The Independent-News, Volume 100, Number 50, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 11 July 1974 — Page 9

lew Books At Public Library ■he Walkerton Public Library listed the following new books pa ently as additions to their sem. .ion: ed ADULT BOOKS ^‘introductory Nutrition — Hei. Guthrie 3 ihe Common Market Today and ls . norrow — Michael Shanks LU Managing Your Family Fiice — J. K. Lasser Che Writer’s Handbook — A. I v Burack t rhe Radio Amateur’s Handk (Manual of Amateur Radio : nmunication) is Leading Teen-Age Groups — a L icthy Roberts Khe Sino-Soviet Rift — William iffith Modern Production Managent — Elwood Buffa European Common Market — -says Art of Designing — Managent Systems Marketing — Selected List of i rent Titles Labor Legislation in Indiana Implication.; for Hospitals in mprehensiva Health Care PlanGovernment and Economic Life Your Daddy Did Not Die — ling Dictionary of Slang, Jargon, nt — Barre re Germany English Dictionary of eryday Usage — Jay Pfeffer American Women Wiio Scored ist — Aylesa Forsee .Metalworking Make Easy — cker rhe Northwest Coast — Time. .fe Jesus — Charles Templeton Don’t Go Into The Woods Today Doris Disney Accidents and Homicide — Al. rt Iskrant Cashel mar a— Susan Howatch 'Hie National Guard in Politics Martha Derthick Empress Josephine — Ernest i napton Art of Sewing - Traditional Fav. rites — Time. Life Family Creative Workshop — ’une-Life The Collected Works of Count lumford . Nature of Heat — "iint Rumford; Vol. 1, Nature f Heat; Vol. 2, Practical Appiiitions of Heat; Vol. 3, Devices ind Techniques The United Nations — Benjanin Cohen A Fool’s Errand — Albion L'ourgee Congenital Malformations of he Heart — Helen Taussig, M.D. Welfare Medical Care; An Ex•eriment — Charles Goodrick CHILDRENS BOOKS The Pussycat Tiger Three Little Puppies Sherlock Hemlock and the Great l\v.ddl«‘ ug Mystery — Betty Lou Tom & Jerry in Model Mice A Prickly Tale — Evelyn Beg. AGONIZING PAIN FROM i INGROWN I TOENAIL? I Get Outgro for 4 ‘ fast relief Why suffer the agony of ingrown toenail pain whdrj Outgro can gwe you fast, temporary relief 7 Outgro toughens irritated skin, eases inflammation, reduces swelliry without affecting trie shape, growth or position of the nail Outgro g wes you last pain relief, and makes rt easier to cut out the nail ..cut ©ut the pain caused by ingrown toenail. itup irb gtpwn nail pain fast with Outgro. J

. It is said that when Marie Antoinette was talking about the bread riots of Paris during October sth and 6th, 1759, the Duchess de Polignac naively exclaimed, “How is it that these silly people are so clamorous for bread v h. i they < .ei buy such nice brioche.; for a few nous'." It is also ■• lid that Princess Charlotte of England, r.t ti at time, avowed "that :be would fqr her part rather cut ’ f than starve" and wondered th't the people v.'e ' 1 i • s<> oh mate as to insi L upon having bread when it w.u to scarce!

ley Henny Penny The Big Little Bock — Dorothy Smith A Day of Your Own Your Birth, day — Alice Low Mr. Topsy-Turvy — Roger Hangreaves ihe Memoirs — Mason Reese Collins and His Rabbit — Jul. illy Kohler Schoolroom Bunny — Janet Konkle Hubert Hippo’s World — Faith Lasher L.ttle Train — Graham Greene The. Little Fire Ehgme — Graham Greene Let’s Go To Die Beach — Oscar Weigle Let's Go On A Picnic — Oscar Weigle Animal Antics —Walley I'll Teach My Dog TOO Words — Michael Frith . Baby Bear's Happy’Yiay — Peter Seymour Pet Parade — Dean Walley ROUND BARN FESTIVAL OPENS JULY 12 Fulton County’s annual round Barn Festival opens on Friday, July 12 for a three-day week end run in Rochester. All of the features that have made the festival so popular with visitors the past three years remain on the schedule wh.ch includes the 13 round lams which make' this area the Round Barn Capital -jof Indiana. Tours of the barns will leave the courthouse square in Rochester .'it regular intertSls throughout the three days. Visitors may choose one of threewtours, which also include stops at a restored one-room schoolhouse and antique farm tractor displays. The parade will be held on Saturday beginning 10:00 a.m. Also featured at the festival is a period fashion dress revue on Saturday at 6:00 p^i.; a stage revue of hit broadway songs on the courthouse square- at 4:00 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday* a Western Square Dance on Friday night on Bth street and a myjjzle loading rifle shoot Saturday and Sunday. Also a Carnival of Arts Show, coned bcoth.-v-^graA items, horse shoe pitch on Saturday afternoon. flea marked- and antique show, a farmers market and a foremen’s waterbalh-contest. A water ski show oiiy-Like Manitou will be Ijeld on Sunday afternoon. NIPSCO SEEKS GBNERAL GAS RATE INC REASE Northern Indiana Public Service Company today atked the Public Service Commission of Indiana to approve a general increase m - " Freezone is for carnithat hurt. Absolutely painless. Nocl*o<lfous cutting, no ugly pads or plasters -Mays. Freezone eases the hurt...safely heljis ease off the corn. Drop on Freezone-we off corns. REMOVES 0^- ( CORNSAND CALLUSES : 4 Di-Gel relieVes 'Gasid Indigestion* ...it’s those time^ you suffer acid indigestion and painful gas, too. DI-GEL* given, tn ore complete relief because# does what plain antacids can’iCit reduces excess acid; als-o-'contains Simethicone that grt^rid of gas, too. Heartburn, .paOiful gas go fast. Gel DI-GECT

gas rates — the first since iut>y —for gas cusomers served by the utility in the northern third of the state. In a petijon filed on Monday., July 1, Dean H. Mitchell, NII SCO chairman and chief officer, cited sky-i ocketmg increases in construction and operating costs, as reasons for the request. He listed higher interest rates on borrowed money, increased ^ages and fringe benefits, higher pnees for materials and equipment, greater depreciation costs, higher postage and Social Security contributions as examples of escalating expenses experienced by the utility. "Our costs, most of which we have little or no control over, have been rising more rapidly than our revenues from present gas rates," Mitchell said, “as a result, our earnings have deteriorated. Only if earnings are restored to acceptable levels, will we be able to continue to provide satisfactory service, attract capital at reasonable rates and finance the facilities required to serve our customers." NIPSCO is asking that the Commission approve a new "schedule of rates which will provide about $23.7 million annually in addit. ional operating revenue. After payment of Federal income taxes, this would leave about sl2 mil. lion. Although not all the increases in the cost of gas supplied by pipeline companies have been recovered through the rate tracking procedure approved by the Commission on December 11, 1970, the utility’s petition is based primarily on increased operating costs and not on gas supply increases. In its petition, the utility said the average residential customer living in the north central and northeastern sections of Indiana, who cooks with gas and uses it

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TAKE THIS ENERGY TEST HOW MUCH ENERGY IS USED BY SMALL APPLIANCES’

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| The portable appliances around your home are generally low energy users. To put the energy demands of small appliances in perspective, it’s calculated that on an average they use about one half of 1% of total U.S. energy consumption. 1 General Electric Company engineers estimated the costs in the test above based on measurements for the products involved. Another way of expressing their , energy requirement is in terms of the work they do for one kilowatt hour. • Electric slicing knife: 215 3 minute uses • Portable mixer: 208 3 minuU oms • shave cream dLn bwy morning for * • «pener/ice crushes" Op*» Wwmt 1,460 earn

IOF HULUllldlLIU AdlCl vv experience an increase of about 1.2 cents per day or 35 cents per month. Utility bills for those in the area who heat their homes with gas and also use it for cooking and water heating will go up about 2 cents per day or 50 ce:X> per month during a normal year. NIPSCO has approximately 110,427 residential customers in this area. “Under the proposed rates,” Mitchell said, "the average cost of gas service to residential cust. omeYs on a BTU basis will still be less than the average cost for other fuels such as oil, coal and electricity.” M.tchell pointed out that since the firm’s last general gas rate increase, the cost has increased 27 per cent (even before the es» feet of the labor contract presently being negotiated i; interest on long-term debt 47 per cent, and the cost of underground storage contracts 242 per cent. The new rates which would affect some 456.406 gas customers of the utility will include a $3.00 minimum for all residential gas customers throughout the com. pany s 30 county service area. "If the northern third of our state is to continue to grow, it is absolutely essential that NIP. SCO remain financially sound and in a position at all times to render proper and efficient service to customers," Mitchell said. “That means that we must earn a fair return, which we believe should be not less than 7.25 per cent on the value of the property that we have devoted to the service of customers, now estimated at $496,133,372. which represents a 44 per cent increase in gas property since 1969," he concluded. In its petition, NIPSCO asked the Commission to hold a prehear, ing conference within 60 days of the date of filing and requested that after the Commission had

and crush 4,060 ice cubes. Here are some additional energy use and cost figures as estimated for other GE portable appliances. They are based on a cost of 2.7^ per kilowatt hour. (A kilowatt hour is a unit of electrical energy equal to the work done by 1,000 watts acting for one hour. Kilowatt hours are what you pay for on your electric bill.) • A two-slice toaster, toasting up to 8 slices of bread every day (in fact, 8 times a week), operates on approximately 9^ a month. That’s 84 slices of toast for every kilowatt hour. • Coffee every morning (in fact, 8 times a week) in a 12 cup percolator costs just 21 a month. You can make 54 cups of coffee at the strong set tin.! for every kilowatt hour used.

hearings, they enter an order can. celling the utility’s existing acted, ule of rates and approving the new gas rate submitted with the petition. Main Street Gossip For centuries the moon hung tantalizingly just beyond man’s grasp, challenging his imagination and ingenuity. Then, on July 20, 1969, two U. S. astronauts did the impossible • — they landed the lunar module, “Eagle,” upon the surface of the moon, and a new age dawned. Since that time, July 20 has come to be known as Moon Walk Day. The memorable moon explora. tion by Neil Armstrong and Ed. win Aldrin, Jr., lasted 21 hours, 36 minutes and 16 seconds, while the moon walk, in.tiated by Arm. strong took 2 hours, 15 minutes. Pilot Michael Collins orbited the moon in the command module, "Columbia.” Beyond the historical signifi. cance of the moon venture lies an even greater potential for tech, nolog.cal advance surpassing even the wildest imaginings of Jules Verne. In the midst of unlocking the mysteries of the universe, man has found it possible to apply the knowledge and skills the U. S. space program to solv. ing problems here on earth. Our opportunities to further the con. di-tion of mankind are as limitless as the starry heavens that sur. round us. —MS G — Energy has become such a large part of our lives that people have taken to counting kilowatts instead of sheep at night. — MSG —

• Your electric clock runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year for a monthly average cost of 4'/i cents. It operates for 2!i weeks before using a kilowatt hour. • A king size Toast-R-Oven will toast four slices of bread a day, bake for more than two hours a week and top brown twice a week for 4 minutes each time for just about 21 cents a month. • In a big Dutch skillet the food is cooked in the heating vessel itself. That helps keep the cost of operation to 39 cents for more than 1 0 hours’ use. • Have a beauty appointment twice a week in your own home with a salon style hair dryer for about a dime a month. Or blow-dry your hair with a hand held dryer. Use four times a week, for 10 minutes each time, the hand held unit operates lor s!ii cents a month. • A cordless electric toothbrush may be used many times each day. The cost of continuous charging is about 2'i cents a month. It charges for 33 days on a single kilowatt hour. • A self cleaning steam and spray iron, on normal heat settings, used two hours a week, costs about 19^ a month. You can iron for nearly l l ^ hours before .using a kilowatt hour. General Electric engineers said they calculated the energy consumption of small appliances as a clarification of the amount of energy the appliances use. Company spokesmen stressed the fact that GE supports the wise and efficient use of all forms of energy resources. When properly used, small appliance* provide many benefit* u» the household, while ing blue energy.