The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 31, 1974 Page: 1 of 20
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Kurt Waldheim to visit city in "UN Comes to Texas"
Houston will be the first city
outside New York to host a
meeting of United Nations digni-
taries, including the Secretary-
General, Kurt Waldheim, when a ,
group visit here November 9 for
a one-day program at the Univer-
sity of Houston entitled "The
United Nations Comes to
Texas."
The program is a public
forum on issues facing the world
community: economic develop-
ment, the law of the sea, world
population, world food and the
status of women. Accomoda-
tions are limited and tickets are
now available from the Houston
Chapter, United Nations Associ-
ation, 2813 Westheimer, or from
the University of Houston.
In addition to Waldheim, the
visiting United Nations contin-
gent will include John Scali, Per-
manent Representative of the
United States to the United
Nations; F. Bradford Morse,
Under-Secretary General for
Political and General Assembly
Affairs of the U. N.; Constantin
Stavropoulos, Under-Secretary -
General, Special Representative
of the Secretary General at the
Law of the 'Sea; Hon. John
Norton Moore, Chairman,
National Security Council Inter-
agency Task Force on the Law
of the Sea; Rafael Salas, Execu-
tive Director, Unfted Nations
Fund for Population Activities;
and Mrs. Helvi Sipila, Assistant
Secretary-General, Secretary
General for International
Women's Year.
Morse is the keynote speaker
for the morning session,
"Economic Development: New
Priorities for the Future," in
Cullen Auditorium. Also fea-
tured will be a panel of experts
in the field of economic develop-
ment. Audience participation
will be encouraged.
Secretary-General Waldheim
and Ambassador Scali will be
speakers at a luncheon at the
University Center at 2:30 pm.
Louie Welch, former mayor and
now president of the Houston
Chamber of Commerce, will
preside.
Beginning at 2:30 pm three
concurrent seminars on the
theme, "A New Budget for the
Earth's Resources," will be con-
ducted in the Continuing Edu-
cation Center. Under-Secretary
General Stavropoulos will head
the panel considering "Three-
quarters of the Earth's Surface:
The UN Conference on the Law
of the Sea." Salas will lead
"Balancing the Equation: UN
Conference on World Population
and World Food"; and Sipila will
speak on "A New Dimension for
Human Resources: International
Women's Year, 1975." Each ses-
sion will feature panel discussion
Registration for morning
session, luncheon and afternoon
seminar of one's choice is
$10.00 or $5.00 for students.
Luncheon capacity is set for
1,200 and seminars to 350 per-
sons each. The registration fee
includes a packet of materials.
Panelists for the seminar have
not yet been finalized.
Mayor Fred Hofheinz is
honorary chairman of the day-
long event. L. F. McCollum is
chairman, and N. W. Freeman
and Welch are co-chairmen.
According to a United
Nations Association spokesman,
the Houston program is the first
in a series of planned annual
visits by UN dignitaries to
American cities. Houston was
selected for the first program
because of "its increasingly
international character as a port,
medical center, corporate head-
quarters city, and site of mission
control for space exploration."
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Recycling Center success spawns imitations
" With much fanfare and high
hopes, two years ago Rice
opened its own Recycling Cen-
ter, using student labor to
demonstrate the feasibility of
the recycling concept.
Part of" the success of this
demonstration could be seen
when the city hired Duane
Marks, former student and direc-
tor of the center, to work on
developing the city's own recy-
cling project.
The Rice Recycling Center,
located next to the old football
stadium, has been in operation
since November 1972. Collec-
tion bins for newspapers and
cans are situated in the colleges
and other places on campus. The
Center itself is open Sunday
afternoons from 2 pm to 5 pm.
Recyclable material can be
deposited in collection bins next
to the Center at other times if
you are unable to come during
those hours. All members of the
Rice community and people
living near campus are encour-
aged to make use of this facility.
Currently, approximately
eight tons of newpapers and
magazines, five tons of scrap
paper, 700 pounds of aluminum,
steel, and bimetal cans, and
1500 pounds of glass are
processed each week. These col-
lected "solid wastes" are then
sold to Houston companies who
reenter them into the economy
%
as raw materials. With the result-
ing revenue (about $40/wk.), the
Center finances three part time
jobs at the Center, improve-
ments and other expenses of the
operation.
The following are guidelines
for the items the Center can han-
dle; they are not merely for con-
venience since many are imposed
by the companies who purchase
the materials. Your cooperation
will be greatly appreciated.
PAPER — Please bundle or
sack papers for convenience in
loading and unloading. Grocery
bags are ideal for this purpose.
Phone books and catalogs are all
right loose.
Since magazines are printed
on glossy paper, they must be
separated and bundled or
sacked.
Cardboard boxes are valuable;
they are easier to handle if they
are flattened.
CANS - The Center will
accept any kind of aluminum,
steel, or bimetal can. The alumi-
num cans must be separated from
others. They are easily recog-
nized because they have no seam
on the side and because of their
light weight. At present some
brands of beer come in alumi-
num cans, but no soft drinks do
anymore. It is not necessary to
remove the label on food cans,
but it is requested that they be
rinsed out to prevent odor and
roaches. Other forms of alumi-
num, such as aluminum foil and
pie pans, etc., are welcome.
GLASS — Glass must be
separated in colored (including
opaque white) and clear, and it
is absolutely necessary to re-
move metallic bands and cans
such as those on quart-size soft
drink bottles. These and lids to
jars may be added to the meta'
bin.
Vinyl chloride warning is issued
A recent TexPIRG "Con-
sumer Alert" urges individuals to
avoid vinyl chloride in aerosol
sprays since the chemical has
been associated with a rare form
of liver cancer. Fifteen percent
of the aerosol containers pro-
duced in the last five years used
vinyl chloride as a propellant.
Statistics derived from the
health records of workers at
chemical plants handling vinyl
chloride demonstrated the chem-
ical's potential danger.
As a result, the Food and
Drug Administration, the US
Consumer Product Safety Com-
mission, and the Environmental
Protection Agency have taken
steps to remove aerosols contain-
ing vinyl chloride from the
marketplace. The aerosol ban
went into effect on Oct. 7 and
the Consumer Product Safety
—john COOk Commission ordered retailers to
post lists of those aerosols they
sold that contained vinyl chlor-
ide. Some aerosols must be re-
purchased by retailer.
However, because of statu-
tory differences in the laws per-
taining to the FDA, EPA, and
the Commission, not all aerosols
fall under the re-purchase order.
While aerosols such as cleaners,
dryers, and spray paints fall
under the re-purchase order,
others such as insecticides, pesti-
cides, deodorants and hair sprays
do not.
TexPIRG urges you to check
your aerosols against the lists of
aerosols posted by the stores
you patronize. If the store will
not show you a list of aerosols
that contain vinyl chloride, con-
tact the Consumer Product
Safety Commission toll free in
Washington, DC, bv dialing
1-800-638-2666.
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Brewton, Gary. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 31, 1974, newspaper, October 31, 1974; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245207/m1/1/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.