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THE BATTALION FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1980 Page 9 eatures Red tape ties up farmer’s fuel Still to produce gasohol, not moonshine United Press International ELMER, NJ. — Bruce Bishop had a great flea. He would build a still, use cull potatoes to feed it and cut the cost of operating the trucks and unchedali; (factors on the farm he works with his grand- Timeopeta^ther. of St. Clt flag s hiny steel and copper contraption, which Doks as if it belongs in moonshine country rather d of the eii: than a barn in southern New Jersey, has been s not aware rea( ty to run f° r a l° n g time. But bureaucratic red rendaBure tape has stalled its operation repeatedly. And big 20 represent pemment has found another means of obstruc- al represent h° n now > j ust when it appeared all the other red discussed I apewas cleared up. ite.” Initially, a lot of potatoes had to be thrown out, a blamed B ® me mas h leaked and damaged the soybean crop nt, Buras 4 ail< J the whole project had to be put off until this |l’s crop. s I ve never seen anything like it. Those pota- tic biologisti L s shrunk down to nothing. The neighbors i Louisiani; j^fted complaining about the flies and maggots, ” d have aBishop, 21, a junior at Glassboro State Col- “We had to pump all that mess out of storage. It _ I Jseeped out and killed all our soybeans for us. That ' V, ,, 'Would never have happened if they had given that • , dera permit to us.” no suppo # j oss 0 j- t h e potato “mash” did not cut into the potato crop since fuel for the still is gleaned mly from the “culls” — potatoes too small or efore. The still uses culls from the potato crop on their200 acres to produce 190 proof, 95 percent pure alcohol. imperfect to be marketable. But Bishop figures a lot of potential fuel was lost. Then, Bishop found out recently that, although he got the state license permit he needed after long delay, it only permits him to keep his still on his land. It doesn’t actually allow him to use it. “Now we need an operator’s permit,” Bishop sighed. “They said it was supposed to be coming, but they said that a couple of weeks ago. ” It seems Bishop has reached his limit. Permit or not, he insisted, he will fire up his machine as soon as he has got enough spuds. “If they want to give us a hassle, fine. I wanted to do it right, but you just give up after a while.” Bishop is proud of his metallic monster. It uses the culls from the crop he and his 85-year-old grandfather harvest from their 200 acres to pro duce 190 proof, 95 percent pure alcohol. He’ll mix it with gasoline to make gasohol for the fuel tanks of the farm’s 10 trucks and seven tractors. He is helping fight the energy shortage in the process. He says it may save his family and the country the better part of 10,000 gallons of fuel a year. It all began last April. Although some of his potato crop is sold to Frito-Lay, the family is not always in the chips. The still seemed a quick way to cut down the fuel bill for the farm’s vehicles. Building the still was no problem. A professor at Glassboro turned it into a class project. Ten students worked on completing his and several other stills. Bishop then applied to the state and federal governments for the permits needed to run his still and produce alcohol. The bureaucrats took so long to issue his per mits, Bishop’s frustration turned to anger. “I guess the state just didn’t know how to hand le it,” says Bishop. “I guess they just didn’t know what to do. I got the runaround for quite a while. I guess it (license application) just sat around on people’s desks.” Wife wants to visit dog after divorce United Press International LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Dorothy V. Whaley, whose husband Roy has filed for divorce, says she wants the right to visit their small mixed-breed dog after the couple splits legally. She and her husband adopted the dog and she loves it, Mrs. Whaley told Judge Tom Glaze. She asked the judge to force Whaley to bring the dog by her house twice a week for her to see. Whaley, who works for the Post Office, took the dog with him when he moved out, she said. She con tends the pet is not his alone. DON’T GIVE UP! IF YOU’RE TAKING FRESHMAN OR SOPHO MORE LEVEL COURSES AND NEED HELP HERE IS SOME GOOD NEWS FOR YOU. PHI ETA SIGMA AND ALPHA LAMBDA DELTA (FRESHMAN HONOR SOCIETIES) ARE OFFER ING A FREE TUTORING SERVICE FOR ALL PEOPLE INTERESTED. CALL ONE OF THE PEOPLE BELOW FOR INFORMATION. GEORGE KUSH 693-4786 \ ■« CHAMILLE BIBLES 845-74S1 ng killing N< th four skill East Europeans can escape o weekend country houses w BURGER- H K U H Quire sto| jssell Builei II., think Butler is charges. a Missouii testified as vitness , United Press Internationa] PBELGRADE — In Yugoslavia ey are called vikendicas; in teehoslovakia, chatas, or huts, and East Germany, borrowing from le Russian, “datsche. ” ^Weekend houses have become a lespread phenomenon in Com- fcunist Europe. fed littleB^' 005 cit y dwellers from the " | Baltic to the Balkans get away to pri ll' ' u r BN)' owned retreats ranging from ° re , 1 ipre-fab boxes to lakeside villas. ie cash regiiF tomach. | n Poland, where some 700,000 reys Charlti | e bend houses were built in the rien counten st ^ ve years, authorities have in ns official* iduced regulations limiting their ppens to si ? ean ^ grandeur. This came after it 'trocution. 85 f ounc ^ private builders use stolen iter Little's I black market materials and led that thi lar § es building materials maker at b p essa ry for urban housing were di- rrlier this)( i 1 ^ t° the second homes. adbutanolf L Yugoslavia, Belgrade television w to cop e "®p ose (]” f arm ers selling plots at in rut me. tll e( j p r i ces f or use as weekend se sites instead of using the land agriculture. Influencing the weekend house T>m is the chronic housing shortage throughout Communist Europe. Most city dwellers live in cramped, r apartment block housing, often See generations together. Apart- Int allocation waiting periods can 110 years or more. million weekend houses, most of them along the shores of picturesque Lake Balaton or the banks of the Danube River. Another factor is the limited travel opportunities. Coupled with a grow ing automobile culture, this makes a hut, dacha or vikendica desirable. “To own a weekend house is a sta tus symbol and form of snobbery, especially in Prague,” said a resident of that city. “Almost half of all Prague families spend the weekend in their own or friends’ weekend houses, and the roads into and out of the city on Friday and Sunday nights are always blocked with traffic.” Of the estimated 500,000 weekend houses in Czechoslovakia, many are built — as in Poland — with stolen materials or ignoring va rious building regulations. 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