New Releases by Paul Beck

"The objective of this study was to assess the possible impact, of deep well disposal operations conducted between 1958 and 1974, on the ground-water quality in a shallow "fresh water aquifer", beneath Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. Because of the breakout of formation fluids in Sarnia and Port Huron, Michigan in the early 1970''s it had been hypothesized that liquid waste from the disposal zone in bedrock had leaked through the numerous abandoned oil, gas and salt wells in the area up to the shallow aquifer and thence to the surface"--Abstract.

Information extracted from the minutes of The Philadelphia Society for the Establishment and support of Charity Schools, the document, signed by the Society''s secretary, deals with the acceptance by the Society of a schoolhouse, donated by Paul Beck, on the condition that it accept only children of white parents. The letter of intent to donate is quoted having originally been sent to the Society''s president Philip Garrett.