The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 5 May 1964 — Page 3

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HOOSIER'S BIGGEST HYDRO PLANT

MARKLAND—Public Service Company of Indiana today broke ground for the construction of its $20 million Markland hydroelectric generating station on the Ohio River in Switzerland County. The proposed power plant will be the largest source of hydroelectric energy in Indiana. In brief groundbreaking ceremonies at the site, Carroll H. Blanchar, president of the electric utility, said the 81.000-kil-owatt hydro plant would be a key addition to the total generating capability of the Public Service system. The company serves the electric power needs of 393.000 customers in 69 Hoosier counties. * Completion of the company’s first modem hydro station is scheduled for September 1966. However, the first of three 27,600 KW turbine generators is expected to go in service by June 1966. Dravo Corporation, Pitts-

burgh, is the general contractor on the project. The hydro project is being built under license by the Federal Power Commission. The station is located 25 miles upstream from Madison on the Indiana side of the Markland Dam and Locks built as a flood control project by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Blanchar said that Markland Station represents still another important development for. the southeastern sector of Indiana. He predicted impressive industrial growth and development of the area in the years to come. Addition of the hydro station will increase the total system generating capability of Public Service Company to 1,721,000 kilowatts. Markland Station is to be a fully automatic operating remotely controlled from the Clarksville operating center near New Albany. Officials of Dravo Corp. said

that work to get undenvay immediately includes excavation of the river bank and construction of a cellular steel piling cofferdam which will enclose a working area of about 8 acres. A 35-foot drop in water in the dam will power three 41,500 horsepower turbines. They in turn will drive three 27,00 o -kilowatt generators. Generating voltage at the plant will be 13,200 volts. A substation at the station w r ill transform this voltage to 138.000 volts. The power will feed into the Public Service system via a 9-mile transmission link with an existing 138.000 volt line between Madison and Batesville. The hydro station is a “run of the river” installation, indicating that it will operate only when river levels are sufficient to drive turbines. The Company estimates that .the station will produce an esti-

mated 490 million kilowatthours of electric energy annually. When completed the Public Service hydro station will carry the biggest single property valuation in Switzerland County. Based on present tax laws, the hydro plant will add an estimated 70% to the county’s total assessed valuation, which amounted to $8.6 million in 1962. Taking part in the groundbreaking were Markland residents and community leaders from Vevay and Madison. In addition to Blanchar, company officials present included Walter J. Matthews, executive vice president; Edwin M. Gue, vice president, engineering; Lloyd M. Griffin, Southern Division vice president; and Fred E. Nicoson, vice president in charge of power; Earl H. Conway, vice president, comptroller; and Robert McMurray, vice president, sales.

not before.” South’s words were polite, but his tone made his meaning clear. Any dummy who tries to play the first card should be given a one-way tiicket to Outer Mongolia. South needed a second or two to see the best play. He played the jack of spades from dummy and overtook smoothly with his own queen. It was important to make this seem like a play that South could not prevent. SETS UP DIAMONDS South then went after dummy’s diamonds. West held off the first diamond but took the second. Since East had played the deuce of diamonds first, signalling an odd number of cards in the suit. West knew that South had no more diamonds. West could have shifted safely to hearts or clubs, but there w'as no way for West to know this. It seemed safe to continue spades, since the play at the first trick indicated that South had the doubleton acequeen. West therefore led another spade, and dummy won the trick. Now declarer took the rest of the tricks, making the contract with three overtricks. If South had played the spades normally, or if he had stopped for obvious thought, West would have returned a

heart or the king of clubs (best choice) upon being given the ace of diamonds. South w’ould wind up with seven tricks instead of twelve. While you’re giving South credit for a fine play at the first trick, don’t forget to give dummy full credit for trying to gum up the works. DAILY QUESTION Partner opens with one heart, and the next player passes. You hold: S 6 HJ 10 987 D 7 4 2 CQ 1094. WTiat do you say? Answ r er: Bid two hearts. The distribution is good, but the hand is pitifully weak knd therefore rates only this weak response.

4-H Club News The Gay Juniors held their second 4-H meeting April 20th, at the school building. Ena Whitaker opened the meeting. Anita Stucky gave the pledge to the flag. Debbie Stucky gave the 4-H pledge. Songs were lead by Portia Collier and Jackie Brown. Roll call was favorite gum and answered by 26 members. The minutes w’ere read and approved. Officers for the year; Pres., Ena Whitaker; Vice Pres., Cindy Goble; Sec. Brenda Barron; Treas., Marilyn Yount, Song Leaders, Portia Collier

Len Pennyworth Says: Children Trained as Moochers Must Protect Fruits of Labor

I’ve often wondered if children are born moochers or if they are taught at an early age to solicit for their own wellbeing. From experience I strongly suspect the latter to be true. To encourage thrift, parents present their offspring with piggy banks. Naturally, as soon as the little ones can toddle around, it is just plain good business to circulate these money containers among grandpas, grandmas and other coinbearing relatives. If the kids are real enterprising, even nonrelatives will be asked to fatten these pigs. The piggy bank way to save has an obvious weakness. If the paper boy comes and there is not enough change in the house to pay him, parents of the bankowner may float a short term, interest free loan by shaking the proper change from the pig. A mental agreement is made by the party of the borrowing

part to repay this loan as soon as change is available. Considerable time may elapse before this condition exists, and since there is no written record of the transaction, the obligation may be honestly forgotten. To guarantee that piggy bank owners didn’t lose their Mickey Mouse shirts in the financial finagling, it is wise to hustle these money-laden shoats down to the Full Service Central National Bank as soon as they near market size. Here is an insured savings account, the youngsters funds will be faithfully recorded down to the penny, and what’s more when they are thus planted, they imediately begin to accumulate interest. Of course parents could ask the kids’ permission to draw out enough to pay the paper boy or some other coin obligation, but they would probably be too embarrassed to do so. Copyright: David Barr, 1964

and Jackie Brown; Recreation Leaders, Cherl Love and Debbie Alexander; Health and Safety, Peggy Bailey. Health report was given on

leaving toys lay on the floor by Peggy Eaily. The next meeting will be held on May 27th at 1:30 at the school house.

37-Hour Work Week In 1975 WASHINGTON UPI — By 1975, the average American family will be earning $9,525 a year, the average wage earner will be working 37 hours a week, and the chances are that every other person you meet in the street will be under 26 years old. These and other predictions are contained in a report, “U. S. A. and its Economic Future,” prepared by the 20th Century Fund and published today by the MacMillan Co. The report predicts that total national output Mill reach $1 trillion by 1975. This is $400 billion more than the U.S. economy produced last year. The fund made the forecasts with only this qualification“barring war or national disaster.” It said that the U.S. population, which stood at 190 million in 1963, would rise to 235 million, by 1975, with half under 26 years old. Marriages will be running at about 2 million a year and births at more than 5 million, bringing on an even bigger ‘‘baby boom” than the one that followed World War II, according to the report.

And the average worker is expected to be producing in 1975 more than half again as much as he produced in 1962. Despite this glowing outlook, the report warned that the United States must still solve major problems such as unemployment, poverty, and meet social needs.

Parole Discharge INDIANAPOLIS UPI —Convicted slayer Connie Nicholas was given a final discharge from parole. The action means Mrs. Nicholas, convicted in a widely-pub-licized trial here of the gun death of her millionaire lover, drug executive Forrest Teel, is now free to leave Indiana if she chooses. She once said she hoped to “make another life” in another state. The discharge was granted by parole board of the Indiana Woman’s Prison. Mrs. Nicholas has been living in the home of a sister at New Whiteland since her release April 4. 1962, after serving two years of a 2-21 year term imposed on a manslaughter charge.

the English Channel was announced Sunday despite plans for an undersea tunnel to link France with Britain. The ferry service, financed by Britain, France and Norway, will employ two fast-load-ing Norwegian-built ferries on the Southampton-Cherbourg and Southampton-Le Havre routes.

Sheinwold On Bridge Study Dummy For A Moment Before Making First Play By ALFRED SHEENWOLD

Make it a regular habit to study the dummy for a few seconds before making your first play. If you do this even when your first play is automatic your opponents will be unable to tell when your first play is automatic and when It is part

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CHERBOURG, France UPI —A new faster ferryboat service for transporting cars across

PANIC AT THE BALL PARK—Firemen treat an injured woman who was one of 45 injured at Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium when 100 teen-agers, all members of school safety patrols, stampeded past ushers at the park into an escalator that was barracaded at the top. In the resulting panic, which saw those at the top fall backwards plunging into children on the way up, Annette Costantine, 14, of Baltimore was killed having received a severe head injury.

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