Journal and Courier from Lafayette, Indiana • 5

Journal and Courier Lafayette Ind Wednesday December 5 1973 A 5 Hospitals Soon To Get Water Bills By JOHN NORBERG Staff Writer Home Hospital St Eliza beth Hospital and Ross Annex soon will be getting those friendly notes from the Water Works Department just like everyone else if an ordinance passed by the Lafayette City Council gets through one more reading After delaying action in No vember the council this week approved on first reading an ordinance repealing a 1929 or dinance from the city books They did so with the blessings Since 1929 the hospitals have been exempted from the water bills because they ac cepted charity patients They still do But Lafayette Mayor James Riehle said inflation and resulting increased operation costs have made it impossible for the city to carry the hospi tals any longer Home Hospital uses $10000 to $12000 worth of city water per year St Elizabeth $12000 to $13000 and Ross Annex uses several hundred dollars worth Last month the hospitals asked for a little time to work things out with the city before action was taken on the ordi 1 nance They won their and the council tabled the pro posal After that meeting repre sentatives of the hospitals met with Riehle and reached an agreement: The hospitals would pay water bills but be ginning in July 1974 rather than in accordance with the original proposal as soon as the ordinance was passed The hospitals asked for the extra time to prepare for in creased expenses realize we have a re said James Posthauer vice chairman of the St Elizabeth lay advisory board we want to live up to that responsibility by Biomedical Engineer Joins Purdue Staff Purdue News Service A noted biomedical engineer and physiologist has joined Purdue University as director of its Biomedical Engineering Center and as a distinguished professor He is Leslie A Geddes who leaves Baylor College of Medi cine in Houston Texas where he has been professor of phys iology and chief Division of Biomedical Engineering since 1965 There he held simultaneous appointments as clinical asso ciate professor of physiology University of Texas Dental Branch Houston professor of physiology College of Veter inary Medicine Texas University and professor of biomedical engineering facul ty of engineering of that in stitution Prof Paul Stanley who has been coordinating the ac tivities of the Biomedical En gineering Center established earlier this year as part of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Engineering Studies and who was chairman of the com mittee which selected Prof? Geddes will be associate di rector of the center The Pur due center is a focal point for research and educational pro grams in biomedical engineer ing Geddes a native of Scot land emigrated to Canada as a child and received his bac calaureate and de grees in electrical engineering from McGill University Mon treal He entered Baylor Univer sity College of Medicine in 1954 and won the doctoral de gree in 1958 in experimental physiology He was an ex perimental radio station own er and operator researcher in electromyography neurology and neurosurgery and a reg istered professional engineer and consultant in Canada be fore joining Baylor to pursue his PhD He became a US citizen in 1958 While at Baylor he was di rector of the Laboratory of Biophysics Texas Institute for Rehabilitation and Re search consultant to the School of Aerospace Medicine Brooks and Wright Patterson Air orce bases and consul tant to the Manned Spacecraft Center GeddeSi is a consulting edi tor or on the editorial boards of several technical publica tions in his field and is active in a lenghty list of profes sional societies 1 in the engi neering medicine and science sectors He is the author or co author of some 300 publica tions: Model RR 4 made MICROWAVEOVEN This Rehft fsBudqot Stoiffi MAYI4g Main St at Ninth Phone 742 5976 MOTOROLA ana SEAR BAKE MAKE THE GREATEST COOKING DISCOVERY SINCE IRE! COOK A BIG TURKEY 7 MIN A LB (Rather than the conventional 35 minutes per lb) In Stock Now or Prompt Delivery I SWE SELL SERVICE THESE AMOUS NAME APPLIANCES MICROWAVEOVEN Buy now and get a REE BROWNING SKILLET Exclusive 912 amily Size s1495 value CHRISTMAS Give an Energy Saving Time Saving expressly for the i I 'V MICROWAVEOVEN I by BROWN GRILL RY ini the Save up to 75 actual COOKING TIME Cook cool Eliminate messy with no massive pots and pans heat build up Il I 1 1 I BB II I phon iSb i paying our fair James Shook chairman of the Home board of directors also added his support to the ordinance which will come up for final reading Jan 7 On final reading the council this week gave developer John Smith a rezoning from 3 to local business at Grego ry and Glick streets While residents of the area had originally protested the change Smith promised the building he plans for the area will not contain any retail stores and the residents decid ed to stand behind him However not all the coun cilman supported the rezon i Councilmen Richard Ramhap and Paul Brooks voted against the ordinance Ramphap said the only rea son Smith wanted the rezoning Journal Metro was because he needed it to receive his financing He rezoning should not be done for this reason In other action the council cleared the way for the pur chase of a 10000 gallon tank gave first reading approval to some new park regulations approved appointments to the Human Relations Commission and delayed action on a junk car ordinance The 10000 gallon tank will be buried at the Street Depart ment garage and used to hold Courier Report the gasoline supply The park regulation ordi nance passed on first reading gives the Park and Recreation director or a person designat ed by him authority to re move disorderly people from park grounds It further states parks will be closed from 12:01 am to 6 am and prohibits the use of motor vehicles on parkgrounds except on designated roads The junk car ordinance al lows for property owners to be West Side ire Chief To Retire West Lafayette ire Chief Donald Martin head of the department since 1968 has submitted his resignation to the West Lafayette City Coun cil' Martin who served on the department 24 years was ap pointed chief to replace Charles Dienhart Martin was assistant chief four years prior to being ele vated to chief The council unanimously approved his resignation and thanked him for his service When asked when he plans to retire Martin said he would stay on until Mayor Joe Dien hart returns to health had planned to retire at the end of my 24th year on the department which is Jan 1 but because of the heart attack I plan to stay on until he returns to his Martin said Martin 56 had submitted his letter of resignation to the council Nov 1 but delayed ac tion on it following the may illness charged for removal of the ve hicles i when removal orders are ignored Currently the city can charge the owner of the ve hicle only but sometimes the owner be found In these cases the ordinance states the charge could be passed to the property owner Action on the motion was delayed until Jan 7 to allow more time to study its effect Reappointed to the HRC were Kenneth Keedy Howard Wright and David Srader Purdue Sociologist Awarded ellowship Carolyn Perrucci associ ate professor of sociology at Purdue University has re ceived a faculty research fel lowship from the ord oun dation Her award is one of 14 granted under a new program to encourage research on the changing role of women in American society The grant is for $18245 Prof Perrucci will study de terminants and patterns of so cioeconomic achievement among women college grad uates Her work also will be aided by a grant of $16418 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human De velopment of the Public Health Service Her research is designed to determine the effects of se lected family building vari ables on graduate education and socioeconomic achievement It also aims to document the process of stratification for women col lege graduates This work is en extension of Prof earlier re search in the sociology of fer tility and social mobility Prof Perrucci earned her doctorate at Purdue and has been on the faculty since 1966 She has written widely for professional journals and is author of a book and the amily: A Critical Analysis and Proposals for to be published next year Carolyn Perrucci is the wife of Robert Perrucci professor of sociology at Purdue They have a daughter Alissa Cum mings three years old I EVERYONE DIALED DOWN 6 IT WOULD SAVE 22 MILLION GALLONS HEATING OIL A DAY 1 AND THERE WOULD BE COMPARABLE SAVINGS NATURAL GAS AND ELECTRICITY TOO The President of the United States has urged all Americans whetherthey heat with oil gas or electricity to dial down their thermostats to help conserve heating fuel If everyone homes offices factories schools thesavings would be immense On a cold day heating oil consumption alone would be reduced 22 million gallons A tremendous amount of natural gas would also be conserved and could be used to relieve the shortage of petroleum products That's enough to make the difference between a serious shortage and a moderate one DIAL DOWN TO or every degree the thermostat is set above it increases fuel consumption about 3 So if you keep your thermostat at during the day you're conserving a substantial amount of heating fuel If you dial down even lower when you go to bed at night you'll be saving even more And if you go away over the holidays dial down to so you don't waste fuel overheating an empty house THE GASOLINE SHORTAGE: WE BEAT IT WHEN EVERYONE USED A LITTLE LESS Last summer most people hardly felt the effect ofthe gasoline shortage Many questioned if there really was a shortage after all The fact is the shortage never got as bad as feared because people did conserve gasoline Little things like driving slower avoiding jackrabbit starts and combining trips reduced consumption enough sothatfew people ever experienced serious difficulty in getting gasoline If it worked last summer it can work this winter If each of us just uses a little less there'll be more for all of us Enough hopefully so that no one need suffer THE ALTERNATIVE: EMPTY SCHOOL ROOMS AND ACTORIES If we don't conserve something has gotto give There just won't be enough fuel to heat everything that needs heating Schools will close Businesses will be forced to shut down And since many electric utilities use heating oil to generate electricity the shortage of fuel may cause brown outs Especially over the holidays when Christmas trees and more cooking and baking increase the demand for electric power WHAT STANDARD IS DOING TO EASE THE SHORTAGE We are producing as much heating oil as we can and investing heavily to produce even more We spent more money in 1973 exploring for new sources of oil than in any otheryear in our history And in 1974 we'll top that record We're currently adding 4 huge tankers to our fleet and recently announced plans to add 7 more (so) Standard Oil Division of Amoco Oil Company An $88 million investment is Being made in ourTexas City Texas refinery to increase its capacity for handling foreign crude A $25 million investment is being made to increase pipeline capacity We're enlarging ou storage capacities for heating oil in those areas of the country where extremely cold weather is likely to occur We are telling all Standard employees to dial down both at home and at work We are urging other businesses to dial down too We are reducing the electric lighting in our offices And we're running ads like this one urging everyone to conserve heating fuel wherever possible The ads can't create more oil but they can help make the oil there is go farther MAKE YOUR NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION EARLY: DI AL DOWN NOW Every day people don't conserve there's just that much more heating fuel used and that much less to get us through the really severe winter months So dial down today And stay dialed down until the threat of shortage has passed And check your home for other ways to conserve ora free booklet on whatto do contact your Standard heating fuel man or write: Heating uel Conservation Standard Oil MC 1506 PO Box 611 OA Chicago Illinois 60680 DIAL DOWN Conserve Heating uel I A.