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Show i THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1970 Utah Power & Light Transfers Heart of Power Plant Mt. Fuel Company Completes Four Commercial Wells Utah Power & Light Co. Friday transplanted the heart for the gigantic $49.5 million third unit of the companys Naughton steam electric geenrating station near Kemmerer, Wyo. A specially built crane slowly lifted, jpositioned and lowered the mammoth 250 ton generator stator to its permanent post in the No. 3 turbinebay. The procedure was handled like a delicate piece of surgery, and culminated a long ticklish journey for the plants vital organ. When it goes on the line next fall, the generator will whir out enough power, 330,000 kilowatts, to serve the electrical needs of a city the side of Salt Lake. Because of the complex engineering specifications and production schedules, the multimillion dollar generator strator had to be ordered from four years in advance, even before UP&L broke ground for the third unit. All stators of this size are custom manufactured, this one in East Pittsburg and it was shipped Sept. 30 by rail. A flat car, specially constructed to handle the immense weight carried the sator 2,000 miles on a route designed to avoid obstructions. Because the load was over weight and very wide, it had many restrictions. In places, the train could only travel during the day light hours and could not exceed 25 miles an hour. In fact, while travelling in the east, the train was often lim ited to as little as 20 miles per , day, The stator arnved at the rail siding near the plant site 40 days after it was shipped. At the siding, the machine was jacked up from the railroad car and trans-fere- d to a custom built 110 foot foot long rig weighing 70 tons that would carry it to the plant. The rig consisted of four separate parts including a powerful West-inghou- se Mountain Fuel Supply Comthe crane pylons and beneath a pany has completed four comyawning hole at turbine hall mercial oil wells in the past 14 lever, a tough job, best imagined months in the Cedar k if you can visualize backing a Draw area of Duchesne County, 110 foot, double jointed rig in and plans to do additional Utah, an obstacle course. drilling in the area next spring as weather permits, according to Rim-Sin- Real Estate Man Is Popular as M. M. Fidlar, Cancer Lecturer Warren Barnes is a Salt Lake real estate man, but he gets more fan mail than an actor and answers more medical questions than a doctor. This unusual side to his life is due to his hobby as a volunteer lecturer for the Utah Division of the American Cancer Society. At least twice a week he speaks to school, church, civic and business groups on the dangers and problems of malignant disease. His popularity as a speaker (he received 500 fan letters last year), is due to his ability to talk dramatically to children in terms they understand and with adults to get right to the heart of a subject. Most of his lectures to school children deal with the relationship of smoking and lung cancer, a topic aimed generally at youngsters in the third to fifth grades. We previously thought junior high was the best place because thats where most kids start to smoke, but the thinking now is that elementary school is the place to plant the seed, Mr. Barnes said. His talks involve a discussion , on how liing cancer' develops, how the cells change and the effects of smoking on other organs. Then he shows some films and has a demonstration with a live mouse. I put a drop of nicotine on the tongue of the mouse. The mouse spits it out, but in a few minutes has convulsions. At first they think its funny, but then the mouse dies and those kids are really devastated, he said. I explain that we are dealing with a deadly poison. It has a tremendous impact on the kids, Mr. Barnes said. , . . . tractor truck, a hydraulic gondola that could raise or lower its bed and because of its length and heavy load, a steering platform on the rear something like that of a hook and ladder truck. The short trip from railroad to plant carried the generator-stato- r alongside the coal fields Nickel is playing a leading that next year will supply the the fuel to transform the water to role in the expansion ofPowsteam to spin the generators powder metal industry. dered nickel combined with the rotor. comThe rig rolled along or 48 tires other metallic powders is comto make and burned 20 gallons of gas in pressed and heated plex parts of high strength and the 2.8 mile move. At the plant site the rig was durability with a minimum of waste. jockeyed to get its load between machining and Be somebody. Nourish hungry children, with your check: CARE Food Crusade, Dept A, New York 10016 or local offices. Every dollar can send a food packag to help feed a child for 3 months. Company president. All wells are producing from the Tertiary Wasatch formation at depths ranging from 7,794 to 10,280 feet but, significantly,' the two newest wells (Cedar Rim well No. 3 and Sink Draw well No. 2) discovered deeper pay zones than the area discovery well, Cedar Rim well No. 2, and its offset, Sink Draw well No. 1, Mr. Fidlar said. The two newest wells were completed only in the deeper zones but in the course of drilling encountered sufficient shows in the shallower zones where the first two wells were completed to indicate these dones also can be produced when the deeper zones decline, he noted. Draw The Cedar Rim-Sin- k area has been classified by several industry publications as a part of a Tertiary oil trend in the Uinta basin of eastern Utah that extends from the Cedar Rim-Sin- k Draw area northeastward for about 45 miles to the Bluebell field. Recent successes along the trend line have touched off new drilling by several major oil companies. Further drilling will determine whether the trend is continuous; and its magnitude. Mountain Fuels plans for additional drilling in the Cedar Rim-Sin- k Draw area are not yet firm but will include several development wells at the least, Mr. . Fidlar said. The Companys discovery well, Cedar Rim Well No. 2, was completed as a flowing well in late October 1969 at depths between 8,470 and 8,660 feet in the Wasatch formation. After production decreased, the well was Peg Fiv During Last Days of the Year Japanese Homes are Beehives 4 After busy Christmas prepa- rations, most Americans welcome the last days of December as a chance to relax and catch their breath. In Japan, it's the, most hectic week of the year.. Everything in the house gets dusted, polished, cleaned, or replaced. Special foods must be prepared, debts paid, decorations fixed in place, gifts bought. Its part of getting ready for the New Year, the equivalent of the Western worlds Christmas, New Years, and Easter rolled into one. As elsewhere, New Years is regarded as the time, to make a fresh start. But Japanese do more than make good resolutions. All debts are expected paid in full before the old year ends. In an earlier age, men unable to meet their obligations upheld their honor by suicide. Installment purchases have clouded the issue today, but most aided by year - end Japanese bonuses equal to from one to three months pay still settle their bills by December 31. At home, tatami, the floor mats woven of rice straw, are taken up, cleaned, and aired in the sun. Frequently they are replaced with new mats. Torn or soiled shoji paper in the sliding partitions between rooms must be removed and replaced. Ornaments placed at the entrance to the house at New Years tranditionally. include pine, bamboo, plum, oranges, and a rice straw rope. The pine stands for constancy because it never, changes color, bamboo represents strength because it bends with the wind and returns to its original position, and the plum, beauty. Oranges are included because their name means from generation to generation, and the to-b- e rope is a Shinto good luck symbol. Today, the decorations may be paper representations bought at the store; they also adorn the fronts of cars and trucks. The Japanese housewife does no cooking, cleaning, or sewing on New Years Day, The, old superstition held that using a broom then might sweep the good luck of the coming year out of the house. And the New Years Eve celebration seen elsewhere has not caught on with most Japanese. Office parties are held on the last few (toys of the month, but December 31 finds most Japanese at home. Dinner this night is buckwheat needles. The long, slim noodles are said to represent longevity, but another version is that the simple meal originated ' because merchants were too busy settling accounts to bother with more elaborate food. The first three days of the New Year are holidays. Donning their best clothes, families visit shrines to pray for the coming year. Then they visit friends and relatives and exchange presents. It is customary to serve a special, sake, rice wine with herbs reputed to ward off illness, and to feast on rice cakes, sweet bean paste, fish, seaweed,' and' other delicacies prepared previously. But the start of 1971 the Year of the Boar - will find increasing numbers of young Japanese away at the ski slopes. . . : ' . . -- A new lightweight grass shear powered by rechargeable nickel cadmium batteries, will trim up to 900 linear, feeit of grass with out recharging. Weighing only 28 ounces, the unit has a low voltage design eliminating the possibility of serious electrical shocks. ted iri January through perforations in the Wasatch formation at intervals between 7,794 and 8,660 feet. Pumping equipment has since been installed. Thus far, Cedar Rim well No. 2 has produced more than 102,-00- 0 barrels of oil. Based on last weeks production, the well is pumping at an average rate of 142 barrels a day. It also is producing an average of 69 barrelsa of water and 466 Mcf of gas day. I , 1 OF ECOLOGY SIX OUNCES OF PREVENTION Register Now for Hunter TV Course f Registration is now being accepted for the annual Hunter Safety TV course to be aired on Channel 7, KUED. The 20 week course begins Jan. 5 and continues to May 18. Registration must be received by Jan. 4 in order to be elibigle for a course. The course meets the minmum hunter safety requirements of 10 hours of instruction, so students must watch each program. This year the program will be on Tuesday nights from 7:30 to 8 p.m. This will enable Scout troops or church groups to incorporate the hunter safety program into their regular program of activities, if they desire. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Kaelin of Cincinnati took a 2300 mile motorcycle trip from Oceanside, Calif., to Cincinnati. The old riders said it was a good way to see the country but the next time they will take the bus. 21-ye- ar Thousands of motorists concerned with reducing air pollution and bettering car performance can now combine the two assets with a new concept in automobile emission control systems. Called the Cleaner Air Package, and available at Dodge dealerships, the new system has been engineered for all Chrysler Corporation vehicles (back to 1955 models) not equipped with factory installed emission control devices. The heart of the Package is a C.A.P. valve which-thou- gh it weighs only six ounce- s- can effectively control pounds of engine emissions while improving auto performance. The Cleaner Air Package more closely controls the air fuel ratio entering the engine. modifies the vacuum spark ad- -' vance operation' and changes idle conditions to provide more complete combustion with-i- n the engine. A vacuum advance : control valve, hose, idle screw limit and installation instructions are included in the Cleaner Air Package kit along with instructions for modification of the carburetor, ignition timing and idle adjustment. Dodge emission engineers stress that components which effect combustion such as ignition system, carburetor, choke, PCV valve and air cleaner must be in good working condition and adjustment in order to realize maximum reduction oT exhaust emissions with the new Cleaner Air Package. I |