European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes Friday May 20, 1977 unit signs up angry bureaucrats feet on desk image spurs drive Washington api an organization that lobbies for agriculture department employees is Par laying a critical newspaper article into a come on to attract new members. The article in the april 12 Wall steel journal depicted department employees As being among Washington bureaucrats having the least work to do. The article began by describing a $28,000-a-year employee As spending much of his Lime with his feet on his desk read ing newspaper real estate advertisements. Within weeks of the article s Publica Tion the professional pm ploys of the department of agriculture opera was swamped with new membership Applina homeowners Cool about insulation Washington t Ulli the Carter administration May have a Tough time convincing americans they need additional insulation to conserve Energy in their Homes a government study indicated wednesday. A Survey released by tht.1 census Bureau and the department of housing and Urban development showed Thill three out of every four households reported that they had Altic or roof insulation. 57 per cent had storm windows and fill per cent had storm doors however in the colder sections of the nation states in the Northeast and mid was More than 80 Trent of the House holds said they had attic or roof insulation and .12 per cell had both storm windows and doors the major problem administration officials a. Is to can vice people that they should Shore up their Home Energy savings by buying additional insulation particularly when they already have some insula Tion resident has proposed tax cred its for persons who have insulation in stalled in their Homes or beef up inadequate urged Congress to approve a 25 per cent tax credit on the first 5800 spent on insulation and 15 per cell on the next $1.400 analysts at the. Federal Energy admin isl ration estimate thai of the approximately 47 million owner occupied housing units in this country about one third Are adequately insulated one third have inadequate insulation and the Oiher one third have no insulation at All the insulation Sallis tics were contained in a lengthy Survey of National housing characteristics conducted during the final three months of 1975. Among other findings of the Survey were of the 72 5 million occupied units in the country including apartments there were an estimated 869.000 owner occupied cooperative and condominiums of these. 119.000 were vacant or for Sale when the Survey was taken co Ops and condos accounted for nearly 44 per cent of the hous ing units built since 1970 which were for Sale the number of households increased by 14 Pir cent during the first half of the decade. However households occupied by Blacks and Spanish heritage persons in creased by 22 per cell and 37 per cell. Se1 Are Taiwan drought ends Taipei up continuous rainfall for More than 24 hours across Taiwan has ended the country s worst drought in 30 years Lions. An official of the organization boasted that the article had turned into a great recruiting Aid. In the May Issue of a reporter published monthly by the department s Wel fare and recreation association a recruiting advertisement relied heavily on the Wall Street journal article. People have been calling in about join said Walter John executive director of the lobbying group. A lot of people Are really put out and we think Well gel quite a few members because of it. We re get Ting quite a few meanwhile agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland was quoted in a Page one a reporter Story As saying the reporter who wrote the Wall Surcel journal Story dealt in myths. Ill put the expertise talents and Dedi cation of agriculture department employees up against any outfit any place anytime. You re the Best Bergland said. His remarks were made at an employees gathering May 4 and picked up by the a i told the reporter that none of them would be fired or Bergland was quoted As saying. I was burned up by the fact that the Wall Street journal wrote the article without knowing very much about the the lobbying group which has been looking after the interests of the agriculture department s some 80,000 employee nationwide for 48 years has seen its Mem Barship Rolls decline 1970, the membership Rolls de creased from about 9.500 to $.500, John said adding that the goal is to rebuild it to about 9.000 members Over the next two years. The recruiting advertisement urged employees to join the organization to help us continue to work with the Congress executive off Cec. The civil service commis Sion and other agencies for benefits which will accrue to nearly All agriculture department the a reporter is not an official department publication. A Migia i Brooke left wife of sen. Edward Brooke leaves a Cambridge mass., court after she and he senator a parting shot agreed to end their 30-year marriage with a divorce settlement which will give her $18,000 a year and two of Thor three houses. With her arc her attorney Munro Inker and daughters Ruml and Edwina. A photo students protest building plan Kent state tents defend the site Kent. Ohio i api you d think they d want to forget instead they be pitched a Lent City 10 make sure everyone re Mem Berstene Roposh they Call it sometimes a collection of 70 tells set up on a Grassy slope where National guardsmen fired on Antiwar protesters on May 4.1970the 13-second barrage of gunfire Cul Down four students wounded nine others and made Ken stale University a name Hal Sull brings Back memories of Vio the school wants to build a gymnasium Annex on the site and about 1.10 pro testers have been camped there since last Friday and say they la remain As Long As necessary to Slop the construction please no alcohol or says a sign reflecting the seriousness of the pro testers mood. Help us if you want to party please do it elsewhere thank the determined students Aren t so much protesting against War. But for the prefer Valion of the site of la Weir most renowned Antiwar protest. Al this year s annual May 4 candlelight Vigil some students Well to a trustees meeting to object to the Annex which would Cul a wedge into the Hill below where the guardsmen stood ii was the Board s final decision last week to go ahead with construction that caused the tents to go up Usu president Glenn a Olds said the Annex has been planned space 1965 and the decision is the students Hope not "1 can l speak for anybody a Stu Dent said. Bui i m going to stay Here until they agree to forget the building or uni they physically remove Olds said wednesday that the protesters will not be allowed to remain on the slope once construction begins later this year. He said he Hopes they will leave voluntarily but "the.1 will be removed legally an physically if they do meanwhile the students have organized carefully even setting up a Day care Center for children. Some Days we have As Many As six or said Deb Unge next of Daylon. Who cared for two Chil Dren tuesday. We move the tents every three or four Days so we won t kill the she said. L no Encl. 22, said the 130 students who represent about 1 per cent of the student body build no open fires and Cook Only in Hibachi each evening we have a Community meal last night it was a Rice cheese dish the University has been pretty Nice she said. They brought us a fire the campers also have night Security patrols Over the weekend we had some trouble with motorcyclists Riding through the Ungericht said. Said another student we Haven t had any ram yet. Thai will separate the real campers from the
