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Show HILL TOP TIMES Page 6 1 September 5, ff syire 1980 poy with SUR PAY If the past two years are any indication, you may have pay problems Oct. 1. Congress must pass legislation each year to authorize our pay. The legislation becomes effective at the start of each fiscal year. However, the pay bill contains dozens of other items for consideration. That takes time and can cause the legislation to be held up. in an election year, the problem can be even worse. Last year, when it seemed the pay would be delayed, several financial institutions offered interest-fre- e loans to SURE-PAmembers, to the same amount as their last equal paychecks. For some people who cannot wait Y VftS a few extra days for their paychecks, this may be a solution. What can you do? How can you be sure of your pay? Sign up for SURE-PAY. SURE-PA- 4, must express that care with a vote." People away from home voting districts can obtain absentee ballots, but must request your .check automatically to your account at a financial institution. No mailing, no waiting. It's a lot quicker than waiting to receive your check prevents your through the mail. SURE-PAcheck getting lost or your having to wait in long lines to cash it. If you sign up right away, you'll be in the program before Oct. 1. Be sure of your pay with SURE-PA- w Y PO IT FOR SAM ... (AFNS) them soon. Absentee voting was not written into law until World War II. The present absentee voting system began in 1955 with the passage of the Federal Voting Assistance Act. Before WWII, there was no provision for military personnel to vote absentee. make sure absentee ballots are available for general elections, Congress ruled that commanders must ensure Federal Post Card Applications are in the hands of persons concerned by Aug. 15 if they are outside the territorial limits of the United States and not later than Sept. 15 if they are on (LOGNEWS) duty within the United States. To &8,C&& .MUTARV CIIWAM A PLC PfcOeKAM Sfir fTABOUT TfM YOU GAVCITA TRY? CDVBR ! a technology whose time has come Energy-efficien- t, By Bob White U.S. Department of Energy "An energy-efficiebuilding construction technology whose time has come. . ." That's the way inventor - architect Melvin H. Sachs describes his technology known as nt which features "built in" insulation and can cut heating costs by half d and air conditioning costs by for the life of a building. g Those and other energy and features led an international panel of judges to award him top honors for "significant achievement in technological development" at the recent Eighth Annual World Fair for Technology Exchange in Atlanta. Sachs developed the winner with the aid of an $87,000 grant from the U.S. Department of. Energy. Sachs, 48, of Livonia, Mich., was one of seven inventors supported by DOE's Energy-Relate- d Inventions Program who exhibited their inventions at the Atlanta Fair. He was the only architect among the select seven. The Detroit area inventor was a student of U-For-m one-thir- cost-savin- Fuller, famed 26 years ago at the University of Michigan. Sach's "Best of Tech-Ex- " sends f's a privilege Armed Forces Voter's Week, Sept. is eight weeks before the general election. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Lew Allen Jr. said, "It is the privilege of every American to vote or not vote for any candidate. In a free society, no one can make a citizen discharge his or her constitutional right. "But there is an obligation of citizenship which must be considered. If members of the armed forces care about how their country is governed, they are obligated to play a part in the process. If they care about America, they Buckminster Y architect-inventor-scientis- t, Atlanta Exposition was the culmination of 14 years of active development of an idea he first committed to paper in 1966. Sachs' concept is not unlike the "stockade" system developed by "Bucky" Fuller 50 years ago. The differences are basically those of size, weight, materials, including insulation, and the fact that the current energy crunch places an entirely new emphasis on energy efficient building construction methodology than was the case in Fuller's heyday. "Another way of putting it," says Sachs, "is that people may not have been interested in this concept when gasoline was 19 cents a gallon, heating oil a dime, and crude oil under $2 a barrel." "Now, of course, it's a different story." The key to Sachs' concept is a series of permanent building forms which incorporate insulation, the framework for pouring reinforced concrete supporting columns, and exterior and interior surfaces. These permanent forms automatically become parts of the buildings' wall structures. Some obvious advantages of the system are d the dual use formwork and without of concrete freezing. workability pre-finish- year-aroun- award at the 11 Everything advertised in the Hill Top Times must be made available for purchase, use or patronage without regard to the race, creed, color, national origin or sex of the purchaser, user or patron. "As permanent forms," says Sachs, "they can and are designed to do things that ordinary formwork simply cannot do." Sachs also contends that the current high inflation in the U.S. heightens the importance of the since it can cut construction d time by to one-hal- f. m one-thir- "Contractors will sign 'fixed price' contracts based on six or seven months in this day and age," says Sachs. "But they won't sign many contracts in these inflationary times based on 12 to 14 months or more. "With this technology," he adds, "you can on a Monday pour concrete into the afternoon and on Tuesday morning you can start installing the floor and roof systems." Constructing a building with technology, Sachs claims, will cut heating d costs by half and air conditioning by for the life of the building. To buttress Sachs' claim, Detroit Edison recently discovered in its own study of actual billings that the total energy cost for Sachs' Headquarters Building in Livonia averaged only 63 cents a square foot for all This energy consumed during 1978-7compared with Detroit Edison's own projections of $1 to $1.25 per square foot for U-For- U-For-m one-thir- m 9. other thermally but more m U-For- m 232-un- y, hw Yu Ceiir A confirmed violation or rejection of this policy of equal opportunities by an advertiser will result in the refusal to print advertising from that source. efficient conventionally constructed buildings. Several major projects have the in been built Detroit already metropolitan area. Many more are in various stages of analysis, design, or construction throughout the country. They include the Livonia foot, eight-stor- y Headquarters, a 120,000-squar- e office building built in only seven months; the Central Towers Apartments, a it HUD complex for the elderly in Detroit; the Chidester Apartments, an eight-stor-y unit for the Elderly in Ypsilanti, Mich, and the Laurel HUD Project, it a nine-storbuilding in Livonia. Sachs' concept is one of 129 that have been recommended to DOE from a total of 6,000 that have been accepted for evaluation by the National Bureau of Standards over the past four years under DOE's Energy-Related- " Inventions Program. That represents a recommendation rate for funding of about two percent. The DOE program offers one-tim- e assistance, usually amounting to one year of financial and technical backing. Assistance is negotiated directly with the inventor or small .' businessman. 196-un- , it MorMedia Sales, Inc., 1152 West Riverdale Road, or Ogden, Utah 84403. Telephone Ogden classified ads mail Send to $3 P.O. 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