Santa Cruz Sentinel from Santa Cruz, California • Page 35

The Affluent Society Throws Things Away Wally Trabing's f2k. IHodtftj dood ppf employs 25 men and costs more than $300,000 per year. And Santa Cruz has more garbage to dump every year. The refuse volume is increasing faster than the population since Santa Cruzans, just like other members of the Affulent Society, have more money to spend, can buy more things, and thus have more things to throw away. And because they do mave more money to spend, they throw away the things they buy more quickly.

"People are throwing away more things of value," com during the month of September about 5.500 compacted cubic yards of it. That mountain of refuse was picked up by a fleet of eight trucks, one for each of seven routes and a stand-by vehicle Four of the trucks have 25-yard capacities and will hold eight tons or more of garbage Tne others have 20 and 16-yard capacities They are equipped with automatic packing devices to compress the refuse into a smaller space, thus saving added runs to the dump The big 'rucks cost the city about $19,000 each. The trucks, with their three-man crews, serve 9000 customers in the city. They begin their runs at 5 a.m. and finish about seven hours later.

All seven trucks work five days a week, and two work on Saturdays for commercial pickups only. Residential customers are served once a week and arc allowed one can of garbage and another of refuse up to a 32-gallon capacity. The garbage can be at the rear of the house, but the refuse can must be placed at at the curb. Additional home service can be provided, but at an added cost. Commercial pickups are made as often as needed by the individual firms, which pay a higher price for the service The average Santa Cruz resident pays $1 40 per month for his service, a rate Wolf claims is just about the lowest any I Don't Like To Be Rushed My wife phoned the office and said the kitchen sink was leaking and would 1 call a plumber? I said.

"Who do you think I am, Onassis?" She said: "Can't we play guessing games tonight after dinner? There's water gushing all over the place!" I said: "Just take it easy, we can't go to extremes over every mented rloyd Wolt. city sanitation foreman. "Clothing is a good example. We find everything from shoes to shirts with a lot of service left in them Sometimes the drivers save the tnt Gets warm Kecepnon de crisis." And she said: 'Well, you'd better do something quick, only two of your children can swim!" "Please calm yourself," I said, "Tell me exactly what seems to be the situation." She said: "I can't toll vou exactly because I have the bedspread over the faucet, but I can tell you what it seems like: it seems like the house is sinking!" She was using her high pitched voice. "Don't be ridiculous," I said.

"Tell me how not to be ridiculous, floating here in front of the phone in my water wings and I will gladly try!" There was a hint of edge to her voice. "The 15-year-old is a Boy Scout. Where is he," I said. "He's playing water polo in the living room with his sister," she said. I detected a fleck of emergency in her delivery.

Sunday, November 9, 1969 clothes. "We find apppliances with something as small as a frayed cord haywire. Or radios with one small tube burned out. Rather than have them fixed, people throw them away." Adding to the garbage collector's woe. Wolf said, is the fact that "everything comes in some kind of container these days paper, plastic or something else." The weight of the refuse increase has not kept pace with the volume, Wolf thinks, because of the light weight of the containers and the fact thai more and more homes are equipped with garbage disposals.

Still, Santa Cruzans threw away some 2,000 tons of refuse Cne To Be Built instructions from Soquel Merchants president Bud Thrift, center and postmaster Marion Hobbs. The project, which started from an idea of the Merchants, will include a V-shaped pathway, trees, She said: "Your rhododendron just went under water, will trict. The trustees were his Rolls ran over my pink rhododendron." Itioned by 176 private citizens where It may go up The city was forced to halt burning operations at its dump and now has adopted a cut-and-fill method of disposal. That's a costlier operation, and the price is likely to be reflected in the future in garbage bills. And the garbage keeps piling up faster and faster.

What to do about it? Not even the scientists know yet, Wolf commented. They've tried everything from making fertilizer to building blocks of the refuse, but all the exotic methods have proved too expensive. Wolf has hopes that science still may come to the rescue, but in the meantime, the garbage heap is getting higher every day. til a countywide trasportation committee can study the question. Asked if the students expect the survey to have an effect on the freeway route, student Sandy MacKay replied, "This is a political decision to be make by the agencies involved." Mayor Werner added that much more than public opinion has to be taken into account in freeway building.

"There are questions of engineering, costs, and so forth. This report doesn't touch on those aspects, does it?" MacKay replied it docs not. Friedlund said the survey probably cost $200 or so in actual cash and perhaps $400 if the time of students and professors was added in. He estimated a similar survey by a private firm would have COSt $8000 to $10,000. The survey was done as a classroom exercise, and Friedlund said it might be the forerunner of others.

"This provides an opportunity for UCSC students to learn survey techniques on one hand, and to make a contribution to the community and to knowledge on the other," he declared. "It was much more meaningful than a make-work exercise." Land Owners Support 41st Avenue Job A petition stating owners of more than 60 per cent of land support a proposed 41st Avenue road improvement district will be presented to Capitola city councilmen Monday at 7:30 p.m. at city hall. The district would be between the freeway and railroad tracks on 41st Avenue, the west Capitola city limits and 42nd Avenue. The council will act on resolutions to have the district form ed, appoint an attorney, and ask for consent to establish the district from county board of supervisors.

An assessment district was attempted for the area about two years ago, but the effort fell through on the $865,000 contract price. The current proposal is for $585,000, and city officials say that figure may be lowered if some property owners dedicate some land toward the district. The contract price has been lowered because the district would not be responsible for sidewalks, a 22-foot curbed median strip has been eliminated, and the project does not include a drainage job. She said: "Your rhododetndron just went under water, will you please make up your mind about what you are going to do?" "There's no need to get cranky," I said. "Any marriage counselor will tell you that a man and wife should talk things over thoroughly and then make decisions together.

"So, let's start with the premise that a problem does exist. The-faucet-is-leaking. Right? "Right." "Okay, so we must decide upon the most economical and forthright approach to stop-the-leak. Right" "Right." "Now, which side of the faucet is defective" My wife said, louder than was necessary: "I can't tell you, but the bubbles seem to be coming up on the right side of the kitchen!" "I see," I said. "New we are getting someplace.

Do you suspect a worn washer?" My wife said, not too clearly: "Yesi ible thinkell ubble-oberum, bllutummmm!" "I said: "Are you eating something? Please speak more plainly so we can get on with the task before us." She said: "UMFUL UBBABLY HELPABUBBILE SIBLE OVERLYMN FLAB1JBBLER BLUB!" Becoming a bit pioued, I said: "Listen dear, calm down. Now let's begin again Dear? "Operator, we seem to have been cut off!" Page 35 In Soquel shrubs, and a bulletin board of coming events in i d-County. The park idea was approved by lot owner Art Morgan and Roy Morgan is donating his time free. or proven by archeol i a 1 findings. They do show how Jew- i -n iu I not as yet been translated 'mav wii mv Wat nnmhnr wtmllg a wt seems mat these scroll weie not DUt jn these caves! without interest, without fore- thought.

Obviously, the Essenes hoped that the library could be removed when peace came and read again. After two millenia their dream has been realized, By DON RIGHETTI Sentinel Staff Writer The U. S. Public Health Service estimates that in a typical year Americans throw away more than 30 million tons of paper, four million tons of plas-tice, 48 billion cans more than 250 a person and 26 million bottles and jars, or more than 135 a person. Santa Cruzans, of course, con- i tribute their per capita share 'to the national garbage heap.

The problem of disposing of the mountains of refuse isn't as bad here as in some of the nation's larger cities which are literally threatening to bur themselves under mountains of garbage. Still, the job of getting rid of Santa Cruz' litter is a sizable enterprise which Felton Businessmen Back Study The Felton Business men's Assn. threw its support Thursday night to a mounting com munity effort to determine the feasibility of establishing a unified San Lorenzo Valley recreation district. A letter urging the feasibility study will be sent to trustees of the SLV Unified School Dis- Tuesday night to undertake the study. Other business at the association's regular monthly meet ing included: STOP LIGHT Mem voted to request the county public works department to install a stop light at the Highway 9 Mt.

Hermon Road intersection, Felton's main intersection. Cooperation of the county department with state highway officials is needed to get the job done. BRIDGE Members voted to ask the county supervisors to repair the lights on the concrete bridge leading into Felton and to keep the bridge illuminated at night. To support the project, the group will ask that the bridge be included in the Felton Lighting District. CURVE Members voted to ask the county public works de partment to expedite correction of the lower curve of Graham Hill Road, which leads to Fel ton.

Members are unhappy about the hazards posed by the curve, particularly in the rain and frost seasons. Bus Trips Arranged For Rally Bus trips are being arranged by local organizations and individuals to an anti-Vietnam war rally Saturday at the polo grounds in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. The buses will leave from San Lorenzo Park under sponsorship of the Women International League for Peace and Freedom, the Unitarian Social Action Committee, American Friends Service Committee, and UCSC and Cabrillo College students. Ticket and other information )may be obtained by calling 426- U.S. Senator Wayne Morse and Dr.

Ralph Abernathy. Entertain- Country Joe and Phil Ochs Pianavilla WH smvvise fhe kitchen crew and Mario Es- posito will head a committee for the bar duties. A half honr meeting will precede the ac tivities. 1 I I 1 Project SCOUT To Offer Two Job Training Classes Into Biblical Times controversies and discussions." Further investigation has con- i i i i i i i New Park The first step in development of a park area next to the Soquel Post Office was begun this week when independent contractor Roy Morgan, on tractor, received in- A Look By PHILLIP JOHNSON UCSC Correspondent "The last three or four de- cades have brought to life more i 1 archeo ogical evidence on the oiuiicai penoa man mi we Leu- turies before, scholar Walter Fischel told a Merrill College audience Thursday night. Speaking on the finding of the Dead Sea Scrolls which have 1 i i the scholarly world," Dr.

Fischel ed their importance for research into the religious culture from which Christianity sprung. "The earliest biblical manu- I I A UCSC survey of Santa Cruz residents on proposed Highway 1 freeway routes got a warm and friendly welcome from Santa Cruz Mayor Richard Werner Friday. Werner said he is sure the report "will be well received" by the city council, even though it show amajority of residents don't want a freeway constructed now. He said he is "far more impressed with this survey than with the demonstrations at the highway hearing last month," and declared the noisy hearings "had no effect on me at all, or even an adverse effect." A contingent of UCSC stud- ients, led by professor of community studies and economics, William H. Friedlund, presented the report to the mayor.

Friedlund predicted the report will be controversial because it doesn't provide any clear-cut backing for any particular free-! way route. Some 19 students spent the past moth interviewing 940 city residents for the random survey Friedlund said he is confident the survey is valid and reflects current community opinion. Findings in the report showed 55.3 percent of citizens either don't want a freeway at all or want it postponed, while 44.7 per cent said they preferred la "through town" or "edge of town" route. There seemed to be a feeling among many people that a free wav js coming and that it is a matter of the lesser of several evils," the professor said. Mayor Werner said the city council is still divided on what freeway route to rccomment to state highway officials.

A copy of the report has been sent to the State Highway Commission. "The decision is not yet final," A 1 I-, tiit, me iniyi ubvubu, umu: a decision bv the state nrobablv won't be made until 1970, and, since freeway planning will take at least two more years- Wer" ner said the council "has sev-i aleral months in which to change its mind." m- K6DOM POF I i JtV I TUSTGeS Dress code, minority studies. are among the topics that will be considered by the Sant Cruz City Board of Education Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the board room. 133 Mission St.

Superintendent Carl WUsey will report the advice of the county counsel on future en-; forcement of the dress code in view of recent court decisions He also will review the schools plans to carry out provisions minority groups in America will be rePresented to be Doard for review. vincea rcsearcners inai i eiisn uirisuaniiy was, nowever. cfrnll frnm thp 1st C.on- i .,.,,1 Lrv rp the 1st Onturvl ziatiuii iwunu in wcuiiciiciu uui A D. Although there is no proof ing the six-day war which has from tne internal evidence of tne manuscripts, it is speculated, class will be tought by a graduate in home economics from the Santa Cruz Adult Education program. Training coordinator is Helen MacFadyen.

Child care classes will begin Nov. 17 in Santa Cruz at Trinity Presbyterian Church, telephone 426-1990, and Nov. 19 in Watsonville at First Methodist Church, telephone 724-0661. Homemaker aide classes begin Nov. 19 in Santa Cruz at Trinity Presbyterian Church, that they are the product ofUhsolutP mnvictinn that a late Jewish sect known as the Essenes, whose eremitic to be unearthed that will 11- Tne counc nas officially habits and desert habitat fit the luminate the Judaic and Chris-Dacked Route 5- a frcewav locale and the context of thetian tradition as never before -'through the city, rather than scrolls.

in conclusion, rother alternates. A vocal citi- The Essenes are mentioned Fischel remarked that the group has backed Route among others as the possible brary of manuscripts uan area near sect from which Christ arose, at Quimran as been carefully the ucsc campus, and county Although no religious or bib-hidden and stored. This a -supervisors have asked for a and Nov. 17 at First Methodist vnurcn in waisonvnie. 423-6556, or 423-1098.

The child care class will cover) Rally speakers include State 12 hours of instruction. ThejSenator Charles Goodell, former scripts extant had been no ear-Iical figure is mentioned by most probably to hide the spiri- rnoratonum on any decision un-lier than 916 A.D. Now, sud-jname in the newfound texts, tual wealth of the Essenes from denly, our knowledge has beenjthere is reference to a "Teacherkhe Romans who were crushing pushed back a thousand years." Righteousness" whom many the Jewish sects at the time, ftracc CrxAa homemaker class will cover 24 1 hours of instruction over a four-1 week period, with the classesiment will be provided by mem-meeting twice weekly for twoibers of the cast of The first eleven scrolls, doc uments from the dawn of the the Christian era, came to the hours. I have attempted to connect with thnst. Many more have pos tulated that he was a predeces- fear that the scrolls will de- istrov Christianity.

This is not the case; no faith can be shaken world's attention in 1947 when sor of Jesus, thus throwing Bedouin tribesmen 1 edjdoubt on the origins of Chris upon the cave in which the tianity. were hidden. This was only the Dr. Fischel takes a nother beginning of the discoveries in I view, "There are scholars who Italian Night For Elks and we are reading after two sex education and a number thousand vears their literarvof reDorts on new state laws It I Free training programs for "mature adults" who want jobs will be offered by Project SCOUT (Senior Citizens Out reach) beginning Nov. 17.

The programs will be in child care and homemaker aides, and will be offered both in Santa Cruz and Watsonville. SCOUT will aid in job placement fol lowing the completion of the course. "The aid of the program is two fold," SCOUT project head Lily Bournague said. "First, to help people become better train ed in their job capacity and, secondly, to supply help to the elderly, working mothers, the sick and the shut-ins." The child care program will be taught by a registed nurse from the County Health Department, and the homemaker aide Someone attending the Elks dg's Ifalian Night Thurs- day will walk away with the automobile being discussed by from left, emcee Ray Scott, Elks' officer Bob Bowman, Hr a. mm 9 fe 'vammmmmKi-- IB v.

ooaooooeeooty i the area of Quimran, according Dr. Fischel, who as a pro fessor of Semitic language and literature has been acquainted i fiwitn an aspects ot tne researcn and deciphering. "Since the finding of the first 11 scrolls, additional digging uncovered dozens of sites and hundreds of thousands of fragments of manuscripts. It is one of the greatest libraries of He-jbrew and Aramaic manuscripts in existence. A Big Rock Pile Forms In Capitola Stockpiling of about 4000 tons about 20 days to complete the 90 80 70 60 50 I i Pi-- heritage.

once the rock, which must 7 p.nui 11 effort thp winter storms sand from have on bringing in 1 natural currents. "We'll go along with that to Among the materials recover- struction ot a Capitola beach 0f a new state law that relates ed are all or part of every Igroin begins, said Jim Browne Browne said Granite will at- to sex education at the high biblical book save Esther. This Granite Construction Company lemPl 10 build tne groin scno1 level-permits comparison of the Bi- assistant manaser nf the Santa of last SeP; He said he plans to make ble as it has been handed down slslan mana8er 01 me 6anta tember. Capitola then approved nn th future of the with copies much nearer in date Lruz Granite's constuction bid of sex educatjon program in the to the original. "Comparison; The goin, which Capitola re- $159,844.

but asked if part of city's elementary schools at the with later manuscripts showsjsidents have been waiting for I 'he $88,500 earmarked for December meeting, remarkably faithful a smis-since Gov. Ronald Reagn signed yards of sand could be New materials or studv sion over the course of a August, 1968, a bill allocating ii of rock is needed before con- rocs is neeueu ueiuie con- 111 aicllC 1U11U3 1UI 11IC nmiui mill Avtn.j ozn Ul, YT1II CALCULI rt iu. i -t iieei, uu me enu 01 Avenue and is expected to build a total of 7000 tons of rock at the job site before we cam Start. We hope to get started the nrst ot tne year, Browne said. He estimated it would Iinium, said Dr.

Fischel. sneaks wp tnr thp authenti- Htv nf hihiinoi tovtc wvu At the time of the discovery WwH it mm PB serious questions were raised a sandy beach. a certain extent, Browne said. BLLE FLL BACKFIRES as to the authenticity of the; Browne said about 3000 tons If the project cost goes over; NEW ORLEANS (AP Al-Dead Sea scrolls. Certain schol-! of rock have been stockpiled the state appropriation, Capitola most 400 police and firemen ars claimed they were forgeries for the job so far.

"We need would have to pay the differ-called in sick Saturday during a Half Way The 1969 money raising drive of the United Fund of Northern Santa Cruz County has collected $74,037. or slightly more than 50 per cent of its $144,442 goal, according to Jack Ghielmetti, drive chairman. Ghielmetti requests area and division chairmen to complete their assignments. ence. jcampaign for higher "pay.

Offi- The Army Corps of Engineerscials said it was nothing but a pians to build a 350-foot groin "blue flu" epidemic of feigned Louie Facelll and general chairman Elio Orlando. An evening of dining and enter- tammem is planned for the event. The dinner will be prepared by Al Scopazzi. Pete the Middle Ages. "This should not surprise any-J one used to scholarship," com mented Dr.

Fischel. "Every volutionary archeological i s-! covery has experienced similar east of the existing wharf, but illness in eftect a strike and sus most Capitolans believe that pended 2d policemen and project is a long way off. missed 68 firemen..