The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 15

Fresno Area Hospitals Combat Energy Shortage Bg Karl Kidder grams to help conserve energy At VMC for example everything indoors excluding patients' rooms and wards is being maintained at a maximum 68 degrees The hospitals have designated staff members to oversee the energy conservation program and the situation is being discussed at the weekly staff meetings Close liaison is maintained with physicians to assure that patient care is not impaired All members of the staffs are cautioned to turn off lights and appliances not in use to keep windows closed and maintain thermostats at minimum levels Staffers are encouraged to walk between floors rather than use elevators by the AHA Engineers are checking boiler to prevent the wasting of -fuel via faulty equipment and in most instances one person is delegated to check all faucets for leaks at least once a week Special decorative lighting is being held at a minimum Again at VMC as an example instead of Yule trees throughout the hospital only one will be lighted and that one is outside between the two main hospital buildings from which patients can see it The usual lavish outside Yule decorations at Fresno Veterans Administration Hospital also will be missing this season Officials say only a few trees will be light ed in patient areas Many hospitals are establishing car pools to help cope with the gasoline Fresno area hospitals believe they have everything in readiness to maintain patient services and comfort in the face of the threatened energy crunch In most insititutions steps already have been taken to conserve gas and electricity and their administrators are relying heavily on promised priorities in fuel oil allocations this winter and next President Nixon signed into law last Tuesday a bill which assures hospitals this priority but in the meantime all local hospitals are policing themselves to cooperate in the conservation of gas and electricity In the case of an electrical brownout for instance none of the hospitals or their patients would suffer because all have emergency generators which switch on automatically at even temporary disruption of power The generators are diesel-operated At Valley Medical Center last year 10-000 gallons of fuel oil were used Manuel Perez the administrator believes as much as 70000 gallons will be needed this coming year to maintain boiler operations which normally run on natural gas have been told to expect interruptions of gas service in the coming Perez said we figure we will need the extra In line with guidelines issued by the American Hospital Association for member institutions across the nation local facilities have or are instituting broad pro Valley Medical Center administrator Manuel Peres is all wrapped up in the energy crisis Because his staff chilled at the thought that Peres may become cold during the energy crunch they bought him a shawl so he could stay warm Bee Photo The Fresno Bee Monday Dec 3 1973 Page B1 Of Directors Form Task Force To Conserve Energy Trend? Agency Studies Downtown Office Site GLASS RECYCLING Could you please give me information on a place to sell crushed glass Jars bottles etc? I believe there is such a place which buys glass on certain days Also is there any other outlet to help the glass ecology BBW Clovis Glass Co at Avenue 12 and Road (go up 99 to Avenue 12 offramp) buys glass Fridays from 8 am to 5 pm and on Saturdays 8 am to noon pays $20 per ton takes any amount Plan is in the works to pay a penny a bottle regardless of size Seller must have a weight ticket for weighing station at Herndon and 99 Glass must be reasonably clean ie no mayonnaise clinging to sides Any color is acceptable Says manager Jim Brock taking all the glass we can get raw material is very short and we have had to lay off a number of He would like to have some group set up a collection station in Fresno Other outlet Miss is Valley Recycling a volunteer ecology group which accepts donations of glass and other refuse uses the money gained to further the cause AND Our club is planning to raise some money by collecting newspapers and discarded bottles and cans Where canwe sell them? GK Hanford i glass see above Consolidated Fibres 935 Ttv peka Ave buys old newspapers they must be tied in bundles of not less than 100 pounds each Aluminum cans may be sold to either Coors or Lucky Lager beer distributors (see your Yellow Pages) and steel ie tin cans to National Can in Modesto Know printed this before but a reminder now and then hurt COVER OR Even though our house has insulation in the attic this summer I had two wind-braced turbine coolers installed on top of the roof They reduced the summer heat about 10 degrees If left as they are will the inside winter warm be affected or should they be covered the same as my evaporative Fresno obvious at first that the vents should be covered to conserve the heat but an expert tells us nobody he knows covers them rotary and assume you mean by wind-brace those that are turned by the wind simply keep changing the air in the he said cool the house themselves your cooler ddes So guess you Just leave as they are Several of us are very curious as to why nothing has been reported about the disastrous Don-ny Hathaway concert It does seem a shame that a supertalent such as this can make a fool out of the public as well as himself Any chance of a refund on the tickets and if so whom do we CC Fresno A member of Straightway Productions of Oakland handles this and who prefers to remain nameless- says it was just lousy something you can expect now and then from even the superest He aim murmured something about asthma or not feeling well Anyway the singer gave a great concert in Oakland the next night we are told As for a refund ask the guy who mid you the ticket but doubt if the seller will consider a lousy performance as sufficient grounds FUEL-LESS VEHICLES Several months ago you published some information on the Pedi-Car or People-Powered Vehicle I failed to clip the information at the time and wonder if you still have that information Would really appreciate your help RJ Fresno That would be Bikeworld at 601 Shaw Ave Clovis Coproprietor Doug Reitz says all he has left right now is his demonstrator and that is spoken for He plans a reorder and is hoping for the best Distributor is Leisure Trends Inc Pleasanton Doug says the PPVs apparently are selling well all over the country expects a big upsurge as the gamline shortage grows The company aim has an (electric-powered vehicle) which runs on batteries Understand there is another outlet for PPVs on Black-stone near Montgomery Ward but have not checked it out The Pedi-Car you mention apparently has not yet gone Into full production Their representative promised to let us know Big drawback of the PPV is that it leaves the occupant exposed to the wind and rain the Pedi-Car is enclosed Last month The Bee had a picture of a blinded Vietnam war veteran an American Indian who is gaining recognition as a sculptor I would like to locate him so I can buy one of his works if it be too expensive Any JR Fresno You can write Michael Naranjo at Route 4 Box 91 Santa Fe NM 87501 Don't know what he charges but bet it has gone up some That picture was printed in most of the daily newspapers in the country boosting demand But try anyway AND A KIXGSBURG man ENL has the final word on mismated shoes mismated as he calls them realize this was such a widespread problem) put more socks on the smaller enough to fill the he writes the feet look True but awkward No 3 son went through Army basic that way until he found a sympathetic supply sergeant in Vietnam Be difficult for the womenfolk though HOME HEATING hints are offered in a new pamphlet by the National Bureau of Standards One impressive item: a leaking hot water faucet which can fill an ordinary teacup in' 10 minutes wastes 3280 gallons of heated water a year which of course uses added gas or electricity as well as wastes water Pamphlet is free from Consumer Products Division Pueblo Colo 81009 The Fresno County and City Chamber of Commerce has created an energy con-' servation task force to help resolve the energy crisis at the local level The task force was set up after City Councilman Dale Doig criticized numerous local businesses for leaving lights on after business hours The board of directors established 10 duties of the task force: To advise business firms of methods of decreasing energy consump- tion point out the criti- cal need of conserving energy study widely held beliefs of the economical use of energy and determine their feasibility To act as a clearinghouse on complaints and comments on business lighting exceed national goals of energy conservation at the local level To set up a Fresno area car pool reference service use the influence to further reduce speed limit support year around daylight saving time encourage Fres-nans to come up with energy conservation ideas And to encourage the research and development of new sources of energy aimed at making the nation independent of foreign energy supplies The directors said when a resident complains to the chamber about business lighting a task force member will call the firm and discuss the complaint The task force member will then call the original caller and advise him of action taken The car pool reference service would be manned by the chamber staff under the proposal and would' take calls from workers who wish to join a car pool The staff would refer the workers to others in their general vicinity who also wish to join a car pool The state Department of General Services has under consideration two alternate sites for a new field office for the Disability Evaluation Division of the Department of Health The department can either follow the trend north and lease office space in Shaw Plaza just off Fresno Street or provide a boost for downtown by leasing space in Del Webb's Towne-House The Disability Evaluation Division after Jan 1 will have approximately 110 employes according to Bob Moody who heads the He said there are about 90 employes scattered in various offices in the State Building the county Welfare Office and other state-leased buildings The division evaluates handicapped and disabled persons for various state programs such as Aid to the Disabled the blind and rehabilitation In addition it evaluates disability for the federal Social Security Administration under contract with the federal government After Jan 1 all the programs except rehabilitation will be pre-empted by the federal government Disa bility Evaluation will continue to operate as a state agency but expand its program under federal contract have been only two offices for this pro: gram up until Moody said the added load the state is establishing field offices in Fresno San Diego and Sacramento" Main offices will contin--ue to be in Los Angeles and San Francisco he said The new Fresno office is headed by area administrator Patrick Peterson Wayne Raley leasing officer for General Servicesr See Office Page B2 Danny Harris Returns Still Battling Leukemia Stanford were not all grim There was the companionship of many other youngsters suffering from the same ailment all with the same kind of dauntless spirit that grins back at adversity own football great Darryl Lamonica quarterback with the Oakland Raiders came to visit Danny and the other kids to joke and talk with them and sign autographs And there were telephone calls from Danny's favorite singer Andy Williams who sent albums and cas-ettes which were played over and over on the ward until they nearly wore out Danny incidentally was named that because bis mother is also a great fan of Williams loved his rendition of The January issue of Photoplay Magazine has story written by freelancer Jane Ardmore the story of a boy bright talented a born athlete struck by a deadly illness even as his potential was beginning to be seen Meanwhile there is still dearly bought time and soon Danny will go home to his own room and see his pet Arabian horse once more and try to pick up the threads of his disrupted Lfe for a while By Howard Miller Thirteen-year-old Danny Harris his leukemia in remission from drastic radiation treatment and chemotherapy at Stanford Hospital came back to Fresno last week but not to the family home at 1231 Fowler Ave He is in Community Hospital a lot closer to home than Palo Alto and where he can be visited by friends and schoolmates of Clovis Intermediate SchooL Danny son of Mrs Georgia Rebens-dorf first went to the Stanford facility last March 8 when it was learned he had leukemia a deadly form of blood cancer which is almost always fatal in a very short time The radical treatment reversed the course of the disease temporarily and condition stabilized He came home last September and was eagerly looking forward to the first day of school when without warning a deadly form of pneumonia struck Danny's mother and stepfather Dennis Rcbensdorf raced him back to Stanford where Danny survived a his mother said The months in the Oncology Unit at 1 Olympia electronic mini-calculator Yes there is a 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