Banner Graphic, Volume 9, Number 235, Greencastle, Putnam County, 9 June 1979 — Page 2

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, June 9,1979

American Airlines flight engineer George Green inspects a DC-10 for more problems with the engine mounts. The Federal Aviation Administration will put one of the plane's engines through a series of tests to determine if the powerplant itself might have been a factor in the recent O'Hare crash which claimed 275 lives. (AP Wirephoto).

More FAA tests due for DC-1 Os

WASHINGTON tAP) - The Federal Aviation Administration plans to put a IX’-IO engine through a series of rigorous tests to determine whether powerplant problems might have contributed to the crash of one of the big jets in Chicago. The tests will be conducted next week at the Peebles. Ohio, plant of General Electric Corp., which makes the DC-10 engine. “It’s one several things we’re looking at in the overall investigation of the DC-10 and its problems,” FAA spokesman Fred Farrar said Friday. He said the main focus of the investigation will continue to be on the engine mounting assembly, or pylon, which links the engine to the aircraft wing. Inspections of DC-lOs since the May 25 crash in Chicago have disclosed numerous cracks in the pylon. The FAA suspended the design certificate of the wide-bod-ied jet Wednesday, saying there

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might be a design deled in the pylon. The action grounded all 138 DC-lOs operated by U.S. airlines. Although the order did not apply to foreign-owned aircraft, the FAA said all foreign operators of the aircraft have taken their planes out of service. Farrar said the engine will be tested because some questions have been raised about the possibility engine vibration might somehow have affected the pylon and contributed to the

Senate expected to challenge missile plans

WASHINGTON (AP) - Pres ident Carter’s decision to push for full-scale development of the S3O billion MX mobile missile system is expected to be challenged in the Senate next week, but survive intact. A military weapons bill scheduled for debate Monday would authorize $670 million for the program. The money, requested earlier this year in Carter’s 1980 budget, is for engineering work on the missile. Sen. George McGovern, DS.D., who is expected to lead a campaign to delete the MX money, said Carter’s decision, announced Friday, “could represent the biggest single waste

crash in Chicago in which 275 persons were killed. The American Airlines DC-10 crashed on takeoff after one of its w ing engines fell off. Describing the tests, Farrar said: “An engine with a pylon attached will be attached to something solid to simulate a wing. A blade from one of the compressor fans will be removed to induce imbalance and vibration.” He said the engine will be started, stopped and run under

of public funds since the Vietnam war. “It adds nothing to our defense capability except more surplus overkill but it will cost at least S3O billion and, more likely, SSO billion,” McGovern said. McGovern’s effort is not expected to succeed because it appears there is no broad-based opposition to the missile. Sen. John Stennis, D-Miss., chairman of the Armed Services Committee, welcomed the president’s action as “an essential step on the way to devel-

various conditions during the test period, expected to last 10 days. He emphasized that a fan blade was not missing from the engine on the crashed plane. Meanwhile, the investigation was concentrated at the McDonnell Douglas Corp. plant in Long Beach, Calif., where the DC-10 is manufactured. Investigators of the FAA and National Transportation Safety Board are poring over documents used in the process that led to certification of the plane

oping a new and survivable missile for the future.” Stennis and others, however, called on Carter to come to a speedy decision on how to deploy the missile. “The time for temporizing, while our surivability problems continues to get worse, is over,” said Kansas Republican Bob Dole, a candidate for the GOP presidential nomination. Sen. John Tower of Texas, ranking Republican on the Armed Services Committee, said the timing of Carter’s decision a week before the SALT II summit in Vienna “is transparent SALT salesmanship...

Sleeping pills recalled, may have cancer-causing chemical

WASHINGTON (AP) - Some well-known non-prescription sleeping pills will be temporarily missing from drug and grocery shelves soon as manufacturers voluntarily recall products the government says contain a cancer-causing chemical. Products covered by the recall include such sleep aids as Nytol, Sominex, Excedrin P.M. and Compoz, all of which have been manufactured with methapyrilene, an antihistamine found to cause liver cancer in rats. The Proprietary Association, a trade group whose members make 80 percent to 90 percent of the non-prescription products which contain methapyrilene, announced Friday its members would remove from store

Communist officials concerned about Pope's visit

KRAKOW, Poland (AP) - Pope John Paul 11, having made the case for human rights once again, returns today to Krakow’s “model socialist” suburb where he built a church in defiance of communist authorities after a 20-year struggle. But the pope will not enter the new church in the suburb of Nowa Huta, a steel town built after World War II as Poland’s first planned socialist community. He has chosen instead to visit an older church the Holy

as airworthy eight years ago. FAA administrator Langhorne M. Bond said the FAA wants to learn whether any design defect slipped by in the process. The agency also has asked the eight IJ.S. airlines which fly the aircraft for maintenance records and case histories on each plane. In another development, Philip A. Hogue, whose three-year term on the safety board expired Thursday, was hired Friday by the Airline Passengers Association to be director of its newly-created Washington office. The association, a consumer group representing 50,000 persons who fly commercial airlines regularly, filed a suit in U.S. District Court here earlier this week, seeking a grounding of the DC-lOs. A judge granted that request just hours before the FAA ordered the planes out of the sky.

calculated to ‘buy’ ratification of the SALT II treaty.” The main purpose of the MX system is to provide a weapon that is not vulnerable to increasingly accurate Soviet missiles. Although final details are being worked out, the outlines of the new system were sketched at a Pentagon briefing. Each 190,000-pound MX missile, carrying 10 warheads, would be deployed on a 4,000mile network of either paved roads or railroads connecting

shelves drugs taken orally that contain the suspect chemical. The National Cancer Institute concluded in April that methapyrilene, which has been used in drugs for 25 years, caused cancer in rats and could be presumed to do so in humans. In addition to the popular sleep aides, the recall also will cover any cough, cold and allergy products using the chemical. However, the voluntary recall will not remove over-the-count-er nasal sprays and skin medications that contain relatively small amounts of methapyrilene since the risk associated with those preparations is much lower, {he government said. The Food and Drug Administration had said earlier this

Cross Sanctuary. John Paul dedicated the church of St. Mary, Queen of Poland, two years ago as Cardinal Karol Wojtyla. It was a victory in the struggle for building permits, construction equipment and supplies from communist officials whp felt the church had no place in a model Marxist town. Church sources confirmed communist officials are still concerned about the pontiff’s visit to the suburb where the church stands as a symbol of his

Two feel bone marrow cancer cause is radiation

By JO THOMAS c. 1979 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON 1945, when James J. McDaniel, then 24, arrived in Nagasaki, Japan, one of 2,200 Marines quartered in a bombed-out waterfront hotel. While they cleaned up the rubble from the moonscape that had once been a city. McDaniel drove a dump truck. “I helped pick up metal,” he remembered. “It was cold there were puddles and frost on the ground but the metal felt warm in my hands.” “You could take bricks, and they’d turn to powder,” added Harry A. Coppola, another former marine who was stationed in Nagasaki until his constant nausea and vomiting caused him to be sent home. “I used to kick it around. You’d kick it, and it’d turn to dust.” The atomic bomb was someone else’s nightmare in those days, but today it is theirs as well. Both men have developed bone marrow cancer, and both believe it was caused by their exposure to residual radiation from the bomb. They came to Washington Friday to ask the government to do something about their plight and to publicize an article in the Progressive magazine in which writer Norman Solomon says he has found high incidence of bone marrow cancer among some 1,000 Marines stationed within a mile of the atomic blast at the end of September 1945. A press conference for them was sponsored by Rep. Patricia Schroeder, D-Colo., who said she is concerned with the health effects of low levels of radiation in the city she repesents, Denver, where residents are worried about hazards from radioactive waste. In his article, Solomon said more than 50 claims for benefits, based on residual radiation exposure during cleanup duties at Nagasaki or Hiroshima, have been filed with the Veterans Administration, most within the past two years. Solomon said he had contacted several dozen veterans who were stationed within about a mile of Nagasaki, men who are now mechanics, loggers, clerks, farmers and taxi drivers, some of whom now have cancer. The Army, the Progressive article recounts, said that an examination of the ground in Nagasaki found that radioactive contamination was “below the hazardous limits” and gave its

8,800 “hardened” shelters spread over four Western states New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Nevada. The system would be built on government-owned land. A toytal of 200 MX missiles would be moved around on huge transporters from which they could be fired. The missiles’ mobility is supposed to prevent it from becoming a target of Soviet attack. The chief issue still undecided is whether the missile transporters should move on the earth’s surface or below ground.

week it was “working very hard” to get methapyrilene products off the market but was hoping to reach a voluntary agreement with manufacturers. The recall will begin immediately, said Jack Walden, a spokesman for the Proprietary Association. He said some manufacturers already had begun shipping reformulated products with a less potent antihistamine substituted for methapyrilene. Secretary Joseph A. Califano Jr., of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare said consumers with the old products in their medicine chests should stop using them because “this substance poses a potential risk to humans.”

long battle for religious rights. It was not clear why the pope was not saying Mass at the St. Mary church, but sources said the decision probably was made to avoid a confrontation. An estimated 10,000 Nowa Huta residents defied authorities Thursday night to march in a candle-light procession bearing an icon of the Madonna from the new church to the older church so the pope could bless it during his visit. The marchers did not have a permit but witnesses said police made

approval for the occupying troops to disembark in Nagasaki harbor. “No one even mentioned radiation,” McDaniel said. “They told us the atomic bomb had made such a mess and it was.” He worn no protective clothing, drank the water, and stayed until October. After the war, he went to work as a diesel mechanic for the Weyerhauser Company, in southwestern Washington state. Five years ago. he found he had Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia, a rare cancer of the bone marrow in which blood protein is overproduced. He filed a claim for compensation with the Veterans Administration but was rejected on the grounds that he cannot show his disability is service connected. “I don’t feel I want to take anything from the government,” he said, “But I’m too young to retire, I can’t draw Social Security. I’m getting weaker, and I’m going to need help. All I’m asking is a little recognition there was something.” He said he hoped the government would initiate a study of the Nagasaki veterans comparable to the study now underway through the Center for Disease Control, which has found twice the number of expected leukemias among participants in Shot Smoky, one of the atmospheric nuclear weapons tests in Nevada. Coppola, who now lives in Lake Worth, Fla., agreed. He was a painter and secretary of his local union but has not worked in five years. He has bone marrow cancer, and “If I break a bone, I’m really in trouble.” His claim for compensation has also been rejected by the V.A. on the same grounds. Virginia Ralph, whose husband Harold Ralph, also a Nagasaki veteran, died of bone marrow cancer in August 1978, knows what that trouble is like. Her husband’s ribs started breaking as he worked on his tenant farm near Streator, 111. He died in agony. Mrs. Ralph, who has also been trying to get compensation from the V.A., wrote letters: asking for information about radiation dosage at Nagasaki but said she was unable to tell from reports she received just what her husband’s exposure was or to prove it had caused his cancer. “I’m not a scientist, I’m not a doctor. I’ve just got a new title Widow and I don’t like it,” she said.

Pay-or-play suit for Little League INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A father of two says he pulled his children out of a Little League baseball program because they were told they couldn’t play unless they sold or paid for $96 worth of candy. Charles W. Ponsler of Indianapolis contends he was threatened by Edgewood Athletic Association president David Conley and has filed a $20,-000 lawsuit. An attorney for the association says Ponsler wasn’t threatened. The suit will go to trial Aug. 2. “We really bent over backwards to let the kids play,” attorney Jerald L. Miller said. “But Ponsler refused every opportunity we gave him.” Miller said the association charges a sls registration fee for each child. In addition, each child is given S4B worth of candy to sell which produces a $24 profit for the organization. He said that money helps meet a portion of the SBB-per-child cost for the program. “If the kids have been unable to sell the candy before the baseball season starts, then we expect the parents to make up the difference,” the attorney said. A week ago, Marion County Superior Court Judge Michael Dugan denied a request for a temporary restraining order to allow Carole, 13, and Paul, 10, to play ball this summer. Dugan said in turning down the request the children had not exhausted all other means of reaching an agreement with the association. Dugan set the Aug. 2 trial date, adding that the proceeding “will probably end the issue.” Ponsler’s children fell $29 short on their candy quota. Miller said the league also asked Ponsler to use a dump truck he owns to haul gravel for the league in exchange for the $29 and that he also refused this offer. “He got angry, and said he was taking his kids out of the league,” Miller said. “Sure, I withdrew my kids,” Ponsler said, “but I did it because I was threatened.” Ponsler, a chauffeur for the Perry Township Fire Department, said he was not told the candy sales were a requirement for league play. “The truth is we’d be glad to let the Ponsler kids back into the league even now,” said Miller, “if they would only meet their responsibilities. It hardly fair to let someone avoid paying for his kids’ participation just because he doesn’t want to do it when other families have worked hard so their children can play.”

no attempt to stop them. Thousands of students and residents, many throwing carnations, crowded into the courtyard of the Krakow’s Church on the Little Rock by the Vistula River for almost three hours of singing and celebration with the pope Friday night. Others clambered onto rooftops and surrounding walls and the celebrations became so spirited the pope scrapped plans to hold a mass and settled for song and banter instead. “I’m tired and need to go

home,” the pope finally said “And I want you to go home quietly.” His request was met with a resounding no. “You don’t like that?" He asked. “No,” the young crowd responded. “Then you will learn to like it." the pope directed. In his remarks for the evening. the pope again chided the Polish government's efforts to suppress religion