. Palmer - page 9 VOL. XIV, NO. 22 an independent student newspaper serving notre dame and saint mary’s THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1979 Ministry Electric car plans no receives mixed Chicago trip responses by Jim Soisson Although it received a banner headline in the Chicago Trib­ Although millions of people une, the electricpowered vehic­ are expected to see the Pope’s le proposed this week by the mass in Chicago on Oct. 5, General Motors Corporation Notre Dame’s Campus Ministry has received mixed reviews in has no plans to organize a trip South Bend too. to the Windy City. Interest in the gasless car was “Our hands are tied, ’ said renewed on Tuesday when the Fr. William A. Toohey, director number-one automaker an­ of Campus Ministry. “ To nounced a major advancement promote or organize something in its battery research ; the de­ like that invites people to act velopment ot a zinc-mckel-ox- contrary to the schedule of the ide battery. day,” he explained. With its new battery, GM Concerning the scheduled The Notre Dame Skydiving members Jim Stahlman, Ron parachutist, Larry Nenstiez, hopes to build an electric car chartering of four buses by the Club sponsored an exhibition Wedge and John Kime com­ also made the jump but missed that will travel 30 to 55 miles St. Mary’s Spiritual Commis­ last evening at the Green Field. pleting their jumps from a the target area, {photos by Tom per hour, go 100 miles before sion, Fr. Toohey said he had no From left to right are area height of 4000 feet. A fourth Jackman], needing recharging, and will knowledge of how they were operate for 30,000 miles before going to coordinate the event the battery must be replaced. with classes on Friday. Of Kennedy Designed to be a supplement “The students are handling it and not a replacement for the on an individual basis,” ex­ gas powered automobile, the plained Mary D. Ryan, spiritual electric car is planned for use as commissioner and coordinator Carter haults verbal assault an urban commuter utility ve­ of the chartered bus trip. hicle. A survey was sent out earlier Development of the zinc-nic- to St. Mary’s students which WASHINGTON (AP) - Pres- In the handwritten note, “Sen. Kennedy has been in kel oxide battery overcomes included a question about inter­ dent Carter called a brief Carter said his statement Tues­ Congress for 16 years,” said one of the major obstacles of est in such a trip. “The cease-fire yesterday in his step­ day night at a “ twon m eetin” in Carter. “His major premise, producing electric vehicles. response was overwhelming, ped up verbal assault on Sen. Queens had been “grossly ex­ his major goal, has been to The new battery is one third said Ryan, “that is why we Edward Kennedy to send his aggerated by the press establish a comprehensive na­ lighter, takes up less space and went ahead with it.” potential rival a note saying Asked by reporters about the tional health insurance policy... has a longer life than the remarks he made in New York note, Kennedy said he did not He has never gotten a com­ conventional lead-acid battery were n<v intended as a refer­ consider it an apology but prehensive national health bill used to help start gas-powered {continued on page 11 ] ence to Chappaquiddick. added, “I was just glad to get out of his subcommittee. It is cars. it.” not easy.” However, Dr. James Taylor, Carter had told the audience Kennedy was in Washington chairman of the civil engineer­ in Queens that as president he speaking to the National Asso­ ing dept., believes that the had to deal with several crises ciation of Black Journalists and lighter electric car may be as Student breaks back and “I don’t think I panicked.” he repeated his criticism of much a highway safety problem White House press secretary Carter’s energy policies: as a technological improve­ Jody Powell said Carter had “He does not have to send ment. sent the note after reading “er­ the cost of crude oil through the According to Taylor, lighter in fall during panty raid roneous press reports saying roof by abandoning price con­ cars just don’t offer the protect­ his comments were a veiled trols,” the senator said. “The ion of heavier cars. He added reference to Chappaquiddick.” OPEC nations have the power that numerous studies and a lot by Molly Woulfe upon his admittance into the White House aids in the past to fix the price of American oil of statistics show a strong Senior Staff Reporter hospital. have said that if Kennnedy does as well at a time when inflation inverse relationship between a Trousdale that students part­ challenge Carter for the 1980 is already running 13 percent car’s weight and highway fatal­ A Notre Dame freshman aking in the raid were not Democratic nomination, Carter here at home ? ities. crushed several vertebrae in unrulier that,previous crowds, would not make an issue of In a remark widely interpret­ In addition to the weight his back last night in a fall from but “a lot more irresponsible. Kennedy’s reaction to crisis ed as a reference to the question, Taylor is skeptical of a second-story window ledge of This was a visible accident, and conditions when he drove a car Chappaquiddick incident, Car­ the safety of having a large Regina South, during the trad­ only two students came to his off a bridge at Chappaquiddick tel said, “We’ve had some battery unit directly behind the itional Saint Mary’s pre-home aid. The rest continued to in $969, resulting in the death crises where it required a passengers in the new cars, game panty raid. Ken Ohishi, a climb up the walls, while all this of Mary Jo Kopec.me steady hand, a careful and which are designed for two resident of Saint Ed’s Hall, will was going on.” She added that Kennedy told reporters, “I deliberate decision to be made. passengers. remain in Memorial Hospital a few other “obviously intoxica­ appreciate his sending it (the I don’t think I panicked in the “Another concern,” Taylor for the next few days for ted” students managed to note) to me, and were I to be a crises.” said, “is that we have a huge observation. He is listed in climb up onto the hall roof, but candidate I’d be talking about Carter aides have said the system built up to take care of satisfactory condition. the issues which are most in the president would not raise as an gas-powered cars, but we don’t Ohishi had climbed to the ‘He turned his head, minds of the American people issue Kennedy’s reaction to have any servicing outlets for ledge and “was talking to the and I think that’s also what he’d crisis conditions when he drove electrical vehicles now or any girls in the room when I came in looked down, and want.” a car off a bridge at Chappa­ planned in the future.” and told him it was time to get Kennedy’s comments came quiddick in 1969 resulting in the More importantly, the devel­ down,” related Carol Trous­ apparently decided at a poolside appearance pre­ death of Mary Jo Kopechne. opment of tooling to mass dale, an R. A. in Regina. “ He ceding a $l,000-a-plate dinner When asked about Carter’s produce the battery, refine­ turned his head, looked down, to jump, but landed sponsored by the Democratic oblique reference to the in­ ments in the motor technology, and apparently decided to National Committee. cident, Kennedy said he did not experimental cars for more jump, but landed on his back. on his back.’ Carter was the featured believe Chappaquiddick would tests and then developing tool­ Seeing he was in obvious pain, speaker at the dinner, which be a decisive issue in the 1980 ing for mass production of the two ND men, realizing he had were -escorted dowrT Kennedy did not stay to campaign. vehicle is needed before mar­ possibly hurt his back, pinned SMC Security agreed that the attend. “ I think the real issues in keting it, explained marketing him down so he couldn’t 300-odd students who participa­ With Kennedy showing every 1980 are economic issues - the professor John Malone. move.” Students then notified ted in the annual raid were ‘ no sign of moving steadily towards rate of inflation, rising unem­ Predicting long commercial SMC Security of the accident, bigger problem than in previ­ a presidential bid, he and ployment and energy,” the development for electric cars, who contacted Memorial Hos­ ous years,” and otherincidents Carter have been sounding senator said. Malone said it would be opt­ pital. An ambulanve arrived only involved screens tossed more and more like rival Asked about the recent em­ imistic but not impossible for within ten minutes, and para­ from dormitory windows , and candidates. phasis from the White House on the vehicle to be in the show medics fitted Ohishi with a neck trampled shrubs. Half a dozen At the Queens town meeting, character and the ability to act rooms by 1985. brace and transported him to Security officers were on duty, Carter also questioned whether calmly in crisis conditions, Ken- Malone pointed out, that, in the_l-mergency room for X-rays. in patrol cars and on foot, Kennedy would fare any better {continu&d on page 2. ] {continued on page 11 1 His parents were contacted during the raid. with Congress than Carter has.