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•• '>• V • V..V ■ ■■ •. •. .■ :■■■■ ; ■ ■' /v ;■■ ■ • • ■ ■ ■ by Jim Earie At San Francisco Last of oilspill cleaned up RICHMOND, Calif. <^> — A 100-man cleanup crew scooped up the last elusive bits of oil from San Francisco Bay’s second ma jor spill this year, the Coast Guard reported Monday. The crews halted work at dusk Monday, after a weekend of around-the-clock efforts to mop up an estimated 15,000 to 30,000 gallons of oil spilled from the Swedish tanker Jacob Malmaros. The vessel, chartered by Stand- Ellsberg felt papers would end in prison “I understand th’ lecture and my notes completely now after studying them, but that’s only th’ first meeting!” Seismic sound detector makes for a noisy life DALLAS *A > ) — Three teen agers, armed with shaving cream, molasses, newspaper shreds and bathroom tissue, crept toward the home of a Dallas man one darkened morning recently. Minutes later they were seated in a police car, nervously answer ing questions. Phillip Ward, owner of the house, says it would have been nea^ impossible to catch the pranksters without the seismic intrusion detector installed in a flower bed in front of his house. “There are different levels at which the amplifier can be set,” Ward explained. “At the highest level I can head my air condi tioner come on and off all night, on windy nights I can hear tree roots moving in the ground.” He added that the device does have its disadvantage. “Now I get up just after six when the paper boy comes. I can hear him as soon as he takes his first two steps into the yard to throw the paper,” Ward says. “We also had a few dry runs when dogs or cats ran across the yard. They set the sensor off immediately,” he said. Because of the variations in sensitivity, it took several tests before the detector was set at the right level. It goes off any time a person steps within six or eight feet of the sensor, which Ward hid in his front flowerbed. buzzing which is set off when the ground noise reaches a cer tain level. Ward got the idea from his job at Texas Instruments where similar detectors were once made for the U. S. Army for use in Vietnam. The youths wrapped the house in paper three times within a month before Ward thought about using the detector. “I just asked my supervisor if I could borrow one of the models we had at the plant,” Ward said, and he agreed. He said the detectors are not available to the public commer cially. But a kit to make one, similar to the detector he used probably could be sold for about $30 if the demand were great enough to persuade a company to market them. Similar detectors are used in oil explorations to map subsur face rock structures. Engineers place the device, then set off a small explosion and record the way the layers of earth react to the vibrations. In Vietnam, the detectors are used to help guard camps from attack by picking up any move ment outside the perimeter and warning the sentries. “The first real use of these things was by the Germans in World War II around prisoner of war camps,” Ward said. “The devices could pick up any digging noises, so the prisoners had vir tually no chance to tunnel out.” Inmates to give first-hand accounts of drug misuse The noice put out by the de tector is not an actual amplifi cation of the ground noise but a Four Texas Department of Corrections inmates will give a first-hand acount of drug misuse at a special program today at the College Station First Baptist Church. “Operation Kick-It” is a TDC effort to actively combat the growing drug abuse problem by demonstrating what can happen to the drug abuser. The 7 p.m. program is free and features four young volunteer inmate panelists, ages 17-21. Each of the panelists are first offenders convicted for possession of marijuana and one for the sale of drugs. They have toured the state since June telling their story to junior and senior high school students. The inmate tells briefly about his home life, how he began using- drugs and the events leading to his arrest. Their message is simple: “Illegal drugs are dan gerous. Drug abuse is against the law and you can go to prison for it. We did.” “Operation Kick-It” is funded by a grant from the Texas Crim inal Justice Council. Cbe Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of 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 published student newspaper at Texas A&M, is tioi Battalion, published in College Station, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and holiday periods, September through 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 77843. MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association The Associated Collegiate Press per school Mail subscriptions are §3.50 per semester; §6 pel full year. All subscriptions subject to 5% ons year; §6.50 per full sales tax. Advertising rate furnished on request. 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Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. jayne Kruse, Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco EDITOR HAYDEN WHITSETT Managing Editor Doug Dilley News Editor Sue Davis Sports Editor John Curylo Assistant Sports Editor Bill Henry Wednesday - September 22 7:00 P.M. Operation KICK - IT" IN THE AUDITORIUM OF FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH In College Station Operation Kick-It is a panel of four ex-drug addicts who are now serving time in Huntsville. They will speak on drug addiction. Don’t miss this. ard Oil Co. of California, slipped her moorings Friday and rup tured two oil pumping lines, the Coast Guard said. The company said remnants of oil were picked from rocks and waters near the east end of the Richmond-San Rafael B r id g e, Brooks Island and Point Rich mond. Workers will continue to search tide flats, marinas and beaches Tuesday to make certain all oil is removed, the company said. Standard Oil had no estimate of cleanup costs. The Coast Guard reported no wildlife was injured in Friday’s spill, but a spill from two Stand ard Oil tankers which collided last January killed thousands of sea birds in the Bay area. Contra Costa County probation officer Ben E. Fox said the com pany is responsible for 36 oil spills reported in the Bay Area since 1967. The company is scheduled to Appear Sept. 30 in Richmond Municipal Court for sentencing on an oil spill conviction for a July 28 mishap this year, Fox said. In November 1970, Standard was fined $500 and placed on one year probation for an October 1970 spill, he said. Last Friday’s spill is under investigation, Fox added. THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, September 22,1! HE BUSIER - JONES AGENCl REAL ESTATE • INSURANCE F.H.A.—Veterans and Conventional Loaju ARM & HOME SAVINGS ASSOCIATION Home Office: Nevada, Mo. 3523 Texas Ave. (in Ridgecrest) 846-3708 NEW YORK hP) — Daniel Ellsberg said he knew when he made the Pentagon Papers avail able to the press that it “was the surest way to get myself in pris on for a long time.” He said in an interview pub lished in the current issue of Look magazine that it is not clear whether he broke any law last spring in leaking the secret study of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia. Ellsberg, 40, a former analyst for the Rand Corp. research firm has pleaded innocent to charges of unauthorized possession of secret documents. Bulletin Board Tonight Lincoln Union will debate the Bonfire in the Architecture Audi torium at 7:30. All are invited and may participate. Model Airplane Club will meet in room 202 of the Physics Build ing at 8:30. Recreation and Parks Wives Club will meet in the Recreation and Parks Building at 7:30. Fish yell leader tryouts will be held at 5 p.m. in the Grove. A&M Sailing Club will meet in room 105 of the Geology building at 7:30. Bio-Medical Science Association will meet at 7:30 in room 210 of the Veterinary Science Building. Student “Y” Association will hold a steak fry in Hensel Park area 1 at 5:30. Thursday San Angelo-West Texas Home town Club meets in 3-A of the Memorial Student Center at 7:30. Motorcycle Club will meet in room 3B of the MSC at 7:30 to pick up membership cards. International Students Associ ation will meet in the Assembly room of the MSC at 7:00. FOR BEST RESULTS TRY BATTALION CLASSIFIED STEREO CITY Original Artists, Original Releases. $^99 8 Track Next to the Campus Theater ROBERT HALSELL TRAVEL SERVICE AIRLINE SCHEDULE INFORMATION FARES AND TICKETS ' DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL •■■•IB MZM CALL 822-3737 1016 Texas Avenue -— Bryan \ 0SA TP N1 TC Ride Fem roon 5. 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