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SI Hi Hail; Im. IMjKm. trim, kx I i It. i li ll VI ii i Hi -JJi ti-mim i i ll ill ll lilt "m- We're Cleaning Our Storeroom UU UUUUUI-l-w- 7m rT' (6; 1 I. t-Jr- mnrtniVi Aim Chess mafes? American grandmaster, expected in Reykjavik yesterday, again failed to show up.

Although Fischer had been booked on a flight from New York, he never boarded the plane. There was hope, however, that he would arrive today. Chesj pros Boris Spassky (Ict) of the Soviet Union end American Bobby Fischer ponder moves in separate notches. Spossky and Fischer are scheduled to meet Sunday in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the world chess championship. However, the eccentric and contentious i i ii i ri i i hi scanning science Windmill has a friend Los Angeles Times News Service CAPE FOULWEATHER, sweeping the Oregon coast are so strong a team of scientists is studying the possibility of harnessing them as a source of electrical power.

Several Oregon utility companies have provided a three-year, $132,030 grant to Meteorologist E. Wendel Hewson of Oregon State University and his associates to see if wind-powered generators are economically feasible. As a first step, detailed wind data are being collected all along the Oregon coast and fed into computers. Hewson said he envisions a string of giant windmills strung along the coast towers with pairs of hollow, open-tip blades approximately 100 feet long. FIESTA ARMSTRONG OZITE MERRYWEATHER all colors with foam back f7 (of 12x12 Vy mm mm mm mm mm pbv hrr-f I closeout ot I If -T I n.

I II 0Sl- -4 1 atx it Mt ill id I VIMYI ASRKTOS TILE I Natural gas industry bets on fuel cell as power source NEWSDAY ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.-It does not make noise or pollution. It requires no overhead clutter of poles and wires. It conserves dwindling fuel resources. It produces ample electricity for all household purposes. It is the fuel cell, the natural gas industry's hopeful answer to the nationwide power crisis.

The fuel cell is a complex but compact device that transforms natural gas into electricity at the site where the power is used. An offspring of the Apollo space program and still highly experimental, the fuel call has been field-tested at only four locations. The first test site is at a model home here, where a fuel cell was activated in January. As do most homes, the northeast Albuquerque house has an array of lights, appliances and television sets. Power for them all, however, comes from two blue metal boxes fed only by natural gas.

One about four feet tall, four feet wide, two feet deep and capped by a shiny air intake stack-stands outdoors. The other, slightly smaller, is inside. Together, they produce 12 kilowatts of electricity, five times the amount used by an average family. A cooperative venture of 32 gas companies across the country, the fuel cell has been under development since 1967. It is to be tested extensively this year at 37 locations in 19 states and the District of Columbia.

The market potential of the device, however, may not be known before 1980. If the fuel cell does pan out, it could represent a dramatic advance in the generation of electricity. As gas-company officials are only too eager to point out, there is a long list of advantages that the fuel cell has over all standard methods of power production. In environmental terms, the fuel cell helps conserve natural-gas supplies by producing electricity while consuming one-third less fuel than conventional gas burning steam generators. The fuel cell has as by-products only minute quantities of water vapor and carbon dioxide, both harmless nonpollutants.

Eliminated are the sulfur dioxides, nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons and particulate matter now spewed into the atmosphere by power plants fueled by coal, oil and gas. Thermal pollution, a major deterrent to the development of nuclear-powered generators, is also practically nonexistent with fuel cells. The negligible amount of heat emitted by the cell is easily dissipated in the air. (Lst Angflei TimtsWtihingtsn Post Ntwi Servlet) New oil pumping scheme unveiled New York Times News Service WASHINGTON A professor at Stanford University and one of his former students have been granted a patent for a method of transporting arctic and sub-arctic oil through a pipeline at subfreezing temperatures to avoid environmental damage. Sulli-v a Marsden Jr.

of the Department of Petroleum Engineering at Stanford and Stephen C. Rose, who is now with the Atlantic Richfield Co. at Midland. Texas, received the patent A cold oil-in-brine emulsion is to be pumped through large-diameter, insulated, underground pipeline. At the discharge point the oil will be recovered liquid form by heating the emulsion.

Dissolved natural gas and suspended tar can also be transported. I ICV w. mm i i rm mm rcra i earn ll -1 I I IL Footprint found in Africa gorge Los Angeles Times News Service The footprint of a child, at least half a million years old, has been found in one of a series of small pits in the famous Olduvai Gorge of Tanzania. Mary Leakey, who with her husband Louis S. B.

Leakey has spent her life making archeological finds in East Africa, found the footprint at one of the upper levels of the gorge, according to an announcement of the National Geographic Society. The society funds the Leakey explorations. Mrs. Leakey first found a complex of pits and small channels that had been dug, apparently in soft mud. Mrs.

Leakey reported that in several of the pits there are clear traces of finger marks showing how the pits were scooped out. In the bottom of one she found most of a human footprint, probably the left foot of a small child, the society reported. TV sneaks peeks inside SAN FRANCISCO in the color television show complete with Instant replays of dissolving aspirin isn't headed for the top of the TV ratings. But doctors are finding that the videotaped peeks inside man are useful diagnostic and teaching tool. Dr.

J. Alfred Rider of San Francisco says that medical and technological advances have made possible color telecasts from within a living human stomach or other "hollow" organs with outside access. He said the TV glimpses of the stomach will allow detection of early cancer, small ulcers and bleeding caused by aspirin or other medicines that can't be spotted by X-rays. Rider said the $70,000 color TV dev ices, complete with instant replay capability, are most valuable as teaching aids since large numbers of students can view the internal organs at once and the pictures can be permanently recorded. Vaccine curbs meningitis SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A new vaccine has produced a dramatic drop in the number of meningitis cases that long have plagued Army basic training centers, an official of the Army Surgeon General's office has announced.

The routine vaccination of all trainees, started last October, has produced a drop in the case rate to 1 in 10,000 per year, Lt. Col. Philip E. Winter of the Army's Surgeon Generals office said. Only 11 cases and one death were reported in the first six months of the vaccination program, Winter said.

He added that only one case developed in a vaccinated GI, and compared this with 124 cases and eight deaths in the same period a year earlier. Flying saucers topic raised LOS ANGELES (UPI) Where did all the flying saucers go? They are still buzzing around. Just wait and see. That's the word from Dr. J.

Allen Hyncd, chairman of the astronomy I department of Northwestern University and for years one of the i most enthusiastic and credible believers in the existence of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). Hynek told a news confer-1 ence here the fact that the reported sightings of saucers has dropped so sharply since the 1963s when they seemed to pop up almost weekly does not mean they do not exist. "By the same token, one might say that although we don't have a smallpox epidemic right now, it doesn't mean that smallpox does not exist." I BAMBOO mm DRAPES IM 1 Kentile Vinyl WOODGRAIN plank yH 4x36 080 gauge Uc0' Stair Treads 2 ft. Vinyl FEATURE STRIP 2- Ceramic 2x6 TRIM TILE Ch 4VxAV CERAMIC TILE tL Ml. Ooos mm obti Bc 1,000.

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Penalties for violation of fireworks laws include fines of up to $100. Annuo Percentage Rate 12.29 uine encephalitis in the Pacific state of Nayarit has been brought under control, health authorities said yesterday. They said the localized outbreak was due to the fact that 55,000 of Nayarit states 00 horses had not been vaccinated in a national drive last December. Four humans hospitalized with symptoms of the disease recovered. CALL OR WRITE MID-PENN NATIONAL MORTGAGE CO.

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