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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1978
‘Doomsday’
film nears
completion
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CHICAGO — The star of the movie hopes it never
will he shown on television: It’s a government film
telling you what to do in the event of a nuclear
holocaust.
The doomsday film — a series office video tapes —
is earmarked for training purposes, and Civil De
fense spokesman Gleason Seaman said they will be
telecast only if there is an impending nuclear attack
against the United States.
Chicago physicist Leonard Reiffel is being paid
about $50,000 for the script, artwork and narration
for the five videotapes about what Americans should
do during a nuclear onslaught, an official of the De
fense Civil Preparedness Agency said.
“I hope the tapes are never used for anything other
than training, ” Reiffel said. “No human being would
want to be the star of the largest and last television
show in history — no sane human being.”
“These are being produced for use in a severe
crisis and are only to be used in that time,” another
official said. “But there is no significance to it being
done now. It’s a very leisurely thing, part of our
routine and that’s very important for yon to under
stand.”
The 15-minute tapes will deal with such things as
how to improvise shelters against radiation bom
bardment, what to expect in a nuclear attack and how
to monitor and recognize signs of radiation exposure.
The filming is being done at the agency s staff
college in Battle Creek, Mich. So far three tapes have
been shot, an agency official at the college said, f inal
filming is scheduled to be completed later this
month.
Overall costs of the project are unknown,
because no breakdown has been made on stui
videotaping expenses. He was not sureiffinjU
bution plans have been formed.
Reiffel said the film content is largely
sense and people acquainted with nuclearwea
would know much of the information in the!
“My personal opinion is that it can dosuk
good, not miracles,” he said. "But after all even
lives — and I’m not saying that’s all thefif
save — make a difference.”
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DAVIS, Calif. — Michael Lewis
may be the only professor at the Uni
versity of California at Davis whose
class attracts students eager for
homework assignments.
Lewis, professor of food science
and technology, teaches a unique
course entitled "Malting and Brew
ing Technology. In other words, his
students brew beer — not for con
sumption but for scientific analysis.
But eager though his students may
be for a thirst-quenching sample of
their schoolwork, they have to settle
for academic satisfaction.
Lewis, a Welsh descendant of a
long line of brewers and pub owners,
said the class is far from a suds-
swigging den of tipsy students.
“It’s not a drinking or beer-
swilling class,” he said. “There’s no
fooling around. He said only seniors
with "strong scientific backgrounds
— serious scholars” — are allowed to
enroll.
Lewis said many of his students
find employment in the brewing and
malting industries.
“I was tempted to take a sip of the
beer,” admitted Monica Osa, a fer
mentation science major. “Every
body’s tempted.
“But we re not here to make tasty
beer; we re here to analyze its physi
cal characteristics. Everybody thinks
just because it’s a beer- making class
it’s a lot of fun; nothing is further
from the truth. It s notan easy class.
"Everybody thinks we do all our
beer swilling at school instead of af
ter, but that’s not true.”
Osa said the class made her more
conscious of a beer s characteristics
when she sips a glass of the golden
refreshment.
“The class made us more aware
when we drink beer, she said. “The
way it smells, what color it is. Before
I kind of guzzled it down. "
Under the supervision of Lewis,
students test the beer they brew, as
well as commercial beer for color,
bitterness and raw materials.
It takes from six weeks to more
than four months to brew beer. Beer
is usually aged for one to three
months at the Davis laboratory.
While Lewis deals with the re
fined techniques of brewing, he has a
few recommendations tor the beer
drinking public.
“Each beer is right for an occa
sion,” said Lewis. "If you're thirsty
after mowing the lawn on a hot day, a
light beer is ideal. It will relieve the
dryness without weighing you
down
A heavier beer, one that is darker
and higher in alcoholic content,
would he suitable for "sitting around
when yon can concentrate on what
your mouth is doing," hea
Lewis said the fermentaft
ratory at the university is tl
such facility on a college ^
the Western Hemisphere.
Class enrollment has in
steadily to its present run
about 70 students. Lewiss
versity officials have suppw
program, which also hasf
backing from the brewings
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upper class beverage, hesaii
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image, Lewis said.
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ferior image because it ^
pensive than wine, said
Muhleman, a research assisii
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beer, ” Muhleman said, li
more of a mystique to it."
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drink.
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Raccoon Man evicts
‘masked sleepers
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WEST HARTFORD, Conn. —
For a solid month, Barbara Blan-
chfield had to live with six masked
intruders who refused to leave. She
iinally had to call Raccoon Man to
evict them.
Holed up in the Blanchfield home
was a chattering family of chimney
sleepers. Raccoons. Five babies and
tlie mother.
Enter Charles Daniels, a 68-
year-old retired oil burner serv
iceman who has been snaring rac
coons at his own expense throughout
Connecticut for more than 12 years.
He got into it when state lawmakers
first considered a call for a raccoon
bounty.
“The chicken farmers and corn
farmers was up to the legislature
kicking up a fuss and wanted a
bounty put on them,” he recalls.
“Some folks figured that if they ever
put a bounty on them, well, they just
would wipe them right out, so all the
game clubs sent representatives up
there.”
Finally, a bargain was struck. The
game clubs agreed to snare raccoons
which unwittingly intrude on the
premises or good graces of state resi
dents. And the state agreed to forget
imposing a bounty.
The Connecticut Department of
Environmental Protection now is
sues permits to game clubs, which
send someone out to to pick up the
raccoons.
That s usually Daniels.
He says he’s not surprised rac
coons are taking up temporary resi
dence in Connecticut homes.
“Where else are they going to go?"
he asks. “There ain’t no hollow trees
anymore. That’s where they make
their home.”
That and urban sprawl have nar
rowed the number of places raccoons
can nest, he said. Daniels
plucked 238 raccoons
chimneys of West Hartford
1976 and released them
parks.
Daniels said capture of
coons can sometimes be
wits.
Since the small animals
bandit mask stripe across
like ’ anything sweet, hens
gins by baiting a cage trap will
jelly and chocolate cream
And then he waits.
Sometimes a raccoon will wi
to the trap, sniff the bit, tun
nose and saunter off, shakio(i)
tail.
If the waiting game
long, Daniels puts on hef
and old clothes and wi
chimney after them.
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chimney sleepers, thesiti
complicated because hedid
to take the babies away ml
were old enough to survive
own. Finally, he plucleJ
1-pound pups from their i
nest and placed theminanolll
bucket, leaving the snarBiKl
raccoon alone in her sooty*
“They ’re not always so old
Daniels said. “This one h«
wants to put up an argument
He stood outside theBlat
home, explaining he will relt
cubs when they weigh a
pounds, at about five or si*
old. They will grow to25-27po
While Daniels was
frantic mother raccoon scat
up to the top of the chimney
her forepaws over the tof
looked down. She laid badi
and let out a long soulful in
“She’ll leave now,” Conner
raccoon man said, "she has#
to stay for.”
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