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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, February 10, 1971
Quake deaths mount;
California shattered
Thursday — Cloudy to partly
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Friday — Cloudy. Winds south
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LOS ANGELES OP)—A power
ful earthquake staggered South
ern California Tuesday, leaving
at least 36 dead and trapping
some 30 persons in the rubble of
collapsed hospital. Their fate
was in doubt.
Eighty-thousand persons in a
20-square-mile area near a quake-
weakened dam in the San Fer-
m | nando Valley were ordered to
evacuate the area or be forcibly
removed. Authorities, in making
the evacuation “mandatory,” said
they feared a strong new tremor
night cause a flood.
D STEli ProP^ty damage was extensive
fiRiV iS wa " s collapsed, streets bucked,
ind caved ip, bridges fell and
vindows shattered in heavily
wpulated areas around Los An
gles, the nation’s third most pop-
ilous city.
The sheriffs office estimated
hat more than 850 persons were
injured in the quake area.
In Washington, President Nix
on issued a formal declaration of
a major disaster, opening the
way for help from more than a
dozen government agencies. Vice
President Spiro T. Agnew was
due in the quake area Wednesday
for consultations.
Nine of the deaths were at
tributed to heart attacks.
Heaviest loss of life was at the
Veterans Administration Hospi
tal at Sylmar in the west end of
the San Fernando Valley some
10 miles from the quake’s cen
ter.
There 18 bodies were found,
and about 100 persons were in
jured. Ten hours after the first
shock an estimated 30 persons,
mostly patients, were reported
still trapped.
Officials at the hospital said it
could be two days before they
get to the bottom of the rubble.
Tall buildings swayed in down
town Los Angeles when the quake
hit at 6:01 a.m. (8:01 a.m. CST).
Windows shattered and walls fell
out or roofs fell in on some older
structures. The city estimated
that 427 buildings received struc
tural damage, 42 sufficiently to
force evacuation.
Officials said tall buildings,
however, showed little harm from
the shock although windows were
broken in some modern struc
tures.
Seismologists placed the quake’s
center 26 miles northwest of
downtown Los Angeles in the rug
ged San Gabriel Mountains and
blamed the Soledad Canyon Fault,
which intersects the San Gabriel
fault, which at first was tabbed.
A scientist who reached the scene
found evidence of vertical crack
ing, with one side higher than
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nan’s most successful moon mis-
lion.
Scientists, space officials and
he nation’s President hailed the
nission.
Astronauts Alan B. Shepard
r., Stuart A. Roosa and Edgar
Mitchell dropped into the Pa-
:ific at 4:05 p.m. EST, ending a
line-day, 1.15 - million-mile voy-
tge to the moon and back.
“We’re all fine in here,” said
Ihepard, seconds after the Apol
lo command ship splashed into
the choppy water.
“Welcome home,” the carrier
"adioed.
"Thank you, sir,” came a quick
■eply.
George Low, acting adminis
trator of the National Aeronau-
lics and Space Administration,
id, “I can only give this mis-
lion an absolutely perfect score.
“We saw and heard two high
ly skilled explorers seeking the
top of Cone Crater, collecting
samples, setting up experiments
and taking photographs, compil
ing the most complete explora
tion of one small part of the
moon yet.
“Alan Shepard and his crew
demonstrated that man belongs
in space, that man can achieve
objectives well beyond the capa
bilities of any machine that has
yet been devised.”
Shepard and Mitchell spent
33% hours on the moon’s surface.
They gathered rocks that may be
as old as the moon itself and they
set up an atomic-powered science
station which is already working
smoothly and providing valuable
information.
President Nixon telephoned the
spacemen on the carrier and
said:
“We’re just so proud and hap
py to have you all back.”
He also invited the spacemen
to a dinner at the White House.
In a statement issued from
the White House, the President
added: “To each and every one
of the many people who contrib
uted to the success of Apollo 14,
a grateful nation says: ‘Well
done.’ ”
U-degree weather once
wery 30 years--happily
Monday’s 21-degree tempera-
lure is a once in 30 years phe-
lomenon, according to A&M cli-
latologist Prof. John F. Grif-
'iths.
The temperature was the sec-
md lowest recorded in the period
for which the Meteorology De-
lartment has reliable records,
Iriffiths said the lowest reading
for the date since 1914 was 11
legrees, set in 1933.
Monday’s 21 replaced a 25 of
947 as the second coldest for
'eh. 8.
“While such a temperature is
r ery rare, similar lows have oc
curred up to March 11 and 12,”
the climatologist said. He added
that the Monday mercury plunge
will just about balance out a re
cent warm spell to make Febru
ary an average temperature
month.
Griffiths said a recent 68-de
gree morning low was only one
degree below the previous maxi
mum for the date.
Department meteorologist Jim
Lightfoot said Monday’s low
temperatures, combined with 30
mph winds, gave the early morn
ing hours a chill factor of —10
degrees.
The splashdown was one of
the most accurate ever achieved,
less than five miles from the
prime recovery ship.
White-suited sailors lining the
deck of this prime recovery ship
cheered loudly after two subdued
sonic booms first announced the
spacecraft was coming down
nearby.
The spacecraft splashed into
the warm Polynesia waters 897
miles south of American Samoa,
helicopters hovered over head
and swimmers leaped into the
sea to secure the craft with a
flotation collar so that it would
n’t sink.
The astronauts scrambled into
an orange life raft. First Roosa,
then Mitchell and finally Shep
ard were taken up into a heli
copter and flown to the carrier
deck.
A 20-man Navy band wel
comed them aboard with “Stars
and Stripes Forever” and the
spacemen walked directly to a
trailer-like quarantine van.
Officers greeted the spacemen
with ceremonies in front of a
window of the quarantine van.
The astronauts, wearing baseball-
style caps, listened closely.
“It sure is nice to be back home
again,” said Shepard in response.
“I don’t think we’ve had a recov
ery handled as neatly, as cleanly
and as quickly as that one. Of
course, we did come pretty close
to target there.”
“The most stirring moment for
me is right now,” he added.
“Not only are we back from
the moon, but we’re back at
home.”
Mitchell said the mission “was
worth all those little moments of
doubt.”
“In the last nine days, I’ve seen
some rather fantastic sights,”
said Roosa, “but right up at the
top of them is the sight of this
carrier here today.”
Shepard said in a news con
ference from space the mission
was “a smashing success” and
scientists on earth agreed.
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the other, and numerous land
slides. There were no wide cracks,
and all could be stepped over, said
a spokesman for the seismograph-
ic laboratory at the California In
stitute of Technology in nearby
Pasadena.
The initial shock was assigned
a magnitude of 6.6 on the Richter
scale. The scale grades anything
over 7 as a major quake. There
were hundreds of aftershocks, one
registering 5.6 on the scale.
Residents of the San Fernan
do Valley, with a population of
1.3 million, had a tense day as
police warned them by the thou
sands to move out of the path of
possible water flow from Van
Norman Lake dam, the city’s
largest reservoir.
The initial shock shattered the
concrete facing and caused wide
fissures in its 1,500-foot main
wall of compressed earth. There
was some leaking and part of
the dam fell into the lake. Offi
cials began draining it and said
it should reach a safe level by
late Wednesday. The evacuations
were ordered as a precautionary
measure in the event of a strong
new shock.
The dam’s two lakes can hold
6.7 billion gallons of water. Both
were being emptied into river
beds and catch basins.
The mandatory evacuation or
der, officials said, came because
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WITH WINDS OUSTING TO EIGHTY miles per hour Tuesday and snow coming' down
sideways, it is hard for Corrine Birch, a student at Wayne State University, to see ahead
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Campus cops — conservative, radical
By The Associated Press
On some police forces, 64-year-
old Jim Eisenberg would be called
an anachronism. He doesn’t like
wearing a gun and would rather
walk than ride a patrol car.
On some police forces, 25-year-
old Jim Davis would be called a
radical. He enjoys talking with
young rebels on his beat, and he
keeps saying policemen should
explain to people why they do
what they do.
In fact, both Sgt. James P. Ei
senberg and Officer James W.
Davis combined something of the
anachronistic and something of
the radical. They are campus
cops — Eisenberg, a 35-year vet
eran at Cornell and Davis, a two-
year man at Berkeley. They
have learned to wear their am
biguities as easily as their uni
forms.
Like their colleagues at col
leges and universities across the
country, Davis and Eisenberg are
both campus guides and profes-
Genetics prof
offers revenge
Dr. Norbert A. McNiel is giv
ing his last semester’s genetics
class a chance to get even.
“When a battle is over, the gen
eral calls in his troops and has
a critique,” McNiel said. “Now
the Genetics 301 battle is over,
and I want to have a critique
with everyone who participated
last semester.”
Everyone who had the course
is invited, McNiel said, and can
say anything about the course he
wants.
Last semester McNiel got some
help in teaching the course when
Dr. Clint Magill joined the de
partment. But instead of split
ting the sections between the two
professors, they decided to try
team teaching, with each instruc
tor meeting with the classes once
or twice a week.
“Team-teaching has been tried
here before without much suc
cess, McNiel said, “but I think
it has been very successful in
Genetics 301, and I’d like to hear
what the students thought of it.”
“The course is required for
nearly all agriculture and veteri
nary students,” he continued,
“but I would say 40 per cent of
them don’t take it because they
have to.”
The session will be held at 7
p.m. Thursday in room 208 of
the Agricultural Engineering
Building.
sional crime fighters, both friends
to the students and symbols of
authority where authority is
often heated.
It was not always so.
“It was like heaven to start
out with,” says Eisenberg, recall
ing when as Cornell’s only cam
pus cop he patrolled on foot or
horseback.
“They are just a good bunch
of mischievous kids, but they
were never trouble. It was fun.
“Oh, you might meet a guy
peeking in a window, or some of
them would throw toilet paper
out of the dorm windows ... a
little bit of theivery and Some
noise calls. Sometimes one of
them would have one too mkhy
and I’d take him home or fcWl
some of his fraternity brothers.
“I was issued a weapon, bat I
never carried it. I Still won’t Un
less it’s absolutely necessary.”
In the old days when things
got out of hand, Eisenberg drew
on his experience as a civilian
Conservation Corps boxing coach.
When the dust had settled, “the
next minute you were back bud
dies again and having a few
beers together.”
Davis never knew such days.
He carries a pistol and a can of
chemical Mace on his daytime
patrol of Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza,
which has witnessed its share of
tear gas and flying rocks.
The weapons come up often in
the conversations with young
people that are a major part of
Davis’ job. Where Eisenberg
once could employ a brotherly
right hook, Davis has to exercise
diplomacy.
“They’ve got to understand
that why I’m there is not to har-
rass them but to do a job,” Davis
explains.
The Berkeley campus recorded
one rape, 12 robberies, 112 bur
glaries and 1,424 thefts in 1970—
despite a 10 per cent drop in
crimes. Its 87 sworn officers are
about double the force of three
years ago.
Eisenberg’s Cornell, too, is dif
ferent from the days when every
one khew him as Jungle Jim, or
Big Jim. He does most of his
work at a desk, and laments:
“The thing has grown so big
now . . .”
The university population has
multiplied; the campus force has
43 sworn officers, having tripled
in a decade. “Major” crimes to
taled nearly 1,000 in 1969.
The biggest change in the
campus atmosphere came about
three years ago, Eisenberg says.
Violence overshadowed pranks
and mischievousness gave way to
hostility.
“A while back it bothered me,”
Eisenberg says. “Not any more.
Maybe I’m getting hardened into
it.”
He speaks the names of men
from the classes of 1939 and
1941 and says, “They were a dif
ferent type of men.” Then he
takes it back.
i Malfunction Junction 9
Legett produces comedy western film
A realistic for Legett Hall’s filming of “Malfunction Junction’’ is provided by the
tormer College Station entertainment facility. Jubilee Junction.
Aggies making a feature-
length comedy western — it
sounds funny, perhaps a trifle
insane, but that is how some
members of Legett Hall are
spending their weekends.
“Malfunction Junction” will be
the effort of virtually the entire
population of Legett. Students
in the residence hall organized
and purchased 77 shares in Don
Kirk Enterprises, producer of the
movies, employing some dozen
Legett residents as actors.
“It will be a 35 to 45 minute
movie we’ll show at Legett func
tions,” said Bill Shaw, hall presi
dent. The senior wildlife science
major plays the sheriff in the
film.
“We’ll charge admission and
try to get some profit out of it,”
Shaw added. “Well, hopefully
we’ll make expenses.”
“We’ve got Lee Marvin and
‘Cat Ballou’ backed up against
the wall,” cracked one technical
assistant.
Filming is under way weekends
at “Jubilee Junction,” former
“Old West” entertainment plot of
College Station businessman
Marion Pugh.
“We’ve worked two weekends
and will complete shooting in
five,” Kirk said, a fifth year
architecture major of San An
tonio who is the driving force be
hind the cinematic effort.
He’s the producer, director,
cameraman and will edit the
footage. Kirk co-wrote the “Mal
function Junction” screenplay
with Jesse DiPietro, senior indus
trial engineering major of San
Antonio, and Dennis Simmons,
environmental design senior of
Richardson.
In front of Kirk’s reflex Bolex
camera that uses super 8 mm.
film are Brian Schricker, Roger
Lawhead, Tommy Groesbeck,
Will Way and Shaw of San An
tonio, Arnoulfo (Arnie) Garcia
of Mathis, Steve Keng of Gid-
dings, Howard Droll of Rowena
and Simmons.
Also listed in the credits will
be several coeds and a horse
Ginger, who will show up as a
whole herd through photographic
effects.
“We’ve seen two rolls of the
footage,” Shaw commented. “It
looks a lot better than the origi
nal action.”
He said “Malfunction Junction”
will not have synch sound, but
will be fitted with background
music on tape.
Legett Hall residents see sev
eral pluses in the venture, be
sides the fun of trying their hand
at silent screen acting and movia
making.
“We’re getting to know each
other better than if we just re
sided and studied together,” said
one actor who sports a Buffalo
Bill Cody hair style and mustache
and the full regalia of an outlaw.
“We’re also getting first-hand
experience in corporate organi
zation management, finding out
what cooperation can accomplish
and learning that what goes up
on the movie screen involves a
lot of detailed work.”
Legett is one of the oldest resi
dence halls on the A&M campus.
Its occupants last fall pitched in
funds, materials and labor to
completely redecorate the Legett
Lounge, where “Malfunction
Junction” will premier before
April.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.