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Show ' n- i:rr , 4 B w k , . ; s ' f DESERET NEWS, FRIDAY, i 4 v t i r' . 4 7 4 I- - ' i,l,r Parsons elect Crisis ignored, solar expert says disasternus energy shortage is building in the U.S., but is largely ignored by the federal government, a solar power expert said today. We need a sense or urgency" and an effort like -the moon landing or the gjiuMimmmm atomic bomb to cope with the problem, said John I. Yellott. But instead, the government is actually a bottleneck in the path of developing solar energy to relieve the crises, he said. y . Yellott, a visiting professor in architecture at Arizona State University and a solar energy en-J- S gineer, spoke today at the University of Utah. During an interview with the Deseret News, he Mr. Yellott noted that none of the presidential candidates have seriously tackled the energy issue. Conservation of energy, including sacrifices by thtCAmerican people, arc needed, Yellot saidBut candidates ignore this vital question because it is not a popular one," he said. Yet the energy shortage is a serious, critical situation. In California the supply of natural gas is already 'critical and utilities indicate that in the near future (hey may have to start interrupting the flow of gas to residential users, he said. ' Unlike an interruption of electrical power, this wdl cause grave problems with a variety of pilot - Panel attacks liquor ruling Continued from B-- lights to gas appliances and heaters, Yellot said. In the northeast U S. the rising price of electrical power and beating oil has made the monthly cost of fuel higher than the mortgage payments for many homes, he said. Solar energy is an answer to part of the energy crisis, but the government, is dragging its feet, Yellot said, partly because of bureaucratic red tape and the lack of a goal. Great strides will be made in solar energy in the next few years in spite of, rather than because of the federal government, he said. The push is coming from people who arc appalled at rising energy prices, he said. By 1979 there will be close to 500,000 of the homes in the nation. About three-fourth- s country can use solar energy to heat homes and hot water, plus possible cooling, he said. Right now the cost of solar devices is rather high because most of the work is being done by smaller developers who need to recover their expenses in the first 100 units or so, Yellott said. well-financ- solar-heate- Once a breakthrough to large-scal- e production is made, the costs will come down, he added. The federal government is supposed to be trying to promote solar research, but small firms take one look at the complex paper work involved and refuse to have anything to do with it, Yellott said. If the government had been able to provide simple and quick financing to the small businesses already in the solar energy field, we would be far ahead of where we arc now, he said. Another roadblock is the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA1. created by one-hou- . Gust of cool air coming ' weak cold front, accompanied by gusty shifting A winds, is expected to bring cooler weather and a few showers to Utah tonight and Saturday. Afternoon temperatures ranged from 80 to 00 today today, but highs will be mostly in the 70s north today, but highs will be mostly in the 70s north and 80s south Saturday. Lows tonight will be in the 40s. Salt Lake City had a high of 78 Thursday and it was near the 80 mark today. Saturdays high will he in the lower 70s and the probability of precipitation will be about 30 percent. TOOELE ARMY DEPOT Security patrols were increased here an unsuctoday foUow-incessful search for three men believed to have entered TADs toxic area. The Army secret said the search Thursday failed to turn up any trace of fhe ;men, reportedly sefi around Building 541 the controlled area south of Tooele in Rush Valley Wednesday night. iThe area includes in storage nerve gas and other deadly chemical agents. Authorities are also checking out two telephone bomb threats he liSved connected to the injrusion incident. in )Meaiiwliile, urity TAD personnel sec- kept clpse u atch of the fenced perimeters of the depot ateas. More careful checks were also made of ciyillans entering and leaving the south area. Contractors there are constructing a new facility to be used to dispose of chemical agents. The search began Wednesday night, shortly after a depot engineer .. Hampton honors reported seeing three men around the south area building. Army spokesman Tom Donnely said the building. located in the controlled area, contained no chemical agents and is being remodeled into a laboratory. The search included air and ground checks throughout the night and until noon Thursday, when the Army called off the search. tee approved omnibus legislation Thursday to increase spending ceilings for the Golden Spike National Historic Site and Arches and Capitol Reef national parks. The most significant provision of this legislation, Rep. Allan T. Howe, said, increases the funding ceiling for the Golden Spike National Historic Site from $1,168,000 to The action $5,422,000. would permit the House Appropriations Committee to provide money for construction of replicas of the Jupiter and the The two Roger. locomotives that met at Promontory Point, Utah, when the transc- ontinental railroad was completed Rep. Gunn McKay, introduced the bill to increase the ceiling for Golden Spike and Howe pushed it through the Committee. McKay is working in the Interior subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee to get the funds authorized by this bill appropriated. The omnibus legislation approved today by the Interior Committee also increased the ceiling for Arches National Park from $125,000 to 275,000 and the c riling tor Capitol Reef National Park from $123,000 to $2,173,000, chiefly to cover the cost of buying private lands within park boundaries. Shelley president; Shepard, secretary; Roger Ranney, treasurer, and Dan Essary, student representative to the college hoard of trustees. New class presidents are Dave Kilgore, renjnr; Nancy Garhart, junior, and Mark Jones, sophomore. Annual awards were presented to Craig Cald-w-el- l, Scholar-Athlet- Before the two linns on the west entrance of the Stste Capitol are repaired, the buttress holing up one lion will have to be raised. To repair the sagging buttress, Wadsworth Construction Co., East, has submitted the apparent low bid of $6,550 which exceeded the State Building Boards $5,600 estimate. The firm will jack up the buttress with hydraulic jacks, pour concrete underneath and restore nearby landscaping in time for hobbyist Ralph Plescia to restore the conrete lions to their original appearance. Plescia already has restored one lion on the east entrance and is working on the other one. 145-4t- h V mP 'fgr&f P J threats i v, 0 '' Wlt1 " ' Brian Triptow, Most Inspirational Player; Tod Franklin, student body president, Presidents Award; Pat Riley, Board Trustees Character Award; John McGrath, Alumni Award. of President Nixon was wasted just like the GIs in in an impeachment hearing that was Vietnam almost entirely political, Rep. Charles W. Wiggins, said today. The people bad been so conditioned by the news media to believe that Nixon was a criminal, that by the summer of 1974 they had to have a new President, Wiggins told University of Utah students at a Coffee and Politics session. I knew it had to be donp," said Wiggins, who was a menjber of the impeachment panel and one of Nixons chief defenders. So we seized upon this tiny tidbit of evidence to destroy him, said the congressman. The tidbit, Wiggins explained, was Nixons acquiescence in a plan by Atty. Gen. John Mitchell and others to use the CIA to try to divert the FBI from its investigation of the Watergate burglary. Nixon said something like, Go ahead, John," Wiggins said, and then two weeks later tried to withdraw from the decision. The congressman said that, was the only bit of solid criminal evidence turned up by the hearings against. Nixon, and thats the absolute truth. That President doesnt deserve the treatment he got then or is getting now, Wiggins added. The Californian said his personal relationship He casual in the extreme. with Nixon was defended Nixon for the same reason he would have defended anyone against injustice, Wiggins stated. Wiggins will deliver the annual Stephen L. Brockbank Memorial Lecture tonight at 6:30 at a banquet in the Salt Lake Hilton, 1.50 W, 5th South. in- cluded wording to the effect that the depot must cease storage of the deadly chemical agents within two months, or facilities would be blown to bits Officials said that a man, saying he represented the United States Nazi Party called at 6:35 p.m. and 7:17 and p m Wednesday, were made by the same persons who contacted the TAD security desk sergeant. Av.. - ... VS JqiafiuaaaiJiiEEians AjgEESaSBSB! A hearing on proposed oil, gas and hydrocarbon leases in Bear Lake will be held at, 10 a.m. June 16, the Utah Division of State Lands announced today. In late April, division director Charles R. Hansen said Ed Pendleton of Denver. Colo., had filed applications for such leases on 35,094 acres of the lake Rear Lakes entire Utah portion. Because of the lakes unique environmental and recreational value, the Lands Division at that time decided to hold a puhlir hearing on the proposal before taking any action on the applications. Hansen was uncertain then about the exact date cf the hearing. Today he said it, will be June 16 in Sweetwater Resort Convention Center on the lake. Those who cannot be present may submit information in writing. Written comments should be addressed to the Board of State Lands, 105 State Capitol Building, Salt Lake City, 84114. They should be in the mail by June 14. The new camels at Hogle Zoo munch on treats from Norman Cox. 2 new camels to make debut In the zoo alphabet, B, naturally (a camel with two humps) is for Bactrian. Thats as opposed to D (a one hump) which stands for Dromedary. But emphasis Saturday the emphasis will be on the bactrians two new males that will be on display at Hogel Zoo for the first tune. They are the beginnings of a herd which eventually will provide breeding stock at the Salt Lake zoo. Only one other zoo in fhe country, located in Washington, D C., produces camel offspring. International regulations which bar transporting the animals have created great difficulty for zoos which wish to include bactrians in their displays, according to A. Lamar Farnsworth, Hogle director. The two camels now at, the Salt Lake zoo came from Canada after lengthy negotiations and preparations for transporting, Farnsworth said, HOUSE - A pedestrian was struck by a pickup truck and seriously injured as she crossed Simpson Avenue at 1250 East about 3:20 p.m. Wednesday. Mrs. Joyce T. Wilson, 46, 46. F. 1 Till oouili, Apt. 2, was m serious condition today at St. Mark's Hospital. T ruck driver Kenneth Wayne Hemingway, 20, 1 East, told inves107-7t- h he did not see Mrs. Wil son before she was struck by the vehicle, said Lt Gene Yount:, Salt Lake City Police tigators Department. Three fpmalcs will he added to the herd as soon as possible. The first may he available within 60 days and two others by October, Farnsworth said. Bactrians, he noted, do not breed well if only one is housed together. A herd situation seems most desirable to promote offspring, although their cousins, the dromedary camels, will procreate in captivity when only two animals are kept, the zoo director said. pair dies in car crash 1 GUNNISON, A County Sanpete Kolladay man was killed and three others injured in a head-o- n auto truck collision here early Thursday. Lonny Scott Bingham, 19, 4665 Bonner East), Hoiladay, died when his car with a semi-truc- k miles 12 28, Cii . (1265 collided on U S. north of Gunnison. The baetrians will he moved from the zoo ham into a display area for their public debut The split hooved animals originated in . Asia. One of the Hogle newcomers is a typical brown, but the other is a pale, almost white color, which is unusual in the breed, Farnsworth said Highway Patrol Roger Taylor said Binghams vehicle was southbound on the highwaY about 5:30 a.m. when it veered into the wrong lane and hit the northbound truck, driven Utah Trooper by Robert J Lund, Redmond. Utah. 48, A passenger in the Bingham -- ar, Andrew' Berry Jr., 26, 551 E. 7170 South, Midvale, suffered a severe foot laceration and was transferred to St. Marks Hospital, Salt Lake City. Two other passengers in the Bingham vehicle were treated and released from Gunnison Hospital. They are Becky Jones, 15, 2368 Cottonwood Ln. (4875 South), Hoiladay, and Patty d Simpson, 15, 1404 Ave. (6520 South), Salt Lake County. Iron-woo- Rotarians hear strong defense plea Truck hits S,L. woman SUGAR Honoring America can best be done by confinuing to maintain a strong national defense posture, a Pentagon officer said in Salt Lake City today. Lt. Gen. Howard Cooksey, who heads the Army's " - - ,10 , - W research, development and acquisition operations, addressed a noon luncheon of Rotarians from Utah and Idaho at Hotel Utah. The general, whose military career began in 19J3, told the Rotarians that the nation is nearing a fork in the road" where crucial decisions must he made. One route would lead Americans along a high road and continuation of a strong national defense posture, second to none. The other fork, he said, leads to a lower route rutted with crevices and potholes of uncertainty." The choices are not easy, and the public must decide which way it choses to go, the general said. Congress is now debating one of the nation's largest peac etime defense budgets. $112 7 billion Many citizens are asking why the nation needs A ,rss Gen Cooksey such a big budget when the Vietnam War ir over defense forces are smaller and no other country is threatening attack, Cooksey said. The answer is something like an insurance policy or savings account The purpose is basically tc prevent disaster. Sometimes we let our saving,1 accounts dwindle or our policies lapse, or we find or reviewing them that they are inadequate to oui minimum needs. If disaster strikes before weve done anything it s too late to take out a new policy or build up a new savings account overnight," he said. The speaker said a number of improvements arc needed in security provisions to maintain adequate military preparedness. Discussing military gams made hy the Russians he said if the real facts about such gains were marie known to every American, the "vast majority woulc support the U. S. defense program. He emphasized, however, that America is not z push-ovedefensively. " r Republican candidates for Senate attack deficit spending Deficit spending by fhe federal government is undermining the nation's economy, and attempts should be made to reduce the deficit, the five Republican candidates for the U S. Senate agreed Thursday night. Desmond Barker, Jack Carlson, Orrin C. Hatch. Sherman P. Lloyd and Clinton Miller fielded questions on Civic Dialogue, a television forum presented in KUED, Channel 7, by the Deseret News and University of Utah Division of Continuing Education. The program was one ;n a series presenting candidate views during the next few weeks. The five candidates answered questions ranging from Utah energy development to abortion during the hour-lon- g program. has declared May as National Handicapped Awareness Week in Utah also said lie opcets governmeiB spending to contribute to the inflationary spiral and said a balanced budget should be sought 18-2- Lions need a lift , too Wayne Carey, Clearfield, has been elected student body president at Westminster College for the 1976-7- 7 term. Other Parsons officers are Pat Mokcsay, vice to. woman Ramp-tij- n IGov, Calvin L. energy-resource- president - Saying, that "good government is government," Miller said he would advocate a mandate to the federal government that it operate in the black and begin to p,.v off the deficit at the rate of one percent per year. tho handicapped Energy-Commissio- WASHINGTON The House Interior Commit- The bomb ' t Bear Lake hearings set TAD tightens security : joining several agencies with the old Atomic (AEC), he said. of the top people and much of the work by Many ERDA is still concentrated in nuclear power research and solar energy comes up short, Yellott said. Congress is going to have to step in and do something about that, he said, and do something about that, he said. Yellott said the growing energy crisis is spotty- and hasnt affected Utah with its vast but he said the time is coming. Utah has lots of coal, but turning that into gas is a problem limited by the amount of water available. In additional, environmentalists have thrown roadblocks into the way of developing the coal to power electrical generating plants, he said. for parks Interior e 'S7 ' I &:, Wiggins says Nixon a victim Funding boost l because distillers were threatening to charge the gfatc $300,000 annually for putting them on liquor shipped to Utah. No other state requires the distillers to attach the stickers. Dennis R. Kellen, commission director, said it will take about 30 days to obtain the new labels and the equipment to put them on the bottles. Meanwhile, the distillers will be asked to continue attaching the green and yellow stickers. Kellen said the new labels will contain the liquor product code, the price and the commissions name. According to the new regulations, the label must be attached so it cannot be removed. All state store and package agency managers will be responsible to see the labels are attached before the liquor is sold. "Only authorized personnel shall have these labels in their possession, the regulations say. Barrett said the commission never formally adopted use of the yellow and green stickers, and he hasnt been able to determine when they actually came into being. Thus, the commission is not really repealing anything by adopting the new regulations. r The new regulations also provide for a extension from midnight to 1 a.m. for state liquor stores in private clubs to remain open. On most days, the liquor stores will he closed from 1 a.m. to 10 a.m. unless local ordinances require an earlier closing. No liquor or wine can be sold or offered for sale Jn gny general or primary election day until after the polls are closed or on Sunday and legal holidays after midnight and prior to noon. The other 47 pages of regulations govern distillers, private clubs, liquor in restaurants, beer wholesalers and unlawful competition. These are similar to the old regulations, Kellen said. i d ,i'-- , ' CA MAY 14, 1976 'A ,, v.v f " Carlson Lloyd, a former Congressman, blamed the Democrats for the staggering deficit and indicated that it is time for a party change in the capitol. In the same vein, Hatch said President Ford has attempted to return to fiscal responsibility, and he needs more Republican support to reduce the deficit. Curtailment of the overwhelming bureaucracy, with a return of many functions to private enterprise would do much to reverse fiscal policy, he said Other topics included: Barker: There is need for Social Security reform, but current, promises must be kept and raises must be granted to keep up with inflation Carlson: Commitments must be kept, but the government should be careful of future commitments. Lloyd: Any increases in Social Security programs must be viable. Public support of the programs is mandatory to keep pace with the promised benefits Miller: Social Security is not. actuarily sound Money should he put away against withdrawal instead of having the program continuously in debt. Hatch: Would support present programs, but proceed cautiously with expansion. Hatch. concerns Energy-Environme- Blamed rabid environmentalists tor demise of Kaiparowits. Feels Utah resources should be developed without undue interim ence from bureaucracy. Lloyd: Supported Kaiparowits; sees need to develop energy re sou zees since the country will soon be 50 percent dependent on Arab oil. Suggested smaller installations a.--, more environmentally compatible Miller: Kaiparowits was a monster that deserved to be killed, U.S. should tap and develop its unlimited wind and solar power. Coal should energy sources be liquified and the chennrui product used, Suggested stop to nuclear power development. Carlson: L tah coal one of the Mate':', greatest resources, much ol it on government lands Should be developed with parallel concern for environment. Barker: There must be trade-off- s Suggested more study of relative concerns. Would support utilization of coal, but in smaller plants to produu oleetiiritiy without m ice project", such as Kaiparowits. Ahortion: All ol the candidates rejected fedeial eontioi and supported slate's rights in determining abortion policies. Hutch Would support Military spending Ford's budget, perhaps more. Inn attempt to tit waste of boondoggling. Would like to see military dollais more equitably spread through the country, especially to states such as Utah. Carlson: The U.S. needs more capability in its defense stature in view of USSR prodding" in such areas as Angola. Barker: U.S. must keep up with USSR. Development of energy sources to get us out from under OPEC control should he considered part of defense strategy. Miller: "When you're Number Two, youre last. Would vote for more defense money if tieeevsary to maintain stance. Llovd: Would support Ford recommendations. U.S. has better, more; efficient military hardware than USSR, despite Communist slave labor. There are no alternatives to maintaining leadership militarily The candidates were agreed on one point the. need for citizen involvement in the political process a Deseret News Coal tor 11)76). Tl.ey suggested that, v.iluntvei's contact them if they wish to assist in fhe campaign. The five also were unanimous in scoring incumbent Sen. Frank E, Moss, for failure to represent Utah through lack of voice on ma jor Senate committees and for his record for voting on bills that add to "fiscal irresponsibility." I 1 |