| Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Friday March 30 1990 By called ‘splendid’ ' HJ review excellent without being obtrusive The costumes designed by Gretchen Gundlach effectively evoke the play’s location and time — Zion Ind about 1930 But this production’s greatest strength is its level of performance Randy Muglestone and John Carmosa convincingly portray a couple of hired hand and provide some fine comic moments Townswomen are vividly portrayed by Sherry S Jardine Jill Jessop and Jeanene Bateman Michelle Rivet does a fine job as the niece of the latter Doyle Jenkins is brilliant as a neighboring farmer Joslin Christensen and James L Purser are quite moving as the sister and father of the central character This splendid cast supports the two leading characters Ronald King plays CC Showers — a former minister now disillusioned and seeking a new life — with grace and masterful understatement Like several other performances in this production King’s portrayal is deceptive because it seems so natural Still the evening belongs to Steven Gee whose portrayal of the central character — a boy scarred by a childhood trauma which made him afraid of water but who is able to predict jain — is just stunning This is a difficult role Gee is comic touching and ultimately This play is a worthy addition to what is becoming a very impressive season The cast the crews director and foe entire USU theater department are to be congratulated The Diviners continues tonight Saturday and April 5 6 and 7 See it ng reaction” The controversy over the reaction he said "has put us back at least a year in developing a tighter theoretical base So far we’ve proved nothing additional except we’ve reconfirmed over and over what we’ve done” Pons spoke during foe first day of a three-da- y conference organized by his university to explore his claims He said die conference will provide "some good information We’ve moved to a ’’ very high degree of precision Pons and Martin Fleischmann startled die scientific world last year when they announced they had produced nuclear fusion at room temperature without foe extraordinarily hot reactors other Jay Butler moved to Logan last summer from Baltimore Md where he had been active In amateur and ooSegiato theater since 1963 both ae actor and drector Ha conducted a high acnod drama program tor 17 years dbecUng more than 66 productions He lea member of the English department at Utah State University t 1 £ Ralph Wakley SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — Despite doubts raised by ocher researchers a University of Utah chemist said Thursday he has continued to gather evidence backing his claim to have harnessed foe power of foe sun in a laboratory flask Stanley Pons said his team had set up more than 200 cold fusion devices using more power than was employed in foe initial experiment Putting more electricity into foe devices produced more consistent results and a "very large" amount of excess heat Pons said At low current levels Pons told reporters foe reaction "can’t decide whether to go or not to go This is where the problem 1 think has been" "All of our experiments show excess heat" at higher levels of electrical power he said "When we take these cells up to high enough current then they all show positive heat" Other scientists may have been unable to reproduce his results because they were using lower levels of electricity he said Julian Schwinger Nobel prize winner in physics and a UCLA professor emeritus told a dinner meeting foe Utah program "received a Christmas present from Los Alamos and Oak Ridge” national laboratories late last year when both confirmed they had duplicated at least portions of foe experiment "It is no longer possible to lightly dismiss the reality of cold fusion’ ’ said Schwinger In addition Pons maintained his team also has detected several signs that foe energy is being produced by a nuclear reaction and that "it is inconceivable that they are caused by any chemical The Utah State University Theatre production of The Divinert opened Thursday night and tf is splendid The script is beautiful and haunting however it has certain characteristics that make it difficult But an excellent cast of theater majors under the capable direction of Randall King surmounts the script’s problems to a degree that makes them almost vanish The opening scene illustrates this capability Two characters speak alternately directly to the audience What could be a rather pedestrian moment is made extremely moving by a third character humming Amuing Grace It is this sort of simple but imaginative directorial decision that helps this production shine Technically this a wonderful production Randy Ewing’s set is stark but compelling and totally functional The lighting is heart-wrenchi- v Monticello man convicted - Utah federal Judge David Winder SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) found a Monticello man guilty Friday of possession of mefoamphetamine with intent to distribute foe drug also known as crank or speed But Winder said he did believe Stephen G Koonce "had an intent to distribute foe entire" 963 grams of mefoamphetamine FBI agents seized Feb 12 1988 from his residence "He was using it pretty heavily at foe time” Winder said But “I just don’t think (the more than 2 pounds of mefoamphetamine) was UPI Stanley Pons defends his cold fusion research during a conference Thursday scientists have used to replicate the sun’s process The cold fusion reaction could provide a bountiful source of cheap energy they said Since dten foe researchers’ claims have been repeatedly attacked Most recently physicists at the University of Utah reported Wednesday in the British scientific journal Nature that they could find no evidence of nuclear fusion during tests they conducted last summer on Pons’s experiments “We fully understand the difficulty people have in looking at this phenomenon and in believing in its reality" said Fleischmann "We’ve had plenty of difficulty ourselves We didn’t believe it for a long tune either "We firmly belive this could only have a nuclear explanation We are convinced there are nuclear processes but we are not convinced that it is fusion Our position is exactly the same as it was last spring” he said Italian physicist Giuiiano Prepara ta of foe University of Milan gave some support to the experiment claiming divergent results of numerous researchers could be explained by foe “obligatory threshold” of electrical power considerations But physicist Peter Hagelstein of foe Massachusetts Intitule of Technology said reports of heat and some tritium "may be processes or they may also be competing processes” energy-produci- ng And critic Douglas Morrison of the European Organization for Research Nuclear said “Everyone agrees the positive results of experiments are in the minority No new results have been presented at this conference” However physicist liigeo lkegami of Japan's Nagoya National Insilute of Fusion Science said he was “encouraged very much by die very positive results coming out today" lkegami said lie did not know whether the reaction was nuclear but he said “I don’t find any other explan tion about the things we've observed” During a news conference Thursday Pons and Fleischmann charged Nature had taken an editorial position against them that had "polarized foe scientific community’’ by pitting physicists against chemists The pair’s experiment uses palladium and platinum electrodes in a glass container filled with heavy water water formed from oxygen and a form of hydrogen known as deuterium The pair believes an electrical current splits the lteavy water into oxygen and deuterium and the palladium attracts the deuterium absorbing it in such concentrations that foe atoms fuse releasing more energy than it consumes During the conference Oliver Murphy of Texas MM University said his team had duplicated Pons’s results "We’ve tried it over and over again To us it’s real” he said Fritz Will director of the National Cold Fusion Institute which the university established to study the claim defended the so-call-ed work "The multitude of results obtained by so many different groups can no longer be explained away as experimental artifacts" Will said Cold fusion excites Japanese SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — scientists is nuclear Japanese If one nation is to win the race to physicist Higeo lkegami said confirm cold fusion and turn it to commercial applications it may be foe Japanese beating the Americans again "We have about 40 groups and ISO keys persons” attempting to prove whether an energy breakthrough announced one year ago by University of Utah Thursday lkegami of the Nagoya National Institute of Fusion Science and head of Japan’s fusion research mi the university level attended tlie inaugural Conference on Cold Fusion Thursday through Saturday at the University of Utah for his personal use" Election consolidation bill killed SEES®) BOISE Idaho (UPI) — A comprehensive election consolidation bill which some lawmakers thought would be 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IViwtllium J cwrlris Middle of the block sign olthe clock 141 No Main Downtown 532 S Main Smithfield 5636241 Front ot Ci'riwoM I 3 Pons: more proof of cold fusion found USU production By Jay Butler Herald Journal reviewer - Paoe wnbot Building j |
