European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Did in new How depend forthe Amenu i and Tempo another warn seems in the Saddle of of the Dos will land fewer t that sus Many i must been i a Way out of but they All of providing i guttering from f our Itic of Modem Ely living off i greater Volt the installing elec building Sty the Arab Oil lines at the i of automobiles mass transit a a Motif even though Mumford would like to flee the height of buildings restricted to to sturies and the use of foolish electric gadgets most probably res Litany Retreat Tram Only a few could kick their Energy habit without causing a severe Jolt to the nations  Economy the Sug Geston of no growth Economy May have some but not to Worken who might be Laid store owners who might be forced out of business and the remaining 1 taxpayers who would have to pay for Alvon k erector of inst me for Energy at Oak sees some indications that the voracious american appetite for Energy in the the demand  climbed an aver age of 7 per Centra the rate of increase is less now and should continue to be Weinberg because of the decline la population growth and die rising Price of or solve the of electricity there the fundamental is Muring oat on toe Era abundant the but any significant reduction a consumption is unlikely until american Are convinced they Are on the Brink of an emergency for which there is no other solution but a Retreat from Energy Rich living 1 another aspect of the  us Circum stances of York Mack out pointed is the apr of the nations system of delivering unlike most other developed the United states has More 100 electric generating companies up ways an increasing Effort Nas been made to Tirik them through interconnected Power grids so that one Utility could help another in an tornadoes hit Eastern for the Southwest Power Pool washable to Channel current to the area without so much As a bickering of the but Weinberg suggests the utilities should be More strongly tied following the example of the phone whether or not people change ways of living or the world of and there b As yet orgy salvation Are opposed fear the consequences terrorist the peo Ance on a least for t those who dread what Coal smoke will of an already polluted As for other water be insufficient solar Energy promos log but at what scale of efficiency and what one and thermonuclear fusion the vaunted limitless source of has yet to be proven technologically 5 Twenty years Harrison id aug Cailea Wilh pub Sheds Book entitled rhe Avert Hurt dred a professor of geology at us California o to a noway Sayi thai be updated the beginning of the end of of Petroleum l Brt never dreamed for a Nurte that it i instead of pressing the development and installation i alternative sources Brown United and most other developed nations Are resort ing to an increasing r Reliance on imported was the since All options for the future including the Opton of doing nothing have disturbing it is Browns recommendation that All  approaches be pursued Ilo diversity Jtb that if Anyu thug goes wrong with we will have1 spread the Load and not be caught the next blackouts May be longer and More frequent and even More on de f people love to hate by Kay Bartlett associated Prtini Ohlef exec was in his i the lights no Early be i going louder and Type of coned Call that it As by into Al it the great i 6 million cause the for invade Over the 24 ing report in t really leadership i with the poorly debated Jlove to Beitat it la the rive City ipad to eat Black e company Ard to in f generally a touch of of the i to invent Luces Public relations got setback when the system came at a time when us company financial picture looked brighter than in some in a Bleak year or utilities with soaring fuel costs and interest coned omitted its quarterly dividend for the first time since and Luce weathered a stockholders since Luce sold off two plants to the got j875 million in Rale increases Over the past restored and improved Cash in profits stood at million or per common share before lightning struck at Indian Point and set off the blackout Chain coned shares sold for As much As 25 Best in four the rate increases that helped Coo eds prof its did Little to endear the company to its Cus though Nice out that while electric rates have risen 1q per cent from 19ss to fuel including purchased Power have re wow per cell not Only did coned seem in Good financial shape that hateful wednesday it ass seemed in Fine operating to Luce the sunday before the Power he appeared of to talk show where he i cd guarantee that the chances of a or a Are less than they have been in the last is and that the cd dices Are Leas Here than in most other cities in the United Luce personally had done his bit to reduce those chances this Home is centrally air Tat the Luces dont use it As a matter of my husband says air conditioners give him the biggest problem of so we Only turn Nurs on owe a year to make sure said a Mother after All the air conditioners and everything else had gone Luce expressed he deep regret at this the pain and suffering it has caused Ite a realist he also braced for a welter of Law suits that Are Likely to said Luce we live in an age of without the resources the the Transis Tor and citizens band and other Mobile then could have been wide spread and recovery from the blackout would have taken far longer of which the new York City Westchester area has nearly 7 were the most heavily used form of two Way they were As vital for keeping officiate of the blocked out consolidated Edison system in touch with repair Crews As they were for tracing members of families or for use in making innumerable decisions about where millions of workers should be and what work they should do during the according to station gathered by the new York Telephone it Mil Uon Calls Normal late eve Ning raffle were handled in us period Between wednesday when the poo Edison system and Midnight in the following 24 80 million More Calls were up from a Normal 38 the emergency traffic even spilled Over into when the Call volume was 41 14 per cent above the 25 hours from the collapse of the system until the lights went Back of in1 the Yorkville area of the last to have Power went to the 911 emergency against a Normal 24hour volume of a new York Telephone spokesman a special new update receives Between and Calls on a Normal the spokesman but in the 24 hours up to it the Calls to tales and in Ute ne4 hours the tin major complaint the Telephone com Pany received during the emergency was occasional slowness in receiving a dial at the moment of the some customers Calls were Cut this oddly because of a momentary surge of Power As the phone com Pany Cut in generators to Back up Power supplies from Banks of Bat teries installed in the Power surge momentarily some the numerous electronic exchanges stalled since the Telephone service crisis of the late 1980sabout 30 per cent the cites Telephone lines Are connected to electronic Maunie Aaice of Power was not the Only key to us survival of the blackened Days Lel Pone net equally important was Lopre vent the network from being overwhelmed by Calls Tom outside the typically from worried rela uves of new York aty re Ildeni this problem of network which crops up during every natural or manmade and had to be com bated during the cd Len to president Carter last March new York Telephone switching Mannle Nance administration Center and the National and regional control centers of the Long lines department of the american Telephone and Telegraph the volume of Calls was much than could be by Auto Nalic equip ment trying alternate pathways for piling a Call through when the most direct circuit Are using techniques that we reused in february when a Cable room fire knocke4 out a local exchanges on manhattans lower East Side some Loof distance equipment controllers atthe new Loffl lilies command Center in  Ihram go spare switch ing equipment As far away As Long to gain entry into new York As in Many the Tele phone system controllers look Steps to Cut Down on Calls attempting to enter new City so to leave circuits free for Calls out from toe area suffering the r this involved warnings Toff opera Lora around us country and automatic settings on Telephone switching equipment to Auto magically favor outgoing Over inc newyork1 1977 the stars and stripes Page is