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Show Monday. January 7. 1980. THE HERALD Provo. Utah—Page 17 DOUBLEE) DOLEJDOU BLEE Western Family Orange Double Luck Beans “ A/89: Juice + @ JOHNNY CARSON, campaigning to get Bert Parks rehired for the Miss America Pageant, holds a T-shirt and wears a “We Want Bert” button. Hetold his TV viewers to write pageantof- 1 ficials. Carson said he felt Parks should not have n released as master of ceremonies of the event because of his age and that he wanted to see him rehired. (UPI Telephoto) Calls of Support Prove Gratifying to Bert Parks Cabbage . Fresh Broccoli | appeared from the face of the earth in one of science’s lingering mysteries. Luis Alvarez, the Nobel laureate physicist who headed the research team that included his son, Walter, Frank Asaro and Helen V. Michel, reported that the asteroid theory ‘‘accounts for the extinction (of dinosaurs) better than any other theoryI've seen.” The research team developed their scenario of the “great dying’ at the annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science being held in San Francisco. Alvarez said the monster asteroid, a memberof a family of rocky bodies orbiting the sun called “Apollo objects ', may have blasted a craterin the earth's surface more than 65 miles wide. 2. 39.8 BERT PARKS gigawatts. The first volume of the Powder River study will be released in January, Weiner said andwill contain the committee's recommendation. “There is absolutely no way we are going to recommend the construction of that amount of generation in that area."’ Weiner said. However, the committee will recommend ‘‘the federal government should encouragelarge-scale development of nuclear plants and associated powerlines assuming environmental problems and state interests are addressed” andit is economically feasible, Weiner said. And Weinersaid with the U.S. faced with the current situation of continually rising prices for foreign oil, coal-fired nuclear complexes are becoming economically moreattractive If DOE, does act on the 11state study and start the wheels churning for the construction of such nuclear power complexes. the first place such a proposal would goonthestate levelis to the Public Utilities Commission, said Idaho PUC commissioner Ralph Wickberg. And although Wickberg said the PUC cannot approve a federal nuclearsite. it has the power to make recommendations. Thecollision of the 12.7 trillion-ton asteroid with the earth would have created an explosion equivalentto 100 million megatons of TNT(onemillion times the force of the largest hydrogen bomb), throwing 100 times its own mass into the atmosphere in the form offine dust. So much dust they speculate, would have turned day into night causing the widespread death of vegetation and eventually the death of animals feeding on the vegetation. “It is therefore quite possible that 65 million years ago,day could havebeenturnedintonightfor a period ofthree to five years, after which time the atmosphere would return relatively quickly to its normaltransparent state." they said. Bolstering the theoryis the discoveryof iridium in 65-million year old sediments deposits around the world in amounts 30 to 160 times the amount that could be explained by normalterrestial processes In addition, the unusualiridium deposits are frequently accompanied bya thin layer of clay which the researchers say could be worldwide fallout from the asteroid impact. Alvarez said the next step in their research is to see whether similar iridium concentrations occurred 200 million years ago at the time of another known massextinction. RedDelicious ao MEAT Apples ... Ai9Y: TOTAL SHOPPING VALUE Wilson’s Corn King Boneless Papayas ._... TY eG 2 3 : eys 2 2 gGyTanodHy1aaz1anod =. 153 For Slicing Sliced Meats 3 T-Bone Steaks ....... Porterhouse Steak . 339 " ow eeae = Weineris the chairmanof a steering committee for a study onthe possible constructionofcoal-fired plant clusters of from four to 28 gigawatts in the Fowder River Basin in Wyoming. He said that study had been merged with one on the possibility of constructing a nationwide power grid. A gigawatt is equal to a billion watts of generating capacity. The 1l-state study dealt with plant complexes capable of generating about five ‘Dying Dinosaurs’ Theory Eyed By California Research Team SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) — A team of researchers from the University of California says the ‘great dying” of dinosaurs 65 million year ago may have been caused by a six-mile-wide asteroid which smashed into the earth raising a dust cloud that blackened the sky worldwide for up to five ears, 4 The theory by the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory researchers follows discovery of unusual concentrations of a rare elementcalled iridium in sedimentslaid downat samethetimethe dinosaurs dis- Paper Towels 55 Grapefruit N-Power Complex Sites Noted As Suitable in West by Study tions of its own on a similar study in the West. BY Texas Pink eggs.” BOISE (UPI) — Although the Department of Energy has not acted upon a study whichpinpoints 27 possible nuclear power complex sites in the West, including one in Utah, a DOEofficial says the department favors such largescale development. The 12-month study published in May, 1978 and prepared for DOE and the Western Interstate Energy Board, identifies ‘‘zones of highest suitability” for nuciear energy centers in 11 western states. The sites were chosen on such bases as water availability. seismic activity. and low population densities. The Utahsite is located in Emery County. The 26 other site areas are located in Ada, Elmore and Nez Perce counties in Idaho; Coconino, Yavapai and Apache counties in Arizona; Lassen, Tehama,Sutter, Stanislaus and Madera counties in California; Mesa County, Colorado; Gillian, Umatilla, Wasco, Linn, Crook, Lake and Klamath counties in Oregon; Pacific, Franklin and Lincoln counties in Washington; White Pine and Clark counties in Nevada; and San Juan County, New Mexico. Outof the 27 areas,eight sites were nominated by the Western Systems Coordinating Council's memberutilities for further analysis. Those eight sites were located near Hanford, Wash.; Boardman, Ore.; Glasgow, Mont.; Desert Valley, Galt and Owyhee, Nev.; Green River, Utah; and Tularosa Basin, N.M. Richard Weiner, director of the DOE's utility division in Washington. D.C., said the agencyis not planning any action on the study's recommendations, but will be making some recommenda- Meats NonTonkoy . Thrifty Flouride 3 /1 Toothpaste HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (UPI) — Entertainer Bert Parks said the calls of support he hadreceived since being fired as hostof the Miss America pageantafter 25 years were ‘the most gratifying thing that has ever happened in my ife.”” But Parks evaded questions about whether he wanted the job back, or whether he would accept it if it wereoffered. “‘I ain’t sayin’ nothin’ about nothin’,”’ he said in a telephone interview.“I am just going to sit down and have some scrambled Since the word of his firing became known, Parkssaid, ‘‘I have had calls from state pageant directors and hundredsof other people. It is the most gratifying that that has ever happened in mylife. I wouldn’t be human if I didn’t react.It is almostlike I staged it myself.” Parks, 65, said as far as he knew there was ae active movement” to gain restoration of his job. Parkssaid he wassurprised that fellow entertainer Johnny Carson mentioned him sympathetically on his “Tonight Show’’ broadcast Thursday night. “I never thought he even cared,” said Parks. Tender Chunk CLOSED SUNDAY FARMERS A= (9 A.M. MARKET 10 "8 © FOOD STAMP SHOPPERS WELCOME e POST OFFICE COPY MACHINE e@ COMPETITIVE PHOTO FINISHING 293 E. 1300 S. OREM - Carilion Square og a |