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-- Tvrs historic a- - 1C001L2US1WBI" AR. U0. fa520i 76th Year No. 54 Good Morning! It's Thursday, November 15, 1984 2 Sections 14 Pages 25 Cents CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. ( UPI) Discovery's spacewalking sal-vage crew pulled a second satellite out of a useless orbit Wednesday in a spectacular space triumph made easy by using Joseph Allen as a hu-man skyhook 223 miles above Earth. Allen, perched on the end of the shuttle's 50- foo- t robot arm, held the glittering, 1,098- poun- d Westar 6 spacecraft " steady like a rock" above the cargo bay for more than an hour and half while Dale Gardner preparedto secure it. With Anna Fisher operating the arm and David Walker giving direc-tions from inside the cabin, the two spacewalkers outside lowered Wes-tar into a berth next to the Palapa sa-tellite retrieved Monday. " We have two satellites latched in the bay," commander Frederick Hauck reported jubilantly at 9: 04 a. m. CST, nearly four hours after the spacewalk began. " Roger, that gave us a big cheer down here," said Jerry Ross in mis-sion control. The astronauts are scheduled to bring their $ 70 million haul back to Earth Friday, landing at the Kenne-dy Space Center landing strip five miles west of the launch pad they blasted away from last Thursday. " I think you'll find that satellite is very clean," Hauck said, after in-specting Westar from his vantage point at a rear window of Discov-ery's cabin. " We may have nicked it a couple of places but I can't see anywhere we did." A television camera scanned the cargo bay and Ronald McNair in Houston control said, " It looks like you've got a full truck load there." " We sure do, and you've got one happy crew up here," replied Fish-er, two hours before the crew turned in for the night Although an earlier shuttle crew retrieved a scientific satellite for re-pairs in orbit, never before had men rescued satellites written off as lost by the insurance industry because of rocket fadure. No other nation has that capability. " All in all, there are literally hun-dreds of insurors who will benefit from the successful completion of this mission," said Stephen Merrett, head of the British insurance syndi-cate that financed most of the histor-ic salvage mission. He noted that the satellites will be overhauled and sold again to offset part of the insurance loss. The 5 Mi- ho- ur spacewalk went much more smoothly than Monday's retrieval when an obstruction on the satellite prevented the astronauts from using the arm to hold the satel-lite while it was prepared for mount-ing. It was to avoid such a problem Wednesday that Allen used the arm perch Hauck maneuvered Discovery to withir 35 feet below Westar 6 while the astronauts waited at the ready, gazing up at their gently spinning quarry. " Oh, wow, look at that satellite," said Allen As soon as the sun appeared over the horizon, Gardner took off with his 24- j- et backpack and soared to-ward Westar, approaching the 9- foot-- long cylinder with the blue- whit- e globe in the background, pro-ducing some of the most spectacular space television ever seen. Like the capture operation Allen performed Monday, Gardner in-serted a lance- lik- e grapple into a spent rocket in Westar, tightened some toggle bolts and secured him-self to the satellite. A few bursts from his jetpack stopped the rota-tion. Allen then locked his booted feet to the end of the arm and Fisher slowly raised him toward the satellite. With one hand he grabbed a tubular an-tenna and got a grip on a piece of spacecraft structure with the other. Gardner then backed away, leav-ing Westar in Allen's hands. " Establish a comfortable position and just kind of stay there," Walker told Allen. " I'm just going to relax," he re-plied The two spacewalkers had re-turned to the safety of the cabin by 12: 10 p. m. and Hauck gave an update to Ross to be relayed to mission con-trollers: " You can tell them the airlock is depressunzed and all is well with the world " Showing off art Blue Ridge Elementary School second- - Ciocca Tuesday taught the workshop for 6- gra- de teacher Donna Ciocca shows off a to 10- year- ol-ds on bookwnting and illustrat- drawm- g of one of her students, Ming Yu, 7 ing at the Columbia Public Library L , . , . , , SPACE CENTER, Houston ( UPI) Spacewalkers Dale Gardner and Joseph Allen worked hard and with precision during their 5M- ho- ur spacewalk Wednesday but they also found time to do some sightseeing, marveling at the Earth far below. " Look at the cities go by, Dale. Look at that," Allen said as they flew over Mexico. " Quite a long drop, this 200 miles would be, down," Gardner said. " You've only got the world for your life net, Dale," Allen replied. " Think about that." " Glad I'm holding on," Gardner said. When Gardner snared the errant satellite Westar using the same process that Allen followed with an-other satellite Monday, Gardner said the capture worked " just like you said, partner." " You done good," Allen respond-ed. Allen, standing on the end of the robot arm operated by Anna Fisher, grabbed Westar by its antenna after Gardner had attached himself to the satellite. " Are you finally coming up to see me?" Gardner asked. " You've been having fun, Dale," Allen responded. And hdeed he was. While Allen untangled his tether from the robot arm, Gardner went to a " free drift" to save fuel in his backpack. During the walk, the astronauts gave friendly warnings and compli-ments. " Don't rush any of this," one said. " We're almosthome." " Make sure there's nothing sharp there," co- pil- ot David Walker ad-vised Allen from inside the crew cabin " Be careful you don't bend the ( antenna). Stop it now, but stop it gently." " Believe me, brother, there's no other way to stop it," Allen said. " How you holding up up there?" Walker later asked Allen as the 130- pou- nd astronaut steadied the half- to- n satellite. " Well, we're not going to keep you up there too much long-er. Promise you." By Elizabeth Brixey Mlssourlan staf I writer For Columbians who may have sniffed a stronger odor of chlorine in their water last week don't worry. The city water department moved quickly to determine what was caus-ing the chlorine smell after it re-ceived a number of calls last week from residents within an eight- to- 1- 0 block radius of the water pumping station at West Ash Street and Ber- nadet- te Drive. The culprit was the Columbia Fire Department, which was checking hydrants and flushing water mains. It is a normal, periodic activity that stirs up sediments and upsets the chlorine balance, said Dick Malon, director of Columbia Water and Light Department Once the sedi-ment settles, the chlorine balance returns. " We try to get the fire department to tell us when they're flushing wa-ter mains and checking hydrants so that we can be prepared to answer reports," he said. Malon added that the department tries to do everything it can to insure the safety of Columbia's drinking supply. Water is tested hourly as it is produced at the Columbia Water Treatment Plant near McBaine, and bacteria samples are drawn weekly. Water Superintendent Don Sisson said water goes through several pu-rifying steps before it reaches the consumer. The first is ariation, in which the water splashes over trees to remove dissolved gasses. If gas- se- s are left in the water, it costs money and extra chemicals to re-move them. In the second process, known as lime- softenin- g, chlorine and lime are added to the water in treatment ba-sins. Lime causes minerals to come out, and chlorine disinfects and con-trols algae growth On sunny days, more chlorine is needed because the sun's ultra- viol- et rays break it down. In the final stage on the way to Co-lumbia, water passes through an an-thracite and sand filter. Before it reaches the consumer's faucet, chlo-rine is again added as the water leaves the remote- controlle- d West Ash pumping station. Water loss reported after main breaks By Pat Lee Missourian staff writer A broken service pipe and water main Wednesday morning caused a loss of water for businesses on Con- le- y Avenue from Hitt to Sixth streets and as far north as the Harvest Moon Restaurant, 27 S. Tenth St. Four businesses in the area also com-plained to the Water and Light De-partment of cloudy tap water. Joe Crane, water district manager at the city Water and Light Depart-ment, said a 34- m- ch service pipe was broken at Conley Avenue and Ninth Street about 10- 4- 5 a. m. The city was installing a water valve to supply an addition under construction at Ellis Library. Crane said service was re-sumed about 11 a. m. Later, Crane said crews broke an 8- in- ch water mam at Conley and Missouri avenues about 11: 50 a. m. Five valves supplying the mam were closed about noon, Crane said. The broken mam was fixed by 5 p. m. but clouded the water for businesses and homes from Conley Avenue to Cher-ry Street and from Hitt to Sixth streets, Crane said. June Gini, manager of the Campus Beauty Shop at 800 Conley Ave., said the low pressure caused problems during the day. " It made things complicated and twice as hard to wash hair," Gini said. Dan Ovshak, manager of Harvest Moon, complained of cloud tap wa-ter, as did Jan Keithley, general manager of McDonald's at W I. ow- r- y Mall. Complaints also were made by workers at Famous Freddy's res-taurant, 203 Hitt St , and the Heidel-berg Restaurant, 410 S. Ninth St " Anytime you have a water main break, you sur up the water a bit," Crane said, adding that the cloudy water would dissipate by the end of the day. Volkmer says liis sp& ce ride Is a long shot ByTodM. NattJr. Mlssourlan staff writer " Congressmen in Space." No, it's not the name of a new science- fictio- n thriller, but it could turn out to be a once- in- a- lifeti- me experience for Rep. Harold Volk- me- r. Volkmer, a Hannibal Democrat who recently won re- elect- ed to a fifth term in Congress, is eligible to be a passenger on a future space shuttle flight, but he isn't jumping at the chance just yet. " I wouldn't want to impose my-self more or less as a bystander when we're still in a developmen-tal ' stage and still conducting ex-periments," Volkmer said Wednesday from his Washington office Volkmer said speculation about his role on a future shuttle flight began. i - - ' I Filepi'Olo Harold Volkmer could take flight on shuttle. " I haven't even talked to NASA about it ( a shuttle ride)," Volkmer said, " and they haven't talked to me. I'm not looking at anything in the near future." Volkmer's eligibility stems from his role as chairman of the space science and and applications sub-committee of the House Science and Technology Committee. ' Smokebusters' hit Sacramento streets United Press International Are you smoking more but enjoy-ing it less? Hacking, coughing, chok-ing, smelling like an ashtray of ciga-rette butts? Who do you call? " SMOKEBUSTERS," during the eighth annual Great American Smo- keo- ut today. For the eighth year, millions of smokers will be challenged to give up the weed for at least 24 hours in the Smokeout sponsored by the American Cancer Society. Last year, nearly 20 million people started the day with plans to stay tob-acco- free. About 2 million suc-ceeded, the ACS said. Volunteers calling themselves " Smokebusters" plan to patrol Sac-ramento streets looking for lighted cigarettes. They will be brandishing water pistols, but said the troops are under orders not to squirt anyone. " We don't want to be mean to smokers," said spokeswoman Sha- - ron Muraoka. " We just want to en- - courage them to quit." Smokebusters will visit companies and schools in Milwaukee, while " Huffless Puffless, the Smokeless Dragon" rides a fire engine through Belchertown and South Hadley, Mass., and " The Draggin' Lady" hands out smokeout leaflets in Braintree, Mass. Larry's, an ice cream chain in Tampa and St. Petersburg, Fla., fea-tures a secret flavor, " Smokeout Swirl," and some Tennessee compa-nies are serving cold turkey for lunch Determined smokers who don't mind paying 50 cents for a pep talk can dial the Smokeout hotline 900- 210- KW- IT and smokers who need more tangible reinforcement can slip red rubber bands over their wrists and snap themselves to fight the urge. Concord, N. H., Mayor David Coey- ma- n and former Somersworth, N. H., Mayor George Bald said they will ride an elephant down Concord's Main Street if Executive Councilor Peter Spaulding quits smoking for the day. Last year, Bald gave Coeyman a ride around town on a rickshaw after Coeyman kicked the habit If Spauld-ing fails, he has agreed to ride a don-key. In Massachusetts, Kitty Dukakis, wife of Gov. Michael Dukakis, will tell a news conference how she has tried to give up smoking And Secre-tary of Human Services Philip, Johnston and Public Health Com-missioner Bailus Walker will an-nounce a major new no- smoki- ng pol-icy. Even non- smoke- rs can get into the Smokeout act by joining the ACS " Adopt- a- Smoke- r" program and providing moral support, snacks and diversion for their charges. At Harbor Place Mall in Balti-more, smokers will fill a 6- fo- ot bird nest with cigarettes then burn them while the Baltimore Orioles' mascot watches. i
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Item.Transcript | -- Tvrs historic a- - 1C001L2US1WBI" AR. U0. fa520i 76th Year No. 54 Good Morning! It's Thursday, November 15, 1984 2 Sections 14 Pages 25 Cents CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. ( UPI) Discovery's spacewalking sal-vage crew pulled a second satellite out of a useless orbit Wednesday in a spectacular space triumph made easy by using Joseph Allen as a hu-man skyhook 223 miles above Earth. Allen, perched on the end of the shuttle's 50- foo- t robot arm, held the glittering, 1,098- poun- d Westar 6 spacecraft " steady like a rock" above the cargo bay for more than an hour and half while Dale Gardner preparedto secure it. With Anna Fisher operating the arm and David Walker giving direc-tions from inside the cabin, the two spacewalkers outside lowered Wes-tar into a berth next to the Palapa sa-tellite retrieved Monday. " We have two satellites latched in the bay," commander Frederick Hauck reported jubilantly at 9: 04 a. m. CST, nearly four hours after the spacewalk began. " Roger, that gave us a big cheer down here," said Jerry Ross in mis-sion control. The astronauts are scheduled to bring their $ 70 million haul back to Earth Friday, landing at the Kenne-dy Space Center landing strip five miles west of the launch pad they blasted away from last Thursday. " I think you'll find that satellite is very clean," Hauck said, after in-specting Westar from his vantage point at a rear window of Discov-ery's cabin. " We may have nicked it a couple of places but I can't see anywhere we did." A television camera scanned the cargo bay and Ronald McNair in Houston control said, " It looks like you've got a full truck load there." " We sure do, and you've got one happy crew up here," replied Fish-er, two hours before the crew turned in for the night Although an earlier shuttle crew retrieved a scientific satellite for re-pairs in orbit, never before had men rescued satellites written off as lost by the insurance industry because of rocket fadure. No other nation has that capability. " All in all, there are literally hun-dreds of insurors who will benefit from the successful completion of this mission," said Stephen Merrett, head of the British insurance syndi-cate that financed most of the histor-ic salvage mission. He noted that the satellites will be overhauled and sold again to offset part of the insurance loss. The 5 Mi- ho- ur spacewalk went much more smoothly than Monday's retrieval when an obstruction on the satellite prevented the astronauts from using the arm to hold the satel-lite while it was prepared for mount-ing. It was to avoid such a problem Wednesday that Allen used the arm perch Hauck maneuvered Discovery to withir 35 feet below Westar 6 while the astronauts waited at the ready, gazing up at their gently spinning quarry. " Oh, wow, look at that satellite," said Allen As soon as the sun appeared over the horizon, Gardner took off with his 24- j- et backpack and soared to-ward Westar, approaching the 9- foot-- long cylinder with the blue- whit- e globe in the background, pro-ducing some of the most spectacular space television ever seen. Like the capture operation Allen performed Monday, Gardner in-serted a lance- lik- e grapple into a spent rocket in Westar, tightened some toggle bolts and secured him-self to the satellite. A few bursts from his jetpack stopped the rota-tion. Allen then locked his booted feet to the end of the arm and Fisher slowly raised him toward the satellite. With one hand he grabbed a tubular an-tenna and got a grip on a piece of spacecraft structure with the other. Gardner then backed away, leav-ing Westar in Allen's hands. " Establish a comfortable position and just kind of stay there," Walker told Allen. " I'm just going to relax," he re-plied The two spacewalkers had re-turned to the safety of the cabin by 12: 10 p. m. and Hauck gave an update to Ross to be relayed to mission con-trollers: " You can tell them the airlock is depressunzed and all is well with the world " Showing off art Blue Ridge Elementary School second- - Ciocca Tuesday taught the workshop for 6- gra- de teacher Donna Ciocca shows off a to 10- year- ol-ds on bookwnting and illustrat- drawm- g of one of her students, Ming Yu, 7 ing at the Columbia Public Library L , . , . , , SPACE CENTER, Houston ( UPI) Spacewalkers Dale Gardner and Joseph Allen worked hard and with precision during their 5M- ho- ur spacewalk Wednesday but they also found time to do some sightseeing, marveling at the Earth far below. " Look at the cities go by, Dale. Look at that," Allen said as they flew over Mexico. " Quite a long drop, this 200 miles would be, down," Gardner said. " You've only got the world for your life net, Dale," Allen replied. " Think about that." " Glad I'm holding on," Gardner said. When Gardner snared the errant satellite Westar using the same process that Allen followed with an-other satellite Monday, Gardner said the capture worked " just like you said, partner." " You done good," Allen respond-ed. Allen, standing on the end of the robot arm operated by Anna Fisher, grabbed Westar by its antenna after Gardner had attached himself to the satellite. " Are you finally coming up to see me?" Gardner asked. " You've been having fun, Dale," Allen responded. And hdeed he was. While Allen untangled his tether from the robot arm, Gardner went to a " free drift" to save fuel in his backpack. During the walk, the astronauts gave friendly warnings and compli-ments. " Don't rush any of this," one said. " We're almosthome." " Make sure there's nothing sharp there," co- pil- ot David Walker ad-vised Allen from inside the crew cabin " Be careful you don't bend the ( antenna). Stop it now, but stop it gently." " Believe me, brother, there's no other way to stop it," Allen said. " How you holding up up there?" Walker later asked Allen as the 130- pou- nd astronaut steadied the half- to- n satellite. " Well, we're not going to keep you up there too much long-er. Promise you." By Elizabeth Brixey Mlssourlan staf I writer For Columbians who may have sniffed a stronger odor of chlorine in their water last week don't worry. The city water department moved quickly to determine what was caus-ing the chlorine smell after it re-ceived a number of calls last week from residents within an eight- to- 1- 0 block radius of the water pumping station at West Ash Street and Ber- nadet- te Drive. The culprit was the Columbia Fire Department, which was checking hydrants and flushing water mains. It is a normal, periodic activity that stirs up sediments and upsets the chlorine balance, said Dick Malon, director of Columbia Water and Light Department Once the sedi-ment settles, the chlorine balance returns. " We try to get the fire department to tell us when they're flushing wa-ter mains and checking hydrants so that we can be prepared to answer reports," he said. Malon added that the department tries to do everything it can to insure the safety of Columbia's drinking supply. Water is tested hourly as it is produced at the Columbia Water Treatment Plant near McBaine, and bacteria samples are drawn weekly. Water Superintendent Don Sisson said water goes through several pu-rifying steps before it reaches the consumer. The first is ariation, in which the water splashes over trees to remove dissolved gasses. If gas- se- s are left in the water, it costs money and extra chemicals to re-move them. In the second process, known as lime- softenin- g, chlorine and lime are added to the water in treatment ba-sins. Lime causes minerals to come out, and chlorine disinfects and con-trols algae growth On sunny days, more chlorine is needed because the sun's ultra- viol- et rays break it down. In the final stage on the way to Co-lumbia, water passes through an an-thracite and sand filter. Before it reaches the consumer's faucet, chlo-rine is again added as the water leaves the remote- controlle- d West Ash pumping station. Water loss reported after main breaks By Pat Lee Missourian staff writer A broken service pipe and water main Wednesday morning caused a loss of water for businesses on Con- le- y Avenue from Hitt to Sixth streets and as far north as the Harvest Moon Restaurant, 27 S. Tenth St. Four businesses in the area also com-plained to the Water and Light De-partment of cloudy tap water. Joe Crane, water district manager at the city Water and Light Depart-ment, said a 34- m- ch service pipe was broken at Conley Avenue and Ninth Street about 10- 4- 5 a. m. The city was installing a water valve to supply an addition under construction at Ellis Library. Crane said service was re-sumed about 11 a. m. Later, Crane said crews broke an 8- in- ch water mam at Conley and Missouri avenues about 11: 50 a. m. Five valves supplying the mam were closed about noon, Crane said. The broken mam was fixed by 5 p. m. but clouded the water for businesses and homes from Conley Avenue to Cher-ry Street and from Hitt to Sixth streets, Crane said. June Gini, manager of the Campus Beauty Shop at 800 Conley Ave., said the low pressure caused problems during the day. " It made things complicated and twice as hard to wash hair," Gini said. Dan Ovshak, manager of Harvest Moon, complained of cloud tap wa-ter, as did Jan Keithley, general manager of McDonald's at W I. ow- r- y Mall. Complaints also were made by workers at Famous Freddy's res-taurant, 203 Hitt St , and the Heidel-berg Restaurant, 410 S. Ninth St " Anytime you have a water main break, you sur up the water a bit," Crane said, adding that the cloudy water would dissipate by the end of the day. Volkmer says liis sp& ce ride Is a long shot ByTodM. NattJr. Mlssourlan staff writer " Congressmen in Space." No, it's not the name of a new science- fictio- n thriller, but it could turn out to be a once- in- a- lifeti- me experience for Rep. Harold Volk- me- r. Volkmer, a Hannibal Democrat who recently won re- elect- ed to a fifth term in Congress, is eligible to be a passenger on a future space shuttle flight, but he isn't jumping at the chance just yet. " I wouldn't want to impose my-self more or less as a bystander when we're still in a developmen-tal ' stage and still conducting ex-periments," Volkmer said Wednesday from his Washington office Volkmer said speculation about his role on a future shuttle flight began. i - - ' I Filepi'Olo Harold Volkmer could take flight on shuttle. " I haven't even talked to NASA about it ( a shuttle ride)," Volkmer said, " and they haven't talked to me. I'm not looking at anything in the near future." Volkmer's eligibility stems from his role as chairman of the space science and and applications sub-committee of the House Science and Technology Committee. ' Smokebusters' hit Sacramento streets United Press International Are you smoking more but enjoy-ing it less? Hacking, coughing, chok-ing, smelling like an ashtray of ciga-rette butts? Who do you call? " SMOKEBUSTERS," during the eighth annual Great American Smo- keo- ut today. For the eighth year, millions of smokers will be challenged to give up the weed for at least 24 hours in the Smokeout sponsored by the American Cancer Society. Last year, nearly 20 million people started the day with plans to stay tob-acco- free. About 2 million suc-ceeded, the ACS said. Volunteers calling themselves " Smokebusters" plan to patrol Sac-ramento streets looking for lighted cigarettes. They will be brandishing water pistols, but said the troops are under orders not to squirt anyone. " We don't want to be mean to smokers," said spokeswoman Sha- - ron Muraoka. " We just want to en- - courage them to quit." Smokebusters will visit companies and schools in Milwaukee, while " Huffless Puffless, the Smokeless Dragon" rides a fire engine through Belchertown and South Hadley, Mass., and " The Draggin' Lady" hands out smokeout leaflets in Braintree, Mass. Larry's, an ice cream chain in Tampa and St. Petersburg, Fla., fea-tures a secret flavor, " Smokeout Swirl," and some Tennessee compa-nies are serving cold turkey for lunch Determined smokers who don't mind paying 50 cents for a pep talk can dial the Smokeout hotline 900- 210- KW- IT and smokers who need more tangible reinforcement can slip red rubber bands over their wrists and snap themselves to fight the urge. Concord, N. H., Mayor David Coey- ma- n and former Somersworth, N. H., Mayor George Bald said they will ride an elephant down Concord's Main Street if Executive Councilor Peter Spaulding quits smoking for the day. Last year, Bald gave Coeyman a ride around town on a rickshaw after Coeyman kicked the habit If Spauld-ing fails, he has agreed to ride a don-key. In Massachusetts, Kitty Dukakis, wife of Gov. Michael Dukakis, will tell a news conference how she has tried to give up smoking And Secre-tary of Human Services Philip, Johnston and Public Health Com-missioner Bailus Walker will an-nounce a major new no- smoki- ng pol-icy. Even non- smoke- rs can get into the Smokeout act by joining the ACS " Adopt- a- Smoke- r" program and providing moral support, snacks and diversion for their charges. At Harbor Place Mall in Balti-more, smokers will fill a 6- fo- ot bird nest with cigarettes then burn them while the Baltimore Orioles' mascot watches. i |