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4 ITHACA JOURNAL Friday, Sept. 3, 1976 Swiss chemist to lecture it pecliadillo -r-K-r T- -w in orse was a ii i IN i I A Jack David Dunitz, professor of chemical crystallography at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, will deliver the 1976 George Fisher Baker Lecture Series at Cornell University this fall. In lectures to be given at 11:15 a.m. every Tuesday and Thursday from Sept. 14 through Oct.

28 in 200 Baker Laboratory, Dunitz will trace the development of X-ray crystallography during the past 25 years. He will discuss the scope and limitations of the method, the sources of information about crystal and molecular structure, and the result of crystal structure studies, especially their influence on problems of chemical reactivity. Moravia water crisis over MORAVIA The water emergency is over for the village, Mrs. Sylvia Powers, the village clerk-treasurer, said today. "The reservoir is full and the pump is back in place.

Everything is back to normal," she said. The water was listed as safe Wednesday afternoon by the Cayuga County Health Department, she said. The pump broke down on Saturday and village residents were advised to boil their drinking water because of possible contamination during the repair period. Miss USA to visit Barbara Peterson, Miss USA, will be a guest at Triphammer Shopping Center from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

next Friday. She will greet customers and autograph The terribl By JOHN PECK Quite often today we hear someone say, "I wish we could go back to the horse and buggy days." Social sci- jew -J; artists tell us we can only remember the "good" things about past eras that bad things are mercifully soon substantially forgotten. Pain, for example, cannot be recalled one of life's blessings. When you hear old Rodger the codger recall his boyhood days, he will speak of homemade ice cream with no gelatin in it. He will tell of the joys of wearing a boater and sipping homemade root beer with his lady love on the front porch during a soft summer afternoon.

Old Rog will speak of the unhurried times and the relaxed pleaure of going for a buggy ride behind good old Dobbin. Good old Rog has erased from his memory the fact that thousands of his peers died young in those days because there were no antibiotics. He may also forget that he knew a character who expired of undulant fever as a result of drinking raw milk. Those who wish to return to yesteryear are quite likely to cite the modern automobile as the major culprit in today's society. Paticularly will they lambast the automobile for being such a terrible polluter.

It is a cinch that people who want to return to the horse-and-buggy days have not read the Smithsonian Institution's figures on horse manure. Indeed that prestigious institution has labeled the horse a terrible polluter and a near ecological disaster. Because of ite scientific nature, the Smithsonian Institution is not one to just dash off a general statement and not back it up with facts and figures. They speak of horse manure as scientifically as they speak of modern jet aircraft and space travel. The institution's Don H.

Berkebile recently took pen in hand and wrote, cool appraisal of horse-and-buggy days casts doubts on the ecological value of the old gray mare. 1 1 4 i Dunitz will hold informal discussions af I 4:40 p.m. Wednesdays from Sept. 15 through Oct. 27 in 200 Baker An internationally respected authority3, on crystallography, Dunitz has published more than 160 scientific articles ori molecular structure and X-ray diffrac-" tion.

He is co-editor, with J.AA Ibers, ot. "Perspectives in Structural a four-volume series published by John, Wiley and Sons. He also is joint editor of "Structure and Bonding," published byi Springer Verland, and a member of editorial board of Helvetica Chimica' Acta. The Baker Lecture Series at Cornell-1 was established 51 years ago by George, Fisher Baker, a New York City banker; and philanthropist who contributed morei than $2 million to Cornell for the ment of the study of chemistry. PHIt JORDAN NOTED PSYCHIC-CLAIRVOYANT I APPEARING Sunday, Sept.

5 8 P.M. at The Ramada Inn $3.00 Fried SHRIMP yOUNCLOWHS SUNDAY) JDniuersil iL-UThEatr 'Ithaca9 gets a ID tag Judy Willis, SPCA humane officer, engraves name of dog, on a new nametag. The SPCA provided free nametags for animals on the CorneH campus today. Photo by Michael Parkhurst. THEATRE SERIES WILLARD STRAIGHT THEATRE Thornton Wilder's OUR TOWN OCTOBER Ted Tiller's COUNT DBACULA NOVEMBER11-14, 18-20 The Harold Pinter's Birthday Party Peter Barnes's mwwamB APRIL deaths pouuier ana m.

a near ecological "Consider pollution: London, in 1875, had to get 1,000 tons of horse manure off the streets daily. American cities with a population of 12,000 horses (New York had more than 10 times as many horses at the turn of-the century) had to remove, daily, a 130-ton hill of horse manure." The manufacturing process was exceeding the demand for the product as fertilizer. Only nearby farmers provided a market for the manure because it was too costly to transport the product a long distance. Transportation costs would exceed the value of the manure itself. New York finally solved its problem by depositing the manure on an island in the Hudson.

Those of us nurds who may think that we didn't have serious air pollution until the advent of the automobile would do well to read Mr. Berkebile's statement: "While waiting to be cleaned up from the streets, manure bred billions of flies which carried at least 30 diseases. The horse disease, glanders, could be communicable to humans. "The urine from the horses couldn't even be collected. It added to the filth and stench of streets and made them dangerously slippery.

The animals sometimes fell, injuring themselves so badly they had to be destroyed." I also became interested in whether there were many accidents back in the slow horse-and-buggy days. People didn't even know what an accident report was back in those days, so statistics are a bit hard to come by. But I do know a library is a wonderful thing! In pursuing my love of cracking books open I found that carriages, due to a high center of gravity and uncertain means of locomotion, were accident prone. Late in the 19th century, Paris, every year, could count 700 deaths and 5,000 injuries from carriage accidents. Newspapers of the times were full of accounts about runaway horses and capsized carriages.

I have come to the conclusion that automobiles aren't so bad after all. At least when I cross the street after an auto has just passed by I don't slip. Retired teacher dies in Florida PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -George Arthur White, 84, of 143 Lucero Drive, a former teacher in the Ithaca City School District, died here Thursday, Sept.

2, 1976. He formerly taught at DeWitt Junior High School, Boynton Junior High School, and Ithaca Senior High School, for 33 years. Surviving are a son, Malcolm White of Fort Pierce, Fla. a daughter, Mrs. Robert Havens of West Palm Beach, three brothers, Donald White and Walter White, both of Port St.

Lucie, and Robert White of and an adopted brother, Maxwell Russell of Syracuse. Memorial services will be held Tuesday in the Hillcrest Memorial Gardens, Fort Pierce, Fla. Yates Funeral Home, Fort Pierce, has charge of arrangements. Mr. Beryl C.

Gale GROTON Memorial services for Mrs. Beryl C. Gale of 113 Park who died Wednesday, Sept. 1, 1976, will be held Sunday, Sept. 12.

The Journal erroneously reported that services were to be held this Sunday. Air Force Band to play in Glen WATKINS GLEN The U.S. Air Force Band and Singing Sergeants will present a free concert at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 3, in Watkins Glen High School under the sponsorship of the Schuyler County Bicentennial Commission.

Band director is Col. Arnald D. Gabriel, a native of Cortland and graduate of Ithaca College. The next night, the musicians will pre-sent a concert in Ithaca, both programs differing in content, both free. During the Schuyler event, a State American Revolution Bicentennial Commission official will present the county its certification as a bicentennial community.

Other bicentennial awards will also be distributed. The Ithaca Journal daily except Sunday and Dec. 25 by Ithaca Journal-News, 123-125 W. State Ithaca, N.Y. 14850, second-class postage paid at Ithaca.

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Wilson said irresponsible people who overcharge for services to the poor increase the cost of welfare much more than recipients who cheat the welfare system. Auer asks legislature reforms Douglas Auer, Democratic candidate for the 128th Assembly District, has called for major reforms in the State Legislature. Claiming that the legislature is unable to deal with such issues as tax and welfare reforms, Auer said the legislature must be restructured to create a more responsive body. Auer's legislative reform proposal includes changing the part-time status of legislators to full time, eliminating special bonus payments (Lulus), limiting the number of terms a legislator may serve, and eliminating the seniority system. Specifically, Auer suggests that the maximum number of terms an assemblyman may serve should be limited to four two-year terms, for a total of eight years.

State senators should be elected every four years and be allowed to serve a total of two terms, or eight full years, according to Auer. The seniority system should be dissolved, Auer said, so that committee chairmen can be elected on the basis of their qualifications and personal AVo, THE MAINE THING THE PORTERHOUSE ROOM WONDERLAND LODGE 65 ELM1RA ROAD WAV Moacav enoy all VUe lea.ewdaru seatood we serve Douh tast" it )h sehvwed LORSTER Ex-mechanic is dead at 71 MORAVIA Erwin E. Baker, 71, of Big Hill Road, Town of Sempronius, died Wednesday, Sept. 1, 1976, at his home. Born Sept.

25, 1904, in Sempronius, son of the late Lewis and Myrtie Rathbun Baker, he was a lifelong resident of the area. A retired mechanic, he had worked for many years at the John Deere Agency, repairing and adjusting farm implements. He was also a retired night patrolman for the Moravia Police Department, a post he had held for many years. He was a member of the Moravia Fire Department. Surviving are his widow, Mrs.

Carrie Russell Baker; two daughters, Mrs. Arnold Scott and Mrs. Bernard Scott, both of Moravia; two sons, Erwin E. Baker Jr. of Moravia and Roland Baker of Speedsville; 16 grandchildren; several great-grandchildren.

Services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Wade Funeral Home, Moravia. Burial will be in Indian Mound Cemetery. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Miss Madge Smith Miss Madge Smith, 88, of 602 Hudson St. died Thursday, Sept. 2, 1976, in Tompkins County Hospital. She was a retired secretary from Cornell University. She is survived by a cousin, John Osborn of Vestal.

Private services and burial will be in Lake View Cemetery. Wagner Funeral Home has charge of arrangments. Catharine slates Old Home Day CATHARINE A community Old Home Day sponsored by Catharine Mothers' Club on Sept. 19 will conclude two years of special events held here under the auspices of the women's organization. A picnic at 1 p.m.

at Catharine Methodist Church will open the event, which will feature dedication of a historical marker at the four corners in this Schuyler County hamlet, marking the spot where a highway sign post guided, for many years, the major flow of traffic through the region. Speaking at the dedication at 2:30 p.m. will be Thomas Burns, a historian in Chemung County and author of the new Chemung County history. Broiled MAINE BAY SCALLOPS stemed MUSSEIS of poor date Wilson, who is running for election as the Democratic candidate in the 126th District, including Chemung and Tioga Counties, said the source of the welfare problem is not whether local, state, or federal government funds the program but how the system works the lack of concern for quality control and service. Wilson said he foresees difficulties if the federal qovernment picks up the major share of local welfare costs.

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