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Newspaper Page Text1i * - if 1 1 W" mMI «L .K’-1 Placing water trap. Did reverse discrimination cost state solar facility? All Gov. Busbee wants is a fair shake ATLANTA (AP) — Saying he just wanted “a fair shake” for Georgia, Gov. George Busbee suggested Thursday that reverse discrimination by the administration of President Car ter may have cost the state the nation’s solar energy research institute. Busbee refused to blame Carter directly, but said there were reports as early as last December that Georgia would not land the facility because it is the President’s home state. The institute was awarded Thursday to Golden, Colo., a spokesman for the Energy Resources Development Administration said in an telephone in- Chicks not really dumb clucks PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Chicken Little notwithstanding, feathery farm creatures may not be such dumb clucks after all, a university researcher says. If they have to, chickens can perform tough tasks normally considered the domain of brainy animals like monkeys, said Rutgers University nutritionist Robert Squibb. “Over the years, they’ve put monkeys at the top of the intelligence scale and the bird at the bottom of the heap,” he said. “But he’s not so dam dumb. He can really do marvelous things.” Squibb blamed chickens’ “bad public relations image” for evolution of such derogatory terms as “dumb cluck," adding: “We bought it too until we tried this.” Squibb has trained chickens to figure out how to press three buttons in proper sequence in a box-like contraption to get food to drop from a slot. “It took considerable intelligence to She’s training to be killer Marine QUANTICO, Va. (AP) — Lt. Gayle Hanley lay flat on her stomach in a j cold, muddy trench, firing bursts at an advancing enemy from the Ml 6 rifle propped in front of her. The bullets were blanks, but the * training was real for the former kin dergarten teacher and 21 other female officers. On Thursday they became the • first women in the history of the Corps to undergo combat training. “I wanted to do something different,” > the 28-year-old Rural Retreat, Va., woman said during a lull in the two-day simulated war.” I like this pretty well, - but eventually I’ll go back to kin ’ dergarten. You can be a lady there.” Since Jan. 8, the newly commissioned female Marine officers have been I trained alongside male officers in patrolling, amphibious operations, the GRIFFIN DAI Daily Since 1872 Sam Waller used to follow his father, John Waller, through the woods of Spalding County, breathing in the freshness of the open air and learning the tricks of a trade as old as the history of the American frontier. into your blood,” said Waller. “I trapped my first mink when I was in the second grade.” “Trappers settled this country,” he said. “If it wasn’t for them the territory west of the Mississippi River would still be unsettled.” Waller, who lives on Vaughn road, is an example of the effects “civilization” has on an old establishment. He’s a part-time trapper with a full-time trapper’s heart. To support his family and keep the mortgage collectors away, Waller is a full-time employe of Bel Insulators. During trapping season which runs from mid-November through the last of February, he spends about four hours at the end of each “work day”, walking through the woods checking the greater portion of his 50-100 traps. State law requires that he check each trap at least once every 36 hours. “What I make each year varies, terview from Washington. Busbee said after seeing reports in December that Georgia might not receive the facility, he flew to Carter’s home in Plains, Ga., and gave him a hand-written note expressing the hope “that we will not be discriminated against merely because you are from Georgia.” “He assured me this would not happen,” said Busbee. Busbee made the comments at his weekly news conference interrupted briefly by what he later described as a call from “a close friend in high places figure it out,’ Squibb said Thursday in an interview. “It’s amazing how rapidly they learned.” He said that after the chickens mastered the button sequence, it was changed. The birds figured out the new required routine within 7 to 10 days, he said. “He’s as intelligent as a monkey in solving this problem," Squibb said of the chicken. “It’s really amazing. I’d hate to be sitting myself in that little box. It would drive you crazy.” The research is related to other ex periments Squibb is conducting at the New Brunswick, N.J., campus. In those tests, he uses 50 to 100 chickens at a time to see if malnutrition affects mental capacity. Squibb, a nutritionist, puts those chickens through rigorous tests. About half die of starvation. The others are put on recovery diets and tests are made for brain damage. Their brains are not affected, he said. use of terrain, weapons and underfire tactics. All are second lieutenants in a 21-week training period at Quantico Marine Base. “It’s very difficult to tell the men from the women,” said Lt. Col. Pieter Hogaboom, a tactics group chief. “Once you put gear on them and helmets and give them rifles, they’re all little green people. They’re all Marines.” The women are not expected to see real combat. “They’re not prepared for the front line, but for support roles,” explained Lt. Col. Barbara Dolyak. Lt. Col. Edward M. Mockler, an operations officer, said the women were undergoing combat training “to expose them and familiarize them with their environment so they will do their own job better.” Trapping It’s not a lost art with Sam Waller Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday Afternoon, March 25, 1977 depending on the weather and water levels,” he said. “I guess I average about S6OO to SBOO each season.” Waller estimated there are about 25 trappers in the area. “Some of them work in teams and make up to $23,000 in a season, he said. “I get more coons with my dogs on a hunt than I trap," said Waller. “Trapping is just something I like to do.” “We used to have trouble finding places to trap," he said. “I don't trap anywhere without the owner’s permission. Now I get phone calls from farmers and property owners in a three-county area asking me to trap on their land because of the damage the animals do to land and crops.” “I know of one man who owns 90 acres of land in Pike County that is under way because of beaver dams,” he said. Exactly how to, where to and when to set what sort of trap is a sophisticated affair. Waller has special traps for particular animals in selected places. “The traps are designed to make rapid and humane kills,” said Waller. Most of the trapping is done in the at the White House.” He said it was not the President. Georgia had been seeking the research institute for several months, competing with 19 other states. Busbee said he felt Georgia offered the best location because the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta is considered a leader in solar research. A spokesman for ERDA said the institute will have an initial staff of about 75 and a firstyear budget of $4 million to $6 million. Busbee said he was not prepared to say reverse discrimination cost The Country Parson by Frank Clark sSklw I* / • 3/1. ** ’'**• H"*** ” VHPIm “All a fellow has to do is want something he hasn’t been able to get bad enough and he’s likely to become corrupt” Jannie Loftis, 22, of Ceres, Calif., said at first she didn’t care for combat training. “But the culture shock is wearing off, and some of it is becoming fun,” she said. “I really have a good time shooting my rifle today, and I hated my rifle when I first got it.” The women’s training is a little less rigorous, Mockler said. Instead of doing pullups, they hang by their arms. The women’s obstacle course is less dif ficult. While the men run 3 miles, the women only run 1% miles. However, several times a week both run up to 6 miles. Dolyak said the women’s per formance is about equal with the men’s. Women rank sixth and seventh in the company of 266 officers. Some women are in the middle and some at the bottom. water of streams and swamps. Waller, like the legendary woodsmen, can read tracks and determine the type of animals which made the tracks and what it was doing when it made them. With the use of carefully placed sticks, the animal’s path can be controlled, leading it into the trap. Stategically placed sticks also ensure that domestic animals do not wander into the traps. “A domestic animal will almost always go over a stick or log," said Waller, “and a wild animal will always go under it.” Lures, especially tailored for each variety of animal, including intestines, excrement, etc., are used at the trap site. Special care must be used by the trapper in the area that the trap is placed Waller said, so that the animal doesn’t sense the trapper’s presence. "The trapper has to approach from the site in the water and then, once the trap is set, clean the area with water,” he said. “When the trap is set, a non-trapper (Continued on page 2) Georgia its bid “because ERDA might have made a fair assessment ... and wherever it’s going, they might have made a better proposal than ours.” “I just want a fair shake. We’ve got a great future in the Southeast," he said. The governor said Georgia has become the growth center of the Southeast, adding, “I hope the fact that he (Carter) is from Georgia ... will not interfere.” Busbee said he believes Carter “loves the Georgia people,” but must also “be a national President.” Busbee also said the Russell Dam Science fiction writer close to earth PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. (AP) - Science fiction author Frank Herbert lives in the future. But instead of a world filled with space ships and pills that claim to be steak dinners, the author of the “Dune Trilogy” lives close to the earth in what he calls “techno-peasantry.” Herbert says self-reliance is the key to survival in a world full of food and energy woes. Techno-peasantry is a society in which each family produces most of its own food and energy, aided by homespun technology, said Herbert. The author and his wife live on a six acre homestead on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. They claim their ■Ki f a i*. ' Ik ' C ■ 'mF''- w I? . ® I A soft drink track parked in front of the Spalding Cour thouse this morning rolled into a car and knocked down a utility poll before it came to a stop. Driver of the truck had left it parked to call on a customer. No one was injured. At Vol. 105 No. 71 Waller with “killer trap.” construction project in Georgia was not on the original list of 19 water projects Carter decided to delay, but was added “so as not to show discrimination” in favor of Carter’s home state. The dam has passed all economic, environmental, and safety tests so far, the White House said Wednesday. Busbee said he plans to spend as much time as possible in Washington, staying in touch with energy developments and keeping aware of federal grants — especially for the solar program at Georgia Tech. “I’m not going to ignore it just because I’m from Georgia,” he said. lifestyle is what the future holds for us all. The Herberts grow fresh vegetables in a lean-to greenhouse which doubles as a solar heater beside the house. They raise chickens, using the manure to make methane gas and ultimately fertilizer for the garden plot. Their house is solar heated, and they plan to add a rooftop solar unit for hotwater heating. The application of Herbert’s ideas can be found in his threebook science fiction series, “Dune,” “Dune Messiah” and “Children of Dune.” The trilogy chronicles life on a water starved planet, dealing with new values and social orders and the ecological Special delivery Weather FORECAST: Fair and cool tonight. Increasing cloudiness and mild Saturday. EXTENDED FORECAST: Warm Sunday through Tuesday with scattered showers north Monday. left is Policeman Calvin Huggins and at right is Hanlon Prothro of the U.S. Postal Service getting mail box back into postion. Man with back to camera was not identified. People ...and things Harbinger of spring: building construction man bare to the waist, working yesterday in warm mid-day sun. Covey of policemen and onlookers about 8 a.m. today inspecting soft drink truck and downed utility pole near comer of courthouse on East Solomon. Man making detailed plans to plant his garden two weeks from today which will be Good Friday. consequences. “I intended it to be predictive,” said Herbert. “Man is eating up his energy base. We do have alternatives.” Herbert says his writing “has to be a step ahead of what’s happening now. You watch how the system’s working now economically, socially, politically — and it’s a matter of drawing caricatures.” Herbert has also designed a windmill with the help of an architect friend, for which they are now seeking patents. He hopes the windmill can be marketed for less than SSOO — “available in the Sears or Wards catalog, so every family could afford one.”