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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas .Wednesday, July 15, 1970
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by Jim Earle
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“It’s easy to pick out new students! They’re the one who
go to registration without an umbrella!”
Land-fill equipment
to control garbage
The Physical Plant Department
has ordered new sanitary land
fill equipment to help the uni
versity hold its own in the grow
ing refuse disposal problem.
Walter Parsons Jr., physical
plant director, said the new ma
chine, a front-end loader, will re
place a less-efficient bulldozer
and related equipment now being
used at the university land fill
west of the main campus. Deliv
ery is scheduled by Aug. 1.
“Even with the new equip-
SShent,” Parsons emphasized, “the
*^niversity will only be able to
handle its own refuse in the
future.”
Currently, the university allows
the City of College Station to use
its land fill, as well as some areas
of the county, College Station-
area contractors and numerous
individuals.
In June, 1969, shortly after the
university began its sanitary
land-fill operation to comply with
anti-pollution laws which prohibit
trash burning, Parsons said the
city was asked to have its own
facility in operation within a
year.
When the city encountered dif
ficulties in establishing a land
fill, the university granted a 90-
day extension of its notice, effec
tive June 22.
With the requirements for land
fill rather than burning, Parsons
explained, much more land is re
quired — and rapidly used — for
refuse disposal.
He pointed out, however, the
land-fill concept is a far superior
method.
“It actually improves the land
on a long-term basis,” Parsons
observed, pointing out that fa-
vines and gullies can be smoothed
over. In short, poor or useless
land can be put back to use.
Moreno named
for fellowship
Gilbert M. Moreno of San An
tonio, graduate student in the
Urban Planning Department, has
been named recipient of an urban
studies fellowship for the Edin
burg Model City Agency.
Announcement of Moreno’s se
lection was made by Prof. Joseph
J. MeGraw, head of the Urban
Planning Department, part of the
College of Architecture and Envi
ronmental Design.
As an urban extension fellow,
MeGraw said Moreno will provide
technical assistance and liaison
with the university in planning
and community development for
both the agency and local citizens
groups. He will advise the univer
sity’s Center for Urban and En
vironmental Studies (CURES) of
specific needs or requests by the
agency for technical service or
research.
While associated with the Edin
burg Model City Agency, Moreno
will be under the supervision of
Joe Ramon, agency director.
| Pat Little |
Fifteen hundred Americans are
being held prisoner in North Viet
nam and 12 of them may be Texas
A&M graduates. Except in a few
cases the identities of these 1500
men are not known.
That’s the real tragedy for
many families in the United
States . . . not knowing whether
a son, a father, a husband or a
brother is alive or dead. If each
man had a minimum of five mem
bers in his family that would
leave 7,500 people having to face
each day with the doubt and
worry of the unknown.
That’s the whole point. The
North Vietnamese won’t release
the names of their prisoners. Also
it is rather safe to presume that
the prisoners are being tortured.
Pictures of the captives show
they are anything but in the best
of condition. It is also known how
the North Koreans tortured the
prisoners from the Pueblo and the
North Vietnamese are probably
as barbaric.
For many of us, these 1,500
men may only be another statis
tic which we shake our heads
over and wonder why something
isn’t done about it.
There is someone doing some
thing about it. . The most notable
of these is Ross Perot, a self-
made billionaire, who has spent
a lot of his own money trying to
find out the American’s names
and trying to see to it they re
ceive humane treatment.
Others are standing in front of
busy stores asking people to sign
petitions to the North Vietnam
ese government regarding the
identities of the Americans being
held prisoner.
But even Ross Perot and these
men and women collecting signa
tures are not as brave or heroic
as the wives who have traveled
all over the world in attempts,
most of them in vain, to find out
if their husbands are alive or
dead.
One of these women went to
Paris to talk with the North Viet
namese concerning her husband
and she found out he was dead.
Another group of women went to
North and South Vietnam with
Perot to find out about their hus
bands and also inspect the South
Vietnamese prisoner of war
camps for the captured commu
nists.
I think it should be noted here
that the North Vietnamese told
Perot if he wanted to help POWs
he should help the communists
being held in South Vietnam.
Perot did just that. He spon
sored a program to develop a
means of making aritifical limbs
out of bamboo. But the camps did
not need any improvements be
cause the prisoners allegedly re
ceive good treatment, and most
of them say they wouldn’t go
back to the war if they had the
chance to do so.
Although the efforts of Perot
and the women who are trying to
find out about their husbands are
valiant, it is not enough. They
are too few to have any effect
on the North Vietnamese.
Many people have said that the
North Vietnamese are very sensi
tive to public opinion in the Unit
ed States. They told the woman
who went to Paris the people in
the United States fight amongst
themselves. She countered by say-
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Assistant Editor Pat Little
ing the people in the United
States are like a big family; they
may fight amongst themselves,
but let an outsider step in and
look out I
Navajo Indians
here for third
program phase
I think it is time for Americans
to get together and do something
to help those who tried to help
us. It has been a long time since
all Americans have done some
thing together to attain a com
mon goal. In short, I think it is
time to show the North Vietnam
ese we are still a whole nation
and we can take care of our own.
All we can do though is write
a letter to the North Vietnamese
government and let them know we
do care for our own men. If
enough people wrote to them and
let them know what we think
about the way they treat their
prisoners and about them not re
leasing their names, the North
Vietnamese might realize the
majority of the people in the
United States are against them.
It doesn’t matter what you
think of the war personally. It
may also be said to be an emo
tional thing to be concerned about
some captured Americans in a
far away land. Love, fear, hate,
and loyalty to one’s countrymen,
are irrational feelings, but they
are the only things that keep this
world turning.
Ten Navajo Indians return
Monday for the third phase of a
telephone technician training
program.
Instructor Charles Whitaker
said the young men, all in their
early 20’s, completed an eight
week training session here earlier
this year and are back from three
months on-the-job training.
All are from the Navajo Nation
Reservation in New Mexico, Utah,
Arizona and California.
Instruction during the five-
week program will include cable
splicing, cable fault location and
work with lead, plastic and under
ground cable problems.
After completing the course the
Navajos will return to the reser
vation for three more months be
fore returning for the final four-
week course in November.
The 28,000 square mile Navajo
Nation was serviced by the Bu
reau of Indian Affairs telephone
company until growth in the area
showed private ownership could
be profitable.
C. J. Wimer of Grandview pur
chased the system. He worked
with A&M’s Texas Engineering
Extension Service to have Navajo
men trained to service the com
pany’s equipment.
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