Show The Utah Statesman Monday January 12 1981 Page 5 California quake termed likely by The Associated Press He Final Word this i' aixuhri m a m ik-- s ii'e hool ilk qx-- a si on s hool tiaclmons at l'SU in i ailnit st ui lent I'sr spent a little hit ol time on this campus In ltiit nine one ol the appalling fiends I've Kitncsseil is the death ol the light song toed at the BYl’ game in Provo last (sat neat a month and in the esi nemeni ol it all she thought nothing ol — nnu li to rising and sin nitiig hei a use the ( 'on gat s vs ere out I her she didn't sing the I’SL’ light shs ms di'inas I Si doesn't hase a light song van Mien plied R()N(‘ INI’ dues h ee a light sung and it was a pretty good one I N i' a I rri ai! that one ol out own despeiate to would opt to soialie the rvpress enlhiisi oui at he game tight song ol the opposition heloie she’d leu n the winds to As a gi I eur on II teiiied 'hen I U here is a pi arm I mini It how ihiomi this situation had heiome hi- winds nl the light song" I n to !eat n hi a worn n in the hulletm or eli hed in btonc on the Spei wall I mi's i an I eypet I people to know them i si I 1 to st Uhoam maki a I sit dilli-- l iah A National Security study has said that a devastating earthquake will probably strike California within die next 150 years and it said all levels of government are woefully unprepared to deal with what will lie the worst natural disaster in Amrrit an history 1 he study said the (hutces are greater than 50 percent that such a catastrophe will occur by the year 2010 Chances of a major quake are particularly high in the Los Angeles area and such a quake could kill more than 1 3 000 people fie study was ordered by President Carter liter fie viewed the destruction caused by the Mount St Helens volcanic eruption he forecast is for a tremor with a Richter scale reading of 83 The Ric liter scale gauges enetgs released by an earthquake as tuetsuted by ground motion I he most latnous — and most devastating quake in Alltel lean history occurred in 100b in San Francisco when an estimated 7 00 persons were killed and the ensuing fires virtually leveled the city I here was no Richter scale then but it ssas later determined that the San Francisco quake would have had a reading of alxiut 83 Scientists have long predicted that quake-pron- e California is due for another big oune Stoddard by Tom (This A'ASHINCTON’ (AP)— lei iuse e ei mm am I" the ni e lime sou heal si me points’ l ies Apadis has kihed our lighl song A iiiuple seals igo Steve Price as Atf I h piesuleni punted the winds and distributed tin in at the llomeiommg game Before kiikoll hall the pa pi i was tolded and on the field the tl 1 1 earthquake I lie report said that in the past 12 cen- times there hase been eight major earth quakes along the San Andreas fault about 30 miles from Los Angeles They occur about every 140 years give or take 30 years the report said and since the last big quake happened in 1857 another major quake can Fte expected in the next 30 years The study pointed out that geologic evidence points to other faults which are c apable of c ausing major earthquakes in the San Francisco- - Oakland areas the immediate Los Angeles region and San Diego If an earthquake comparable to the 1857 event were to strike the most vulnerable area ground shaking would extend in a strip 250 miles long and 100 miles wide the report said 'I hat would cover almost the entire Los Bernadino metropolitan area stretching north to the coastal cities of Ventura Santa Barbara San luis Obisbo and inland to Kern County "For tfie most probable catastrophic earthearthquake — a Ric htcr magnitude quake similar to that of 1857 which ocurred along the southern San Andreas fault — estimates of fatalities range from alxiut 3000 if the quake were to occur at 2:30 am when the population is relatively safe at home to more than 13000 if the earthquake were to occur at 4:30 prn on a weekday when much of the population is either in office buildings or on the streets” the study said Property damage could amount to $70 Angcles-Sa- n billion though arriMis niinn eiiguieeiuig msolsed hetmehanii ssas a tuu disrrsiun lule f iIIosm ng upon Uidwr game m the notueil the i heetleuleis at the Spectrum I lies weten t tiiosmg llieir and suspected this didn't ktloss the winds eithet lesulted was a sin repl it ions ettoit to discover the mouiis Bhat this I I 'talus n i lie lighl Ming fust Ionian was Val Potter the i urrent Athletic sue r’rsidi nt vs hi helped tmmenselv bv giving me a i opv ol Itih ggie Songs" a lompilation ol words and nuisu lor ill kinds ot tunes used over the vetrs anil published by die I Immd it titled simply umrii Xssoiialion On page si ISL light song" "LSI' it s time to light! light' fight! Mi n ol Nass blue and sslute light! light! light' Ms '!' Reading music just a little bit I disioseieci the tune to tins ntten light song was NO I the tune the band shenesei the team came down tile tunned onto played the llool nest i it tu was releiente to an umdentihcd xoutec the pep band (deep thioat) who made me understand shat was going on Ms I'hin has a dilieient score bv Knighton airanged by entitled "L'Sl' light" that it plass Out problem 'hen is not the lack ol a fight song but lather that we hase 'so! As I couldn't find the words to this oilier tune and thought the beetle tdets a i oust tenuous lot who would sing the words it then- weic alts mv suspicion was that the second song— the one pltsed bv popular acclamation — has never had Cross Country Nordic Skinny Skiing Nor-Pinni- ng Fast Sticking Ski Running The hand Dalits c llvrii wrilien lot it to find the missing lyric so I tried to leader adviser to r (infirm its existence Mter three days ol disconnected phone I was successful in basing her a message but unfol tunatelv was out ol the oilier "hen she returned mv tall Come press lime 1 must confess v failure I still don't know if the purported fight song has The next c Holt ssas Irene Bates iheet sail "ords or not R f" Editorializing for a moment let me say I don’t care what do but I would like to do something If the old song is too 0 sng or play or whatever fine then let’s use the tur-j- s tent tune But let’s find the words to that tune and publish or somehow teach them to the student body If after an ausuve search we find no words let’s commission one of creative minds 1 d volunteer on campus to write a lyric In such an to help out ef-°r- fi THE FINAL WORD: The first PCAA game is this Thurs-I- f d I m sure Coat h T wouldn’t mind at all if we filled P e ball barn with resonating chorus 1 AND WE DON’T DO ANYTHING ELSE |