Today, the second in a series of Earth Days at Mississippi State University, will be devoted to a Environmental Talk-In on the drill field.

The Guillotines will kick off the talk-in at noon today on the drill field. After a keynote address by Dr. Chester McKee, vice-president for research, a moving microphone will be passed among members of the audience to begin a dialogue on the survival of mankind.

Tomorrow, April 22, is Earth Day, climax of four days of activity at MSU and months of preparation by national personnel in Washington. Sam Love, REFLECTOR editor last year, is Southern Director for the national moratorium on pollution.

Speakers from industry, government, and private conservation groups will pose and answer questions relating to ecology, beginning at 8:30 a.m. in the Union Lounge.

The keynote address will be “Pollution Control for Environmental Health Purposes,” by Joe Brown, Director of the Division of Sanitary Engineering for the Mississippi State Health Department.

The eight-hour teach-in will begin with a program directed by Dr. Denzel Ferguson, professor of Zoology and chairman of the Environmental Committee at MSU. His topic is “Why Earth Day?”

Bobby Redding, District Sanitary Engineer for the Mississippi State Health Department at O%ford, and Eugene E, Addor, a Research Botanist for the Corps of Engineers at Vicksburg, will speak on “Solid Waste Management” and the “Effect of Watershed Control on the Ecosystem” at 8:40.

After a short intermission, James Molpus, a member of the Mississippi State Senate from Clarksdale, will speak on “Pesticide Contamination in the Environment of Agriculture” at 10:25. The keynote address will follow at 11:10.

N.L, Stampley, Chief Engineer for Mississippi Power and Light Company in Jackson ,will speak on “Mississippi Power and Light Company Activities in Environmental Control” at 1:15 p.m.

Afterwards, Barry O. Freeman, Chief of Fisheries for the Mississippi Game and Fish Commission in Jackson, will speak on “Pesticides and Their Effect upon Fish and Wildlife” at 2p.m.

“Air Pollution and Its Control in the State of Mississippi,” to be delivered by Jack Curry, head of the Division of Air Pollution for the Mississippi Air and Water Pollution Administration in Jackson, and “Environment and the Forest Resources” by Tom A. Sailors, Jr., of the Southern Pine Association of New Orleans will be the final speeches.

A clean-up drive was Monday’s main feature. Students, faculty members, and local citizens picked up bottles, cans, and other litter from along roadsides and the collection will be displayed in the Union parking lot tomorrow.

The first of the four Earth Days, Sunday, was a concentration of sermons delivered by Starkville area ministers on the issues of pollution, population, and natural resources.

No complete sermon was delivered on ecology although three pastors, the Reverend D, C. Applegate of the First Baptist Church, the Reverend Perry H. Biddle, Jr., of the First Presbyterian Church, and Father John P. Egan of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, mentioned environmental problems in their sermons. Thirteen other ministers either did not speak on ecology or could not be reached for comment.

Other Earth Day activities will be held at the University of Southern Mississippi, Mississippi State College for Women, Murrah High School in Jackson, and jointly by Millsaps College, Jackson State College, and Belhaven College. A state-wide meeting of the National Campus and Hikers Association will be held Wednesday April 22.

In addition to a panel discussion on “Ecology in the Modern World” at MSCW, students signed a giant litterbag to be sent to President Nixon as a petition for a nationally designated “Earth Day.” “W” students will also wear green clothes and green ecology buttons to show their support for the program. The panel discussion will include several faculty and community-industrial leaders.

Three speakers included on the program at the University of Southern Mississippi are Peter Hackes, well-known member of the National Broadcasting Company news staff; Leon Jaroff, science editor of Time magazine; and Dr. Richard Harriman, Stanford University biologist.