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Show Page 36—THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Wednesday, January23, 1980 As U.S. Dollar Falls Dr. Lawrence Lamb onfederacy Dollar on the Rise Blood Sugar SA Discussed By Tom Tiede Confederate money. insisted their region would rise again No one laughs any longer Dixie has most of the fossil fuel, an increasing piece of the population, and, of course, the president of the United States. Now it seems even their moneyhas come back. Numismatist ——Kichment ee ap Criswell says the Confederate And Criswell should know. Aside from being a governor of the American Numismatic Assn., he is reportedly the richest man in the world in terms of Confederate mone; In 33 years of buying andselling the obsolete notes and coins, he has amassed a facealue treasure in excess of $22 million Notallof Criswell's Confederate money has returned to glory. A good lot ofitis still well below the equivalent value of modern currency. Yet, on average, the Confederate dollar is worth five to eight times today's U.S. note, and there is one Confederate half dollar thatis worth $500,000. Thathalf dollar was minted in New Orleans during the Civil War (1861-1864). It was never circulated, however, and only four specimens were struck. One of the specimens was given to Jefferson Davis, resident of the Confederacy. jince then the value of the coin has risen by one million percent. The awesome growth of the coin, as well as that of other Confederate notes, would of course be astonishing to the old South. When the money was made,actually,it was not worth its face value. Before the end of the war between the states, moreover, the Rebel currency was to become essentially useless. understood and Zz Grover dollar is presently worth morethan LOFT,J States currenc: Lay tr. “hepecusren: Ly Aa Not that the South didn’t have high boves for its money. chase a loaf of bread After the surrender at The Confederate Congress authorized the printing of Appomattox, the money lost $500 million in coins and notes to defeat the North and build a new nation. Things soon got out of hand, however; Criswell says at least another $500 million in unauthorized cash wasalso circulated. Thentoo there was all kinds of private money floating aboutin the area. Prior to the Federal Currency Act of 1861, anyone could print money, and they did. Criswell says banks, railroads, and even grocery stores passed out $300 million in notes, some of which are also worth more than 1980 dollars. Oneof the private notes, by the way, may havegiven rise to the word Dixie. It was the Dixbill distributed by the Citizens Bank of New Orleans. Dix is the French word for 10, and Criswell says the bills were known as Dixies. “Then Dan Emmett wrote the song ‘Dixie’ " — and the rest is history. rora long while it seemed asif Dixie would be the only g of permanent value to come from Confederate currency. Never strong, the money started to rapidly deteriorate halfway through ee war. i the enSaneeh le were spending u £0'4300in Rebel notes to ne even its deflated value. Says Criswell: “People threw ‘it away,or stuffed it into cannon holes in their homes. I've purchased whole rooms papered with Confderate money. Some ofit was kept for sentimental purposes, but most of it was destroyed.” The currency became a national joke, and remained such for decades. In 1900 the best of it was worth no more than a nickel to collectors. Someof the rare notes began to increase in worth during the 1920s, but as recently as 1946 most NEW YORK (UPI) — Cement is a scarce commodity in some areasof the try, and the shortage could lead to a supply and price situation as critical as that of oil, claim two industry spokesmen, Chairman James E.Stewart of Lone Star Industries, the country’s biggest producer,said in a recent speech acute cement shortages in someareas during the peak building seasons ofthe past te years caused severe construction del ys. This is not, he said, a “ripoff” by producers, as charged, but a lack of manufacturing capacity caused by environmental, antitrust and other governmentalrestrictions. Only a decade ago, the $230 billion-athe industry, which employs four mil10n workers, was experiencing over- capacity. Upgrading and expansion slowed. Then regulatory and environmental obstacles prevented the industry from catching up. Max Moore of the Portland Cement Association, headquartered at Skokie, Ill., said there is no shortage of raw materials for cement. Eighty-five percent of cement is made from limestone, which is plentiful, the rest from clay, marl, oyster shells and a variety of substances. “There are regional shortages of sand and gravel ie mix with cement,” he said. “In some areas it even is becoming economical to grind up old concrete and reuse it.” Next to limestone. fuel is the big ingredient in making cement. Mooresaid new technology using ury kilns a1 preheating the dry mixtures cuts fuel up to 50 percent as compared withtheold wetkiln method. Lone Star's Stewart predicted that 70 percent of cement mills with high fuel consumption will be abandoned during this decade. Beginning in 1980, all new mills will utilize the low energy process. that that’s very nice if you're in an af- fluent society with a lotof flexibility.” But he said it appears someof the country’s leadersfeel thatif the nation is ‘in a real crunch, if we have importantissues, not aesthetic ones — issues that have to do with maintaining the power that drives the American economy, then the environmentis one of the things that can be traded off.”” Hayescalled that a mistake. In some cases, “‘life and death” environmental issues are involved, he told the sesest variety $100 is now worth half that again in nbacks. The Liberty-Eagle $5 is worth $500. Criswell says he knows of one rare fiat, a $5,that has sold for $30,000. Even some counterfeit notes have a mounting worth today. Criswell says the worth more than their U.S. counterparts. It should be said again that not all of the Confederate stuff beats U.S. money. But Criswell thinks the trend is clearly there. Since 1965, while the value of the U.S. dollar has declined by more than half, the value of the Confed- erate dollar has nearly doubled. And so, Criswell adds: “Americans can now get better interest buying Rebelbills than from their savings accounts.” How is this possible? Grover Criswell says the shrinking U.S. dollar is not altogether responsible for the comeback of Confederate notes. Manyother things once considered worthless, such as comic books, have also increased in value. ‘Thus, he smiles,there's still for the buck. if we keepit long enough. (NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.) TOM TIEDE currency wasregularly repro- duced without authority, and that can give it an additional collection price. Also, there are reproductions of reproductions, and they too can be Moore said while a new mill costs twice as much per ton of capacity to build as a mill put up 15 years ago, the youn is inflation not the new technology. Stewart said one result of undercapacity in the United States has been an 80 percentincrease in imported cement. Foreign producers, he added, could decide it doesn’t make sense to impor costly oil to make cement for ae Answering charges that regional shortages were manufactured to drive uptheprice of cement, he noted the industry in the United States consists of 52 companies. Lone Star, the biggest, has 8 percent of the market. “By contrast, four or fewer companies accountfor 50 percent or more of the telephone, auto, aluminum and transformer markets.’ The Federal government, by hampering mergers, ‘‘is BeesertingAmerican companies from achieving the strength ant size they need to compete,” he said. For example, LoneStar’s high bid for the River CementCo.in Missouri was lost to an Italian investment group because it was felt Federal Trade Commission practices would delay the sale to Lone Star. Stewart said it makes senseto start building new mills now, even thou; the construction industry is in doldrums. It takes from two to 3% years to obtain the separate environmental and permit agency decisions justto get anew mill project underway. Stewart said. Noting that 90 percent of U.S. construction uses cement, Stewart sees a scenario ‘that will soon changea littleknown, unappreciated industry into a sophisticated, high-technology (one) thatis vital to the nationalinterest.” “Tf oil is ‘black gold.’ then certainly cementis ‘grey gold.’”” meeting of the American Association for the AdvancementofScience in San Francisco. A major environmental problem caused by the burning of fossil fuels, he said, is the increasing addition of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Scientists believe too much carbon dioxide will turn the atmosphereinto a greenhouse, trapping more solar energy and warming the Earth with disastrous effects. Hayes said nuclear energy has the problem of radioactive waste disposa! and the threat of nuclear weapons proliferation posed by the plutonium produced in atomic reactors. The answer to the environmental groblemsoffossil and nuclear energy sources, Hayessaid, is to switch more to solar energy. “Solar energy is the cleanest, safest, most environmentally gentle energy option we have.” Hayes said the nation could be producing 2Gpercent of its energy from the sun by the year 2000. Hesait Tepid progressalready is being madeand, ‘ expect this already rapid rate a to accelerat Samual in Case: Lots. AUL YEARABOUND stesl Nia CORN ES9, om! pues al PEAS se “A, Zsha FOS 419% tog) = mt at POLNEG ins 3154 PERLE ir ~/, No FONLG io thta NEW YORK (UPI) — national group founded bynoted atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair, with headquarters in Austin. Tex. The message said, ‘Our main purpose is to protect our country’s Con- Stitution and the Bill of Rights, to restore and maintain that wall of separation between church and state whichis so essentialto the safety of the United States.” The announcer added, ‘Atheists are people who think. who reason, who unshackle themselves from the myths and hostilities of organized religion. A hot water faucet leaking one drop per second adds $5-$7 to a con- sumer’s annual water heatingbill. according to a Con Edison Energy Conservation Center exhibit in New York City. The exhibit also shows that water heating is the third largest energy user in homes, after space hea ‘ing and air conditioning. poe WHO vege {le ot Thereisn’t really a typical diabetic diet but it’s true that you should avoid sweets for both conditions. I’m not surprised that a carrot won't help you. The amountof glucose that would be released from thecarrotis relatively smalland it would take a long timefor it to be dese by your stomach and moved into your small intestine. From there, it’s gradually absorbed into the bloodstream. There’s good evidence that, even in a diabetic, eating raw fruits and vegetables will not raise the level of the blood sugar. Ti.at’s because of the very slow digestive process. Of course,it’s importantto find out why you have hypoglycemia, if in fact that is the correct diagnosis in your case. That a lot to do with deciding what kind of treatment a person should have.If it’s simple reactive hypoglycemia,the kind of symptoms that follow after eating a meal, particularly if it contains a lot of starch or sweets, then diet managementwill usually do the trick. Message Service NEW YORK(UPI) — Dial-A-Prayer has a competitor with the arrival of ‘‘Dial-An-Atheist,” which provides daily recorded messageson the virtues of Godlessness in English and Spanish. “Thank you for calling Dial-AnAtheist,” the announcement began Monday in high-pitched tones and then proceeded into a discourse on what not believing in God is all about. The message service wasintroduced by the New York Chapterof the Society of Separationists, also known as American Atheists, It is part of a FiteT wW toda Part of the problem stemsfrom the fact that a mal healthy people can havea relatively low blood Sugar without any symptoms. That seems to be particularly true in individuals in good physical condition Another part of the problem is that a lot of the symptomsattributed to low blood sugar can be caused by other medical conditions as well as anxiety. That's why the diagnosis shouldn't be made on symptoms alone. For both of these reasons,a clinical diagnosis of low meet ert is usually not made unless the ois y Glucose is low at the same time he 'ypical symptoms. Shakiness, an inability to sweat rapid heart rate are all symptoms that can oe sociated with the excess formation of adrenaline by your body. The excess out of adrenaline can be caused from a low blo d sugar. I am sending you The Health Letter number 3-9, Low Blood Sugar: Hypoglycemia. It will give you more information on different causes and what can be done aboutcontrolling it. Other readers who want this issue can send 75 cents with a long, stamped,self-addressed envelope Lr it. Send your request to me, in care of t FOpee 1551, Radio City StationNet York,NY ex] New Plea Made for More Emphasis on Solar Energy WASHINGTON (UPI) — A leading advocate of solar power says the nation's concern over the environment appearsto be faltering because of increasing worries about energy. “It's not something thatis reflected in the pollsbutit is reflected somewhat in the attitude of the press, the tone of stories that are written, and I think somewhat in the attitudes of elected and appointed public officials,” said Denis Hayes, director of the government’s Solar Energy Research Institute at Golden, Colo. “Whatit seemsto boil downto is that a lot of this environmental concern is a concern for birds-and-squirrels issues. whether somethingis pretty or not, and garden Confederate bills could be obtained for 15 cents. No more. Criswell says the growth of hobbyists and commercial collectors has reversed the fortunes of many Rebel notes. 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