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■■ , ' '■<’ c f llfcr JOI 1 ttf -J ..••rJI W I. j®££ :•.••■• ■? <; ■ I * I‘nW «a-- 1 j* • ebl. / J * MOC W ■ JtF * *• - WA-. wlmO «JH BbBF ? \ 'WBCW X V . W?• -. w ✓ I ■ - . 1 2 f >f. WKH HE jl MoMBMIMioHy JSSfiSR ■ & * . E*? ■llr ■ x il MB HBlk * B B* ■ 1 I Near record MONTAUK, N.Y.—James George, a 25-year-old truck driver from West Paterson, N. J., displays his 1,039-pound Mako shark at Montauk Marine Basin on Long Island. George took the shark, the largest Mako ever taken in the U. S. and the second largest in the world, during a 5-hour battle off Montauk Point. The largest Mako ever caught weighed 1,061 pounds and was caught at Mayor Island, New Zealand in 1970. (AP) High yield of ‘political’ ambassadors Carter’s choices no break WASHINGTON - (LENS) — Jimmy Carter complained during last year’s presidential campaign that many American ambassadors overseas are “fat, bloated, ig norant, rich, major con tributors to a presidential [OPEN DAILY IMO; SUNDAY 1-6 WED. THUDS. FRI. SAT. 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Anne Cox Chambers and Philip Alston may be neither fat, bloated nor ignorant, but they were certainly rich contributors to the presidential campaign of none other than Mr. Carter. They are also from the state of Georgia and they happen to be the new American am bassadors to Belgium and Australia respectively. Their qualifications for the job, beyond their personal closeness to the president, are not immediately apparent. County cuts water use by 71 percent Living in Marin on 25 gallons of water LUCAS VALLEY, Calif. - (NEA) — Larry and Sue Cahn live in a spacious and airy tract home in this suburban development nestled among the hills of Marin County, ex actly 20 miles to the toll plaza of the Golden Gate Bridge. They are in the heart of the drought area of California which only recently has received succor in the form of >6.8 million in federal funds to pump 10 million gallons of water a day into a district whose residents have reduced consumption by 71 per cent in the last year. Larry and Sue, and their daughters Wendy and Shelly, have been forced, during the water shortage, to develop an alternative lifestyle. Larry, a 47-year-old public relations consultant for the California Wine Institute, has kept a meticulous log on water usage in the Cahns’ lively household, week by week. “We are now,” he says, “averaging 25 to 26 gallons a day per family member, which is below our allotment, 37 gallons a day for each of us.” For an idea of what this means, be advised that a nor mal tub bath requires 36 gallons of water; for a shower, you use 25 gallons. The full cycle of a washing machine uses up 60 gallons. The other day, Larry and Sue, who have a mini-fortune invested in the flora which abounds in their atrium and their backyard, splurged. They turned the sprinkler on outside and really let it go. “I just wanted to see what it would do,” says Larry, “because we were already un der quota. And in one day we Bailey completes Navy Airman Seaton G. Bailey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen B. Bailey of Route 6, Box 564, Griffin, has completed recruit training at the Naval Training Center, Orlanto, Fla. A 1974 graduate of Griffin High School, he joined the Navy in May, 1977. The American Foreign Ser vice Association which believes that its career members should get the choicest ambassadorial ap pointments is not altogether happy. Despite Mr. Carter’s noble promises and his ap pointment of a special com mission to screen non-career candidates for diplomatic jobs, his performance turns out to differ only a little from that of his predecessors. About 30 per cent of his am bassadors will be non-career, or “political”, appointees, as compared with 38 per cent in Gerald Ford’s administration and 32 per cent in Richard Nixon’s. (The worst offenders in recent history, incidentally, were Democrats; 44 per cent of Franklin Roosevelt’s nominees were from outside the foreign service, as were 42 per cent of John Kennedy’s.) It can be argued that a coun try is not necessarily better off getting a career foreign service officer as its American ambassador. Some political appointees, such as Leonard Woodcock, the former president of the United Auto Workers and the president’s new man in Pek ing, are probably more likely to have a direct line of com munication to Carter than would someone who is not per sonally known at the White House. The same is surely true of Mike Mansfield, the former Democratic leader of the Senate, now ambassador in Tokyo. Some of Mr. Carter’s am bassadors are well-respected university presidents who are bound to win cooperation and admiration both within the. American government and overseas. (Two in this category are Kingman Brewster, formerly of Yale and now of Grosvenor Square, and Robert Goheen, formerly of Princeton and now of New Delhi.) Others were clearly imaginative choices, in cluding William Shannon, an editorial writer for the New York Times and a sym pathetic historian of the American Irish, to be the am bassador in Dublin. But some non-career nominees do raise serious questions, particularly tho;>e who were friends of Mr. Carter when he was governor of Georgia and they were in parallel positions elsewhere. Patrick Lucey, the governor of Wisconsin, for example, has few qualifications to be ambassador in Mexico City, a very sensitive job. went from 21 gallons to 45 gallons per person.” Over the last year, when water usage in their section of the county went from volun tary rationing to precise allocation, the Cahns have ex ercised all their ingenuity to live with the shortage. In each bath, there’s a plastic pail to catch the runoff before the hot water spigot in the shower turns warm. These are later transferred to wine tubs which Larry has placed strategically outside the house and ultimately wind up watering the orange, fig and apple trees in the back yard. (There is no lawn. It’s dead and eventually will have to be replaced. In all of Marin, a green lawn is regarded as suspiciously- as an obese in mate in a concentration camp. The guy across the street from the Cahns is a lawn consultant by profession — his strip is browned out and weed-infested, too.) “The wine tubs aren’t ideal,” shrugs Larry. “The water gets stagnant and at tracts mosquitoes. It took me three weekends to figure out a way to save water from the dishwasher . . . and then we decided we didn’t want that dirty water anyhow.” Early in the water crisis, Cahn tinkered with the valves OPEN DAILY 10-10; SUNDAY 1-6 WED., THIIRS., FRI., SAT. 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Our pharmacist can determine this when he contacts your physician. - 1977 by K mart Corporation 1433 GEORGIA HIGHWAY 16 — WEST, GRIFFIN, GA. Sporting Goods 228-1106 Store 228 5590 yz,rj Pharmacy 228 4912 Auto. 227 51 11 Page 11 at each faucet in the house, reducing the pressure so that only a trickle emerges when it’s turned on full blast. He keeps a coffee warmer in his bathroom to heat enough water to shave. A cup full is allotted to brush his teeth. Two plastic bottles are in serted in each toilet chamber to reduce flushing. Sue runs her dishwasher and washing machines on short cycle. “Nothing’s ever clean,” she groans. “And we don’t wear white. White’s out.” Neither of the two family cars in the driveway has been washed in two years. Sue used to turn the hose on the huge glass windows facing the atrium. No longer. Hosing down the sidewalk is ver boten, too. “I read the water meter every Tuesday before I go to work,” says Larry. “And I wash like crazy every Tuesday afternoon,” gloats Sue. “We’ve never real ly been water abusers. But every once in a while you do something risque, like wash the lettuce in the sink and let it run and forget.” These are invariably follow ed by guilt feelings. Because the water shortage in Marin — as the heat of summer is on us and the hills become a yellowish haze and — Griffin Daily News Wednesday, July 20, 1977 the normally verdant vegeta tion shrinks and withers — is real. An emergency pipeline is being constructed over the San Rafael bridge to bring water from less parched dis tricts to the east, and 3.4 billion gallons will be purchas ed from the supply of the Colorado river, which greens most of southern California and Arizona. Marin County and its residents are in a bind partial ly because of their own smugness. In their quest to limit the population of this desirable chunk of San Fran cisco suburbia to the less than quarter of a million residents (216,000) it now possesses, the electorate spurned chances to tie in with other water authorities, preferring instead to rely on normal rainfall to replenish its reservoirs an nually. What was not anticipated was two years of unusual drought —a total rainfall of 17.56 inches in the last year, following 14.79 inches two years ago, both figures less than half the normal annual rainfall of 36.59 inches. As a result, there is an un usual obsession with the whole subject of water. In the Independent-Journal, the largest daily newspaper in the county, there is an unusual listing in the Classified Ad sections daily — “Water Aids” — and under it there are more than a column full of listings advertising water tanks, steel drums, delivered well water, reclaimed water and just plain water for sale. There are also several citizens plying their wares in the field of “professional water witching.” For $25, a professional water witch with occult powers will come out to your little plot of a half acre or a third of an acre and, pok ing around with his Y-shaped willow twig, will divine where you might dig for a well. Despite the browned-out, parched look of the land, the communities of Marin remain highly desirable places in which to live. Sue Cahn works in real estate and reports, “It is still a seller’s market. No listing for a house lasts more than three days.” The Cahns’ own house, bought for $29,500 13 years ago, would sell for $90,000 today. But they have no inclination to get out, water shortage notwithstanding, because they’ve learned to cope. “It’s not been a burden,” in sists Larry, “to stay under the water allowance, if you let your landscaping go. “It isn’t a hardship — it’s a nuisance.”
