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College Station, Texas
Thursday, September 2, 1971
THE BATTALION
Pole believes young lack enthusiasm
A Polish engineer injured at
age 10 from the blast of a ma
rauding Russian soldier’s hand
grenade believes most American
youth lack enthusiasm for life.
Dr. George Jerzy Raczkowski
was wounded 26 years ago when
the Communists were “liberat
ing” Eastern Europe.
His mother was killed in the
grenade blast.
Raczkowski joined the A&M
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engineering faculty this semester
as an associate professor in the
Engineering Graphics Depart
ment.
The former Politechnika Gdan-
ska engineering professor came
to America in 1966 to visit a
friend—his roommate at the
Polish university — in Kenosha,
Wis.
He was later granted a perma
nent visa as an immigrant to the
U. S. and will apply for U. S.
citizenship in October, 1972, when
the prerequisite five years U. S.
residence is completed.
Raczkowski has paid a high
price for freedom. His wife and
six-year-old daughter are still
being kept hostage by the Polish
regime.
“I hope they will be able to
join me here when I become an
American citizen,” the 36-year-
old engineer says fervently.
“I would never go back,” Racz
kowski declared. “I know the
Communist system and I’m learn
ing the American way. If it came
to that, I would rather be poor
and hungry here than there.”
An enthusiastic individual who
admits he is rapidly becoming
Americanized, George earned the
M.S. in engineering and doctor
of technical sciences at the Dan
zig Polytechnic Institute.
He came to the U. S. after two
years with a Gdynia-Elblag firm
and eight years teaching at Poli
technika Gdanska. He taught
three years at the Milwaukee
School of Engineering and two
years at California State College
in Fullerton.
Raczkowski teaches engineer
ing graphics and a mechanical
engineering course at A&M.
From a somewhat detached
viewpoint that is being modified
by his deep -and now vested in
terest in the American way of
life, Raczkowski made a few ob
servations, based on his experi
ences in Poland, Wisconsin, Cali
fornia and Texas.
Biochemist says
El Paso water
contains sedative
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (iP)—A
Universtiy of Texas biochemist
has reported that the drinking
water in El Paso, Tex., contains
enough of a chemical element,
lithium, to give residents a cheer
ful, tranquil outlook on life. An
expert on lithium says he doubts
it.
Dr. Earl B. Dawson of Texas
said lithium is used by doctors
as therapy in treating mental
illness at institutions throughout
the country.
Dawson told a meeting of the
American Medical Association’s
Western Hemisphere Nutrition
Congress here Tuesday he found
a “mathematically proven” rela
tionship between lithium levels
and menttal hospital admissions
in dozens of Texas cities.
In El Paso, he said, lithium
levels are among the highest in
Texas because “they have deep
supply wells. They hardly have
any admissions at all. It claims
people in El Paso, makes them
more cheerful and gives them a
more tranquil attitude toward
life. As a result, they’re less
apt to have a psychogenic episode
that would require mental hos
pital admission.”
Dallas, on the other hand, has
low lithium levels because it
obtains drinking water from sur
face supplies and “Dallas has
about seven times the admission
to state hospitals as the people
from El Paso.”
Dr. Frederick Goodwin, prin
cipal investigator for lithium
studies at the National Institute
of Mental Health, disagreed
Wednesday: “It is unlikely that
lithium has these magical prop
erties in a population,” he said.
Goodwin, asked to comment,
said lithium is used only in the
treatment of mania and depres
sion, a very limited area of
mental illness, perhaps less than
1 per cent of the general popu
lation. In some illness, such as
schizophrenia, lithium could make
the patient worse, he said.
While high levels of lithium
conceivably could result in fewer
cases of manic-depression coming
to light, Goodwin continued, it
remains unlikely there could be
a measurable effect in a total
population.
Nader accuses federal government
of bungling automobile investigation
WASHINGTON (A 5 ) — Ralph
Nader made public Wednesday
a list of automobile brake fail
ures, window explosions, engine
dislocations and fires and accused
the federal government of bun
gling and burying its investiga
tions of the problems.
Nader’s list of 13 problems
covering scores of domestic and
imported models produced from
1967 was taken mostly from gov
ernment files of investigations
closed or shelved because officials
did not consider the defects to be
safety-related or widespread.
The list was contained in a
letter to Douglas Toms, director
of the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA).
An agency spokesman said Toms
is on vacation and NHTSA had
no immediate comment.
“The number of cars poten
tially affected by the specific
design defects listed in this letter
is well into the millions,” said
Nader. “For example, there are
perhaps four million Chevrolets
on the roads today with poten
tially dangerous motor mounts.
And at least as many General
Motors cars are equipped with
power-assisted brakes that may
fail without notice.”
Nader accused the NHTSA of
ending in 1968 its test for com
pliance wtih collapsible steering
assembly requirements and listed
24 cases where the assembly had
failed to collapse in a collision.
The cases covered 20 models of
cars produced since 1968, and
were known to the agency, he
said.
Nader listed a series of com
plaints of the NHTSA citing
failures of the standard drum
brakes on a wide range of Chrys
ler Corp. models since 1967 and
called the cases an apparent vio
lation of federal standards.
He said he has received 12
letters recently describing cases
where the tempered side windows
of 1970 and 1971 cars from all
four American producers had
splintered into dangerous shards,
not only in collisions but while
cars were moving along highways
or parked. He said he agency had
received several other complaints.
Nader said that in all the prob
lems he cited, the complaints filed
with him and with NHTSA ap
peared to be only a glimpse of a
general defect which would be
uncovered by further investiga
tion.
“I think young people need
more enthusiasm,” the slender,
brown - haired engineer said.
“Some have it, but too many are
too concerned with niceties and
luxuries.”
“Texas has a spirit, an enthusi
asm that’s not found in Cali
fornia,” Raczkowski evaluated.
He feels there is a definite lack
of concern in American society
for “the strength of the nation,
both militarily and technolog
ically.”
“Russia has the equipment and
spirit because the people are dif
ferent. They have been in a long
period of oppression and can be
controlled,” he pointed out.
“Americans shouldn’t worry
about Russia, but be extremely
aware of him and don’t give him
an inch. They are very persist
ent,” Raczkowski said.
Russia has its problems and
world losses too, the former
Polish Academy of Science stu
dent claimed, citing the Cuban
missile crisis and Vietnam, among
others.
“Russia has gained nothing in
Vietnam,” the prof stated.
“They’ve sacrificed their own
people by the hundreds of thou
sands and invested a lot of money
and material.”
The same applies in China,
Raczkowski added. “The Soviets
are very determined in their ob
jective of world domination, but
they have their problems too.”
“What really worries me is the
well-being of society and the non-
responsible attitudes of people,”
he said.
Raczkowski says if he could he
would change a few things, such
as the “clogged-up judicial sys
tem which is too liberal, too much
waste and a too-formal student-
professor relationship.”
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