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Environme t Stud·e by Area St 1d nts Observance Goal Called Continued Fight for Survival Earth Oa gnnc. At. scho0l tt,rou hout · San Diego CoEnly, and aero s the nation, studcnls apd teachl'r gath<'red v. ith ,., nservdt1onis and pollution experL~ ;yesler- da to learn what s1,011ld he done to save the environment. The thPmc. anrl the hopr>, miJ'rorcd bv tre observance w s that ~~a~lh Da} wtll bc C\• r1 ·day, that man will v.ork lo ~ve h1~ C>nv1ronmcnl.

B,\( 1· TO R\RTH-An abandoned automnbil is put 10 use by students at the Uni~ersity of Ca!i- fomia at San Diego during Earth Day activitie.. Students planted flo ver · in the dirt-fillPd hood

of the ('81' and dedieatc>ct i1 as 1111 '11\ 11·,mmrntal monum nt. It will be allowed lo ru. l had, into the earth and rccyele in o a natural t rori- ul'l o[ the environment.

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'I· ·> Charger, ~am Squads Play Ridge Benefit · For one night only, the San Diego Chargers are returning Charles Hentz lo the place they found him - a bask,tball court. ''This is our 'sleeper,' " cap- tain Kenny Graham said }ester- day in announcing Hentz. a 6-5 leaping whiz from Arkansas A&l r. will play for the Chargers against the Los Angeles Rams in a benefit game for Houston Ridge at the U gym tomor- row at 8 p.m. Ridge, a four-year defensive lineman from San Diego State, suffered a hip injury last season which has terminated his foot- ball career with the Chargers. Hentz is the athlete whose jumping skill entranced Sid Gill- man when the Charger general manager saw him play for the Rocket rookies against the Rll.5- sian . ational b~sketball team in 1969. After Hentz was the last cut of the National Basketball As ociation team, Gillman signed him for a football trial as a tight end. "If he plays football like he does basketball, he should be around 10 to 15 years,'' pre- dicted Graham. "He can stand flat-footed, leap up and just lay the ball in. The Russians had a (Continued on d-4, Col. 3)

Ridge Benefit Game ~S: (Continued from Page d-ll 7-2 cen er and he was hatting the ball back mto his face ' Lance worth, Jotin Had!, Bob Briggs, Levert Carr, Russ mlih, te ve DeLong and Gra- ham ' hd\ joined Hentz m the an, Die o team ·s practices. The Rat ts' Roman Gabriel has vol- unteered to donate his services for this game with Dick Bas , M)Ton Pottios and Clancy Wil- liams among the other Los An- geles footballers due to play. " I don't think I can stand the blows to the head without a hel- met," admitted Graliam. Tickets for the game, priced at I for adults and 50 cents for children, are available at the Charger ticket office at the LaFayette.Hole'.. They also will , be sold at the gym tomorrow, starting at 7 p.m. .for tho e unable to attend the game, donation _9 Ridge can be mailed to JQhn di, an Diego Chargers, Post O fice Box 4068, •'orth Park Station, San Diego, 92104.

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polluter when it was aban- doned. It will ht> recycled the way we should recycle all our wastes so we can p'reservc our resources." Booths were placed around the campus where "ludents handed out literature on em i- ronmental problems. About 1.200 persons gath- ered at Grossmont CoJ1ege to hear _D_r. Benjamin Spock, pe- diatnc1an and author, speak a8 part of Earth Day activi- ties. "The country will continue to be polluted at a frightening rate," Spock said. ''One or 100 ceremonies won't stop it as long as there are people who find it economical to pollute the atmosphere. They will continue to do it until we im- press our local officials." At Southwestern College, st~dents observed Earth Day with day-long activities, which began at 9 a.m. with informal discussions among students and faculty members in the Student Union. Antipollution displays were put up by the students and 111- formative pamphlets were handed out. The displays co1·- ered air pollution, pesticides, water pollution and means of recycling wastes back into the environment. One of the speakers was Bob Wills, director of the federal

l)1ego, fro talked on tile pollution of an Die'go Bay and executive '.,r ders designed to ha!• polluti,;n_ A video tape l cture by Dr. Paul Ehrlich, proft•ssor of '.B1olog) at Stanford Univrrsi•y and author of ''The Population Bomb," was at the South- western Campus Dr . Roy \\agnu, head of thP county Smog Advisory Board, spoke at the Cal Western campus of U S. International University and told about 1,000 persons that man's contemot for nature is the root cause o! the present environmental crisis. ·'We have fought agamst na- ture and ravaged it, and thats the reason we are now livin" on a planet that is fouled b~ all types of pollution," he said. Seminars Under Way Cal Western alsu 1~ holdin" a week-long senes of se ,. nars_. workshops and teachin : sessions concerning the env - •: • ronmcnt. Students at El CaJon, Mor ; ' and Mad1\on high schools a ' well as elementary, Junior and semor high schools throughout the county cleaned up their campuses and conducf.l:d van- ous Earth Da · pro ects.

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Stoff Photo the object of attention of his wife and his children, from the left, Tasha, 5 weeks, Robm, 8, Tony, 7, and Kevin, 5. A benefit basketball game for Ridge tips off tomorrow.

Seemingly, the awesomely-strong, the mo t indestructible of the Chargers. Then he suffered the hip injury which has ended his career and made him 270-pound Houston Ridge was