European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday May 12, 1977 suggestion to House panel insulate Pentagon with Pentagon papers Washington is an 8 million insulation Job on the Pentagon building would pay Tor itself in fuel savings in a Little More than a year a Springfield. A. Home improvement contractor has told a House subcommittee studying the presi Dent s Energy plan. The contractor Carol v. Davenport of Davenport insulation inc., told the sub committee tuesday he knows just How Todo the Job. Davenport wants to pull his equipment up to the Pentagon s loading Dock shred the military bureaucracy s own excess paper treat it with chemicals and blow it Back into the building s Walls As insulation. The Job would take about a year de pending on How fast the Pentagon could Supply the gook As Davenport Calls the shredded paper Stock. Employees of Davenport s other firm Celtin manufacturing inc., of lot ton a. Follow much the same process in turning paper Stock into moisture and fire Resis Tant insulating material. It would take 1,500 truckloads brought from the Lorton Plant to insulate the Pentagon Davenport said. Although it was his own idea to make an estimate on the Pentagon Davenport said the general services administration cooperated by supplying figures on fuel use. He said he surveyed three other govern ment buildings and predicted that fuel Sav Ings at All at them would pay for beefed up insulation within three years. But he said Gas officials told him they had no Money for Large insulation projects. A Gas spokesman said that the Agency had reduced Energy use in Federal buildings by 30 per cent since 1973, but that most Sav Ings were from turning Back thermostats and dousing lights not insulation. I even offered let us do it. And for 10 years Well split the savings " Davenport said. In fact. I la do that for any govern ment . John d. Dingell d-mieh., chair Man of the House Commerce committee s subcommittee on Energy and Power said he would ask Gas officials to explain their  and several other witnesses warned the subcommittee that a sudden insulation Campaign is Likely to be stymied by Supply shortages. There is plenty of paper Stock to shred for instance but one of the chemicals used to turn paper into cellulose boric acid is running Short. Supplies of that chemical Are not expected to increase until 1981. Two major criticisms of Carter s proposal to give Utility companies a major role in getting 90 per cent of american Homes insulated by 1989 arc that the legis lation first Sarge has situation in hand three army generals stand at attention during a command review ceremony atthe . Army Camp Zama near Tokyo. However the general s Flag bearer is Landing behind themis eyes Al ready closed fainted but is restrained by an Alert first sergeant who spotted his predicament and held him in place until an ambulance arrived. He recovered a Little later. The review was for Gen. John Guthrie left departing commander . Army Japan who is wearing the decoration of the second class of the order of the rising Sun conferred on him by emperor i Hirohito. Standing beside him Are Brig. Gen. Edwin u Kennedy Center and . Warner s. Goodwin or. A Republic steel Rolls Bock Price hike Pittsburgh api Republic steel Carp. Hich last week initiated Price hike son a variety of products. Wednesday scaled Down those prices to match increases  by major competitors. The move brings Republic the nation fourth largest producer into line with top ranked . Steel corp., National steel corp. And Youngstown Sheet and tube a division of Lykes corp. In Washington. Robert Crandell. Acting director of the Council on wage and Price stability said. We Are heartened that the lower increases announced by . Steel this week seem to be taking  last Friday. Republic and Youngstown announced increases effective May 15 of8.b per cent on Al it rolled products used heavily in the Auto and appliance Indus tries and 6.8 per cent on bars used in tools and machinery. Those increases were called excessive by the Federal Council on wage and Price stability. On monday  steel corp said it would raise prices effective june 19 an average of 6 per cent an increase More to the liking of the Carter administration. Republic a Cleveland based firm said it was reducing its Price increase to remain competitive with other producers. Waves too Many details up to the fed eral Energy administrator. Poses serious antitrust problems by giving utilities the responsibility to assess How much insulation each residential Cus Tomer needs do the insulation or contract to Nave it done publish a list of approve insulation contractors and finance the Job itself or arrange a loan through a Bank. State regulatory commissions would Rule on each Power company s plan. Several witnesses argued that tax incentives and easy Billing will not be enough to encourage widespread insulation and that mandatory standards should be set. A Federal Power commission economist Gordon . Taylor suggested a two phase program first requiring that every House must have a certificate of Energy efficiency before it can be sold and later in about is years requiring adequate Insu lation in All houses. 2 states of execution by injection by United press International Oklahoma and Texas have become the first two states to approve using lethal injections to execute condemned criminals. Jov. David Boren of Oklahoma blazed the Trail tuesday when he signed into Law a Bill u replace the electric chair with drug injections. On wednesday. Texas followed suit with the signing of a similar Bill to become of . I "1 think and i Hope this will provide some dignity with death said Texas governor i Olph Inscoe after he approved the legislation. Sponsors of the innovation said lethal Deniis Are More in nine than the electric chair and called the latter a violent it the id that would encourage More Vio Mcnee opponents contended lethal drugs would rut provide As much deterrence to crime is electrocution. In Wren signed the lethal drug execution Bill less than 2-1 hours after the legislature gave dual approval. The new Oklahoma Law will take effect to Days alter Legisla Tive adjournment expected in Early june. Several other states have Lien consider ing drug injections for executions. The Bill provides for execution of a Crim Inal by a dual injection of drugs one to put the victim to sleep and the second to kill. The Bill states if the courts should hold the drug method unconstitutional the state would revert to the old method of executions in the electric chair. If both methods Are ruled unconstitutional the Bill pro Vides a new alternative the firing squad. The Bill provides for execution by a continuous intravenous administration Rani it Laws of okla Mina and several other slates last summer Jack Daniels distillery Short of whiskey Lynchburg. Tenn. Up Jack Daniel distillery surprised by a rapid in crease in sales is running Short of Whis key. Arthur Hancock the distillery s Adver Tising director said sales of Jack Daniel s Black Label the most expensive Type the firm produces went up 25 per cent be tween the years 1975 and 1976. Since inc product is aged live years and the increase was Noi anticipated that Long ago there is a critical shortage of Jack Daniel s Black Label whiskey m some areas of the country and at least some shortage in All areas Hancock said the surge in sales May be attributed Lup ,.st recession  High priced liquor generally Sells better inmost recession years than other times he said Jack Daniel s generally Sells from 4 to is a fifth More than Many other brands. We Are trying to be Fai r about this and Supply the areas with the worst . Hancock said