European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 03, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes tuesday. June 3. 1930 pro nuclear rally told atom Energy essential to . Soddy Daisy. Tenn. Up some 500 people Many wearing America runs n nuclear Energy to shirts and sipping Cooling Tower  turned out Here for 1 pro nuclear Power rally. The group heard Aubrey Wagner retired chairman of the Tennessee Valley authority say atomic Energy is essential for the nation to become Independent of foreign Oil radioactive steam escapes of Power Plant Lusby my. Up a Small amount of radioactive steam escaped  Cal Vert Cliffs nuclear Power Plant in Southern Maryland sunday officials said. A spokesman for Baltimore Gas & elec tric co. Said the leak occurred at 1 41 . In the number i reactor and lasted about is minutes. Two Security guards were evacuated but four technicians in the control room remained on duly spokesman Jon Metz Ger said. Metz Ger said about four thousandths of a Mill Irum of xenon was selected at the Plant s Boundary Gate 6 percent of the emission allowed by the nuclear regulatory commission. It was the third leak at Calvert Cliffs this year. Small amounts of xenon also leaked feb. Hand 12. No health threat Metz Ger said the leak posed  health threat and attributed it to valve pack ing in a system that purifies water and maintains water level in the reactor. The building s ventilation system detected the presence of xenon-133, causing two alarms to trigger. The technicians on duty immediately isolated the system sup pressing the leak Metz Ger said. He said repair work has started on the faulty valve but did not know How Long it would Lake to repair. Both the nuclear regulatory commis Sion and the Calvert county control Center were notified within an hour of the leak Metz Ger said. Be was chastised by both Federal and local officials for waiting nearly a Day to notify them after the february leaks. Those leaks resulted in the installation of an emergency warning system that is designed to warn residents within a 10 mile radius of the Plant of any serious problems within is minutes after it is re ported. Khalid to  Bonn a King Khalid of saudi Arabia will pay an official visit to West Germany this month. Import1. To All was held near Tva s new $1.4 Billhi i Sequoah nuclear Plant which offi Cian Hope i l be the first facility licensed sine the three mile Island Accident last year. In february it received a Federal per Mit begin Low Power testing. " a currently is operating one nuclear Ebi. Browns ferry near Athens ala., Andas six others in various stages of construction. Wagner was instrumental in making Tva s $17 billion commitment to atomic Energy the nation s largest. It becomes Clear that we must have More nuclear Power Wagner told the crowd. We must have More plants like Sequoyah and Browns ferry. We must have More utilities building for the future As Tva is building. I say it is High Lime that the majority whose views you represent speak up and Tell it like it is he said. Wagner cited a poll he said proved the silent majority of americans support nuclear Power. He said 59 percent of the Resi dents near the crippled three mile Island Plant thought the facility should be repaired and restarted. This is the first rally of any kind i have Ever been to said Pat Kelley of Kensing Tonga. I m not comfortable making Waves but i think it is about Lime somebody fought fire with  they just tipped if in wheelin trays waiters at the Saloon restaurant in new York find roller skating helps them scene i Clr customers More quickly but it s easier to spill the drinks. A radioactive Pellet Back in Container Satsop Wash. A after consid ering do ens of ways to use fancy equip ment to return a Pellet of radioactive Iso Tope to its storage vessel officials finally just lipped the material and let it fall into place. The Bullet size Pellet of Cobalt-60 had been out of its Container since Early Friday said Mary Ann Johnson. Washington pub Lic Power Supply system spokeswoman. Utility officials said the Cobalt was radiating at a rate of two Mil Lirums an hour. Richard Romanelli a Utility spokesman from nearby Elma. Described that As a very Small dose but too potent to be returned directly to the Container by the workers. Workers were unable to get the Cobalt Back into storage after a Cable used to re tract the Cobalt broke Johnson said. The Pellet is used As part of an a Ray camera to make a rays of welded joints at the Washington Public Power Supply sys tem s no. 5 nuclear Power reactor. When in use the Cobalt is pushed out of its Container so its radiation can penetrate sections of welded steel registering any weak spots in the Weld on a Ray film on the other Side of the steel Johnson said. They wanted to use a 500-foot lower Crane to lift the isotope out of the area but the Crane was shut Down thursday when an identical Crane collapsed at the adjacent no. 3 reactor construction site damaging an auxiliary building and slightly injuring three men. Saturday morning the camera was tilted and Gravity look Over inc Coball fell Back in is Container. It did not break Johnson Hunt Brothers financially healthy statement claim the camera has been lifted out by i Crane and returned to inc manufacturer. It was under contract so Well have a new camera in two weeks she said. The area had been barricaded off so there was very minimal Contact Between employees and the source she said. Work in the area will now resume the said. I 3 /5if a a � ? a i a Dallas up the wealthy Hunt Brothers apparently concerned about and verse publicity from their recent reported losses in the Silver Market have issued a statement assuring the Public they arc in Good financial shape. Most Hunt ventures will this year show i puerto Picans on Bottom of economic scale Washington up puerto i cans lagging far behind cubans and mexi can americans Are the most economically  group in inc United slates according to american demographic mag Azine. Cuban families had a median us. Fam ily income almost twice As High As that of puerto rican families in 1978 $15.326 n. $8.282." the Magazine said in its june Issue. Mexican americans with a median fam ily income of $12.835. And Blacks who averaged $10,879, ranked Well ahead of puck to Picans. The Magazine said. The median income for All . Families was $17,640. Puerto Picans Are by far the most disadvantage ethnic group of All Spanish speak ing groups and of All ethnic groups in society at Large said Manuel a. Bustelo. National executive director of the National puerto rican forum. Many people think of hispanic Macri cans As a homogeneous ethnic group will statistics lumping them together he mag Amine said. Than  said Busl clo. In Many instances this has served to convey a More positive picture of Overall advancement while concealing inc fact that the puerto rican communities in inc main land arc worse off than in previous years " in  to income puerto Picans on non the Mainland rank behind other hispanic groups m other key economic criteria such operating  said Nelson Bunker w. Herbert and  Hunt in their statement. A measure of this is that each of to personally will pay substantial income 1mb in 1980. In addition we project the Midk condition for 1981.". Lamar Hunt who released the statement said we wanted to Clear the air. Etta someone Calls and asks if our operation a ,. Folding we re  a. Hunt who owns the Kansas City pm of hispanic rather said he had even been asked recently if i groups has distorted or in ii a. A in Ai 8r� football team was among the Loi properties the family had reported aged to pay off Silver debts. The team was not involved he said. The statement said there was not usual about pulling up properties to the $1.1 billion loan made by major to help Nelson Bunker and w. " sift. As ,0 Abor bus Credi properly a and occupational status the Maga ins ? to is a con nun part off 3?b a 5ala can business system the statement att