Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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\Tn?i new aii^uiiui By Brian Duncan Editorial Page Editor The S.C. Alcohol Fuels Council, a new body designed to coordinate gasohol producing interests in the state, met for tho first time 1ihw> in a strateev nlannine session v*,v **""* "" v%***^' ? ? w i o IN ITS initial meeting, the council decided a detailed study should be undertaken to develop options for public sector involvement and possible funding sources for large scale alcohol production in South Carolina. They also discussed the need to study which crops would best be suited for producing alcohol in the state. Lamar E. Priester, interim council director, said members represent state and local development boards, the state legislature, staff members from the Governor's Office and the S.C. Office of Energy Resources. Priester, who is director of the governor's Division of Energy Management, suggested creating the council, ? ? ? J- ? '- r* +V*a D Annum Kin ITnorrfxr aCCUI'UlIlg IV iiuv 0111 vc, ciuci ui nit ivcucnauic unti gj Division. "The council is a consensus body," Priester said. "Key people who are going to bring the necessary consensus on these issues to bear so that we can get things moving. " The first of several events leading to the council's creation occurred when Gov. Dick Riley "contacted our jmosf unl/ked activities of the fall sen from the Departmen * 1 Education and Welfar V-/ Ov JJviO nations largest reseai The projects involve i , sharing to make tPflPral fUTlIlT malenais reacuiy i * *- scholars from all over The USC consortiun USC and three fund to catalog the s Southeastern universities have and unusual texts ir? been awarded a $300,000 federal data bank for use I grant to expand regional library members of the Col] facilities. Network. The USC consortium includes USC's contribution Vanderbilt University, the will consist, in pi Univer .itv of Virginia and the university's extensive University of Alabama. The grant works on Southern is part ol a $6 million award i Egyptology. MAURO'i PIZZA I M FORPJzz I AND CALZONI 1 799 4432 I 631 S. MAIN STREE1 fuels council pl? office approximately 90 days ago and said that he would like to investigate the feasibility of gasohol in South Carolina," Shive said. THE DEPARTMENT of Energy was contacted to find out if any funds were available that could be used to conduct a gasonol demonstration, bhive said tne DUfc, jumped at the idea, saying the state could receive up to $250,000. Although these funds have not yet been received, Shive said a demonstration involving highway patrol cars was begun. "Then all of a sudden, they started selling gasohol at the pumps before we got the ink dry on our demonstration project," Shive said. Shive said it was at this time Priester suggested the :i uj.i ~ I f _ 119 > La... 4La J cuuiicii ueieniiiiie uisct: auu iur an uuw uit buite miuuiu approach producing alcohol fuels. Because many people have contacted his office to find out how they could become involved in alcohol production, Priester said, "We began to see a need to link-up these interests." He said inquiries have come from individual farmers, large corporations and persons interested in inir/vrf?r\rf nntxif nl vcouug THERE IS a need for coordinated production because many small producers are already on the production line, I The fi I manager I ; J W ? im was niret I Full-time sr i f i Press In gH \advertising set rriunucjer g f f Gray s tiifcdiisd vMf^?YY a mon Ml C^U manage: ^ Talente it of Health, . e to 25 of the 1 go* *ch libraries. 9 ??** inter-library i research the'nation.'0 fOP R6W f& ? ...111 iUn i win use uie school's rare a computer by the 1,800 lege Library to the effort art, of the ; collection of history and m A lj . ans strategy although the market they are competing for is limited, Priester said. "At least initially, I think we could require that this council be appraised of the production going on," Priester said, in an effort to keep alcohol production compatable with market demands. He told the council one of the major problems facing large scale alcohol production was in the area of "institutionalizing" the marketplace. "The technology is there and the need is there," he said. "It's not because you can't produce alcohol and it's not because there's not a need," Priester said. The reason gasohol has not yet caught on is because "nobody has ever given any attention to the in-between of 'how do you make a system work,' " he added. Priester said that is the basic purpose of the council. PUBLIC RESPONSE to gasohol use has been "phenomenal," Priester said, and the state's agricultural potential for growing alcohol producing crops "is why it makes sense for South Carolina." "Tnere is no way aiconoi lueis are going 10 suppiani our use of fossil fuels," Priester said. But he told the council that alcohol is important to long-term management, "from the standpoint of trying to meet projected shortages in fuels." By Larry LeVlne records system because 4 'there has imecock Staff Writar been a lack of filing and accurate rst full-time advertising records kept in the past," he adof Student Media at USC ded. i July 2, according to Jon GRAY SAID he wants to seek the ison, director of student type of media best suited for retailers in planning their adGray, 25, former ad- vertising. The different ; director of the Kernel publications within the media have c. was hired by a search to be marketed efficiently to be PP ortfflni/ftd hv student (inonriiallv Konafirial hp QuiH Hp Clemmenson said. The is aiso studying the metropolitan position was recom- area to see the potential for sales, after an internal audit in he added. "We have to market our if 1978. The audit found the product to get a response from was necessary because of them." e amount of money being Establishing an internship is one in the advertising 0f Gray's goals. The staff would ent. earn commission and get class >aid he "wants to establish credit if it is approved. he said. e efficient advertising Keeping up an individual's grades ment for student media." [s important, he added, but ts to develop the depart- practical experience is just as cause very little has been important because it enables the the past. One of Gray's person to gain experience in the es is the establishment of a field he or she is interested in. id Writers seded atune magazine Russell House HOOm JdD V77-G5G~7