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10A DCS MOtNES MQ.8TER Nov. 19,1976 DON'T GET BURNT ON SOLAR HEAT EQUIPMENT CHICAGO, ILL. (AP) Bayers of solar heating equipment can be burnt. The new industry has its share of "snake-oil salesmen" and produces everything from "well-engineered systems right down to junk," an energy specialist said Thursday. There is a need for government standards before new buyers get hurt or the industry itself "gets a black eye," hurting future development, said William Graves of Brookhaven Laboratories in Upton, N.Y.

Graves was among several energy specialists at a three-day exposition attended by about 20,000 members of the building industry. Gregory Hurt of the Energy Research and Development Administration estimated there are more than 500 manufacturers of solar equipment, including some who are willing to "sell you the moon." More than half of the 56 energy- related exhibits at the exposition feature solar energy products or systems. "My comments don't apply to what I've seen at this show," said Graves in an interview. "But I've been at other solar exhibits where the equipment has run the gamut from well-engineered systems right down to junk." Technology is sufficient, Graves and others said, for solar heating and domestic hot water systems but prospective buyers should look close at the cost benefits they expect to receive. At current prices, solar heating may not be economically feasible.

A solar space heating system for a three-bedroom home may cost $7,000, Graves said. If it is financed through a 20-year home mortgage, principle and interest rates may work out for the solar plant to $63 a month, Graves said: "Unless you save that much in electricity and fuel, you haven't made anything off it," said Graves. "And any system would still have to be supplemented with more conventional fuels." The new homebuilder, more than the commercial or industrial buyer, particularly would be vulnerable to high-pressure tactics or prone to buy inferior equipment, Graves said. Graves said most homeowners would deal only with salesmen, and probably the salesman for distributor, not the manufacturer. "These people (the salesmen) are going to be under a lot of price pressure trying to be competitive and there will be a real driving force to get it in cheap, get it in quick and get out," Graves said.

Miss World title to Jamaica woman LONDON, ENGLAND (AP) Miss Jamaica, 22-year-old Cindy Breakspeare, was chosen Miss World 1976 Thursday in a contest marred by the withdrawal of nine participants protesting South Africa's race policies. The new Miss World, a brown-haired West Indian beauty with hazel eyes, is a physical education teacher. She is a friend of Jamaican reggae singer- guitarist Bob Marley and said she hopes to open a health food restaurant someday. Just hours before the final judging, the governments of the Philippines and Yugoslavia pulled their contestants out of the competition to protest the racist- image projected by the presence of two South African entrants, one black and one white. They were the eighth and ninth contestants to withdraw.

LASEBPHOTO (AP) In the chips Dan Durham, 18, of Vancouver, spent minutes buried under IS tons of wood chips last week and Is having second thoughts about religion, he said. He was working in a hopper of chips when the hopper emptied Into a track. He wasn't rescued until the truck completed its haul 40 miles away. Baptists support Carter's church GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP)- The South Carolina Baptist Convention Thursday approved a resolution in support of President-elect Jimmy Carter's Plains, Baptist Church, which last Sunday opened its membership to blacks.

The convention's 2,300 participants approved the resolution on a nearly unanimous voice vote on the last day of the meeting. The resolution said many Baptist churches are now facing decisions on whether to admit blacks to their congregations. "We commend these churches for their actions, express our support and assure them of our prayers as they seek to follow the leadership of Jesus Christ in reconciling all broken human relationships," the resolution stated. Layaway NOW for Christmas Shop early for best selections. A small deposit reserves your DIAMONDS JEWELRY WATCHES CHARGE IT NO INTEREST The Weekender.

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The Justice Department's top law-enforcement official has concluded that the federal strike forces are failing to combat organised crime effectively and has recommended what amounts to a major downgrading of the strike-force concept. Astt. Atty. Gen. Richard L.

Thornburgh has proposed that the strike force in southern New York the largest and most important of these units be stripped of its autonomy and placed under control of the local U.S. attorney. Thornburgh, who heads Justice's criminal division, also is preparing recommendations that could result in a similar constriction or even shut down the strike forces in Brooklyn, San Francisco and Detroit. Bitter Straggle These proposals, coupled with a decision last month to terminate the strike forces in St. Louis and New Orleans, are certain to exacerbate an already bitter, behind-the-scenes struggle about the future direction, control and structure of the government's drive against organized crime.

Many law-enforcement sources charge privately that Thornburgh's ideas about cutting back and the scope and authority of the strike forces already rednced from a high of 18 in the early 1970s to 13 will wreck what they regard as the government's most effective instrument for fighting high-level racketeering. These critics, noting that Atty. Gen. Edward Levi and the top echelon of Justice Department officials are certain to be replaced by the incoming Carter administration, argue that decisions about the strike forces should be left to the new attorney general, who will take office in January. But critics contend Tbornburgh is moving so swiftly to implement his own ideas that the new administration may have its options about how to deal with organized crime foreclosed.

By the time Thornburgh's successor takes office, the critics say, the power of the strike forces and the morale of its personnel may be shattered. Thornburgh, however, insists that his aim is "not to gut the organized crime program but to strengthen it." In an interview he made no secret of his view that the strike forces have lost sight of their original goal to build effective prosecution against organized crime's kingpins. Secret A still-secret study Congress's watchdog on government t)peraikms, the General Accounting Office, is known to have concluded that strike forces "are not gcttfct the job done." The GAO reportedly have had considerable inflvencc in winning over Levi and Deputy Atty. Gen. Harold R.

Tyler, jr. to Thornburgh's view that an overhaul of the organized crime program is needed. "In too many casea," fhornbttrgh said, "the strike forces have become bogged down in routine tnvwtigations of minor figures of the Indira and not the chiefs. We're not'Interested in going after guys whose names end in a vowel on petty gambling and loan- sharking charges that could be handled just as easily by the U.S. attorneys in different cities." He said the strike forces should be doing "the laborious, paper-cnaae type of grand jury investigations that can take months or longer, but that get Into the guts of sophisticated aAemea like the ways in which big rackets' money is used to infiltrate the businep sector of our economy." Young'Zealous J'ailted In addition, Thornburhg is known to feel that the strike forces frequently staffed by young lawyers, have often behaved in an overly tealous, manner, taking legal shortcuts that antagonize judges and harassing suspects who cannot be convicted.That is why he KC'S CLOTHES HORSE 2747 DOUGLAS AVE.

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"includes Bulb, Ma.tic Poland Soil. US.YW GARDEN CENTER i advocates that they be subjected to closer control by putting them under the U.S. attorneys in their The question of control has cropped up frequently since the first strike force was set up in 1967 in Buffalo, N.Y. The objective was to bring together on a single team Justice Department attorneys and investigators from the various federal law-enforcement agencies to focus on the top rackets figures in an area. Under former Asst.

Atty. Gen. Henry E. Petersen, the concept was expanded, and 18 strike forces were set up in 17 cities. The original idea was thtft cases developed by the strike forces would be referred to the appropriate U.S.

attorneys for prosecution. Instead, the strike forces gradually took jurisdiction over both the investigation and prosecution of organized crime cases in their areas. Until Thornburgh's recent interventions, they operated independently of the U.S. attorneys' offices. In the process, some became large- scale operations, employing substantial numbers of lawyers and investigative personnel provided by such agencies as the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Secret Service, the Internal Revenue Service, the Bureau of Customs and the Securities Exchange Commission.

5 The" Manhattan-based task force iorl southern New York currently has staff of 48, including two men New York City police 1 The strike forces, their sa'ppontrsi say, are due the credit for the prosecu-l tion and jailing of several high-ranking I Mafia figures in New York, Brooklyn, I Los Angeles, Detroit arid St. Ldflisl during the past five years. Lansky Neutralised? And although he has not been jailed, the sources contend that it was stride-1 force efforts that succeeded in neutralizing the international gambling and money-laundering operations of The 1 long-time "finance minister to (tie mob," Meyer Lansky. "We're not doing everything right," said one strike force chief who asked not to be identified. "But our.

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