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Corps’ plans blasted at forum By SCOTT GRIFFIN meeting complained that the corps Curry suggested the corps study Montana Kalinin Raportar has been insensitive to public alternatives to hydroelectric comment, disregarded the power, saying "high-tech dams, The Army Corps of Engineers aesthetic and existing recreational nuclear power plants and coal- quickly learned the consensus of value of the free-flowing rivers and fired generators are the exotics of opinion at a public meeting held based its studies on an inflated electrical generation; the solar last night about proposed dams on estimate of future regional energy alternative has been proven over the Clark Fork and Flathead rivers demands. the millenia." when a show of hands revealed David Rockwell, who lives on the She added that the corps should about 130 people against the dams Flathead River near Dixon, told the study the "cost-effectiveness" of and two in favor. corps' representatives the "hostili rechannelling money that would The meeting, held in the ty1' they are encountering in be used to build a dam into fitting auditorium ' of Hellgate High western Montana is a result of the area homes and industries with School, was designed to provide love the people have for rivers they solar and wind-powered the public the opportunity to do not want to see destroyed. He generators. comment on preliminary studies asked Poteat how he would feel if Donald Gregg, manager of the the corps is conducting on the someone "tried to destroy Power Contracts Resource and feasibility of 17 different dam something you love and cherish — Planning Division of the Montana options at five sites on the two like the Grand Coulee Dam?" • Cont. on p. 8. rivers. t Jean Curry, Montana represen According to the corps' district tative of Friends of the Earth, engineer in Seattle, Col. John challenged the corps’ represen Poteat, all are still under con tatives to “walk the streets of Pope dies sideration, but the corps is con Missoula and witness for yourself centrating on three run-of-the-. the inefficient and wasteful use of Pope John Paul I died of a river dams west of Ronan — electricity by ourcommunity."She heart attack in his sleep dur Buffalo Rapids 2 and 4 and Sloan said that basing the corps’ studies ing the night, the Vatican an Bridge Low. Poteat revealed that on projections for energy-demand nounced. He was 65 and had the Quartz Creek site, previously provided by the Pacific Northwest been elected just last month. one of six under consideration, has Utilities Conference Committee The Vatican said the pontiff been dropped because it was not (PNUCC) will result in building died about 11 p.m. yester considered feasible. dams needed only to supply more day. Most of those speaking at the energy to be wasted. Tax group backs Initiative 80 By STEVE STOVALL itiatives which will appear on the plants, but also by providing (Staff photo by Mika Yuan) Montana Kalmln Raportar November ballot. One initiative is massive subsidies through the state Initiative 80; the other is a Price-Anderson Nuclear In The “so-called energy crisis" Missoula County initiative. surance Act. Help wanted does not really exist, the associate The government insists on The Price-Anderson Act is an director of the National Taxpayers Equating electricity with energy, insurance policy for nuclear Anyone ^wishing to commissioner’s office by Union said yesterday. Totten said, adding that electricity development in which the federal nominate a candidate for the Oct. 1 to be considered for Michael Totten said the federal is only one form of energy. High- government acts as the insurance the job. The commissioner is post of commissioner of government thinks there is a crisis cost electricity should not be used agent. In case of a nuclear acci the executive officer of the because the Department of Energy to heat homes when less expensive higher education of the Mon dent the government would pay Board of Regents and the has "designed” one by subsidizing energy sources could be used, he tana university system must damages. chief administrator of the costly, centrally controlled elec said. Totten said private insurance do so before Sunday. More Montana university system. trical energy generating plants. But, he added, the government companies have refused to provide detailed information will be Commissioner Lawrence K. Totten, who is from Washington, has encouraged this wastefulness full coverage because the costs of collected later, but all names Pettit will leave the post Jan. D.C., is in Missoula to help by not only encouraging energy must - be received by the 1. promote the anti-nuclear in companies to build nuclear power • Cont. on p. 8. FDA calls contraceptive ‘overpromoted’ By DIANE HADELLA Encare Oval's 99 percent effec product is "no more effective than Service, most pregnancies are is easy to use and a woman can Montana Kalmln Raportar tiveness claims were based other creams or jellies if used caused by not using a contracep carry it with her anywhere. Encare Oval, a popular non- primarily on two studies done in exactly as directed." tive, using it improperly or without She added that she does not prescription contraceptive touted Germany. The FDA’s advisory Hall emphasized that success additional applications prior to recommend it as a permanent as being as effective as The Pill, committee found the studies depends on the consumer’s each incident of intercourse. means of contraception, but only has been "overpromoted” since its "poorly conducted and un "proper and consistent use” of Mitchell said, to her knowledge, as an "interim measure,” introduction in the fall of 1977, reliable.” Encare Oval and all other vaginal no one using Encare Oval has yet necessary when a woman begins according to a release from the According to the May-July issue contraceptives. come into the Health Service preg to use an intrauterine device (IUD) Food and Drug Administration. of the FDA Drug Bulletin, the FDA According to Arlene Mitchell, nant. or birth control pills, which are not The product was claimed to be considers the original labeling and Gynecologist-R.N. at the Health She said it is popular because it immediately effective. 99 percent effective by its manu advertising claims for Encare Oval facturer, Eaton-Merz Labora to be “unsupported and therefore tories, Norwich, N.Y., when it first to present a possible health came out last fall. On April 15 the problem, particularly to women for manufacturer dropped that claim whom pregnancy entails a high and its description of the contra risk.” ceptive's qualities as “ unique." The same issue of the bulletin Encare Oval is a vaginal sup stated that the FDA is concerned pository that effervesces after that "growing public awareness of insertion and becomes a sper contraceptive failures with Encare micide foam. Oval could lead to loss of con The release said an FDA expert sumer confidence in the entire committee has advised that Encare class of vaginal contraceptive Oval is about as effective as similar foams and gels.” over-the-counter contraceptives Encare Oval "appears to be such as gels and creams used with especially popular on college diaphragms and foams. These campuses and among teenagers," Highly products range in effectiveness Commissioner Kennedy was Reliable from 71 to 98 percent, the variation quoted as saying. “With one I Easy due mainly to the differences in million pregnancies now oc I ; to Use r / Unique care taken by women in following curring each year among teenage / Patented the directions for use. Americans," he urged that its true ' Concept These vaginal products all con effectiveness be known. tain spermicides, such as Encare According to G. M. Hall, director Vaginal contraceptive Oval’s nonoxynol-9, which im of the University of Montana fo r prevention of pregnancy. 12 INSERTS mobilize or kill sperm on contact Pharmacy, Encare Oval is the third and also provide a mechanical most popular method of birth barrier to sperm. control sold at the pharmacy, According to FDA Com outsold only by birth control pills missioner Donald Kennedy, the and diaphragms. effectiveness claims of a con Hall agreed that claims about traceptive must be supported by Encare Oval had been a “little FROM “99 PERCENT effective” and “unique double action" to ’highly reliable” and “unique patented "sound scientific evidence.” misleading," adding that the concept.” (Staff photo by Mike Yuan.) Saturday morning’s ritual Each Saturday morning children toys ranging from G.l. Joe dolls to Star and the ads are devoted almost entirely class will have children working with across the country awake with the Wars swords. to the younger set. clay, string and paint. dawn, wipe the sleep from their eyes The reasoning behind the adver Another reason, and it is the most The idea is a good one and with one hand and switch on the tising campaign is, of course, big important, is what consistent TV something that parents should at least television with the other to begin anew bucks.