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Tuesday Bowling Green State University September 7, 1982 Unemployed protest joblessness, Latta by Eva Parzlale hard," Bunge said. "All of a sudden managing editor they are now tax receivers instead of tax payers, and it has hit them hard The nation's force of employed citi- emotionally. zens spend Labor Day resting and "These people are not unemployed reflecting upon the year's hard work. because they want to be, but because This year was different for residents they don't have any other choice." of Northwest Ohio, however. The "Jobless Day Picnic" was also Instead of a Labor Day celebration, intended as a protest against Delbert a protest took place in Bowling Green Latta, the 5th District's U.S. Rep- on Sunday in response to the nation's resentative. "When Latta and his highest unemployment rate since administration says these (issues) 1932, and in protest against the 5th aren't the important things, that infla- District's Congressional Representa- tion is, they re dead wrong," Bunge tive, Delbert Latta. The organizer of said. the protest said Latta views and "You can call it inflation or reces- treats unemployment as a minor is- sion, but the people in this area call it sue in his administration. a depression," she added. The Coalition to Save the 5th Dis- trict organized a "Jobless Day Pic- BUNGE SAID SANDUSKY and the nic" in Bowling Green City Park and suburban area is supported by the offered free food to the area's unem- automobile industry, including com- Sloyed. The food was grown or prod- panies such as Ford, New Departure- uced in the 5th District area and GM and Chrysler Plastics. donated by private individuals and "Because of the heavy reliance on firms. the auto industry, the 5th District is The 5th District extends from the the hardest hit in the state," Bunge Indiana border to the Lorain County said. border and from Michigan to the southern borders of Putnam and "That's thousands of jobs and right Sandusky counties. According to Al- now they're working way under," she ice Bunge, Coalition coordinator and added. "The Department of Labor Sicnic organizer, the 12 county dis- said unemployment is 17.5 percent." ict is 160 miles wide and 70 miles "Not only is there high unemploy- deep, excluding Toledo and the north- ment, but we have the highest number ern part of Wood County . of business failures since 1932," she said. WHILE SHE HAD no figures, Bunge said 'there were hundreds and Bunge added that farmers have hundreds of people" at the picnic. also been adversely affected by the Unemployed workers from throughout the 5th Cogressional District gathered lor a picnic at Bowling Green's City Park BG News photo/Ron Hagler "The work ethic is part of their current recession. to celebrate Labor Day, Sunday. The picnic allowed the workers to express their frustration with the way their lives, and this thing has hit them so see LABOR page 3 congressman, Delbert Latta, and President Reagan are handling the nation's economic problems. Army searches for germ weapon vaccine FREDERICK, Md. (AP) - The headquarters of U.S. chemical and Part of the research here involves gene-splicing work has been approved But the U.S. is out of the BW business. among the center buildings is a seven- United States officially renounced biological warfare efforts. recombinant UNA. or gene splicing, by the NIH advisory committee that What we don't do are mass cultures or story, red brick building with boards biological warfare in 1969. But here, Officials are sensitive about de- to try to develop a better vaccine for oversees the safety of such projects. deliverable weapons systems. It's all replacing the windows. It once housed in a small corner of the military base scribing their work, which has contin- anthrax. Anthrax is one of the most- just medical research." research into some of the most dan- where the American germ weapon ued since President Richard Nixon's studied germ warfare diseases be- "WE'RE JUST TRYING to use the When Nixon's order shut down most gerous diseases, such as anthrax, effort was located, Army scientists ordered destruction of existing biolog- cause it is hardy and highly virulent. tools provided by modern biology" to of the American BW effort, much of tularemia, and botulism. Now, no one are still involved in "medical de- ical weapons in 1969. But he said that The current anthrax vaccine is pain- come up with better vaccines, he Fort Detrick, created during World is permitted to enter the contami- fensive BW research." a defensive effort would continue, to ful and slow-acting. explained. "We'd like to see if we can War II, was turned over to the Na- nated structure because of fears With little public attention, United guard against possible germ attacks The Army has also contracted with use to our advantage the technologi- tional Institutes of Health, which set about the long-lasting anthrax spores. States Army scientists are trying to by an enemy. Molecular Genetics of Minnetonka, cal wave sweeping through bio-medi- up a cancer research center. About a hundred vards awav a discover vaccines or antidotes to Minn., for recombinant DNA re- cal research." About a mile from the Army labs large silver tank stands atop spindly germ weapons that might be used "WHAT WE'RE DOING is uniquely search into a vaccine for Rift Valley Critics of the Detrick research ar- are two grim reminders of the large- legs, looking like a cross between a against American troops. medical. We're involved in medical fever, a virulent north African dis- gue that there is little difference be- scale research and weapons program spaceship and a deep-sea diving bell. defensive research," said Col. Rich- ease that could be encorjitered by tween "offensive" and "defensive" that made Detrick the world's largest The 50-foot-high, one-million-hter fer- The effort is based in a two-story ard Barquist, the doctor who heads U.S. troops operating in the Mideast work. consumer of guinea pigs by 1960. mentation tank was designed to brew Army lab in a corner of Fort Detrick, the Army Medical Institute of Infec- or Persian Gulf. Barquist agrees. "As far as the enormous batches of germs that the sprawling base that was once the tious Diseases. Barquist is quick to note that the research goes, there's no difference. THE HIGHEST STRUCTURE see GERMS page 8 in the CJSG execs define goals NEWS Hostages: • Gallagher says CJSG is an 'issues government' Phone frustration SHARON CENTER. Ohio (AP) —Ca- thy Ash and Jo Ann Mough. who have been fighting high-priced tele- by Doug Lillibridge on who is selected as Vice President Polish Embassy invaded phone calls between their Medina staff reporter of Student Affairs. Hopefully, that person will be willing to work with the County homes for a year and a Developing a strong organization is students." half, now know what it means to BERN, Switzerland (AP) - An descendant of two 19th century the primary goal for Undergraduate win the battle but lose the war. armed band of professed anti-com- Polish rebels, said the group was Student Government President Ever- GALLAGHER SAID a student Frustrated by regular S70 monthly munist revolutionaries burst into not connected with the suspended ett Gallagher. Board member could disseminate bills from General Telephone Co., the Polish Embassy here Monday Polish labor union Solidarity. Swiss "I would like to see USG develop a Board information around campus, the two women, sisters who live and were holding off police with a authorities and Solidarity strong base or informational system providing a greater student aware- four miles apart in Sharon and threat to "blow this shack away spokesmen elsewhere in Europe by keeping good records for future ness. Copley townships, began circulating and everyone in it" unless martial said they had never heard of the student governments to pick up on," "The trustees will probably tend to petitions for toll-free service. law is lifted in their homeland. "army.'' Gallagher said. be more receptive to student ideas The Public Utilities Commission Their leader, who identified him- The Polish Foreign Ministry re- Also, Gallagher would like to see a with a student before them," Gal- of Ohio tentatively has approved self only as Col. Wysocki of the fused to comment on the gunmen's student included as a voting member lagher said. local service from Sharon Town- "Polish Revolutionary Home demands, saying only that the Bern of the Board of Trustees. Another goal Gallagher sees student government ship to Akron and Wadsworth. ex- Army," told The Associated Press embassy was seized and that its is that student government be put in as an "issues government" rather panding from two to 41 the number in a telephone interview that his chief diplomatic officer, Charge charge of general fee allocations so than a services government.