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OPINION
Sapulpa Daily Herald
PAGE FOUR
Monday, April 4, 1982
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Ufvermore
Notebook
Herald
Publisher Emeritus
WE MAY not have enough jobs to
go around in this country but we're
never caught short on activities for
the activist
NOW THE tempo hastens to stop
using animals in medical research
suggesting instead to use com-
puters. bacteria, and tissue cultures
in test tubes. Some animal ad-
vocates are mainly concerned about
using dogs and cats to develop new
medical drugs, etc But there's an
increasingly active group arguing
against preforming medical
research on any animal with a sense
of feeling whether it be a rat. a
frog, or a guinea pig'
BUT THIS special group got our
attention even more readily when its
leaders suggested rather than put
these helpless animals to such in-
humane treatment that drugs should
be tested on prisoners or senior
citizens, especially those in nursing
homes'
THE PERISHING thought comes
to mind what if a golden oldie in a
nursing home also has a favorite
pooch'.’ Who goes first the owner or
the dog0
FOR OUR money they can stop all
the argument Take the dogs first,
the cats second, and their owners
next It's our pleasure to be none of
the above.
Berry s World
Tou’re quite the philosopher — Acid ram
beats acid snow, eh?"
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Glenn
Mt-Uasland ___ _ ^,
The Editors (tomer
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Herald
News Editor
DON CHAMBERS has an in-
teresting hobby for an 18-year-old
high school senior
The 130-pound wrestler likes to
cook — especially steaks - and
from all reports, he's pretty good at
ms hobby
Chambers credits his boss, Kay
Shibley. with getting him started
with the hobby, which could turn into
a more professional position if he
continues to improve before the cook
stove
FINDING A high school student —
and a male to boot - who admits he
actually likes kitchen chores is
unusual, but Chambers is an unusual
young man
The oldest of five children, Don is
looking forward to graduation this
spring and a college education
beginning in the fall
What makes the young man dif-
ferent from many high school
seniors is the fact that he has worked
the past four years and still was able
to compete in athletics, keep fus
grades to a good average and qualify
for college
“IF I didn't have the job, then I
could have gotten into trouble — 1
almost did anyway," Chambers
said. "Mr Shibley gave me a chance
at the time I needed it and I've done
okay."
Chambers is black and lives in a
section of Sapulpa that city police
say "is a different world" in which
to grow up However, Chambers
says growing up in the area has been
"an education" he won't forget for
many years.
“It has made me understand I
need to start my adult life right, be
successful and keep it going that
way from the beginning," Chambers
said. "I've seen a lot of people in the
neighborhood just sit around and
goof off — getting thorn no where but
into trouble."
CHAMBERS SAYS he credits both
Kay and Steve Shibley with taking
an interest in him which has steered
him away from problems since the
seventh grade.
That's when Chambers got involv-
ed in wrestling and while he has par-
ticipated in football, he feels the mat
sport has done more for him as an
individual
"You get out on the mat and either
win or lose. there is no one there to
help you," he explained "If you ac-
cept the responsibility for doing your
best as an individual, then you will
Football is a good sport, but it
doesn't focus on individual success
like wrestling "
CHAMBERS LAUGHS about his
cooking, pointing out that when he
went to work for Shibley four years
ago, the restuarant operator told
him "to watch and he would teach
me about cooking "
"I did and picked up a few things.
Now he lets me cook some and I en-
joy it, but I wouldn't try to cook at
home," Chambers said "No way
could 1 please the other kids."
Chambers said Shibley "is a hard
boss He wants the job done nght
and his way And he knows hi.
business It has been difficul
sometimes, but I have stayed with
the job because I respect what Mr
Shibley tries to teach me I have
come to look up to him and I know
that without the chance I got a few
years back, I might not be looking
toward college this fall."
JUST WHERE Chambers plans to
obtain his college education is not
certain, but the young man is in-
terested in computer science as a
profession.
He plans to continue picking up
tricks about cooking as he goes
along — improving on his hobby for
both fun and possibly income while
in school.
"I figure I will have to work
some,” Chambers said. "But that's
okay. I know the drill pretty good.”
WITH THE outlook Chambers has
on life, the young man appears head-
ed for success.
All because somebody cared
enough to give him a break and he is
smart enough to know that.
Have a good day.
EP A scandal noticed in 1981
MIAMI (NEAI - "Industry Par-
tisans Now Run EPA," proclaimed
the headline in Florida's largest
newspaper in the spring of 1981 —
almost two years ago — but nobody
paid much attention to the scan-
dalous situation then.____
Robert Walters
The first 15 senior officials ap-
pointed by President Reagan to run
the Environmental Protection Agen-
cy, the story explained, included 11
representatives of the steel, oil, coal,
paper, chemical and other in-
dustries which most frequently
cause the pollution EPA is supposed
to regulate
The only apparent qualification
possessed by the remaining four ap-
pointees was their service in the 1980
Reagan presidential campaign.
None of the EPA policy-makers had
any background, interest or exper-
tise in environmental protection.
That story is worth recalling now
to make the point that the current
Washington brouhaha over the EPA
is the legacy of two years of ill-
concealed disregard of environmen-
tal health and safety issues on the
p.irt of the Reagan administration
in fiscal 1981, when Reagan
entered the White House, EPA was
spending $545.2 million on abate-
ment, control and compliance. The
president has repeatedly cut that
allotment and now is requesting
$293.9 million for those tasks in fiscal
1984 - a cut of more than 46 percent
in only three years.
When the president began his
term, EPA had slightly more than
11.000 employees. Today it has more
responsibilites but only about 8,500
employees and Reagan wants to cut-
that figure again to about 8,000
Although there is widespread
agreement that contamination of the
air, water and land by hazardous
chemicals is a nationwide problem
of vast scope, even the experts are
uncertain of its exact dimensions.
For example, estimates of the
number of chemicals now in use
range from 40,000 to 63,000 The
number of disposal sites estimated
in an EPA-commissioned study
ranges from 32,000 to 50,000 with
1,200 to 2,000 posing an imminent
threat to the public s health and
safety.
There are believed to be 50,000 to
60.000 generators of chemical waste
producing about 43 million tons of
material to be disposed of annually
by 14,000 waste transporters utiliz-
ing 14,000 active, legal dump sites.
They are required to handle
solvents, dyes, residues, sludge,
pickling liquors, resins, epoxies and
countless other substances which
are known or suspected to cause
liver and kidney damage, leukemia
and other forms of cancer, blindness
and deafness, miscarriages, and
birth defects, convulsions and
tremors, nerve decay and sterilty
A popular misconception holds
that much of the current problem
can be ascribed to "orphan sites
used and then abandoned by gypsy
haulers and "midnight dumpers" —
but the record shows that many of
the country's largest corporations
have been cited for Illegal disposal
activities
That list includes Occidental
Petroleum, EMC Corp.,
Westinghouse Electric, Olin
Corp.,Tenneco, BASF Wyandotte,
W.R Grace and dozens of other
firms
Notwithstanding that disgraceful
record of corporate pollution, a
senior aide at EPA criticized the
agency’s general counsel for
"systematically alienating the
primary constituents of this ad-
minstration, the business
community.”
Similarly, EPA referred only
eight cases to the Justice Depart-
ment for civil prosecution for
violating federal hazardous waste
statutes during 1981, Reagan's first
year in office, compared with 46
referrals in the previous year
EPA was supposed to produce a
comprehensive list of Superfund
priority cleanup sites by mid-1981,
but it did not complete that task until
the closing days of 1982 almost one
and a half years after the deadline.
Moreover, EPA acknowledges
that it has completed the required
clean up at only five of the country's
418 most dangerous dumps. The
agency claims to have initiated ac-
tion in more than 100 otie.r cases, but
in many of those instances it did lit-
tle more than negotiate a
"sweetheart settlement" with a
dumper, transfer responsibility to a
state agency or open a file on a
hazardous site.
The total cost of the countrywide
cleanup is estimated to be as high as
$50 billion, but the Reagan ad-
ministration's EPA displays little
enthusiasm for proceeding with the
task.
Leukemia found in house cats
Usually, medical science manages
a disease before learning to prevent
it.
In the instance of feline leukemia,
however, presently a widespread
disease among houseeats. we have a
preventive before we have a
remedy
Paul Harvey
Maybe ten million years ago in the
arid deserts of northern Africa there
roamed an ancestor of your
housecat
At the same time and in the same
region there roamed ancestors of
present-day rats
The cats ate the rats and thus
became infected with a tumor virus
present in the chromosomes of the
rats.
Today's descendants of that
ancestral cat are transmitting
through their saliva that on-
Todays
Almanac
By United Press International
Today is Monday, April 4, the 94th
day of 1983 with 271 to follow
The moon is approaching its last
quarter
The morning stars are Jupiter and
Satuurn
The evening stars are Mercury,
Venus and Mars
Those born on this date are under
the sign of Aries
Actress Cloris l>eachman was
born April 4, 1926
On this date in history
In 1581, explorer Sir Frances
Drake was knighted by (Jueen
Elizabeth I.
In 1896, the Yukon gold rash began
with the announcement of a strike in
the Northwest Territory of Canada
In 1949, representatives of 11
nations gathered in Washington to
sign the North Atlantic Treaty,
creating the NATO alliance
In 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr,
was assassinated in Memphis
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coviras—now known as the feline
leukemia virus—from one to
another
Once a cat gets it there is little we
can do about it. The cat wastes away
and dies, 83 percent within three
years.
It can be readily diagnosed by a
veterinarian and infected animals
isolated.
When infected cats have been
isolated or removed, the household
should be thoroughly cleaned with
detergents Three months after the
first test, all of the uninfected cats
remaining in the household should
be retested
Only if that retest reveals an in-
fected cat is a third test required
three months later
Any new cats brought into the
household should come from an en-
vironment free of the virus—and the
pet should be tested before being
allowed to mingle with other cats.
Is there a hazard to humans'.'
While it is difficult to prove a
negative, there is no evidence of any
human hazard
Some researchers have their
fingers crossed because this is the
only known tumor virus of any
species to which humans are fre-
quently exposed Also, because
children might be more susceptible
This concern should add urgency
to the acceptance of a vac-
cine—hopefully to eliminate feline
leukemia virus once and for all
There are three vaccines, all
experimental.
Because one is a live-virus vaccine
which poses the possibility of infec-
ting uninfected cats, it is not
available in the United States.
The second, while inactivated, is
only marginally effective.
Dr Richard Olsen of Ohio State
University has developed a "safe"
vaccine which Norden laboratories
is testing
Against an overwhelming
challenge it proved 70 to 80 percent
effective.
An overwhelming challenge"
means that test animals were expos-
ed to megadoses of the virus. A com-
parable field test would be expected
to demonstrate an effectiveness of 95
percent plus.
Norden’s research director, Dr.
William Beckenhauer, is optimistic
that the present six-dose innocula-
tion can be reduced to three,
perhaps to two
Assuming his optimism is
justified, completion of testing and
licensing by the United States
Department of Agriculture comes
next.
Anybody lucky enough to be loved
by a cat, I wish I could offer you
more immediate encouragement
than that.
But a vaccine could be available
next year.
Many won’t wed, ever or never
L.M. Boyd
Matrimonial researchers now say about 19 million
grownup Americans — divorced, widowed, never wed
— say'll they'll not gel married, cither never or never
again, whichever
You'll Mink your eyes intermittently anyhow, hut
such is the power ol suggestion that you’ll blink them a
lew extra limes while reading this paragraph No?
Sperm-hank medicos contend in print it’s now possi
hie lor .1 human being to give birth to a great ape. n»ey
don’t say "conceive."
Nowhere in the hoi.in does it talk about love.
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Hughes ol Mingo Junction, Ohio
q Y ou said moose don't mix. Not ever?
A Only briefly. Ihe female moose bellows to beckon.
Males come running She selects. Moments later they
all go their separate ways. Solitary critters, moose
I hey don't even hang around with their own gender.
HORROR STORIES
It you want to write horror stories, you might start
with this terrible fact: I he unidentified bodies of about
2,OUU young children are buried every year in the United
Stales.
In Idaho I alls, Idaho, between Hilt) .uni l9fiU lived a
lady named Miss Idaho I .ibis I Isewhere in the stale
now is a Miss Ida llu
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can do to recover from the grief of losing her husband?
A. I. Work and work hard. 2. Busy herself with others
she loves or might learn to love And 3. Talk about it
openly with people who've experienced if. That's in nut
U. and W man's files as the consensus of numerous
family counselors.
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loin miles a year around Ihe house-hold beds while mak-
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