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Show I THE SCOTT REPORT READERS USING THE SUN TO WATER THE WEST OUTLOOK e Bv . Development Administration (ERDA) by Lincoln Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of ng -- Agriculture Natural Resources. What is unique about this experiment is that the sun will be used to counter some of its bad ( Wc were assured that a vote on an ERA resolution would not be taken until the Saturday session so the entire body could have a voice. Yet in a Friday workshop titled Questions and Answers About ERA they took the official ' vote on the resolution. If it had not been for an alert, conservative overhearing the intentions of a panelist we would not have known how critical the workshop was and would .hate ended up going into Saturday sesresolution. sion with a pro-ERThe reason the partnership resolution was defeated was because no one could assure us that if mairiages were given equal partnership recognition the wife to be subjected not would proportionate taxation for social Experiments such as the one here at Mead and in Virginia should help to determine the best uses for solar cells once the price has become competitive with other energy sources. The cells being installed in the Mead experiment were purchased by ERDA under competitive bids at an average price of SI 5.50 per peak watt, or an estimated total cost of S387,500. The 1986 goal is 50 cents per peak watt. As a central part of the pro-fject, the University, of Nebraska will conduct a feasibility Enabling legislation already exists for equal credit and equal employment and the judicial vehicles to prosecute already exists to enforce this legislation. Of the 3 people appointed to the State 1WY Planning Committee only 3 were anti-EROf the 14 people picked to plan the Health Workshops only 2 were or th future sites for, irrigation throughout the U.S. The Nebraska project is proximately onetenth the size of irrigation projects. many where power requirements of several hundred kilowatts are not unusual. photovoltaio-powere- d ap-sol- conservative. The radical liberal element at the Conference are apparently poor losers who believe in the democratic process only when they can muster a majority. Sincerely, ' Mildred A. Brpwn ar Broken Arrow, OK 74012 CARTERS POLICIES full-sca- le NEED EXPLANATION The wise man has lii? follies no less than the fool, lies herein the but difference the follies of the fool are known to the world, but are hidden from himself; the follies of the wise man are known to hiXiself, but are hidden from the world. -- C.C. Colton . Caucus, said, the Political President . . . forceful the cause of human rights would help me a great deal voices. . . espousing and help the members of Congress and help the other leaders of our Nation to establish a corps of moral committment that can restore the legitimate pride in our country to the extent .that it has been . diminished and re- establish the United States of America as the rallying point for human rights around the world. ' Few will quarrel with the Presidents stand on human rights, but his ap-- , ... proach to solving the problem leaves something to be desired. The antics of United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young have proven to be abrasive to many nations of the world and have had an unfavorable effect on .our public image. As the President speaks at home of restoring legitimate pride in our nation, his ambassador seems intent on embarrassing the Presidency and the Nation abroad. human Meanwhile, rights as an issue goes begging for comment in most Dear Editor: If you think you are not conThe current plans of ERDA fused by Carter's foreign policies, the Nebraska are to scale-u- p you haven't tried to explain them. system, by an additional ' 50 Angola, Mozambique and kilowatts in 1978. Other other African nations are being experiments to produce the higher moved under the forccably kilowatts will be announced in Marxism (Communism) that 1978. denies human rights' and bans maWith irrigation farming jority rule, and Carterism supports them and what they are doing. becoming the way of life here deep While in Rhodesia and South in the midwest, the use of the sun to Africa- they are moving towards power the huge pivots that crawl APPRECIATION more representative government throughout this land, spouting their streams .of water like his-th- e and respect for the human rights of all, and Carterism opposes them To the Editor: torical animals of centuries ago, I wish to publicly express my can be the farmers' answer to any and what they are doing. and admiration for Carter would deny the Soviets appreciation future oil embargo, the women of Utah who turned out and Red China nothing It is here at Mead that President Carter has his most near total denial of human rights', hv the thousands during the recent in powerful .weapon or tool the but would deny free nations.much convention Salt Lake, to uphold food weapon to bring freedom for their relatively minor denials of our Constitution and preserve the human rights. sanctity of our homes. and justice to the rest of the world. One representative oflhe IWY The only consistency in it all is Now, the sun is about to be made the comment that the women for Communist ployed with the soil and the rain to the support 1 strengthen that weapon by the real governments and the opposition of Utah arc sheep! wonder if she of the day. really understood how much truth against was telling? The women of she , governments. Utah arc sheep and the Lord is It is hard to get ahead if Sincerely, .1. Kesncr Kahn their Shepherd. The whole world you spend all you time would do well to pattern after them 60649 Chicago.-I- L getting even. in keeping the family intact and ' Reports from a country women in their honorable and a local newspaper on Small faith will take you home. rightful place--th- e romance: to heaven, but great faith Thank you. ...and the couple were will bring heaven-tyou! Ora Col felt last married Wednesday, ' Murrav, Utah 84107 thus ending a friendship Christianity is God in in their which began search of lost men, not men schooldays. AlpSt ICpd, I W c M t i . a kI ) M I H . during the fall and winter months to dry corn that will be harvested from the field. At peak HOW IT WORKS sunlight, according to Dr. Prince, array of solar cells will generate about 25 kilowatts of electric power, which will be stored in batteries and used to operate the pump for 12 hours a day. The unit will be capable of pumping 1,000 gallons of water a minute from a reservoir into irrigation pipes. At night, off peak" electricity the utility system will be used to pump water from an. irrigation well to refill the reservoir. This every Women's -- of the communist world, in- nation. In the remarks to National in . 1 A. A great deal of terest about human rights has been created by President Carter in the first six months of his administra-- . tion. The President has' forcefully declared that the U.S. is back in the business, of establishing decency and fair treatment for every human being security. . of . A 1980s. six-mon- A Consistent Human Rights Policy . pe Technology and by the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, whose football teams have been known as the powerhouses of the Big Eight The experiment is years. located at. theJield laboratory of the ' University's Institute : of study and Amendment. five-horsepo- . By U.S. Senator Orrin G. Hatch time to push for an Equal Rights integration of solar cells with a utility system will be an important part of the experiment, To expand the use of the new energy unit, the solar array will from October to March be used to fans to drive two dry, the 12,000 bushels of corn expected to be produced on the land. Other experiments on how this corn can be used to produce natural gas while heating farm homes are underway in Virginia. ' At PRICE IS HIGH current prices, solar cells are far too expensive for use in irrigation and grain drying except on an However, experimental basis. and continued research through development programs ERDA of-oficials hope to bring the price down to a competitive level by the mid load-leveli- Your Man In Washington Continued from page 2 Paul Scott Mead, Nebraska: The torrid Nebraska sun, that regularly sends temperatures soaring above 100 degrees in July and August, is about to be turned to a new and exciting use here near the geographical center of the nation, The scorching rays, which at times in the past have meant disaster for the state's dry land com crop, will be harnessed to help produce the needed moisture to withstand the hottest and dryest weather that the next two months can bring. In effect, the sun will be used to counter the effects of its burning The nation's - first crop rays. irrigation system to be powered by solar (photovoltaic) cells will begin rating next month here on an experimental farm near Mead. About 120,000 individual solar cells (photovolatic (sic) cells), which convert sunlight directly into electricity, will drive a pump to irrigate 80 acres of corn and soybeans. The project is being conducted for the Energy Research and 1ke A Stand The Paper That Dares To Page 8 The Utah Independent July 7, 1977 Cambodia particularly . where Time magazine says a tenth of the population has been executed or has died of starvation and disease. Other guesses at the number of casualties range from 200,000 to two million; It is reported thiit executions and beatings have actually made prisons unnecessary in that country. Our present administration is very, vocal when it comes to violations of human rights in countries which traditionally have been our allies such as Chile, Rhodesia, and on-the-sp- ot - -- other non-Commun- ist governments. But atrocities in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia are ig- nored. Threats of withholding aid to our South American neighbors, based on human rights violations, are expressed at will on the floors of Congress and from the White House daily. These are the same voices that are calling for improved relations with Cuba and aid to Vietnam and Angola. This type of in our inconsistency foreign affairs alienates our allies, causes disrespect overseas and confuses the citizenry. 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