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The Augusta News-Review July 16,1983
HowToTake THeHeatOffYourSummer Powerbills.
Clip and use these ten tips for hot weather energy savings. They'll make summer, and your power bill, a lot easier to take.
Ilf you're buying a new air conditioner, buy one
• with an energy efficiency number of 7.5 or above.
It might cost more initially, but you'll save money in
the long run. Or, if you already have an air condi
tioner, have it serviced before the cooling season
begins, then clean or replace your own filters at least
once a month.
2 Check your attic and crawl space for adequate
•insulation. (Georgia Power will tell you how
much you need.)
3 Check the attic to make sure it has adequate
•ventilation to release hot air that gets trapped.
4 Consider putting ceiling fans in the rooms you
•use the most (like the den, bedroom, living
room). Then, even with higher thermostat settings
on your air conditioner, you'll feel cooler. Remember
though, if you put one in, get the type that's revers
ible. Then you'll get some help heating your house
in winter.
5 Check your windows and doors for a tight fit. If
• there are no leaks, then you won't be paying to
cool tire outside.
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6 Plan your meals so most heat producing appli-
•ances are used in the cooler evening hours.
7 When washing or drying clothes or dishes, wait
> until you have a full load. And try to do most of ■
your washing chores during the cooler evening hours. |
8 During the heat of the day, close your draperies.
•They make good barriers against some of the
heat and they help keep sunlight from adding an
extra load to your air conditioner.
a Keep your air conditioner set at 78° or higher.
• For every degree you go below 78, you use ■
about 5% more energy to cool your house. I
1A Most importantly, learn how to read your elec
lv» trie meter Keep track of your energy consump
tion every day. Make notes on which appliances you
use every day and compare meter readings. That
way you'll learn for yourself what's using the most
energy in your house, and you'll find ways to save
that energy and yourself some money. A
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“STARS ON HOLLYWOOD”—Superstar Sammy Davis Jr. and
Tony Brown share a lighter moment after the filming of Sammy’s
candid views on the absence of Blacks from the movie industry. He is
joined by Oscar-nominated “Ragtime” star Howard Rollins and
Tony Award winner Ben Vereen on “Stars On Hollywood,” the up
coming edition of Tony Brown’s Journal.
Tony Brown ’s Journal
Stars on Hollywood
Although Blacks
represent a substantial
portion of today’s movie
audiences, over the four
years less than three per
cent of the speaking roles
in major motion pictures
have gone to Black actors
or actresses.
Why? Has Hollywood
turned its back on Black
artists and Black
America? If so, there is
alternative to
Hollywood?
Host Tony Brown
presents these questions
and others to superstars
Sammy Davis Jr., Ben
Vereen and Howard
Rollins Jr. on the up
coming edition of Tony
Brown’s Journal, “Stars
On Hollywood.”
Televised nationally on
public television (PBS,
the program will be seen
in this area on WCES-20
at 5 p.m., July 17.
Speaking to the |
question of whether or i
not Black actors have I
been virtually eliminated <
from the silver screen, I
Sammy Davis replies, 1
“absolutely.”
However, Davis, a
veteran of the stage and
screen for 50 years, says
that independent Black '
films produced outside of
Hollywood, as an alter- '
native to Black exclusion :
in cinema, are risky.
“You can’t start a
revolution outside ‘
looking in,” explains
Davis. “You’ve got to '
start from inside looking
out. And as long as we
lack the feel within the ar- :
tistic community of •
working together in com- i
plete unity and everyone s
sacrificing, it is never 1
going to happen.” <
However, Ben Vereen 1
believes that Black- 1
produced films is the an
swer, but, he contends,
the Black community
does not support the ef
forts of many Black per
formers.
“We’re not supported
by the community at all,”
says Vereen. “We’re are
once again quick to write
in about the things we
dislike instead of writing
in and being positive
behind those brothers
who are out there and
sisters who are out there
working as well as they
can.”
To Oscar-nominated
“Ragtime” star Howard
Rollins Jr., the paucity of
jobs in Hollywood is
across the board. Rollins
says that work is simply
hard to find and that this
circumstance would
logically appear worse for
Blacks.