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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1971)
THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Thursday, February 11, 1971 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Quake death toll, damage count rise LOS ANGELES (A*) — The toll of dead continued to rise and property damage mounted into the hundreds of millions Wednes day as Southern California con tinued to quiver from aftershocks of Tuesday’s devastating earth quake. Workers searched the ruins of a veterans hospital where the bodies of 33 patients and em ployes had been found. They said 10 persons still are missing. In all, authorities tallied 51 deaths, nine by heart attack. More than 1,000 persons were injured. Fears of a rupture in the cracked dam of the city’s largest reservoir eased as the water level fell, due to draining. The 80,000 persons evacuated from the area were not allowed to return but officials said only a powerful new shock could cause trouble. Vice President Spiro T. Ag- new, sent here for consultations and an inspection tour after President Nixon declared Califor nia a disaster area, arrived for a helicopter look at hard-hit areas with Gov. Ronald Reagan and Mayor Sam Yorty. Attention centered on the VA hospital at Sylmar in the west end of the San Fernando Valley just 10 miles from the quake’s center. Some 250 workmen probed the steel and concrete rub ble of two collapsed three-story ward buildings. Well over 100 patients and em ployes were inside when the 8:01 a.m. CST temblor shook the 45- year-old structure apart. Scores were injured and additional scores trapped. For nearly 24 hours moans and cries came from victims trapped alive. Many in jured were extricated and flown by helicopter to other hospitals. Authorities said there was lit tle chance of additional survivors. Aftershocks by the hundreds emanated from the region of the quake’s center in the San Gabriel Mountains 26 miles northwest. A dozen or more fairly strong ones kept the area jiggling Wednes day but caused no new damage. Magnitudes of the stronger shocks were around 5 on the Richter scale, compared with 6.6 for the first. Authorities began the massive job of assessing damage, most of it within a 40-mile radius of the quake’s center. Los Angeles County estimated damage to public facilities at $125 million. It had no estimate of damage to private structures but said the toll would be high. The city made a preliminary estimate of $186 million for homes and businesses plus additional “tens of millions” for public fa cilities. The California Division of Highways reckoned $15 mil lion damage to state roads, much of it attributed to collapsed bridges and freeway overpasses. Utilities suffered damages es timated in the tens of millions. A city spokesman said there have been nearly 2,500 requests for building inspections and more than 100 structures have been found unfit for occupancy. From other campuses Cleaver blasts drugs, Leary “It was going to be a social comment, but I discovered I didn’t have anything to say!” Bulletin Board Numbers in ( ) denote 15 (12) Sesame Street channels on the cable. (PBS) 2:30 3 (5) Edge of Night 6:00 3 (5) Evening News 15 (12) Sesame Street 6:30 3 (5) Family Affair (PBS) (Repeat of 15 (12) Campus and Wednesday) Community Today 3:00 3 (5) Corner Pyle 7:00 3 (5) Jim Nabors 3:30 3 (5) Town Talk 15 (12) The French Chef 15 (12) Kukla, Fran and (PBS) Ollie (PBS) 7:30 15 (12) The Turned On 4:00 3 (5) That Girl Crisis (PBS) 15 (12) The World We 8:00 3 (5) Movie Live In (NET) 8:30 15 (12) The Feminine 4:30 3(5) Bewitched Touch 15 (12) What’s New 9:00 15(12) Fanfare (NET) (NET) 10:00 3 (5) Final News 5:00 3 (5) General Hospital 15 (12) Masterpiece 15 (12) Misterogers’ Theatre: The First Neighborhood Churchills (PBS) (NET) 10:30 3 (5) Dan August 5:30 3 (5) CBS News 11:30 3 (5) The Detective Bingo- -Weekdays at 5, BCS*TV/9. Nothing to buy. You need not be present to win. TONIGHT Game Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in room 3A of the MSC. SATURDAY Game Club will meet at 9 a.m. in room 3D of the MSC. SUNDAY First United Methodist Church will host Rabbi Roy Walter of Temple Emanu El in Houston at 7:30 p.m. His talk is the second in a series on the Psalms. All in terested are invited to attend. MONDAY A&M Veterans Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Art Room of the MSC. Brazoria County Hometown Club will meet at 7:45 p.m. in the lobby of the MSC to have pic tures taken for the Aggieland. Alpha Zeta Fraternity will meet at 7:30 p.m. in rooms 2C-D of the MSC to hear a guest speaker. A&M Go Club will meet at 7 p.m. in room 2D of the MSC. It’s a new club and all interested per sons are invited. Mid-Jefferson County Home town Club will meet at 7 p.m. in room 3D of the MSC to elect officers and view the A&M-LSU game film. Cepheid Variable Science Fic tion Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in room 346 of the Physics Build ing. Freshman Council will meet at Cbe Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those o) the student writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax- supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M, is published in College Station, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and holiday periods, September through daily except Saturd; ds, Sept May, and once a week during summer school. LETTERS POLICY Letters to the editor must be typed, double-spaced, and no more than 300 words in length. They must be signed, although the writer’s name will be withheld by arrangement with the editor. Address correspondence to Listen Up, The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station, Texas 77813. MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association The Associated Collegiate Press Mail subscriptions are $3.50 per semester; $6 pe: 11 year. All subscriptions subject 1 vertising rate furnished on Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College year; S6.50 pe sales tax. Ad The Battalio Texas 77843. school to 4%% Add Sta: lest. Addresi ollege Static of the Student Publications Board are: Jim ge r'* T ■’ Asa Lindsey, chairman; H. F. Filers, College of Liberal Arts; F. S. White, College of Engineering; Dr. Asa B. Childers, Jr., of Veterinary Medicir otherv origin pul matter he: :al news of spontaneou: publication of all othe: credited in the paper a blished herein. Rights of rep irein are also reserved. d-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. use for or not ontanei College of Veterinary Medicine; of Agriculture; and Roger Miller, student. life , xXScl XJ. '111 icitrl o, Dr. Z. L. Carpenter, College Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San icisci EDITOR DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE Assistant Editor Hayden Whitsett Managing Editor Fran Zupan Women’s Editor Sue Davis Sports Editor Clifford Broyles ATTENTION TO ALL JRS. & SOPHS Urgent Pictures will be made at the University Studio according to the following schedule. J-M Feb. 1-5 N-R Feb. 8-12 S-V Feb. 15-19 WXYZ Feb. 22-26 Make ups will be made March 2 -12. Your cooperation is necessary for your picture to appear in the Aggieland. 7:30 p.m. in the conference room on the second floor of the library. Industrial Technology Wives Club will tour Accents Contempo rary, 3219 Texas Ave. at 8 p.m. After the tour, a meeting is scheduled for Denny’s. For infor mation or a ride, call Karen at 846-6919. TUESDAY Sociology Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the home of Dr. Rob ert Skrabanek, 307 Gilchrist in College Station. By JAMES R. JACKSON According to The Florida Alli gator, exiled Black Panther lead er Eldridge Cleaver has called the psychedelic drug movement “madness” and its high priest, Dr. Timothy Leary, “an apolitical opportunist,” a counter-revolu tionary and a racist. Cleaver said the Panthers also have withdrawn support for such other militant leaders as Jerry Rubin, Stew Albert, and Abbie Hoffman because of their con nection with LSD and other psy chedelic drugs. He said the Panther party did not condemn the use of marijuana because “many of us” use it. Cleaver said Leary, a fellow exile in Algeria, was put “under Panther protection.” ★ ★ ★ Dr. Paul Ehrlich, speaking at Tech, said that despite the cur rent situation man has an excel lent chance of surviving the crisis decades he is now well into. With an enormous change in human attitudes and human so cial structure virtually over the entire world and a “spasm of ef fort” unknown as yet to the world community, Ehrlich said, man could survive. Ehrlich proposed to find a way to change people’s minds about the number of children they want since even after people change the size of their families there will be another 60 years of popu lation growth. He called for political action to bring all peoples together for a while to save their world. “What we’re going to have to do is to try and do the things we’ve long considered not politi cally feasible, too Christian, too utopian and so forth and sneered at,” said Ehrlich. “We’ve got to convince all those ‘realists’ that the only realistic solution to our problems are ones that we thought before were idealistic.” In closing, Ehrlich called for a “tremendous grass roots” politi cal movement in the United States to reform the environment. ★ ★ ★ According to an article in The Daily Cougar, the number of young Americans prosecuted for draft resistance by outright re fusal has grown from 369 in 1965 to 3,800 in 1970. These facts and figures “are only one facet of a growing dis enchantment with our govern ment and society,” the article states. “The atmosphere of change,. a type of violent energy, is unleash ed by youth groups all over the country. “This kinetic energy is mani fested in demonstrations, pro tests, draft card burnings, draft resistance, resentment of EOTC, flaming buildings, more than one Joan Baez, and the inevitable right wing backlash.” Our heroes, according to the article, have moved from the movie screen to the street. 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