Panama City News-Herald from Panama City, Florida • Page 3

NEWS-HERALD, Panama City, Thursday, June 7,1973 Page 3A 'Summer Love Call' Running Out Of Gas APALACHICOLA top, the Apalachicola Library follows a tradition established 60 years ago. At bottom, a youth wanders through the stacks of books in the city's municipal library. Tyndall News Notes A contract for alteration of the Tyndall USAF Hospital and alteration of the hospital water mains has been awarded to A. A. Schmidt, Montgomery, in the amount of $35,600.

According to procurement officials, the contract resulted from an advertised procurement in which only one bid was received. ACADEMIC AWARD SSgt. Larry E. Williams of the 4756th Flying Training Squadron was recently awarded the Academic Achievement Award at the Aerospace Defense Command's NCO Leadership School at Hamilton AFB, Calif. SSgt.

Lawrence K. Allen of the 4756th Avionics Maintenance Sq. received the Distinguished Graduate Award, a runnerup award to Sergeant Williams' prize, at the end of the same four-week class. giving away Mothers Pouch Mixes. See special coupon offer in today's paper.

Sgt. Jimell F. Clayton of the 4756th Security Police Squadron also graduated from the class of 26 noncommissioned officers. The last NCO Leadership School Class will graduate from Hamilton June 5, as the school is moved to Tyndall AFB. Classes are scheduled to begin here sometime in November.

SWIMMING REGISTRATION Registrations for children's summer swimming classes at Tyndall AFB will be taken from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday at the Officers' Club swimming pool gate. The classes will be open to all military and civilian dependents between the ages of five and seventeen. The pool fee is $5 per student, and all children must have completed at least one year of school to be eligible for the swimming classes.

Classes will meet Tuesday through Friday for two consecutive weeks, 55 minutes each day. Some of the courses included are beginners, advanced beginners, intermediate, junior life saving, and survival and boaters' swimming classes. They will be conducted at various dates from June 12 through August 31. GOES BOOTSTRAP TSgt. Richard J.

Fetgatter is the most recent Tyndall airman to successfully take advantage of the Bootstrap Officer Commissioning Program. Sergeant Fetgatter, a management engineer technician assigned to Detachment 22, 4608 Support Squadron here, completed 36 semester hours of credit work for a BA degree in business administration from William Carey College in Hattiesburg, Miss. He graduated with a 3.6 average. Leaving shortly for Officers' Training School, then on to an assignment at Langley AFB, Sergeant Fetgatter will Sure to make this Baseball Season More Enjoyable Portable TV 89" EASY TERMS CciTipO't lightweight t'ant io 'Tpr powered to lid Utile solid Uoif that odurp damug if hpil Oud'O -J tr, SpPf "I I rtft frtfi Out LARGE DIAMOND WATCH DISPLAY USCHC IREDIT JEWELERS 537 HARRISON AVE. Panama aty PENSACOLA STOHE 10-1 FALAi ST remain in the field of management engineering.

ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED Activities scheduled at the Tyndall Recreation Center begin with "Cliff Young and His Black Spirits" Saturday from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. Sunday Ada Hyden will draw profile sketchings beginning at 2 p.m. Monday, a weekly spades tourney will take place. Tuesday, there will be a bid whizz tourney with prizes, while the Toe Tappers perform their weekly square dance in the ballroom. Thursday is Rummy Night, which will begin at 7, including Gin and 500.

Karate classes are held on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 6:30 p.m. FASHION SHOW Summertime fashions and beautiful girls will again grace the halls of the Tyndall Officers' Club during lunch time each Wednesday. The girls will model everything from bikinis to summer dresses starting June 6. Fashions will be from the Girl Friend in Panama City. FREEDOMS FOUNDATION The Freedoms Foundation has announced that its 1973 letter-writing contest theme is "Human Goals Values for Living." The best letter-writers in the active-duty Armed Forces competition and Reserve Forces event will each win $1,000 from the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, Pa.

Additionally, the top 10 active duty winners of the 1973 contest will be invited to Valley Forge to receive their awards at the annual presentation ceremony. There will also be awards of $100 and $50 and George Washington Honor Medals and honor certificates. Air Force members won ISO awards last year. Entries also may be in essay or poetry form. The length should be between 100 to 500 words.

Entrants should include full name, social security number, military address, service component, and complete permanent home address, including Zip Codes. All entries must be sent before Oct. 31 to: Freedoms Foundation, Valley Forge, Pa. 19481. RATES REDUCED Civil Service Commission officials have announced a reduction in premium rates for more than 500,600 employes and some 8,000 annuitants who carry the $10,000 optional life insurance under the Federal Employe's roup Life Insurance Program, effective July 1.

Americans' summer love song, the Call of the Road, might have a few choruses cut this year because of the gasoline shortage. New Board Appointed At Library city's appointments for a new library board for the Apalachicola Municipal Library were made this week. Mrs. Glorida Tucker is chairman, and other members are: Mrs. Myrtle Thorberg, Miss Emma Jo Porter, Andrew Valkuchak, and Mrs.

Margaret Key. Beginning more than 60 years ago when the Philaco Womens Club established a library, it became a municipal library, house in a new building in 1963. Another board was announced this week by the city. For the first time there will be Historical Board to serve the community in dedicating historical markers, and signs for designating the older and more significant buildings in the city. Those with gold lettering for houses over 100 years old, and those of lesser age lettered in blue will guide visitors in tours of the area.

Another function will be gathering historical information and assembling it for reference material in the municipal library. "It is hoped young people of the community will become more interested in local history and the preservation of the many fine old buildings," a library spokesman said. Appointed to the board are: James S. Daly, chairman, Mrs. John Marshall, Benjamin Sharit, Mrs.

E. R. Hays and John B. Meyer. But from early indications of gas availability across the country, the motoring tourist who plans ahead stands a good chance of not being caught out in the boondocks in the dead of night with an empty gas tank.

A UPI survey of U.S. tourist and recreational areas came up with one basic fact promoter is going to admit his area should be bypassed. However, auto club and tourist officials offered some advice to intrepid tourers: Always keep the gas tank half full. Gas up before sundown, and expect many stations to be closed on Sunday. Tourists were also advised to lower their speeds to raise gas mileage.

Some states have Cadmium Poses Threat Of Poison PALO ALTO, Calif. (UPI) We live in a world increasingly aware of poisons: lead in paint and gasoline, mercury-contaminated fish and cadmium plated screws. Cadmium screws? Yes, say two chemists at the Varian Associates Scientific Instruments Manufacturing Company. "Knowing what I do now, from our studies," said Dennis Sandoz, manager of the optics application laboratory at Varian, "I wouldn't let my children play with cadmium plated them in their I wouldn't want them to fool around with flashlight batteries." Some 15 million pounds of cadmium is used each year in American industrial processes. It is found in silver solder, bearings, dry cell batteries.

It is used for electroplating of iron and steel, as a plastic stabilizer and as an anticorrosive. Sandoz and applications chemist Clive Parker used a newly developed carbon rod atomizer attachment on an atomic absorption spectrophotometer machine to measure trace cadmium levels in the environment. Their preliminary findings on the effects of everyday exposure to cadmium particles are chilling, but Sandoz and Parker emphasize they have only scratched the surface with their methods. The study of cadmium poisoning among workers and residents in the United States is yet to be fully documented. Lengthy surveys conducted in Japan by scientists from the Department of Environmental Hygiene of the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, under a contract with the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency, found that a crippling disease called itai-itai "is a manifestation of chronic cadmium poisoning." In its advance stages the disease makes bones brittle. A victim may suffer fractured ribs simply by coughing, the department's scientists reported. Skeletal deformation takes place, until the victim is bent double and unable to stand. Case after case was documented in the fertile basin along the Jintsu River below the, Kamioka metals mine near Toyama City. Water apparently contaminated with cadmium from the mine was used on rice crops and consumed by the populace, the report said.

But a bigger danger from cadmium occurs when the element is converted into a gaseous state, said Parker. Inhaled cadmium particles tend to accumulate in the lungs and daily exposure can result in an emphysema-like condition. asked motorists to cut their speed voluntarily, with a threat of official limits if that doesn't work. Michigan American Automobile Association (AAA) Touring Manager Joseph Raike echoed similar reports from other parts of the country. "So far, we have not heard from a single motorist stranded because gasoline could not be he said.

"What the shortage means to the average motorist is sometimes going to several stations before finding one open and finding fewer and independents operating. Another point of view was fatalistic the American auto tourist is going to keep going until the gas is gone. Milton F. Huntington, executive director of the Maine Petroleum Association, said tourism will be as strong as ever in Maine because most tourists "won't stop traveling until it's rationed." "I don't think people believe it (the shortage) yet, and I'm convinced it will be with us for three to five years." "It's a matter of limited refinery capability, and there aren't any new refineries in the country which are even in the advanced planning stages," he said. Officials for recreation and tourist attractions located in metropolitan areas such as Atlantic City, Miami Beach and San Diego, expressed barely veiled delight at the idea the gasoline shortage might cause vacationers to leave the car home and take a plane.

Motor boat enthusiasts, especially those with large cabin cruisers that guzzle 10-15 gallons of gas an hour, may have trouble finding a steady supply. One marine operator in Stamford, said he was so short of marine gasoline that he would sell it only to Long Island Sound lobstermen. With other tourist promoters the attitude was wait and see. They said business following the Memorial Day weekend was usually down, but pointed out the general cold and rainy weather as the cause more than a gasoline shortage. In Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Chief Ranger Richard Mueller said, "The campgrounds are getting about normal use.

They seem to be filling up. We would expect that if the gasoline shortage has any effect, it would come within the next month or so." On Jekyll Island, Lynn Cheek, head of convention sales for the resort area, said, "We only have one station on the whole island and we certainly hope it won't have to go to rationing. We've got 2,000 Republicans here now (the state GOP convention) and if we lost gas here I guess they'd just call up President Nixon." GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH OF PARKER-CALLAWAY (E. Hwy. at Boatrace Road) ANNOUNCES THE OPENING OF GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Maiming 1973 through Gfodt 4 Registrations are now being taken in the Church Office Monday through Friday mor- nigns.

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