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Griffin Daily News Wednesday, September 25, 1974
Researchers cites
progress of TVA
ATLANTA (UPI) - A re
searcher on new forms of
power told the “Project “In
dependence hearings today that
power is the one area in which
progress in Tennessee is
greater than that in the rest of
the nation.
John B. Dicks, director of the
Energy Conversion Division at
the University of Tennessee
Space Institute, spoke in a
prepared address on the bene
fits of magnetohydrodynamic
(MHD) power generation over
present methods.
But demands are heavier
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) -
One of the main arguments
against creation of the Tennes
see Valley Authority back in
the 1930 s was that the region
would never use all of the
electricity the area’s wild
rivers were capable of produ
cing.
But mushrooming demands
for power have since out
stripped TVA’s hydroelectric
generating capabilities to the
extent that dams now produce
only about 20 per cent of the
agency’s output of electricity.
Coal-fired plants now produce
about 75 per cent of the power
that TVA supplies to its 2.4
million customers in seven
states, and a coal shortage has
prompted TVA to call for a
voluntary 20 per cent reduction
in power consumption.
If consumers fail to cooperate,
TVA Board Chairman Aubrey
J. Wagner warned that ration
ing will be necessary.
Wagner called for “im
mediate, voluntary help of
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Dicks has been working for 13
years of MHD, a process for
converting coal directly to
electricity. Current coal-fired
generating plants operate at a
maximum efficiency at 40 per
cent.
The MHD generator may
operate at efficiencies as high
as 60 per cent. Dicks said this
means a ton of coal used for
MHD generation will produce
one and a half times as much
electrical energy as a ton of
coal used in a conventional
plant.
every electric consumer in the
TVA power service area to cut
back around 20 per cent in the
use of electricity in order to
stretch our scarce coal supply
to meet the region’s electric
needs this winter.”
At its power plants the TVA
has been burning 700,000 to
800,000 tons of coal for the last
seven months.
The agency has been
receiving only 500,000 to 600,000
tons per week.
The supply on hand is enough
to last for 47 days, Wagner
said, “well below the 90-day
supply considered desirable.”
Customers in Tennessee,
Alabama, Mississippi, Kentuck
y, North Carolina, Georgia and
Virginia depend on TVA for
electric power.
Wagner said 10 of its 12 coal
fired plants are now down to a
31-day average coal supply with
several of the plants operating
on an even smaller supply.
After Congress established
TVA in 1933, most of the
agency’s power was produced
through its network of dams.
By the mid 1950 s the use of
electricity had grown beyond
what the rivers could supply.
Presently, the authority pro
duces about 75 per cent of its
power at coal-burning plants,
about 20 per cent through the
generators at its dams and
Dicks said the savings on
power cost due to MHD power
would be SIBO miller per year
in Tennessee alone and $6
billion in the country as a
whole by the year 2000.
He added that the coal
needed to run the MHD plants
will bring needed income to the
poverty-stricken coal mining
areas.
Dicks said that the MHD
process does not require the
elaborate health protection
measure and remote handling
about five per cent at nuclear
plants.
The agency predicts that by
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Candidate for mayor challenges
WINDER, Ga. (UPI) -
Mayoral candidate James Rei
dling says both his opponents
should be dropped from the
ballot because a city charter
provision prohibits mayors
from serving more than two
terms.
Reidling said he will seek a
ruling Monday, possibly in
Barrow County Superior Court,
to prevent Mayor W. E.
Harwell and former Mayor C.
A. Rutledge from opposing him.
“I want to see this town
move forward,” Reidling said.
“I want to uphold the law.”
Reidling, a Winder service
station owner, claims both
opponents are trying to deceive
the voters by running for
mayor, despite a city charter
provision prohibiting mayors
from serving more than two
terms.
Harwell is presently serving
his third term, which he gained
under the old 1919 charter that
allowed mayors to serve four
consecutive terms. Rutledge, a
local contractor, served four
terms from 1961 to 1969.
City Attorney T. Penn
McWalter said he believes the
as does a nuclear program.
This results in reduced costs
and more rapid progress, since
the experiments can be
changed without special precau
tions.
Earlier at the hearings,
Tennessee energy officials told
members that in order to grow
and bring economic prosperity
to all of the state’s residents,
more, not less, energy will be
needed to attract the growth
industries with high paying
jobs.
the mid qoips as much as half
of its electricity will be
produced by nuclear means.
new charter was written
incorrectly, and should instead
prevent mayors from seeking a
third consecutive term.
McWalter said in a legal
opinion for the city the
prohibition on more than two
terms appears unconstitutional.
Rutledge said he did not
know about the city charter
provision, and Harwell was out
of town and could not be
reached for comment.
Joseph Alsop
retiring
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Jo
seph Alsop announced in his
syndicated column today he is
retiring at the end of this year.
Alsop, 64, has also sold his
Georgetown home, where he
hosted many parties, and said
he plans to travel around the
world next year.
“The reporter’s trade is for
young men,” Alsop wrote.
“Your feet, which do the
legwork, are nine times more
important than your head,
which fits the facts into a
coherent pattern.”
People
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Leary denied parole
VACAVILLE, Calif. (UPI) — LSD prophet Timothy
Leary has been denied parole by the California Adult
Authority.
The authority’s full board Tuesday voted unanimously
to reject Leary’s plea for freedom, citing his “long history
of advocating drug use.”
£ The former Harvard professor is under a sentence of up
£ to 25 years in California on marijuana and escape
£ charges.
Ex-Agent is teaching
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (UPI) — Former FBI agent
Alfred C. Baldwin, who was the first to admit a role in the
£ Watergate break-in at Democratic headquarters, has a
new job as a junior high school teacher in New Haven.
Baldwin will be teaching mathematics at the Sheridan
Middle school at an annual salary of $11,150.
School Superintendent George Barbarito said Baldwin’s
performance as a substitute teacher at the Sheridan
£ school last spring was “phenomenal.”
Baldwin, 38, the nephew of former Connecticut Gov.
£ Raymond E. Baldwin, told authorities he delivered
transcripts of taped conversations to the Committee to
Reelect the President.
Insurance plan asked
CLEVELAND (UPI) — United Auto Workers President
Leonard Woodcock says the nation should adopt a national
health insurance plan to combat inflation.
The question, Woodcock said Tuesday, should be
£ “which plan would best do this?” rather than “should any
such plan be adopted?”
:< “We’re already spending 8 per cent of the gross national
product on health care,” the labor leader said. “A
national health plan won't change that one bit.”
Burger may dictate
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Chief Justice Warren E.
Burger usually writes in longhand and does much of his
own typing, but he may have to draft opinions by
dictaphone because of a bicycle accident.
Burger’s left shoulder was dislocated and his right ring
finger was broken in the accident last Friday. He was
taken to Bethesda Naval Hospital, where his hand was put
in a cast.
Doctors said Tuesday the cast will remain for up to
£ eight weeks and the left shoulder will be in a sling.
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Congress cuts Nixon;
takes back his tapes
By MIKE FEINSILBER
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Congress which almost im
peached him and caused him to
resign is still preoccupied with
Richard Nixon. It is cutting
back his benefits, taking back
his tapes and investigating his
pardon.
In separate actions Tuesday:
—The Senate Government
Operations Committee unani
mously approved a bill to
nullify the agreement under
which Nixon would be permit
ted to keep, and by Sept. 1,
1984, to destroy, tapes made in
the White House during his
term. Under the bill, they
would be retained by the
government and Nixon would
be paid “just compensation’’
for them if a court ruled he
was entitled to it.
—A House Judiciary subcom
mittee began looking into
Ford’s pardon of all crimes
Nixon had or may have
comntitted during his term.
Members expressed irritation
over a letter from Ford which
provided no new insights into
his reasons for the pardon.
Subcommittee Chairman Wil
liam L. Hungate, D-Mo., said
he may seek testimony on the
pardon next week from Ford
aides.
—The House Appropriations
Committee approved $398,000 —
not the $850,000 proposed by
Ford —to meet Nixon’ pension,
office, staff, postage and travel
expenses over the next 11
months. Some members said
this was still too much and
promised to try to eliminate
everything except the $5,000-a
--month pension Nixon is entitled
to by law.
A Senate appropriations sub
committee is holding another
hearing today into the Nixon
money request.
Arthur Sampson, head of the
General Services Administra-
tion, submitted testimony say
ing that if Nixon’s transitional
services were conducted in six
months, instead of over 11
months, staff and overtime
expenses would mount. In that
event, GSA estimated, Nixon
would deserve $683,000 for
transitional activities instead of
the $450,000 originally proposed.
Reps. Louis Stokes, D-Ohio,
and George E. Shipley, D-111.,
expressed opposition to the
$398,000 appropriation for
Nixon.
“We are dealing with a man
who has subverted the Constitu
tion, violated his oath of office,
abused agencies of government,
obstructed justice, and very
possibly committed a large
number of other crimes both
against the Constitution and the
criminal laws of the United
States,” they said in a
statement opposing the
proposed appropriation.
Walter
Brennan
buried
SAN FERNANDO, Calif.
(UPI) — Only family members
and a few close friends
attended Tuesday’s funeral
services for Academy Award
winning character actor Walter
Brennan.
Brennan died Saturday at St.
John’s Hospital in Oxnard
where he was under treatment
for emphysema. He had en
tered the hospital July 25, on
his 80th birthday.
Brennan won three Academy
Awards for best supporting
actor during his lengthy movie
career, but his best known role
was as “Grampa” in the
television series “The Real
McCoys.”
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Nelson Rockefeller continued his testimony before the
Senate Rules Committee on his nomination to be vice
president. (UPI)
Congressmen find
no Rocky blocks
By CLAY F. RICHARDS
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
After two days of grilling
Nelson A. Rockefeller on
controversial issues, Senate
Rules Committee members say
they see nothing so far to block
his confirmation as vice presi
dent.
“As of right now I see
nothing that could block confir
mation,” chairman Howard
Cannon, D-Nev., told reporters
after Tuesday’s hearings. “I’d
agree with that,” said Assistant
Senate Democratic leader Rob
ert C. Byrd of West Virginia.
Cannon and Byrd have led
the sharpest questioning of the
multi-millionaire nominee.
Although sometimes refusing
to be pinned down on specifics,
Rockefeller was for the most
part at ease as he answered
questions on his personal
finances, and President Ford’s
handling of various aspects of
Richard Nixon’s role in the
Watergate case.
Rockefeller returns today for
a third and probably final
round of questioning in the
initial stages of the hearings.
He may be recalled later.
In the two days of ques
tioning, these are the major
issues raised, and Rockefeller’s
response:
His Money —He would put his
holdings in a blind trust if
requested. Admitting there was
a “potential” that he could
affect his family’s fortune while
he served as vice president,
Rockefeller added: “But that
would violate my oath of office
and I was brought up to be
honest.”
Pardon —He thinks Nixon’s
accepting a pardon by Presi
dent Ford is tantamount to an
“admission of guilt” on Nixon’s
part for his role in the
Watergate scandal.
Tapes —An agreement be
tween Ford and Nixon to
eventually turn the Watergate
tapes over to the former
president “circumvents” efforts
to make public the whole
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Watergate story. But he refused
to criticize Ford for the
agreement, saying he didn’t
know what went into it.
Attica —ls he had agreed to
the prisoners’ demands for
amnesty and flight to another
country during the 1971 Attica
prison riot “the same thing
would have happened in every
prison in the country.”
Oil —He does not believe oil
companies contrived the gaso
line shortage, but feels they
should be taxed on their excess
profits if they don’t invest the
funds in production of oil to
meet future needs.
Taxes —He agreed that there
should be a minimum income
tax on the wealthy, regardless
of their allowable tax deduc
tions and shelters.
Busing —He would have “no
problem” conforming his posi
tion to Ford’s on busing of
school children. Ford has
opposed forced busing.
Wiretapping — New York
State, while he was governor,
issued more wiretap orders
than the entire federal govern
ment “because we had a
serious problem with organized
crime and that was the only
way we could fight it. And it
worked.”
Bugging —He never taped
conversations in his office while
he was governor of New York.
Cuba —There is a “sof
tening” in America’s position
on recognition of Cuba, but the
decision should be made jointly
by all the American states.
Campaign spending —His
family was “highly relieved”
that a ceiling had been put on
individual contributions to
political campaigns. They had
donated millions to his cam
paigns. He defended this,
saying “At least if the money
comes from an individual and
his family, there are no strings
on it.”