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Soon the spring-summer mass advertising campaign for the Shell no-pest strip will be urging consumers to hang these silent insect hunters in their homes.Don’t buy — unless, that is, you believe a product which vaporizes a nerve poison 24 hours a day in your bedroom, living room or family room is a necessary ingredient of…
A looming and ominous discovery affecting the major flame retardant in children’s sleepwear may be the impetus needed to get the House of Representatives moving behind the Senate-passed Toxic Substances Control Act. The flame retardant is called IRIS (2.3-Dibromopropyl) phosphate (TDBP) — or “TRIS” for short. This substance was freely chosen by the chemical companies,…
W.T. Slick Jr., senior vice-president of Exxon Company’s calling for higher profits, lower taxes, and less government involvement in the oil industry. In a recent speech before business economists, he declared, “Government policy needs to make a turn back to the kind of economics that helped build our country — a turn back to market…
Early in our country’s history, fire was a major threat to whole towns and cities. So citizens got together and formed effective volunteer fire departments. Other citizens worked to establish public libraries because they believed books and publications should be accessible to all. Like educational Johnny Appleseeds, farsighted pioneers gathered funds to establish colleges throughout…
What’s that old saying about not seeing the forest for the trees? Well, look again. An old form of energy — waste wood — is coming back as a. significant, renewable and relatively clean source of heat. Both utilities and industrial plants now are showing keen interest in utilizing woodchips, sawdust and bark discarded by…
Wright Patman, the great Texas populist, represented the people of his East Texas district for almost half a century in the House of Representatives before pneumonia claimed him at Bethesda Naval Hospital early last Sunday. He also spoke for all consumers, homeowners and tenants who needed a champion against the power of big money and…
Ohio State University, nationally known for its football team, may soon receive national recognition for its remarkably easy success in reducing its fuel and electricity consumption. In fact, the Ohio State story, and others like it, may finally bring Washington around to giving energy conservation top priority as the way to make the economy more…
All the presidential candidates are talking about big government. They want to make it more efficient. Some want to decentralize federal power to the states and a few would use big government to tame big business. What they all want us to believe is that, if elected, they would use presidential power to serve the…
GOTHENBURG, Sweden — How would you like to know the operating weak points of cars, by make and model, on a regular and reliable basis? Here in Sweden, motorists can find out. Using data from the annual compulsory inspection of motor vehicles, the Swedish Motor Vehicle Inspection Company tabulates the comparative results for dozens of…
On the morning of Feb. 18 in the cloistered congressional hearing room of the Joint. Committee on Atomic Energy, the drama of Sen. John Pastore’s final year in the Senate will begin to unfold. On that day, Chairman John Pastore, the leading booster of atomic power for two decades in the Senate, comes face to…