European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 the stars and stripes january 1981 modern i Ivino making it in Maine new York times Gary Guisinger Charles Macarthur water Turbine can provide 85 percent of Small town electrical by Michael Decourcy Hinds new York times always wanted to own a said Charles Macarthur of leaning against a 20foottall water Turbine generating Watts of perhaps its the prenatal influence of nearly being due to a taxi Drivers bad at the Central Maine Power company instead of the Central Maine hos concluded who is not one to let an anecdote you can Trace it All to a Middle age his dream Metrue is a sprawling group of Industrial buildings on the Pisca Taquis River in Dov 35 Miles Northwest of Macarthur and his Are the proud owners of Browns a former 1867 Woolen Mill with a 1949 hydroelectric Plant capable of annually providing 85 per cent of the electrical needs for the towns the Complex comprises 27 acres and six some of which Are also Best measured by the for Over three years it has been the Macarthur Hobby and Headquarters for their Experiment in making the town they live in the former carpenters a few feet from the River in a two Story clapboard building with Large doors and lots of most living areas Are on the first which is furnished with victorian and More bedrooms Are planned for the second which still looks like a carpenters with the lure of free electricity and 130 Square feet of heated space for rent at a Macarthur is filling up his Mill building with Small businesses needed in the a dozen including a solar Energy restaurant and computer company and have already moved into the four Story former Woolen Blanket to attract the services most needed by the such As an appliance repairman and a free space is offered for up to a Macarthur is also nursing along an indoor Trout farm and a vegetable where tomatoes grow under a Battery of salvaged Highway he is in the process of building three commercial greenhouses and a food freezing the projects would All be impossibly expensive without Macarthur Yankee the food freezing for is possible be cause he bought a freezing Plant for and two old fashioned cold cars heavily Insu lated Railroad cars for the freight cars will provide cubic feet of storage for area who will be asked to barter food for its mechanics was not always his Strong but one of Macarthur Credo everybody is More qualified than he after studying English and geology at Bates he taught High school navigated a Navy destroy trained for the methodist flew hot air bal loons Over nudist Camps and the Arctic Circle and ran an engineering business in in 1976 he bought Browns Mill from the towns eco nomic development impressed by his plans and business the committee offered him the Mill for nothing if he would assume an existing the decision was because the mortgage payment was already Cov ered by rent from an existing a big problem was reducing the Gallons of Oil used annually to heat the Mill last after one of the two giant furnaces was converted to Burn Only four Gallons of Oil were buying local Wood from local Wood cutters keeps our local Economy which is the key to regional self he to prepare for the time when Wood becomes scarce and Macarthur is making plans for install ing the worlds largest Sola Energy collecting panels on the immense roof of the Mill he wont use those expensive Copper and Glass but a recently very cheap variety made of extruded the hydroelectric turbines Are after years of in running at about 75 percent according to Herman who has worked at the Mill since 1939 and continues to act As chief since Browns Mill is not licensed As a Utility by the Macarthur has to sell the electricity to Central Maine in Sells it to local when he int spinning valves in the hydroelectric plants control taking orders for the inflatable whales he or organizing barn a health club and buses to out town movie he tends to his museum of transportation in deeply interested and deeply depressed about said who drives an electric situated in the Mills unprepossessing ground the transportation museum houses about 18 vehicles that use alternative included in the collection Are a covered a Chevrolet station Wagon that runs on charcoal wont leave but it has hit 55 Miles an a three wheeled buggy that runs on waste fat from the Mills restaurant gets 25 Miles to the Pound and smells like Fried Chicken As it goes and a Sola powered two at wits end by Ermo Jombock Iran across an interesting statistic the other due to the increase in More people Are getting dogs for Protection and dog bites have soared 33 per cent since the dogs have been biting their own families and few dogs seem to want to get involved where there is any a couple of years ago we lived on a Remote farm and my husband bought me an Irish she should have been owned by an shed take on a moving car at 55 a group of children jumping or a Jogger having a coronary in front of the but when anyone suspicious came to the shed run under the sofa and id have to drag her prop her up and push her lip Back Over her All the while make one move toward me and Shell tear you her name was late one two Guys appeared at my Kitchen door requesting a drink of they said they were from the phone but they had no truck and no Utility Belt sagging around their i propping Kate up on her feet and hanging on to her the men began to i suppose she looks Friendly to i said As Kate licked their fingers and the Breeze from her Tail nearly knocked them off the she sure seems they Shes been to obedience school and when i command she goes for the if you will stand perfectly still and dont make any sudden ill get your when i Kate was on her All four legs up in the and her eyes closed drowsily As they rubbed her that her Crouch position and Shes Baring her i looks like Shes yawning to said one of the i thought it would look that Way to i it fools a lot of just look at the size of those he fingered one and when he dropped it fell limply Back into we certainly thank you for the they said while the dog nuzzled against their i pulled the dog inside and bolted the door As one of them in sure glad to get away from the dog asked his the Shes not playing with a full c Field enterprises