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Weather Theaters Buchwald 2B 7B SB Bil SECTION News ROCHESTER, N. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1967 $74 Million Nuclear 'Breadbox' King ws to Fuel of Future Coal Ask Readers HELP! Snow Plowing Tax But No Sidewalk Q. We recently received our city tax bill and have found we have been charged with sidewalk snow plowing, which seems a bit unfair, as there are no sidewalks on our side of the street. Can something be done about this? MRS. J.A.E., ROCHESTER A.

Yes, indeed. This seems a most unfair situation and Mrs. Isobel Powers, city treasurer, is quick to agree such should not be the case. She is writing you to let you know how you may receive a rebate if you already have paid your taxes. Others faced with a similar situation should write her directly in care of City Hall, 30 Broad St.

W. 14614. By DON BYINGTON Democrat and Chronicle Science Writer A breadbox full of uranium can produce as much heat as 3 million tons of coal or more, depending on the size of the breadbox. An adaptation of this basic 20th century fact is propelling U. S.

nuclear submarines around the world and will soon be brought home when Rochester Gas Electric Corp. opens its Ginna nuclear reactor plant at Brookwood early in 1969. To families and business in tary films during its passage through the Welland Canal. When assembled at the new site on Lake Road, 13 miles east of Seabreeze, the plant will have three basic sections: An atomic furnace to produce heat, a heat exchanger to produce steam and a traditional steam turbine-generator to produce electricity. The difference between uranium and coal as fuel sources is pointed up by the fact that a coal boiler needs to be stoked almost continuously while the uranium fuel rods can stay in the reactor for more than three years.

Once in operation, one- be provided by the Atomic Energy Commission, which will also exert tight control over operation of the plant. Pressurized water will flow past the reactor core to remove the heat produced. The superheated water then goes to a heat exchanger that acts a lot like the radiator on an automobile. A second water system picks up the heat and produces steam, which is piped to a conventional turbine-generator. Outside of the atomic furnace, the plant will operate the same as if the steam were produced by a coal-fired boiler.

third of the rods will be replaced every 13 months. The fuel involved is an enriched uranium oxide that comes in pellet form about the size of the first joint of your little finger. The pellets are placed in 12-foot steel alloy tubes and more than 21,000 of these rods will be used in the reactor core. The rate of reaction and the amount of heat produced will be controlled by about 500 control rods. These rods have the capacity of absorbing free neutrons and controlling or stopping the reaction.

Atomic fuel for the plant will the Rochester area, it will mean: A new supply of 450,000 kilowatts of electricity for future growth. Less air pollution. A spokesman said yesterday 12,000 to 13,000 tons of coal a week would be needed to produce the same amount of electricity. Generator components for the Brookwood plant have begun to arrive and the nuclear reactor vessel is expected within the next three weeks. The basic idea behind the new Brookwood plant is simple: You use a controlled nuclear reaction to produce heat rather than using coal, gas or oil.

But to turn this basic idea into reality will cost $74 million. You get an idea of where the money is going when you take a look at the size of the equipment involved. The two generators that were recently floated down the St. Lawrence Seaway weigh 200 tons each and are more than 60 feet long. The reactor vessel, made in the Midwest, weighs more than 200 tons and is being floated in from Chicago.

The company plans to make some documen Could you tell me where I can get the Farmers Almanac? I can't find any around here. MRS. H.R.U., ROCHESTER A. This wonderfully fascinating reference book contains outstanding gems of wisdom and also makes daily predictions Oct. 24 chipmunks hibernate today.

Many folks wouldn't be without a copy and our farm editor Frank Lonergan keeps a copy at bedside. Most bookstores and large magazine stands have copies, or you may write to: The Old Farmers Almanac, Dublin, N.II. 03444. Price is 50 cents. Two years ago I paid for a N.Y.

a LIE IkMgllSM State registered nurse's license and permit. I received a permit but not my license number, in spite of a letter and telegram to the state. Can vou HELP? A.A.R.. ROCHESTER A. You can HELP! also by filling out the form the state sent you July 13, 1966, and returning it.

In case it has been lost, the state nurse licensing department is sending you another. I am doing an oral report and BROOM BOOM-A11 over the city, in special, secret spots, practice runs are being made by prospective witches and goblins for next Tuesday's Halloween festivMcHcre Paddyllifl School are Donna Tumser, Jeffery Bonhen, Nancy Petersen and John Puleo, all 8 years old and in third grade. term paper on "capitol punishment." If you could help me find some information on this topic, I would appreciate it very much. J.F., PERRY A. Many New York citizens feel we do get a great deal of "capitol punishment" from Albany each year.

But aside from that, HELP! would again like to remind our younger readers that you will get a great deal more out of your homework assignments if you do the research yourself at your library. One tip, though it's "capital" punishment you should look under. Charter Opposed Firemen Offer Safety Tape For Costumes School Boards D.A Spurns Judge Race John C. Little county district attorney, has withdrawn from consideration for appointment to the county judgeship vacated several weeks ago by the death of Harry L. Rosenthal.

"If it is known privately that I was not a candidate, now it will be known publicly," Little said yesterday in a letter to "My dear Mr. Murphy," (County Republican Chairman Ralph Murphy). Little also notified the Mon- My problem involves the unused By JOYCE WILSON, Democrat and Chronicle Education Writer Take your children to the fire-house nearest you before Halloween it may save their lives. Firemen are distributing free reflective tape to be placed on the goblin and witch costumes youngsters will be wearing in the evening and night hours for trick-and-treating. The tape project is sponsored by the Rochester Fire Bureau and Post 2834, Veterans of Foreign Wars.

"We feel this is a good safety feature," Chief Edward C. Trougott said of the tape. "The strips of tape glow in the dark so our children will be seen by motorists while they are crossing streets, even if they do have dark costumes." County, which includes school districts east of the Genesee River. Robert Greis, president of the East Irondequoit School Board, spoke against the resolution, saying: "BOCES boards are far removed from the people they serve." Other resolutions passed, all of which seek legislation upholding the proposals, would provide for: The right of a citizen to bring court action against the federal government, particu larly regarding the allocation of funds to non-public schools. The question is being considered now by the Supreme Court.

An automatic annual adjustment in the state's per pupil aid to meet the difference between operating expenditures and the state aid ceiling. State aid for pupil transportation in the first year of the service, which is now paid entirely by the local district. The association also went on record as opposed to the state lottery. 2nd Child Taken by Fibrosis half of a round-trip plane ticket (TWA) for Paris-New York City, valued at $208.80. The ticket was purchased in December 1966 from a French office of Skyways Coach Air, Ltd.

The Paris to New York City trip was made but the return trip had to be canceled because of illness in the family. On Jan. 27, I returned the unused portion of the ticket to TWA for a refund. In the intervening eight and one-half months I do not have my refund (small to them large to me), in spite of extended correspondence. I now turn to you for HELP! D.L.W., PITTSFORD A.

And HELP! you will get in the form of a check for $208.80, mailed to you from TWA's Kansas City office last Friday afternoon. Three cables to London were involved and TWA still doesn't have the international aspects of the problem resolved. But, they agree 8V2 months is a bit too much. You get the cash and they'll work out the kinks on their time. Central President Spells It Out On April 1, 1966, Mr.

and Mrs. Elmer S. Eberhard of 84 Seyle lost one of their six children to cystic fibrosis. Laura Ann Eberhard was seven when she died. Yesterday (Oct.

23, 1967) cystic fibrosis took a second child from the Eberhards Nancy Marie, 11. She died at Strong Memorial Hospital. And, unless a cure for the he How is it consumers in our area By JAMES R. STEAR reditary disease is found, their youngest daughter, Pamela 5, will die in her early teens. Cystic fibrosis attacks the SYRACUSE The New York State School Boards Association yesterday voted to oppose the proposed new state constitution.

Only about a dozen of some 400 voting delegates opposed the anticonstitution resolution. One of them, Mrs. Florence Cullen of Levittown, said: "We shouldn't go on record against aid to children unless we are bigots." Another opposing speaker said: "We would be inhumane if we say we won't give parochial schools any help. We must, and do, assume some responsibility" The thrust of the opposition to the proposed state charter is aimed at its elimination of the Blaine Amendment, which prohibits state funds for non-public schools. One speaker warned: "There is already a pre-filed bill in the state Senate to send mathematics, science and language teachers into non-public schools." The resolution opposing the constitution was one of 12 adopted in a session at the Hotel Syracuse.

Some delegates, including about 100 from Monroe County, are attending the convention. Robert A. Dudley of Fairport was chairman of the resolutions committee. Among the resolutions passed was one presented by the Rochester School Board to extend state aid based on daily attendance to summer, evening and adult education programs. The resolution was seconded by Mrs.

George W. Cooke, vice i of the Rochester Board. The delegates voted to seek legislation to give to member boards of a Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) the authority to issue bonds through the State Dormitory Authority without a public referendum. A provision was made for a permissive referendum, which could be requested through a citizens' petition. The Fairport Board of Education, of which Dudley was president from 1956 to this year, and the Greece Board were both opposed to the resolution.

Dudley is now a member of the BOCES I board in Monroe usually are not able to purchase milk in half-gallon or gallon cartons? Housewives here are as much interested in saving and convenience as housewives in many other cities where these sizes are sold in supermarkets. MRS. N.T., ROCHESTER A. The mini-milk packaging question was investigated by HELP! which learned from one of the largest dairies in the area that half-gallon containers are readily available in markets and by home delivery. However, they told HELP! that only one dairy in the area, DeRyke at 1985 Ridge Road East, still supplies milk in the gallon container apparent- roe County Bar Association "so they will not unnecessarily send out my name in the poll of the attorneys who are associated with that group." Murphy had submitted the names of Little and seven others for a bar poll.

Little resigned from the bar association in January, after 35 years of membership. He did' not explain the action, but it came after the association voted that the district attorney and his staff should not engage in private law practice and that the names of the district attorney candidates should be submitted to the association for a poll. Little's withdrawal from the judgeship race came just in time for his name to be removed from the poll. Daniel G. Kennedy, in charge of the poll, said printing of the ballots would probably begin today.

The other seven persons are David O. Boehm, president of the bar association; James Butler, Irondequoit GOP leader and ex-FBI agent and public safety commissioner; Max Cohen, deputy corporation counsel, 1938 to 1943; Lloyd Hurst, member of the state Commission for Human Rights, and the only Negro of the seven; John A. Mastrella, first assistant district attorney; Leo T. Minton, former city judge and retired county legal adviser, and Hastings Morse former assemblyman. Two others who disavowed interest in the judgeship are John P.

DeCesare, Republican candidate for City Council's Northwest District, and Vice Mayor Hyman B. Freeman, GOP candidate for the East District. They want to avoid a Democratic charge that they could afford to lose the councilmanic elections because they would be appointed a judge. Little said his letter should' not be construed as endorsing anyone else for the job. glandular organs.

Physicians had diagnosed her condition when she was three. They found it present in Laura Ann and Pamela at birth. Their father said last night there has been no indication that Paul, 15; Sam, 6, and Mary, 8, are victims. Nancy Marie was hemorrhag there just hasn been the required demand 'or others to do so. They're dropping you a etter to invite you to join their gallon home to ing when she was taken Burglars Get $4,900 in 2 Breakins Burglars made two big hauls in the county, one at a Henrietta restaurant and the other in Gates, the Sheriff's Office reported yesterday.

At the Passport Restaurant, 363 Jefferson Road, Henrietta, $2,316 in cash and nearly $200 in checks were stolen from a cash register found pried open. Sheriff's Detective Raymond Braun said the only sign of a breakin was a 15-inch window at the rear of the dining room. The window had been smashed and the intruder would have had to be extremely small to get through it, the detective said. The burglary occurred between 2:30 and 7:45 a.m. yesterday.

At the Modern Materials 90 Lee Road, Gates, theieves pried open a large safe and set off tear gas devices in doing so. Despite the gas, they stayed and stole $500 in cash and about $1,900 in checks from the strongbox, Detective Braun and Gates Officer John Arnold reported. The thugs also smashed a large sliding glass door to give them room to work on. the safe. The entry occurred between 3 p.m.

Saturday and 8 a.m. yesterday. delivery service. Cardinal Mooney High School has New York Central president Alfred E. Perlman rolled into town yesterday on one of his own trains.

He had lunch with 100 freight shippers, words with Mayor Lamb and a message for train riders. The message: Passenger service is so sick it's doomed a terminal case, you might say. The theme had been sounded before, in Public Service Commission hearings and talks with newsmen. But yesterday he spelled it out a little more clearly. "We cannot compete with the federal Treasury in our passenger business," he said, pointing to big subsidies received by other modes of passenger transport.

He told the freight shippers, gathered at the Rochester Club, that they were being charged to compensate for some of the passenger deficit. "If freight shippers want the present passenger service and want to pay for it, they're welcome to," he said. "If the city wants it and they want to pay for it, they're welcome to. But under the free enterprise system, somebody's got to." He made it clear that it would not be the New York Qw Strong Oct. 14.

Physicians stopped the bleeding and she was to have been brought home last Saturday. Nancy Marie was forced to drop out of Holy Redeemer School two years ago, before the family moved from North Street. But she was tutored at home and was doing sixth grade work. Her father is manager of a science club with meetings twice a month. We need guest speakers to come to our school for talks.

Can you HELP? K.D. M.W., ROCHESTER A. Rochester Gas Electric Co. has an excellent (and free) series of science programs, including films and speakers cn a host of topics from simple electrical safety to nuclear power. They're contacting you.

Other interested parties may write to: Schuyler Baldwin, director of public relations, 89 East Rochester 14604. Ridge North Park Lanes, 711 Road Irondequoit. "Nancy Marie took it very ALFRED PERLMAN Central. The Central, he noted, is in business to make profit not as a public service. Perlman said comparisons with foreign, government-owned railways were unfair because they can "afford" to operate at a loss.

He cited a Japanese passenger deficit of over $400 million last year, a Danish defi- Please turn page hard when Laura Ann died. he said. "Her brothers and sisters knew Nancy Marie had cystic fibrosis, and Nancy knew it, too. But she never talked to us about it. Pam doesn't know she has it.

She's too young." IHelpSl Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, N.Y., 14614.