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THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1979
Pennsylvania
heated bricks
warm homes
United Press International
READING, Pa.— The old-
fashioned practice of warming
beds with hot bricks on cold
nights is being revived to heat
entire homes.
The modern concept involves
heating brick storage chambers
electrically at night, when energy
is cheaper and more plentiful, to
warm homes by day. Several cen
tral heating systems incorporat
ing this principle are being in
stalled in a research program in
Pennsylvania homes by General
Public Utilities Corp.
GPU’s consumer affairs man
ager, Robert W. Smith, says the
system uses electricity at night to
simultaneously heat the home
and the special ceramic brick
storage chamber. Electricity
shuts off during the day but the
brick chamber continues to
provide heat.
Smith said the research is de
signed to demonstrate practical
ways for consumers to save both
money and electricity.
State budget may cut L
funds to feed poor kidr
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AUSTIN — The governor,
lieutenant governor and lawmakers
have been asked to subsist on $2.14,
twice the daily amount received by
the state’s poor children, each day
the 1980-81 state budget is dis
cussed.
“Surely a legislator can eat on
twice what he is asking poor children
in this state to live on,” said a
spokesman for a coalition of 10
statewide groups seeking increased
Aid to Families with Dependant
Children benefits.
The House was scheduled Tues
day to begin tedious debate on the
$20 billion budget bill, which in
cludes a reduction in monthly AFDC
payments.
“We realize that we are coming on
behalf of a group in this state that
does not have substantial power. It is
easy for legislators to ignore them,”
said Phil Strickland, representing
the Texas Baptist Christian Life
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Commission and the coalis
spokesman.
“Poor children do notvotem, I
deal.” ■
Strickland said Gov.
ments, Lt. Gov. Bill Hobbyajj
181-member Legislature
asked via letter to “commit ||
selves to eating” on $2.14 ea4 (
the Legislature discusses theli|
bill.
He said Texas ranks 48th
nation — ahead of only Miss
and South Carolina — in theaivj
it appropriates to needy chi^ |
The $32.58 monthly paymei
each child under the prjj
amounts to $1.07 a day for fi
thing and shelter.
In order to merely reach the'}, I
survival minimum” amount ({ |
lished 10 years agobythelaal
partment of Human Resolf
Strickland said lawmakers;
have to raise the monthlystiw
$41.47. He said inflation duritij
past decade has made the incijj
necessary.
The appropriations
reduces the monthly payment|)t|
cents. But Strickland said thatd
amount would force from the{
about 13,000ofthe210,000chi
receiving aid.
The group said the increastj
$41.17 would not be sufficient*
great improvements in the M
program and noted the statei
constitutional provision limij
state welfare aid to the
880 million a year.
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