Page 12 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1979
Ambitious training program
planned for select cities’ poor
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Lowell,
Mass., is a fairly typical small New
England city, suffering from the de
cline of textile and leather goods in
dustries and shifting its economy to
services and electronics.
Wilson County in eastern North
Carolina is rural, tobacco country
with heavy seasonal unemployment.
Twenty percent of its families live in
poverty.
Pittsburgh, Pa., has suffered the
loss of manufacturing jobs common
to many older industrial cities, and
two recent severe winters and fuel
shortages caused further layoffs.
In Corpus Christi, Texas, and
rural counties surrounding it there
are many poor Spanish-speaking
families including migrant workers.
In Long Beach, Calif., with a
population of 360,000, an estimated
40,000 persons are living in poverty;
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6,700 are on welfare.
One thing all those areas have in
common is that they are among 15
sites selected to take part in a poten
tially far-reaching federal govern
ment experiment in reducing un
employment.
It is designed to try out a long-
discussed concept: that the govern
ment might — at least within limits
— provide employment training
and a “last resort’job to anyone who
needs and wants one.
Truck spills
fish payload
onto highway
United Press International
LOS ANGELES — If you fancy a
sea urchin for dinner, this may not
be a good week to find the ocean
delicacy in some Southern Califor
nia restaurants.
A truck carrying a load of live sea
urchins overturned on the Harbor
Freeway early Monday, spilling the
cargo and causing what the Califor
nia Department of Transportation
called a “gooey mess” that halted
traffic for three hours.
Highway patrol officers said the
truck, driven by Ryujio Hasegawa,
25, of Los Angeles, skidded on wet
pavement, crashed through the cen-
t er divider and overturned.
The truck spilled most of its
cargo, destined for Japanese mar
kets and restaurants, onto the
southbound lanes.
Hasegawa was hospitalized for
undetermined injuries.
It is the most ambitious test ever
conducted of moving people into
useful jobs who otherwise would be
on welfare.
In each selected area during a
two-year period — provided Con
gress comes up with the money —
the labor department plans to offer
job training and, if necessary, a job
to every eligible applicant.
Those eligible will generally be
adult members of low-income
families with children, but only one
per family.
The government isn’t calling it a
“guaranteed” job program, because
it doesn’t want to lay itself open to
suits by individuals for employ
ment. Officials speak of “ensuring”
job opportunities for those eligible.
The supervisor of the project,
Jodie Allen, special assistant to the
secretary of labor for welfare re
form, said in an interview that com
puter studies indicate that if such a
program were run nationally about a
million people would take part dur
ing the course of a year.
The 15 “demonstration” sites
were chosen to represent a cross
section of the nation. Allen esti
mates that in these areas 32,000 to
33,000 persons would participate in
a year.
The project is designed to answer
many questions: How many people
would in fact apply? If the number is
more than expected, how could
eligibility be restricted? What kinds
of people would apply? What ad
ministrative problems would there
be?
Localities are being encouraged
to develop new ways of providing
people with jobs, which might be
incorporated into the existing pro
grams of the Comprehensive Em
ployment and Training Act (CETA).
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Dr. Chalmer Kirkbride, an energy consultant in Washington
D.C., and formerly a Texas A&M University professor of
chemical engineering, said Tuesday it is the U.S. Defense
Department’s responsibility to activate the mass production
of synthetic fuels in the United States.
Battalion photo by Kayce Glasse
Energy answer:
synthetic fuel?
By CATHRY TERRELL
Battalion Reporter
The United States must build a synthetic fuel industry or perish as
a free country, an executive consultant to the U.S. energy program
said at Texas A&M University Tuesday.
Dr. Chalmer Kirkbride’s speech began the Lindsay Lecture Se
ries, named for Dr. Donald James Lindsay, former head of the Chem
ical Engineering department.
“We are on the verge of our worst economic depression,
Kirkbride stressed. The nation’s dependence on foreign oil will mean
“far more than long lines at gas stations; it will mean a greater per
centage of unemployed than there was in the depression of 1929, and
blackouts common in all major cities including Houston, Dallas, Fort
Worth and San Antonio.
Kirkbride predicted that Saudi Arabia will he the world’s next
trouble spot after Iran and that the possibility of Russian intervention
in those countries must not be overlooked. “Anyone who does not
believe that Russia played a role in the civil strike of Iran is not facing
the facts,” he said.
The Defense Department must make the creation of energy
through synthetic fuels, such as the gasified and liquified coal, and
the production of methanol and shale oil, as their highest priority,
Kirkbride said.
Kirkbride compared the synthetic fuel industry to the synthetic
rubber industry during World War II, which met the full needs of the
military within three years of the start of the program. He said that a
similar scheme is needed today to save the country.
Kirkbride served under “Doc” Lindsay from 1944-1947 as a distin
guished professor, and praised him as one of the best teachers and the
most unselfish person he has known.
About 30 of Lindsay’s former students attended a ceremony to
honor him and heard Kirkbride’s speech that followed.
Interim Dean of Engineering Richard Thomas said he had met
many Aggies all over the country who introduced themselves as “one
of Doe’s boys.”
“Doc” Lindsay, who retired from Texas A&M at age 65 in 1965,
walked slowly to the podium to thank his former students for coming
and said that he appreciated all the time and money that had been put
into establishing the lecture series. I ve enjoyed my life’s work here
and I’ve enjoyed working with my boys.”
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speech published Tuesday,® > r
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