Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-03-13 | Page 13 | City to Open Schools Again on Wednesday

CITY TO OPEN OPEN SCHOOLS AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY Building Code Check Ordered to Provide Safety Features Adopting the attitude that that Manday's Monay's Mondays Monday's Mon Mon- days day's ay's ays earthquake experience was wu who wholesome esome In that it brought abo about i ia a community self Inventory on preparedness pre pre- r city elty county and school officials of of- led their organizations hack back to routine work Tuesday Schools will reopen reopen W Wednesday morning at the regular hour Immediate late examination of the city building code to provide construction features assuring reasonable safely in all II buildings over over 20 1 feet et high was ordered Every opportunity to e on on work alre already dy done done- to Increase e the culinary water supply near near the city and nd and this side of the Wasatch fault willbe will willbe willie be ie pushed by city Re Remove ove Ornaments Steps will 1 be e taken soon city and county commissioners said to remove all 11 trimmings and ornaments of at questionable stability from upper sections sec see sections of the cit and county building A detailed e report ort completed b by engineers en engineers en- en n- n and architects who inspected schools was submitted to Superintendent dent L. L John Nuttall Jr There is no question but that every school in the city is safe and suffered no structural defects declared Dr Nuttall when he announced resumption resumption tion Ion of classes Experiences of Monday Monday Monday Mon Mon- day showed children are well under control and safe from panic Revision of the city building code completed several months ago resulted result result- I ed in iii unanimous decision o of the committee committee com corn headed beaded by Clifford Evans architect and former Building Inspector Inspector Inspector In In- W. W D. D Pinney that thata a 1 section requiring earthquake construction was not needed in Salt Lake City Hence when the code was finally adopted it was was left out in vi view w o of the he fact act that many other sections of the code are arc patterned after the California California California Califor Califor- nia code where builders included many features to strengthen buildings against earth tremors Code Review Promised However City Commissioner P. P H H. Goggin said he would ask Building Inspector Inspect r Walter P. P Monson to tp review the code in detail and recommend to commissioners inclusion of the quake section it if it it Is thought advisable The particular r section referred to provides for for- bonding and tying build buildings ings together in such a manner that the structure will move as a unit It also makes mandatory lateral bracing bracing brac brac- ing tag to resist stresses produced by lateral forces in all buildings over 20 feet in height City Commissioner George eorge I D. D Key Key- I ser pointed out that the city has an available water supply of of- gallons more than half the maximum daily consumption in readiness this side o of the Wasatch fault Sources Source include two new distributing reservoirs reservoirs reservoirs reser reser- and the artesian wells As soon as equipment and riggi rigging can be assembled all capstones and other structural ornaments atop the city and county building will be removed re re- moved commissioner said Son Son- Some of the stones were loosened by the shocks creating at least one distinct hazard inside and Immediately surrounding surrounding sur sur- surrounding rounding the building