European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 20, 1973, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday november 20, 1973 school Impact fuel crisis will Cut frills for student but give them extended Yule recesses by Jeffrey d. Alderman associated press writer the pos game Shower in the school locker room May be a Little cooler Winter vacations a bit longer and Field trips less frequent As the Energy crunch comes to the Campus. Already facing a Money crisis that has forced both secondary and College level schools to Cut educational trimmings from their budgets Many american schools were trying to save Energy costs when president Nixon made his plea for Ameri cans to conserve Energy. The los Angeles school District is no longer using its buses to take youngsters on Field trips. The buses Are Only being used to shuttle students to and from school and athletic contests. No More Field trips until the system is sure it has enough die Sel fuel. Other measures taken by the District wasting Oil Gas lowering thermostats to 68 degrees no air conditioning until the temperature hits 78 and fewer lights in the classroom. Similarly the Parkland pa., school Board has decided to Cut late afternoon school bus runs transporting pupils Home from extracurricular activities. Students at the four Vermont state colleges Are getting a Bonus an extended Christmas vacation. It s part of a state Effort to conserve fuel. The vacation will be three or four weeks longer and stretch from mid december through january. Alas it s Only a reprieve. The time will be made up in the warmer Spring months. Lengthening vacations is one of the most popular techniques used by schools to con serve Energy. Bob Jones University Greenville . Simpson College in Indianola Iowa Grin Nell College Iowa and the Heuvelton n.y., Central school District Are among a dec head says nation must use nuclear Power Washington up atomic Energy commission dec chairman Dixie Lee Ray says the nation is wasting Oil and Nat ural Gas by using it to produce electricity and must instead turn More to nuclear Power. There is i believe a growing recognition that fossile fuel supplies Are limited that nuclear Power can be used to produce electricity mrs. Ray said. It is a waste to use either natural Gas or Oil. To Burn under a boiler to produce electricity when one has alternatives mrs. Ray the first woman to head the dec said it is too late for nuclear Power to ease the current Energy crisis but that it would be a major source of electricity in the future. Nuclear plants now Supply something approaching 5 per cent of the electricity for this country with the 37 units in opera Tion. And we re hopeful that another 21 plants will go on line during the next 12  she gave the assessment in an interview with . News & world report. While acknowledging delays and in creased construction costs mrs. Ray said she is optimistic that the time could be reduced for bringing atomic plants into operation. The president has suggested that this time be Cut from 10 years to six years and we think it can be done she said. Our present projections Call for about 1,000 nuclear Power plants to be operating by the year 2000." she said Iran s water and Power minis Ter expressed a great interest in nuclear Power plants on a recent visit to the United states. Why in Iran with All the Oil you have Are you going to build nuclear Power plants to generate electricity she inquired. He replied she said. Because we consider Petroleum far too valuable simply to produce heat for making elec  firemen s Union Leader admits lying about vote new York a the head of the uniformed firefighters association has conceded that he lied when he said City firemen voted overwhelmingly to sup port a strike. Ufa president Richard j. Vizzini is under investigation by the Manhattan District attorney s office Over the Union membership vote and subsequent 5%-hour walkout the first full scale strike in the fire department s 108-year history. Vizzini planned to appear on television to explain in detail the secret balloting by firemen a Union spokesman said. The honest ballot association which supervised the pre strike mail vote reported last week that contrary to Vizzini s pre Vious assertions the actual vote total was 4,119 to 3,827 against a walkout. A spokesman for Vizzini said sunday that the Union chief under questioning by newsmen had been boxed into a Corner. Until he flatly stated that the vote had been  a Manhattan grand jury is continuing to look into the circumstances surrounding the firemen s strike which ended when both sides agreed to binding arbitration. Others joining the Vermont schools on an extended Holiday period. In Colorado where the Winters Are even heavier than in Vermont Aurora Public school officials Are thinking about shorten ing school Days this Winter. They have been told their heating fuel Supply will be a least 10 per cent less than last year. Or. Leonard Cohen superintendent of the Northern Lehigh pa., schools says the Slatington District school May be forced to close for several Days at the end of each Winter month because of a fuel shortage. A fuel shortage is already upon the medi Cal College of Virginia in Richmond. The heating Plant has run out of Oil and is being operated on two standby Coal fired boilers. The school s supplier said it used up its november and december heating Oil allot ments and was Cut off. The University of North Dakota is turn ing to Lignite Coal to heat its classrooms in an Effort to conserve heating fuel and electricity. An official said it May take 300 tons a Day to heat the Campus during the cold est periods. Rather than increase time off during the Winter a school administrator in comparatively Balmy Texas would rather Fin ish the Spring semester on time to save Energy used for air conditioning. As for lowering thermostats Plant director Wil Liam Wilcox of the University of Texas told a meeting he Felt that would make rooms too cold and would put people in the hos  in Denver a sweaty afternoon on the playing Field May be followed by a Chilly bout with the Shower. Asst. Supt. Joseph Brezinski told the Board of education that one fuel saving measure under consideration is ordering physical education instructors to reduce the amount of hot water in the locker rooms. Tossed out of the Hutch former Playboy bunnies from left Nancy Phillips Carmelita Atwell and Patti Colombo talk to newsmen after they lost their jobs because they allegedly no longer have a Bunny  the Warr enless women All of whom Are 28 years old or older complained to the new York commission on human rights that they Are the victims of age and sex discrimination. Up photo toxic clams hospitalize boy Sarasota Fla. A officials said sunday that a 10-year-old boy was hospitalized in critical condition after he ate clams contaminated by toxins from a red tide algae. Or. John Mcgarry director of the Sarasota county health department said Lonnie Long of Sarasota was afflicted by paralytic shellfish poisoning saturday after he and a Friend ate clams they Gath ered on a Sandbar off the Beach at siesta key off Sarasota. Mcgarry said the other boy was affected by the poisoning but recovered in a few hours. Arizona heart disease program starts at Early childhood by Jane e. Brody new York not the state of Ari Zona is working with 10,000 families of pre school children in an Effort to prevent heart disease when it really starts in Early childhood. The program which focuses on diet exercise blood pressure obesity and cigarette smoking will be expanded to 13, 000 additional families next year at a Cost of $10 to $13 a family. The program described Here a few Days ago to a symposium on childhood obesity is based on a cardiovascular intervention study by or. Glenn m. Friedman and his colleagues established three years ago in their private paediatric practice in Scottsdale Ariz. Friedman s prescription includes a reduction in the amount of protein foods consumed each Day to the level recommended by the National Academy of sciences the average american currently consumes twice the recommended daily allowance for protein. Friedman emphasizes a decrease in Ani Mal proteins since All of these Are High in cholesterol and saturated fats the sub stances that promote arteriosclerosis or hardening of the arteries. The paediatrician also encourages families to pry themselves and their children away from the television set and instead spend the time exercising. He favors activities like bicycle Riding and swimming that can be enjoyed by the whole family and by the child for the rest of his life. Although there is no established proof that such a program will have the desired effect of preventing premature death and disability from heart and blood vessel Dis eases doctors participating in the symposium sponsored by Columbia University s Institute of human nutrition agreed that the program could do no harm and could Well do a great Deal of Good. Friedman told the More than 1,000 physicians and dietitians attending the symposium that cardiovascular disease which kills More than one million Ameri cans a year 25 per cent of them before the age of 65 is like an  noting that living patterns Are established in childhood and that the family lives together eats together exercises together and perhaps even smokes together Friedman concluded that a family oriented prevention program is needed