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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1981
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — A 1966 re
port to the U.S. Army’s biological
[warfare laboratory, just released
by the government, details what
critics are calling the largest open-
air germ warfare test yet to be dis-
jclosed.
Documents obtained by the
f lChurch of Scientology show a che
mical used to simulate the disper
sion of chemical or biological war
fare agents was sprayed over a
10,000-square mile test area
around Victoria, Texas, in 1965.
The 17 tests, conducted be
tween July 11 and Aug. 9, in
volved the offshore release of zinc
cadmium sulfide from two F-105
jet fighters. The chemical cloud
was found to have been carried as
far as 110 miles inland.
’ The Church of Scientology,
t which has culled evidence of num
erous such tests from government
[records acquired under the Free
dom of Information Act, said the
Victoria experiment — like the
others — was carried out without
notice to local officials or the
public.
It also said the test raises addi
tional questions about the possible
harmful effects of zinc cadmium
sulfide, which the Army contends
is safe but the church — citing the
findings of a Canadian pharmaco
logist and a former Army scientist
calls a potential health hazard.
The report to the Army Biolo
gical Laboratories at Fort Detrick,
Md., showed the Victoria test area
was “between Corpus Christi and
Freeport on the coast and bound-' 1
I d inland by San Antonio, Austin
nd Houston.”
Sampling devices were placed
)n 270-foot towers on Matagorda
Island and outside Victoria and at
|6 smaller sampling stations scat-
fred over the test area.
| The area of dispersion was far
reater than that reported in a
p61 test, in which quantities of
nc cadmium sulfide were re
used into the air from a 1,400-
rt television transmission tower
the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
In a letter to Sen. John Tower,
Texas, chairman of the Senate
med Services Committee,
>kesman Brian Anderson re-
ved the church’s call for a ban
open-air testing.
Creationists fight evolution
Staff photo by Chuck Chapman
Bent out of shape
Senior Scott Parma thinks about the $47.50 it will take to
replace the bent front wheel of his bike. Parma is an electrical
engineering major from Irving. He bent the wheel on a curb
by Davis-Gary.
United Press International
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — An
eighth grader will testify on behalf
of Bible fundamentalists who
claim state public schools violate
childrens’ freedom of religion by
teaching Darwin’s theory of evolu
tion as the only scientific explana
tion of life.
When testimony resumed to
day, prosecuting attorney Richard
Turner was expected to call San
Diego public school student
Kasey Segrave, 13, as a witness.
The boy’s father, Kelly Segrave, is
director of Creation Science Re
search Center, a Christian-
oriented foundation that lodged
the suit against the state.
The plaintiffs want Superior
Court Judge Irving Perluss to
order the state Board of Education
to rewrite its science education
guidelines, which now authorize
only the theory of evolution in
accounting for the origin and de
velopment of life.
“The Segrave kid isn’t being
taught evolution, he’s being
taught scientific concepts,” Depu
ty Attorney General Robert Tyler
told reporters after Monday’s ses
sion, noting Kasey Segrave is an
eighth grader. He said California
students aren’t introduced to evo
lution until the 10th grade.
“I don’t want to crossexamine
the boy,” Tyler said. “They say he
was exposed to evolution. I just
want specifics.”
The two attorneys stipulated
Kasey would be the only Segrave
child to testify, although his
brothers, Jason 12, and Kevin, 7,
are named as co-plaintiffs in the
suit.
In opening statements Monday
at the non-jury trial expected to
last a week, Turner steered clear
of challenging evolution, but said
there should be room for more
than one theory of life’s origin.
“This is not a monkey trial,” he
told Perluss.
“We are not trying to ban evolu
tion. We seek protection for the
right to believe in a cause. The real
issue is religious freedom under
the First Amendment of the Con
stitution.”
Turner said Kasey and two
other Segrave children were
being told “their religious beliefs
are wrong” in science classes
where evolution was presented as
a fact.
Tyler unsuccessfully sought to
have the case dismissed on the
grounds there was no infringe
ment of constitutional rights. He
said science takes a neutral posi
tion about religion and cited court
decisions in other states where
public schools were not required
to present all possible theories in
the teaching of science.
In denying Tyler’s motion for
dismissal, Perluss said religious
freedom was a key provision of the
Constitution. “I see no reason why
we should not proceed,” he
added.
Tyler has enlisted author-
astronomer Carl Sagan and other
stars of American science to de
fend the state’s way of teaching. If
they actually testify, it won’t be
until later in the trial.
Turner began his presentation
with a three-hour grilling of
Robert L. Howe, program admi
nistrator for curriculum frame
work for the state Department of
Education.
Howe testified the free tex
tbooks the state supplies public
school students conform to guide
lines set up by advisory commit
tees and approved by the Board of
Education. He said local school
boards were free to buy other texts
if they paid for them with local
funds.
The trial attracted national in
terest because of its similarity to
the celebrated trial 56 years ago of
John Scopes, a Dayton, Tenn.,
high school teacher who was con
victed and fined $100 for teaching
evolution in violation of state law.
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