The Columbus Ledger from Columbus, Georgia • 1

news opinionclassified Other Views Gasohol Program Called or Reuss Gives Support to Carter RePs Reuss (L) and Brinkley Talk Before Dinner See BRINKLEY Page (j Albany Venture Also Set See JACK Page 5 Section Page 1 Jennifer Johnson 5924 Brookview Drive: "I $ee why we should have to stop going off You and many other adults had your fun now it's our turn still got many more years to cruise and I want it ruined" Cheri Bradley 6500 Malibu Drive: save cruising as much a part of America as our By Constance Johnson Ledger Staff Writer physical and occupational therapy There' were homebound teachers too before See PEYTON Page 5 Jeff Wilson 6530 Beaver Trail: "I think cruising is stupid a waste of gas for one thing and teen agers out in a car with nothing to do spells trouble been cruising myself before I know what like and I think stupid Rhonda Strickland 6409 Willastone oxfire: "If there were more things for teen agers to do there be half as much cruising going on A lot of people go driving around and messing up property But I know I would cut down if there were new places built for teen agers to go out David Bishop 6202 Goodwin Drive: feel that cutting cruising time in half would not solve anything Our parents are the ones that really push for us to quit but I never notice them saving any gas the way they want to run around and take rides in the Laurie Baber 9448 Whitesville Road: "Teenagers are capable of sacrificing cruising time in order to tell Khomeini where he can put his oil And pers nally I think one half is enough How about three Jodi James PO Box 7161 Columbus: "I disagree very strongly with your idea of cutting cruising time in half It gives the teen agers something to do 1 think if there were more places for us to go and more things for us to do in Columbus it would help keep teen agers off the streets and therefore not buy as much Michael Cummings 6342 Moon Road: want you to know that I agree with you one bit I really say why should we cut down when all you older people wasted it in the and Like they say why we have our share? By the time 16 and have a car there might not be any left but I am planning on getting my share just as well as everyone Wendi Mooney 5043 Campbellton Road: "Teen agers should limit their riding around to just a few hours on just one Dena Morgan Shaw High would not mind cut ting my cruising time if President Carter outlawed the use of big cars that drink gas I appreciate all the blame being thrown on teen agers noticed older people just driving around You cut their gas and cut Kim de Brabant 6055 Psalmond Road Midland: willing to give up half of my cruising time I think if parents would have only a limit of gas Parents also go Susan Jones 6238 Potomac Circle: people I feel would be willing to cut cruising time in half if a better means was found to supply bored teen agers with something else to do Parents have to realize that most of their visiting and so called joy riding would have to be cut in half also It would only be fair would it Gloria Gates 9 New Market Court: I ve thought about the effect cruising may have on both the Iranian crisis and the energy crisis I feel that teen agers should cut down on their cruising time I also feel teen agers be the only ones to Shannon Martin 4638 Redding Court: know staying at home with a stereo system TV most plus Home Box Office games that adjust to your TV etc is monotonous and of course exercise walking jogging tennis and health activities are the thing so that makes them establishment But surely when you consider cruising around helping to put yourself on the 2 billion killed in accidents playing Russian roulette with your life the welfare and economic well being it sounds dull in comparison But we at least give up a little and Kim Myers 8225 Maudie Lane: wanted to let you know that I agree with you 100 per cent on this issue The idea of cutting our cruising time in half was a very nice idea I hope everyone will take your suggestion into By Mark Murphy Lee County Bureau Her skull was cracked like an eggshell and for a time it was feared her brain stem was detached "It was a horror story Police found the driver but she denied it and hid the car Since Peyton die it was only a misdemeanor In the end she paid us a little money and was back on the road in a short Doctors never expected Peyton to live through the first night her mother said would go down to the hospital chapel and weep and The child remained in the hospital four months unable to eat or breathe without help bruised her right arm and fist clenched to her chest unconscious "I tried to give her water when the nurses looking They were afraid she would choke but she took it and then food Then her eyes opened but it was six to eight months before they began to track Later she could make sounds said Mrs A physical therapist in Atlanta helped her to walk a bit with hip to toe braces and the Crippled und bought her first wheelchair "We tried to get her into Warm Springs early on but they were only taking mobile or polio patient's she recalled ALL THE DOCTORS and evaluations Ww Ww OPELIKA Ala If everything goes ac cording to schedule independent TV sta tion channel 66 will beam a wide variety of programs to viewers in East Alabama and parts of western Georgia within a year Studio and office facilities are under con struction on rederick Road in Opelika A transmitter tower will soon be built on a hill in Salem the highest point in Lee County Opelikan Wallace Ward president of the family owned Wardean Corp that owns the TV station has been working for nearly six years to put the station on the air looks like we can be on the air in about a said Ward It may be joined by another new TV sta tion in the Chattahoochee Valley Albany businessman James Taylor plans to build an independent UH station between Columbus and Albany It would be broad cast at 5 million watts the maximum allowed by law and it would reach as far nation will give strong back ing to the president in this latest international crisis my judgment a significant answer to Rus he said The ban on feed grain ship ments be felt imme diately but in time will affect Russia's poultry and pork production "Then as they lack the nice things of life they will question what 1 their leaders are Reuss predicted not starving little he said lowering the cholestrol count And there is such a thing as public opinion in plan calls for the government to buy some of the surplus grains that oth erwise would have been sold abroad and distill them into a gasohol that can be used in a 20 80 percent mixture with gasoline He foresees a price of about $3 a gal lon for the gasohol which 1 would cover the cost of the government gram pur chases Two gallons of gaso hol could be mixed with eight gallons of $1 a gallon gasoline to produce 10 gal lons of fuel for $14 Rationing will cut down on pleasure riding but it will assure a fair distribution of the gasoline available for farming and other essential work and for travel to jobs The program Ruess said offers an oppor tunity do something about inflation to do some Three weeks ago this column ran a piece on cruising the practice of driving around for entertainment mostly by teen agers Lots of teens around here have been wearing armbands hi protest of the Iranian hostage situation With the fuel crunch upon us in spades I suggested one way to make the protest effective might be to cut cruising time in half Dozens ol responses from Columbus teens came in many from Shaw High School take a look at how some of them feel about it as Columbus and Americus Ga and Eu faula Ala THE OPELIKA station's tower which will be located seven miles east of the courthouse is expected to send out a sig nal that can be picked up within a 34 mile radius It will be available to viewers in Columbus LaGrange Ga Phenix City Tuskegee Lanett and surrounding areas as well as the Opelika Auburn region plan local news and entertainment programs and we plan to draw a lot of our programming from said Dean who is also in the real estate busi ness "Six years ago there wasn't much pro gramming available for an independent station But every time you pick up a trade journal you find that more and more pro gramming is Dean added "We plan to show a lot of movies like Ted Channel 17 We' aie also going to use syndicated programs and we hope to pick up some programs from the Christian Broadcast Service Eventually we hope to work into being a 24 hour IN ADDITION to local news weather and sports channel 66 plans to allow local talent to produce talk and entertainment programs is a lot of talent around Auburn and Auburn University we are hoping to be able to use We are also talking about carrying some Auburn Ward now is running a part time station on the Auburn Opelika telecable system that is sponsored by the Bank of East Ala bama The station carries local talk shows and church services OUR YEARS ago after about two years of preliminary work Ward filed a petition with the ederal Communications Commission asking that Opelika be given a channel Two years ago the CC decided to allocate channel 66 to Opelika and last year it gave Wardean a license to broad cast on 66 son Steve the vice president of Wardean is helpinghis father with the project and wife Shelby Dean is the secretary treasurer Mrs Ward who is not actively involved the project is one of Lee state representatives Wardean has purchased major equip ment such as the transmitter but is wait ing until the last minute to buy other equipment because the technology in the field is changing so rapidly Ward hopes to begin hiring technicians and other person nel in six months OR THE CC license Ward had to randomly surveythe community to see if a need existed for the station found there is a real need We found that the people in this area without the cable were getting no Alabama news to speak of from TV but were getting a lot of Georgia Ward said the survey also found citizens were interested in having local program ming and that local advertisers who have been using Columbus and Montgomery stations are interested Ward said he is 'optimistic about his sta future "With the breakthroughs in satellite tecnhology there is almost no limit on the amount of good programming available I am sure we are going to be able to produce a quality Time Is Running Out or Peyton By Priscilla Black Enquirer Stote Editor WOODLAND Ala Quite frankly Meric is looking for a miracle It not that hoping or praying for one although doing those things too She just knows God going to abandon her paralyzed daughter by al lowing the Georgia Warm Springs Hospi tal to close After a study panel chosen by Gov George Busbee recommended in De cember that the hospital be closed for ec onomic reasons the Department of Human Resources board voted to shut down the 52 year old facility in June voted 4 3 to close the hospital but I think they counted vote I think when God and Gov Busbee get together find a way to keep that hospital she said confidently Meric short for America moved to Woodland from Adairsville at the end of September She brought her son Kennon and daughter Peyton 19 hoping her daughter could be helped by physicians and therapists there Her husband David works in Rome and gets home when he can PEYTON WAS SEVEN when a hit and run driver struck her as she was get ting off a schoolbus in Stone Mountain Staff Photo by Al Alexander Peyton and Chief Therapist Martha Carter added up to zero Peyton hated the men tal retardation center in Chamblee Things were a little better at the Cere bral Palsy Center where she got speech TV Station Planned for Opelika US Rep Henry Reuss Wis Saturday called for gasoline rationing and a crash program in gasohol production as a logical fol low up to President Carter's retaliatory response to the Russian invasion of Afghan istan Reuss announced his sup port for the president at a I $50 a plate fund raising din ner in Columbus for his con gressional colleague 3rd District Rep Jack Brinkley of Georgia Approximately 500 friends and political allies of Brink ley including five other con gressmen accepted invita tions for the event at the Co lumbus Iron Works Convention and Trade Cen ter In his prepared speech Reuss praised the president for his leadership in order ing the ban on feed grain shipments saying it also gives the nation an answer to energy and inflation prob lems By converting surplus grains into gasohol the United States can end its de pendency on the imports that are causing inflation he said net effect would en able this country to be al most independent on OPEC for he declared "It will get our balance of payments in shape and improve the dollar the best thing that could happen" Reuss chairman of the House banking finance and staff Photo bv David Crosby urban affairs committee predicted Congress and the if ifi I TwfflllSr dSKraBv Wbk iB I wwl ir I.