Albertson s
named
target
in lettuce
boycott
A nationwide boycott against non-union
lettuce has been underway since October and
has recently picked up momentum in Oregon,
with boycott committees being established by
Chicanos and others in Portland and Eugene.
“The main thing here is to get picketers
and delegations to talk to managers of local
stores carrying scab or non-union lettuce,”
stressed Albert Enriquez, a United Farm,
Worker representative presently working in
the Portland boycott headquarters.
Enriquez made his appeal Monday before
representatives of campus progressive
organizations at a meeting of the “Liberation
Support Group.”
Albertson’s, a food chain store that buys
lettuce from Bud An tie Inc., is the major
picket target. Antle is the world's second
largest produce dealer and main target of the
UFW boycott.
Cesar Chevez, leader of the United Farm
Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC),
was jailed for three weeks shortly before
Christmas after defying a court-order to end
the boycott. As he went off to jail he advised
his followers to “Boycott the hell out of
them.”
The United Farm Workers are also
picketing 30 military installations across the
nation in protest of increased purchases of
lettuce by the Defense Department, which
UFWOC claims has tripled it’s lettuce pur
chase since the boycott began.
Urging University students to picket the
stores with non-union lettuce and buy only
UFW produce, Enriquez explained that An tie
had made an agreement with the Teamsters
Union that is not recognized by the United
Farm Workers. “There were no free elections
and they (Antle) didn’t ask the farm workers
what they wanted but worked through the
Teamster’s Union,” Enriquez explained.
A lettuce boycott information table has
been set up on the EMU terrace, and another
organizational meeting is scheduled for early
next week.
Lack of communication cited
Cause of Apollo mishap found
By DEAN WHEELER
Of the Emerald
A ‘bureaucratic blunder’ is the
probable cause of the motor
failure on the Apollo 13 mission
according to NASA scientist,
Hans Mark director of the NASA
Ames Research Center, Mof
fetfield, California.
Mark, a member of the panel
which investigated the near
tragedy, said in a speech
Thursday afternoon, “There was
a lack of communication between
the contractor (Beach), North
American Rockwell, Corp., and
the technicians at Cape Ken
nedy.”
The fault, which was basically
a change in power sources,
resulted when Beach and North
American Rockwell, Corp. failed
to make known to NASA the
changes in specifications.
NASA’s committee, which
acted in an interesting, if not
amazing, detective story,
reconstructed the “incident”
from skimpy evidence.
Working with only telemetered
data and pictures, the panel
members theorized, and fairly
accurately, that a set of wires
within a pressurized liquid
oxygen tank burned, resulting in
a pressure rise, which sub
sequently destroyed the fuel cells
which powered the service
module—that portion of the ship
which was to have circled the
moon.
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mittee members asked was ‘what
caused teflon insulation to burn,
when a thermostat controlling
the temperature was supposed to
shut off the heating element at 80
degrees Farenheit?’ The answer
was simple: while the system
which failed was being tested on
the ground, the power source
used to activate the heater was
Direct Current.
Here was the ‘bureaucratic
blunder.’ Beach had requested
permission to use an alternating
current power source for the
heater—reason: to save money.
The ground crews, unaware of
the change, accidentally ruined
the thermostat, resulting in a
heater which did not shut off at
the prescribed 80 degrees, but
rather reached a temperature
high enough to melt the insulation
from the wires.
The wires, now bared, caused a
short circuit and a spark when
the astronauts activated the fans
on the heater. The derivation of
which was a fire. This fire in
creased pressure in the liquid
oxygen tank and the tank blew a
cork, literally. The escaping gas
then blew a panel from the side of
the service module as a result of
the pressure, and the fuel cells
were ruined. Hence, the
astronauts had no way to return
home—but, of course, the Lunar
Landing Module (LEM) had its
motors which eventually did
bring them back to Earth. If the
accident happened on the way
back to Earth, there would have
been no LEM to save them.
And all this raises one
question. With Apollo 14 blasting
off Sunday, have adequate
measures been taken to protect
the three men?
According to Mark, the
problems of Apollo 13 have been
alleviated. However, the new
theories have never been tested
in space conditions. Whether or
not the system works will be
checked by men who could lose
their lives during those tests.
Mark pointed out that the
astronauts are trained to handle
emergencies—their whole
background, that of a test pilot, is
such that it allows them to react
swiftly and decisively in an
emergency situation. It was
Mark’s opinion that non-test
pilots would not have returned
from Apollo 13.
Another portion of the question
about safeguards is whether or
not mishaps on the ground suf
ficiently effect the flight plan.
Mark stated there were some
10,000 checks made on the space
craft before launch. He related
that approximately 30 of these
procedures deviated from nor
mal on Apollo 13. One of those
deviations noticed an ab
normality in the oxygen tank
which was eventually found by
trial and error to be faulty.
Mark continued that money
played an important role in the
decision to continue the mission.
Money won—the mission went on,
and almost ended in tragedy.
There is one obvious conclusion
to all this: if a manned space
program is to be carried out both
efficiently and safely, then
money should not be a con
sideration. Furthermore, any
slight problem, down to a missing
screw, should not be overlooked
for any reason. After all, is a
man’s life really worth a
scientific discovery of any
magnitude?
Finally, we must question, in
the light of the Soviet’s successful
Lunokhod 1, the mechanical
Moon walker, if a manned
program is essential. Obviously a
man can do more on the moon
than a machine, but would it be
possible to use the money saved
by concentrating on an un
manned program in a better
fashion? The 91st Congress
started the financial cutbacks to
NASA and wrestled with the
National priorities issue. We can
only wait to see what the new
Congress will do.
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