Ehrlich outlines population trouble
Ehrlich talks with press
Paul Ehrlich, KU alumnus,
reiterated to the press what he
had said earlier in his speech
Tuesday night in Allen Field
House.
Officer saves toe
WICHITA (UPI) — Motorcycle Patrolman Ray Hartley couldn't believe it Monday when a woman motorist flagged him down during rush hour traffic.
Handing him a human toe, she demanded: "Get this to Wesley Hospital as quick as you can!"
Hartley did and doctors sewed the toe back on the foot of 2-year-old Heather Hedrick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hedrick.
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Light travels at the rate of about 186,282 miles per second.
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It's more food than the people can sell." The prices of goods directly effect their consumption in underdeveloped countries, he said.
The "green revolution," a plan to grow more food of the same types of crops produced today by using the best strains, will not be successful, he said. The revolution would only increase the suffering and possibly very temporarily postpone the crisis, Ehrlich said.
One of the problems with agriculture today, Ehrlich said, is the farmer substitutes a more complex pattern of plant life which is more stable, for a simpler pattern of plant life in which one plant is grown over a large
area producing a very unstable pattern.
Ehrlich compared the pollution of the earth to a complex computer. He said "We are pulling transistors out at random. We can't tell when the whole thing will drag to a halt, but ecologists can say that if the practice continues, it will stop."
The planet has gradually been cooling off, Ehrlich said, a "veil of pollutions covering the entire planet."
He said in 1816 a volcano erupted and covered the atmosphere with so much pollution that, in that year there was no summer in the Northern Hemisphere. This could happen again he added.
"You all are an experiment by the Petro-Chemical Company."
Blackmun visits Senators
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Judge Harry A. Blackmun made dozens of courtesy calls in the Senate Tuesday on the eve of hearings on his nomination as President Nixon's third choice for the Supreme Court vacancy.
Blackmun, meantime, won the endorsement of the American Bar Association's Committee on the Federal Judiciary, and his home state senators predicted he would be a shoo-in for confirmation.
The · ABA committee said Blackmun, a member of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, had met "high standards of professional competence, temperament and integrity"—a phrase denoting no reservations about the nominee.
On one point that led to Senate rejection of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth Jr.-Nixon's first nominee-Lawrence E. Walsh of New York, the ABA committee chairman, said questions about
Blackmun's finance holdings had been carefully considered.
"His stock holdings are so small that in our opinion he violated no statute or canon," Walsh said in a letter to Sen. James O. Eastland, D-Miss., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The committee starts confirmation hearings Wednesday with Blackmun as its first witness.
Blackmun, dressed in a brown suit and loafers with briefcase in hand, roamed Senate corridors to meet personally with key senators.
"You look like a candidate," said Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, D-Minn., as he viewed the entourage of newsmen and photographers following the judge.
Sen. Walter F. Mondale, D-Minn., said he did not believe Blackmun's financial situation would alter "the basic disposition to confirm this man" because Blackmun had made a full and willing disclosure of his holdings.
he said. They are seeing what happens to chlorinated hydrocarbons in the body over extended periods of time. He said the problem with using pesticides is that it may take 30 years to show their effects.
One of the best pollution control systems introduced was in London, he said, when they prohibited the burning of hard coal which was a main source of pollution and caused several deaths. The banning of this type of burning cleaned up the London air considerably.
The nation needs a President that will say, "No one drives or builds a large automobile," Ehrlich said.
Ehrlich said most foreign countries are still looking toward America as a leader. "If we can show the underdeveloped countries that the average life of the average American is going to kill the American off," he said, "you'll be amazed how fast they will switch their opinions. He said if the U.S. bans pesticides because of their
harmful effects you won't find any underdeveloped countries buying pesticides either.
The U.S. and the Soviet Union must get off their "cowboy economy" he said and face up to the facts of the crisis of pollution, population and the dwindling supply of natural resources.
In response to whether ne thought the amount of money spent on the space program was justified Ehrlich replied, "Most certainly not. The cost in resources is far beyond their worth," he added.
Ehrlich said some politicians are only "mouthing the words" while others really want to do something about it. He said much of the popularity will wear off, but what he is concerned about is getting programs started which will continue.
In reference to some politicians whom he feels are not helping the problem he said, "You have a state senator who could use some opposition."
Confidence appeal coming in speech
WASHINGTON (UPI)—President Nixon will address the nation soon on the present economic situation, the White House said Tuesday on a day when stock prices on Wall Street plunged to their lowest point since President John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
Presidential spokesman Gerald L. Warren told newsmen that Nixon believes his economic policies are working and "feels that the American people should share that confidence."
Warren spoke about John L. Spafford of Houston, Tex., president of the Society of Association Executives, spent 35 minutes with Nixon in a courtesy call and emerged to tell newsmen that the President would make a major address within the next two weeks urging Americans to have faith in their economy.
The Dow-Jones industrial average dropped 10.82 points Tuesday to 724.33, the lowest level since Nov. 22, 1963, the day Kennedy was assassinated. For 19 straight sessions, the number of declines in listed stocks has exceeded advances by a substantial margin.