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WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 24, 1979
100-millionth visitor
sees Disney Kingdom
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Pigeons, balloons and fireworks
swirled through the air to celebrate Kurt Miller’s admission to Walt
Disney World as its 100-millionth visitor, but all the fanfare did was
scare the 8-year-old boy.
Kurt burst into tears in the raucous celebration that erupted
Monday when he entered the amusement park. The band played
loud music, hundreds of employees cheered and Mickey Mouse ran
up to meet Kurt.
“Did I do something wrong?” Kurt asked his mother.
Kurt was reassured by presentation of a lifetime pass to Disney
World and a silver replica of Cinderella’s Castle. He was all smiles by
the time he climbed into an antique fire truck to join a parade down
Main Street.
Inflation proof
Texas dams may be next energy sourci
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If Texans could hook turbines and
generators to all the existing dams in
the state they could produce more
than enough electricity to supply
the needs of a city the size of San
Antonio, according to a preliminary
study by the Army Coips of Engi
neers.
And all at “inflation proof’ prices.
Nationwide, the figures are likely
to be even more staggering when all
the states report their unused po
tential for producing electricity as
part of the three-year National Hy
dropower study now being con
ducted by the Corps of Engineers at
the request of the Department of
Energy.
Dams which have gone unnoticed
for decades in Texas and elsewhere
now are coming under close gov
ernment scrutiny in the quest for
clean dependable energy sources to
displace costly and finite supplies of
fossil fuels. In many cases turbines
and generators could be added with
little change in existing dams.
A preliminary estimate of power
potential at 360 Texas sites shows
they have a capacity to produce
2,248 megawatts of electricity,
whereas San Antonio, the nation’s
10th largest city, used 1,700
megawatts during its peak period in
the heat of late July. The 360-site
figure is a “stage two” estimate the
Corps of Engineers says probably
will be refined downward once
environmental and economic factors
are plugged into the formula.
Currently, Corps engineer Jana
Loyd of Dallas said only 16 of Texas’
scores of dams ranging from small to
huge are equipped to produce elec
tricity and they generate only 321
megawatts.
Some of the most notable
electricity-producing dams in the
state are Falcon Dam on the Rio
Grande near Zapata, Denison Dam
“It certainly can make a con
tribution. In these times of
energy shortage, we need to look
at all alternatives
on Lake Texoma, Sam Rayburn
Dam, Toledo Bend Dam and Whit
ney Dam, near Waco.
But soon to be added will be
Amistad Dam at Del Rio, which was
built with penstocks in 1969 to allow
for addition of turbines and
generators later.
L.E. Gross, manager of Medina
Electric Cooperative which will
share the Amistad dam electricity
with South Texas Electric Coopera
tive of Victoria, estimates that the
hydro-electricity will amount to
about 10 percent of the total his util
ity supplies in 17 Southwest Texas
Counties.
It also will cost about one-half of
what it costs to generate electricity
with natural gas, said Gross. The
two utilities entered into a 50-year
contract with the federal govern
ment for the Amistad project to pay
for the electric generating units.
Central Power & Light Co.,
which serves most of the cities in
South Texas and the Rio Grande
Valley, for years has been buying
electricity from Falcon Dam which
is equipped to produce 119
megawatts for the United States,
and a like amount in Mexico.
One day last week, CP&L
spokesman Bob Noster said the util
ity received 41 megawatts of elec
tricity from Falcon Dam, amounting
to about one hour of electricity at
the peak period for the entire sys
tem. “It certainly can make a con
tribution. In these times of energy
shortage, we need to look at all al
ternatives,” Noster said.
CP&L also purchases electricity
from a series of six small hydro-dams
operated by the Guadalupe-Bianco
River Authority on the Guadalupe
River below New Braunfels.
Suprisingly, the six smaller dams
— using the same water over and
“You can go in and do some
minor fixing up and you might
all of a sudden get a little recre
ational lake and the electricity
that comes out of it is half the
cost of what you receive from
any other source."
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over — produced a collective
9,775,000 kilowatt hours of electric
ity during August, and 76,875,000
kilowatt hours since last Dec. 1, ac
cording to LeRoy Goodson, director
of planning for the authority in Se-
guin.
This cumulative 76,875,000
kilowatt hours compared favorably
with the 83,841,000 kilowatt hours
generated at the huge Toledo Bend
Dam operated jointly by Gulf States
Utilities, Louisiana Power and Light
and Central Louisiana Electric.
Federal dollars also are coming
available to study and construct
such projects, a government official
said last week.
In Washington, Department of
, Energy spokesman Fred Appel said
DOE is operating a $10 million fund
to finance feasibility studies by local
governments into whether their un
used dams are suitable for produc
ing electricity.
Appel said President Jimmy Car
ter last May also issued a
“memorandum of understanding”
to the heads of several agencies
making available $300 million in
government financing for loans or
grants to construct hydropower
facilities.
“His (Carter’s) objective was 100
new hydro projects under construc
tion by the end of 1981 and as many
as 300 by 1985 which could yield up
to 1,500 megawatts, which is a lot of
power,” Appel said. “It was just an
nounced this spring so the proposals
are just coming in now.
“One of the major initiatives is to
exploit this potential because hy
dropower is inflation proof and it’s
environmentally benign. The main
problem with hydro is not enough
people know about it and when they
find out about it they want to know
whether their dam is suitable or
not.”
Appel said projects such as the
one clue for construction at Amistad
by early next year, “will be the
biggest energy bargain toll
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dam that was used 30,1,1
ago for something else,
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half the cost of what yon
from any other source.’’
Gross said the new
dropower fit in nicely in If
the search for more sourceii
for cities such as San , J
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look at more and more surfe
and more and more rem
whether the enviromnentilij
it or not, just to take w
domestic water supply,"th
official said.
Gross said the electricity
and South Texas Electric &
tives will begin receivii||
Amistad Dam in aboutta
estimated be enough
fulltime a city of about 20,1
lation.
“All we have to worry
long drought,’ he said. "A
drought would have miniii
but a longterm drought ml
drastic effect because
would affect the level of
and the river flows.”
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JERUSALEM — Opposition
Labor Party leader Shimon Peres
demanded Tuesday the government
step down and call new elections in
a parliament debate that saw Prime
Minister Menachem Begin s admin
istration battling against five no-
confidence motions.
The debate began after Moshe
Dayan formally quit a government
weakened by his resignation,
struggling with a setback to its pol
icy of Jewish settlement and con
fronted with challenges from the
right and left to bring it down.
“This government has only one
path to take — to go and to go im
mediately,” Peres urged from the
rostrum of parliament at the start of
an expected hours-long session.
Peres called for new elections.
Labor and other minority parties
brought five no-confidence motions
against Begin s besieged govern
ment. They attacked on several
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one path to take — to go and to
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fronts, from the 100 percent infla
tion rate to a settlement policy con
demned by both left and right.
Israel Radio said Agriculture
Minister Ariel Sharon told Begin he
would resign if the government
obeys a supreme court ords
mantle the settlementt!J
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and Begin exchanged harst
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Humberto Calderon, whose country is a major U.S. foref
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