Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC March 1982 Daily Egyptian 1982 3-3-1982 The aiD ly Egyptian, March 03, 1982 Daily Egyptian Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_March1982 Volume 67, Issue 110 Recommended Citation , . "The aiD ly Egyptian, March 03, 1982." (Mar 1982). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Daily Egyptian 1982 at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in March 1982 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. leG considers shuttling MX missiles By Mill~ Anton staff W..... r astronomical that w(' feel that not new. It was investigated by we should have a stud .... ex'r':'mely sensitive to un­ examining all the possibilitieS. the Dett'nst' Departmt>nt in the '" can't imagir'!' that l"ithl"r Illinois Central Gull and the ear"" 1960s as a possibility for certainty of train location The nation's rail industrv have including the u~e of rail." use of railroad train ('rews and the railroads or the government Watkins and Chris Knapton. deploying the military's would want to get into it if it asked the militarv to siudv the Minuteman I system. The dispatching personnel for possibility of deploying - MX associate vice presiclent ft)r th(' wasn't safl"." Knapton l>aid svstem. as em·isitmed. would movement and schedult> "And in this case you're talking missles by rail. but the idea. at Associatiofl of Am('rlcan coordination of trains. together Railroads. a Washington-based hilVe included a locomotive. two about remote areas I and I r least at this time. appears to be living cars. a comn,and cat and with a unique and recognizablt> couldn't really Imagine them falling on deaf ears. group that represents 37 of the train confIguration. makes it nation's largest rail carriers, a power car. all for the parking one of those trains in According to published operation of up to rive missile virtually impossible to conceal said that proposals by both the train locations from enemy Memphis and then mO\'ing them reports, the ICG has said that it cars that would have dispersed and parking them In the Amtrak would be willing ta consider use Carter and Reagan ad­ agents, The mobile units woulrl ministrltions to deploy the MX the Minuteman over as much as station in Carbondale." of its lines. including the 8,300- 70.000 miles of the then-80.000- likewise be susceptible to The point. according to David mile Chicago to Gulf of Mexico in undt'rground shelters or to sabotap;e or paramilitary at. shuttle them on trucks through mile rail network in the Nor­ tack," the report stated. Carle. spokesman for C S Hep line which runs through Car­ thwest. Paul Simoil. 0-24th Oistnct. a system of underground However. Knapton said that if bondale, lor 'I special fleet of The concept was addr~ now SC!'ITIS to be moot. Carle disguised train," to shuttle the bunkers or b, a fleet ('Of air­ the missile trains were routed planes t.ave "all come under again in a December 1980 said a H{luse Appropriations multiple-warhead MX missles. around large metropolitan subcommittee on mll1tan However, Sam Watkins. vice attack as being too expensive. ~:~en:o~cPu1~rt~~t s~~~or: areas and stationed at St'ClJrity­ "The main thing that is conscious military bases and construction. .....hich has president for government af­ ne~ork. which would include fairs for IC Industries. the bottling up the government on power plants, the system would this whole thing is the costs,'· the capability of launching the ~ ~IISSIl.E. Pagt' l pal'alt group of leG. cautioned MX from designated positions be "fairlv invulnerable to of­ that requests for a study are Watkins said. "Building silos to fensive attacks." The leG, in an house the MX or airplanes or alor.1'! the main lines. posPd meant to get "only. an "Insurmountable problems" for in-house publication, noted that evaluation" of the feasibility. submarines to transport the MX public safety. the plan has "created some and are not an endorsement. of around continuously are ex­ Thereportsaid public concern about nuclear. pensive proposals. The main such a plan. "simultaneous operation of lipped missiles mOving across "We were only inte~ted in advantage that we see in a rail the country." Knapton was deployment system is that there c(lmmercial and nuclear having a study made." Watkins mIssile trains within or near cautious When asked :0 assess said last week from are no capital costs involved. populated areas poses an the reaction that a rail Washington. "The costs of other The equipment for deployment deployment system for the MX is already there." unacceptable hazard to the Gus says watCbing a missilf> fonns of handling the !I.IX are so civilian population. would vleld. "No one ever tries The "rail mobile concept" is to gueSs the public's opinion," train would at It-as I '"' mOft' "System survivability is Knapton said. nciting than waiting ror one or those 2OiM:ar freights to go by. Weclnaday. March 3, I_-Vol. (fI, No. 110 Southern Dlinois University ForDlai approval given to recycling franchise contract By Bolt Bandllnln' works department. SUffW.... In another matter, the COUJI':il learned that the federal City Council members on Department of Housing and Monday formally approved a Urban Development will allow recycling franchise agreement people with I", incomes to rent with Hank Dews, manager of rooms at the Carbondale Waste Not Paper l\ecycling, a~ Towers Housing Project, 800 W. well as the "trasu ordinanc~ implementing the cIty s M~ decision, made despite recycling plan.. 'red t the c'JUJlCil's objections, was Althoug1i [lews IS reqw () "harilly unexpected," Mayor pick up aU recyclables I~ft Hans Fischer said. curbside in Carbondale. In­ In a letter to City Manager cluding tin and glass, he .told t!,le CalTOll Fry, HUD instructe:d ~e council that his franchise ~U city to open 15 of the project s mainly pick up only newspnnt 271 units for persons who met and aluminum cen.•. only the project's low-inc~me Begilllling the first full week crik.ria for' rental of housmg. in May, W~te Not wiD pick up ~ project currently houses newsprint and otber reeyclabJes elderly and handicapped JI.I!f'­ whiclJ are separated from other sons and they still will recetve trash. This will be ctm:te once a pref~ in placements, the month along normal City refuse letter said. Downondou. HUD's ooIlectiOll routes. decision was made to 0I1a., year" Salllkis caDle to tbe Arena. Ausbie Dews told the cuuncil that he insure that the project would '"Gefte" A_IRe GI lIIe Harlem GleItetroUen bad We. KeSCum, 3, IbCWting everything to the tum and in ............. MisIemi lIIe "Show Me" ltale. M=' Y d ~_ Pa-e 10 intends to over glass avoid default the future, whell die ......, "'slledMlU .am lIII&side crow • .-...1 GIl .. ' tin he ooDects to ResGurce Robert ..'. Turner, a ~UD :t_ .. Reclamatjon, Inc., of Ma~..i spokesman, told the council. He said that company ,,~ The council also aJllll'CM!d a Dump "ite bein/{ monitored better handle tIlCIIIe mater,iaJs. capital Improvements Project Waste Not win pay the CI,tY 5 to recoostruct West Walnut percent of the revenue recetved Street betweeu Lewis Lane and from selling ll':'Iterials. to Giant City Blacktop. The Oil spill cleanup Dleeting set recyclers in return for being project ~d. be WIder con­ awarded the franchise: .. struction wlthi'l two years. Officials from the K~ poisoning. The SIt; Pollution Control The "trash ordinance Co. will meet with the lU~ois Plant manager Glenn Winget Board is taking ground and requires residents to separate Council members also Environmental Protection said the company excavated ~ wat€r samples at the site. news~t from other trash. and decided to enter into the "Hom~ Agency in Springfield next week contalllinaled soil and moved It Ken Mensing. an en- tie it lfI bundles of no more than Town Awards Program, to devel~ a clean-up plan for ~~ to thf> ·.:ompany's facUity .... here vironmental specialist with the 25 pounds. or1tanized by the governor s oil spill under EPA In it will be stored until remov~ to Division of Land Poll.ullon vestiption. 'd a hazardous waste dump sIte Control in Collinsville. saId the Physicalll handic.apped of';':' council is !"onsidering the The spill. which the EP~ sal Winget said the ground <lnd EPA lmd Koppers will. devise a persons woo t tit' reqwred to Carbondale Memorn.l Hospital occurred in 1939, contaminated surface water around ~ splll plan to deal with the spIll and Its separate and bundle the expansion program and Towne surface water around t~e area are being mOnItored long-term effects. newsprint and thoee who pay to Central's work on revitalizi.ng Koppers railroad tie plant 1ft continuously and ~hat. no "Since the spill occurred to.ave thek refuse collected are the downtown area as entries northeast Carbondale. ~ EPA chemicals al"e lea lung IOta many years ago and moM of the exempted as well. for the awards program. began investipting the .Slte .for IJUrroundi .. C1"il£!U. stuff is underground, we are Dews will leave wet Awards will be given for ground water contammatlon "I'm satisfied that it's beinM still defining what the problem newsprint which cannot be projects the state feels were last fall after four Cf'W1I D!' a done in the correct manner, is and bow to take care of it," recycled, 'for the city's publir weD done.