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— Griffin Daily News Friday, November 22, 1974 Page 10 The inflation fighter The energy-wise cook Thaw frozen foods at room temperature before cooking if you can. Putting a frozen roast directly into the oven takes up to two-thirds more cooking time. Avoid the temptation to peek after the food is in the oven. Every time you open the oven door you lose about 25 degrees of temperature and waste energy. Oven cooking is more economical than burner cooking. Ovens use energy only periodically since the insulation holds in the heat. Stove tops use energy the entire time they are in operation. Mass transit Have you tried mass transit? Any tips for saving energy in a car pale in comparison with utilization of this method of travel. Energy consumption per passenger mile for a large bus is 50 per cent less than for a typical automobile carrying four passengers. Trains are also more efficient users of energy. More saves more Inflating tires to three or four pounds over the recom mended tire pressure will help save energy. Underinflated tires can waste one mile per gallon. For safety reasons, however, there is a federal law against inflating passenger car tires over 36 pounds. Radial ply tires allow up to six per cent better gas mileage because tney produce less rolling friction. Lighten up It may seem to be just a tiny difference, but colors do really make a difference. Remember that light colors reflect light while dark colors absorb it. Use light colors on ceilings and walls to get the most for your energy and money. And while you’re at it, remember to keep light bulbs and their glass or plastic fixtures clean to get the most light from them. Line up savings Have you thought about trying an old-fashioned clothes line in your home? Using it, you can completely eliminate the use of ah auto matic dryer. An extra boon in winter, the clothes line will improve humidity conditions in your home so that you won’t need an electric humidifier. (Have you a clever way to save energy or fight inflation? Send your idea to The Inflation Fighter in care of this newspaper. The best ideas will be used in future columns, and their authors will be rewarded with a free copy of the $1.50 book "Save Money-Save Gas ") (NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.) 44xrtpjcrLriJt 1 If FEA TORE: KW COLLAR & ".' • - xSwjfo/' hard-to piSSI remove ILfZ ¥ sta ' ns ONLY \ I / w* 0 • Collar & Cuff feature in lid helps you get out hard-to remove grease and stain marks. • Self Cleaning Filter Ring. • Has Special Gentle Wash cycle for delicates. • Three separate Wash-Spin actions. • Automatic Soak Cycle. • Five Water Temperature selections. How you can K*9 customer care] save energy . everywhere with your Hotpoint Washer • Use full 18-pound capacity, when possible. One large load uses less energy than two small. • Use energy saving soak cycle... followed by shorter wash. • When possible use Cold Water Wash Rinse. Much of the energy used in washing goes to heat water. • Select lowest of the four water levels to match your load exactly ... saves water, detergent and energy! Griffin Hardware Hotpoint Sales And Senrice West Solomon St. Griffin, Ga. An ‘open sesame 9 for Fort Knox Paving ‘Street’ with gold By NEA/London Economist News Service NEW YORK - LENS - First National City Bank is building a special vault at its Park Avenue headquarters to hold $1 billion in gold. The Franklin mint is extending its gold coining facilities. At least five separate com modity exchanges are pro moting their expertise in trading gold futures. Mocatta Metals, sister company to London’s Mocat ta and Goldsmid, is revving up its “Gold for America program to sell gold bullion through the thousands of branches of commercial banks. Even the New York Stock Exchange is thinking of trading in gold. The gold rush of 1975 is practically on. Americans will be able to buy and own gold, and trade in gold futures, come January, 1975. They will have an abundant choice of investment media and sales outlets from which to choose. There will be four basic kinds of coins, plus wafers up to one ounce, and ingots from five to 160 troy ounces. Banks, brokers, coin dealers, and Fancy footwork by computers Elusive goal of independence By NEA/London Economist News Service WASHINGTON - LENS - The vast study of America’s energy options, known as Project Independence Blueprint, was due to be delivered last week to the Energy Resources Council. It is the council, headed by Rogers Morton, the secretary of the Interior, which will make recommendations for action to President Ford. Conceivably the final ver sion which goes to Morton may differ in some respects from the draft which the press has got hold of, but the differences are not expected to be large. Blueprint is a misleading word. The report, which leaned heavily on models and computers, provides instead of policies a tool which has not existed before and should prove valuable in reaching decisions, even if some of its assumptions prove wrong. It developed detailed sup ply and demand curves not only for the country as a whole, but for regions and for all sources of energy; it took into account things like the length of time it takes to drill an oil well and the avail ability of skilled labor, equip ment and transport. Coordination of the 21 in ter-agency task forces left a ‘I mostly want God to make grandma well’ By PHILIP M. STONE HELSINKI (UPI) - The world’s children are writing to Santa Claus in record numbers this year. Many show the Christmas spirit by asking him to give gifts to others. Brian de Sales Smith of Mechanicsburg, Pa., wrote Santa asking for a toy, but said, “I mostly would like God to make grandma well again.” Alexander Goatcher of Scar borough, Ont., sent a Canadian dollar and said, “Here is some money for presents for little children who have no mummy or daddy.” Many of the world’s post offices have traditionally sent children’s Christmas mail to Helsinki because local legend Loves redwoods SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - Francine A. Marconi, 25, has become so enamored by Cali fornia’s majestic redwood trees that she decided she wanted to be named after them. Miss Marconi, a law firm employe and a native of Illinois, said in a Superior Court petition that she wants her name changed to California Redwood Lady. “The whole universe is vibrations,” she said. “Names have certain vibrations. My old name didn’t have good vibra tions. My new one does.” Miss Marconi said the red wood trees of the north coast were beautiful and she thought, “Redwood, oh, that’s me too.” probably even department stores will be in on the new retail trade in gold. The market has already been blooded by the ability to deal in gold coins. So far in 1974, $475 million in coins have been imported into America. In June, before the new legislation was passed, the 1,400 authorized dealers in gold bullion had a stock of 4 million ounces, now worth about SB6O million, but still only 49 per cent of their authorized ceiling. Some people believe that demand for gold in the United States may be as much as 15 million ounces next year. The immediate beneficiaries will be the large bullion dealers, Repub lic National Bank, Rhode Is land Hospital Trust (a bank), and Mocatta Metals as well as the fabricators, Engelhard Minerals and Chemicals, Handy and Harman, and Sterndent, the dental supply company. New gold dealerships are being formed on Wall Street. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fen ner and Smith has joined with Samuel Montagu and Handy and Harman to sell good deal to be desired and there are some inconsisten cies. But time was short and almost the least of the prob lems was that on one occa sion the computer was struck by lightning. Unfortunately Morton’s view is that the whole affair is just “a lot of fancy footwork with com puters”. The study was concerned with seeing how the United States could meet its demand for energy and reduce its vul nerability to another oil em bargo; the five-month em bargo in 1973-74 cut gross na tional product by over $lO billion and a year-long em bargo in 1985 might cut GNP by SIBO billion. Coal, the report says, can never replace oil; it is too dir ty to burn, too hard to mine and unsuitable for many pur poses. So President Nixon’s idea that America could do without oil imports altogether is dismissed as quite unrealistic. Even if costs were disregarded and domestic oil and gas reserves were exploited ruthlessly they would last only until 1990, while the environmen tal and human costs would be unacceptable. The world price of oil is a central factor in the calcula tions. The study suggests that $7 a barrel is the likeliest says Santa lives on Korvatun turi Mountain in Lapland, high above the Artic Circle on the Finnish-Soviet border. Earlier this year, the Finnish post office halted handling of the letters, citing lack of manpower. But the Tourist Board put pressure on govern ment officials and the post office changed its mind. Authorities believe a record number of letters will be sent to Santa this year. Last year, more than 3,000 children wrote to him from overseas. Every child who writes receives a handwritten answer on a multi-colored page with drawings of Santa, his helpers and the reindeer. The letter reads: “I was so pleased to get your letter and to hear that you remember me. In the pictures you can see how my Brownies are busy getting ready the presents for good girls and boys all over the world. “Soon I shall set off on my travels and bring gifts to my friends in many lands —and to you too. With best wishes for a happy and peaceful Christmas. Santa Claus.” The letters to Santa come from North and South America, most European countries, Aus tralia, India, Japan, the Per sian Gulf and South Africa. In one childishly scrawled REX THEATRE Now Showing Now Showing Griffin’s Own “MOON RUNNERS” 7-9 P.M. Nightly through their own retail out lets, banks, department stores and jewellers. Shear son Hayden Stone, another large stockbroker, will be the agent for Engelhard and Re public National Bank. Everything is not yet com ing up roses for the stockbrokers. There may be an 8 per cent sales tax to pay in New York, on top of the estimated 6-8 per cent com mission. There will be prob lems of authenticity and storage, especially if buyers actually wish to take deliv ery. The search for states with no sales tax is on. California may win because of a law that exempts monetized bullion from such taxes. The commodity exchanges in New York and Chicago are betting that the speculative and trading public will prefer futures. Their advan tages over straight bullion purchasing are the leverage (only 10 per cent of a contract need be put up), the avoi dance of storage and in surance, no threat of robbery. As options on listed securities have proved popu lar to ordinary investors as level by 1985, but its pro jections have also been worked out on the basis of sll, the present price, which is three or four times the pre embargo level. In the view of the authors the present high price is likely to cut the growth in de mand for energy from the 4-5 per cent which characterized the 1960 s to 2.9 per cent a year. At $7 a barrel the growth rate is put at 3.1 per cent a year. Some 250 pages of the 1,000- page report are devoted to restraining the demand for energy —by requiring better mileage from cars, control ling lighting, encouraging better insulation of houses and so on, though no consid eration is given to taxing gasoline heavily. This approach to shortage would be much the best for the environment and would pay dividends when America’s oil and gas pro duction turns down. But the report parts com pany with the Ford Founda tion s recent study; it does not consider that conservation alone will enable the United States to thumb its nose at the Arabs. The projections shown in the chart reflect the com puter’s verdict: positive gov ernmental efforts to increase note, Denise Bostwick of Miami, Fla., told Santa, “I have never gotten a letter from you and if I had one I would keep it always.” SAVE 4Oc ON RICH ■■ DELICIOUS BRIM MMK DECAFFEINATED COFFEE f------------- -- -- -- - -- --- -- -a- -..... 1 ! 4U e Take this coupon to your grocer now. Worth 40c when you buy ony size of REGULAR must pay any sales tax Void where prohibited I I DRIP GRIND. FREEZE-DRIED. OR ELECTRIC PERK tafsaorffitficted by law Good only ,nU SA I | Offer limited to one coupon per purchase notbe honored * I mt-—HU |io MR GROCER General Foods Corporation ItY j-J Itlßlt -<6 will redeem this coupon for 40c plus 3c for lit ofpi/i^ r authorized s" Jo handling if you recenre it on the sole of Brim 1 bjus JfJr raUferJption ■ ■ J°? Decaffeinated Coffee and if. upon request. ——n ; ~ Lt. '’■/reZJand pl you submit evidence thereof satisfactory to handled BE ITR< FOODS Si lz General Foods Corporation Coupon may CORPORATION. PO BOX tOTTOlCakee cn | not be assigned or transferred Customer coupon expires February 28.1975 IH ' no ' s 60901 ■ Good only upon presentation grocer on purchase of Bnm Decaffeinated Coffee I I Regular Df ip Grind. Freeze -Dried, or Electric Perk Any other use constitutes fraud | _ Brim is richer in Colombian beans than ! i 40 C the best-selling coffee in America. ■ GENERAL FOODS CORPORATION ■VJ I well as the hedging profes sionals, trading in gold futures may become impor tant. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s International Monetary Market plans to have the sort of gold fixing that now takes place in Lon don. It has asked Dr. Henry Jarecki, the chairman of Mocatta Metals, to help organize this: he predicts that the safest investment will be Mexican coins. The bear factor is that William Simon, Secretary of the Treasury, is toying with the idea of disgorging some of the 276 million ounces in Fort Knox worth S6O billion at market prices — to pay off part of the balance of pay ments deficit, and to raise money for government spending. He views the prospect of mass gold buying with a cer tain distaste, and told The Economist that he might even seek to delay the start of gold owning. To do so he would have to ask Congress, which is now more hostile to him than before, to change its mind. (c) 1974 The Economist of London domestic production are needed. Even such a program could not succeed if the world price of oil fell below $6.50 a barrel (the cost of producing oil from the outer continental shelf and the naval reserve in Alaska). A combination of conservation of energy and government encouragement of production would yield the best results of all. But this is a decision for politicians, not computers. For the period up to 1985 very little is expected from the exotic sources of energy such as solar heat, geother mal energy and synthetic fuels, but the authors consid er that they will be vital after 1990 when domestic oil and gas reserves may be nearing exhaustion. So research into them should be continued. According to press stories, shale oil also nearly found it self put on the research shelf —a private study suggested that it would take so much energy to get the oil out of the shale that the operation would be pointless — but out of deference to the depart ment of the interior, which is bullish on shale, no trace of such doubts was included in the report. (C> 1974 The Economist of London “But even if you can’t write, God bless you, Santa, and thanks for making us kids happy in this sometimes troubled world,” Denise wrote. Poaching picks up in search for meat CONCORD, N.H. (UPI) — The struggle to make ends meet has spread from the supermarket into the forests of northern New England. Officials report an increasing number of after-dark deer slayers are stalking their game equipped with bright lights, rifles and the fresh advantage of law enforcement agencies weakened by inflation. Hunting pressure on the deer herds across Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont has increased, with all states reporting increases in the legal deer kill this season. In New Hampshire, illegal night hunt ing is on the rise. Yet for the sake of economy, the annual mileage allocation for the state’s 48 conservation officers has been reduced by the financially troubled Fish and Game Department. Each man works a 400- square-mile area with 18,000 miles allocated annually in stead of the 23,000 needed, officials say. In Vermont, Chief Game Warden Walter Cabell says there have been no reported increases in poaching, but it’s too early to tell whether law enforcement has been impaired by manpower reductions brought by inflation. The battle to keep meat on the table has resurrected many an ex-hunter, New Hampshire Fish and Game Training PLAN YOUR BIRTHDAY PARTY AT PARKWOOD CINEMA 23-24: The Daring Dobermans 28-29-30-31: Pippi In The South Seas Dec. 7-8: My Side of the Mountain Dec. 14-15: Sound of Music No Minimum - Admission, Popcorn, Coke and Lollypop. 90c Each. | Both Films WAS ONLY A PRACTICE RUN. THIS IS THE REAL THINS Held OVCYI Ibu taka a load of 200 Drool com Meat Never Before 2 Movies Made | n Georgia Showing At The V'TMk Same Time -1 Made In The M Griffin Area. I ** ... I SURVIVAL MKM XT \X of the -V. FIERCEST. I AMR THE fl a Y PvVWWn.YJ fvmmkst. ' * ? ■kJ L°X° JA 1 A lUt ILI 3$J N ‘ ody M: “ t MJRT REYNOLDS * -«N?RS “ THEU S TARir 7 JAMES MITCHUM kcl martn rm art hup munmcut — HRmaaaca . WAYION JENNINGS "TaR—F”" ■ •sr.u'ssr' i*«—n - PARKWOOD CINEMA I I PAKWOOO CIENA J I Officer James Jones said Wednesday. “I think maybe we’re draw ing back hunters who haven’t hunted for a few years,” he said. Along with the rise in hunters has come an increase in illegal activity. “There’s been an increase in illegal kills,” Jones says. Sat. & Sun. Matinee 24 P.M. Each Day 75c HI PARKWOOD CINEMA