chance it will ever be used for food.

Great care should be taken in using chromred or uraniumred
glazes. Besides lead compounds there are other toxic materials
as most Antimony compounds, except for the Antimonypentoxide.
Antimony containing glazes are prohibited for food containers in
Belgium and several South American countries. Barium com-
pounds are heart poisons and should be handled with care.

In general, avoid dust in your glaze room, spray glazes under
adequate spraying booth and/or with a mask., be careful not to
breathe in the fumes of your kiln over a long period, keep kiln
room good ventilated when working in it during the firing or
shortly thereafter.

This warning for the gqlazemaker: Do not lick your fingers while
mixing glazes - it's certainly no sugar.

With best wishes for healthy potting in 1970 and coming years.
Jan Grove

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The Cariboo Pottery Society adopted a plan of holding monthly
meetings this fall, with several of the members talking and
demonstrating on various aspects. Ruth Flower gave an excellent
talk on the effects of temperatures on clays and glazes, and at
the following meeting, Johann Dormaar spoke about glazing, with
empnasis on study of the pot before selecting decoration and
glaze.

Anna Roberts demonstrated on the wheel for the benefit of the
new members.

In November, the Society together with the Cariboo Art Socicty,
sponsored a show of paintings and pottery by Martin Place.
Martin is a native of the Cariboo, he had studied under Zeliko
Kujundzic and is now at U.B.C, He has built his own kiln and
worked hard all summer, achieving some good results with
reduction firing.

The testing of local clays and slips begun at tha workshop in
August is still going on, and the kiln for club members use has

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