European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 01, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 10 the stars and stripes wednesday june 1, 1977 Menotti s Poleto Usa transp unfed festival thrives in Charleston by Frederick m. Winshi Charleston . Up the marriage of the Poleto festival Usa and this quiet port City of 70,000 persons is in the honeymoon stage and thriving. The cultural extravaganza of the per forming arts has been transplanted successfully by italian american composer Gian Carlo Menotti who founded the Origi Nal festival two decades earlier in the us Brinn Hill town of Poleto Italy where local residents at first were suspicious of it. Scheduled Tor a 12-Day run the festival moved ahead to its Midway Point with plans already under Way to continue the $1 million plus project amid this historic locale next year. By the time it concludes sunday 125 separate events involving 600artists and backstage Wilpers and hundreds of Charleston volunteers will have been  la bring my festival Here As Long As Charleston wants it said Menotti. 65. Idon t  How Charleston can let it get away. The original version has become Europe s most varied summer festival and is global in its  have embraced the project. The City provided $820.000 and its performance facilities and hundreds of volunteers Are working on the crowded schedule of events. Former president Gerald Ford s daughter Susan has been photographing the festival which is being covered by about 100 critics and other news  York and other East coast states nuclear plants accused of charging users for Cost overruns shutdowns Washington up environmentalists charged monday that nuclear Power is economical Only because state Utility commissions make electricity Consumers pay for Cost overruns and shutdowns at atomic Power  a new handbook spelling out ways to fight atomic Power the environmental action foundation said citizens can effectively Challenge the economics of nuclear reactors As Well As such traditional issues As Plant safety and  need an honest reassessment of nuclear Power s economics before we plunge into. An ambitious expansion pro  said Richard Morgan he Book author. He noted president Carter s Energy plan Calls for increased Reliance on atomic  98-Page handbook titled nuclear Power. The bargain we can t  economic challenges already have slowed reactor development in Maine and Iowa and have provided safeguards for Consumers in Pennsylvania and Alabama. Thi Kay is a private nonprofit Environ mental action group based in , author of several other books on consumer challenges to electric utilities said that when a reactor is shut Down unexpectedly most state commissions allow utilities to charge Consumers for the costs of alternative Power  utilities can generate their own n placement Power at an Idle Coal or Oil fired Plant but at a substantial increase in fuel  he  fuel clause permits a Utility to pass these increased costs to its customers immediately. Without this provision the Cost of replacement fuel would be absorbed bythe Utility s stockholders at least until 41 perish in India As train flips into River new Delhi up part of an express train plunged into a flooded River in the Eastern state of Assam killing at least41 passengers India s National news Agency Namachar  railway officials the Agency said a Bridge Over the River gave Way Asllan hear train was crossing it and the engine and two front cars fell into the River and wore completely submerged. It said on a first count 41 persons we relisted As dead and More than 100 others injured several of them  Accident occurred near Gauhati City about 400 Miles Northeast of Calcutta. Smallpox outbreak reported Geneva up the world health organization has reported up to 173 cases of smallpox in Somalia where the first out break was detected in september. The Dis ease which was brought in from Ethiopia by no iinds. Is spreading rapidly a who the next rate increase is  said nuclear generators Are out of service about 40 per cent of the time More than twice the outage rate for Coal fired  said atomic Power plants have shown average Cost overruns of about 100 percent citing the Boston Edison Pilgrim re actor near Plymouth Rock. Mass., which had a $65 million Price tag when it was announced in 1967 but Cost $239 million to  should not have to pay for the overruns. Morgan  said the Pennsylvania Utility com Mission in 1976 prohibited metropolitan Edison and Pennsylvania electric from charging customers for a $9 million construction error at one reactor while the same year the Alabama Public service commission ruled that Alabama Power could not include in its rate base 25 percent of the costs for a reactor that exceeded earlier estimates Maine and Iowa commissions have required utilities planning new generating plants to file detailed information on anticipated costs reliability adequacy of fuel Supply waste disposal plants Power need Sand alternatives considered. Morgan said strict regulations prompted utilities in both states this year to suspend nuclear projects because of  Are Well represented at the events Butchar estonians and other South Carolini ans make up the majority of the audience. Some out of state visitors were scared away in the first few Days by erroneous rumours that accommodations were difficult to  the snafu the performances have been Well attended and some have played to standing room Only crowds. The most popular event has been the Dally chamber music concerts at noon a carryover from the european Poleto. The feature artists from the chamber music society of Lincoln Center in new York Andare being played in the jewel Box Dock Street theater which opened in 1736 and Samerica s oldest playhouse. Tchaikovsky opera other top artistic attractions have Bee the brilliantly conceived production of Tchaikovsky s opera the Queen of Spades imported from the european Poleto festival Menotti s own opera the Consul borrowed from the port land ore., opera Crisp and witty pro Grams of Ballet by the Eliot Feld Ballet and the premiere of a provocative new play Molly by Simon Gray author of the current Broadway hit otherwise in  Scriabin Day program saturday is among the future highlights of the  will feature ballets set to the russian composer s music and danced by top inter National  gala closing concert with fireworks Over the Ashley River on sunday will be staged at Middleton place Plantation whose formal gardens Date Back to 1741. Take a deep breath and hold  Cana Dian veterinarian or. A i Axelson a smiling patient tells this smiling patient in his Toronto office. Kielion s interest in alligators extends to keeping a Model of one in his of lace. Associated press photo