Parley centers
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50th Production
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FRIDAY
Dec. 5
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SATURDAY
Dec. 6
1 :30 and 8 P.M.
By PAT MAHONEY
The Supersonic Transport (SST) is
same if their citizens complain, Solomon
that "will make the public aware of
noise as they have never been aware be-
fore," says mechanical engineering Prof.
Louis Solomon.
Solomon spoke at an air, water and
noise pollution conference sponsored by
ten Michigan and Ohio universities at
Chrysler Center on North Campus last
weekend.
Noise pollution will result from the
SST, Solomon claimed, because it pro-
duces a jarring thunderclap, the sonic
boom, while it is traveling faster than
the speed of sound.
Although the SST has been prohibited
from crossing U.S. land areas at super-
sonic speed, Solomon said flying over
oceans is unprofitable and economic
pressures will force flights over land
masses.
"The effects on the population will be
disastrous," Solomon said. On a New
York to Los Angeles flight, 20 million
people will hear a sonic boom and large
numbers of windows will be blown out,
he added. Airlines expect to receive $1
million a day in damage claims when
SST's begin flying.
In 1964, the Federal Aviation Agency
tested the effects of the sonic boom in
Oklahoma City. At the end of the test
period, Solomon said, 20 per cent of the
people affected by the boom said they
could not learn to live with them. The
sound became more irritating toward the
end of the test period.
Several nations are concerned about
noise pollution. Canada has banned the
SST over its p'ovinces and Switzerland
and Germany have pledged to do the
same if their citizens complain, Solomon
said.
Any individual "sustaining damages
caused by pollution may redress his
rights through a civil lawsuit," said
Thomas M. Schmitz, a Cleveland at-
torney, who also addressed the confer-
ence. Schmitz said the right to a clean
environment is one of the unnamed
rights in the Constitution.
To collect damages an individual must
indicate who caused the pollution, show
that the injury received was greater than
an inconvenience and "provide a corre-
lation between the wrongful pollution
and the injury sustained."
Schmitz said courts will no longer
tolerate pollution practices especially if
they can be remedied. "Damages, in-
cluding punitive damages, are allowed,
and in the proper circumstances an in-
junction may be obtained against the
operation causing pollution."
On Friday, a Wayne County Circuit
Court jury awarded 23 Detroit residents
$53,613 in damages for air pollution in
the first case of its kind in the country.
The residents sued the Budd Company,
a manufacturer of auto wheels and
brakes, charging the firm's smoke emis-
sions had impaired their health and
damaged the paint on their homes and
cars.
Within a year, Macomb, Oakland, St.
Clair and Wayne counties will have air
quality standards developed by state and
local authorities.
Morton Sterling, Director of Detroit-
Wayne County Air Pollution Control
Agencises, explained that the Detroit
metropolitan area now has source emis-
mision standards specifying how much
pollution may come from each stack or
polluter.
Although Congress, state and local
governments may pass laws controlling
pollution, enforcement is often difficult.
In a keynote address to the confer-
ence, George Harlow, director of the
Lake Erie Basin Office of the Federal
Water Pollution Control Administration,
said a "massive" water quality system
will be needed to make sure industries
and cities comply with water standards.
Since 1965, $100 million worth of air
pollution control equipment has been in-
stalled or scheduled for installation in
Michigan factories, assistant chief of
the Division of Occupational Health
Bernard D. Bloomfield said,
The U of M G & S Society is in the process of selecting staff for the coming semes-
ter. Any interested persons are invited to apply before Nov, 30.
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THE UNITED STATES AND SOVIET UNION have almost
completed their ratification of a treaty to prevent the spread of
nuclear weapons.
In the next 10-14 days the document must be formally deposited
in Washington; London, or Moscow, or in all three capitals.
The treaty committee the three powers to refrain from giving other
countries nuclear weapons, control over such weapons, or assistance
in their development. Nonnuclear nations acceding to the pact are
not to acquire a nuclear arsenal.
40 nonnuclear nations and three nuclear are required to sign the
pact to put it into effect.
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TASS issued a criticism in Moscow of the United States,
citing what it called rising American arms expenditures in the
second week of the U.S.-Soviet strategic arms limitation talks,
(SALT).
Though the criticism was mild, it could be significant because the
two powers had been refraining from polemics and trying to promote
good will.
The official Soviet news agency charged that the "imperialist
states" - a reference to the United States - are imposing the con-
tinuation of the arms race. Tass maintained that the Soviet govern-
ment, in contrast, was seeking an end.
U.S. sources in Helsinki declined comment iti keeping with their,
policy to avoid disputes with the Russians.
A CALIFORNIA NARCOTICS OFFICIAL said yesterday
marijuana should be placed under the same type of control
that exists for alcohol.
Weldon H. Smith, coordinator for narcotics programs for the
California Department of Correction, said there is growing evidence
that for persons from 14 to 30 marijuana use "pervades almost every
sector of our society."
Smith said he did not urge complete legalization of marijuana,
"as this is construed as open license for use by anyone in any
situation with no restrictions or penalties."
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THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION said yesterday
tires of four leading manufacturers failed government sponsored
safety tests at a 25 per cent rate.
The 120 tests to check company-certified safety compliance
showed 30 failures involving endurance, high speed performance and
strength.
A spokesman for the tire industry said that "fragmentary reports
on a few early tests can give a very misleading and distorted view
of the over-all situation."
The government has taken no action against any of the four
companies which include Goodyear, B.F. Goodrich, Armstrong Rub-
ber and Firestone.
The Department of Transportation emphasized that test failures
do not necessarily mean violation of federal standards, and test suc-
cesses do not establish compliance.
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Nixon signs treaty
President Nixon signs the nuclear nonproliferation treaty as Sec-
retary of State Rogers looks on. Russian officials took similar
action yesterday. Approval by 43 nations is required to make the
treaty effective.
RESIDENCE RULES:
Court dismisses case
By The Associated Press
The Apollo 12 lunar explor-
ers splashed down in the
South Pacific yesterday, cli-
maxing a 10-day moon voyage
t h a t should vastly enrich
man's knowledge.
Charles "P et e" Conrad Jr.,
Richard F. Gordon Jr. and Alan
I. Bean hit the water aft er a
fiery re-entry through the earth's
atmosphere. During the re-entry,
which started with the spaceship
Yankee Clipper streaking for
homeat 24,600 miles per hour, the
temperature on the protective
heat shield reached 5,000 degrees.
Parachutes slowed the speed for
splashdown.
T h e splashdown ended man's
second flight to the surface of
the moon. In making a pinpoint
landing on the Ocean of Storms,
Conrad and Bean opened the way
for future Apollo teams to fly in-
to lunar mountains and craters,
where touchdowns are a must.
Theastronauts also returned to
earth two treasure chests and a
bag filled with between 80 and 90
pounds of lunar rocks and soil,
The samples w e r e better docu-
mented and more carefully select-
ed than those brought back by the
Apollo 11 moonwalkers in July.
Apollo 12 is also bringing back
pieces of an unmanned Surveyor
spacecraft that landed on the
moon 21/ years ago.
Conrad, Gordon and Bean were
to be taken by helicopter to the
aircraft carrier Hornet and placed
in quarantine in a sealed trailer
below decks.
Conrad and Bean also took hun-
dreds of pictures which scientists
value as documented data about
the lunar surface and its environ-
ment.
During their first moon walk,
the pair established a science sta-
tion powered by atomic energy.
It is expected to send data to
earth for a year and has already
beamed readings which have
puzzled and intrigued scientists.
After 31%?l hours on the moon's
surface,. Conrad and Bean rejoined
Gordon in the command ship or-
biting the moon. Together they
spent a full day photographing
future lunar landing sites and
gathering data to help other as-
tronauts land at sites scientists
find interesting.
The Intrepid was deliberately
crashed on the moon's surface and
a seismometer in the science sta-
tion sent back readings on the im-
pact for 50 minutes. Scientists
said the moon apparently vibrated
Like a bell, a phenomena they still
are unable to explain.
Quarantine of the Apollo 12
crew technically began the moment
Conrad and Bean left the moon.
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