October 14, 1970 Cosmic Column by Maurice ARIES: Bad month for partici pating in activities involving fris bees and incantations of Hare Krish na. Look for a change in your love of rudabagus around the fourteenth, nineteenth, and twenty-fourth. TAURUS: Good time to start a ban the bra riot at a bridal shower. Try to be more acetic in the future. GEMINI: You’ll find a disgusting delight in the misfortune of a close relative. Don’t allow this to upset your bathing habits. CANCER: Women’s Lib will dis cover an advocate close to you who is a spy for male chauvinists. Be sure of your feelings toward her. LEO: Don’t be disappointed if friends find your constant monopoly playing a bore. Remember, the. Boardwalk wasn’t built in a day. VIRGO: Place no faith in barbers who believe Spiro Agnew is presi dent and Adolf Hitler is really How ard Hughes. Especially if his as cendent is Mars. LIBRA: Diabolical plots develop around the fifteenth.. Don’t be of fended if your favorite cartoon char acter becomes involved with the SCORPIO: Your sexual prowess will be stifled if you continue to divulge the secrets of the Tibetian Book of the Dead to uninitiated members of the YMCA. SAGGITARIUS: Observations by friends find your integrity in ques tion because of your cheating in sol itaire. Be more careful on the thir tieth. CAPRICORN: Remember a friendly unicorn during the first half of the moon. Remain warm toward fascist jellybeans. AQUARIUS: Wine in old Ripple bottles should not interfere with the zest you have for the Pillsbury Doughboy. Pay close attention to movie titles. PISCES: Try to be more active in egg-rolling contests, especially with friends who love Chinese food. Don’t be mislead by synthetic fabrics. Student Affairs Office Twyla Brown lends students a hand. THE CAPITOLIST Ecology, You Can Buy It At The Supermarket What you choose at the store reflects are among the worst offenders. Re your concern for the quality of our turnaoie bottles are still our best environment. buy, they are cheaper and can be re- Phosphate Detergents used. The increasing quantity of phosphor- So: Buy soft drinks and beer in re ous entering our waterways stimu- turnable bottles, lates excess algae growth. When Ask your dairy company to use re large amounts of algae decay, oxygen turnable bottles, necessary for acquatie life is deplet- Write to companies (ie. Reynolds ed. Pollution results. In a study and Kaiser Aluminum) commend by the Federal Water Quality Ad- ing recycling projects, ministration, WISK, TREND and Over-Packaging DIAPER-PURE had substantially The consumer pays twice for over the lowest phosphate content out of packaging: in the cost of the pro -23 major presoaks, laundry and auto- duct and in trash disposal. The matic dishwasher detergents. Bureau of Solid Waste Management So: Use WISK, TREND, or DIAPER statistics show that 46% of munici- PURE for laundry, or pal Solid Waste is paper and card- Use Soap powder and Washing board. ,• , Soda. So: Buy simply-packaged items, not Use much less dishwasher deter- items in multiple containers or wrap gent. ped in several layers of paper. Write detergent companies to Pesticides print analysis of contents on boxes Unwise use of pesticides can destroy and to eliminate phosphates. our environment and threaten man’s Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) containers health. The Rachel Carson Trust The Bureau of Solid Waste Manage- for the Living Environment recom ment Director, Mr. Richard Vaughan mends: says “When packaging containers Use sprays and dusts only when manufactured of PVC are burned, absolutely necessary. corrosive gases are formed capable Use mulches, cultivation, diversity of severely damaging air cleaning in planting and manures in garden devices in incinerators. In addition, ink if excessive quantities are emitted Never Use: from the incinerators, damage to Dieldrin plants and buildings may result.” Endrin PVC is a serious pollutant. Aldrin So: Avoid products in clear, non-rig- Toxaphene id, glass-like containers. Some pro- Heptachlor ducts which frequently are packaged in PVC are: Shampoos Hand lotions Mouthwashes Cooking oils Hair tonics Some alcoholic beverages Buy these products only in glass con tainers. Write companies protesting the use of PVC. Returnable Bottles Our nation is facing a garbage and litter crisis. Throw-away containers DDT Chlordane Lindane Mercury- Lead Arsenic Suggested for specific, careful use— Read fine print on label. Household insects: Dri-Die, Drione diatomaceous earth. Household and garden insects: py rethrum, rotenone (poisonous to fish), ryania, sabadilla (poisonous to bees). Fungi, rusts, rots, viruses and some insects: Bordeaux mixture (hydrated lime and copper-sul phate), copper-lime mixtures, sul phur, and sulphur-lime mixtures. Rats: Warfarin (keep secure from other animals). Never pour pesticides down drains or into streams or lakes. Poet’s Corner by Michael Rix A man and a woman united into one . : • juvu wm created me, Deep was that love that made me and the two before, Their love brought forth two more And after that no more were bore. As we grew up we grew apart, Between us the world; among us nothing. Now that we are grown we never had known That love was something more than a word. The house was not a home, The brothers were not brothers And the sister was too young to know About the hassle of her home. A house made up of seven bored me, Shallow was that love that destroyed
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers