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Miser Dies; Taught at VU Dr. Wilson Lee Miser, 87, of Adrian. professor emeritus of mathematics at Vanderbilt University, died Thursday in a Cleveland, Ohio, hospital. Services will be at 3 p.m. Monday at Woodlawn Funeral Home.

Burial will be in Woodlawn Memorial Park. MISER, WHO until recently taught math at Adrian College in Adrian, was visiting his son in Berea, Ohio, at the time of his death. A native of Pea Ridge, Miser received a bachelor's degree from the University of Arkansas in 1908, a master's from Yale University in 1911 and a doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1913. He joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 1925 as a math professor and became chairman of the Department of Applied Mathematics in 1945. The university's board of trust made him professor emeritus when he retired in 1951.

SURVIVORS INCLUDE three sons, Dr. Hugh Miser, of Connecticut, John Miser, Knoxville, and' James Miser, Berea; and a daughter, Mrs. Mary Miser Hamilton of New York. The family asks that memorial contributions be made to the Nellie Pyle Miser Fund at Vanderbilt School of Engineering, which was named for Miser's late wife. Shop DOWNTOWN Sears Custom Nuclear Breeder Reactor Due in Use '1 Year Late' By NAT CALDWELL Tennessean Staff Correspondent PITTSBURGH A $7 million nuclear breeder reactor, capable of creating cheap energy, will be constructed at Oak Ridge by 1981 a year behind schedule a Westinghouse Corp.

official said here yesterday. The breeder reaction plant will be capable of producing steam for generating electricity, just as coal and present nuclear plants do, but at the same time it will breed more energy than it expends. GEORGE HARDIGG, general manager of Westinghouse's Advanced Nuclear Division, is optimistic about the breeder in spite of opposition from those who say it has "too many bugs." "We'll make it with the demonsration-sized plant about a year behind the time target," Hardigg said. The president of Exxon Nuclear Co. told this writer in an interview six weeks ago "There are SO many bugs in the breeder, it'll not even get to the post before 1995.

By that time nuclear fusion and other energy techniques will have whizzed by it." HARDIGG, interviewed at his office in Westinghouse's new $20 million breeder design and laboratory center in a Pitsburgh suburb, already had heard what Exxon thought. "Certainly, they're big enough to have a viewpoint and rich enough to assure it some support," he remarked. 9:30 a.m. 'til What Hardigg says and what he does about the breeder and its future may, for years to come, be of special interes in Tennessee's Midstate area. That's because he grew up in Nashville and graduated from Vanderbilt.

He often visits Nashville, where his only son now attends Vanderbilt. HARDIGG, A Vanderbilt graduate, said the prototype the Oak Ridge breeder will be installed and operating under test conditions at Harford, by 1977. "That will give 11S years of safety testing before our own demonstration plant starts up in 1981," he said. "We'll be checked out by then or we'll be dead by then." However, Hardigg said much safety testing of the nuclear breeder already has been done by Europeans who have also been working with the system. HE FORESEES Tennessee as the center of breeder power generation for all the formative years of this particular nuclear process with "no dangers and many thousands of extra jobs for Tennesseans." He said he expects TVA and the Atomic Energy Commission, after they have operated the small commercial demonstrator at Oak Ridge for a while, will be ordering a far larger, millionkilowatt breeder, to be built at TVA site.

"The full-size 9 p.m. commercial plant should be operating by 1984 or 1985," he suggested. "Not too long beyond that time the breeder should be off and going as a commercial, profit-making venture and as the very best protector and extender of our natural resources." "WHAT IS THE breeder reactor in words that the average man can understand?" Hardigg was asked. "It's the compound interest machine of the energy business," he answered. "You start off with a waste material, Uranium 238, that AEC has a 400-year supply of.

You set off the fission and you get heat for running power generators, plus a bigger supply of nuclear feedstock than you started off with. Spain-NATO Tie Said U.S. Goal PARIS Le Monde reported yesterday that the United States is trying to bring Spain into an association with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and said that discussions on the subject have been under way for several weeks in Washington and Madrid. The newspaper said the talks were begun on the initiative of Secretary of State. MADISON 9:30 a.m.

(Continued From Page One) County schools for seven years. John Sullivan, Educator, Dies HE MOVED to Nashville in 1953 to become assistant superintendent of the old Davidson County school system. He was in charge, of business affairs system and was primarily responsible for selecting new school sites in the years preceding metropolitan government. With the coming of Metro he became executive secretary of the teachers' retirement and insurance office in the consolidated system. He retired in 1971.

Sullivan was a former president of the Middle Tennessee Education Association and a member of the Metro Nashville Education Association. He had served many years as secretary treasurer of the Tennessee Association of School Administrators. Sullivan was a member of the Church of Christ and the Nashville Civitan Club. He was also active in the Bryson lowa Senate Starts Early DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Lawmakers in the Iowa Senate have addusted their schedules to the state's new 55 mph speed limit. The Senate normally convenes at 9 a.m.

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