Important mail and annoucements for OCAL

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The Hazleton Standard-Speaker, 05 Mar 2011. Pages12 - 13

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The Hazleton Standard-Speaker
05 Mar 2011

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2009-10-28T14:14:00.000-07:00

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Ex-NRA member now proud tree-hugger

2008-09-21T19:16:00.000-07:00

Editor, This is in regards to Ron Baker’s letter on Sept. 5.
At one time, I was a proud member of the NRA. It was a first-class organization.
Then the unexpected occurred. It was taken over by a bunch of right-wing looney tunes. I, and several other members in this area, along with thousands of members nationwide, bid farewell to the NRA, formed our own gun clubs, or joined others. The NRA today is nothing more than a mouthpiece for the crazies.
I received letters from them, “Bill Clinton will take your guns - send money” “Ted Kennedy will take your guns,” send money, “the United Nations will take your guns,” send money, etc. It never stops.
The people running the NRA with these kinds of tactics, reminds me of Joseph Goebbels, Adolph Hitler’s minister of propaganda, who used to say “report a lie often enough and soon people will start believing it.” Well my son, not I.
Ron, you speak of Americans and the almighty dollar. I tell you now, today’s NRA is nothing more than an organization of professional con artists.
I wrote a letter to LA Wayne Pierre stating that while Bill Clinton was president for eight years, I did not have one gun taken away, and in fact during his presidency I even bought a few, and I went on to ask him how many of his guns were taken away. That letter was sent a long time ago.
I’m still waiting for an answer.
And I always said that if our founding fathers considered the Second Amendment so important, they would have put it at the top of the list and made it the First Amendment instead.
And, I might add, I’m a tree hugger, I like to think I’m the world’s best. My trees not only take in our carbon dioxide that we exhale, but they in turn emit life saving oxygen. My oak trees drop acorns which feed deer, bear, turkeys, grouse, squirrels, etc.
They not only nourish, but give protection to the fauna. If you’re a hunter you probably pursue them. My hemlock trees overhang my streams and help keep the water cool, so cold water fish like trout can survive.
My trees provide cover for our avian bretheren to build nests and raise their young.
The roots of my trees aerate the soil, and most importantly store water and prevent erosion.
My home is surrounded by trees, they keep me cool during the hot days of summer and protect me from the cold wind of winter. But nothing lives forever, my diseased and dying trees provide fuel to heat my home with my wood furnace, while millions of other people are sending their money to the foreign despots, for heating oil.
Yes Ron, I am a tree hugger extraordinaire, and proud of it, and I have 25 acres of them to snuggle up to. I am also a hunter. And of course, we must remember maple syrup, aspirin, which is made from the bark of weeping willows. (I have one in my backyard) and lumber for homes and furniture, charcoal for your barbecue and hundreds of other uses. What kind of world would we have without trees.
Robert A. Foose, Nuremberg

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Just testing the system

2008-08-11T07:14:00.001-07:00

Better Gas Mileage

2008-08-11T07:04:00.001-07:00

Weatherly man’s collection may hold key to
future

■ Willard
Turnerhasaguide published in 1980 that claims to have the secret to creating a
200-mpgcarburetor.

ByJOSEPHKRINGER
Staff
Writer
Some may consider Willard Turner a pack
rat.
ScatteredthroughouthisWeatherly home are all sorts of antiques he has
collected throughout his 78 years.
But somewhere in his clutter of old car
headlights, letters and speeches written by former United States presidents,
lies a key to the future.
A manual written by Allan Wallce and published in
1980 tells of a carburetor that— he claims— would allow a car to travel 200
miles on a gallon of gas. Turner said the manual was created with the help of
the Ford Motor Co. in the 1970s.
Tweaking the
part
At age 25, Turner in 1955 was hired on
the spot by the Ford Motor Co. at its plant in Mahwah, N.J. He started out in
the commercial department where he “handled everything.”Theplantemployed
thousands of people who worked 12hour days, six days a week. They assembled
large-scale pick-up trucks and mass dump trucks.
“We made everything there
right fromscratch,” Turnersaid.“The assembly line would put out between 45 and
50 vehicles per hour. ” Turner worked the assembly line from one end to the
other during his 15 years with Ford. After becoming closefriendswithplantManager
Ernie Poley, Turner began helping out in the shop and would go on the road for
the company to play the “mediator.” A few years later he found himself stepping
up yet another rung on the company ladder. With no college education, but much experience, Turner soon found himself working
right alongside the engineers at Ford.
“Imodifiedcarburetors,”he
explained.
Constantly experimenting with the different parts of the
machine, Turner says he discovered a secret togettingbettergasmileage.
“By
cutting the weight off of the ball jack, it increased the mileage.
The more
you shaved off, the more gas mileage you would get.”
The research continued
over the years, as did several alterations in order to create a more
fuel-efficient carburetor. When it was near completion, Turner said, Ford had
its revolutionary pro ject patented.
But why, 30 years after its creation,
are there still hardly no vehicles on the market that can get 50 miles per
gallon, let alone 200?
According to Turner, not long after the carburetor
was patented, the five maj or oil companies at the time got together and
purchased all the patent rights to the carburetor and similar pro jects.

“These carburetors aren’ t in cars today for the simple reason that the gas
companies bought the patents andkeptitfrombeingpubliciz ed,” he said.

Numerous phone calls by the Standard-Speaker to ExxonMobil, Tex aco and Shell
seeking comment were not returned.
A few miles
farther
In the early 1970s, the Ford plant
closed its doors because of a tax dispute with the town of Mahwah.

“Thousands of people lost their jobs,somewerewillingtorelocate,” Turner
said.
With a son to take care of, he decided to stay in the area and found
work in other places.
No matter what kind of other work he took part in,
Turner always continued to tamper with car parts,
tryingtogetbettergasmileage.
“I’ve always been
involved in this typeof thing,” hesaid.“Them things are like a challenge to me.
” To this day, Turner does anything he can to push his vehicle a few miles
farther. With a 1996 GMC Jimmy, which originally got 18 miles to the gallon,
Turner bought a $180 part and made some adj ustments. Testing the modification
was the nex t step, so he drove it to Florida, blasting the air conditioning
alltheway.Hesaidheaveraged 26 miles per gallon for the trip.
Similar
modifications can bring big savings today, Turner said.
“The gas prices
today impact everybody. I’ve done everything I could on my cars to get better
gas mileage,”hesaid.“Itsoneof those things that really makes me mad
withthegascompanies.”
A big reason Turner gets so frustrated with the oil
situation is because he says there are many solutions that could fix the
problem.
“There are things that could be taken off these cars to get
better fuel efficiency that would also meet pollution standards,”hesaid.

Alternative energy sources are another option, he said. One, which is not
usually associated with cars, is solar energy. According to Turner, it is
possible for a car to run entirely off of solar power.
“I don’ t know why
they don’ t go to solar, heat could even be generated atnightfromthemoon,”
hesaid.
Politics also play a role in what kind of changes are made within
the industry.
“To make a change, it’ s got to go through Congress.
Politicians have to act and push to have these things released,” Turnersaid.If
thepublic wants to try to get these things out, they should write or put in
calls to congressmen and state senators to apply pressure to begin resolving
some of these issues, Turner suggested.
editorial@standardspeaker.com

Don’t blame Dems for GOP failures

2008-07-22T13:09:00.001-07:00

Don’t blame Dems for GOP failures
Editor, Ray
Saul’s column has been a delight to me for almost 50 years. However, when Ray
strays into the area of national and party politics, I have some problems with
opinions he expresses that he disguises as facts. His latest column from Sunday,
July 6, is a case in point.
Trying to blame 7-plus years of overall dismal
leadership by the Republican
administration on 18 months of Democrats having a one senator advantage in the
Senate is a shell game. It is Bush’s watch, notCongress.
Fact: The
president does not sit
by and passively stamp “Yes” or “Veto” on “work” from Congress that is “handed
him.” We all know better than that. What gets to the president’s desk is what is
left after the president threatens to veto anything in a bill he doesn’t like
before it is even sent to himbyCongress.
Fact: In
order for anything substantive to get done in the Senate, 60 (not 51) out of
100 senators must agree to stop debate and vote. Is the U.S. a majority
democracy?
If the vote is 59-41 in favor, the proposal is dead since it
will be filibustered to death. Just a perverse system to be tolerated in a
democracy.
Fact: By the time the “Democratic”
Congress took office in the end of January 2007, this nation was on well its way
to being down the tubes economically. The bankers knew that, the hedge fund
people knew that, the rich people knew that. The only ones who didn’t know that
were the peoplewhosemailboxes and phones were tied up with offers of easy
credit, credit cards, home equity loans,andsecondmortgages on homes which were
already paid for by their owners. The foreclosures that are happening now are
exactly what the lenders in 2006 hoped would happen.
Banks are now getting
homes worth more than $150,000 for the price of a $20,000 home equity loan or an
“interest free” mortgage that after a few years jumps to 15 percent annual
interest levels. No wonder people can’t pay their predatory lenders off.

Fact: Thirty-million acres of oil-company leased off shore and on shore rights
which the oil companies bought up years ago are not being developed now.
Blaming the Democrats for not allowing drilling offshore as causing the high
price of gas is another sham. It takes 10-15 years to even start getting any oil on market
from a newly-drilled site. So, which party has controlled the legislation since
1993 in Congress up until 18 months ago ? Which party
has controlled the legislation on oil drilling rights for 72 of the past 90
months? IsupposeGovernor Schwarzenneger in California is another
obstructionist who is keeping the gas prices high by opposing offshoredrilling?
Heisa Republican, by the way.
Fact – Gas prices are just the tip of the
iceberg and no gas tax holiday will help. It will just take tax
money away from the
infrastructure improvements that a gas tax is intended to finance.
Fact:
How do we overlook the mortgage crisis, the deaths of our troops in Iraq for
basically NOTHING but abstractions the mess our schools are in all over the
country, the overtaxing of the middle class while the rich are paying exactly 21
per cent taxes on the average millionnaire’s income, and the sordid corruption
in the US and Luzerne County?
I say Bush’s current 29 per cent “popularity”
is well-earned and is due to almost 8 years of incompetence and arrogance.

No, Mr. Saul, i don’t agree with 95 percent of what you said in the first half
of your column. I enjoyed the rest of it, as usual.
David Panckeri, Weatherly


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