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Show V ...... -- ,W HHlgfllln Home Builders Ask EPA for Clean Air Exemption WASHINGTON (AP) -S- pokesmen for the home building industry urged the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday to allow fnV continued residential and commercial development in their rules to protect proposed clean air. They appeared at a public hearing called by EPA to help it determine how to carry out a court order barring significant deterioration of pure air. Lee Gifford, president of the Home Builders Association of the strong, Virginia, said rapid thrust for stringent regulations to attain environmental objerins is on a collision course with the housing needs of our nation. Gifford asked that EPA exempt residential and commercial developments from the forthcoming clean air rule. He said pollution stems from life itself and that the basis for realistic pollution control lies in the universal acceptance of family planning and population containment, since the source of all pollution is people. The National Association of Home Builders, represented by Brian Landergan, urged the EPA to make some provi sion rural for allowing growth centers w here industry and business could locate new jobs and people could settle and build. Spokesmen for the National Group to Build Power Plants NEW YORK (AP) - Five Ohio and Pennsylvania power have announced companies that they will jointly build four nuclear power plants in northern Ohio and western Pennsylvania. The construction, due for completion in 1983, will cost an billion. estimated $3 The plants should produce kilowatts. 5 million Joining in the effort as part Central Area Power Coordination Group are Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co., Duquesne Light Co., Ohio Edison Co., Pennsylvania Power Co. and Toledo Edison Co. of the The Salt Lake Tribune, Thursday, August 30, permitted pollution loan of any air quality region. Page said this would allow industries to move in or move out with increasing the total pollutior and would provide a financial incentive for them to invent cleaner processes. Forest Products Assn, and the American Pulpwood Assn, told EPA that deliberate, carefully controlled burning is a regular and necessary method of timber management and they asked EPA to consider this need in its air quality proposals. for the Public Economics Center, Talbot Page, suggested that EPA provide some flexibility within a firm pollution limit by allowing industries to sell or trade their share of the total a An economist Interest I LAGOON i. mfflj 1973 A 1 With an ancient discipline, that takes only minutes a day to practice, millions are learning the art of personal peace through Inner discovery. Here's how it works, and how to put It to use In your life. One of 42 articles and features in the SEPTEMBER Reader's Digest Cruelty Tag Placed On Rodeos - A WASHINGTON (AP) of investigation documented visible rodeos numto significant injuries ber of animals, the Humane Society of the United States said Wednesday. Whats more, said the society, it is. nonsense to regard rodeo events as carrying on the traditions of the Old West. two-ye- Most of the events have been developed solely for the purpose of entertainment, the society said in a special report on rodeos. It advised members to protest if a rodeo is scheduled for their community and to use the report as documentation to of officials the public cruelties of rodeo. Public officials should be asked to prohibit, the society said, performances of rodeos that permit roping of animals and the use of devices to make animals react violently. r Probe Two-Yea- The society said that under direction of a veterinarian, investigators attended rodeos in Montana, Wyoming and Color rado over a period. and assistdata Technical ance for the study were provided by veterinary medical students, a former rodeo performer, clinical specialists in bovine and equine veterinary medicine, ranchers, large fie-dloperators, a former faculty adviser to a collegiate rodeo team, a veterinary medical pathologist, a gross anatomist, a neuroanatomist and a physiologist, the report said. two-yea- ot Injury to Neck It said the study showed that a calf is traveling 27 miles an hour when roped according to rodeo rules and suffers injuries that result in neck hemorrhaging, ruptured blood vessels in the trachea and acute inflamation of the larynx. Steer busting is even more inhumane, since it is to the to contestants advantage have the steer momentarily knocked unconscious when he hits the ground," .the report resaid. The investigators visible observing ported injuries to as many as 11 to 12 per cent of the animals ... Purchase at least 7days in advance. Starting Oct. 16, American is once again cutting Thursday, stay 7 to 9 days, and return airfares almost in haif Everybody's eligible, and you Thats it. A small price to pay for such a large savcan go alone, or with your whole family. Of course ing in price. This sale not effective November 1C to there are a few strings attached, but very few. Mou can November 26 and from December 7 to January 7. So make your reservations now, just pay tor the tickets at call us or yourTravel Agent for all the details. Now. The Great Airfare Sale may never return again. least 7 days in advance. Fly round trip Tuesday thru mid-wee- k. Demo Suggests Public Pay Political Tabs s Washington National WASHINGTON Democratic Chairman Robert Strauss said Wednesday he favors public financing of national party conventions to reduce the influence of business in the presidential nominating procStar-New- - ess. He said the $1.5 mildon cost of the quadrennial conventions now is financed primarily under a federal law that gives the parties "the right to sell questionable ads" in convention brochures. Some of the advertisements bring in thousands of dollars. Sale ends Feb 28. 1974 Ail 1ares round tr p and T.c'ude tax Ncnvca. secuniy The idea of getting $1.5 million from corporations for conventions is an outrage, particularly at a time when we are dying to reform the politiStrauss told cal process, newsmen at a breakfast meet- sicharge :s exTa One of our Fairest Fares of all. ing. Besides selling ads to national corporations in the convention brochures, Strauss said the parties go in and try to rape the business community" in cities bidding for the conventions. He said the money a city is willing to put up has as much to do with where the convention goes as anything else." t 4 9 4 |