Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph from Colorado Springs, Colorado • Page 11

iLo(aJ Thursday, June 24, 1976 UCCS Needed After SERI Loss By STEPHEN BOBBITT GT Staff Writer The failure to locate the national Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI) in Colorado Springs necessitates a analysis of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS). Earlier this month, the Midwest Research Institute recommended a Denver site for the solar institute over Colorado Springs due to the availability of doctoral programs at the CU Boulder Campus. we have a example that points out the importance of said David Sunder land, who represented the Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce during the SERI campaign here. time is ripe for us to do something. We need to get our ducks in line and strike while the opportunity is present.

We can benefit from this After it was determined that a Denver site would be offered in the national campaign to lo- CAP TRAINING-Members of the Civil Air Patrol are undergoing survival training in Pike National Forest. Airman 2.c. Bill Britton, instructor from Fairchild AFB, shows some students a rabbit he has captured (above). Below, left, Gazette Telegraph Photos hv JOHN MORGAN cate the solar institute, Sunderland told the local committee, need to prepare a white paper on the importance of UCCS to the community of Colorado are some employers, private and. government, who look at UCCS and say.

what we need is not in place and operating then not interested in locating Sunderland said in a recent interview, want to speculate and that's basically what Midwest businesses reviewing Colorado Springs as a possible location for their operations are to play a role in the of the city and the university, Sunderland contended. think it's important what we should have done; what going to he said. El Paso County has not had the strength as a unit to promote A on UCCS should be prepared now, Sunderland said, so local education institutes at legislators will have the facts UCCS to permit residents and during budget hearings in the others a chance to to intellectual 'With a white paper we, need to deepen our rela- Can do more and our legislators I tionships with town and gown will have something besidesjhe said. think the bmsineis emotion when they plead their has only begun to case, Sunderland said. the capabilities of the UCCS A consisting and vice representatives from the univer-j A potential hazard to promot- sity, the business community.

UCCS and not following politicians and interested citi-i through has been cited by some zens should be created firms which lo- Sunderland explained. jcated here and were promised need to get our act institution that offered nd- gether and give better support i vanced business and technical to he said. training. The Colorado Springs effort to kept those prom- locato the solar research Sunderland said. i in Colorado Springs the office we can pull together and a community to be Sunderland said.

not a benefit of the SERI loss was an exercise in the community pulling together for a common cause. UCCS offers a opportunity to pull together boosterism thing; a belief in the community and a decision! think Colorado Springs has to make it The of UCCS is tremendous, Sunderland continued. He noted the need for concluded that nobody can help Colorado Springs but us. got to step out and help your- Britton skins the rabbit, while (right) Jeff Paulson of Sarita Barbara, and Pete Vozzo of Mississippi State University prepare a fire for the stew. Chin-Qua-Pin Days To Begin Friday Sixty Civil Air Patrol (CAP) cadets from some 14 states have been spending this week in a wilderness area some 12 miles north of Woodland Park.

The project is not a fun camping trip, although most ot the cadets are having fun. The object of the en campment is to learn skills for survival skills that may Chin-Qua-Pin 9:30 a.m. Thursday in anticipa- youth pow-wow, highlighting what is called the best and most traditional in Indian encampments, begins Friday in the shadows of the Garden of Approximately 1,000 Indians from various tribes in the na tion of the three-day event. A Friday evening perform ance is to feature the traditional shawl dance contest, with entries including girls aged 9-14 years and 15-19 years. Also participating will be tots ranging in age from 2-8 years.

The Ablett, the activities at 6:30 p.m. Sunday when the fancy war dance contest is In the tradition of the youth w-w war dance contestants range in age from 9-14 and 15-19. tion will gather for the event, contest begins at 6:30 p.m. and Indian spokesmen Beulah and Dan Ablett said that authentic mean the difference betweenLrts and crafts, parUcularly in life or death, once the teenagers Held of turquoise, will be are full-fledged members of theifeatured. Civil Air Patrol.

festival begins Friday ky-County Health OfHcialsBegin I DDT Spraying ToF ight Plagu Fleas According to Ken Clark, of the Civil Air Patrol, there are punches in the training course which has been planned and is conducted by personnel from the Air Force Academy, The survival course is similar to the one taken by Academy cadets each year. This week the cadets have been learning such survival techniques as shelter construction, land navigation, making improvised clothing and backpacks and the use of medicines to be found in the wilderness, projects included food preparation. The cadets were given rabbits they trapped but were brought in to the area by the Air Force which they Idlled, skinned and put into a stew for the Wednesday evening meal. The cadets were also taught to make beef jerky in smoke tents. The skills will be valuable to CAP air search and ground rescue units which often have to Itrek miles through the wilds, said.

I Phil Spinelli, 15, a former Woodland Park resident who and runs through Sunday. There are 6:30 p.m. performances of various events Friday, Saturday and Sunday and on Saturday and Sunday there are 1 p.m. matinees. The event is presented by the Lone Feather Council of Colorado Springs, under the direction of council chieftan Mike Concha of the Pikes Peak Region.

are numerous tribal customs that will be reflected in the said Ablett, one thing that should attract most observers is the spectacular design of the Indian costumes. They are authentic and hand-made, down to the last On di.splay will be an authentic replica of an Indian village. Activties include special is to be followed by the buckskin traditional girls of the same age category. Saturday 10 a.m. kick off features the Lone Feather Council and individual giveaway event.

At 1 p.m. Saturday a grand- to the first in a two-part bicen- Leisuretime Starts New Series Beginning in Leisuretime Sat- mother-grandchild contest will be youths ranging in age from 2-14, to be followed by the traditional drummers and singers, group ages of 8-19 years; the cloth traditional contest, featuring youths 9-15 15-19 and tots 2-8 in age; and the Indian special dancing event. festivities begin at 6:30 p.m. and feature tennial feature series, Civil War Nobody by William Edward Syers, Southwestern author and historian of Kerrville, Tex. The series, relating the almost-unrecorded invasion of the Far West, is abstracted from new historical novel, Devil (G.P.

Sons). bicentennial series, like p.m. and feature some traditional Indian novel itself, trails one Con- dances; grandfather-grandchild federate cannon, captured in contests; and topped off with the traditional drummers-singers contests. 1 p.m. event features the Amer- the New Mexico mountains by Texas cavalry, all through the ordeal of its war to its burial and subsequent monumenting on the town square of Fairfield, dian dances, youth singing and And this will be followed the annual Miss judging and awarding of contest.

prizes in the craft tent Teepees were being set up in Indian special dancing, the Garden of the Gods at al 30 a major said contest. Entries include of Waco. The book has girls 14-19 and tots 2-8 years in called one of the most historical novels yet to come from the American West. Devil may be obtained at local bookstores. Officials of the El Paso City- iounty Health Department said V'ednesday that a training aimed at reducing uman exposure to plague car- fying fleas, is scheduled to ficgin at 1:30 p.m.

today south Colorado Springs. Dr. Charles H. Dowding, director of the department, said the program will control flea populations with teams of individuals who are trained in dusting rodent burrows with DDT. He said the chemical kills only the fleas, not their rodent carrier.

Though it is possible for an insect population to adapt to DDT, resistance will not develop with one time contact, Dowding said. And despite popular opinion, he said DDT is not a insecticide. The rock squirrel will receive number one priority from the flea-dusters on the El Paso County team, Frank Otoupalik, of environmental health Other counties to get the will be Pueblo, Teller, Fremont, Custer and August and September are peak times for plague, he said. For that reason, it is important to concentrate now on the prevention aspect as regards the flea. It should take from two to four days to clear up the problem in El Paso County proper, Otoupalik said.

He said that ex- many people had called him, Collins, fering lo volunteer in the effort. w'hen he said Dowding said that wilder- pounds of six percent experience I would be available for use in fieii campaign. Conflicts Of Interest Discussed Girl Born Aboard Helicopter A first in the history of the Army occurred Wednesday night some 8.000 feet above Castle Rock when a baby girl was born aboard a MAST helicopter. The helicopter was on its way to Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Denver with Pfc. Glenn Lewis and his wife, Connie, who was due to deliver a premature baby and needed access to phisticated facilities at the Aurora hospital.

The stork w'ait. Heather Ann Lewis was deliv- jered into the world at 7:40 p.m. the assistance of Spec. 5 Tommy Haverkorn and Pfc. Debra Klinefelter.

The birth is the first in a U.S. Army helicopter, according to Maj. Arnie Anderson of the Ft. Carson Public Information Office. Mother and daughter were duly delivered to Fitzsimons and were reported to be doing well.

Anderson said the pilot of the craft, Capt. Kenneth Hogan, extremely proud of the way the young specialists handled the delivery. It was very Lewis is a member of the 571st Medical Detachment at Ft. Carson, While the courts often express the need for competent volunteers in government, they even more often rule in support of ithe of propriety by public officials. City Attorney (iordon Hinds of Colorado Springs said Wednesday, Speaking at a working session of mayors and council members scale.

at the Colorado Municipal; League (CML) conference here, Hinds told the elected officials they should, if at all possible, (Continued on Page 3-B) He said the hardest task to master was making a backpack, however in spite of the hard work involved, like all of As a break from the rigors of outdoor life, the cadets will be treated to a western chuck wagon dinner tonight and an awards banquet at the Academy NCO Club Friday night. Friday, the cadets will complete their week of training with water survival. As an official auxiliary of the Air Force, the Civil Air Patrol conducts programs in senior training, disaster relief, communications. search and rescue and cadet training on a nation- Gazette Telegraph Mitsing? Dial 632-5511 before 8 p.m. weekdays: 2 p.m.

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