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4 Daily Sentino I Leominster Enterprise, June 26, 1974 Baxlj Mttlttaiutittnttrjiitt Merry-Ga-Round Seas Poisoned By JACK ANDERSON WASHINGTON A hlgbly confidential scientific, sludy describes how oil wastes have poisoned sea life, jeopardized commercia! fishing, tarred beaches and made an onen sewer of the Seven Seas. Inflation Rate Unbearable To cut inflation from the current puter. Brimmer found tliat the cost of unbearable 10 or 12 percent to a a cut in inflation to 4 percent by the tolerable i percent, it will take the rest end of 75 would require an unern- of this year arid some of the next. Out- ployment rote well beyond 6 percent, going Andrew Brimmer of the and a suhstaniLal loss output. It wuuld Federal Reserve Board outlined a mix hit hard on blacks and marginal that he believes will brine; down in- whites.

That is why he tempered his Nation with the ieoM damage to the proposal with one for (he human side fewest people. of unemployment. It is a necessary Brimmer has rested, effective Pt of the formula. August 1, to accept a leaching position at Harvard University. He spoke his Moonshofs Valued Moon shots and space probes developed space-age technology that is increasingly being applied to earth-bound problems, many or them outlined in a recent report of the National Aeronautics and Space Ad-miniEtration.

They are helping in problems like sewage disposal to heart ailments. For instance, a device designed as an air speed indicator is being tested in Dallas to measure the movement of effluent through sewer pipes, It is sell-cleaning, has no moving parts and is unaffected by erosion. A rechargeable cardiac pacemaker, smailer than a cigarette pack, and powefed by batteries developed for NASA spacecraft, is now being used These Days mind on inflation in Washington on the television program Washington Straight Talk. The American public should resist the "prospective rate of inflation," because the 7 ir 8 percent he expels at the end or the year, Brimmer said, is too high, and the public should not be willing to tolerate it for a very long time. The formula Brimmer advocated is a tough monetary and fiscal policy coupled with more generous funds for public service jobs to heip soak up higher unemployment.

This would be a "byproduct" of (he fight against inflation. Brimmer agreed with his associate. Chairman of (he hoard Arthur F. Burns, who recently said, "The gravity of our curren( inflationary problem can hardly be overestimated." He warned that. "I do not believe I exaggerate in saying that (he ultimate consequence of inflation could well be a significant decline of economic and political freedom for (he American people." Inflation Major Worry By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN by heart patients.

It controls weak or erratic hearts and is rechargeable for arc afflicted with the 10 to 20 years. Conventional pace- 'double digit'" fidgets. Paul makers must he replaced every 2 years. Samuelson. the Nobel FrUe An inertial guidance system, based economist, thinks ojr "double on the one used by the Lunar Rovers, digit" inflation Is the Number meet the payroll and provide if there is no improvement in something for the investors.

he Debt-Production Ratio? On Ever Upward the record IJic corporations have In our tntnl utiblic and not been roakigg enough money private net debt advanced to in the pas', five years to make are being tested as an unmanned mine One worry of the American Where Brimmer disagreed was that he believes it would be a mistake to re- surveillance vehicle. Equipped with people. Borrowers spending 11 debt over 1972 lumped 11.3 per ly exclusively on an austere monetary television, it would explore mine shafts ZJTZWl ITfoZl (SEi any Teal profits. Obligation Our per capita debt has token a SO per cent jump in five years. The per capita figure for 1969 was SB.S52.

It was $9,117 for 197D, 9,884 for 1971. S10.S60 fiscal mix- By the end of this year, lor explosions and cave-ins. piled blllinn from S557.fi Siillion. tap af another double A system used to analyze the uie.it. surface is being adapted to detect lead- if j-t per cent increase.

This is the figure that most people worry about when they comDlain thai hove to mnke enouch for 1912, and S12.039 for 1973. The individual, of is not personally responsible cor- based ualr.t. which is fatal to children, money he suggested that the nation will have to look toward some form of income policy, or controls, That would be resisted as a tried failure. Through a Federal Reserve com- to cover a 10 per deficit spending is a primary after it has been overlaid. The fallout ,1 tame of our inflated mice mrate or for aovemment dehL The 405-paEe document, prepared by the prestigioi Natjonal Acsdeciy of Sciences, disputes the.

oil industry's massive advertising claims that petroleum production wen't cause environmental- damage. On each of the 100 numbered copies, the academy' stafaped: "This is a working draft. lor Lnternal use only, and it bears no official endorsement Not for Publication DO NOT QUOTE OR But already, the academy has deleted a crucial. section, on the cancer threat from oil dumping. Scientists from Shell and CbevTon oil companies will help prepare the final report.

Therefore, we have to publish the findings before they are watered down. The study shows that more than five million tons or oil wastes are dumped in the ocean each year by tankers, offshore iaiiustries, municipal oil users and oil-spilling motorboal engines. The pro-oil scientists lobbied in the secret sessions, we have learned, to emphasire the natural 7 seepage of urban auto wastes, which are washed into rivers and carried out to sea. The strategy was to minimize Big Oil's sea fouling. 8,000 Oil Spills Although this section was weakened even before it got in draft form, it still shows 8,000 oil spills a year in U.S.

waters alone, alomlst all of it in coastal waters. These accidental spills, bilge flushings and other oil discharges arc killing off birdlife, threatening entire species with extinction. Certain penguins, ducks tid other seabirds are disappearing, the report arns, "These birds." it explains, "spend: most of their lives on (he surface or the SEa They dive in response to disturbances, and if they dive on encountering floating oil, they hecame completely coated." Hecause these gregarious birds flock together, "a small oil slick (can) cause very large casualties," declares the report. "One colony of guillemots (was) reduced by 250.000 in two years, and razorbills which were ance numerous are now estinct as breeders." A poignant passage in the report describes how mother birds coated with oil tried pathetically to hatch eggs but unwittingly covered the eggs with oil. This weakens or kills the baby birds as they are being hatched- Birds that lay only a fev eggs cannot make up far the lasses caused by oil.

On British coasts, ao cording to the study, "90 per cent of stranded 'guillemots have been ailed." The ircorpses are washed upon the beaches along a few miles o( British coastline. The oil companies have responded to the protests of environmentalists by touting "the Louisiana story." Offshore ail derricks, the companies allege, have actually increased sea life in the Gulf of Mexico, Shifted Locations The fishing catches, it's true, haven't diminshed. But the report suggests this is because the fishermen oflcn have shifted locations. Meanwhile, the 25.000 wells and other oil operations have dumped 1.1 million barrels of oi! in the Gutf, tainting the oysters with oily odors and tastes. Oil company canaling and dredging have also let salt water pour into the costal marches vhich eventually destroy oyster and shrimp breeding.

"The time period that the Louisiana fisheries can withstand these alterations is not known." states the report. Only the amazing ability of oysters and shrimp to reproduce under adverse conditions have kept fishing alive in Louisiana, the report suggests. On the other side of the globe in the Caspian Sea, a combination of petroleum pollution and a drop in the water level have reduced (he annual fisning calch from more than 600 million pounds to about 240 million. The study details how oil slicks and spills poison sea life, The hydrocarbons "invade nerve tissue spinal card especially." Mullet exposed to oil suddenly suffer strange fat deposits in their liver. Other fWi simply smother or die shock.

No more than "two-cycle outboard motor affluent," the study found, caused fish to "begin gasping after 24 hours." Tainting Eggs Lobsters in polluted waters produced tainted eggs which taste like paraffin. The oily waters could also spoil the lobster meat, causing "tainting of the white meat, of the tail and finally the claw meat became tainted but only in the most severe cases of pollution," says the report. Another oil company myth demolished bv the of human benefits is unending. rr li i.J f' Nobody taiks about the 1973 But if there should be a national that Makir.H a profit in such a climate necessarily entails pricing policies thai only add to the general sickness. How do we escape from the cut de sac? Every year, in June.

William Pardridge, the editorial director of Economic Inequities in Sinndardsvillc. Virginia, takes thr- combined public and private net debt Injures, us released by the government and compares them in the fiaure for lire Gross Nnlinnol Product. His so-called Debl-Prorliiciion Ratio in Capital Capers Cookbook Not Ordinary By DON MACLEAN u-ould have to take the total rap, for he depends on business for his livelihood and on government for his protection. Even those who live on welfare transfer pments are dependent on the taies that business generates for the food they put in their mouths. A credit collapse, says Mr.

Partridge, would be followed by a welfare payments collapse. The result would be anarchy or dictatorship. The reason is elementary: Welfare is paid out of production. Partridge predicts a 10.1 per cent inflation for 1974. l'aul Samuelson, though he admits to "double digit" inftntion now.

says the "experts-' think the inflation will' recede to seven or eight per cent by the fourth quarter. Query: What have the "experts" ever done about debt, both public and private, in the past five yean to make Samuel-son's optimism more credible than Bill Partridge's S1.M2 billion from S1.713 billion in 1972. a staggering increase of 12 per cent. What bothers Bill Pnrdridge is the five-year drift nf his Dehl-Production Ratio. His refined drbt-production figures from 1SSD to the present show an ever-widening gap between addition to borrowing the Gross National Product.

The DPR for Iflfin wes 2.00. It rose to 2.nR in 15711. lo 2 12 in 1971 to 2.18 in 1972, lo 2.19 in 1971 Pardride.es question is this If the scissor blade that represents debt is always swinging away from the blade that represents product, how can you keep corporate establishments going? U.S. corporations horrowed more in the 1909-73 span than they set aside for tases. dividends and Ir.rSistributctt profits.

Assuming that the borrowings will apy oft over. say. a 20-year period, the fact that the scissor blades have been going part for five years ftould not seem lethal. But what variably ilcmnnslrrltrs 1hat born poiverleEs in cur present cir A little more than 100 yers ago, in England, a rich old dear named Isabella Beeton wrote a cookbook. I bought a copy of it yesterday in an antique shop and, believe me, neighbors, this is no ordinary cookbook.

care and treatment of servants She even lists the" duties of each, such as, "Duties of the Single Footman" "Dirties of the Stableboy." Some of her household remedies sound marvelous. In fact, if Lhty really work, then the sellers uf nutented cumstances to earn enough to provide for the extinguishment of the debts of yesteryear. It follows, as a matter of elemor.lnry logic, that we are risking creilit collapse unless wc find a way of turning debt Not only does it run to 2.036 pages fit's just about twice as thick as the products are reallv fooline the miblic Manhattan phone book), but' it also For instancei "Ants, Cut lemons inlo into an increase the Gross contains household hints and tips on slices and place around the haunts of National Product that v. ill cov i inci.t,n i ji. interest and amortiiation 1 uy addiicn lc earmnff cnDHgh 0 Liberal Left Balanced A Word About South By JEFFREY HART 1 is reony a monumental work.

In 7S her foreward, Mrs. Beeton wrote, in 0f course' somc thE tructions 1861, "I must frankly own that, if I are "0 anger as useful as they once had known before hand the labor which ere: sm To dry- this book has entailed, I should never tcurl an ostricli fealher- have been courageous enough to 'f 10 This should be commence it "onB in 0Den a'r Possible." Playing cards, to clean Rub them Since that time, condensed versions on both sides with a little butter on of Mrs. Beeton cookbook have been a piece of clean flannel. Then polish produced regularly and it is probably with another piece of flannel dipped the best-selling cookbook of all time in dry flour." (In typing that. I was in the English-speaking world.

Most tempted to add, "serves people, of course buy it for the wealth There arc some tips which are truly of recipes. But I like it Tor the funny surprising. For Instance: "Screws little instructions. (The condensed rusted, to loosen, Apply a piece of modern versions do not include many red-hot iron to the head of the screw. and when it has become hot, the screw A judicious choice of friends is most can easily be removed with a essential to the happiness of a screwdriver." household.

An acquaintance who in- I tried that on a neakv screw thai' From time to lime Agrarian themes met with a sympathetic hearing they would not have received, say 15 years column. 1 have had The Southern Agrarian position, from the start, has bn suspicious of Industrial and eommcrical giantism, and of the tendency to ever greater Stress do the refer to a student organization at Dartmouth called the Dartmouth Commlllee for In tellectual Alternatives (DC1A). It was formed a few vears What Southern Agrarian writers say tc us. both a 1J30 and in 1974? Their uulges in scandal about her friends been defying me for days ard it a' alumrl al)pport. for should he avoided like a pestilence." worked! Thanks Mrs Beeton tnc Purpose of bringini Mrs.

Becton even has 14 Daces, with whin-over ln, spcaiim the campus, the sympathetic response-in a North now conscious or the need for conservation. Durham, N.H., has just voted against a stress, for one thing. Is on what Burke called the little platoon; thn Irtfnl pnmmnnltv thn Idea belni to counteract, if locality, and the region! They proposed oil refinery. Bicycles posmoic. ne prevailing noerai ublc.

the prevailing liberal atmosphere, osphere. have a sense, given their fhi and particularly to Southern background, of the on New ffamosh and Ver something different South as a distinctive culture; mont roads diagrams, on various ways lu iold napkins! She gets them into all sorts George McGovem and Barry of shapes flowers, hosts, fans, etc. Goldwater can both tell you what Numerous pages are devoted to the happens when you speak your mind. frcn the stream of liberal-left thn Rnuth. vm hut ului ih report is the cheery talk of cleaning up oil spills.

The study shows that mechanical means, although usually safe enough, are often ineffective. Bui the ballyhooed "despersanls," which seem to mrke oil disappear, can cause even morse damage than the oil. The dispersants may make it easy for marin animals lo ingest the oil into their systems. Dispersants may also pollute fresh water or even brackish water longer, with greater danger, than oil. When the Torrey Canyon gushed oil into the sea, was the dispersants that did much of the damage.

FOOTNOTE: We wilt report on the deleted findings about the cancer threats in another column. speakers who customarily visit distinctive regions within tho The Southern Agrarians hope the campus On the average Soulli, Virginia is different from to preserve a balance between campus, the spectrum of Georgia, East Texaj from rural and urban modes of life, strclchcs all the way central and West Texas, anil so to retain in the society a uib-rrom Aliard Lowenstein Id en. stantial relation to the land. Julian Bond. again.

Prof, Bradford got But th.s kind of regonalsm jnKiM hearlne In the Those Were The Days Attempted But Not Completed -sccwr sponsored is emmenuy transiaiab nlo 'n. recently oy the uuii was a otnet places, even urban pi city of a decade sgo, synv spectacular departure rrom the One student saw ft as boll jed bv Harvev Coi's niein usual camnus Uiini: aorotessor suosesthie that thP from the University of Dallas of a Polish neighborhood in 1. Ktank H. Foss of Filchburg Jellnltely named Mel Bradford. announced his candidacy for the Republican 1 of Its particular r-Mi nil nil nnH i "Jil" tredltlons and dlsUnclfvenesl 1.1...

nomhatlor, for Congress In the third ii. doubt on the urban and in- Today In History dustrial future. lilslrlcl' founded at Vanderbllt University during the 1920s YEARS AGO 1941) known as Southern Agrarian Ism, and Including Installation of large turbo-generator In some of the most Important the Saiwycr Paisway plant addition row modern American poels and under lrcj by Fltchburg Ga, ft Electne Light Co. will assure Ibo city of Brd othen. llradtotd.

moreover. Plely There was, too. respectful attention given to the SouUiem Agrarians' metaphysics, a roilfious position emnded In Bible Digest By H. B. DEAN "For whosoever shall keep any ready or clear position on consist electric power even times of is pot only a siudcn of their HrKl orfrr-J Uiaaford put it.

Compllrt bj SUE PV.RCIVAL VEABS AGO (1899) From all oppcaances an attempt was made to enter the store in tbe Iver Johnson building, recently occupied by J.H. Broirtseu Co. A shut used In getting coal Into the back windows was found standing against the building, reaching up to the street floor, and this had been used for a ladder. Working from this point, tho thief was able 10 pry open the windows nearly an inch, using a short iron bar. The catch Inside refused to give way and the more desperate means or smashing the whole window was not resorted to.

J5 TEARS AGO 1M4) Consideration of the installation of a sewer on Carton Street at a cost of SI6.000 was the principal item of business on the of tho public works committee of -the city couimI tmergenty resumng irprn stcrrns or otner In one point, he Is guilty of fades Albert Neil, president and all." James ii 10 The Southern Agrarians, then and now. do not seem to have In 1M1. Finland announced it was at war with the Soviet Un' lon-for the aecond time in two; years. In 1M. Allied forces captured Cherbourg, France Irorrf the Nails.

Ten years asor The Romair; Catholic Church- and the ish government said they had; reached basic agreement oii proposed legislation to gtant lev gal twojnitlon and certairf. rights lo Spain' pitAeslants. Five year ago: There wf.rH; serious outbreaks of racial vlo. lence in Omaha, Calre and Kckcmo. Ind.

Ore year The U.S-House Represe'niativeft passed a bill barring the use ofc funds for AmeHcln manager announced. Tbo Increased Southern Airarlan who Is also By The AiiHltled Press Today Is Wednesday. June 25, the 177th day of 1971. Thtre re OS days left in the year. Today's highlight In history On Ihfs date In 1915.

delceitcs 50 nations, meeting In San Francisco, signed the United Nations Charter. On this date: In 1H1. the Sptnljh conductor. Francisco Pirano. was Idlled in Lima.

Peru. In IMS, the 17 provinces of Tho Netherlands were declared Independent of the flolT Human Empire, In IsH, President John Tyler married Julia Gardiner in a secret wedding In Hew York. In 1S35, compulsory labor service was introduced in Nari Germany, producUon capacity ol the elecbic plant ti litiT TorTan to TP the com- tade. Sea what strain it would their narticulartsm. vary would is scheduled lo be ready far use at tha irjandmenu or the law? It is not the law of God but the love ine law loq dui ire rave rf twiPM ih cna uia year.

wow Hanover, ffew Hamp- A break In the day bast wive which shlrV far tln Jtlli and white communities, hit Ffhi-Shiir tntianfeu 8,1 Itjeologltfll sense of the fulness of that love came Into hit Fftchburg airddenly and sent word, as yw can get' In being when' Jesus was bom. But at a time when the city the mercury plunging from So to 70 lll nere uw 10 lovca.uie worm cf BosKm, ia voting 151 against give New Etigland close to normal weather wini nu Bflve ins omy oegouen 10 recti ousing, ICW new for the neit few days, accord 'ni to a Boston Wr-hster and the Ifnfcn cause, Son that whosoever belieyeth in Englandets were ready to i uays, auura.ngioairtHian Bri(iford made qliJtB Bn HJm should not perijlt but have condescend to their visltort presskm and his Southern tverlasting perplexity here, forecaster,.