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^Morning! UNIVERSITY PRESS
Serving the Lamar community for 61 years
It’s Friday
August 31, 1984
Vol. 61, No. 1
Hazardous waste site
proposed by Kemble
By LINDA ECKOLS
UP managing editor
The establishment of a Hazardous
Waste Alternatives Center at Lamar
University was the subject of
testimony given by Dr. C. Robert
Kemble when he appeared before
the House-Senate Joint Study Com-
mittee.
Kemble, chancellor of the Lamar
University System, was accom-
panied by several administrators
from the university when he
presented the proposal in Austin
during early August.
Rep. Mark Stiles of Beaumont, a
member of the committee establish-
ed to study the problems related to
hazardous waste, was a catalyst
behind the DroDosal. Kemble said
“He has a great sense of enormity
of the situation,” Kemble said.
The waste center would address
the state’s growing problem of more
than 25 million tons of hazardous
waste materials—of which three-
quarters is produced by the
petrochemical and refining in-
dustries.
The estimated cost for such a
center includes $10 million annual
operating costs, $6 million for an-
nual contract research and about $20
million over a three-year period for
capital improvements.
In his testimony, Kemble said,
“These figures are early estimates
but any less would probably be
superficial and not properly address
the concept of looking for all alter-
natives. These figures are imposing,
but so is the cost of cleanup and
disposal. One single breakthrough
would pay for the investment.”
Currently, the Environmental
Protection Agency spends $700
million for “clean up” activities for
waste spills and other accidents and
only about $33 million for research
and development.
“The State of Texas, by its very
economic nature,” Stiles said, “is
and will continue to be one of the
leading producers of toxic waste
materials.
“The citizens, business and in-
dustry have reaped the benefits of
our economic base,” he said. “Now
we need to share the responsibility
of making our industries cleaner at
the lowest possible cost, and
therefore more productive and pro-
fitable for us all.”
Stiles said that he liked the pro-
posal because it focuses as much on
avoidance as on treatment. He also
said he feels that the center would
lead to the creation of many new in-
dustries dealing with the destruc-
tion, conversion, employment or
reduction of hazardous waste.
“I am personally committed to
seeing a hazardous waste center to
address alternatives to our problem
established in Texas,” he said, “and
that center should logically be plac-
ed at Lamar University’s campus in
Beaumont.”
During testimony, Kemble cited
the need, availability aqd resources
of the Golden Triangle' and Lamar
University as reasons for
establishing the center in this area.
He encouraged the committee to
look into alternatives for hazardous
waste with the idea that some
materials may be usable, and
primary and secondary research
should be conducted to explore
possibilities other than disposal.
“This center should serve a multi-
functional role but must be fun-
damentally a research and develop-
ment organization,” Kemble said to
the committee, “established in an
existing academic setting which is
proximate to a significant segment
of the chemical process industry in
Texas.”
Specifically, the programs of this
center would concentrate on improv-
ing public health and the environ-
ment, developing the use of
technological alternatives to land
disposal, improving and expanding
the data and information on hazar-
dous wastes, and encouraging, in-
itiating and directing joint
academic-industry research.
The need for a center is clear,
Kemble said.
“There is no single institution in
Texas, or apparently the nation, ex-
amining in full spectrum, treatment,
storage, destruction and disposed
alternatives,” he said. “Major cor-
porations are by and large good
citizens, but naturally focus
research on their own by-products
and how to dispose of them within
existing laws with the least expense.
“They generally do not share their
See WASTE, page 6
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related story and photos, page 5.
Photo by LINDA ECKOLS
Ultra-light scheme stopped
Federal officials uncover plot
Bookstore employee injured
By LYRA KATENA
UP staff writer
A temporary Lamar Bookstore
employee was injured by a brick
falling through the store’s ceiling
Tuesday morning.
Margaret Solano of Beaumont was
working at the time she was knocked
down by a brick which fell through
the ceiling of the store, located in the
east end of the Setzer Student
Center, Albert Pinto, store
manager, said.
The brick fell as workmen were
reroofing the structure.
Because the store had a steady
flow of customers, as is usual during
registration, bookstore employees
immediately informed construction
workers of the accident and asked
that they stop work because of the
possibility of additional injuries.
“They shouldn’t be working on it
(the roof) because of the rush here,”
a cashier said.
At the time of the accident,
workers were repairing the water
pipes above the ceiling.
“They’ve been working on one
area for a couple of days,” an
employee said. “They’re rough up
there, and they’re really loud.”
A spokesperson with Sabine In-
dustry Inc., the company in charge
of the repairing of the roof, refrained
from commenting on the issue. “I
want to decline all comments until
everything is all cleared,” he said.
Solano, suffering from a minor in-
jury, was taken to St. Elizabeth
Hospital’s emergency room, and
treated and released the same day,
Mary Hooks, public relations
spokesperson, said.
Solano was hesitant to discuss the
accident. “I don’t really want to talk
about it. It just happened when it
didn’t have to,” she said.
This was1 not the first incident of
debris falling from the roof through
the SSC ceiling. Two weeks ago,
molten tar seeped through a heating
vent and splattered three layout
tables and the floor in the University
Press composing room.
The tar also ruined 275 University
Press grid sheets which were to be
used in page makeup of the paper.
“The tar seeping through the
heating vent certainly inconvenienc-
ed us,” Howard Perkins, director of
student publications, said. “For-
tunately, this inconvenience was
minimized since we were not
publishing on a regular basis.
“We were, however, compiling the
Howdy Week issue. The roofing com-
pany cleaned up the tar and has pro-
mised to reimburse us for the cost of
the grid sheets.”
DALLAS (UPI) - Federal officials
confirmed they investigated two
alleged plots to attack the
Republican National Convention -
including one scheme involving an
ultra-light airplane - and had ar-
rested two groups of Mideast
students in connection with the pro-
be, the Dallas Times-Herald
reported today.
The Times-Herald said federal of-
ficials had confirmed arrests in the
two investigations, but declined to
identify the suspects.
The arrests were believed to in-
clude at least five Palestinian libera-
tion supporters from Syria and
Kuwait, and an undetermined
number of pro-Khomeini Iranians.
The Iranian scheme reportedly in-
volved the use of ultra-light aircraft
to fly into the Dallas Convention
Center. Officials refused to say what
weapons were to be used.
Ultra-light aircraft businesses in
the Dallas area were queried in the
investigation, the Times-Herald
reported.
“They were mostly interested in
the range of our ultra-lights,” said
David English, co-owner of Future
Flite Inc. of nearby Denton. “They
simply wanted to be informed if
anyone was doing any cross-country
flying.”
Officials were vague on whether
the schemes ever actually advanced
beyond casual discussion.
Secret Service agent David Hum-
phrey, who heads the agency’s
Dallas office, said an “intensive in-
vestigation” was launched by his
agency and the FBI.
“There was obviously some infor-
mation we were interested in,”
Humphrey said.
But he said investigators “never
confirmed or substantiated
anything” and it “was substantially
resolved” by the last day of the con-
vention.
Officials said the suspects were
arrested by the Immigration and
Naturalization Service and were be-
ing held for violating the terms of
their student visas, according to the
Times-Herald.
INS district director Ronald
Chandler refused to confirm or deny
the arrests. County jail officials
would not confirm whether the
suspects were being held.
Officials said even after the ar-
rests, concern was strong enough to
warrant changing motorcade routes
and increasing security and
surveillance patterns around the
convention center.
Dallas Deputy Police Chief
William Newman, who was in
charge of convention center securi-
ty, said the threats were “against
the president indirectly and against
convention and convention-related
activities directly.”
“Some of the threats and informa-
tion were cause for serious concern,
but they were all resolved satisfac-
torily,” Newman said.
Officials said the convention
security plan provided for cover
against air attack, the Times-Herald
reported.
History of labor reflects importance of hard clay’s work
By ELAINE BUTLER
UP staff writer
“I hear America singing,” wrote
19th century poet Walt Whitman as a
fledging country toiled industriously
to expand from sea to sea.
Whitman’s poem, strong and flow-
ing with the spirit of working people,
exhorts the belief that the backbone
of a free country is its workers.
f From the very beginning of col-
onization in the New World, the need
for workers was recognized. In 1609,
Capt. John Smith, a founder of the
Jamestown colony in Virginia, wrote
the London Company which had
financed the expedition that
established the settlement, “When
you send again, I entreat you rather
send but 30 carpenters, husband-
men, gardeners, fishermen, masons
and diggers of tree roots, well pro-
vided, than a thousand such as we
have..."
The reason for the request was
that the original colonists consisted
of gentlemen adventurers whose
hands had never touched a saw, axe
or hammer. Because of this, the col-
ony suffered undue hardships and
their future was very bleak.
Smith knew that those who “lived
by the sweat of their brow" were go-
ing to be the ones who would keep
the colony from perishing in the
wilderness—not the elegant dandies
of London society.
The day early man discovered
that, by laboring, he could raise
himself a niche above the other
animals with whom he had to fight
for survival, was the day he
discovered the worth of his ex-
istence.
In the earliest stages of human
development, allocation of work
revolved around food gathering,
first flora and then later, fauna.
Within each small group, the most
obvious division of labor was bet-
ween age and sex. Here, man fast
learned that he could relegate his
workload to someone else and still
be able to “reap” its profits for
himself.
However, because survival was
too precarious, everyone had to do
even a minimum amount of work
whether it was having children
gather nuts and berries or those who
had lost their agility prepare the
food and create the living quarters.
As groups tended to band together,
the division of labor shifted and
through it came the first division of
classes. The more aggressive
became leaders who, along with the
workers, came to depend on mystics
who interpreted life for them. Within
the workers, specialization began to
separate potters from weavers and
farmers from makers of metal tools
and weapons.
By the time the Neolithic Age had
rolled around, the laborers had
refined themselves with each new
technological discovery so that the
development of traders and
transport workers was well under-
way.
No longer confined to his little spot
of the world, agriculture knowhow
providing more food and copper-bas-
ed tools and weapons in his lands,
man found that, by 3000 B.C., his
concentration on building cities
could also build him power in the
Near, Middle and Far East.
Labor became even more
specialized as did the classes of
man. Mystics strengthed their posi-
tions as priests with a full regalia of
followers. Leaders divided into
various groupings of nobility and the
warrior class became a full-fledged
member of society.
As the ruling groups grew
wealthy, their needs became more
sophisticated, creating new talent in
the labor froce. There emerged
clerks, scribes, mathematicians,
lawyers, accountants—all necessary
to keep track of the households who
considered themselves the elite.
General markets firmly establish-
ed themselves by the time the
Roman Empire had reached its
height of prosperity. This meant that
products were readily available for
immediate purchase by the
customers.
However, the breakup of the Em-
pire saw the European continent
thrown into social and economic
chaos and commerce came to an
almost absolute halt. For a com-
munity to survive, man had to
refocus his labor efforts. Instead of
specialist, jack-of-all-trades came
into being. Conditions of life remain-
ed at a low ebb for several centuries.
With the drying up of trade, the
cities virtually disappeared. Instead
people sought security and
sustenance in a rural culture.
However, as the medieval labor
market tightened, motivation came
into being to search for labor-saving
technology, especially regarding
more effective use of animal power.
There was even a new class
established with the invention of the
stirrup during Charles Martel’s
time.
The stirrup, combined with the
high pommeled saddle, created the
armored knight and thus a new divi-
sion of labor class for the feudal
system. „ _ _
See LABOR, page 6
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Foster, Donna. University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, August 31, 1984, newspaper, August 31, 1984; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth500492/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.