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Get a move on
Fuel from coal
burns cleanly
ATLANTA (AP) — Tests show a fuel
refined from coal bums so cleanly that
it surpasses current clean air re
quirements, Southern Co. President
Alvin W. Vogtle Jr. said Tuesday.
The first test burning of solvent
refined coal at Plant Mitchell near
Albany, Ga., was labeled “an
unqualified technical success” by
' Vogtle, whose firm is the parent
company of Alabama Power, Georgia
Power, Gulf Power of Florida and Mis
, sissippi Power.
Measurements showed the fuel
surpassed Environmental Protection
Agency requirements for sulfur dioxide
* emissions by more than 20 per cent, he
said.
During the testing period, he said, the
* boiler at Plant Mitchell “stayed so
Crime lab
arrives
The GBI mobile crime
prevention unit was to be on
> display this afternoon at Nor
thgate Shopping Center 2-6.
It will be at Spalding Square
Thursday 10-6 o’clock.
* Friday the unit will be at
Market Square 10-1 and at First
National Bank 2-6.
The public is invited to visit
the unit.
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Little Dee Dee Searcy, 14 months old, seems to be saying to her grandmother,
Mrs. Estelle Searcy, to hurry and get her out of the hot sunshine as they went
for a stroll on Maple drive. Dee Dee is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Searcy,
902 Mockinbird lane.
clean that no down time was needed to
remove the massive soot buildup which
occurs normally as a result of burning
regular coal.”
Solvent refining is the best available
technology for “ensuring the protection
of the environment and facilitating the
use of America’s vast coal resources,”
Vogtle said.
The federal Energy Research and
Development Administration funded
the sl.l million experiment.
Under the solvent refining process,
coal is dissolved at high temperatures
under pressure. Most of the ash and
sulfur is filtered out of the liquid, which
is cooled to a solid resembling coal.
It is then ground and sprayed through
a nozzle into the burning chamber in the
same manner as coal is burned.
In the past, the synthetic fuel had
clogged the nozzle and gummed up the
grinder, but engineers found away to
cool the nozzle and made adjustments
in the grinder.
Current clean air laws make more
than half of the coal mined in America
last year unusable in new plants
without expensive antipollution equip
ment, Vogtle said. But he said synthetic
coal would eliminate the need for such
equipment.
The synthetic costs considerably
more than coal, but when the cost of
pollution control is added to the cost of
the coal, the synthetic becomes much
more feasible, he added.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday Afternoon, July 20, 1977
People
...and things
Layman commenting on his new
minister: “Not only is he telling me
things I didn’t know but things I didn’t
even suspect.”
Visitor at city hall stepping on two
and a half inch roach in police traffic
office this morning.
Girl with bleeding knee, caused by a
bicycle accident, coming for treatment
in the hospital emergency room this
morning.
Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA —
Fair and warm tonight with low near
70. Partly cloudy and hot Thursday with
slight chance of afternoon and evening
showers. High in the mid 90s.
LOCAL WEATHER — Low this
morning at the Spalding Forestry unit
67, high Tuesday 92.
The Country Parson
by Frank Clark
Jib 11
“An expert is a fellow who’s
good at concealing his
ignorance.”
Working on budget
County struggles
to make ends meet
Preparation of a budget for county
government is under way for the first
time in Spalding County. Hearings are
scheduled around Aug. 1, according to
County Administrator Lewis Leonard.
Leonard said budget requisitions
from county elected officials are being
received with some 85 percent already
submitted.
To screen the requisitions, the
commissioners will depend to a great
extend on the county mini-computer
which has gained national acclaim by
the multi-programmings developed by
Leonard.
Leonard said the computer will
provide printouts and reports showing
actual expenditures of all county of
fices.
The printouts will immediately alert
the commissioners if a request this
year is out of line with past spendings.
Once the requisitions have been
compiled and screened, the county
commissioners will hold a public
hearing. The hearing is required by the
federal government for Revenue
Sharing money in order to make sure
the citizens have a say as to how the
funds are to be spent.
Although the commissioners have not
set a completion date for the budget,
they are working within the confines of
from now to Oct. 1 when the new fiscal
year begins.
The county chose Oct. 1 as its fiscal
year beginning in order to be in line
with the federal government’s Oct. 1
fiscal year. This makes it easier to
report and comply when applying for
federal grants.
In developing a budget the county can
live with, Commissioner Frank Thomas
feels the money must be spent to do the
most good for the most people.
“We have to look at the total needs of
the community,” Thomas said.
In looking at those needs, Thomas
talked about what he thought would be
some needs to be discussed before the
budget is adopted.
The county is faced with enforcing
local rabies control as legislated by the
federal government. It will need trucks,
personnel and perhaps buildings to
carry out the law.
“Local government has to find away
to provide the services,” Thomas said.
Also as a result of state legislation,
the county will have another judge.
Office space must also be provided for
him.
There will be additional costs due to
more court hearings. Thomas said the
improvements at the county jail must
be considered.
“There are just some jail im
provements that need to be made,” he
said.
Thomas is also concerned about
requests that will be made from the
Recreation Board for the full utilization
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Heat
From uncomfortable to destructive
By The Associated Press
The heat wave gripping most of the
nation has gone from uncomfortable to
destructive and deadly.
In Davenport, lowa, a young mother
watched her four children —ages 2 to 10
— drown in the Mississippi River on
Tuesday as they sought relief from the
heat. Ruth Triplett, 27, who cannot
swim, was helpless.
And in St. Louis officials blamed the
heat for the deaths of nine persons over
the past two days. Four elderly people
from the same apartment building died
on Monday. On Tuesday five other
deaths in the area were attributed to
the heat wave.
The hot weather that has been
hovering over a 2,000-mile belt from the
Atlantic Coast to the Rockies for the
past eight days — and longer in some
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Fred Wallace and son Murray: keeping a cool business hot.
Hot weather pushes
ice maker to limit
What better way to cool off on these
hot summer days than with an icy cold
drink? But what happens when the
supply of ice runs low?
Ice is still available, but a great
demand has been placed on the ice
companies. Fred Wallace of Crossfield
Ice Company said the increase of
demand began with the Fourth of July.
“The ice business is always busy at
the Fourth of July, but the hot weather
has worn out the supply,” Wallace said.
He said it is hard to tell exactly how
much the demand for ice has increased.
Other ice manufacturers and areas
are feeling the shortage. Block ice,
which Crossfield purchases from
another dealer, has not been available
since the rise of temperatures.
Fishermen, campers, and construction
workers prefer the block ice because of
its longevity.
Larger ice franchises have asked the
places — was not expected to let up
until the weekend at the earliest.
New York City recorded a tem
perature of 102, a record for the day.
Lamar, Colo., reported a high of 105.
The thermometer reached 97 at the
Baltimore-Washington International
Airport, tying the record for the day.
In Maryland, Young D. Hance, the
state agriculture secretary, said crops
in several parts of the state are showing
signs of damage from the prolonged
spell of heat and no rain. Cantaloupe,
tomato and cucumber crops as well as
pasture land are threatened. Delaware,
Virginia, lowa and Indiana were among
the other states reporting problems
with crops and livestock.
In Baltimore an air pollution alert
continued for a fifth day today and
some industries were cutting
production to reduce pollution. Air
local company to supply ice to local
stores.
The Crossfield Company is unable at
the present time to take on new
customers. Ice supply to regular
customers have not been limited.
“I have noticed the regular mer
chants buying more ice,” Wallace said,
“possibly for later use.”
The storage room was full for the
Fourth of July, but has not been since.
Now that the Fourth of July is over,
Wallace hopes to be able to begin filling
all orders.
“All we need is two or three days of
rain to bring the ice supply up to date,”
he said.
The Crossfield Company runs its
ice machines 24 hours to keep up with
customers. The company has a daily 10-
ton capacity. Regular summertime
help has not been increased, but the
employees are working harder and
longer to meet the demands.
pollution alerts also were on in parts of
Kentucky, Ohio, Minnesota, New York
and Massachusetts.
Electric utilities continued to report
high levels of consumption with air
conditioners turned on in stores, of
fices, factories and homes. In Min
nesota, customers of several utilities
were asked to cut back use of ap
pliances. There were scattered power
outages in Colorado, Ohio, New York
and Massachusetts.
The hot weather caused inner city
residents to turn on fire hydrants and in
Philadelphia, New York and other
Eastern cities, police were trying to get
citizens to use hydrant caps that slow
the flow of water. A second-stage water
alert was declared in New York,
meaning that lawn sprinkling and the
washing of cars and sidewalks was out.
