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Show COAL STOVE BEATS i 'EM ALLFOR HEAT By Associated Press. ! HOIPK. Ida Dec. U- For real heating heat-ing efficiency, the old-fashioned Coal stove cannot be equalled, Idaho' public pub-lic utilities commission was told yea-terday yea-terday by witnesses who are testify- ; in? on behalf of water power com paiue In tha hearing on the question of the feasibility of supplying electrical electri-cal heat from w iter putter plants to ' the home in towns and cities In south ' lila ho. I Heating efficiency at prevent im 'graded aa 75 per cent for the coal atote. CO jter eent for the hot air furnace fur-nace ana 19 per cent for hot water plant. In Montpehsr, taken aa the ; standard south Idaho town, and flgur-1 flgur-1 lng coal at f 7 i per ton, a six -room ''house can be heated for 3t per year with coal toTs. for $49 per er with ;i h-'l a:r furnace, and for pr year for a hot water furnace. Klectrlo heat for the lams dwelling would cost ISll. Witnesses today were Dr. Joseph H. Merrill, dean of the electrical engineering engineer-ing department of the I'niverelly of T'tshc Ir. U. r. Miller, professor of physics and electrical engineering at the mtverelty of Idaho, and 11. M. Kerjruson, a I'tah electrical engineer. The ta'ked of project, which played a large part In the last Idaho political campaign, of heating Boise and the homes of the surroundinir Irrigation r)tr ts with pow lt fjft rated at the treat Arrow Rock (am, waa declared impossible by the experts, except at a eoa far In excena of the present pricos of eoaj and man |