Banner Graphic, Volume 9, Number 258, Greencastle, Putnam County, 7 July 1979 — Page 3
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LAFAYETTE. Ind. (AP) “Skylab is falling, skylab is falling.” This cry spread through the city Friday after two mysterious objects were reported to have fallen from the sky. But a spokesman for the National Aeronautical and Space Administration said it couldn’t be. So did police and fire department authorities. Harold Cohen, manager of a used car lot, told police he was standing with three persons in his lot Friday when an eightinch, rod-shaped piece of metal fell in front of them. Cohen was convinced it was a piece of Skylab. “It wasn’t my imagination,” he added. “Everyone decided it came from the sky. We didn’t go near it for a few minutes. It was warm.” About the same time an object described as a ball of rags about the size of a volleyball and covered with fluid “kerplopped out of the air” near his furniture company, said J. M. Bloom. “It just had to fall from the sky,” he said. “We looked on our roof, and there was no one there. We called next door, and they said no one had been on their roof.”
America laughing in face of Skylab
By JIM CARRIER Associated Press Writer Even something like the fall of Skylab can’t squelch Americans’ humor. Some, with an “it-can’t-happen-here” attitude, are daring Skylab to hit them; others are laughing all the way to the bank. One neighborhood near Offutt Air Force Base in Bellevue, Neb., painted a huge target in the middle of its cul-de-sac street. “Maybe Skylab will fall here. We thought we’d give it something to aim for,” said resident Patty Stahl. Ken Peterson of Minneapolis threw a Skylab party where guests wore helmets, carried butterfly nets and ate a cake complete with space capsule crashing into the icing. A Minneapolis Tribune cartoonist, noting that Skylab carried a supply of mashed potatoes and pudding, recommended a Skylab splatdown picnic: “Supply your guests with spoons and bowls and wait for the fun to begin.” Skylab, scheduled to break up in the atmosphere between July 10 and July 13, also has brought out the entrepreneurs. Stores in Montgomery, Ala., were selling 8-ounce bottles of
You may have to squeeze into your 1984 Cadillac
LAFAYETTE. Ind. (AP) - If top secret General Motors designs viewed by a Purdue University architect are used, you may have to inhale to squeeze into your 1984 Cadillac. Thomas Schmenk, Purdue supervising architect, toured the Detroit Cadillac design department last week with an armed guard and saw a “subcompact size” full-scale fiberglass model of what the Cadillac of future might look like.
Secrecy surrounds Camp David domestic summit conference
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Gov. Otis R. Bowen spent the night at the presidential retreat, Camp David, after attending a hurriedly called “domestic summit” with President Carter and seven Democratic governors. Today Bowen was scheduled to leave the Maryland retreat
Quayle won't duck major issues
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - Energy, inflation and probably a recession will be the key issues of the 1980 elections, says Republican Rep. Dan Quayle who wants to switch over to the Senate next year. Here for a news conference Friday, Quayle charged that President Carter is so weak and indecisive “he doesn’t know what he wants to say on energy.” That’s why he canceled a Thursday night address to the nation, the only announced candidate for the 1980
“The design could be changed,” he said, “but this model had a sloping front, was low to the ground and looked like it would be hard to get into. It was about the size of a Chevy Monza. It looked like the car of the future you saw pictures of 10 years ago. The model painted was a two-door and looked like a Toyota inside.” Cadillac officials in Detroit Friday wouldn’t comment. “We’re not authorized to say
and fly to Kentucky for the National Governors Conference in Louisville. Gubernatorial aide William Dußois said Bowen flew to Washington Friday afternoon aboard a chartered, twinengine plane, stopped at the White House briefly and then went by helicocpter to Camp
Republican nomination for U.S. senator from Indiana added. He said Carter has failed to take any decisive action to combat the nation’s energy problems. Approving a standby gasoline rationing plan would be a mistake because the Carter administration “may try to use it, and one is not needed yet,” Quayle said. The 4th District congressman said present fuel allocation regulations actually amount to rationing anyway. He said the House already has taken the
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Another witness said when it hit the ground “it sounded like someone making a bellywhopper in a pool.” A reporter for the Lafayette Journal-Courier telephoned NASA official Linda Dougherty in Huntsville, Ala She laughed when asked if it could be from the giant orbiting space station which is expected to fall from orbit sometime next week. She told the reporter it wasn’t likely from Skylab because it is still in one piece, circling about 138 miles above the earth. And its projected path at the time of the fall won’t put it anywhere over North America, she added. Fire officials were called to the furniture store. Assistant Chief Marvin Anthrop said the ball-shaped thing smelled of furniture polish. Anthrop said there had been no other such reports. Cohen said the flying rod “scared the life out of me. It landed right in front of me. It definitely fell from the air We were 150 feet from the street, so it couldn’t have come from a car. It that’s what Skylab is going to be like, then I don’t want to go out when it happens.”
“Skylab Repellent” with a money-back guarantee. For those actually struck by a piece of the 77-ton vehicle, the stores had “Skylab Impact Balm.” *! And in Atlanta a local radio station gave away T-shirts labeled “Official Skylab Targets” with imprinted bull’s eyes. Its promotion said: “Think of the fame, think of the glory think of the mess.” A firm in Kansas City is thinking of the money. Seat-ofthe-Pants Management has sold 12,000 paper Skylab Helmets at $2 apiece. The company stresses that the headwear doesn’t protect you from falling Skylab parts, but you’ll be “appropriately dressed for this once-in-a-lifetime event.” Another helmet distributor. Brad Rudolph of Denver, says he plans to stand in the open when the pieces start falling. “Can you imagine how much money you’d make if that thing hit you?” His poster-board helmets contain an “early warning spike” protruding from the top to give “.00193 nanoseconds of warning” before Skylab hits.
anything about forthcoming models,” said Cadillac design official Donald McDaniel. The call was switched to public relations where director Patricia Montgomery said, “I couldn’t even begin to discuss such things. Advance product information is always confidential. I couldn’t even tell you what the 1980 model will look like.” She did say, however, than any model seen could be very
David. “We don’t know much about the meeting.” Dußois said. “He was sworn to secrecy. We don’t even really know the subject area.” He said Bowen carried no specific messages to the president, but rather was “going to hear what they have to say.”
lead from Carter by passing a synthetic fuels bill. He renewed his call for tax incentives and relaxation of environmental standards to encourage greater use of coal to reduce the nation’s dependence on oil. “We have an oil shortage; we don’t have an energy shortage,” Quayle said, noting there are huge reserves of coal not being used because of high-sul-fur content prohibited by envi-
different from the final product. Schmenk said he and several other Purdue architects got the exclusive tour while attending a convention in Detroit. “We saw the design studio so that was a one of a kind tour. They were pretty strict about what we took out. No cameras were allowed. Even our tour guide wasn’t allowed in.” Schmenk said automotive designers first do sketches, then make miniature clay models
The White House said the evening talks would concern oil shortages and the recessionthreatened economy. One White House official, who declined to be identified publicly, said the president “decided now is the time” for a reassessment of his domestic policies. Another described the re-
ronmental regulations. Quayle said coal should “burn as clean as we possibly can, but some easing of strict clean air standards is called for because of the energy pinch. Quayle said if he were a sen ator today, he would vote again st the SALT II treaty with the Soviet Union unless there are amendments. Monitoring devices should be placed in both the Soviet Union and the United States as the best means ol verification, he said.
Clay, Parke included Air pollution-related deaths high in 18 countries, SIHSA reports
BEDFORD, Ind. (AP) - Eighteen southern Indiana counties are exceeding the state average for air pollutionrelated deaths, but a spokesman for the State Health Board says air pollution in the area “is not that bad.” A report released Friday by the Southern Indiana Health Systems Agency shows that the counties exceeded the state average by at least 30 percent in three to six categories of pollution related deaths. Among those with the worst records for the categories listed were Vanderburgh, Pike, Ver million, Knox, Greene and Clay counties. Many of the cited counties border on the Ohio and Wabash rivers. The other counties listed in the report were: Vigo, Spencer, Crawford, Orange, Sullivan, Parke, Daviess, Posey, Perry, Gibson, Dearborn and Ohio counties. The report, which used fig-
PCP target in vet offices break-ins
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) A Purdue University professor of veterinary pharmicology says the drug phencycilidine, also known as PCP or angel dust, has been the target of a number of presumably drug-motivated break-ins at veterinary offices. Because of the drug’s dangerous si e effects, its major legal manufacturer has stopped producing it and a new ruling by the Drug Enforcement Ad-
Light still yellow for Marble Hill
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) —The U S Nuclear Regulatory Commission has postponed a decision on giving the green light for resumption of construction work at Public Service Indiana’s Marble Hill nuclear generation station along the Ohio River near Madison. NRC spokesman Jan Strasma said Friday that agency inspectors needed time to watch concrete workers in action at Marble Hill. He said that based on their observations, NRC officials might decide this weekend whether to lift an order halting all concrete work in areas where radiation could leak. Strasma said inspectors watched workers for Newberg Con-
which are studied and refined. Computers are used to figure out weights, interior space and other variables. Then full color, full sized renderings are done, and a full size clay model car is built The final mockup, seen by Schmenk, is full sized, made of fiberglass and has a dashboard and seats but lacks final details. “They didn’t have the windshield wipers designed in yet or the door handles.”
view as “almost a domestic summit.” Carter canceled a major energy policy address to the nation Thursday night and scrapped plans to address the governors in Louisville. A member o: the White House staff called Bcwen at the Governor’s Residence Thursday night.
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ures from 1971-1975, was prepared by an air quality task force and presented to the health systems agency at a meeting in Bedford The report recommended an expanded study of air pollution and its effect on health. It also called for additional monitoring of air pollution and vigorous enforcement of pollution regulations. Conclusions reached in the report were based on data from the State Health Board, which focused on deaths due to cancer, arterial diseases, stroke,
ministration says PCP can only be prescribed by physicians with special authority, says Gordon Coppoc, of Purdue’s veterinary pharmacology department. “PCP is currently one of the most heavily abused drugs the DEA worries about,” Coppoc says, noting that the drug can be easily manufactured in illegal makeshift laboratories. “Since much of it found on the streets is produced in this
struction Co. pour concrete for a wall in the turbine building, which will not contain radiation. The “very large” pour began early Friday morning and lasted into the night, he said. “If we’re satisfied with the quality of work in preparation and in the pour, we would consider lifting the stop-work order,” Strasma said. “But we wanted to see the whole pour before making a decision.” The agency ordered the halt in concrete work after inspectors found 177 honeycomb areas in work already completed had been repaired improperly.
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pneumonia, heart attacks and emphysema. According to the study, Vanderburgh County was 60-200 percent above the state average in deaths caused by emphysema, and 50-100 percent above the average in arterial deaths. Vanderburgh County also was listed in the top 10 percent in the country for incidents of larnyx cancer. Howard Dunn, an Indiana
fashion, there is, of course, no quality control,” he said. “So the drug can be contaminated to the point where it becomes even more lethal than it is in its pure form -if that’s possible. ” Coppoc said widespread abuse of PCP prompted federal Drug Enforcement Administration officials to move the drug from a Schedule 3 classification to a Schedule 2 rating. Schedule 3 drugs are less subject to abuse than Schedule 2
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State University-Evansville professor who helped prepare the report, said air pollutants such as sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, sulfates and carbon monoxide have been cited as potential causes of the six diseases Harry Williams, director of the State Health Board’s air pollution control division, acknowledged the need for additional monitoring, but said a shortage of money, equipment and manpower could make that goal difficult to achieve.
substances, but both types have recognized medical applications, he added. PCP was once considered a potentially useful tranquilizer for humans and animals but it produces dangerous side effects and officials have limited its use to exotic zoo animals, Coppoc said. “It was found early that it produced hallucinations and psychotic episodes in susceptible persons, ”he said.
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