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Birmingham Post-Herald, Tuesday, March 6, 1979 weather Lots of sunshine is ahead for in the mid to upper 60s. Lows the Birmingham metropolitan tonight will be in the upper 30s. area today and tomorrow. Winds will be out of the southThe official forecast calls for west at five to 10 miles an hour. 'sunny today and tomorrow with The extended forecast for Alaa warming trend." bama calls for a chance of High temperatures today will showers on Thursday and mostly be in the low 60s and tomorrow fair and warmer on Friday and Saturday.

High afternoon temperatures Pollution count will be in the 60s on Thursday and in the 60s and 70s on Friday Here is yesterday's pollution and Saturday. Lows will be in the count, given in the number of 40s and 50s. micrograms of solid pollution per cubic meter of atmosphere sampled: Downtown 57 North Birmingham 52 49 (24-hour Birmingham period ended Weather at 6 Leeds p.m.) Tarrant 72 During the past year, the Jef- Temperature data ferson County particulate count Lowest: Highest: 35 54 has exceeded the 260 danger Mean: 45 Normal mean this date: 50 level 45 times. Departure from normal: -5 Departure this month: 32 Departure this year: -239 Highest this date last year: 49 National Weather Service forecast to 6 p.m. Lowest this date last year: 17 Mean this date last year: 33 Highest this date: 83 in 1955 and 1974 Lowest this date: 14 in 1960 SEATTLE COOL Precipitation data BOSTON 12 hours ended at 6 a.m.: .00 12 hours ended at 6 p.m.: .00 Total this month to date: 4.17 CHICAGO NEW YORK Total since Jan.

1: 14.93 Excess since Jan. 1: 3.80 Greatest amount this month: 14.15 in SAN DENVER 1976 Least amount this month: .32 in 1918 LOS ANGELES Sun Rises today at 6:10 a.m. Sets at 5:47 p.m. MIGHEST TEMPERATURES Rises tomorrow at 6:09 a.m. NEW ORLEANS 50 LEGEND Yesterday's Noon 49 70 temperatures 1 p.m.

51 RAN sNow 1 a.m. 39 2 p.m. 54 70 AIR 2 a.m. 3 p.m. 54 1 SHOWERS FLOW 3 a.m.

37 p.m. UPI WEATHER FOTOCAST 4 a.m. 37 5 p.m. 53 5 a.m. 36 6 p.m.

50 Fair skies of the 6 a.m. 35 7 p.m. are expected over most 7 a.m. 35 8 p.m. while rain is predicted in 9 8 a.m.

38 9 10 p.m. country today, a.m. p.m. the Pacific Northwest. 10 a.m.

11 p.m. 11 a.m. Midnight 38 Station goes to Chapman Continued from page A1 ing mostly movies and old television show reruns. However, There has been a growing trend among independent stations to broadcast specially made, original programming. The FCC, noting the long delay in reaching a decision in this case, criticized both itself and the applicants for the delay.

The applicants did not help speed the case along by failing to notify the FCC when their situations changed. It said it is trying 1 to reform its own procedures to speed up decisions in such cases. The FCC in 1974 initially gave the license for channel 21 to Birmingham Broadcasting, but reopened the case a year later when Chapman raised questions about the financing for BBC. BBC cited two letters from banks expressing an interest in lending money to the group if it got a license. During the hearings, however, Chapman proved that nether loans from the First National Banks of Birmingham or the National Bank of Commerce were as firm: a commitment as BBC claimed.

In another FCC case, the Alabama Educational Television Commission, formally filed its tentative agreement to turn over Channel 10 (WBIQ) in Birmingham to the Alabama Citizens for Responsive Public Television. Implementation of the agreement, which must be approved by the FCC, hinges on whether AETC can obtain a license for a new station, Channel 39, in Tuscaloosa. Mideast peace hopes rise Continued from page A1 at nearby Camp David, Md. Both men declined, although Begin willingly came for four days of separate talks with Carter alone." Sadat may have his reasons for preferring to stay in Egypt, and they may have do with the delicate political and economic situation in his country. Moreover, while Sadat appears receptive to Carter's new proposals, he must be careful not to anger other Arab nations, notably Saudi Arabia, his financial backer, by actions they could perceive as selling out the Palestinians.

So Sadat must appear to be forced to make a concession and that force can come only from President Carter, not from other U.S. officials. Carter will be in Egypt from Thursday to Saturday, then go to Jerusalem. Significantly, Carter has left open his return date. This caused some analysts to feel the president may hope for early acceptance by both sides of a modified treaty, and even for a gala signing ceremony.

Last fall, when the treaty was agreed on by Egyptian and Israeli negotiators and before Sadat rejected it there was talk of holding a signing ceremony atop biblical Mount Sinai. Sewage leak isn't hazard Jefferson County and Birmingham public works officials said yesterday that raw sewage leaking from a ruptured county sewer line into Shades Creek behind Eastwood Mall does not pose a health hazard to residents in the area. The 30-inch main line pipe, which serves the east end of Birmingham, apparently cracked when a culvert was built over it as part of the Elder Street drainage project under construction in the Crestline neighborhood. The leak was discovered Sunday by Zane Kimball behind his house at 4905 Maryland Ave. Kimball, concerned about contamination of the creek posing a potential health hazard, contacted the city street and sanitation department.

Kimball estimated that at least two hundred gallons of raw sewage was pouring into the creek every hour from the ruptured pipe. John Duncan, assistant city engineer, Mrs. Meany dies at 82 United Press International WASHINGTON Eugenie McMahon Meany, a one-time dressmaker who married AFL-CIO Pres: dent George Meany almost 60 years ago, died Monday at her home in suburban Maryland after a lengthy illness. She was 82. Mrs.

Meany was a skilled dressmaker in New York City and an active member of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union when she met George about 1917. He had quit school at 16 to join his father's local of the plumbers' union and they married in 1919. 3: High water means hot tempers Continued from page A1 ing Alabama Power out here," he said. But not everyone was angry about rising lake water. It was the topic of conversation at the Coosa Valley Grocery store, but patrons there joked instead about Sunday's good fishing.

"The water rose fast, but yesterday was good fishing. You could almost toss a line out your trailer window," Ernie Walker said. His wife, Betsy, said they weren't flooded out yet. But rising water might change that quickly. "Water hasn't got to us yet, but it has some of our neighbors.

There's one with a big truck that has already hooked up to his trailer, ready to move," she said. Dale Whitten isn't worried by rising lake water. "It ain't that bad. The first one, they said was an act of God," he said. His brother Phillip agreed.

"It's only flooded twice in two years. Well, one time when I was a kid, it came up above Coosa Valley Road be- Alabama Continued from page A1 the elderly, those on fixed incomes they're not concerned about construction of future facilities. They are concerned with keeping the lights and heat turned on." He claimed the 9.5 per cent increase would allow a moderate increase for inflation "without placing an undue burden on the working people of Alabama." Steve Bradley, Alabama Power vice president for public information, denied Folsum's charges concerning the company's construction program. "The central point that Commissioner Folsom left out is that the company has no choice," Bradley said. "We have to build the necessary facilities to meet demand.

The company just cannot afford to be wrong down the road and not have enough generating capacity." Bradley also charged that Folsom's contention that the utility is mismanaged "is just patently false." He cited an independent audit of the utility released almost a year ago which concluded that the power company was well-managed. Mrs. McDaniel, a holdover from the previous PSC, said she had been in hearings for 18 months and was convinced of a need for a sizable increase. "In my judgment, the power company is in need of rate relief and the rate increase should come as soon as possible to free the bonds get construction back under way," Mrs. McDaniel said.

a Mathews said APC presented a case that it needs additional money, "but I do not know how much they do need. I do know whatever their position is I did not bring it about. The PSC has been Charles Abbott cause I got flood out on my motorcy- cle," he said. Alabama wasn't the only state with problems. Flooding was reported from Michigan, where 1,000 people were trapped by high water in an apartment complex in Grand Rapids, to Pensa- cola, Fla.

Florida Gov. Bob Graham planned to Power Exchange Commission increases its borrowing power to $550 million from $305 million and banks are willing to make short-term loans. Construction this year was budgeted at $600 million. The company has balted all major construction work because of its financial condition. Asked for comment on the increase, Gov.

Fob James said: "I hope the Public Service Commission and the power company can work in cooperation because our goal is to give the people of Alabama electrical service at the low- here 50 years. I have been here six weeks. "They ask me by a simple stroke of a pen to make them whole again, to make up for errors of the past. This I cannot do. It had been my hope this commission could come to a unanimous decision.

It is obvious we cannot do that. So I second Mr. Folsom's motion." Elmer Harris, APC vice president for corporate finance, said the increase would help but would not be enough to bail the company out of its chronic financial trouble. "We will have to evaluate this. Regardless of whether it is April or May we still have the same situation.

The company does not have enough money." He said some things under study include cutting back on coal purchases, not paying an already growing stack of invoices and cutting back on overtime needed in emergency situations to restore power. Harris said coal supplies already are at a "bare He said the company could survive financially only if the Securities and 5th BIG YEAR! NOVA I THIS I WEEK! BIRMINGHAM 2 Garden Show FEATURING Handy DO-IT- YOURSELF OVER. WORLD BIRMINGHAM $15,00000 PAVILLION BOTANICAL FIREPLACES GARDENS WOODBURNING IN PRIZES! HOMES STOVES PLUS LOG KITCHENS. APPLIANCES. BATHS AND WINDOWS GREENHOUSES, AND PLANTS Featuring a $2300.00 DRAPERIES, FLOOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEM COVERINGS AND FROM THE ALABAMA SOLAR ENERGY CENTER FURNITURE plus a $1750.00 WHIRLPOOL BATH MICROWAVE from Alabama Pool Services KITCHEN CLINICS HOME JACUZZI SYSTEM, HANDS-AT- -WORK MICROWAVE OVEN, VACUUM CLEANER, ARTS CRAFTS STEREO SYSTEM, SECTION HOME WORKSHOP HOMES, EVERYTHING APARTMENTS! CONDOS NEW AND FOR GRAND GARDEN PRIZE! TO REGISTER $3,500 CURTIS CIVIC CENTER EXHIBITION HALL Mar.7-11 CHILDREN FREE! HOURS: WEEKDAYS 2-10 P.M.; 12 AND UNDER WHEN SAT.

NOON-10 P.M.; SUN. NOON-7 P.M. ACCOMPANIED BY ADULT Red Cross spokesman Wally Renken. "It was just plain old water from the J. D.

Abbott tour Pensacola where residents were digging out from under the debris of "Soggy Saturday," a weekend deluge of 14 inches of rain that drove 5,000 persons from their homes and left property damage estimated Monday at more than $15 million. "We didn't have rivers running over or anything like that," said Pensacola granted est possible cost and to have a profitable and viable power "Making a political football and a lot of hot air out of it is not going to solve the problem." Still to be settled is the company's request for a permanent rate increase of 33 per cent, or $288 million a year. The vote yesterday applies to; temporary increase. It can last only until July 19 without additional action by the PSC. PSC members said they did not know when a hearing would be set on the request for the permanent increase.

Mrs. McDaniel appeared angry Monday about the 2-1 vote and adjourned the meeting immediately after saying she would issue a dissenting opinion defending a higher rate increase. Bradley said the $81 million increase will not help the company much have a serious cash problem. Cutbacks were initiated last December with an eye toward reducing our cash needs, but this money will not be forthcoming soon; so the effect will be Graham said he may ask President Carter to declare the region a disaster area. The flooding claimed another victim Monday in northwest Missouri.

Raymond Henderson, 78, of Rosendale drowned when his pickup truck was swept into the flooded Hundred and Two River. Rain persisted from the Great Lakes southward to the Carolinas and eastward to New England, while snow was falling from eastern Iowa through Wisconsin into upper Michigan. In the Grand Rapids suburb of Kentwood, floodwaters on Plaster Creek receded Monday, freeing nearly 1,000 persons trapped for 21 hours at an apartment complex. Mayor Peter Lambert canceled standby orders for a National Guard pontoon bridge when the water dropped sufficiently to clear one of three bridges leading into the Wingate Apartments. 9.5% hike negligible.

We will have to determine that, but for the time being, at least, we will continue with cost-cutting measures in effect." Included in those cutbacks last December were reduction in purchase of long-term contract coal and elimination of spot coal purchases. About 000 tons of coal a month had been purchased on the spot market. A reduction of 150,000 tons a month in longterm contract deliveries was also instituted. As a result, many coal companies felt the pinch. Smaller companies have gone out of business and even the largest have cut back operations.

Alabama By-Products Corp. reduced its mining operation to a four-day workweek, and Drummond, the state's largest coal company, has closed three mines. Jerry Byars, public relations spokesman for Drummond, said at Brilliant and Natural Bridge have been closed, affecting 65 to 80 employees. "I agree that 9.5 percent is not going to have any noticeable effect on their situation at all. I can see us in the same situation as we have been," Byars said.

said yesterday the city had assumed responsibility for the leak because the pipe was damaged during construction of the Elder Street drainage project. "It's hard to determine when it was cracked, but we're out there and we're going to have Morris-Shea Construction Company, which is handling the Elder Street project, go in there and fix it," Duncan said. "But it's not a terrifically big doesn't pose a health problem because there's enough water in the creek to sufficiently dilute it. But it will be fixed immediately." Duncan said sandbags had been placed over the rupture to stop the flow of sewage directly into the creek. Vol.

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