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Good afternoon and welcome to GBH joining. I'm bill capping. On today's program with a feature report on a new lighting and color which is about to take effect in Massachusetts. Well hear about a job referrals are made for kids in Somerville and we'll have a conversation with Harvard government Professor Stanley Hoffman to close a few stories about animals left behind on summer vacation. These are more features on today's GBH journey. In 175 United States Congress passed five energy conservation measures. That States must comply with in order to receive conservation funds from the federal government. Massachusetts for example is on the books for a total of one point two million dollars in energy conservation funds. One of the stipulations for the siege of this money requires a new lighting color which will go into effect in this day on August 1st. Another requirement is that Massachusetts draft a plan allowing drivers to make right turns
on red lights. Bob where I go I looked at both of these energy conservation measures and their implementation in the state he put together this report. On August 1st Massachusetts will institute a new lighting code that could save an estimated 150 million gallons of oil yearly. The new standard included in a five point federal conservation program is part of the move towards energy efficiency that is occurring nationwide. The state energy policy office is in charge of implementing the new lighting code and Henry Lee director of that office tells to whom the code applies and what it stipulates writing code has is effective only for buildings of 10000 square feet or more or buildings that are in malls of 10000 square feet or more. And what the regulation says is that by a certain date a date is now August 1st retailers or anyone who comes under this will have
to submit to the Building Code Commission and audit their lighting. And then by a second date which right now is October 1st they will have to submit a written notice that they are in compliance with that standard or they must. Show I plan to meet compliance. Now what is the standard what disk code really says is that you have to have certain standards of watts per square foot. Most of the cause in the country's always been foot candles because we find that they're very inflexible and very hard to enforce. What we do is we say to a building that you have three different types of there areas you have open workspace which is in the retail store be your shopping space you have hallways and you have a parking space. And we set separate criteria for each and the working space it's three watts per square foot in the hall there's 1 watts per square foot and in the parking areas it's half a whopper square foot.
And let's say you're a store you add up all your square feet and you add up all your watts and you get a total amount of watts you're a lot and how you use the Watts is up to you and give you flexibility as a store owner but you've got to meet the aggregate total of watts to meet standards in terms of how many square feet you have. That's pretty confusing what you're saying is that there has to be more efficient lighting for these stores and right now what do we do it in a way that is very simple for them to calculate. We don't have a foot candles as you have to use light meters and it's a limitation standard. But the stores all public buildings of large size are going to have to meet this standard and we think that it can save about 60 million dollars a year in energy costs to the state of Massachusetts to the state of Massachusetts. Like any governmental edict the lighting code is not without its share of problems. National chain stores with branches in Massachusetts are reticent about the requirements since all 50 states have yet to adopt a Uniform Code enforcement is also a dilemma.
The State Building Code Commission which is in charge of enforcement can only close a non-compliant business and there is little chance that the SPCA could or would close a very large store. There is also the problem of areas with special lighting needs such as subway stations which need extra lighting for safety and crime prevention director lease says that neither his office nor the SBC see will be inflexible in applying the new code and they will work towards a reasonable solution of these difficulties. Other than the laying code the Energy Policy Office must meet four standards to receive federal funding according to the 1975 energy policy and Conservation Act. Massachusetts must have a right turn on red law a carpooling van pooling program energy efficient features on all state buildings and a procurement program aimed at cutting energy costs. Of these the EPA always opposed to meeting the right turn on red requirement and faces a total cutoff of it's one point nine million dollars of federal monies. Henry Lee explains the EPO his position on our war and sums up the
success of the state's conservation efforts. The right turn on red has been a major problem with us. We have real problems with the concept of the deal we in our office and then constant controversy over this for about a year and they threaten to take away all our conservation monies because our willingness to allow our general permissive right turn on red. We've been trying to negotiate a compromise but where were we would post ins. Non pedestrian intersections allowing right turn on red as safety permitted. WHERE DO I NOT KNOW IT program will be submitted to the federal government in August. Which would call for a sign permissive right turn on red in pedestrian areas where they sit except that are not we don't know there's a lot of pressure from the Federal Highway Administration to require in all 50 states a general permissive right turn on red. We argue that we have 3000 intersections in Massachusetts 2000 and 9 of them are
pedestrian intersections and we think that if you allow a right turn on red this days especially in the cities you're going to endanger a lot of pedestrians. How much energy are we talking save. I guess that's a pretty difficult thing to calculate but with the four of the five points being implemented well I don't want to top of my head the whole program saves about 7 percent off of what would be consuming 1981 for GBH Journal this is bad for raga. No summer time means that there is no school for the kids. A lot of young people particularly
City residents with little money and themselves with nothing to do. A way of providing diversion and a source of income to Lage kids exists in Somerville and the rent a kids program. This community based program is designed to find odd job referrals for Somerville kids between the ages of 13 and 18. John Morgan found out more about rent a kid as described in this report. By. The. Way That way I have a couple jobs right now working here and I have another lady who neighborhoods across the street. I've stayed with every job I had with any of them. I don't want to be because I like a lot. Yeah but you know everything I've been taking.
I would go out with her babysitter and there was what I think about when I want to make some money. These kids are washing vans for United Seniors of some avail incorporated and it's just one of the many odd jobs kids are doing for pay to the city of some of the Massachusetts rent a kid program. It's an odd job referral service from kids from 13 to 18 and the jobs can be anything from window washing general house cleaning babysitting helping at parties to some office work like typing answering phones. Basically any job a teenager can do around the house or office right now just about 60 kids are working for some of Bill's rent a kid program on a regular basis. And the average pay ranges from about $1 25 cents an hour to three dollars an hour. The idea itself of renting kids out for pay isn't a new one in New Orleans the same program is called hire a teen in Atlanta Georgia's program was the model for the one here in some of IL which operates out of the
basement of city hall and is financed by a cedar Grant. Other communities in and around the Boston area are developing or already have similar programs. Len and Ernst of the United Seniors have some of Bill incorporated wanted to hire some kids to work for him so he called Rent the rent to get programs going to be good in a city. I mean I've talked to a few people have used kids or really done a good job. So every week we're going to do three bands and the kids are going to the kids. It helps the kids you know that I have got a job you know. Do you think they're conscientious about what they're doing. Definitely very much so. I mean we have questions one just by the Russian vans. And they're really into it. How much you're going to get 250 an hour through an hour and a half to two hours. What do you think the best thing about rent a kid. You know every day the kids show they through work.
It's a good job to find things that you like buy that you like and maybe you want to have a career in your life you want to watch a band as a career and work in an office. So it's really good when you have a job. But how much money you make you weak. If I get a job every week. Are you saving it or you spending it a minute at a rate. Maybe rent a kid's coordinator Suzanne Gottman came to the program this past May. She's revitalizing an idea which began in 1970 but was discontinued due to lack of funds. It's now a year round project though the summertime is the busiest time because so many
kids are too young or just unable to find jobs. It's especially hard for the city kids who can't afford to get away to summer camp or a vacation. And Suzanne is convinced that there's a lot more to the rent ticket program than just making money. I don't see this program as really supporting the kids in terms of finances. It will help them have some spending money which is a help with most of these families around Somerville. I think it's important to realize the context when they're on the street corner they go to their peers for the support group. And often that isn't the most positive particularly when they come to not only meet with me and often I meet other kids in the program. And I think of terrific atmosphere because not only are they doing positive things for themselves but they're getting a lot of real positive warmth and feedback from me and it makes me feel good to see that there are a lot of good kids around. From National Public Radio this is Joe Morgan in Boston.
United States. Questionably one of the principal world powers a position which means that our government has a significant impact on the world's political situation. Recently published the Fessor Stanley contends. That the primacy in the world political scene and world order a mutually exclusive. And in the same world condition come about by a gradual change in our attitudes and institutions. Professor Hoffman discussed this book the primacy or World Order. American
foreign policy since the Cold War. In an interview with commentator Les Lyons. On the title of your book suggest we can't have it both ways. Yes. That we cannot impose world order in our own image. And you say this is going to be a painful discovery like this because I think for the last 30 years we have tried to give two World Order pretty much American features. I think it came naturally first because we had never had very much been used to making foreign policy with others as equals we had either been. During our isolationist period apart from the world or else as at the end of World War 2 we were so much more powerful than everybody else that it seemed to us quite not only normal but feasible to give to the international monetary system of the economic system or the security system. The kinds of features which we like and what I'm trying to argue is that this is going to be
increasingly more difficult because the world has become much too complicated. You can see that to adjust to domestic policy to the needs of world order. Is it is that tough. It's a very tough one and we notice it not only in the trade negotiations we've noticed this difficulty of adopting American domestic beliefs to the outside world. During the debate in the Senate on the Panama Canal treaties and we notice it as we did during the debate on the energy. Yes I mean yes well I see you you've been quoted the last few days as seeing no linkage between the Russian trials and the stalemate on detente. Well I'll show you what I would say is that they have their own domestic reasons for being for treating the dissidents the way they do and I think in fact the point that they are trying to make is that they would like to preserve or to restore what was kissing his approach which is that on the one hand we and they negotiate
on International on interstate issues like arms control and on the other hand we leave them free to do in domestic affairs what they please and I think that they look at Carter's approach as a relation of this kind of code of the dog just as we look at their behavior in Africa as a violation of the code of death on it was convinced that the other side has misbehaved early in your book you were criticizing the containment policy. And then you get a lot of attention to Kissinger and foreign policy. Well how different do you see Conner's And is it more advances or Brzezinski's or Ambassador Young. I don't know what it is and this is part of the problem I think that if one examines what the president has said about the Soviet Union. One finds a great deal of inconsistency. I think that the containment policy and the casing of policy are had if fairly clear picture of our relations with the Soviets. In the case of containment we were trying if you
pardon the tautology to contain them. In the case of Kissinger we were trying to make them behave by imprisoning the Soviet Union a whole network of agreements when one looks at Carter's statements one finds that whereas he has very definite ideas about how to handle relations with allies or with the Third World there is a kind of vacuum a question mark at the core insofar as relations with the Soviet Union are concerned. And I think this explains that since the Soviet issue has become once again a very important one contrary incidentally to what the administration had hoped. He tends to fluctuate from one extreme to the other from the approach to the tough line because I think that Mr. Carter And to some extent Mr. Bush also never really integrated our relations with the Soviet Union into their thinking about the global issues such as trade or proliferation or human
rights and so on. There's one problem is Congress seems to me. When you when you say compromise you've almost Yeah. Come to the nub of the our newest high argument in the book that that you can only reach the safeword autobiography I already know and a moderation motivation and I don't promote it as an bargaining and deals to moderate our instinct to be always a time yes. And also our instinct not to want to have anything to do with people whom we don't like and I think one of our problems will be that we will have simultaneously to try to reach compromises with people whose value was on all ours and not give up the effort to make them improve their own conduct and I think that's a fairly good example of the kind of world we're likely to have in other words no great triumphs but new incentive to destroy what has been accomplished. It's too important to keep it now since we have to stop somewhere that seems to me
like a likely place to stop. I've been toying with the fascist Danny Hoffman about his new book primacy all World Order American foreign policy since the Cold War. Bob. And. I are in a pickle. Although Dick and Jane and Sally and Ted are heading off to the ocean for August. Bought and pop have a little interest in mosquito bites. Tuna sandwiches with a tad of sand or the trauma of an uneven tan. Fortunately an enticing alternative exists. They can spend their time at the curious air conditioned kennel with private runs good food and plenty of peers to relate to. The Border. Maureen
Keller headed over to Turin kennels and talk with the owner Robert Callahan about the summer in the city. Dogs and cats left behind. Thankfully what happened but I'm pretty sure that we're here for the summer. What kinds of services can they be assured of. Well you can be sure of that your animal be taken care of by that I mean he'll be number one he'll be here when you come back to get him that he'll be properly fed. He be treated you know with affection it hopefully will be a happy state he won't mind coming back again. People have an opportunity to come in and look inside before they leave there and oh yeah most definitely because most people I know I just say to myself I'll put myself in their shoes. I was right in my you know my life in a kennel Yeah I'd like to see you know and I see facilities and we gently say Sure anytime after let's say 10 or 11 o'clock in the morning to open what kinds of things happen when people leave their dogs and cats for the summer. Generally they'll stop in its ability to
whatever and pick up a little toy or maybe they'll bring a favorite shoe favorite stocking or something like that. And then while they're here we often receive a postcard. I'm sorry we don't. They do. And it's quite often it says Please read to Rory or whatever. Tell Fido we miss them. That's about the size which are there any scenes between owner and owned. When people depart. Not really when they depart so much because generally if they hand us the leash. While the owner is still there they hand us the leash and then nine out of 10 times the dog will will get the message that he's being transferred and he'll accept it and then once a person leaves it's fine. Sometimes it's a person lingers when the dog does not want to go and he generally knows the exit door and then he you know he may pull up a little bit of a fuss but if the owner leaves and they generally can wait with us other than leaving their dog with a favorite toy Are there any kind of special requests that people make when they leave their animals here.
Yes they have been some unusual ones. Oh do tell. I don't know if I should. Well this one gentleman wanted to know if he could have his dog bred on his birthday. We don't have that we didn't have that kind of service we still don't. We received you fresh fish from U.P.S.. On a daily basis for two weeks. I've also had you know like when they eat when they bring the animal in they don't generally bring their food. We supply the food but on occasion we don't supply can't shrimp etc. can't lobster and on occasion this as I say on occasion will bring a can of a can of lobster a can a shrimp or something like that in fall. What did the dogs do here while they're here. Well they do the dives they can the dives can see each other so that makes them quite happy. They each have their own run outside run which is separated by chain link fence so they can see each other and basically what they do is if it's a nice day they can just go in and look at one
another and whatever. Shoot the breeze and shoot the breeze about yeah that's what I'd say shoot the breeze. Then at night it's it's very quiet you can hear after washing up after 10 minutes and you could hear a pin drop. And indeed it may be noisy during the day but not at night at night they just settle down and that's it. And what cats do during the summer. Cats are not as active because as I say we don't they don't have any outdoor running we don't have any outdoor ones for cats. Mostly just sleep or just cuddle up in a corner and relax. Tell us about touching reuniting scene. Oh that's good. I'll tell you a funny story as a matter of fact I came into this is this is a few years ago and we didn't have the new hospital here. I went in and the gentleman came in and he gave me his claim ticket and I went back to get the dog and I brought the dog back out in the meanest and there in his underwear what he was doing was he was changing his pants from. He had apparently had good
pants on and he knew it was going to happen the dog came out it was going to jump all over him except when he did we get here all over his good clothes. But he will say I was quite surprised when I walked out I didn't dissipate that. Oh yeah most of them just you know really jump all over them and they're very happy. Another funny story is when you had a Kerry blue you know it's funny you say most animals. I was very pleased to go home and that is the case. We had one carry blue from Cambridge who was in here for two weeks he was a very regular customer and he picked him up on a Monday and Monday afternoon or whatever and my father came into the. The next morning Tuesday morning to open up around 7:30 Oiseau and who was back at the door with the Kerry Blues waiting to go back in he had come back from Cambridge back to the kennel. So I said well maybe he had a girlfriend here I don't know but there was another unusual little story. I guess my big question is What am I going to do with my goldfish for the summer. Call a friend.
That's all I can say is call a friend unfortunately don't. We don't take goldfish. Although I won't say we haven't been asked to leave and I said take your goldfish bird squirrels whatever. But I know dies in cats a day keep us busy enough and I don't know that much about goldfish so I'll stay with what I know. Nor do they the 18th day of July 1978 that's GBH Journal a regional news magazine aired Monday through Friday at 4:30 measured says producer editor for The Journal. Today's engineer John Moran and I'm go get it. If you're planning to travel a lot to do compare this today don't tarry in Tennessee or Texas. Long.
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WGBH Journal
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New Lighting Code
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