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THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1977 Read Psalm 63: 1-8 " "Set your mind on God's kingdom and his justice before everything else, and all the rest will come to you as well.' " (Matthew 6:33 NEB) A couple who were celebrating their fiftieth wedding anniversary were asked what they considered most important to a happy home. The husband replied. "When we were first married, we dedicated our home to God. As our children came along, we made a practice of starting and ending the day with prayer. We taught our children always to put God first, and somehow other things have always worked out well for us." Often parents become so involv ed with work and social affairs that they fail to leave time for prayer and for teaching their children about Jesus Christ. If God is put first and these things are planned for, it is surprising the way other things get done as well. A family that loves God and loves each other finds the secret for a happy home. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus told the people not to be concerned about material things. When we put God first. He will bless all our efforts -- and our needs will be taken care of. PRAYER: Dear God, we thank The for Thy love and guidance so freely given. Help us to realize the most important thing in life is putting Thy kingdom first. Help and bless all homes and families everywhere. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY Put God first and His blessing will be with vou. -copyright-THE UPPER ROOM --Beatrice B. Telfer (Sarnia, Ontario. Canada) M. BIRTHDAY -- Bryan Slate celebrated his fifth birthday Thursday with a party at the Developmental^ Disabled Day Care Center in Raeford. Bryan was delighted with a helicopter toy that flies into the air which he is demonstrating for his mother. Helen Slate. Mountain Becomes Power Plant In Latest TVA Energy Project By Robert C. Radcllffe National Geographic News You could call it a "giant gravity cattery," the man * made mountaintop lake soon to be filled near Chattanooga, Tenn. And whenever it is switched on -- after completion in August 1978 - it will produce a surge of 1,530 megawatts of power over 20 hours. The "battery," the Raccoon Mountain Pumped Storage Hydro electric Plant, is one of the latest power plants nearing completion in the continuing growth of the nation's biggest utility, the federal Tennessee Valley Authority. The TV A, as Americans have known it since its birth in 1933, could be producing nearly 48,000 megawatts of electric power in another decade. That would be the generating output, by mid ? 1986, of all the current and planned power plants, including 33 dams' hydroelectic generators, 12 coal - fired steam generators, the Raccoon Mountain storage generators, and all seven nuclear plants, including the con troversial Clinch River reactor planned as the nation's first commercial nuclear breeder. All that power would nearly double the 27,000 megawatts ATTENTION!! TOBACCO FARMERS AGRITECH TOBACCO CONDITIONERS - Order Tobacco In 2-4 Hrs. - Day Or Night regardless of weather conditions. - Move Tobacco In And Out Of Your Barns on Schedule ? More Efficient Use Of Barns - Save Time And Labor - Add Weight And Improve Quality - Bulk And Conventional Barn Units. ? Simple And Easy To Install And Move. CONTACT ROYSTER CO. WHSE. 875-4148 Jimmie Warner (OR) Glenn Maxwell (Night) 875-2033 (Night) 875-3766 produced now. but most of the future 48.000 megawatts would grobably be needed within the 3,000 - square - mile TV A power grid that now spans parts of Kentucky. Tennessee. Alabama. Mississippi, North Carolina. Vir ginia. and Georgia. TV A officials expect the local power demands to increase with population and with new industry attracted by lower electric rates. Surplus power would still be sold to other states in the South and East. The plant at Raccoon Mountain, already a name familiar to power engineers around the country, is a mountain ? size version of the thousands of towering water tanks that pinpoint small American cities. However, the water rushing down from the mountain storage reservior will be used to turn four huge electric generators within the mountain, instead of merely forc ing water through buried pipes to city homes. Raccoon Mountain will be the latest of 35 storage hydroelectric plants planned and being built in the United States. The biggest at Ludington, Mich, produces 1,656 megawatts with six pump - turbines. The S310 million plant is some 6 miles downstream from Chatta nooga along the edge of the Tennessee River. The mountaintop reservoir covers nearly l-'/j square miles and is as much as 200 feet deep. Despite its size and capacity, the idea of the plant is simple. River water will be pumped to the top of the mountain during non - peak periods and held in the reservoir until there is a large, sudden demand for electric power -- such as from air conditioners in a hot - spell, electric heaters in a cold - snap or from stepped - up industrial production. ah unlocked If your vacation plans are going to call for some extra cash we can help. *~ We can possibly help even more by combining what you need for vacation with your other bills, pay them all off with one of our Bill Consol idation Loans and you make just one convenient monthly payment at one place many times at 1/2 the amount you're presently paying out in monthly payments Whatever your financial needs are call on us Bnilirri ' P?opte and VCIIVvvM| ? ?? ??*? money get together. LOAN TO $1500 103 N. MAIN ST. 875-4111 RAEFORD, N. C. Tar Heel Motorists Could Save $17 Million With Tire Inflation North Carolina motorists could have saved at least 29 million gallons of gasoline worth about S17 million in 1976 had they properly inflated their tires, the Tire Industry Safety Council estimates. 'The simple act of keeping the right amount of air in automobile tires will make an important contribution (o energy conservation,"said Council Chairman Malcolm R. Lovell, Jr. "Proper inflation will benefit the car owner by saving both gasoline and tires." Properly inflated tires can add five percent to gasoline mileage, or an extra mile per gallon, because they roll easier, according to industry experts. With the sudden need tor power, the reservoir is drained, the water rushing back down like a waterfall, forcing the pumps and their electric motors to turn the opposite direc tion so that they act as turbines and electric generators. Roughly it costs four kilowatts of power to pump the water the 1 ,000 feet up the mountain to fill the reservoir for every three kilowatts produced when the water is drained out, for a net loss of about one kilowatt. The purpose of the Raccoon Mountain plant, however, is not to generate power in surplus, but rather to store it for sudden demand. Despite huge numbers, the enormity of Raccoon Mountain's "giant gravity battery" only sinks in with a visit. The flat, brown Tennessee River, broadening into the Nickajack Reservoir, curls around Raccoon Mountain on its lazy flow through the Tennessee Valley, eventually to join the Ohio River at Paducah. Ky. Raccoon Mountain's reservoir is the highest part of one of the long, rocky ridges that lift the Cumber land Plateau where the Appala chians' near their southern end. A few miles away. Lookout Mountain now gives many homes the same vantage of Chattanooga that awaited soldiers when the skies cleared after the Battle Above the Clouds, the wild flight that lost the Confederate town to the Yankees on November 24, 1863. Visitors following the winding road up Raccoon Mountain will look down on the gorge of the Tennessee River on one side, then, driving around the reservoir's edge, see Chattanooga below to the East. Picnic areas and scenic turnouts will border the road, but the reservoir will be fenced from would - be boaters and swimmers because the water level will drop nearly 150 feet during draining. Some 11,840,618,592 gallons of water will surge down through the 35 - foot ? wide shatt when the reservoir is drained, the force of the water driving the turbine - gene rators at up to a half - million horsepower each. An elevator shaft, carved through 1,015 feet of solid sand stone and limestone, will bring visitors from the reservoir into the heart of the mountain.- There, yawning pelow a viewing balcony, is the powerhouse chamber, 165 feet high and Vlmost the length of l-'/j football fields. ' f Mike Wood Walter Coley TV public should b? warned against indiscriminate use of aapirin and be aware of possible serious side effects, ?ay* Dr. R.S. Farr, chief of Allergy and Clinical Immunology at a Denver reaearch center. In mne persona, aapfain interfere* with blood dotting; in other* it may cause apiaatic anemia or gaatroin lectin a I hemorrhage. He discovered that aspirin actually in duced asthma attacks in 20% of adult asthma patients. Dr. Farr agrees that aapirin is an effective and useful drug, however he believes further reaearch may show that aapirin should be a prescription item. We welcome your pharmacy business Hoke Drug Co. Tel. 875-3720 The correct air pressure also extends tread wear, which in turn saves oil because many components of tires come from crude oil, Lovell pointed out. It takes seven gallons of crude oil to make a tire, industry sources say. A study by the National Bureau of Standards show that more than one out of four cars has at least one seriously underinflated tire. A seriously under ? inflated tire is four or more pounds of air pressure below the amount recommended by the vehicle manufacturer in the car owner's manual. Slightly more than three billion gallons of gasoline were consumed by an estimated 3.8 million cars, trucks, buses and other vehicles in North Carolina last year, according to the Federal Highway Administration. The Council estimates that 78 percent of that amount - or 2.3 billion gallons -? was used by automobiles. A five percent savings of that figure would be I 17 million gallons. Thus, the savings k>st by one - Veterans EDITOR'S NOTE: Following are representative questions answered daily by VA counselors. Full information is available at any VA office. Q ? I completed six months training on active duty with the National Guard. Am I eligible for VA hospital benefits? A ? National Guardsmen who complete active duty for training are not eligible for VA hospital benefits unless during such service, they are disabled from disease or injury incurred or aggravated in line of duty. O - Both my neighbor and I are 100 per cent service-connected disabled. He and his wife receive $785 from the VA each month. Why do my wife and I onlv get S750? A ? Your neighbor receives an additional $35 because his wife is in need of aid and attendance. 0 ? I am a veteran who has been awarded disability compensation rated at 40 per cent. What is the advantage of receiving benefits under the VA vocational rehabili tation program? A -? While in training and for two months after rehabilitation, eligible disabled veterans may receive subsistence allowances in addition to their disability compen sation. plus tuition, books and fees. O ? I wear a prosthetic device due to a service -? connected disability and have recently heard that I may be eligible for a clothing allowance from the VA. Is this true? A -- Veterans who. because of a service - connected disability, wear prosthetic devices which may wear out their clothing, or who use wheelchairs, are eligible for an annual $190 clothing allowance. 0 -- When I sigend up for the GI Bill, I had my VA checks sent to the school. I now want my checks sent to my home. May I have this ? done? A -- Yes. Any VA office can assist in changing an address for receipt of benefit checks. fourth of the North Carolina drivers with underinflated tires would total 29.2 million gallons. Based on tWe recent average U.S. price of 58.6 cents per gallon, the loss due to underinflation would amount to more than SI 7.1 million. The American Petroleum Institute says the entire United States consumes 100 billion gallons of gasoline a year -? more than 1,000 gallons for every automobile on the road. A five percent savings on that amount of gas would come to at least 50 gallons for each car or a savings of at least S29.30. per car annually on gas alone. "Overall, American motorists could save at least 800 million gallons of gasoline, or 41 million barrels of crude oil, a year if they ) would only inflate their tires with free air,"Lovell said. "Total domestic I demand for crude oil has been running about 20.2 million barrels a j day. So the amount which could be saved by proper tire care would satisfy all the oil needs of the U.S. for two days." Corner O - I received 52,000 disability severance pay from the Army. I applied for disability compensation' from the VA and my service . connected disabilities were rated at 20 per cent. When will I begin to receive disability compensation? , A -- Before you may begih receiving compensation from the VA, an amount equal to the amount of severance pay you received must be recouped. At the present 20 per cent rate of S70 per month, it will take 29 months. O -- Are there VA education loans available to assist a child receiving dependents educational assistance? A' ?? If the child is enrolled at least on a half - time basis, he may borrow up to SI, 500 per academic year to pursue a standard college degree program or if enrolled in a professional or vocational objective program requiring at least six months for completion. Financial need is a requirement. The current* rate of interest is 7 per cent. 0 -- Isn't there a new provision in the VA pension law which pays an increased amount for an olde% veteran? 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