THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY. JULY 18. 1979
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irritation and indifference
arter’s thermostat setting rule receives mixed reactions
United Press International
merica’s office workers rolled up
posts in San ^ e ’ r shirtsleeves and turned up
gnition Day their thermostats in line with Presi-
'icemenand dent Carter’s energy conservation
in the San nandate this week. Their reactions
t Randolph, varied from irritation in the hot
hy Veterans Southlands to indifference in the un
dent Carter Isonably cool North,
r estimated , “We’re just in this little area
ars and the where there’s no air. It’s terrible. It’s
rid was long isweatshop, ” groused Hollie Mann,
Ijecretary for the Small Business
Sdministration who said the tem-
™ature in her building reached 87
irees.
hat was in Lubbock, Texas,
ere the afternoon high neared 100
;rees.
n Chicago, where it never got
above a pleasant 78, most office
j workers scarcely noticed whether
g D(lf] thermostats had been turned up to
the required 78 degrees (Carter’s
six-month
'wer plants,
within their
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ally routine
omic safety
a March.
mandate calls for 65 degrees in the
winter).
A telephone survey of several re
staurants found the managers were
not even aware of the president’s
order to conserve energy. Steve
Greer, manager of P.S. Chicago, a
nightclub-restaurant, said his place
is hot enough as it is.
“It’s usually 98 degrees in here,
even if we would turn it down to 65,”
Greer said. “It would be getting out
rageous to keep it hotter. People pay
for an atmosphere of comfort when
they go out.”
In Fort Worth, Texas, where the
temperature also approached 100, at
least one restaurant was uncon
cerned about Carter’s order.
“All we have here are fans,” said
an employee at Angelo’s, a restaur
ant noted for its Texas barbecue. “It’s
about 85 in here now and no one has
ever complained about the heat.
Folks just come in and drink beer.
They stay cool that way.”
Stewart Mauer, manager of the
downtown Hilton Hotel in In
dianapolis, said it’s all in the attitude,
anyway.
“If everyone thinks they’re going
to be hot and uncomfortable, then
they’ll probably be hot and uncom
fortable,” he said. “The idea is to
think cool.”
Secretaries in the White House,
already steamy for weeks because it
was the first place Carter ordered
mandatory thermostat settings, took
to wearing sun dresses and cooling
themselves with brightly colored
fans. Reporters in the press room
likened it to a sauna. Workmen in
stalled screens in many of the West
Wing offices so windows could be
propped open.
State workers in Miami shed
three-piece suits for cooler cotton
guayaberas — a shortsleeved cotton
shirt of Latin origin — and armed
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ling distressed cities and urban
5as, Housing and Urban De-
jlopment Secretary Patricia Harris
Id Tuesday.
[This source of capital holds the
jtential for major impacts on the
dthofboth the national economy
and that of individual communities, ”
Mi;. Harris said. “It is particularly
|portant to those localities that
i)w such symptoms of distress as
I of jobs and declining tax bases.”
iMrs. Harris made her remarks as
HI D released a study on the impact
iuttle key to
space future,
lirector says
United Press International
(■CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —
Kennedy Space Center Director Lee
Scherer says the space shuttle will
finish what the Apollo 11 moon mis
sion started 10 years ago.
("‘Apollo 11 was a prologue of a
forious future, during which the
^ace shuttle is going to open up the
Jssibilities of doing things we have
ly dreamed of before,” Scherer
id Monday at a ceremony com-
imorating the 10th anniversary of
s moon mission.
President Carter referred to the
toon mission Sunday night in his
ergy speech as proof of American
complishment. When Neil
mstrong set foot on the stark lunar
idscape 10 years ago, he and his
untry were heralded for the stag
ring human endeavor.
No longer is the nation so sure of
space explorations.
of foreign direct investment on U . S.
cities.
The issue of foreign investment,
particularly in real estate, has be
come an increasingly controversial
one.
According to the HUD study, in
vestors from the Netherlands, Great
Britain and Canada have the largest
investments in the United States and
it noted the OPEC nations, the
source of much of the controversy
over foreign investments, “are not
responsible for much direct invest
ment, preferring to place their funds
in more liquid assets.”
The HUD study showed, how
ever, that overall direct foreign in
vestment in the United States is rela
tively small — $34.1 billion in 1977
— but said it has grown more rapidly
than U.S. investments abroad in the
1970s.
Among the study’s major findings
is that while much foreign invest
ment in manufacturing in the United
States is in cities with lagging
economies, a significant amount of
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devices one swings in a circle to mea
sure the dewpoint. When it reaches
a level of 65 percent, thermostats
may be turned down to compensate
for the overbearing humidity, Dade
County General Services Adminis
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the investment is for acquisitions of
healthy companies thus creating less
new employment for distressed
areas than elsewhere.
Foreign affiliates employed over
one million full-time employees, or
about 2 percent of the U.S. work
force in 1974, the study said.
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new investors with foreign corpora
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cities.”
It also recommended the possibil
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vestment in distressed cities more
attractive to foreign investors, but
HUD officials stressed they had put
together any legislative or policy
packages as yet in response to the
study.
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