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Corps river plans

[Editor‘s note: This is the first of a
three-part series concerning ac-
tivities of the Kentucky Rivers
Coalition. The third article will
deal with the Army Corps of
Engineers‘ positions.l

By BETSY PEARCE
Kernel Staff Writer

They're based in a chilly room in
the basement of a Lexington office
complex, although their Work often
takes them around Kentucky. Other
than desks and bookshelves clut-
tered with books, papers and dusty
"Stop the Dam" stickers, their
sparsely furnished surroundings
aren‘t much to look at.

Yet somehow. members of the
Kentucky Rivers Coalition (KRC)
abound with enthusiasm anti great
determination where preserving
Kentucky's waterways are con-
cerned.

“it all began when I was working
with the Red River defense fund
back in December of ‘74. i thought
there was a need for a group like the
KHC,“ said Chuck Hoffman, KRC
coordinator. “The following spring
we held a workshop on campus, but
nothing really came of it."

The KHC officially got off the
ground June 13, 1976. Their first
tasks were to put an office together,
and publicize their group to attract
support.

“We started with 11 member-
groups, and we now have 16 such
groups," he said. Two of them are
campus organizations —the En-
vironmental Action Society and the
Outdoors Club, and 10 of them are
land-owning groups.

“The Red River dam project is
distinctly not the focus of the group,
although we are still trying to get it
deauthorized,” Hoffman said.

The object of the KRC is to
“redirect the present course of
water resource development in
Kentucky,“ according to Hoffman.
“Our job is to investigate all (water
development) projects in the state,
and find out which ones are
necessary and which ones are poor
ideas."

()ne of KRC‘s strongest ad-
versaries is the Army Corps of
Engineers. which constructs many
of the state‘s reservoirs. While The
Corps is not the only group KRC
often oppcses to monitor Kentucky’s
rivers and streams, the Corps
usually gets the most publicity.
“The press picks up the Corps so
much because they tend to affect the
most people nationally and
statewide," Hoffman said.

Though the Corps is often
associated with dam building,
Hoffman said it is also responsible
for work on stream channelization,
dredging and filling in waterways,
and building canals.

81‘

VOLLXVIII, Number 50
Thursday, October 21, 1976

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liy KI'II'I‘II SHANNON
Kerrie! Staff Writer

The UK Student Govern-
ment (SG) Monday night
completed the fourth of its
seven scheduled meetings for
this semester. Along the way
it has considered an alter-
native for the General
Student Assembly tGSA),
conducted voter registration,
reformed its judicial board
and come out for and against
block seating and canine
attacks. respectively.

lint do those actions really
mean anything? Several
student senators recently
responded to oucstions about
the accomplishments and
purposes of SG.

lial Haering. St} tice
president said 50 is doing a
good job. “it is continuing to
improve as it has improved in
the past two years." he said.
improvements are evident.
he said. in the attendance at
the meetings and the orderly
fashion in which they are
conducted. according to
llaering.

SG. he said. is "dealing
with issues students are more
interested in," such as the

 

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Tower thermometer marks United Way fund

liy MARIE MITCHELL
Kernel Staff Writer

While temperatures are dropping
around the Bluegrass. one ther-
mometer keeps rising. The windows
of the Patterson Office Tower 1 POT)
facing Euclid Avenue are being
covered with red cellophane to mark
the progress of the United Way fund
drive at UK.

The red windows are now up to the
six floor, having passed the twenty-
five per cent mark, according to
.ladtie Bondurant, publicity coor-
dinator for United Way. The
organization‘s goal is to collect
$100,000 by Thanksgiving.

Senators

KK EN Tvil; e]

JIM ELDER
. . . too many 80 motions are
unprepared

construction of bus shelters
on campus and the obtaining
of block seating for the
basketball games at Rupp
Arena. A big improvement.
he said. is evident in the 50
sponsored student phone
directory. He said the basic
appearance of the directory
has improved as well as its
overall quality.

“Today's freshmen don't

"L'K is the largest individual
employe group supporter of the
campaign which is held every fail,”
said (icorge iiearn. executive
director. Most contributions come
from corporations or individuals, he
said.

Five thousand volunteers are
working toward the overall
31.075000 goal, Hearn said. Con-
tributions go toward supporting 23
separate health and welfare
agencies that offer numerous
essential humancare services to
people of Lexington and Central
Kentucky. These agencies include
American Red Cross, Family
Counseling, (lirl & lioy Scouts and

ideally. when the Corps dams
rivers it is to create reservoirs
which can then be used for flood
control and recreation. in the
process they supposedly maximize
profits and minimize tproject)
costs.

Hoffman believes the projects are
born, raised and killed tor built)
politically, and that is the way they
must be fought.

The Corps and their "allies“ are
only out for business, Hoffman said.
and they feel they can gain finan-
cially through flood control and
recreation. Hoffman also cited the
large number of Corps employes
(approximately 300 military and
35,000 civilians) needing to be “kept
busy,“ on the projects.

“Some reservoirs provide
necessary additional water for
inland waterways such as the Ohio
River navigation system," Hoffman
said. “But the question is not
whether the Corps is beneficial, it‘s
how beneficial is it.“

“Our side says benefits from flood
control and recreation are there, but
not to the extent the Corps
estimates," he said.

When the KRC comes to the
conclusion that a project is un-
worthy of' construction, Hoffman
said they go to the people it will
directly affect, on health, economic
and other concerns.

Continued on page it

University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

review performance

realize how SG has cleaned
up its act," Haering said.
Marion Wade. Arts and

Sciences senator, takes
another view. “1 think
Student Government isn‘t
worth shit," said Wade. “We
had nothing to do with the
building of those bus shelters.
They were being built
anyway.“

He said most of the services
SG now offers, such as legal
aid and tenant-landlord
services, are holdovers from
previous SG administrations.
Their full growth, he said, has
been stunted by their hand-
ling in the past few years.

Wade said a large in-
consistency is present in the
design of 80 because it
restricts itself to non-
academic affairs while being
largely composed of
representatives from the
various university colleges.
which are themselves
academic units. Wade thinks
the emphasis should be on
leadership and academic
reforms rather than student
services.

“The trouble is that
students are ignorant of 50."

the Georgetown Street
Home.

Money is allocated according to
the needs of the community. iiearn
said. Budgeting is done by the
Agency Affairs Committee corn-
posed of 100 local volunteers.

l'nited \iay is more than just a
fund-raising organization. ltearn
said Five full time employes try to
ensure adequate human services in
the community. develop new
programs and delete obsolete ones

The Dread Disease Fund of
Fayette County is a recent addition.
established in 1175, to aid in the fight
against various killing and crippling
diseases. Proceeds go to selected

()rpha ns

Whittle while you watch

()tis Satterley (left) and a neighbor from Shelbyville
passed the time by whittlting at the 65th annual field
trials of the Kentucky State Foxhunters Association.
The trials, with nearly 300 dogs entered, were held at

the Central Kentucky Wildlife Management Area near

l

iiii. MARKING
. . . St} has improved

he said. “They look on it just
to provide a phone book."

.iim Elder. Engineering
senator. said 5(5 “does well "
But, i‘Ilder said, St; “could be
a lot better. looking at it
idealistically.”

He said SG had provided
some concrete services in last
year's reform of the pass—fail
option and this year‘s book
exchange program which. he

Continued on page ti

 

J

local non-profit hospitals for
treatment a rid research, ileam said
Funds are also available to meet the
special needs of indigent patients
:iiidtlicir ta milies if finances cannot
be obtined from other sources. he
said.

Dr. Harold liinkley, general
chairman. said [K employes are
encouraged to participate in the
payroll deduction plan. l'nder the
plan. cat h pay roll period 30 cents is
deducted and given to the t nited
\\ ay. Coordinators for each college
ask the various departments to
name solicitors for their designated
area.

"We need r-vcrybixly's support,"

'i‘tiesday

b“")£l‘.-l'v? .; i. j,

tidal-tiff

—Stewa rt Bowman

Richmond last week. Satterley, who has brought his
dogs for the last eight years. only entered one dog this
year. Other foxhuiiters from around the country en-
tered up to a dozen hounds.

Board appoints Sineath

library science dean

liy (LINNY iii)“ ARDS
liditor-in-(‘hief

Dr. Timothy W Sineath, of Bos-
ton, Mass. was appointed dean of
the College of Library Science
by the Executive (‘oiir
irattecot' the 1K Board of Trustees.

"Dr. Smeath's academic experi-
once and his background as a
professional librarian make him
well qualified for this leadership role
as dean of the ('ollege of Library
Science," said UK President Dr.
Otis A. Singletary.

Singletary said seven candidates
were interviewed for the post from
among a large number of appli-
cants. Sineath‘s appointment is ef-
fective July 1.

After earning BA and MS degrees
from Florida State liniversity and :1
Phi) degree in library science from
the l'niversity of lilinois in 1970,
Sineath was a faculty member at
Simmons College in Boston. in
additioi. to his teaching duties. he
served as coordinator of the doctor-
al and continuing education pro
grams.

The Executive Committee also
approved appointment of Dr. L. E.

drive goal

liinkley said. "we'rctryingto create
a spirit of lit lping people."

The student campaign, which will
last until Dec. 3, is just starting to
organize but expects to recruit 50
volunteers, said Rosemary Lubeley.
chairperson. “We haven't set a
specific goal,“ she said, “we'll just
do the best we can.“

"We‘re not asking students to give
up their lunch money," said Dave
Stockha in. v ice president for student
affairs, “or contribute their last
hard-earned dollar We're trying to
stimulate a voluntary effort by
groups and organizations to sponsor
projects and events to raise money
in a pleasant, enjoyable and
recreational way.“

Brecher to the newly created posi-
tion of deputy director of the UK
institute for Mining Minerals and
Research (iMMR). His appointment
is retroactive to Oct. 1.

Bob Drake, special assistant to
Singletary, said Brecher will serve
as an administrator at Spindletop,
where an off-campus research cen—
ter is located. The lMMR's charter
includes all minerals and their use,
but the present emphasis is almost
wholly on coal and its transforma-
tion and use, according to Single-
tary‘s report to the committee.

Brecher earned his BS in chemical
engineering from the University of
lilinois in 1965, and his master‘s and
doctoral degrees from Carnegie-
Melion University, in 1966 and 1967.
He then entered private industry
t. here he was a consultant and
project leader in nuclear and fossil
energy systems research and de-
velopment.

The board also approved. for
submission to the Council on Public
Higher Education, a request to
install a clean room in the Phar-
macy Building. “The room will
serve educational and research pur-
poses," Singletary said.

The facility, at an estimated cost
of $116,100, is needed to educate
students in the proper technique for
preparing dosage forms, Singletary
states in his report. it ”will also
enable certain research and de-
velopment projects involving sterile
techniques to be carried out.”

Singletary also recognized Dr.
William Nunn Lipscomb, a UK
graduate who received the Nobel
prize in chemistry Monday.

 

Clear and cold

Clearing and colder today
with ii high near 50. Tonight‘s
low wll be below freezhg. in the
upper am. Friday will be partly
cloudy whl a high it the 50's.

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

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Stow-rt Bowman

 

 

 

Burning pot

would be

wasteful

The tict. l8 isSUe of Newsweek magazine. iii-
eluded an article about a sheriff in Indiana who
has become notorious for appribcnriing young
people who pick wild ii:;ii‘iju;;“-.;i. According to
the report, the sheriff regularly patrols known
marijuana fields and 1:; basting record itaiiifiers
of Hoosier potpickcrs.

And, in southern lndiana, law enforcement
officials requested assistance this ;. car to control
marijuana hancsters.

Not to be outdone. . specially by Hoosiers. a
Kentucky agiit tH!‘ w official rtceutlv an-
nounced that n. U rt .z-iy to initiate a new state
progran‘. ain‘t-.2! at finding and disiroymg
patches of wilr‘ ':.a! .f tuna in Kentucky.

(‘oburn (taylc. “1;:‘ci'tin' of 'i‘c agriculture
department's pest itz’. noxious weed iliyisioii tno
kidding), said he is ready to :ittack the
“problem” of wilt; vee’i it: said for: Depart
ment of Agrintitzirt- has :‘cc~:.ved :tcwral calls
from counlj. oiiiciais ‘xt.‘.'Kli’it; assistance in
destroying "urijuar‘a

Kentucky .v. .- out“ of fin tcad'i‘g hemp-
producing stairs ‘nllt'Il i!‘.::"ij!m:\;i was grown
and prix‘e-stwl tor ir.ii:iii'.’i-.."arw of rope. As a
result. wild “wrap is :";u:tda:it in the state.

(iayle compared the possibility of a pot control
program with the massive blackbird destruction
program the state established. "We didn't. have a
bird control program for the sta'i- one year ago
and today we do." reasoned (fay fc. outlining the
feasibility of a state marijuana destruction
program.

 

 

“If the legislature wants to give us the funding
and the governor sees a need, we are ready to
go." concluded Gayle.

(iayle's enthusiasm for destroying marijuana
is disturbing for several reasons. Such a state-
supported program would require funds that
could be more wisely spent to upgrade
educational standards in the state or for welfare
programs in some impoverished Eastern
Kentucky communities.

In addit ion. no problems are posed by the wild
hemp. The fact that marijuana is picked and
smoked means less money goes to illegal
distributors.

The real fear of a pot destruction program is
that state officials would be reluctant to oppose
it. no matter how ludicrous it might be. No state
official wants to be linked to supporting
inarUuana.

We hope the question will never be officially
considered. If marijuana is the topic of
discussion among state legislators, the emphasis
should be on feasibility of producing it for in-
creased revenue. rather than destroying it for
decreased revenue.

Strange animals

Weird Unirersity animals are humorous

Ih lllfill.i.l"|\lil.\\
between the

Something should be ti‘tlif‘ about
the wild animals ..:\.igiiig the
l‘niyeisity campus "ll-i-y iai'ouse

monly a \acant look in the eyes tand

surroiindnig hiiii.

.loe Athlete. a has Joe Jock v Most

frequently usually seen habitating basketball

’it'lt‘t"t it by .i distinct odor of beer courts and football fields; drive

(‘orvettes and eat steak; rarely
often found obscry ed without flocks of Sorority

around llx' ill blooming“) "-cf wearing ‘cunis shoes and 'l‘vshirts Hal's following. (‘hai'acteristicsz

.‘ihi-ad‘ ioiiipctifioii xi” 'o-‘teri ntcr
the ranks of other spines l fiayc

 

unlranslatablc
i. di‘i‘tlrl.“ (‘ommon quote: "Whadja
to last one?” .\l.iting season year available pocket. Quote: ”But

irlfltit'ii with

facial hair under nose. enlarged
chest and head. dollar bills in every

round and twice on Sunday. coach it hurts!” Mating season:

\oioi’foty Sal

cum m en fury

__-_-.,___._..-.-..._____...-...-_..--..-_._ pints and ttght sweaters; t'oninion
separated flit-n1 .45 any from”; cliaracfcristics: upturned nose and
being could easily di. info teisit- it"f\'('lt‘.\.\ movement of rear hind
group tatcgorics ’fficy ;tl‘t' .is quarter's Hffen seen herding with

bound anywhere
i-\ccpt classrooms; dress: painter.s

\tcck days only, before if pm.

The (food Student ’l‘ravels alone
til .i swift. headlong position;
thereafter found in classrooms.
fzbrarics. or bathrooms. (‘harac-
ii-iistics: sharp nose. vibrating

“’H‘m‘ :h‘ l“"““""”l-‘ PM mm” mm“: brain calculator on one hip and
[Fraternity f'f,1i Usually turn-jg “li'f's go to Richliitintll” Mating hooks (in the other. (iften heard
with scyeral other siblings t‘oiii season rare. iiiuntbling to himself while in

 

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isolation. Quote: "()nly a 98'?“
Mating season' debatable issue.

the break 'l‘ravelsby plane lor
ll‘lt‘s’ tot. often found in botanical
gardens sitting with others in a
peculiar circle. passing peculiar
cigarettes pungent odor of' burning
leaves surrounds him; (‘harac-
:crisfics. long hair isometimes
tucked in pants . eyes that stop Rose
Street traffic. they too are found in
classrooms but only physically.
Qiiofe: “Wow man..." Mating
season: they don't know yet. they're
still testing.

The lexingtonian t‘an only be
recogni/ed by one of the same
species: found mingling throughout
\arious other groups masquerading
as such. .ippear harmless yet the
most dangerous competitive type:
[tress (‘hameleon characteristics.
tJImIt" “Who am l'."' or "l'K is
cool." Mating season: school year
only.

There they are. weird as hell.
ftcware of their competitive-
fll\lllllil0ll tendencies. Something
should be done about them. but the
only thing I can tlitiik of is to laugh.

 

; “Hull .|. Findlay is a sophomore
ti..tintititz in journalism.

Dick Downey

Great American Game is inspirational

I‘m not a Reds fan, but all week
I‘ve wanted to do this column on the
great American sport—baseball.
There have been problems, though.
For one, this year‘s World Series
hasn't provided enough inspiration
to produce a real humdinger of a
commentary.

So I thought about concentrating
my efforts on the opening of Rupp
Arena instead, but Lawrence Welk
proved to be even less thought-
provoking than the sight of the Reds
efficiently and politely thrashing the
Yankees.

In fact, both events have demon-
strated all the predictability of an
Iowa farmer at corn planting time,
and that doesn’t make for very
exciting copy.

There’s another facet to this
quandary that makes this column a
sure candidate for one of the worst of
the year.

I like baseball.

Anyone who‘s kept up with this
column over the past year-and-a-
half knows that it just doesn’t have
any zip to it unless it‘s on the
attack—but it’s just not in my heart
to go for the jugular vein of
professional baseball today. At its
worst, watching baseball beats the
hell out of watching the presidential
campaign any day, so I’ll save my
venom for Jimmy and Gerry.

It isn’t just pro baseball —it‘s
baseball as a whole concept that is
so great. Baseball players are in-
dividualists on the playing field to a
great extent. while basketball and
football concentrate more on team
effort.

Thus. each of the nine positionsjin
the field attract our attention,
unhindered by large masses of flesh
and shoulder pads, and there are
more players of more varieties than
in basketball. The player's per—
sonalities have more opportunity to
show through in their play. (See
Pete Rose.)

More importantly, baseball has a
mystique. You might call it the
Great American Mystique, in fact.
My guess would be that there are
damn few of those lying around any
more, not in 1976.

The iystique. of course. is wholly
subjective; I think if has something
to do with the little boy in most men.

Most of us who are fans began
following the sport when we were

eight or 10 years old, and there
definitely was a mystery surround-
ing baseball then. The pros were
something that we bought the
world‘s worst bubble gum for, just
so we could get the baseball cards
inside. A million daydreams of
stardom on the diamond drifted
across this countryside, most of
them dreamt by kids of all ages.
Baseball stirred drama and heroism
in our hearts. As far as I know, kids
are still into baseball.

The thing is. baseball can do that
to grownups, too, except that we
(we?!) sometimes drink a little
golden elixir to transport us across
that bridge to a state of rapture with
the experience. Kids, bless their
hearts. don‘t need the grape to get
there.

But without some of the child in
the man (or woman). an infatuation
with baseball would be impossible.
Things like that keep you going. I
think.

 

CIA protest

An open meeting to discuss for-
mation of' a protest or picket against
(‘lA policies to coincide with the
speaking engagement of former (‘lA
Director William (‘olby will be field
’l‘hursday. (ict. 21, at 7:30 pm. in
room 111 of the Student Center.

The meeting is open to all groups
and individuals interested in
protesting ('lA involvement in
countries around the world and the
political overthrows they have
aided. Another theme of protest
could he (‘IA harassment of
American civilians and political
groups.

Please come and bring your ideas
to build the largest and most ef-
fective protest possible.

Bronson ltozier
l'K alumnus

Honest Bob

As a freshman who has taken
journalism in high school. I was
under the seemingly false im-
pression that a biased onessided
article was referred to as an
editorial and thusly signed. An
article such as the one in the Oct. 18
Kernel about Mondale‘s debate
victory over Dole would seem to fall
in the editorial range.

Had the story been nomorethana

The best way to illustrate it is to
say that the other night I watched
the news. I was told that Jewish
arms and soldiers helped (‘hristian
Phalangists overrun a Moslem-held
position somewhere in the Mideast.
An American tourist was banged by
the Jamaican government after he
was adjudged guilty of committing
three murders down there. And the
Iranian government now owns 25 per
cent of the Krupp Company, the
German arms merchants.

There‘s a lot of strangeness in the
world, The Big Red Machine and
baseball as a whole is not a part of
all that. though. They belong to the
mystique clique that is fed by the
safety and comfort of tradition. And
things like that can keep you going.

 

llick llowney is a third-year law
student. His column appears every
Thursday.

 

 

Letters

factual account of an apparent
victory over llole by Mondale. it
then should remain unsigned. As if
was. though. one must assume that
it was written by the editor~in~chief
of the Kernel.

Nevertheless. I feel several points
concerning the debate should be
brought out. First. I was much more
impressed with the statements of
hole after hearing the taped radio
broadcast of the debates than I was
after only watching them on
telev ision.

It seems there were some pro
Mondale cameramen. because
frequently when hole spoke. the
cameras gave a shot of the back of
his head. As any speaker knows. eye
contact is a very important factor to
the effectiveness of his remarks.
l‘iven during lioie‘s final comments.
the camera showed a medium
distance. partly side view robbing
him of his rightful eye contact with
viewers.

For Mondale‘s closing remarks.
the camera panned in for an cyclo-
eye close tip. Could this have some
bearing on why Mondale was picked
as the winner of this debate?
Knowing little about debate scoring,
I will not challenge the judges‘
decision.

Quite possibly. Mondale would
have gotten an A-plus in a college
debate class. However. this was not
a college class. but rather The Big

Time. The debate was not held for a
grade, but for votes. I feel that.
though he would have gotten a (3-,
l)ole's skills should bring Mr. Ford
and himself several votes.

My final comment concerns Mr.
bole being referred to as a hatchet
ma n. l)o|e chopped down Carter and
Mondale but didn‘t tell lies. This, I
feel, has a parallel in history to
another great “hatchet man" who
went on to become a great president.
(tcorge Washington, though. didn't
have ('arter and Mondale, so he
chopped down a cherry tree instead.

John Ilolhrook
Arts and Sciences freshman

[Editor‘s Note: Ilolbrooit refers to
the editorial which appeared
Monday on Page 2 under the stand-
ard heading “Editorials and
('omments." The Kernel editorial
always appears in the upper left
comer of the page. Other writing -—
letters. comments and columns —
are labeled accordingly.

Letters policy

Letters cannot exceed 250 words.
They must be typewritten, triple-
spaced and signed with the writer’s
name, classification and major.

Comments cannot exceed 750
words and the above information is
mandatory. In order to run a series,
the writer must see the editorial
editor.

 

 

     

 

    
 

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Ford says Carter

‘wavers,

WASHINGTON [AP] —
President Ford said Wed-
nesday that Jimmy Carter’s
claim he could end the Arab
boycott against Israel is
naive and ridiculous and
declared that his Democratic
challenger “does waver,
wander, wiggle and waffle"
on campaign issues.

Ford said heoisagrees with
Carter‘s threat to cut off
exports to Arab nations in the
event of an oil embargo,
particularly “food that
American farmers have
produced and sell abroad in
order to help our economy
here at home.”

Ford made the remarks at
his second White House news
conference in six days. The
nationally broadcast meeting
with reporters came just two
days before his third and final
debate with Carter and 13
days before the general

wiggles ’

election.

During the news conference
and in off-microphone
comments afterward. the
President:

—said he intends to keep
Cla rence Kelley as d irector of
the FBI, despite the con-
troversy over his views on
relations with the press, and
Gen. George Brown as
chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, despite his com-
ments on the burden of US.
military support for Israel.

——Denied, in response to a
question, that he had blocked
an early investigation of the
Watergate scandal by in-
tervening as House
Republican leader against an
inquiry by the Banking and
Currency Committee.

-~ Declared he has no plans
to pardon such Watergate
figures asJohn Mitchell, H.R.
llaldeman and John Mitchell.

 

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Ford said he had not heard of
any rumor to that effect.
“You are the first one that
has raised it with me,“ he told
his questioner.

wsaid he was disappointed
at a sag in the growth rate of
the Gross National product to
4 per cent in the last quarter
But Ford said he was en-
couraged that the same
report showed a decline III the
GNP inflation rate from 3.2 to
4.4 per cent.

Boat collision dumps 100 people

into muddy Mississippi River

l,lil,l.\'(i. l.a. IAPI ~A664-foot Norwegian
tanker rammed a Mississippi River ferry

crowded with nearly 100

yesterday. dumping vehicles and screaming
passengers into the swift muddy current.
’l‘wenty persons were known dead and as

many as 58 were missing.

St. Charles Parish Sheriff John St. Amant
said 20 bodies were recovered, most of them
by divers. Rescue work was complicated by
muddy water up to 80 feet deep and currents
that scattered the cars and pickup trucks
thrown over the side by the collision.

“I understand there were 96 people aboard
the ferry." St. Amantsaid. ”We know of 18

survivors."

The crash, one of the worst in river

persons on

the ferry rush hour between Lululg and
Destrehan, located about 20 miles uprivel'
from New Orleans.

Witnesses said the tanker Frosta. whistle
shrieking, loomed up out of the chill early
morning light and rammed the (it-orgi-

Prince amidships.

Several survivors said the ferry engine
stopped shortly before the crash but no one
knew why the collision happened.

“Only a sea lawyer will be able to tell you
that,“ said Charles Roemer. state conr
missioner of administration.

During rescue work, the levees here and :it
Destrehan, across the three-quarter mile
“wide river, were thick with glum‘ontookers

shivering in the cold wind. Many were

history, happened at about 6:15 am. That‘s friends.

Surgical slip-ups

fearful that the dead included relatives or

Youngsters lose appendices early

llt)l.l..-\.\'l) PATENT, N.Y.
I.\Pl ~As.many as IO
youngsters underwent
emergency surgery in the
past three weeks for ap
pendicitis when they had
another disease, an intestinal
disorder treatable with an-
tibiotics, two physicians said
yesterday.

State Health Department
officials said they believe a
contaminated water system
in this central New York

Village was responsible for
outbreak of the disease called
ycrsiniosis, which is caused
by a highly contagious
bacteria.

()ne doctor defended the
surgery. however. saying it
would have been “too
dangerous" to have ignored
the symptoms.

“In the judgment of the
people who saw the patients
initially, they all had the
symptoms of appendicitis,"

said Dr. Daniel Stowens.
director of the laboratory at
St. Luke's Hospital in Him.
about IS miles south of
Holland Patent. Dr. Stowens
said his hospital had handled
five or six cases of illness
from the Holland l’atent
area.

“It was only after two or
three of them turned out not
to have been appendicitis that
the suspicion of yersiniosis
dawned." he said.

 

 

 

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