Banner Graphic, Volume 9, Number 243, Greencastle, Putnam County, 19 June 1979 — Page 5

Promoting soldr energy: Program to center on Development Banks

By STEVEN RATTNER c. 1979 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON - President Carter plans to announce Wednesday thatthe nation will aim at obtaining 20 percent of its energy needs from solar power and other renewable sources by the year 2000, government and private experts said Monday. In an effort to reach that goal, the president is expected to offer a package of programs, with the centerpiece being a S4OO million Solar Development

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Ohio State University where workmen are completing a $50,0000 underground laboratory that scientists will use to watch grass grow. "The most important part of the plant is the root and that’s the part we know least about,” said OSU agronomist Dr. Keith J. Kernock, who will be in charge of the lab. "Scientists only have a general idea now when and how much to fertilize.” Kernock said the lab, called a rhizotron, will be used to learn how much cold, heat, fertilizer, water, mowing and other practices make grass thrive. The lab, which opens early next month, is Kernock’s brainchild. He said its proper name is a rhizotron-lysimeter and it is perhaps the only one of its kind in the world because the lab is equipped to accurately measure how much water is being utilized by the plants.

Trucker strike shuts down pork plant

By The Associated Press Independent truckers continued to blockade key fuel storage depots in several states today and the public felt the pinch at gasoline pumps. The truckers shutdown also disrupted shipments of fresh foods and meats from farm regions. An Armour pork plant in Worthington, Minn., that employs 400 people was forced to close Monday. Thirteen truckers were arrested this morning when a convoy of 15 to 20 trucks slowed to 5 mph on the Ohio Turnpike near Toledo, backing up traffic for about a mile, police said. Officers said two trucks were

Second offensive continues MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) President Anastasio Somoza’s forces battled for Managua’s slums today and tried to check a guerrilla army in southern Nicaragua, leaving the Sandinista rebels in control of major towns in the northwest part of the country. The president said the national guard would fight until it crushed the rebels waging their second offensive in 10 months to end 42 years of Somoza family rule. But he conceded it would take longer than the two weeks he predicted more than a week ago. Guerrillas of the Sandinista National Liberation Front on Monday completed their occupation of Leon, Nicaragua’s second largest city 55 miles north of Managua, and were reported by persons in Chinandega, Chichigalpa and Esteli to be holding most of those three other cities in the northwest. The Sandinistas also claimed Matagalpa, 80 miles northeast of Managua, but there was no confirmation of this. High-ranking government sources said the recapture of Leon “will have to wait for a while.”

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Bank that would help to finance private development projects. To become effective, the programs must be approved by Congress. Although the public mostly thinks of solar power as involving sunlight and roof collectors, the administration has adopted a broad definition of solar energy to include forms such as wind, gasohol, wood, water and the like. At present, about 6 percent of the nation’s energy supply

Watching the grass grow

towed away when the drivers refused to move them. But in Connecticut today, truckers ended a six-hour blockade of a waterfront oil terminal in New Haven that handles 70 percent of all gasoline sold in the state. The blockades came as four states Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Virginia and the District of Columbia prepared for even-odd gasoline rationing to deal with already short fuel supplies. Shipments to some Minnesota towns were virtually cut off four of seven gas stations in St. Peter said they were out of gas for June.

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comes from these sources. Even without the president’s program, these sources are considered likely to provide about 13 percent of needed energy by 2000. By some estimates, governmental projects in the president’s package will be able to raise solar energy’s share from the anticipated 13 percent in 2000 to 15 percent. That would leave 5 percentage points for private action. Solar energy involving

Despite a plethora of pamphlets, gardening books and video advice on how to treat your lawn, Kernock said there is relatively little exact information about how turf grass develops, especially the roots. Kernock said more detailed growth information is needed by golf course managers and groundskeepers, as well as by a few fanatical homeowners who are all part of Ohio’s S3OO million turf grass industry. Kernock says sls billion is spent on lawns each year in the United States. He said watering and fertilization can be made to work better by knowing when and how much to put on. The rhizotron is a space-age name, but the idea is simple. Scientists walk underground into a long hallway in the lab and observe the roots of grass growing on the surface in 30 glass-fronted compartments. The lab has time-lapse microscopic photography equipment.

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sunlight and roof collectors represents less than half the 20 percent target, according to administration estimates. Both the goal and the measures to achieve it are scheduled to be announced by the president at a ceremony marking completion of the installation of a solar heating system to provide some of the hot water used in the White House. Further details will be contained in a message to Congress to be released

simultaneously, energy spokesmen said. In essence, the president’s goal follows a formal recommendation, known as a domestic policy review, made by an administration study group last year. However, the package appears likely to fall short of the policy measures listed then as necessary to achieve the goal. Tax credits, for example, have been limited to previously announced steps, energy spokesmen said.

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Accordingly, advocates of solar power have already begun to criticize the program as less than what is needed to help reduce domestic dependence on imported oil. "It’s basically just a lot of fine symbolism and rhetoric without a lot to back it up,” said Richard Munson of the Solar Lobby, an organization that promotes the use of solar energy. “President Carter has not provided leadership on solar

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issues.” However, administration officials were quick to defend the president’s program, which they regard as substantial, particularly the S4OO million commitment over three years to the Solar Development Bank. “Carter is doing far more for solar energy than one could ordinarily expect, given the budget situation,” said one White House official. “Anyone who says it is not enough is

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living in a dream world.” I In setting a goal for solar power, Carter appears to be following the advice of his key advisers who believe that an-,' nouncing a goal would your leadership and serve both to drive the government, programs and to challenge America’s industries, institutions and the public,” according to a private memoran-. dum from Energy Secretary; James R. Schlesinger.

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