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Editorials — Features — Opinion
THE BAYTOWN SUN Sunday, July I, 1>7I
Washington Report - -
Oil Industry’s Wail:
Gasoline Not Gasohol
Tentative Group’s
Name Fits Aims
Any organization announcing itself to the public as the
American Tentative Society is certain of gaining the
attention Of anyone interested in the old question: What’s
in a name?
The ATS, it develops, is a newly launched nonprofit
educational foundation dedicated to honoring scientific
achievers.
It admits to an improbable name, but one chosen with
care for 3 very serious purpose. It is only common sense,
the organization observes, to regard extant knowledge, es-
pecially of the scientific variety, as subject to addition and
revision - and, therefore, tentative:
“Otherwise, we become prisoners of our yesterdays,
stuck with our dogmas, mired in our inability to learn and
adapt/’
In recognition of this principle, the ATS has bestowed
its first awards upon six scientists it seems to have made
outstanding contributions to man’s learning and adap-
ting: **
Dr, J. Tuzo Wilson, director of .the Ontario Science
Center in Toronto, for contribgdqjis to the concept of
drifting continents; Dr. Frank D. Drake, Cornell Univer-
sity astronomer who organized the first search for signals
from intelligent life from the cosmos; Dr. S. Jocelyn Bell
Burnell, who as a graduate student at England’s
Cambridge University contributed to the detection of
pulsars in deep space; Drs. Norman E. Shumway and
Rose. Payne of Stanford, who contributed to research
leading to heart transplant^, and Dr. Edwin Land of
Polaroid Corp. for producing a fundamental change in
photography and for contributiohs to color perception
and psychology. n
Quite a list of achievements - tentatively speaking, of
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By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON-A year ago,
we raised a lonely voice in favor
of developing alcohol fuel to re-
lieve the energy shortage. It
might not be necessary after all,
we reported, for Americans to
junk their big cars, give up their
weekend drives and move back
into the city from the outlying
communities.'
Before the nation runs out of
gas, we suggested, the dwin-
dling supply could be supple-
mented with a product that can
easily be distilled from agricul-
tural surpluses, timber wastes,
cheese whey, waste paper, even
garbage.
These plentiful resources can
be conwted into alcohol fuel,
which cam then be blended into
gasoline without altering the en-
gines. As evidence that the sub;
stitute would work, we poured
an alcohol mix into our own gas
tank. The new gasohol industry,
we predicted, would reddce our
alarming trade deficit and cr*
ate new jobs at home. > -
with a distillery between 1934
and 1964 to produce an alcoholic
fuel known as Cleveland Discol.
It was advertised as “coqj, clean,
with extra power, extra economy
and extra combustion effici-
THERE’S ONE major obstacle:
Reagan will be 89 years old in
1980. But he looks younger and
keeps physically fit. He miglrt
also declare at the outset that he’
wilj be a one-term president.
ency.
Reagan’s Ready: Sources
close to Ronald Reagan say he’s
itching to take another shot at
the Republican presidential
nomination. He has been en-
couraged, they say, by the Cali-
fornia tax revolt. The resulting
clamor for tax and spending
cuts, he feels, echoes what he
has been saying all along.
This is an idea he has dis-
cussed with advisers. But some
of them fear it might be inter-
preted as a confession that he
hasn’t the stamina to last for two
terms. They have suggested in-
stead that he pledge to make-
tough decisions in his first term,
without worrying about re-elec-
tion. y
HEALTH
By Lawrence E. Lamb, M.D.
course.
‘I AIN’T GOT NOTHIN’ ’GAINST NO RUSSKIS’ -
Traveling Abroad
The dollar may
now be pretty well beaten, butxJon’t think that is about to
keep us home.
More Americans than ever will be traveling abroad in
1978, according, to estimates of the State Department
which expects to issue some 3.4 million passports by the
end of the year ----- --------------
That represents a 10 percent increase over 1977, which
is howjtys been goipg every year for quite a while now. By
1990, the Passport Service expects to be geared up to an
Capitol Spotlight - -
No Answer After 25
Years And $3 Billion
annual rate of some nine million personal identification
documents — which is all a U.S. passport really, is.
It only goes to show that times may change but not
necessarily human nature. Itchy feet had a lot to do with
founding this country, and a lot of us still have them.
Another Job For Coal
And there’s rriijre. ridlHSf
■ Coal is a priceless natural resource with many uses.
Scientists at Illinois' Argonne National Laboratory
think they have discovered yet another one - as raw ma-
' terial for making gin.
Laboratory tests on the coal treated with a new
catalytic agent have yielded ethyl alcohol, the ingredient
that makes gin what it is.
•; The substance is more likely to turn up in plastics and
other industrial products before it does in a martini,
however, since there are still problems in purifying it suf-
ficiently for human consumption.
Come to think of it, that could be said about some mar-
tinis. : ■ . ■.. .. . * • ■> ' ' : , *
By MARTHA ANGLE '
And ROBERT WALTERS
WASHINGTON (NEA) -
When you’ve invented and per-
fected the atomic bomb, what do
you defer an encore?
After a search that has con-
sumed a quarter-century and
more than 33 billion in public
funds, there is still no answer to
that question. ,,
Developing the world’s first
nuclear weapon is, as they say in
show business, a hard act to fol-
low for the network of eight fed-
erally funded research facilities
known as multi-program nation-
al laboratories. * .
■ The best known are the two
key units of the “Manhattan"
Project,” the World War H pro-
gram that produced the atomic
bomb — the Oak Ridge Nation-
al Laboratory in Oak Ridge,
Tenn. and the Los Alamos Scien-
’ That project was succeeded by
another flop, the molten salt re-
actor. Argonne’s Fast Reactor
Test Facility, was abandoned in
1965, arid' Pacific Northwest’s
Fast Flux Test Facility pro-
duced massive cost of overruns
but few practical applications.
In more recent years, the na-
tional laboratories have sought
to justify their continued exist-
ence by exploring non-nuclear
energy alternatives. But at one
point, White House officials dis-
covered that Los Alamos, Law-
rence Berkeley and Lawrence
Livermore were unnecessarily
duplicating research into geo-
thermal energy.
' The General Accounting OF -
flee has just issued a report criti-
cizing the Department of En-
ergy for its failure to provide
centralized direction for the lab-
oratories.
Other federal officials say they
appreciate the need for high-risk
“pure research” at the labora-
tories, but complain that the fa-
cilities have become high-priced
“hobby shops” engaged in “a
disturbing amount of wheel-
spinning.”
GOOD WORK
Says one high-ranking govern-
ment policy-maker directly in-
volved in monitoring,the labora-
tories’ performance:
“Overall, the quality of their
work has been pretty good. But
there’s too much demand for
‘sandbox money’ to play around
with interesting concepts at a
time when the nation can no
longer afford delay in develop-
ing new energytechnologio.”
BUT WE WARNED that the oil
industry would oppose develop-
ing a rival fuel. “This not only
would threaten oil profits but
could break the industry’s mono-
poly,” we wrote on Aug. 9,1977.
The prediction was fulfilled all
too quickly; our columns’tout-
ing alcohol fuel drew . owls of
anguish from oil executives and
generated a propaganda cam-
paign against us from coast to
coast. For the columns had
stimulated pro^asohol activity,
on Capitol Hill and in the White
House.
.> Chevron and Mobil Oil swung
into action with a slick public
relations campaign. Letters sign-
ed by Chevron executives began
arriving in newspaper offices,
challenging our findings. In each
instance, the letters were iden-
tical, word for word. Either the
various executives arrived at the
same language by extrasensory
perception, or they were execut-
ing orders from above. '
Subsequently Mobil peddled
letters to editors around the
country, parroting Chevron’s
line. These letters went on to
suggest that if U S. oil wells run
dry, the nation should rely on a
patented Mobil process which
transforms four barrels of alco-
hol derived from coal into one
barrel of gasoline.
DEAR DR. LAMB — Is it
possible for a woman who
had a sterilization operation
to have it undone? Accord-
ing to her the operation was
done through her navel
which in the end sealed her
tubes. She said that there is
an operation that can undo
this and I said there isn’t.
Now this has become so out
of hand that I would appreci-
ate it if you will kindly settle
this matter with an answer.
DEAR READER - She’s
right at least up to a point.
We do know that when the
tubes are tied or sealed that
they can' be operated on
surgically and the blockage _
removed or the cut ends
reconnected.
The highest success rate
with this has been with mi-
crosurgery where the sur-
geon can actually observe
what’s going on under a
microscope. It’s fairly deli-
cate surgery and not all such
operations are successful.
Successful results may oc-
cur in only one out of four
! such operations.
There is always the prob-
lem of scar formation that
occurs around any cut and
the tubes must heal open for
•the operation to be a suc-
cess. But technically it does
happen in some cases.
Because of the unpredicta-
bility and difficulty in ob-
taining success, any woman
who has a sterilization oper-
ation should consider it as a
permanent birth control pro-
cedure and not something
.that she can have reversed
at will at some later date.
From Sun Files -
‘Miss Highlands’ In
’48 Was Miss Norris
tific Laboratory in Los Alamos,
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Easy Ride For Wine
There’s no question about the suitability of French
wine for consumption. ■>. .
The frequent complaint, however, is that it doesn t
always travel well.
But it’s been traveling first class compared with what
one importer is reported to have in mind in the way of in-
novative packaging.
According to an item in The Wall Street Journal, test
marketings are planned in New York and Texas of wine
that comes not in the traditional bottles but in foil
POThe easily shipped containers, said to be already selling
well in Europe, avoid the problems of breakage and tight
or leaky cqrks. To open one of the eight-ounce pouches,
just snip with scissors and pour - if you can hit the glass,
so much the better. J . ,
It may be very practical and mark a great advance in br-,
inging one of the finer things in life to a broader public.
But somehow, something still doesn’t seem to be
traveling very well - the romance of wine.
Although the basic research
for the first nuclear weapons
was conducted at Oak Ridge,
that work now is performed at
two other facilities, Los Alamos
and Lawrence Livermore Lab-
oratory in Livermore, Calif.
Engineering and production of
the initial bombs was done at
Los Alamos, but it has been
moved to Sandia Laboratories in
Albuquerque, N.M."’
SECURITY ANGLE V
To the extent that national se-
curity1 continues to depencl upon
maintaining an arsenal of so-
phisticated nuclear weapons, the
military work done at Los Ala-’;
mos, Lawrence Livermore and
Sandia is seldom questioned or
challenged.
One measure of the import-
ance of those three “weapons
laboratories:” They received
more than 60 percent of the $1.46
billion alocated to the eight labs
in last year’s federal budget.
But the remaining five
facilities are facing increasing
scrutiny - and criticism - from
government officials who fear
tiie labs may have become self-
perpetuating bureaucracies lack-
legitimate mission, to
Today In History
r By The Associated Press
Today is Saturday, July 8,
the 189th day of 1978. There are
176 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:.
On this date in 1940, in World
War If, the government of Nor-
way moved to London after 62
days of resisting Nazi-invaders.
On this date:
In 1663, King Charles H of
England granted a charter to-
Rhode bland. •
In 1822, the English poet,
Percy Shelley, drowned when
his boat capsized in the Italian
Gulf of Spezzia. *
In 1835, the Liberty Bell in
Philadelphia cracked as it was
being rung during the funeral..
of Chief Justice John Marshall.
In 1919, President Woodrow
Wilson received a tumultuous
welcome in New York after his
return from the Versailles
Peace Conference.
In 1944, the Pacific War
Battle of Saipan was won by
U.S. forces. ,
In 1969, bishops and priests of
the Church of England defeated
a proposal for unification with
the Methodist Church.
- Ten years ago: President
I.vndon Johnson ended a visit
to Central'America with a pre-
diction the area was beginning
a nevwera of progress.
Five years ago: the United
States announced that postal
service with mainland China
had been restored after being
suspended for 25 years.
One year ago: the new trans-
Alaska oil pipeline was shut
down for repairs after an ex-
plosion and fire at a pump sta-
tion.
Today’s birthdays;.. fonder.^
Vice President Nelson Rock-
efeller is 70 years old. Singer
Steve Lawrence is 43. Ballerina
Cynthia Gregory is 32. ■
Thought for today: Riches
adorn the dwelling; virtue
adorns the person — a Chinese
saying. *
THIS PROCESS is more costly
than other gasohol refining
methods. It should also be noted
that the Mobil process was sub-
sidized by a $1-5 million: re-
search grant from the taxpay-
t«-*-- ---;; —
The Chevron management
also sent an entreaty to 2,000 em-
ployees in its Richmond, .Calif.,
refinery. “If Rolaids claim to re-
lieve gas, what will relieve gaso-
hoj?” demanded the tract. It
urged Chevron loyalists to write
their congressmen and express -
their opposition to alcohol fuel.
The company’s Washington
lobbyist, Robert Lindquist, has
From The Baytown Sun files,
this is the way it was 40 and 30
and 20-years ago:
JULY 8,1938
A. P. Dillenback dies of a
heart attack at 63 at his home,
408 W. Defee.
Mont Belvieu Lions are
renaming their club building
Matthews Hall in honor of the
late Gapt Frank Matthews,
charter member who was a
director in the club at the time'
of his death.
Mrs. F, C. Yelverton is presi-
dent of the Ladies Auxiliary of
the Oil Workers Union.
JULY 8,1948
Mercury soars to a torrid 95
degrees.
Virgil Evans resigns as
manager of Radio Station
KREL.
Kathrynelle Norris wins the ti-
tle of Miss Highlands. Runners-
up for the honor are Ruby
Qillison and Bette Ruth Treat.
Two’ dozen families of
John C. Smith Jr. and Robert
Gunn. ■ :
Col. Henry Dittman is award-
ed a special Paoting decoration
by Chinese Ambassador
Wellington Koo for his service in
the movement of Chinese Air
Force personnel from 1943 to
1946.
JULY 8,1958
William Joshua Wells, king of
the oldtimers at Humble’s
Baytown Refinery, retires with -
more than 39 years of service.
Josh pitched the first baseball
game ever played in Baytown on
Labor Day in 1919 and was con-
nected with the Baytown OilfiL
baseball club as player, manager
and business manager from 1919
to 1927.
W. H. “Bill” Reber retires as
mechanical superintendent at
Humble’s Baytown Refinery. He
had worked for Humble since
1924.
long been in the forefront of ef- sparrows are left homeless by a
forts jo discredit the feasibility fire that damaged Horace Mann
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oratory in Darion, 111.; Brook-
haven National Laboratory in
Upton, N.Y.; Lawrence Berke-
ley Laboratory in Berkeley,
Calif.; and Pacific Northwest
Laboratory in Richland 2nd Han-
ford, Wasp.
For several decades, those lab-
oratories concentrated on per-
fecting non-military applica-
tions for nuclear technology,
with emphasis on nuclear reac-
as source of commercially
ited electric power.
Tf an era ; '
But that era produced little
more than a series of expensive
failures. For instance, a major
Oak Ridge program, the aqueous
homogeneous reactor, was shut
in 1961 because of insurmount-
able technical complications.
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By Robert Schuller
.of alcohol fuel. He distributed a
company position paper to Sen-
ate staff members contending
that “alcohol fuels have been
proposed throughout the history
of the motor car, hut every time
they’ve been rejected on eco-
nomic and technical grounds."
An aide to Sen. ’Jacob Javits,
• D-N.Y., responded with a point-
by-point rebuttal of Lindquist’s
arguments. We mentioned this
in an earlier coluimi. Chevron's
identical letters to editors claim-
ed mo such fetter imd been re-
ceded. We suggest Chevron
check the files of its Washington
office. The tetter was sent there.
Chevron has also been work-
ing eager-beaver at the state lev-
el to thwart any consideration of
alcohol fuel. The lobbying is per-
haps most flagrant in Califor-
nia. On one occasion, A1 Schultz,
the Sacramento lobbyist for
Chevron’s parent company,
Standard CHI of California, nagg-
ed state assemblyman Daniel
Bcatwright tkrough the corri-
dors of the state house. An an-
gry Boatwright finally told
Schultz to stop pestering him in
. public and put his views in a let-
Junior High cafeteria. Fire Chief
Aft Lintelman says, “As for the
horde of sparrows living in the
attic, I hope they find the hous-
ing shortagein this area so
acute, they will be compelled to
leave the countiy”
Baytown pupils of Josef Evans
are presented in a piano recital
at Carter Music Co. in Houston.
They are Anne Adams, Con-
stance Kraft, Mary Duke Trox-
ell, Frank Smith, Patti’Adams,
The Way
It Was
July 9, 1778 — Delegates ffom
7 states signed Articles of Con-
federation
Bible Verse
NEITHER IS there salvation
in any other: for there Is none
other name under heaven giv-
en among men, whereby we
must be saved. .Acts 4:12
Berry’s World
Enthusiasm: You need it
1 — so feed it! Bjit what is it?
How do you explain this
mountain-melting power’
How can you get it? The
word comes from two Greek
words \‘en” and “Theos.”
Literally translated they )
mean “tri-God. ’’ We speak of
such persons as inspired. IN-
SPIRITED people! Fill your
life with the God Spirit and
all kinds of power break
forth. In the words of an
ancient Hebrew prophet,
“The -zeal of the Lord will
2. Discovering beautiful
solutions
3. Overcoming impossible
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4. Unwrapping surprises
God has in store for you
5. Rolling back the dark
clouds until sunlight breaks
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That’s enthusiasm! How
can you get it? How do you
feed it? By filling your mind
with a positive mental atti-
tude — thatis how! i
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perform ft?i"
Feed your life with
happy positive faith a|
you’ll find yourself:
1. Uncovering great opp
tipiities
Reverend Schuller, pastor of
the Garden Grove, Calif., Com-
munity Church, can be seen
weekly on his nationally svndi-
cated TV program, "Hour of
Power." ~r—"' •'
SOME OIL companies are be-
ginning to see the handwriting
on the waD. Gulf Chemical of
Kansas, a subsidiary of Gulf Oil,
is planning a plant which would
distill alcohol fuels from corn
cobs, Six other oil companies
have consulted California au-
thorities rat similar develop-
ments. * -
While Chevron and Mobil ire
wailing that alcohol fuel is un-
profitable to produce, 26 gas sta-
tions in Illinois are already sell-
ing gasobol distilled from cbeese
whey.
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