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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1974 Page Four THE SALT LAKE TIMES UTAH'S FEARLESS INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Combined with The Salt Lake Mining & Legal News Published Every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah ' Second Class Postage paid 1 1 at Salt Lake Gty, Utah South West Temple Telephone Salt Lake Gty, Utah 84101 364-846- 4 GLLNN BJORNN, Publisher 7 bis publication is not owned or controlled by any party, clan, clique, faction or corporation . Number 39 Volume 53 Freezing in the Dark will continue for at least 20 years, lie says. During that interval, we will not be able to function or even exist without petroleum. Although much of the hydrocarbon fuel supplied to the northern and eastern states comes from Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma, such sources are no longer guaranteed. These states are aware that they are facing future shortages themselves, a nd are looking for ways to reserve hydrocarbons for their own use. Abelson comments that bumper stickers with the slogan Let the Bastards Freeze in the Dark are now appearing in the south. In Louisiana, a major supplier of natural gas to the east, industry cannot expand because its gas has already been committed. The states governor, Edwin Edwards, commented that We are not going to be forced to continue operating our refineries and drilling new wells to deplete our Own resources in Louisiana to benefit the rest of the country. lie pointed out that in the east not one exploratory hole lias been drilled on the continental shelf, even though thick sedimentary layers indicate possible oil and gas reserves. How soon southern governors can curtail northern supplies of gas is uncertain, he said, but pressure is increasing for them to do so. Everyone wants cheap, unlimited fuel and at the same time wants to protect the environment and prevent the construction of energy facilities near their homes. V cant have both, he states there must be a balance between energy needs and environmental concerns. With cooperative action on a national level, the U.S. can make it through the energy crisis. However, if energy is consumed at its present rate, and states continue to look after only their own self interest, he concludes that the result will be divisive tensions and some freezing in the dark. A Heavenly Watch The first radio telescope in the New York metropolitan region is under construction at Columbia University, changing the skyline of the Morningside Heights campus and allowing astronmers to study the heavens from Manhattan for the first time in 35 years. Astronomers long ago abandoned New York as a base for serious research through direct observation of the universe. The combination of increasingly brighter lights and denser atmospheric pollution over the city since the late 1030s rendered optical telescopes useless except for amateur viewing. But radio waves can cut tlirough these barriers, ami before long Columbia's sophisticated radio observatory 15 stories above Broadway will be charting the violent history of our explosive galaxy more accurately than any instrument in the area ever has. Radio astronomy has taken on new importance in the past several years with the discovery of quasars and pulsars and increased interest in the exploding galaxies. Columbia astrophysics students and professors will use the new telescope to completely map the dense concentrations of molescuLar gas in the Milky Way galaxy for the first time the areas thought most likely to be where stars are born and burst apart. Our solar system is centered on one of some 200 billion stars making up a rougin' dish shaped galaxy, the edge of which we see as a dense swath of stars across the sky the Milky Way. The instrument was designed by Dr. Patrick Thad-deu- s of Columbia, and his students. lie said, It wfil take us a couple of years to map the whole galaxy. We Geothermal Energy Sources Explored by Power Company Plans were unfolded this week where such geothermal possibilithat may bring electricity gene- ties exist, it is usually deemed rated from geothermal energy practical for purposes of power sources to customers of UP&L generation to drill wells only in Co. in Utah and southeastern are as where the geology suggest Idaho. that steam or hot water is relaIn an announcement, the Utah tively near the surface. There Power & Light Co. and Geothermal Kinetics, Inc., said that they had entered into a joint venture that provides 50 percent ownership for each in a company drilling for geothermal steam at a location north of Brigham City, Utah. The new exploration company will sell all the usable steam developed to UP&L Co. E. A. Hunter, president of UP&L cautioned that even if the first well produced steam, it might take as much as a year of testing to determine its quality and long term potential and whether it would be practical to build a generating station there. At the present time, Geysers, north of San Francisco, is the only site in the United States to product electricity from geothermal energy. At that field, earth produced steam is fed into turbines generating 400,000 kilowatts, and the power is fed into the system of Pacific Gas and Electric Co. Geothermal power is generated by using steam generated under ground as a result of the water reaching high temperature heated by magma (molten rock) the earths surface. Al though there are many places be-jnea- th are only six electric generating installations using geothermal steam in the entire world today, the installation in California is the largest. At the California geothermal power installation, steam lines from a number of well heads are routed to a central station where the steam enters the steam turbines. It is hoped that the exploration in which UP&L is engaged will find steam or hot water which could be flashed to steam. Mr. Hunter emphasized that geothermal energy can provide a new source of energy for producing electricity. However, it will probably not provide a big percentage of electricity needed by our customers in the foreseeable future. Discovery of a single well does not assure usable steam and the construction of a geothermal plant; we would like to be sure the public understands this." We will continue to develop the areas abundant coal resources as the fuel for our base load and keep abreast of research and development in nuclear fusion and fusion use in power generation, Mr. Hunter added. Rainbow Jam Light Festival Opens at the Planetarium the LEASED GRIIPEVIIIIL W--. Salt Lake City Commissioners and the City Auditor received salary increases which went into effect Jan. 1 of this year. The City Commission approved these pay increases, although they were officially approved several months ago. Commissioner Glen N. Greener, who was recently elected to the City Commission post, will receive his pay increase when he takes office January 7. Utahs Governor Calvin L. Rampton said this week that it will cost the taxpayers somewhere in the area of $65,000 to change speed limit signs under a bill signed this week by the President of the United States. Governor Rampton said that he did not like one provision of the bill which required states to lower speed limits to 55 miles per hour within 60 days or lose federal highway funds. The reality is here in Salt Lake this week with the price increases which go into effect at some of the areas service stations. Many stations were selling gas this week at 50 cents per gallon. Not all stations were charging the higher price. One major oil company raised its price by 6.8 cents per gallon and will sell premium at 63.8 cents per gallon. Salt Lake County paid off $16 On Friday evening, December Country Review featuring James million in tax notes 28, the Rainbow Jam Light Fes- and Michael Williams, fresh but will borrowanticipationmillion only $14 tival began its fifth annual holi- from their concert tour with Ro- for the new year. A check for day series of performances at berta Flack, appearing at the the 1973 loan went to First Sethe Hansen Planetarium. Rain- University of Utah, BYU, and Bank, who handled the bow Jam has become a Salt Lake Utah State University. Music is curity financial transaction for a New Valley tradition. dynamic and original. The en- York funding institution. The Rainbow Jam Light artists is semble includes Kevin Lewis on county some $503,000 which cova light show company of extra- piano and organ, Sonny Wolf on ered 3.3 the per cent interest on ordinary talent and showman- guitar, Rick Nicoletti on bass, the borrowed money. The county ship. Kevin Lyman and Richard Don Faires and Jon Davis on will also open for bids Jan. 9 Taylor use a huge battery of pro- drubs and vocalist Kristen Mer- for the $14 million needed to run jectors and intricate control cir- rill. the county until sufficient tax The Rainbow Jam Light Fes- collections are made later in the cuitry to create a kaleidoscope of design and color on the Han- tival will continue every eve- year. sen Planetarium dome, an ever changing and fascinating new ning Monday through Saturday Governor Rampton predicted for the new year that the coming year would be economically uncertain, principally due to the energy crisis. But he said there would be an economic slowdown even with the energy crisis. Utah cant expect to have the same level of economic increase it has had for the past wills how where the hydrogen molecules exist, where two years. The state has seen new jobs epen during the formation of stars takes place. We expect to be able 20,000 each of the past two years. to identify the physical processes in dense areas of the realm in art which might be until Jan. 12. Performances last an hour and fifteen minutes and called light painting. The Rainbow Jam Light Festi- there will be one show each val as far more a than a light night Monday through Thursday show. II is a partnership between at 9:30 p.m. and two shows each Raibow Jam and a talented en- night on Friday and Saturday. semble of musicians. The Star There are no shows on Sundays. galaxies. Then we will work with the big antenna teleSunday travel was curtailed look. to closer a considerably by the uncertainty scopes get Where thousands of listeners enjoy concert music and news ever day! cf gasoline during the month of November, according to the Utah Department of Highways. For the previous several months the traffic volume increased from 5 to 6 per cent and in some cases as much as 10 per cent over a year ago during peak weekend periods, according to measurements taken at traffic recording stations. Compared to the one percent increase during November the composite volume for the first 11 months of the year increased 3.5 per cent. The post office was ready for the sale of new stamps for the price increase for mailing letters was postponed to March, 2, 1974, said local postal authorities. |