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Insurance habits examined
Rural, young least insured
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — About 26.6
million Americans, 12.6 percent
of the civilian population, have no
health insurance, a study by the
Department of Health and Hu
man Services says.
The 12-month incomplete
study, which examined the habits
and insurance coverage of more
than 37,000 people in 1977 and
1978, said non-whites, young
adults and rural residents are
among the least insured people in
the United States.
The study found that about 29.9
percent of those aged 18 to 24
were uninsured. And there were
large racial differences — 12 per
cent of whites uninsured com
pared to 18 percent of all other
The study also found city dwel
lers were more likely to be insured
than rural residents, and those
with more years of education were
more likely to be insured.
Although final results will not
be available for several years, the
preliminary findings also said:
—In 1977, the mean charge for
a doctor’s visit was $21.29, with
more than two-thirds of it paid by
insurance. Costs were higher for
city dwellers than rural residents.
— Highest charges for doctor’s
The study’s authors said this in
formation and the information that
will come later, will help answer
questions about costs of various
types of health insurance, demand
for medical services, problems in
obtaining medical care, and steps
that can be taken to curb soaring
medical costs.
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office visits in 1977 were in the
West, with a mean charge of
$28.01. North Central residents
paid $18.08, Northeast residents
$21.02 and southerners $20.39.
—Dental visits in 1977 cost an
average $31.71. The patient and
family paid 77 percent of the
charge, but the percentage has
probably gone down since recent
statistics show 21 percent of
Americans had dental insurance
last year.
—About 88.3 percent of U.S.
employees work for firms that
offer some form of health insur
ance, but the type varies widely.
Larger firms with union contracts
are more likely to offer plans and
assume a greater share of the cost.
Entrepreneur finances
search for dinosaur
United Press International
PLANO — Jack Bryan’s eyes
sparkle with childlike excite
ment when he talks about
financing an expedition deep
into the Congo to find a living
dinosaur.
Bryan, whose fascination
with dinosaurs stretches back to
his childhood, said an article ab
out a Chicago scientist investi
gating reports of a dinosaur liv
ing among African tribes hit him
“right between the eyes.”
He said: “I’ve been in
terested in dinosaurs since I was
a kid. I made clay models and
read a lot about them.”
Bryan, 54, a consulting en
gineer turned entrepreneur,
said he took the first plane to
Chicago after hearing that news
and had lunch with Dr. Roy P.
Mackal, the scientist who was
investigating the reports and
whose next search for the crea
ture lacked financing.
Mackal is a biochemist who
spent 12 years searching for the
Loch Ness monster and has
taken four trips to Africa in of
search the dinosaur.
Bryan agreed to back the di-
nosaur-searchilng expedition,
and helped convince the Na
tional Geographic Society to
also help finance the trip.
Bryan said Mackal, a photo
grapher, two other scientists, a
missionary-translater and about
20 Pygmy porters were ex
pected to have reached Lake
Tele this week. Bryan said he
was unable to go on the mission
because of a problem with im
munization shots.
The large reptile, said to re
semble a brontosaurus, is said
to inhabit a remote, swampy
jungle near Lake Tele in the
Congo.
Mackal said natives call the
beast “mokele-mbembe”
eyewitnesses described it
being 36 feet long,
brown and standing behvet: P) bill:
and 10 feet tall. It is descnli te' )ne 4
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stubby legs. It feeds on«
flowered plants with ana]
like fruit that grow on the
banks, observers say.
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a brontosaurus resemble |
creature. The brontosaumi
believed to have beo
tinct 70 million years a
“We’ve got a piece ofgro»
that has not changed in 70
lion years,” Bryan said,
plant life is the same, there
been no volcanoes, (loot
other things that would
changed it. If (Arthur) C
Doyle’s ‘The Lost World’e:
this is where it is.”
Cow patties mean power
farmer, Cornwell prof sa
United Press International
ITHACA, N Y. — Cornell Uni
versity Professor Dr. William
Jewell and horse farmer Harry
Buck have come up with ways to
make a farm energy self-sufficient
by using cow manure. Both say
any farmer can do it — but won’t.
“There’s an awful lot of interest
in this area but there’s a great re
luctance to move, because farmers
are waiting to see practical proof,”
Jewell said. “They’re waiting to
see if people other than Cornell
University professors can run this
system.”
Buck said: “Farmers alwalys
say, ‘Show me.’ The only time
when they do something is when
their backs are to the wall, and
they can’t afford to pay for any
thing. ’
Cornell researchers have de
veloped a methane gas generation
system to help dairy and beef cat
tle farmers turn animal manure
into fuel. The process also re
moves 90 percent of the odor from
the waste material.
Using an insulated, earthen
trench with a flexible, specially-
made impenetrable cover and an
underground hotwater heater,
Cornell scientists have developed
a system that produces a mixture
of methane and carbon dioxide.
This fuel can be used to heat
farm homes and buildings, pro
duce hot water for milking equip
ment, cool milk, dry crops, run
power generators and fuel mobile
units within a confined area, the
researchers said.
If the trench, which must be
kept at 95 degrees, is well insu
lated, the gas produced from the
manure of 50 dairy cows — about
5,300 pounds of manure — should
be enough to heat a modern home
during a winter, the researchers
said. The gas could be burned in
stead of fuel oil or propane gas,
they said.
Although Cornell has success
fully tested its demonstration sys
tem for the last three winters.
Buck built a system of his own. He
did research on the subject and
utilized his knowledge gained as a
mechanical engineer.
“During the oil embargo of 1973
I had to go begging for gas to run
my tractor,” saids Buck, a59-year-
old Austrian immigrant. “1 prom
ised myself I would never do that
again.”
With the help of his family and
neighbors, he designed and built a
methane gas generation system
from scratch at his Whinney-Haw
stables.
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started the project in 197i
finished three years later.
In use since last year, Bi
his system, which produce
equivalent of 20 barrels of
oil a day, will save him thons
of dollars a year and result ini
output of about 800 barrelscf
year.
He claims his farm isenerg
dependent, except for Jit
worth of heating oil and gas 'ed Janu
he must purchase annually! cagan at
an ethanol-producing system hite H
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held up in a legal dispute in^ his cus
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might also be sold as fertilize!
cess ethanol and methane
be put on the market for sale]
said this makes such a system
more attractive.
Buck uses the methane
ated from the manure ofhis|
25 horses' and his neij
cows to run an internal
tion engine, which poweis
alternator and produces elei
ity. The electricity heats
his house and greenhouse
makes steam to power a slil
the ethanol production.
Like Cornell’s, his system
serves the nutrients in the at
waste so little fertilizer vain
lost.
Jewell, who directed the I
nell project, said methane
generation systems arefeasitl
even small-scale dairy and
cattle farmers. He said (lain:
with 50 to 100 head of 0
should seriously consider hi|
one installed.
“But until we have 1,
terns operating in the U
States, I really don’t know
the future is for this sysl
Jewell said. “I think
would find it would yield
lowest cost and cleanest ea
available.
“I feel it’s effective down#
lowest-size farms.”
Farmers would have to in''
minimum of $10,000 for
system, he said.
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