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76th Year No. 289 Good Morning! It's Wednesday, August 29, 1984 9 Sections 68 Pages 25 Cents
Computer fault
grounds shuttle
for third time
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. ( UPI)
Launch- ev- e problems with the
hard- luc- k space shuttle Discovery
forced mission planners to postpone
its maiden blastoff at least 24 hours
until Thursday the third launch
delay in two months.
Discovery was scheduled to blast
off at 8: 35 a. m. EDT Wednesday on a
six- da- y mission to launch three com-munications
satellites.
But National Aeronautics and
Space Administration spokesman
Jim Ball said engineers decided to
postpone the blastoff after problems
were found with an onboard comput-er
system that controls critical
events during launch. No other de-tails
were immediately available.
" It's scrubbed 24 hours," Ball
said.
Discovery and its six- memb- er
crew were scheduled to spend six
days in orbit before gliding to a high-speed
touchdown on a dry lakebed at
Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., on
Sept. 4.
Commander Henry Hartsfield, co-pilot
Michael Coats and crew mem-bers
Judy Resnik, the second Ameri-can
woman to get a shuttle ride, Ste-ven
Hawley, Richard Mullane and
Charles Walker were told late Tues-day
they would not fly the next day.
Walker, an engineer with McDonnell
Douglas Astronautics Co. and the
first commercial astronaut, will op-erate
his company's continuous flow
electrophoresis system, a biological
processor that will utilize the weight-lessness
of space to purify samples
of a top- secr- et hormone
Engineers on Tuesday, however,
found evidence indicating a com-mand
timing problem with Discov-ery's
two master events controllers.
The electronic units send timed
signals that fire explosive bolts re-leasing
the shuttle's solid rocket
boosters from the launch pad for lift-off
and other commands that blow
the spent rockets away from the
climbing spacecraft two minutes
into launch.
They also control the separation of
the external fuel tank when it is
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empty.
The astronauts' first order of busi-ness
on the flight is the launch of
SBS 4, a communications satellite
owned by Satellite Business Sys-tems,
that relies on a commercially
developed solid rocket booster
blamed for the loss of two satellites
in February.
Discovery's primary payload is
made up of what was to have been
flown on the shuttle's first two mis-sions
But the second flight, also sched-uled
for Aug 29, was canceled after
the shuttle's aborted launch June 26
and the payloads of the first two mis-sions
were combined to lessen the
impact of the delay on NASA's pay-ing
customers.
Discovery's first launch try failed
June 25 when a backup flight com-puter
broke down.
While the cause of the abort 24
hours later is not fully understood,,
engineers suspect tiny particles in a
main engine fuel- val- ve assembly in- terfer- red
with the valve's operation,
prompting engine shutdown four sec-onds
from Iftoff.
The revised cargo includes Ameri-can
Telephone & Telegraph Co.' s
Telstar 3, the identical SBS 4 and
Syncom 4, a radio relay station
leased by the Navy for $ 83.7 million
over the next five years and an ex-perimental
solar cell array.
The mission is a milestone for the
space agency not only because Dis-covery
is an untried shuttle but also
because Telstar and SBS rely on
rocket motors called payload assist
modules to get their boost to orbits
22,300 miles above the equator where
objects appear stationary relative to
Earth.
Telstar and SBS cost about $ 35
million each and each company paid
about $ 10 million for the shuttle
launch They are both insured for
about $ 100 million the amount that
would be needed to replace and re-launch
them at current prices.
Record heat sizzles
Tigers' scoreboard
By Andrew Ezer
and Chela Caughron
Ml8SOurlan staff writers
Columbia sweltered under record- breaki- ng
heat Tuesday as tempera-tures
soared to 106 degrees, appar-ently
touching off a fire under the
main scoreboard at Faurot Field
and forcing the University to issue a
peak energy alert.
Weather forecasters predict no re- k- ef
for at least a week from the heat,
which broke 100 degrees for the first
time this summer.
That same heat has been tenta-tively
listed as the culprit for an
electrical fire Tuesday under the
main scoreboard at Faurot Field, a
University official said.
The fire was detected at 4- 3- 0 p. m.
and contained in a toll box directly
below the scoreboard, according to
Assistant Athletic Director Joe Cas- tiglio- ne
The toll box contains elec-trical
circuits that link a computer
to the scoreboard.
Casbglione didn't say when the
scoreboard will be fixed, but he said
he hopes it will be operational by the
tune the Tiger football team plays
its first homegame Sept. 15.
The cost of damages were not
known Tuesday, but Cashglione said
it will cost the University a mini-mum
of $ 10,000 to have the toll box
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TrenI Bushner
Shoppers browse through the old Gmelich and Schmidt Jewel
ry Co. in Boonville Everything -- n the store, which closed in De
cember, was auctioned off Tuesday At left, Tom Baird of
Olathe, Kan , looks at the store's trademark, an old dummy
watch and Tiffany- styl- e stained- glas- s dome crafted around the
turn of the century
On the auction Mock
Boonville jewelry store puts
a bit of history up for sale
By Jol Morris
Mlssourlan staff writer
BOONVILLE In a town that
takes pnde in its historic structures,
a bit of history went to the auction
block Tuesday.
Gmelich and Schmidt Jewelry Co ,
established in 1860, closed its doors
on Christmas Eve, 1983 On Tuesday,
the owners sold everything remain-ing
of the store.
" I didn't realize how many things
we had in here," said store owner
George Lamm of the hundreds of
items scattered throughout the store
and the lot behind the building
Gmelich and Schmidt Watchmak-ers
and Jewelers was founded by Ja-cob
Frederick Gmelich, a German
immigrant, in Boonville. The busi-ness
later moved to its current loca-tion,
309 Main St
For the past nine months, Lamm
has been trying to sell the business
but found no buyer Finally, he was
forced to liquidate
More than 100 people came to the
sale of hundreds of items ranging
from gold watches crafted in 1875 to
watch cases from the 1980s.
One remaining bit of history was a
sales ledger from 1862, along with
artifacts from the 20th centurj , . such
as an Oct 25, 1935, issue of the Boon-ville
Advertiser
Lamm decided to sell the property
in December so he could retire to
Nehi Lake Lamm said he wants to
be able to get up in the morning and
go fishing He also has a traiW and
plans to do some traveling
The Boonville native began work-ing
in the jewelry store 37 years ago
He purchased the business in 1961
The building, built in 1863, is a pre-cious
piece of history many local
residents do not want to see de-stroyed
They are concerned about the fu-ture
of the historical building, just
south of the Missouri River bridge
on the north end of Mam Street,
Lamm said
Above the storefront hangs a large
dummy watch bearing the company
name over a oneof- a- kin- d tiffany
style stained glass dome and win-dow,
installed around the turn of the
century
The green and gold, eight- fo- ot
dome and art- dec- o stained glass win- -
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Battle lines drawn on farm bill
By Evan Miller
Mfssourlan staff writer
The battle over the 1935 farm bill
is being fought by Goliaths Davids
need not apply for this job.
Agribusiness giants such as Car- gil- l,
Monsanto, J. R. Reynolds and
John Deere are squaring off against
lobbyists from groups representing
the nations' wheat, soybean and corn
producers, as well as the National
Farmers' Union, the National Farm-ers
Organization and the American
Farm Bureau.
The Farm Bureau is the nation's
largest voluntary general farm orga-nization
and the group is using all its
influence to ensure that Farm Bu- -
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reau views on the farm bill are
heard.
" The 1985 farm bill is a priority is-sue
for the Farm Bureau," Dean
Kleckner, president of the Iowa
Farm Bureau, told one of the first
House hearings in February. " Work
is already under way in the Farm
Bureau to ensure a maximum
amount of input to the legislative
process in development of the 1985
farm bill."
As the commodity and agribusi-ness
interests grow larger in num-ber,
farm groups are becoming in- -
creasingly worried that their voices
will not be heard.
" The possibility exists that others
will take over," says Bob Hipzhusen,
director of national legislative pro-grams
for the Missouri Farm Bu-reau.
" People are coming out of the
woodwork."
The farmers' complaints do not re-ceive
much sympathy from agribusi-ness.
" We have a legitimate interest in
the bill," says Don Slocum, public
affairs director for the agricultural
division of Monsanto.
Farmer groups are at a disadvan-tage
not only because they are few in
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Medical school to fill administrative gaps;
search for fiscal officer ranks as priority
By Tom Warhover
Mlssourlan staff writer
-- The University School of Medi-cine
will begin filling three posi-tions
for associate and assistant
deans, and the search for candi-dates
will be confined to Universi- S- r
staff and local physicians, Wil- a- m
Bradshaw, the school's new
dean, said Tuesday.
Bradshaw said he has begun
searching for a fiscal officer who
will hold the rank of assistant
dean. Assistant deans for student
affairs dean and academic affairs
will also be sought
The announcement came at an
" unofficial meeting" of about 200
faculty, hospital staff and students
who came to hear Bradshaw's first
address as dean. Provost Ron
Bunn announced two weeks ago
that Bradshaw would serve a two- ye- ar
term as dean.
Bradshaw had served as interim
dean during a 16- mo- nth search for
the school's new dean Bradshaw
had been associate professor of
family and community medicine
prior to his selection as interim
dean, and he had been in charge of
all continuing medical education.
" I intended to close the chapter
as interim dean and begin a new
chapter as dean," Bradshaw said
after the meeting.
Bradshaw now has only two in-terim
associate deans Douglas
Griggs Jr. for research, and Wal-lace
Rogers Jr. for student affairs.
They work in the dean's office
parUime, in addition to their reg- -
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