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64TH YEAR NO. 69
Texas Daily
Formerly The Campus Chat
NORTH TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY. DENTON. TEXAS
WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 10, 1971
California Quake Takes Toll: 24 Dead, 54 Missing
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LOS ANGELES (AP) A powerful
earthquake staggered Southern California
Tuesday, leaving at least 24 dead and forc-
ing the start of evacuation of as many as
250,000 people because of a leaking dam.
Nearly five hundred people were treated
for injuries at various hospitals in and
around Los Angeles. Seven of the fatali-
ties were caused by heart attacks.
Property damage was extensive as walls
collapsed, streets buckled and caved in and
windows were shattered in the heavily popu-
lated areas around Los Angeles, the nation's
third largest city.
IN WASHINGTON, President Nixon
issued a formal declaration of a major dis-
aster, opening the way for help for the
stricken area from more than a dozen gov-
ernment agencies. Vice President Spiro
T. Agnew will go to the area Wednesday
for consultations.
The 6:01 a.m. shock hit hardest at hos-
pital buildings in the heavily populated San
Fernando Valley just 10 miles from the
quake center in the San Gabriel Moun-
tains.
Authorities said seven bodies were found
at the Veterans Administration Hospital
in Sylmar, where two old buildings were
leveled. Fifty-four persons were reported
unaccounted for by authorities. Officials
emphasi/ed this did not mean they neces-
sarily were victims.
Three others were killed when a wall
collapsed at Olive View Sanitarium, a new
S23-million complex a mile away.
One man was killed in the collapse of a
Los Angeles skid row mission and another
was crushed by a falling freeway bridge.
Senate Approves Bill
To Call Student Strike
In a vote of 12 to 7 with 3 abstentions,
the USNT Senate Tuesday night gave its
support to a bill calling for a one day stu-
dent strike and rally Feb. 17. The strike
is to "educate the people as to the purpose
of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia."
The bill, which was introduced by Herb
Ninness, Pittsburgh, Pa., junior, said "the
United States has invaded Laos in the form
of air support for 9,000 South Vietnamese
troops," which "has led to the heaviest
bombing in the history of modern war-
NINNF.SS ALSO wrote that "the Agen-
cy for International Development has es-
timated that 30,000 people have been killed
in Laos. . and the General Accounting
Office found that almost 50 per cent of the
funds allocated by the Agency for Interna-
tional Development for village health pro-
grams in Laos were being used to support
CIA military activities."
Mark McDonald, Dallas graduate stu-
dent, said he supported the bill.
"They've invaded Laos the U.S. has
done it again. Draft calls for January and
February have gone up to 17,000 a month.
Vietnami/ation is not happening. The pull
out is not happening," he said. "We're in
Laos in violation of the Geneva court.
There is not enough information out on the
subject and we need more."
A senator moved for passage of the bill
by acclamation but the motion was defeat-
ed by seven dissenting votes.
A second bill passed by the senate, au-
thored by Steve Muncy, Krum freshman,
and introduced by McDonald, called for
the formation of a USNT committee to
work for the defeat of a bill for increasing
out-of-state tuition.
MUNCY SAID Texas "is a little back-
ward when it's afraid to let people come in
from out-of-state. . . . We try to attract
tourists," he concluded, "so why not try to
attract students'.'"
Louis Swaab, Dallas junior, proposed
that senators contribute funds to send tele-
grams to the Texas state senators urging
defeat of the bill now in the Texas senate.
In other business, the senate:
• Approved the Earth Day Hill, which
called for "the University to authorize
absences for three senators to attend the
Feb. 17 meeting in Austin concerning the
environment."
• Approved a bill calling for the estab-
lishment of a two-part geology course with
each part counting four hours toward com-
pleting the requirements for a laboratory
science.
• Sent to the Student Right Commit-
tee a bill calling for "all North Texas dor-
mitories to be converted to facilitate and
accomodate coed housing arrangements
by summer of 1971." The bill described
North Texas' housing regulations as "ar-
chaic, anachronistic and discriminatory."
Valerie Edwards, Mesquite freshman,
announced there w ill be an Farth Day meet-
ing Feb. 17 in Austin. A luncheon will be
held with Texas legislators, and a discus-
sion will follow on the environmental prob-
lems in Texas. The initial meeting of the
group will be at 9 a.m. in the First Metho-
dist Church across from the Capitol build-
ing.
It was also announced that Delta Sigma
I beta will sponsor a dance on the third
floor of the Union Building Saturday from
10 p.m. to I p.m.
Splashdown
About fifteen students took advantage of the TV room on the third floor of
the Union Building to watch Apollo 14 splash down in the South Pacific
yesterday Astronauts were brought aboard the USS New Orleans safely.
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Apollo Comes Home
Astronauts Install Science Station
Center Collects Supplies
For Denton Fire Victims
The People's Community C enter, 1512
W Hickory, is collecting clothing and
other items for the victims of the Jan. 31
lire at 219 Carroll St
Three of the nine victims of the fire that
caused $25,000 in damages are students
at North Texas. They are Ben Johnston,
Tulsa, Okla., junior; Gerald Blow, Arling-
ton junior; and David Wood, Amarillo
junior.
A spokeswoman for the center said blan-
kets, pillows, pots, pans, glasses, silverware,
plates and cooking utensils are needed.
Elections Board Validates
USNT Senators' Petitions
Nine students have been seated as USNT
senators this semester after validation of
their petitions by the Flections Board.
Five of the students are freshmen: Nancy
Harner of Denison; Alan Whittaker of De
Soto; Gary Trebert of Simsbury, Conn .
Sisie Square of Tyler: and Valerie l dwards
of Mesquite.
I wo graduate students Candy C hest-
nut of Dallas and Harry Ray of Fort Worth
also have been seated. Sophomores Jean-
ne Brazil of Mineral Wells and Sara Taub-
man of Austin are other senators.
Students wishing to serve as senators
this semester must return completed peti-
tions to the USNT office, Room 305 of I he
Union Building, by today, Miss
I rietsch said.
Faculty Senate To Hear
Committee Reports Today
Committee reports will be at the head of
the Faculty Senate agenda when its monthly
meeting convenes in the Forum Room
of the Speech and Drama Building today
at 3 p.m.
The Committee on Committee Nomina-
tions and the Charter and By-laws Com-
mittee will present reports to the senators.
The Committee on Committee Nomina-
tions will request that the Faculty Senate
elect members to fill vacancies on various
standing-committees.
An amendment to the Faculty Senate
Charter will be presented by the Charter
and By-laws Committee for the seating of
three representatives from the Graduate
Student Council,
ABOARD USS NEW ORLFANS
(AP) Apollo 14 astronauts splashed
safely down on target in the South Pacific
and were brought aboard this carrier Tues-
day after completing man's most success-
ful moon mission.
Astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr.. Stuart
A. Roosa and Fdgar D. Mitchell returned
to earth with scientists already hailing
their nine-day , l. 15-million-mile lunar
voyage as the most successful of man's
three moon landings.
"We're all line in here," Shepard said,
seconds after the craft hit the water.
"Welcome home," the carrier radioed.
"Thank you. sir," came the quick re
ply.
THREE HUGE orange and white para-
chutes blossomed within sight of this prime
recovery ship and the spacecraft dropped
smoothly toward the warm Polynesian
waters.
Shepard and Mitchell were back front a
33' : -hour visit to the moon, a visit that
will provide data to science lor years. V\ hilt-
there, they set up an atomic-powered sci-
ence station which is already giving out
information. They also gathered geolo-
gically valuable rocks.
Helicopters were deployed to bring the
astronauts to the recovery ship.
Shepard said, in a news conference from
space, the mission was "a smashing suc-
cess" and scientists on earth agreed.
"We are extremely pleased with the
scientific job they did," Lee R Scherer,
director of Apollo lunar exploration, said
Although Shepard and Mitchell failed
to reach the rim of a wide, deep crater as
planned, scientists said they apparently
came close enough.
THE MOON WALKERS collected 95
pounds of rock which may include samples
dating from the very birth of the moon
4.(i billion years ago. They gathered the
rocks from the Fra Mauro highland region
that may have been blasted from the moon's
bedrock by the impact of some ancient
meteorite.
More than 100 scientists will receive the
rock samples, and the studies of the age.
composition and magnetic properties of the
material should give clues as to how the
moon and perhaps the solar system itself
were formed.
The astronauts also set up a moon science
station, which is already sending valuable
data to earth. Scientists have so far re-
ceived hours of readings from a seismo-
meter left at I ra Mauro. An observatory
has already bounced a laser beam off of a
reflector set up on the moon by Shepard
and Mitchell.
The astronauts face IX days of isolation
on earth. They will ride in the mobile quar-
antine facility, a trailer-like isolation van.
halfway around the world and then go into
another isolation facility at the Lunar Re-
ceiving Laboratory at the Space Center
near Houston.
The isolation is to protect earth crea-
tures from any germs the astronauts may
have contracted while on the moon. No
such germs were found during the moon
landings of Apollo II and Apollo 12 but
scientists fear the moon highlands where
Apollo 14 landed may harbor bacteria not
found on the flat lunar plain where the
other two landings were made
The rocks will also go into quarantine
in the Space Center. Scientists there will
open the boxes and bags containing the
moon material in chambers sealed against
the outer world.
SEISMOLOGISTS placed the quake's
center 26 miles northwest ol downtown
Los Angeles and blamed the San Gabriel
fault, a boomerang-shaped crack in the
earth
The jolting first shock, followed by liter-
ally hundreds of smaller aftershocks, struck
hardest at the Los Angeles commuting area
in the San Fernando Valley, with a popula-
tion of 1.3 million. Also seriously hit were
the towns of Newhall and Saugus. with an
area population of 70,000, also within 10
miles of the center
The earth-filled dam of Van Norman
Lake at the valley's west end suffered verti-
cal cracks and some leaking of its (>.7 billion
gallons of water, the city's largest store.
Hundreds of families were evacuated and of-
ficials began draining the lake
The county's nearly seven million resi-
dents were asleep or preparing lor the day
when the shock came sudden shakes for
those close, a strong rolling motion for those
more distant.
Indescribable confusion ensued. Resi-
dents awoke to find their beds tossing like
ships at sea. Windows shattered, furniture
Hipped over, chimneys crumbled, pictures
on walls and dishes on shelves crashed,
roads were torn and crumpled, bridges
collapsed. On some old structures roofs
fell in and walls fell outward Major free-
ways were blocked
SCORES OF FIRES broke out as gas
mains ruptured. A few streets were flooded
due to water main breaks Power was
knocked out in many areas, along with tele-
phone service.
Firemen and utility workers quickly
brought most situations under control
Evacuation centers were set up in the sal-
ley. All schools were closed.
But at the devastated hospitals the scene
was one of tragedy as rescuers combed rub-
lie for bodies and injured.
The Veterans \dministration facility
had 80 patients in three wards in the col-
lapsed buildings. More than 100 firemen,
backed up by doctors from other hospitals,
worked to ease the pain of those trapped
and injured Helicopters airlifted the vic-
tims to other hospitals.
Bob Dutton, 44. a patient on the third
floor, said he was in a wheel chair due to a
bad back but when the quake hit "I learned
to walk. I jumped for the door and when
I reached the hall and turned around to look
back there was nothing there just wide-
open space, It looked like someone had
sliced the building."
AT Ol IV E VIEW Sanitarium, Dr
John D. Arberberry, 42, said he was in the
emergency room giving oxygen to an asth-
ma patient when "The building shook like-
it was being rung by the neck. We were all
knocked to our knees " The doors jammed,
and they crawled out through a hole in a
wall, he said.
There were more then 600 patients in the
800-bed facility. Virtually a total loss were
three five-story sections of the complex
housing rehabilitations rooms
Scientists assigned (he quake a magni-
tude of 6.5 or perhaps a bit more on the
Richter scale, which rates major shocks at
7 or more. It was the strongest quake in this
area since the 1952 tremor in Tehachapi
100 miles north, which had a magnitude of
7.2 and killed 12 persons.
In 1933. a 6.5 magnitude shock in nearby
Long Beach killed 115 persons and caused
S40 million damage. It led to a building
code designed to make structures shock
resistant.
Seismologists said the quake was not the
long-predicted "big one" on the San An-
dreas lault, which traverses the state north-
south Major shocks on the San Vndreas,
such as the devastating 1906 San Francisco
shake, run to magnitudes of 8 or more and
are called "great" earthquakes
First Phase of Carroll Street Work Nearly Complete
Bv TRACY MESLER
Daily Reporter
Nearly one third of the construction of
the first phase of a much needed new north-
south thoroughfare in western Denton is
completed.
The enlarged Carroll Street will be an
all-concrete major artery connecting the
University Drive area with Fort Worth
Drive. It will be six lanes wide with left-
hand turn lanes and medians
The project will be divided into two parts,
norlh and south, with the division coming
at Hickory Street. I he Denton C (immunity
Development Department is in charge of
the Carroll Street North project, and the
State Highway Department is over the
Carroll Street South project.
Other street and highway construction
projects going on in the area include con-
struction in Southeast Denton under the
auspices of the Development Department,
lexas Highway 24 widening under the
direction of the State Highway Department
and construction on the bridge over Garza-
I itlle I Im Reservoir, south of I ake Dal-
las.
I he ( arioll Street Norlh project involves
I miles of total paving covering Henry
and Parkway streets, between North Lo-
cust and Carroll, and Carroll from Hickory
to Henry. It is a SI,022,000 project. Henry
and Parkway will be four-lane, undivided
streets.
"The contractor should start paving in
two to three weeks, and once he starts, the
work will go much faster," Bob Haupt-
mann, director of the department, said. The
project was started Aug. I, 1970, and will
be finished Aug. I, 1971, according to the
original plans
"IT WILL BE the first lully traffic-
actuated street in Denton," Bill Moore,
traffic engineer, said The amount and
llow of traffic will be controlled by the
number of cars on the street as indicated
by counters in the street. It will be a vir-
tually maintainence free system, which can
be incorporated into a master plan.
"There will be five signals, one each
at Congress, Parkway, Hickory and Oak
streets, as well as University Drive," Moore
said. "The cost ol the signaling system is
approximately $109,250."
C arrol will be the first major north-
south street in Denton not to run through a
school zone Plans call for the Carroll-
University Drive intersection to control
traffic on both streets by use of a master
system.
The department hopes to remove some ol
the problems of the I Iniversity Drive-North
l.oeust and University Drive-North Llm
intersections by using Henry and C arroll
to reroute the traffic
"NORTH LOCUST would be made one-
way to Sherman Drive, where the traffic
would stop for the Sherman traffic." Moore
said. "Norlh Elm could be made one-
way south to University Drive from Henry,
and thus give us two to three lanes of traf-
fic to feed into University Drive Henry
would be used to move the traffic from
Norlh Locust over to Carroll."
The property for the extension of Henry
Street, between Bolivar and C arrol streets,
has been bought and cleared The paving
will start with Parkway, then Carroll from
south to north, and finally Henry
"Our main hope lor C arroll Street is to
shuffle much ol the traffic from around
the square over to C arroll and then out to
University Drive, Moore said "It is
also hoped to ease the congestion at I di-
versity Drive and Norlh I ocust and Norlh
Llm "
T HE STATE Highway Department is in
charge of (he Carroll Street South pro-
ject. "We have submitted plans to \ustin
for their approval," Joe Maddux, resident
engineer, said. "We will call a (corridor)
hearing as soon as we have a reply from
Austin." Until then, nothing more can be
done on the approval of all or part of the
plans for the Carroll Street South project.
The southeast Denton project involves
six miles of asphalt paving in the predomin-
antly black section ol the city The
$606,211.08 project is contracted to Jagoc
Public Co., a local firm The work started
in December, 1969, and is now projected
to be completed in May ol this year Seven-
ty -five per cent of the project has been com-
pleted in 50 per cent of the alloted time.
"The pavement is lull-depth asphalt with
concrete curbing," Hauptmann said "ll
is bettei paving than most of the streets
in town. The others have two-to three-
inches of asphalt on a flexible base; this
project is all asphalt "
The project was planned to be done in
six or seven portions with payment for
each separate portion after it had been com-
pleted I he Denton C ity Council voted to
make the fourth payment on Jan. 26.
The Highway 24 construction is from
Malone Street to just beyond Interstate 35
"We have nearly completed the south (east-
bound) section of 24." Maddox said "In
about 30 davs we will move the traffic over
to the south section, tear up the old road
and put the north (westbound) section in "
THE $1,316,577 contract was awarded
to Austin Road Co The new road will be
considerably lower than the old road. " I fie
old road had drainage ditches on both sides
of it; we arc going to have storm sewers."
Maddox said "It will be a lour-lane divid-
ed highway like the rest of the 24 construc-
tion.
"Bonnie Brae Street is open now Of
course, we have to put gravel in to get traf-
fic back up to the old road." Maddox said
I ctor Street and Primrose I ane have been
blocked oil and are being paved
The four lanes will go to just under the
Interstate 35 underpass, where the road
will then narrow back down to two lanes
The construction just west of the under-
pass is also part of the Highway 24 pro-
ject. The Highway Department is letting
a contract to widen the bridges between
Denton and Decatur, bu; there are no plans
to make Highway 24 four lanes wide to
Decatur
I he construction on Interstate 351 over
Garza-I idle I Im Reservoir is far from
complete I he Highwav Department is
building a completely new bridge on the
west side ol the existing one Ml traffic
will be moved to the new bridge when it is
completed, and the old bridge will be re-
worked
THl FINISHED bridge will he tonsid-
erably wider than the existing one It will
have an extra-wide median which can later
be replaced by two more lanes of traffic
and a smaller median This would allow
future construction to widen Interstate
351 to six lanes instead of the existing
four lanes
The two departments are working to
make travel in the Denton area safer than
it has been Carroll Street will remove
extra traflie Irom around school zones in
addition to helping untangle several traf-
fic snarls in Denton,
HTNRN STREFI will len.oM.- conges-
tion Irom the I niversity Drive-North I o-
eust intersection Parkway Street will
reroute eastbound traffic from Hickory
Street and westbound traffic from I ,i\t
McKinnev Street ,w,iv Irom tin square
The Southeast Denton pro),,! •> .vedvd
to gel that area out ol the mud
I lie Highway 24 construction will make
it easier for commuters to travel to and
from Interstate 35 and the northern parts
of Denton
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