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The USS Ohio. America's first operational Trident submarine is moored off Groton, Conn., after commissioning ceremonies last month. The Ohio and other U.S. nuclear submarines would be linked by a controversial com-

Project ELF Navy studies effects of low frequency radio transmissions on flora, fauna and folks

MILWAUKEE (AP) Patricia Holter gave the government five weeks of her life to undergo X-rays, blood tests, eye exams, psychological studies and other health research. One week each year from 1970 to 1974, she traveled to Navy hospitals in Illinois and Florida, where doctors studied her to determine whether the extremely low frequency radio transmissions originating in a simple metal building near her Clam Lake, Wis., home were affecting her health. The building is in what might seem an unlikely place for a Navy outpost: 1,000 feet above sea level and 800 miles from the Atlantic Ocean. It is part of the Navy’s controversial Project ELF, a proposed $230 million communications system designed to get messages to nuclear submarines operating deep at sea by taking advantage of transmission properties of bedrock. After a two-year moratorium on transmissions ordered by President Carter, the Navy has resumed operations at the test site run by GTE Sylvania Corp. President Reagan is asking Congress for money to complete the 28-mile antenna and to connect it with a 56-mile grid in Michigan’s Escanaba River State Forest. Those actions have revived a longstanding debate over the merits and risks of Project ELF, which, when first proposed in 1958 as Project Sanguine, was to be a 6,600-mile network of buried cable Last April, in an advisory referendum in Ashland County, home of the Navy transmitter, Project ELF was narrowly endorsed by its neighbors. But Upper Michigan voters have rejected the project in similar referenda. Among the objections are claims that Project ELF’s radio waves endanger plants and animals, perhaps attacking the nervous system, that the system is vulnerable to sabotage, and unresolved doubts about whether Project ELF will work as well as the Navy says. At the urging of Wisconsin and Michigan members, the House rejected an initial $34.9 million appropriation on Nov. 18. The Senate Appropriations Committee has recommended funding, although no money has been provided. The Navy, whose tests included raising a Hereford bull named Sylvester at the Clam Lake test site, says its studies have disproved any health concerns. “We’ve done all the research we can. Flora, fauna and animals; there is no effect. It doesn’t even melt the snow,” said

Lawsuit claims wrong body was cremated

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) A Michigan funeral home is being sued by a woman who contends the home mistakenly switched bodies, cremating her husband’s and sending someone else’s to Indiana for services and burial. Named as defendants in the Kalamazoo County Circuit Court suit were Truesdale Chapels Inc. of Kalamazoo and Joseph M. Kerr, director of the funeral home’s Portage branch. According to the suit, Jean Sullivan of Portage contacted Truesdale Chapels to send the body of her husband, Daniel, to Indiana after he died of a heart attack in July. The lawsuit, filed Thursday, contends arrangements were made with a South Bend, Ind., funeral home for visitation the next evening. However, upon arriving at the South Bend chapel and being informed Sullivan’s body was available for private viewing, Mrs. Sullivan and her two sons, John and Charles, discovered the body was not that of her husband and their father, the suit contends. The suit claims Mrs. Sullivan then contacted the defendants by telephone, who advised her a mistake had been made and the

body of her husband had been cremated. The family says the cremation was in “direct violation of the wishes and beliefs expressed by (Daniel Sullivan) while still living,” and it was an “indignity and outrage upon the feelings of the plaintiffs, at a time of mourning the death of the deceased.” Banner-Graphic "It Waves For All" (USPS 142-020) Consolidation of The Daity Banner Established 1850 The Herald The Daily Graphic Established 1883 Telephone 653-5151 Published dally except Sundays and Holidays by LuMar Newspapers, Inc. at 100 North Jackson St., Greencastle, Indiana 46135. Entered in the Post Office at Greencastle, Indiana, as 2nd class mall matter under Act of March 7,1878. Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier 'I.OO Per Month, by motor route *4.55 Mall Subscription Rates R.R. in Rest of Rest of Putnam Co. Indiana U.S.A. 3 Months *12.00 '12.55 *15.00 6 Months 24.00 25.10 30.00 1 Year 48.00 49.20 60.00 Mail subscriptions payable In advance . . . not accepted in town and where motor route service is available. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use lor republication of all the local news printed in this newspaper.

munications system planned for underground in northern Michigan and Wisconsin. Designated Project ELF, the system would utilize a 6,600-mile network of buried cable. (AP Laserphoto)

Rear Adm. Bruce Newell, a Navy chief of communications. Mrs. Holter, an officer in Citizens for ELF, concurs. “The only thing they found wrong was that I was pretty sloppy in my eating habits,” she said of her tests. “I was eating too much fatty stuff.” Navy officials and defense scientists have said for years that they are concerned the present s>stem for communicating with missile-firing and attack submarines at sea makes them vulnerable to attack. The Navy currently uses very low frequency signals relayed by aircraft to communicate with these submarines, which must trail buoyed aerials near the surface to receive messages. This system is vulnerable in time of war, because it is easier for an enemy to detect and because nuclear blasts could charge the atmosphere with high-energy particles disrupting VLF signals and missile guidance, the Navy says. The ELF system would take advantage of the fact that the lower the frequency of radio waves, the deeper they can penetrate the ocean. With Project ELF, nuclear submarines could operate at safe depths and still communicate with landbased commanders. Extremely low frequency wave lengths are 2,500 miles long. Their transmission ordinarily would require an antenna hundreds of miles long, but scientists have shown that bedrock can be used to form part of the ELF antenna. Electrodes bored into the granite of the Laurentian Shield at the ends of the Project ELF antenna cable strung on 40-foot utility poles transmit current, which in turn uses the bedrock as part of the antenna loop. The signals, if given enough power, can radiate worldwide. Several submarines already have receivers and computers to handle the coded messages. The first to get a Clam Lake signal was the USS Stonewall Jackson in July 1976. ELF critics say its exposed cable antenna, running through the forest, is vulnerable to sabotage, something project manager James Barron does not refute. “The system is highly vulnerable,” he said, “But it is very easy to repair in a few hours. It is just like a utility company repairing a power line.” More worrisome to opponents is the system’s vulnerability to another kind of attack nuclear. U.S. Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis., says ELF would make northern Wisconsin and upper Michingan first-strike targets if the Soviets launched a nuclear attack.

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Blizzard buries Boston

By EDWARD MILLER Associated Press Writer A snowstorm called the worst in three seasons killed four people and stranded thousands in New England, while Oregon gurgled under another dose of heavy rain and six people died because of fog that cloaked Southern California. The surprise snowstorm dumped up to 2 feet of snow, hitting Massachusetts and Rhode Island the hardest. Gusting winds piled the snow into drifts, and motorists abandoned their cars on snowbound highways. Airports and schools were closed, and on the vacation island of Nantucket, 200 holiday revelers were stranded and as many as 30 whales beached themselves. The storm that carried the snow was thought to be heading to sea, but it first swept inland

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and dumped IV2 feet of snow on Boston, the most in one day in 50 years, and 15 inches in Providence, R.I. “We brought our children to Boston to see the snow, but this is ridiculous,” said George Porter of Miramar, Fla., who was stranded at Boston’s Logan Airport with his wife, Beverly, and their two children, Glen, 13, and Tracy, 8. Power lines in Rhode Island were knocked down, and 50,000 residents lost electricity. The Rhode Island Transit Authority suspended all bus service. Commonwealth Electric Co. reported blackouts for 35,000 customers in Duxbury, south of Boston, and another 5,000 in Marshfield. “We’re grateful it’s Sunday because we don’t have commuters going to work,” said

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James Carlin, the Massachusetts secretary of transportation, as 2,500 snow plows cleared the highways. The Weather Service measured lOV2 inches of snow at weather-locked Logan Airport, the heaviest 24-hour snowfall in December since 1926. Blowing snow was hampering efforts to clear runways. Rocco DeLuca, a spokesman for the Rhode Island Highway Department, said it was the worst storm since a blizzard in 1978. The estimated 2,000 tourists who went to Nantucket for a Christmas celebration had to spend Saturday night on the island whether they planned to or not because the storm forced cancellation of ferry runs and plane flights. About 200 people sought emergency shelter in

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hospitals, hotels and homes. The airport reopened Sunday afternoon, but ferries weren’t running. “Whatever comes along, comes along,” said Paul Bowker, 53, of Brewster, Mass., a member of the Cape Cod Adventurers Club and one of 42 people staying at the Nantucket Cottage Hospital. “We’re all adventurers now. ” Two people were killed in weather-related traffic accidents in east-central Connecticut, one motorist was killed in a crash in New Hampshire and an 88-year-old man died in Vermont of a heart attack while brushing away snow from his house, authorities said. There was more than a foot of snow in New Hampshire and Vermont.

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