MULTI-PURPOSE CENTER - Due to be completed in December is the new activity center, located north of the new physical education building. The center presently is without a name. Suggestions are being accepted in the athletic vice president 's office until Tuesday , 5 p.m . The name should be
unique and should not have "ce nter" in it as there are several "c enters" on campus. It also should be a name that is not linked with a particular activity. Final decision on the name choice will be left to the USU Inst itutional Council.
Homeless flood victims receive aid By Arnold Zeitlin A11octated Pre11 Writer
Dacca, East Pakistan (AP) Cholera has begun to spread among hungry, homeless sur~ vtvors of the cyclone and tidal waves that devastated heavily populated i1land1 at the mouth of the Ganges River and stretches ot the East Pakistani coast behind them. E1tJmate1 of the total cuualtles were still only gue11es, although reilef officials said that the count of the dead had reached
Anisuzzaman said the storm Friday hit an area of 2,388 square miles in five districts with 2.2 million people. Casualty reports still were unobtainable from many areas because of ruined communications facilities, he said. President Agha Mohammed Yabya Khan and a group of
population of 600 persons per square mile , was destroyed on Hatia, the neighboring island of Bhol and the mainland. The government estimated that 250,000 tons - 2 percent of East Pakistan ' s annual harvest . was destroyed. Bodies were buried in mass graves. Survivors remained
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Dead All Arouod Some survivors were dragging the bloated carcasses of cattle to burial pits. A few human corpses lay in the rice paddies , still
55,000. Information Secretary Syed Ahmed spoke of possibly "300,000or 500,000"dead, adding that such numbers were not confirmed. Cholera, a disease endemic to the area, was reported spreading on Hatia, one of the stricken Islands In the Ganges delta cyclone alley. Three ships sent there with medical supplies were waiting for swift currents to subside so they could land their cargo.
International students have organized a relief fund, on behalf of all USU students, for the victims of the devastating tidal waves. A table has been set up in the UC basement to
collect donations . The donations will be sent to the International Red Cross, which has already begun the relief operations. Indian Student Association will sponsor a
movie from India for additional fund-raising. The English sub-titled movie "Padosan" will be screened this coming Friday, Nov. '1:1. Proceeds of the movie will be contributed to the relief fund.
Water Polluted
newsmen flew over the area for more than two hours on Monday.
wandering about on high ground. Brackish water ffood in the rice fields, stained red by the blood of cattle flung about by the ISO-mile winds and 20-foot waves characteristic of Bay of Bengal cyclones. Such storms are called
unexplored by the survivors becau se of the standing water. On southern Bhola, a few homemade boats could be seen, little bigger than canoes, carrying people to a beach that had no vegetation . Live cattle
Officials feared a widespread epidemic due to polluted water and the destruction of sanitation facllitle1. Relief Comml11ioner A.M.
Rice Crop Destroyed The rice crop, always insufficient for the area's dense
stood in little clusters, awaiting the death that would come because they had no food. In nothern Bhola, where the island 's biggest towns are, flood waters were more widespread than in the south but more Hfe was visible. New Lile Begun Amid the devastation, the peasants were picking up their lives again, beginning to put up new huts from whatever materials they could round up and spreading out the household possessions they had salvaged, placing them on lines and fodder mounds to dry . The devastating cyclones from off the bay are a semiannual fact of lile, coming every spring and fall with hundred s of thousands drowned and widespread destruction. The peasants are resigned to this inevitability. Radio Pakistan said everybody was killed on 13 islands near Chittagong, a mainland city southeast of Bhola. Aid Sent Anissuzzaman sa id $2.7 million was released by Karachi for reli ef and another $46 million was set aside.