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JF"W ju&. Uh*" I ? * ... ' Good mileage EXCEPTIONAL MILEAGE and air-conditioning are the merits of this unusual entry in San Francisco’s annual Artists’ Soapbox Derby. Despite the low center of gravity, this vehicle is not ideal for taking corners at great speed. Solar energy being held up? By BENJAMIN SHORE Copley News Service WASHINGTON - One of lhe more enduring con spiracy theories concerning the energy industry is that an inventor working in his base ment ior garage) laboratory years ago developed a car buretor that could deliver 100 miles a gallon, but the auto ior oil) moguls bought the rights for $1 million (or $lO million) to keep it away from the public. The variation on that story is the scientist who developed a chemical which he could make into little pills which could be dropped into gas tanks filled with water and which then would burn in a standard engine like gaso line. He is also said to be mil lions richer. Today we have a new "con spiracy” in the energy field, but for a variety of reasons it seems more plausible. It has to do with solar power — using the sun's heat and light to heat and cool buildings and produce electricity. The conspiracy allegedly is that the basic major energy industries — oil, gas, coal, See Thursday's Griffin News For FIRESTONE'S GIGANTIC 75th ANNIVERSARY SALE GREAT APPLIANCE VALUES AND OTHER RARGAINS, TOO 219 E. Chappell 227-1250 CALVIN HILL GROCERY June 18*21 SPECIALS Purple Hull Fresh Fresh Yellow PFAS MUSTARD GREENS SQUASH ■ 36 c 20 c “18 c Smoked I A Ulf V EDANIfC Van Camp HAM HOCKS LflNhY YIWHRb PORK & BEANS it. 39 c 73 c - 32 c COKE-SPRITE or TAB DDran ■Mik iQc 07c CASH n “ /u 3 i*t* l«w / S’xz Plus Deposit ■ nuclear and the utilities — in concert with malleable fed eral agencies and an equally malleable Congress have deliberately retarded the growth of the fledgling solar power industry. The argument utilizes such basic facts as: Exxon can’t control the sun, sunshine is free, solar heating and cooling is a proved technique which could greatly reduce the need for traditional energy sources in which huge investments have been made, and the federal government is reluctant to spend more than token re search money on harnessing this energy source. We haven’t seen the 100- miles-per-gallon carburetor or the water-into-gasoline pill, but we know well the endless, nonpolluting power of the sun. And for those who say “show me” to the solar power advocates, a three-day exposition was held here re cently, reportedly the first major trade show in the field. Fifty companies displaying solar-power products ranging from simple rooftop collec tors that heat household water to space-age genera tion of electricity came to this city with an open challenge to the government and Congress to admit that more could be done faster. Although the Federal Energy Administration and the Energy Research and De velopment Administration helped sponsor the event, the bottom line is federal money for research and develop ment. The SSO million budgeted for the fiscal year just ending (and the S7O million re quested for the next fiscal year) is considered tokenism when measured against the need for energy alternatives in the United States. Americans today can buy a wide variety of reliable equipment that will connect their homes to the sun, but like any new technology, it’s more expensive than it ought to be. The industry , made up of many small firms, would like more government help with the costly research, coupled with tax breaks and low-cost home improvement loans for citizens who buy the products that lessen the need for imported oil and gas. And while there are some members of Congress who say the solar-power industry should be helped, the con spiracy theorists seem to de light in predicting that the giant basic energy industries will succeed in keeping gov ernment research and de velopment funding and ac tivity on the tokenism level. “Os course, when General Electric and Westinghouse and the oil companies get a firm grip on the (solar) industry, then you’ll see the federal coffers open up and the incentive tax laws passed,” ccnmented one bitter executive of a little firm making sun-powered heat exchangers that cool buildings. Since you can actually buy this equipment for your home today, this conspiracy theory isn't as much fun as the mystery carburetor or pill. But it is precisely the fact of the equipment’s avail ability and proved perform ance that makes the question on conspiracy seem worth looking into. President’s foes have tough row By JOHN PINKERMAN Editor, Copley News Service At this point it is plain foolishness to doubt the ability of President Ford to win renomination as the Re publican candidate in 1976. He has everything going for him, and it is very likely he will get stronger as the next 12 months move along. Ronald Reagan has ex pressed doubts about Mr. Ford’s leadership, par ticularly what he calls failure to provide a “strong, lasting, consistent foreign policy.” Texan John B. Connally, Democrat turned Republican and recently cleared of bribery in a court trial, seems hesitant to endorse the Presi dent’s 10-month leadership record. Sen. Charles H. Percy of Illinois says a visit to his state of Illinois caused him shock when he found “paper thin” support for Mr. Ford. Percy called the President’s recent tough energy speech “as amateurish a presentation to the nation as I’ve ever seen.” Percy said he was seriously considering opposing Mr. Ford next year. Percy hasn’t a prayer of getting anywhere in opposing Mr. Ford. Connally doesn’t matter. Reagan is a possible formidable foe — if the Presi dent should run into the type of scandal Richard Nixon did or if he should encounter some other domestic or for eign policy disaster. However, Mr. Ford not only is doing well at home and abroad but as a politician with ’ >ts more experience '’’X ' ' * *• : > : <<:'s M <« X' jfo* m ** - & <•w MM V ■ ' .jsk'K&i '- ~ --~ jw *,_ f ■• tc StR yrei//. gAV iX♦’» .♦: ‘m W W ▼Wr « ■ -*, '" j 3 ot^ B ®* 3mH« B*' £j i T ™Tlb\ < yi k#-* i >/* -a sxAcSiX ( /jKBWBte . jf?v jmf<| SaveLOO S4l s on a ticket i to SIX FLAGS’ &L. Now, s—lb. bags of Domino Sugar have a coupon Domino Bear and thrill to “Tales of the Okefenokee”, worth SI.OO off the price of a ticket to Six Flags an exciting animated adventure filled with fun for Over Georgia. the whole family. 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Barry Gold water, the patron saint of the same conservatives who sup port Reagan, has come out without qualification in sup port of Mr. Ford in ’76. This situation could cause Reagan to reconsider his vow to stay within the Republican Party in any presidential route he might follow even tually. And, if he needs a nudge in going the third party route he should read “The Making of the New Majority Party” by William A. Rusher (Sheed and Ward Inc.). Rusher, one of the most authoritative conservative voices in the nation, urges in this new book that the conser vatives of all parties band to gether — not in a third party scheme, but to form a new major party. Then, Rusher says as he speaks favorably of Reagan, the battle lines would be drawn clearly be tween conservatives and liberals. The old identifica tions of Republican and Democrat would be meaning less under Rusher’s revolu tionary plan which, he says, would make the Conservative Party clearly the majority group. This would seem to be Reagan’s principal hope at this point because Mr. Ford is Page 17 doing other things to win back conservative votes. Perhaps the President has read “Kis singer on the Couch” by con servatives Phyllis Schlafly and Chester Ward (Arlington House). The authors rip the secretary of state to tatters as selling out America abroad. Mr. Ford, likely strictly to coincidence but in a timely manner nonetheless, now dis plays a public image of taking personal leadership from Kissinger in foreign policy negotiations. He made this abundantly clear in his quest for peace in the Middle East. This does not mean he downgraded Kissinger pub licly in any way but his per sonal “take charge” ap proach to foreign affairs might swing even more con servative votes to his banner, particularly among the Kis singer critics. Conservatives also rail at the lack of action in the Democratic Congress and Mr. Ford must have pleased them with his tough attack on his former colleagues over their delays in doing anything substantive on the nation’s energy problems. He also has come down hard on money bill vetoes — another tactic sure to please conservatives. In the meantime, the Presi dent has maintained the high degree of political morality the White House so desperately needed when he took over last Aug. 9. All of these tactics and de velopments accompanying them make him just about unbeatable in his stated de termination to be the GOP candidate next year. — Griffin Daily News Wednesday, June 18,1975 : * IXaJr® * * 1 ’ IPyy. ZSk - ~ Limber up ASPIRING BALLERINAS limber up before starting ballet lessons at Peking's Number Five school where children begin dance classes as early as kindergarten. SCLC plans own probe PASCAGOULA, Miss. (UPI) — The head of the Southern Christian Leadership Confer ence Tuesday said the SCLC will conduct its own investiga tion into the arrest of a young black man charged with the murder of a white school teacher. The Rev. Ralph Abernathy said the arrest of Christopher Moore, 22, on the murder charge is the result of “a baseless concocted conspiracy to frame him and railroad him to the electric chair.” Pascagoula authorities have charged Moore with the stab bing death of Mrs. Irene Hoffman, who was dead in her home last month. Abernathy said blacks in Pascagoula and Moss Point would institute peaceful non violent demonstrations and a selective buying campaign to protest Moore’s arrest.