The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 1

VOL. 23(1 NO. IK! LOUISVILLE, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 23, 1970 60 PACES III CENTS Earth Good Across country, millions plead that it be rescued pollution at a plant in Washington State and said it may spend another $20 million on a plant at Winslow, Maine. Texas Gulf Sulphur said it will join with the British Northwest Gas Board to reduce sulphur emissions from natural gas processing plants. Sun Oil Co.

announced a program to develop throwaway containers that can be easily destroyed. There were other pragmatic responses yesterday to the growing environmental movement: Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York, wearing a button that said "Save the Earth," established a new environmental department in the state government; New Jersey Gov. William T. Cahill signed a bill creating See 'EARTH DAY' Back page, col.

3, this section Science Services Administration, air pollutants mainly carbon dioxide may cause the earth's temperature to rise to levels that will threaten life. Already, 6 billion tons of carbon dioxide are pumped into the atmosphere each year from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas. About 53 million tons come from automobiles, in the United States. Firms Announce Measur.es The American business community, ordinarily indifferent or hostile to mass demonstrations, endorsed the Earth Day celebration and announced some practical actions of its own to deal with environmental problems. Scott Paper Co.

of Philadelphia publicized a $36 million project to control By RICHARD HARWOOD Los Angeles Times-Washington Post servici WASHINGTON A great outpouring of Americans several million in all likelihood demonstrated yesterday their practical concern for a livable environment on this earth. Schoolchildren by the hundreds of thousands roamed through parks, city streets and suburban neighborhoods in communities across the land, collecting tons of the litter cast off by a consumption-oriented society. The academic community from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington to the Mesa Community College in Arizonalectured the old and the young on the fragility of the world they inhabit. Within 200 years, said Dr. J.

Murray Mitchell of the Federal Environmental From Kentuckians: concern the an ecological parody of "America Beautiful:" ington, about 1,200 students heard the state's junior U.S. senator, Marlow Cook, urge them to take a leading role in fighting environmental pollution, being militant but patient in the process. Dr. Wayne Davis, a UK biologist, told several hundred students he doubted the earth could survive "more than a decade" unless there is a massive attack on the forces destroying the environment. Earth Day 1970 was not all speeches and prophesies, however.

A group of Louisville high school stu- See KENTUCKIANS Back page, col. 1, this section Thousands of students, educators, politicians and common citizens throughout Kentucky and Southern Indiana yesterday demonstrated their worry that the once invincible earth may be dying before their eyes. The occasion was Earth Day, and the scenes ranged from an environmental "squeeze-in" at a Louisville high school to a "dump-in" as two young men spilled a can of garbage on the floor of the science theater of Bellarmine-Ursuline College to dramatize the problem of pollution, One sixth-grade class at Louisville's Alex Kennedy Elementary School sang "Oh ugly for smoggy skies, for litter in the street, "We dump our waste in awful haste, among our waterways In Kentucky, the Earth Day movement actually began two weeks ago with a teach-in at the University of Louisville. About 30 speakers drew crowds of up to 200 persons, and National Audubon Society President Elvis Stahr spoke to an evening session. At the University of Kentucky in Lex Some fear 'exaggeration' raising problems without offering solutions and a realistic timetable to achieve them.

He said there is a loud public demand to end water pollution, but the public will become disillusioned if it is not told what realistically can be expected. "A large part of water pollution is controllable now at an acceptable price," he said. By the 1980s, he continued, we can control most water pollution. In order to make considerable strides by the 1980s, Dworsky said, all municipal and industrial waste outlets should be im- See EXAGGERATION Back page, col. 1, this section "well-meaning ccologists" who arc not experienced in geophysics earth sciences and don't really know what they are talking about.

He cited one prediction that the earth will run out of oxygen if pollution continues in. the oceans. This is impossible, he said. Later, Leonard B. Dworsky, a water pollution expert from Cornell University, told the session that "it's about time" that the AGU joined the fight for a better environment.

This is only the second time in 51 annual meetings that environmental problems have been on the program, he said. But he, too, cautioned against merely By STUART AUERBACH Los Angeles Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON The nation's earth scientists were tpld yesterday that they should form "a truth squad" to combat "exaggerated statements" about environmental problems. Dr. S. Fred Singer physicist, moon expert and deputy assistant secretary of interior told a session on the environment at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting here that exaggerations have "scared people" and cast doubt about the ability of scientists.

He explained later that he was referring to statements made by biologists and Staff Photo by Bill Luster 1 -t i ti a LUIN a main mowing grass witn a tractor tenas to a practical tf lull lJiii ill uuy problem of preserving nature's beauty on the campus of Louisville Atherton High School, Inside the school, students, like millions of WciS All About! Americans elsewhere, devoted their energies yesterday to alerting the public to pollution and environmental problems. Look Ahead lillilSllB Hollenbach Asks Merit Changes Judge Moves to Control Police, But FOP Threatens Court Action mimimn iiwwnt p. mmmmt Man Mmm 1 Furnished by the U.S. Weather Bureau LOUISVILLE area Cloudy, windy with chance of thunderstorms; clearing in afternoon. High 74; low 48.

Rain chance SO per cent today; 10 per cent tonight. Fair tomorrow. KENTUCKY Cloudy, chance of showeri ond thunderstorms. Highs in 70s-80s; lows in 40s-50s. Fair to partly cloudy tomorrow.

TENNESSEE Cloudy, scattered showers ond thunderstorms. Highs in 70s-80s; lows in 50s, INDIANA Cloudy, chance of showers. Highs in 60s-70s; lows in 40s. Partly cloudy tomorrow. High yesterday, 81; low, 48.

Year Ago: High, 56; low, 45. Sun: Rises, sets, 7:26. Moon: Rises, 10:10 p.m.; sets, 6:43 a.m. Weather map and details, Page 11. By GERALD HENRY and STAN MACDONALD Courier-Journal Staff Writer County Judge Todd Hollenbach moved yesterday to gain much greater control over the Jefferson County Police De- ing bringing in "outsiders" and giving them a high rank, it would cause grave morale problems and perhaps lead to mass resignations.

Others said a county judge should have the authority to replace police officials. These men said the highest officers in the department have had a virtual See HOLLENBACH PAGE 6, col. 1, this section Elsewhere partment, but men on the force promptly threatened him with a court fight. Changes in Police Merit Board regulations initiated by Hollenbach would permit him to remove the county police chief and assistant chief without giving a reason and would allow transfers with promotions onto the county force from other police departments. Hollenbach said the county judge must answer to the voters for every county department and agency and that he now has little control within the police department.

He said the new and revised merit board regulations would solve that problem. Some Favor Change However, the Jefferson County Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 14 voted, 38 to 30, last night to "take the necessary court action if the judge and the merit board insist on implementing the proposed changes." The motion contended the revisions were contrary to state law. Those voting make up only a small part of the lodge's 320 total membership. Some officers at the meeting argued that if the county judge had authority to place men in the department, includ Long, Lucrative Contracts Are Suicide, UAW Told i ifl 1 ft I I II i i i Cambodia Appeals to U.N. As its emergency intensified, Cambodia appealed to U.N.

Security Council members for military help, and the United States offered to send several thousand rifles Page A 3. To Trinidad, Just in Case Six U.S. Navy vessels are moving toward dissension-torn Trinidad to evacuate American citizens if necessaryPage A 12. Amusements 22-23 Obituaries 13 Classified 11 Radio, TV 2 Editorials A 8 Sports C3-8 Financial 9-10 Women 1-7 By NEIL GILBRIDE ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) Secretary of Labor George P.

Shultz told the United Auto Workers yesterday that negotiating big pay increases into long-term labor contracts could spell economic suicide for the nation. "We suggest, in your own interest, that Stronger Church Role West End Catholic Council Planned you don't pin yourself to escalated costs projected far into the future," Shultz said. The union will serve major wage demands on the 'big three' auto firms in July. Shultz told some 3,000 UAW convention delegates that the nation's worst inflation in 20 years will slow considerably by the end of this year. "People who project highly escalated costs well into the future are building trouble for themselves and they're building trouble for all of us," he said.

'Formula for Suicide' Asked at a news conference to elaborate, Shultz said some three-year constuc-tion contracts are being negotiated for wage increases of 15 per cent a year. "Projecting that across the whole of industry is a formula for suicide," he said. Shultz declined to comment specifically on the UAW's demands for a "substantial" wage increase, major pension improvements and many other benefits in negotiations with General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. Auto contracts expire Sept. 14.

Shultz said that President Nixon's economic policies are beginning to cool inflation and that he agrees with UAW See LONG Back page, col. 2, this section Associated Press defunct West End Community Council once was, according to the Rev. Anthony Heitzman, who headed the commission that studied the church's role in the predominantly Negro area. The archbishop cited that area as "once the heart and soul of the Archdiocese." Father Heitzman said the new Catholic Council "will be highly social action oriented," and said improvement "of the housing conditions -rtf the area will be "a major area of concern." He said, "Hopefully it will broaden its base by drawing in representatives of other church denominations." The broad purpose of the council will be "to provide a viable channel through which people of all faiths may direct a collective voice or course of action against inhumanities and injustices" in the area the commission defined as bounded by Ninth Street, Algonquin Parkway and the Ohio River. The study, conducted with the cooperation of the Urban Study Center of the University of Louisville, concluded that "it is to this area that the church has Sec CATHOLICS PAGE 6, col.

1, this section Saved by the Belt By LINDA STAHL Courier-Journal Stiff Writer The Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville yesterday announced plans to strengthen the role of the church in the western part of the city, noting that a two-year study showed its leadership "in the field of social action has been sorely lacking." Plans to form a West End Catholic Council have been approved by the Most Rev. Thomas J. McDonough, archbishop of Louisville. The council will aim to be "an advocate and pressure group" such as the WINDOW WASHER Robert L. Alexander, lower right, dangles by his safety belt after a scaffold gave way during the cleaning of an 11-story building in Arlington, Va.

A partner, John H. Massie, clings to the scaffold. They were rescued in 30 minutes and Alexander was treated for a broken arm. 6.