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Show Thursday. October Utah-Region- 30. 1980. THE HERALD. Provo. The latest happenings from in and around the Beehive StaJe al I'tah-Pa- ge 5 flol 202 Million Being Sought for MX Energy Study - WASHINGTON mPIl The Air is being jointlv sponsored bv the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy. Force announced Wednesday it will ask Congress for $202 million to fund research and development of alternative energy sources for the MX missile system, a program which would stimulate the nation's search for ways to use solar, geothermal, biomass and to "Renewable Energy Systems" project electrical power," he said, adding the energy facilities could be located at the site of the 4,600 shelters and support bases needed for the system. wind power. Lt. Col. Mike Terrill of the Air Force MX Public Affairs Office said the "The project promises significant benefits to the MX system, the Air Force and the nation," Terrill said. "For MX. it provides an alternative conventional sources of Scientists estimate it will tane about megawatts of electricity to run the system, Terrill said. He said the use of wind, solar, biomass (conversion of waste to energy) and geothermal power for MX would reduce the environmental impact of the system and would cut down its vulnerability to sabotage. Furthermore, technology derived from the research and development project would have widespread ap 108 plication at other defense installations and in the private sector, the Air Force spokesman said. Terrill said firms would be required to compete for the federal funds, with those displaying the greatest capability of meeting project goals given final contracts to develop the alternate systems. Information packets were mailed on Oct. 1 to 500 firms which might be interested in the project, he said. If Congress approves funding for the Air Force plan, that list would be culled to 25 businesses and those companies could begin competition for the final grants. When prototype models are developed, they will be tested at Utah's Hill Air Force Base or at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada Terrill said. If Congress agrees, work on the prototypes would begin in 1982. with e final production slated for full-scal- 1984 he said. "Systems developed under this project would help further reduce the country's dependence. on imported oil for electrical power " Terrill said. The Air Force wants to deploy the enormous nuclear weapons system in the Great Basin of Utah and Nevada, but will also consider placing half the project in another location such as Texas or New Mexico. Franklin Claims Sniping Charges "Trumped Up' - A white TAMPA, Fla. (UPI) racist, sought In the sniper shootings of civil rights leader Vernon Jordan and other blacks across the nation, was n held in a cell under heavy guard today pending a court decision on his transfer to Utah. Joseph Paul Franklin, 30, was ordered held under $1 million bond in the Hillsborough County Jail Wednesday by U.S. Magistrate Paul Game Jr., who scheduled a removal hearing for next Wednesday. Franklin is charged in Salt Lake City with violating the civil rights of two black joggers shot to death last August a charge he denied Tuesday. "It was all trumped up because of my cne-ma- white racist views," he told reporters "They needed someone to pin it on. I'm totally innocent." When asked if he had white racist views, he said: "Oh, definitely. I'm against racial mixing and communism." Franklin, arrested Tuesday at a Lakeland, Fla., blood bank, had been the object of a nationwide manhunt since his escape last month through a window in a Kentucky jail. The FBI said Franklin had written President Carter a threatening letter in 1976 and were concerned that Franklin was found in Lakeland, where Carter plans to campaign Friday. But Franklin denied any interest in Carter's aoDearance when asked bv reporters if he planned to see the president while he was in Lakeland. "No," he said. "I'm not interested at all in Jimmy Carter." U.S. Attorney Gary Betz arped for a $1 million bond twice that recommended by federal authorities in Utah. "He is a suspect in the shooting of Mr. Vernon Jordan in Fort Wayne, Ind., and is wanted for questioning about the shootings of black citizens in Johnstown, Pa.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Indianapolis, Ind.; and Oklahoma City, Okla," Betz told the court. Franklin also is a suspect in three bank robberies two in Tennessee and one in Atlanta. He is wanted for escape and larceny in Kentucky, defrauding an innkeeper in Utah and for using fraudulent identification to obtain firearms in Kentucky, James Whittemore, appointed as a public defender for Franklin, called the SI million bond unreasonable since "we're only dealing with suspicions." After the hearing, , Franklin was returned to the county jail. Betz said he had no fear about Franklin's safety or a possible escape. "I have the utmost confidence in the local authorities," Betz said. "We've requested appropriate steps be taken." He refused, however, to discuss security measures. At the jail Wednesday night, officer Ed Walker said Franklin was "under no different security than any other prisoner in this jail. He is in maximum security, which is what this jail is. But n he is in a cell." FBI agents have been dogging Franklin's trail through the South. Particular attention was paid to blood banks Franklin's description had been passed out at all of those in the because it was believed Tampa area the alleged sniper was financing his flight by selling his blood. He was arrested by FBI agents Tuesday as he left a blood bank in Lakeland where he had sold a pint of blood for $5. The FBI said Franklin vehemently one-ma- Chinese Fallout Trails Over Utah - A LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPI) Chinese nuclear bomb exploded in the atmosphere 15 days ago has left a trail of low lev?! radioactive fallout in California, Utah and Nevada, the En- Protection vironmental reports. Monitoring Agency stations found Uranium-237- , 9 and several fission Neptunium-23- in samproducts including Iodine-13- 1 ples collected between Oct. 23 and Oct. 26 from 13 monitoring stations, EPA Geneva Douglas said spokeswoman Wednesday. The monitoring stations are part of a network maintained by the Las Vegas Research Laboratory of the EPA primarily for surveillance of United States underground nuclear tests. Scientists have not completed analyzing all of the samples collected by the monitoring network. "The concentrations of these radionuclides are less than one of the concentrations al th iTl i lowed for exposure to an individual in the general population and they constitute no know health hazards," according to the EPA announcement. The Research Laboratory in Las Vegas will continue to collect and analyze samples from the monitoring network as long as fallout can be detected, said Mrs. Douglas. The sam- were collected daily through Wednesday and will be collected three times a week in the future. Mrs. Douglas said the concentration of radionuclides ranged from "barely detectable traces" to about one picocurie per cubic meter of air. The fallout came from a Chinese atmospheric nuclear detonation Oct. 15 in the northwest part of China, the first known nuclear. test by China in two years. U.S. scientsts said the nuclear explosion had a yield ranging from 200 kilotons to one megaton, a maximum equivalent of one million tons of TNT. dfcom.. If you knew that Jim Hansen, Republican candidate for the U.S. House will support President Reagan in making America great again, while Democrat McKay will oppose Reagan, thus promoting America's distress? Utahn Facing Murder Trial In Wyoming Teacher Assault ROCK SPRINGS, - A Sept. 17 stabb- Wyo. (UPI) Utah man accused in the ing death of a Western Wyoming College teacher has been bound over to Sweetwater County District Court for e murder trial on charges of in the perpetration of a sexual assault and kidnapping. Justice of the Peace Nena James ordered Alvah Daniel, 25, of Magna, Utah, bound over for trial at the close of a two-da- y preliminary hearing Wednesday. He was to appear before District Judge Kenneth Hammm for first-degre- . arraignment Thursday. The ironworker's apprentice is accused of killing Helen Bunning in a campus parking lot. Two women who were in the parking lot moments after Ms. Bunning was Hansen -R- $1 million bonding proposal to finance the first phase of a city recreation complex. The vote Wednesday was 843 in favor, to 642 against. The city says the funds will be used to Republican Hansen will vote to cut taxes and reduce and balance the budget, while Democrat McKay has voted 14 times to increase the national debt which now totals $879 billion? stabbed Wednesday identified Daniel as the man they saw in the lot, and additionally testified that he appeared confused, behaving in an erratic manner. Daniel claimed in a taped conversation played during Tuesday's court proceedings that the woman voluntarily got into a car with him and then sprayed him with a chemical irritant because she apparently believed he planned to "do her violence." He said he didn't remember stabbing Ms. Bunning, "but somehow she got sUbbed." Daniel was bound over on the sexual assault charge despite public defender Richard Honaker's contention that there was "absolutely no evidence of sexual assault." Hansen McKay If you knew that Republican Hansen led Utah's fight to reduce federal regulation and interference, while Democrat McKay has voted to fund and empower EPA, OSHA and other regulatory agencies? Hansen COIIsuulv a muiuLitJai bwuuming pool and recreation building, including exer- McKay If you knew that cise rooms. The city council also was to build a complex of racketball courts and then a gymnasium. But the council has not decided how to finance the other two ' phases of the project. iff'mat! McKay If you knew that Richfield OK's Recreation Bonding RICHFIELD, Utah (UPI) ichfield voters have approved a Republican Hansen, during 18 years of office, never voted himself a salary increase, while McKay has voted three times (even- possible opportunity) to raise his own salary to over $60,000?. - to) Hansen McKay The choice is clear . . . HansenReaganGarn WE UEGD WANDA SCOTT It THE LEGISLATURE BECAUSE SHE UNDERSTANDS THE... Concerns of Business Conctrns of Homttwntri Urfslntlve Process Concerns of Young People Problems of Utah 0 Concerns of Dderly People Wanda Scott, Democrat for State Legislature District 39 Paid for by friends of Wanda uott T denied his identity when first taken into custody but was identified through tattoos and fingerprints. Wednesday, he sat silent in court as his appointed public defender James Whittemore sought a lower bail and said he would want a preliminary hearing. "I think $1 million bond is unreasonable," Whittemore said. "He has been declared indigent and we're dealing only with suspicions. I ask the court to consider a reasonable bond." But Game said it appeared unlikely Franklin would be released regardless of bond because of the other charges and granted the government's request for the higher bond. This ad paid for by (he Hansen for Congress comminee with funds donated by Utah County citizens. s |
