European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday August 6,1986 nuke group pushing High Energy vocations Washington a the atomic Industrial forum wants you to visit a nuclear Power Plant on your summer vacation trip. Honest How Long has this been going on Well last year. And the year before that. At least they mailed out press releases about it both times and again this year. And what happened before it disappeared without a Trace said Scott Peters a forum spokesman. But this year the three of us have probably done a dozen radio and television  and what do people say the reaction is arc you crazy i Don t want to go near a nuke Plant " and what do you say to that absolutely go visit one. Demystify it. There s a Tot you can  what can you learn Well according to the press release by Peters and his colleagues Many americans Are concerned about the Accident at the soviet chernobyl nuclear Power Plant a visit to one of ours will provide an Opportunity to learn tint hand about . Safety features they quoted Carl Walsic the forum s president As saying. Surely there s More to it than that to quote Walsic again one of the reasons americans Are taking to the highways this summer is the abundance and Tow Cost of gasoline. Organiza Tion of Petroleum exporting countries officials themselves acknowledge that nuclear Energy is responsible for the permanent loss of Market for about 6 million barrels a Day of open Oil. What better Lime than this to learn How it happened the forum a major Trade group of utilities sup plier companies and others involved in nuclear Power has published a pamphlet listing 89 Energy information centers in the United Stales and Canada. Most Are at Utility plants including 54 nuclear plants. The pamphlet advises calling or writing ahead for information about fees hours and facilities. For in stance some even have picnic tables. Of the nuclear plants the three mile Island Visi tors Center was the to popular in 1984, the most recent year for which figures have been compiled with 85,000 visitors. Overall a million people visited nuclear plants that year and 500,000 visited other Utility installations. Don t want to visit a nuke then you can pick from the other visitor centers 10 general eight research six hydroelectric dams six Coal plants three pumped storage plants two museums one general Fossil two nuclear breeder Cen ters one of them a historic site one solar and on distribution Center this does t add up to 89 be cause of duplications. Distribution Center yes. The new York Power control Center at 3890 Carman Road in Schenectady. It Drew 2.000 visitor sin 1984. And what will i Sec if go there it s a big control room with do ens of computer screens and Guys sitting there watching the flow of electricity Saia forum member los Ramsey. New Marshall space Center chief named Huntsville Ala. Up James r. Thompson manager of Nasa s challenger Accident investigation was named director of the Agency s embattled Marshall space flight Center tuesday by administrator James Fletcher. Thompson 50, takes Over from William Lucas who resigned july 3 after More than 30 years with the National aeronautics and space administration. Directorship of Marshall is especially crucial because the facility is in charge of the Effort to come up with a new design for the shuttle s faulty solid fuel Booster rockets. We Are very fortunate to have . Take on this assignment which is so critical to Nasa s continuing position of leadership in space exploration Fletcher said in a prepared statement released in Washington. I View his appointment As another positive step in the process of safely returning the space shuttle to flight. His extensive and varied experience makes him eminently qualified to assume this  Thompson s assignment becomes effective in late september. Challenger was destroyed Jan. 28 by a rupture in its right hand solid fuel Booster rocket. The Booster program is managed by Marshall and it was Marshall engineers who pressured rocket maker Morton Thi Okol inc. Into recommending challenger s launch despite concerns about the effects of cold weather on sensitive of ring seals. Top Nasa manag ers were never informed of the debate. Lucas the highest ranking Nasa official to leave in the Wake of the challenger Accident defended the Deci Sion shortly after the disaster. Since then the manage ment Structure at Marshall has been overhauled. New Spray on chemical Shields against Poison Ivy Washington Smokey the Bear s buddies in the Forest service have invented a Spray on chemical that pre vents Poison Ivy from turning campers skin into a mass of itchy painful welts. The product called Ivy Block was developed in five years by the agriculture department s equipment development Center in Missoula Mont. A private company May be ready to distribute it commercially by the end of the year Jay Humphreys a Forest service spokesman said monday. Humphreys said the distributor United catalyst co. Of Louisville ky., Al ready manufactures org Anaclay a com Mon ingredient in Amine aspirants which is the Poison Ivy stopper. Jim Stevens of the Forest service s safety and health office said thousands of the Agency s employees come into con tact with Poison Ivy Poison Oak and Poi son sumac every Day. Last summer he said More than 400 employees received medical treatment for severe cases of Poison Ivy. What we did was come up with a Way to prevent Poison Ivy not cure it said Jerry oilman who headed the research Effort. We concentrated on finding some Way to prevent Urush Iol the sub stance in Poison Ivy sap that causes the rash from contacting the  the breakthrough came when it was found that Organ Oclay would absorb uru Thiol. The Forest service researchers put Organ Oclay in a pressurized can so it could be sprayed directly on the skin. City making All out Effort to ensure it s All american Poplar Bluff to. Up for eign made products Are out at the Poplar Bluff City Hall where a new Resolution requires that everything from paper clips to bulldozers be made in America. The City intends to buy american made products when it is possible to do so said Bill Pellet the City cleric in our bid specifications and Purchase arrangements in the future we intend to specify that products be american. It s my understanding that no other City in the state of Missouri has done  the City Council approved the Resolution by a 5-0 vote monday night. Pc tet said the measure was prompted by patriotism but the Community of 17,000 people in Rural Southeast Missouri has been Hurt by the tide of imports and the poor farm Economy. Florsheim shoes recently closed it Poplar Bluff Plant putting about 200 people out of work. The Plant once employed As Many As 500 people. Butler county s 10.7 percent unemployment rate is one of the highest in the Region. The Resolution was sponsored by councilman Calvin Rutledge manager of a supermarket. Hopefully Well take the first step i Poplar Bluff and carry it to other municipalities in the state and the nation he said. If we want to get things done we be got to do it  Rutledge said the Resolution applies to the City s $5 million capital expenditures budget for the fiscal year that begins oct. Meandering meter App Noto part time inventor John fling 65,demonstrates a portable parking meter he designed for his Hometown of  Bette ill ga., which has a population of 900. The meter has wheels fling said jokingly so we can give More than one ticket at a time since behave Only one