More on Parquat
tarnished gold. The
viional Institute on Drug
Ce NIDA) has released
of tests that show
than 20 percent of the
"rtjuana cominS mto the
7, from Mexico may
with the W 7'
herbicide, paraquat The U.S.
Se Department has been
iding the Mexican govern
ment in a drug control
program toeradicate opium
Lpies and marijuana. When
the poppy season ends,
American helicopters, spray
equipment and personnel are
used on the marijuana fields,
according to a State
Department official quoted m
the Washington Post.
Paraquat turns the marijuana
plants yellow and dries them
U and, if picked before they
are dry, they can be confused
,vith what is commonly
We passed
what?
National mandatory
beverage container deposit
legislation appeared to have
taken a sudded, giant leap
forward recently. On March
9 the congressional Record
reported that the U.S. House
of Representatives had
passed an amendment to H.R.
50 (The Full Employment or
“Humphrey-Hawkins” bill)
which looked amazingly like
the “bottle bill.” It instructed
the President to maximize the
creation of jobs in the private
sector by promoting “small
business development ... and
heightened environmental
quality through programs
such as a beverage container
deposit system.”
Rep. Jim Jeffords (VT), the
sponor of H.R. 936, “The
Beverage Container Reuse
and Recycling Act,” had
intended to propose this
language in an amendment to
H.R. 50 later in the con
sideration of the bill on the
House floor. By mistake, it
was read by the clerk along
with a variety of amendments
encouraging, energy ef
ficiency and alternative
energy development. Ac
cording to the Record, the
whole package passed the
House by a vote of 239-177!.
Rep- Jeffords, who was
gone the day the proceedings
PPeared in the Record, was
eached by his staff and in-
appeared to
victory for the
! ^ •»en unable even
he,ri„g3 on H R
considered high-quality
marijuana, Acapulco Gold.
The amounts of paraquat that
NIDA found on the samples
ranged from three to 650 parts
per million. The U.S. En
vironmental Protection
Agency’s aUowable limit for
paraquat on fruit is 0.05 ppm.
When ingested, the weed
killer concentrates in the lung
tissue and produces a con
dition called fibrosis, which
efectively reduces the lungs’
capacity to absorb oxygen.
NIDA is still investigating the
effects of inhaling smoke of
contaminated marijuana.
Many have raised the
question of the State
Department’s failure to
prepare an environmental
impact statement on the
health and environmental
effects of the spraying
programs.
''ers ?o^r
forces in[ P^'^-’^ottle bill
plans to S® ^ announced
taining the In?
Senate ‘he
BuUtwaS H.R. 50.”
clerk?. "^“8ht, as
action «edthe
always believe what
All For the
Free Fries
Does it make sense for a
adverir" .‘’“®*"®ssman to
advertise m out-of-state
newspapers in an
It does if you are the Perrv
a., McDonald’s manager
"^e restaurant, which is
located on the main north-
south interstate for travellers
passing through Georgia on
Florida, ran ads
in the U. of Kentucky and U.
of Tennessee newspapers
offering free french fries to
students heading south on
their spring break.
The McDonald’s manager
termed the promotion suc
cessful and said that his
establishment had become
something of an oasis for
students from other states,
too. He added that he would
probably repeat the ads,
expanding his coverage to
other campuses.
Carolina Sandhills
dedicated
CHAPEL HILL - the
unique Carolina Sandhills
section of the North Carolina
Botanical Gardens at the
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill was dedicated
April 29.
The dedication, culminating
more than two years of work
on the project, was the
highlight of the Botanical
Garden Foundation annual
picnic.
Friends and relatives of
Donald and Kathryn McCoy
of Fayetteville adopted the
Sandhill project two years
ago in memory of the Mc
Coy’s daughter, Kathryn
.McCoy Grady.
The biggest obstacle in
developing the project was
obtaining more than 440 tons
of sand from the Pinehurst-
Southem Pines area. Habitat
curator Jim Ward was helped
by Reginald McCoy of
Uurinburg and the late
Elmer Pendergraft of Chapel
Hill. McCoy coordinated the
loading and transportation of
more than 23 tandem
truckloads of sand. Pen
dergraft donated the services
of a front-end loader to create
the appropriate Sandhills
landscape.
Representative plants of the
Sandhills have been donated
by McCoy-, Glen Bingham of
Laurinburg and Gordon
Butler of Fayetteville. Since
many characteristic Sandhills
plants are deeply rooted and
almost impossible to trans-
.plant, most of the material
for the habitat will be grown
from seed at the Botanical
Gardens. The Sandhills
habitat will continue to grow
and mature through the
years.
The Carolina Sandhills are
one the state’s most
distinctive geological areas.
The remnant sand dunes are
reminders of the geological
past when the seas covered
much of North Carolina.
To the hurried passer-by,
the Sandhills may appear to
be a desolate wasteland of
longleaf pine and turkey oak,
but to a fall visitor the scarlet
color of the turkey oak is
magnificent. The Sandhills
provide a home for some of
the more beautiful wild
flowers, including the blue
lupine, the Sandhill gentian
and the rare pixie moss.
A permanent slide
presentation on the N.C.
Sandhills and the Botanical
Garden’s habitat was shown
to Foundation members on
Saturday, followed by a walk
through the new area. The
slide presentation was
prepared by UNC-CH student,
Rickie Gold (Raleigh).
The McCoys are former
residents of Laurinburg,
where he was bom and
raised. McCoy is a former
judge of Scotland county
recorder’s court.
OOPS! Swanson got loose up there again.
Hair is getting shorter
Hair, 1978. Men’s hair styles
are getting shorter, those with
long hair are taking better
care of it, and beards and
mustaches are no longer de
rigueur protest symbols. So
concludes Professor of
Business J.H. Foegen of
Winona (Minn.) State College
after years of watching the
college scene and conducting
an admittedly non-scientific
survey on the subject.
Foegen used the op
portunity of the WSC
graduation ceremony, during
which male graduates
crossed the stage to receive
their diplomas, to note the
proportion of the men spor
ting facial hair, “i expected
that at least a majority would
have a mustache, a beard, or
both,” he writes.
To Foegen’s surprise, of the
196 male graduates, 142 (72%)
were clean shaven, 42 sported
a mustache only, 2 had a
beard only, and 10 were in
“full bloom” with both
mustache and beard.
He also calculated that
among students getting
teaching certificates, the
percentage of clean-shaven
faces was even higher. And he
also noted that not one
“scraggly wild-man” hairdo
was seen (nor was a single
crew cut).
And lest anyone take Prof.
Foegen’s study too seriously,
he reminds us that the oc
casion was graduation, when
parents and relatives were
present.’
you read in the Congressional ;
Record, not that we didn’t ;
already have previous gS
doubts!
Meanwhile, one of Rep. Jx-:
Jeffords close neighbors,
Connecticut, passed its own
deposit legislation. In early
April Governor Ella Grasso
signed the bill, which requires
a 5^ deposit on all soft drink :|:g
and beer beverage con-
tainers. Connecticut makes
the fifth state, along with
Oregon, Michigan, Maine and
Vermont, to have passed
similar deposit laws. As this
issue went to press, the Iowa
legislation also passed I:;:-:
beverage container deposit
legislation.
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