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Page 14 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1981 Features Pollution robs world, inhabitants of potential By CHARLIE MUSTACHIA Battalion Reporter Pollution robs us of potential, making the world less than it could be. Gases harm our lungs, noise harms our ears, litter harms our streets, radiation harms our bodies. All of these pollutants also effect us psychologically, causing us, and the world, to fall short of our potential. Dr. Alfred Zamm, a dermato logist and allergist who is also a pioneer in the field of clinical ecol ogy, told People Weekly maga zine the air in the average Amer ican home is more polluted than the air outside. Zamm said the environment has an effect on our physical well being. He said common house hold items such as furniture, floor polish, gas stoves, wallpaper and laundry detergents contain no xious vapors that can cause anxie ty, depression, dizziness, headaches, rashes and fatigue. Zamm said the major household offender is the gas stove. Women who spend a good part of their day cooking at gas ranges or cleaning with chemical based products such as ammonia, alcohol or tur pentine can become moody, he said. A malfunctioning furnace that THIS MOVIE IS TOTALLY OUT OF CONTROL © 1977 KFM FILMS. INC RELEASED BY UNITED FILM DISTRIBUTION COMPANY INC FRI. & SAT. APRIL 24 & 25 MIDNIGHT RUDDER THEATRE PIRANHACON II THE BEST OF THE WORST coming MAY 8 DEFINITELY, A PARTY YOU WONT WANT TO MISS! “How can one think creatively and logically when the air is filled with jingles and blasts of sound?” leaks toxic fumes can result in poor school performance by exposed children, Zamm said. Because indoor pollution can lessen the potential of its victims, Zamm advised avoiding it. For general home cleaning use natural products such as olive oil instead of furniture polish, he said. “If we limit our exposure at home we in crease our chances outside in an uncontrollable setting,” he ex plained. Radiation is a pollutant and is a suspected cause of cancer, So it, too, is a potential-robber. The children of producer Dick Powell, actor John Wayne and ac tress Susan Hayward fear fallout radiation was the cause of their parents’ deaths. Each of the three celebrities died of cancer and each of them were present during the shooting of the film “The Con queror. ” The film was shot during the summer of 1954 near St. George, Utah, 137 miles from the atomic testing range at Yucca Flat, Nev. Of “The Conqueror’s” 220 cast and crew members, 91 have con tracted cancer. Forty-six of them, including Wayne, Hayward and Powell, have died of the disease. Noise is a pollutant that robs the world of its potential for peace and quiet. Poet Naomi Rachel said she is a refugee from sound that inter rupts and finally cancels thought and privacy. In Macleans magazine Rachel asked, “How can one think crea tively and logically when the air is filled with jingles and blasts of sound?” She said unwanted noise eli minates spontaneity. The “con stant drone” dulls the world into a sameness that keeps us immune to surprise or action, she added. A study of women who live in generally noisy areas where the noise fluctuates between 69 and 78 decibels (as opposed to 51 and 63 decibels in quiet areas) re vealed that these women had more emotional and problems than the women blessed with quiet. The study was reported by Dr. H. W. Ewertsen in the medic al journal Acta Otolaryngol. Ewertsen said there are con nections from the central hearing pathways to the autonomic nerve system which prepare us at the slightest sign of danger. Blood pressure, pulse rate, small blood vessel constriction and respiration are all affected by the body’s response to noise, he said. John Lattimore, Brazos county health department registered sanitarian, said there is a big awareness of pollution and en vironmental health among Brazos county residents. At least two peo ple in Brazos county disagree. Dr. J.C. Miller, president of the Beautify Brazos County Asso ciation, and his wife, Dorothy Mil ler, publicity and public relations worker for the association, said Brazos residents are an unaware public. Mrs. Miller said there is a lack of sensitivity in Bryan-College Station because people don’t look for the pollution around them. “They think pollution is some thing you can hardly live with, but it’s really something that makes things less than they could be — something that dulls the senses,” she explained. Lattimore said students in Bryan-College Station are prob ably as environmentally conscious — or more so — than other resi dents. The Northgate area that bor ders Texas A&M University is a “disgrace,” Mrs. Miller said, be cause students are generally en vironmentally unaware. The Beautify Brazos County Association recently organized an intensified campaign to rid Bryan- College Station of large, un wanted items such as old mattres ses, tires, furniture, car parts or refrigerators. Mrs. Miller said these items sit near streets or in the yards of low-income Brazos County homes. But large trash items are also a problem in medium and high-income areas, she said, where they are kept in garages or backyards. Besides their being a health and fire hazard, these items affect us psychologically, Mrs. Miller said. “They keep us living in a condi tion which is not attractive,” she said. “If the stuff keeps piling up and it becomes more than you can take care of, then all your life takes on this attitude.” The Texas A&M University Safety and Health Office regulates pollutants that affect sli health by inspecting campu ties and making sure nationi dards and guidelines arekep R. H. Stiteler, Jr., Univerat ty and health officer. But pollution isn’t liml trash, radiation, vapors and! Some streets and free\l(| robbed of tranquil and t beauty by portable signs. Some cities regulal amount of signs on their Jane Kee, College Station official, said College Stat strict sign codes that are enforced. Only those sign; tising sales or grand openins) be placed near streets, sbe Bryan’s sign code is forced well, said Hubert Ni Bryan director of traffic. Nelson said the city doesni ploy enough workers to Bryan’s sign code. There a strict enforcement in tlie until Bryan residents dei he added. Whether Bryan-CollegeSt |; has strict or lax sign a I; whether it has one polluted! fc six; one litter-ridden streeta dembers of t one malfunctioning fumaj earn go afte 1,000; these pollutants an lieved to have psychologksl nural team physiological effects on us, And when we suffer, tliei y-jU h os t suffers — making it less tl could be. Reagan says shooting ‘seems unrealMef thi games of the i iay and the United Press International WASHINGTON — President Reagan said Wednesday the attempt on his life “still seems unreal” but he feels fine and does not plan any security changes in his presidency. Reagan commented in an interview with United Press International and The Associated Press — his first face-to- face session with reporters since he was wounded March 30, as he put it, “three weeks and two days ago.” “It still seems unreal,” Reagan said of the assassination attempt outside the Washington Hilton Hotel. “I knew they had to be shots, and my first inclination was to see what was going on behind me.” The president walked a bit stiffly, but smiling, into the antique-filled Map Room on the ground floor of the White House, where the interview was held. Reagan’s cheeks were rosy. Only his glistening eyes indicated he had been ill. He said he is still feeling discomfort in his chest, but the pain is lessening and he is beginning to do exercises at “a flower pace.” y .. {M „ 5 , f ^ ,, # . ^ , ‘ I don’t think I’m going to hurdle any tables for a little while,” he said. “My recovery is as astonishing to me as it is to my doctors,” he added. Describing the shooting, Reagan said he felt a “paralyz ing pain” as he was being pushed into the curbside limousine, but he did not immediately realize he had been shot. Reagan said he experienced a sense of “panic” when he sat up in the car, speeding away from the scene, because he felt as though he was “strangfing.” “I knew I had been hurt, but I thought I was hurt by the Secret Service agent landing on me in the car and I must say it was a paralyzing pain. I described it as if someone hit you with a hammer.” Asked how he would feel in the future, Reagan grinned and said, “I have a hunch I will be more alert in going out again. “There’s not going to be any change because of it, ” said Reagan who repeated that he still felt “the whole unreality of it.” Of his accused assailant, John W. Hinckley Jr., Reagan said: “I hope, indeed I pray, he can find an answer to his problem. He seems to be a very disturbed young man. His parents must be devastated. “I hope he will get well, too,” the president said. Reporters were asked to limit their questions to Reagan’s health and his feelings about the shooting. Reagan, whb has been gradually increasing his workload as his wounded left lung mends, indicated he expects to stay in family quarters a while longer. He said he can accomplish much the same work in a more comfortable fashion there. “Actually, I don’t think I’d be doing anything different” in the Oval Office, he said. “Congress is in recess,” he explained, “and there isn’t anything more I can do in pushing” for support for his economic program “on the Hill.” Reagan has been waging a telephone campaign to line up Tin By RITCH Sport; exas A&M support for his budget and tax cuts and saidThe pacb “going along all right.” Reagan said he remains opposed to gun control know of any place in the country where it’s not agaiim| law to carry a concealed weapon,” he said. “Soldi that adding another law is going to make a differeiKi] “In fact Tm a little disturbed that they are focusi gun control. What needs to be done is to solve tkdeoach Shelby problem,” he said. Bother name to Reagan also said he believes the permissivenesiily with the ann< cent years and “the unwillingness to hold a person resign mg of Gary sible” has contributed to increasing crime. son, Ariz. “Oh you bet,” Reagan declared when asked ilk Mlewis, a 6-1 g holding open White House press secretary JamesEa points, 7 reboun job. Brady was struck in the head by a bullet duriij hree steals per attack. “I’m so gratified by the optimism about hisiwHigh School in ' ery,” Reagan said. was named to Reagan, who looked a bit thinner, said his appetili|state and All-: returned and he feels “wonderful. ” team his senior He said his doctors told him to expected disconifortcPLewis brings lung for a long time. 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