The Independent-News, Volume 103, Number 18, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 6 October 1977 — Page 2

OCTOBER 6. 1977 - THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS

Mrs. Orville Peterson spent last week with her sisters visiting Mrs. Glenn Wallace, East Lansing, Michigan, and Mrs. Fred Thomas, in DeWitt. Michigan. Mrs. Hazel Hay, Miss Thelma Hay and Mrs. Martha Wise just arrived home after driving to Martinsville. Virginia They were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wise and Dale. Mrs. Martha Wise spent sometime at Norfolk with her daughter and son-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Shaw and family. Mrs. Lewallen, of Tippecanoe, and her daughter, from Etna Green, were dinner guests of Mrs. Edna Knepp. In the afternoon they called on an aunt, Ida Schw eisberger. w ho is 90 years old. Mr. and Mrs. Doug Lyle and Brenda, of South Bend, were dinner guests of Mrs. Earl Packer Tuesday evening. Many happy hours were spent renewing freindships. Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Jodway and Ann. o! South Bend, were dinner guests of Mrs. Earl Packer on Monday evening. Miss Gudron Pahl, of Germany, and Mr. Jamie Sawodsky, of Columbia. South America, exchange student living in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Judd and family, and Edwardo Sionenza, living in the home of his American grandmother. Mrs. Effie Hammakcr. were among the group from all over Indiana and the world who attended a youth for understanding meeting in Lafayette with 200 in all present for the two day meeting. Mr. Timmins, of South Bend, is the area representative. Bazaar In North Liberty October 21-22 Zeta Pi Chapter of Kappa Kappa Kappa of North Liberty will hold their "Kappa Cupboard Bazaar" October 21 and 22 at the North Liberty Community Bank. Crafts will be on sale both days, but the bake sale will be held on Saturday only from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. In charge of the event this year is Mrs. Ann ( amblin, Mrs. Judy Rininger and Mrs Willadene Davenport. Proceeds from this project go towards local charity, culture and town improvement. SERVICE NOTES September 29 — Naw Boiler technician Second Class Peter L. Wicks, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Wicks, of t»9099 Sycamore Road. Walkerton. Indiana, is participat mg in the major NATO exercise

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"Display Determination " He is serving as a crewmember aboard the aircraft carrier USS Independence. homeported in Norfolk. Virginia His ship is deployed to the Mediterranean Sea as a unit of the U. S. Sixth Fleet. His command has joined naval forces from Portugal. Italy, Greece, Turkey, and the United Kingdom for the combined exercise which includes convoy operations, amphibious assault landings and antisubmarine warfare maneuvers. "Display Determination" is designed to train NATO naval forces in combined sea operations, refine NATO procedures and ensure that operational plans are current. Participating units will test NATO standardized doctrines, equipment and armaments, plus command and control procedures for coordinated action by NATO sea, land and air forces. The operation will evaluate allied capability to control Mediterranean sea lanes plus reinforce and resupply ground forces in Southern Europe. Acting as opposing forces, NATO unites will simulate surface, subsurface and air attacks along the convoy routes. A series of amphibious landings also are scheduled at Saros Bay, Turkey, with follow-on exercises continuing ashore. "Display Determination" is one of a series of annual operations, conducted each fall from Norway to Turkey, designed to provide unified and coordinated training of national and NATO forces within the Allied European Command. He joined the Naw in January 1974. September 30 — Coast Guard Seaman Subsistance Specialist Robert E. Legge Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Legge of 511 Virginia Street, Walkerton. Indiana, recently completed a deployment in the Artic Ocean. He is serving as a crewmember aboard the Coast Guard cutter Westwind, homeported in Milwaukee. During the three-month cruise, he and his shipmates escorted supply ships through the ice pack to Thule Air Base in northern Greenland. Additionally, his ship participated in scientific research projects and assisted in the monitoring and cleanup of an oil spill in Greenland waters. He had the opportunity to visit Canada and Greenland during the cruise. Westwind was recently selected as winner of the National Defense Transportation Assoication award. The award recognized his ship’s role in Great Lakes icebreaking operations last winter. Between December and April, she covered 11.000 miles while assisting fuel barges and ferries across the icebound Great Lakes. A 2b9-foot icebreaker. Westwind carries a crew of IM officers and

enlisted men. He joined the Coast Guard in July 1976. 1 / I WARNER ROBINS. Ga. - Staff Sergeant William D. Sapp Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. William D. Sapp Sr., of 68560 Sycamore Road, North Liberty, Indiana, has graduated from the Air Force Logistics Com mand Noncommissioned Officer Academy at Robins AFB, Ga. The sergeant, who received advanced military leadership and management training, is a metal processing specialist at Wright Patterson AFB. Ohio. Sergeant Sapp attended North Liberty High School. R.E.A.L. SERVICES NUTRITION PROGRAM North Liberty OCTOBER 10 - 14 MONDAY Juice Chicken and dressing in a pan with gravy Green beans Cole slaw Apricots Bread and margarine Milk, tea, coffee TUESDAY Juice Liver and onions Mashed potatoes Carrot and raisin salad Pineapple nut cheese cake Bread and margarine Milk. tea. coffee WEDNESDAY J nice Picnic shoulder and bean stew Perfection salad Pears Cornbread and margarine Milk, tea, coffee THURSDAY J nice Baked turkey roll Mashed potatoes with gravy Broccoli with cheese Bread and margarine Brow nies Milk. tea. coffee FRIDAY Juice Meat loaf and gravy Whipped pot a tin's Stewed tomatoes with bread cubes Peaches Rye bread and margarine Milk. tea. coffee NIPSCO RATE INCREASE NECESSARY TO MAINTAIN POWER SUPPLY " Ihe $49 million rate increase granted Northern Indiana Public Service Company on Tuesday. September 2”. |9"7, is necessary to maintain the company’s ability to meet its customers’ growing demand for electric service." Edmund A. Schroer. NIPSCO president and chief executive officer, said today. Our summer peak was more than 10 per cent over our peak demand a year ago." the utility chief executive reported, "while the use of electricity by NIPSCO customers so tar this year is growing at an annual rate of more than seven per cent Increased capital requirements and operating costs necessitate higher electric rates to cover the costs of service." Schroer said, failure to construct necessary

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facilities would ultimately mean brownouts and blackouts and a negative impact on the economy of northern Indiana.” The utility president said that NIPSCO cannot continue to experience rising costs for steel, vehicles, transformers, wages, money. taxes and other items without including them in the price of electricity. He said the NIPSCO is presently embarded on a five-year electric construction program of more than $1 billion, with S2OO million or 20 per cent earmarked for pollution controls. "With our 1977 peak load well above projections and electric sales growing, we must plan and build facilities that will provide the power needed by the industries of northern Indiana as well as businesses and homes," Schroer said. "Coal-fired power plants, which are taking about five years to build, are costing more all the time — $436 per kilowatt in 1976 compared to S2BO in 1974, just two years earlier." he added. The delays we have experienced in building Bailly Nuclear One have increased the estimated construction cost of this plant some SSOO million over its planned 1976 inservice date. The dollars needed to pay for these projects must come from the money market, in competition with the financial needs of other companies and enterprises in this country. If our earnings cannot attract this kind of money, we will have to scale back our construction program with its consequent adverse effect on service to customers.

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Schroer said the warning of the National Electric Reliability Council earlier this month of planned outages or government-imposed power restrictions by the late 1970’s and early 1980’s could materialize if governmental and environmental objections to the locations and designs of power plants, "lack of timely and adequate rate relief" and confusion over which fuel federal officials prefer for use by power companies is not halted. "We are experiencing tremendous increases in the cost of coal, the most important element in the production of electricty." Schroer said. "Our average price per ton of coal is up 136 per cent in five years, and 63 per cent since 1974." The utility president said that unusually hot weather hit northern Indiana early this year forcing NIPSCO to purchase power from neighboring utilities to meet customers' needs. This power was expensive but necessary, and although some of its cost is recoverable through fuel adjustment charges, much of it is not and must be added to operating expenses. "If Bailly Nuclear One had been on line as originally scheduled in 1976." Schroer said, "substantial amounts of purchase power costs could have been avoided." The utility president added. "It is a combination of all of these factors — construction delays, expensive environmental requirements. high money costs and large requirements for money, escalating fuel charges, rising taxes and the general adverse effect of inflation on our operations — which is forcing higher energy costs and an in crease in the price paid for electricitv."