes on the Laboratory. REG November 5
Mr Khanna of India in today. REG 11/6/51 November 6
Conference with FC Allen and Don Hebert, Blackwell and Dexter on filling of rain gage tube with Freon 21. REG
Office Memorandum November 8
Conference with Mr McClellan and Mr Blomgren on the use of IBM equipment. I stated that I was pleased with the results obtained by Swain, Bruggeman and Cornwell as described in their memo on the subject. I next presented figures obtained from Mr Rankin. These are that there is now only a minor amount of free time on the IBM machines. We have not been charged for work done to date. The CPC unit suggested by Dr Petrie would require a rental of $1735.50 per month of $20826 per year. To this would be added the salary of a 7 [illegible] a 4 grade employee to bring the total to $28326 per year. Mr
Roukin thought this excessive and so do I. The 604 machine would tent for from 600 to $900 per month depending upon the amount of necessary equipment. No extra manpower would be needed. I
suggested consideration of a Northrup” Maddido.” This is a cheaper solution if it could be justified. Due to probable rapid obsolescence and price decreases in such machine I suggested that savings to recover the cost of the machine in one year should be in sight before purchase. REG
Heated rain gage tube worked today. REG November 9
Mr Andre Coyne and Jean Martin in today. REG November 16
Mr Serafim of Portugal in today to talk about arch dams. They use 70 kg/cm2 which is about 1000 lb/in2 as an allowable stress in arch dams. He says that 100 kg/cm has been considered. He states that Oberti found a safety factor of 12 in tests of model dams and that this work is described in La Energia Electrica about 1949. Mr Serafim uses both models and trial loads. REG
[Next Pages] November 28
Returned from Huron SD today. Arrived at airport at 5:09 PM. REG Nov 29 1951 November 29
Expense claim for $28.50 travel authorization, ticket stub and copy of transportation request sent to Collins this morning (Huron trip) REG
December 6
Talked to Blomgren about getting my place in the organization settled and to Nalder on the same subject also about the problem of the slide area at Grand Coulee. REG Dec 7 1951
December 14
Asked Mr McClellan whether the analysis of the Oahe pump data should not be started. He thinks we should wait for approval by the Region. Classification of my status in the organization also requested. REG 12/17/51
December 19
Mr Nalder advised of the proposed ERR1 meeting in Los Angeles next June. REG December 20
Conference with Mr Blomgren and Mr McClellan on Oahe analysis in the morning. Mr McClellan stated that if money were available he would be satisfied. Mr Nalder called in the afternoon to say that we could go ahead with analysis of Oahe data. Mr Hilt over in afternoon to advise about location of possible freezing installation at Grand Coulee. REG
Mr IF Jorgensen in today. REG December 28
Mr Nalder advised of proposed work on Oahe pump test data including assignment to the special assignments unit and analog study. He agrees to go ahead on this basis. REG
Memoranda Job numbers.
Radio reporting rain gage.
Central Valley Proj 2-214-15-03-01. Lower Neueces channel.
5-618-00-01-03 Power Studies Oahe Unit James Division Missouri basin project
Land classification and drainage 6-469-00-01-02
Trenton Dam
Frenchman Cambridge Division Missouri River Basin Project Job 7-328-01-03-01
7-245-05-17-01 Olympus Tunnel 7-245-05-17-02 Pole Hill Tunnel Memoranda
Cost ccater No 500 (Oct 29 1951)
Improvement of River Banks and channel below Gr Coulee Dam. 1-22-01-02-01
