Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1984-11-15

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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
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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.
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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.
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