They visited lagoons serving: a drive-in theater with a capacity of 800 cars: another serving a 1.500 person housing development of the $15,000 house type: another serving a residential and riding club area: several more of various types in Kansas. They talked with Ansel Mitchell, of J. C. Nichols Co.. Kansas City construction company, who had made an inspection tour only shortly before through North Dakota There was one uniform answer wherever they went—lagoons are the answer to treatment problems of the small municipality. Back home once more. Town Manager Johnston presented the idea to A H. Paessler. executive secretary to the Virginia Water Con trol Board. The board and Paessler had to be convinced if their auth ority 'and the board has such auth ority in Virginia) was to be se cured for the sewage lagoon as a substitute for Farmville's contem plated' required land expensive) treatment plant. Board Convinced By a coincidence, Paessler only a lew days before had run into Wallace Towne. director of Taft Engineering Research Center of Cincinnati, Ohio. Taft talked about the nud-west lagoons and convinced Paessler they might be the answer to Virginia's small municipality sewerage treatment problem slowed by the high costs involved in abatement and elimination of wastes. Paeissler gave a tentative o.k., but anything final would have to wait for the full board to meet. Meanwhile. Johnston completed v- Oi«tUc'd Oi« I^- i 1

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