European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday june 26, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 23 Peanut process investment Carter $10,000 is now $133,320 Washington a a f 10,000 invest ment Jimmy Carter made seven Yean ago to help finance an Experiment with Peanut shells now is Worth More than $133.000 tothe president in 1970, when Carter was a Peanut cause he s not supposed to know what the hell is going on Kirbo said. There s no Point in having a Blind Trust if you publicize everything you do with Lohuis called Carter a minor investor whose share amounted to one thirtieth of Farmer running for governor of Georgia . He said other investors in he bought 10,000 shares of Stock in a com eluding other South georgians involved in Pany called tech air. Inc., at $1 a share a Peanut businesses made larger invest spokesman for the Georgia company said Friday. The firm was looking for a Way to recover valuable commodities from otherwise useless Industrial waste. Carter and others in the Peanut business needed a Way to Dis pose of Peanut shells. Ordinary burning was costly and created air pollution. One of s founders. Mack , a professor at the Georgia Institute of technology developed a Bunting system using temperatures of 600 degree fahrenheit and near vacuum conditions to break the shells or any Woody material into Oil Gas and Char the products of Natu ral decomposition. In 1975, american can co. Bought tech air offering its shareholders one share of american can Stock for every three shares of tech air Stock they held the tech air spokesman Delmont Lohuis said. At the time american can Stock was Selling at about $30 a share so Carter s holding in was Worth about $100,000. It closed Friday on the new York Stock Exchange at $40 a share making the president s snares Worth approximately $133.320. When Carter took office Jan. 20, renamed Atlanta lawyer Charles Kirbo a longtime Friend the trustee of his financial holdings to avoid the possibility of conflict of interest. Under the arrangement Kirbis not supposed to Tell Carter what is done with any Stock the president said Friday in a Telephone inter View that he had not yet disposed of any of the , he was reluctant to discuss any dealings affecting the so called Blind m not supposed to publicize it be Airport bomb injures 4 Bangkok a a bomb planted by moslem secessionists exploded in the de parture lounge of Bangkok s Busy International Airport injuring four persons authorities said the explosive device was planted in an attache Case filled with Politi Cal literature. Ments. A demonstration Plant was operated inthe South Georgia town of Cordele said Lohuis. Although it burned some material it reportedly was never used to bum pea decomposing the Woody material in a matter of minutes rather than centuries it converted waste matter into three valuable products a thick viscous and dark Oil similar to no. 6 fuel Oil. Into a Gas similar to that created in a Coal Gasi fiction pro Cess and into Char. The Oil was purchased by a lumber com Pany for fuel the Gas was used to help dry the Peanut shells and other material for burning and the Char was sold to a local company making said the experimental Plant was run to accumulate design data and that larger plants Are being designed. President seeking standby funds to develop deploy Neutron arms Washington a president car Ter s chief spokesman said Friday the president wants Congress to approve standby funds to develop and deploy Neu tron weapons in Case he decides in the future to go ahead with the controversial devices. White House press Secretary Jody Powell emphasized however that Carter has made no decision about whether to approve either Neutron warheads for land based missiles or Neutron projectiles for artillery fact of the matter is Powell said the president has an Abhorrence of nuclear weapons period As Well As other types of noted Carter wanted to eliminate nuclear weapons entirely but added that nuclear disarmament cannot be accomplished told reporters the argument for considering the Neutron weapon is that fit has to be used. There will be Many fewer civilian casualties than with the Standard types of said the devices cause 10 times less fallout blast and fire than Ordinary nuclear also said Neutron weapons would present less danger of unintended casual ties among . Or Allied troops and would be More of a deterrent because they can be targeted More warheads and artillery projectiles produce massive amounts of lethal radiation which kills while leaving buildings standing. Conventional nuclear weapon destroy targets with blast and intense heat As Well As smaller amounts of for production of Neutron War Heads As Well As projectiles to be fired from eight Inch howitzers is included in the Energy research and development administration portion of a Public works Money Bill before the nuclear Agency also sought re search funds for a 155mm Neutron the Money was deleted by the House. The Senate has yet to act on at his regular news briefing whether Carter has decided to approve production of such weapons Powell said starry s 75-second speech to Roth avoids talk of War it. Riley kan., up army . Donn a. Starry who was called on the Pentagon carpet Early this month for predicting sino soviet War apparently made efforts saturday not to anger anyone with his comments. Starry in an address to approximately 2,400 Reserve officers training corps cadets spoke Only 75 seconds. He held nones conference and left immediately after the Parade. The 52-year-old general was reprimanded Early in june for predicting . Intervention in a sino soviet War he said was inevitable. The comments were made in a commencement address to the Frank Furt american High school graduating class. In your lifetime the soviets will fight the chinese possibly simply by continuing their 10-year-old Border conflict but More probably in a major War starry said in Frankfurt. Difficult As it May be to see the United states becoming involved in such a War itis Likely we would do so once it became apparent that one or the other of the antagonists was about to win and gain absolute control Over the bulk of the eurasian land there has been no decision Here on this particular weapon. Decisions on procurement and deploy ment will be part of the regular annual review this fall of tactical nuclear weaponry. At the time we will let you know what his Carter s decisions Why Carter kept funds in Erda s fiscal 1978 budget for Neutron weapons. Powell replied basically to keep his options workers on azores ask replacement of base co but on saturday the general was ver Brief and did t mention War the chinese or the soviets. He said simply that he had heard the cadets did t want to stand in the heat any longer than necessary so he promised to be Brief. Starry said he admired the spirit he observed in the cadets and said he was look ing Forward to having them As lieutenants. Just keep on doing what you re doing starry said in conclusion. Work hard have fun and Good Luck to All of starry 52, will become a four Star Gen eral on june 29 and be assigned to it. Monroe va., to be head of the training and doctrine come effective july 1. Lisbon up portuguese workers on the . Air base in the strategic azores islands saturday demanded rapid re placement of the american base com Mander As they press wage demands in ongoing contract a note to local government officials and portuguese newspapers the workers Union accused Brig. Gen. Erskine Wigley of Lack of Concrete responses on de mands for automatic Cost of living in creases and other fringe benefits. It Sai Wigley had gone Back on promises made to the Union gave local officials until june 30 to take Steps toward securing the rapid replacement of Erskine the american embassy in Lisbon said Thad not been officially informed of the ultimatum and stressed the wage negotiation were three Way with . Base officials merely making recommendations to their portuguese counterparts who handle direct talks with the sources said a demand for Wigley s replacement could be a preemptive strike aimed at pressing for the wage increases and at putting Union Lead ers in a position to claim credit for any eventual hikes accorded.. Officials at the Lajes base have commissioned a study of local wage Pat terns to help them map out recommendations for Cost of living provisions for the some 400 portuguese employees on the in workers want immediate Guaran nato parliamentarian confers with Carter Washington a sir Geoffrey Defreilas. President of the North Atlantic As Sembly met with president Carter As Parton his Effort to stimulate greater american awareness and interest in Assembly activities. De Freitas also met with members of the Senate and the House. The Assembly is made up of parliamentary delegates from nato countries who Deal with political military and economic problems of the Al Liance. Tees of automatic wage hikes to balance a annual inflation rate of some 30 per cent according to official base in the portuguese mid Atlan tic islands some 750 Miles West of Lisbon was used As a refuelling Point for . Planes supplying Israel in the 1973 Arab israeli War. Hunt for Slayer joined by father of one girl scout Locust Grove okla. A l the father of one of three murdered girl scouts says his joining the search of rugged Wood for a Man charged with the slayings makes him feel a lot guse father of 9-year-old Mich Elle said it was Gratifying to think tha tall these people would be out Here doing this. It was always somebody else s world he said. Now All of a sudden it s my police and up to 400 volunteers sur rounded a 10-Square-mile search area Friday As armed officers searched the Woods near the Camp where the girls were killed. Officials were to meet to discuss further strategy in their Hunt for jail Escapee and rapist Gene Leroy Hart who was charge thursday with killing the three girls. Police have gotten reports that some one believed to be Hart who is familiar with the wild Region is roaming and living in the District. Officials said they found clues Friday that the Man is still in the area. A campsite was found near the Southern Edge of the search area where it appeared the Man had eaten. Michelle and the two girls she shared agent with were on their first night of Camp ing at Camp Scott. Two of the girls including Michelle were beaten to death the third was strangled. All had been sexually molested
