Wednesday, February 1, 1978
University Daily Kansan
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Hotel fire a mystery
From the Kansan's Wire Services
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Fire officials said yesterday that investigators might never find out what touched off the Coates House fire and the deadliest blaze in Kansas City, Mo.史家
Workers continue to investigate the rubble of the 110-year-old hotel, as the death toll from Saturday's fire stood at 18 yesterday afternoon.
Officials said the final death count from the disaster could reach 30. Fifteen persons are still listed as missing from the four-alarm blaze.
Richard Helzer, supervisor of the police bomb and arson squad, said yesterday, "All fires are assumed to be accidental until proved otherwise by physical evidence. And due to the condition of the hotel, we're not going to find much physical evidence."
Authories feared that many of the missing could be buried under the ice or inside upper-floor rooms that are still unsafe for firefighters to search.
Robert Patterson of the city Fire Prevention unit said that a dome clays lay with the fire control room.
The International Association of Firefighters Local 42 has said that the high number of deaths was, in part, the result of a power outage and equipment in the fire department.
"That's all really we have to go on."
Patterson said. "And the people we really need to talk to are . . . dead."
Ford recalls autos
DETROIT (AP)—Ford Motor Co. was ordered yesterday to recall 640,000 Fords and Mercury to fix emissions control systems.
Charles B. Wheeler, Kansas City, Mo., mayor, has called for an evaluation of firefighters' response to the Coates House disaster.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency action, announced in Washington and Detroit, brought to 840,000 the total of cases it recalled in January for emission problems.
The cars involved are 1976 and 1975 models equipped with 400 cubic-inch engines.
Wheeler praised the firemen who fought the blaze.
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Extrat at the hotel. There are several restaurants, lounges, and coffee shops. There is a bar with entertainment on the twelfth floor. A large swimming pool, and room service. The hotel is within walking distance to shops, restaurants, and tourist attractions such as the Land Voyager and the Swimming Hall of Fame.
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"It seems that it's one of his typical rash statements," Guy Oldfield, instructor of the course, told me.
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"We've been developing nuclear satellites for twenty years," he said. "We rarely use them for earth-orbiting missions any more but keep them for deep space missions. Solar-powered satellites are used more today."
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In Monday's news conference, Carter promised to ask the Soviet Union to ban more nuclear satellites and called on all nations to ensure the rigid protective measures for satellites.
If a nuclear satellite were to drop in a populous area, Oldfield said, there would be little contamination unless people came in close contact with it.
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"For the Soviets to agree," Oldfield said, "depends on how advanced their society is."
The worst situation that can happen when a satellite enters the earth's atmosphere, Oldfield said, is for it to break up in descent and spread over several miles of land. Neither the Cosmos 944 satellite, which landed in the Northwest Territories, did this.
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'There could be a chance of radiation,' Murhead said, 'but driving you car on a road that is not made of asphalt.'
In fact, he said, an U.S. satellite that went down in the Indian Ocean had radioactive particles in it.
"I MYSELF would be in favor of the ban," Friesen said, "simply because we do not know where the satellites would land. We control on where a satellite comes down."
But Vincent Muirhead, professor of aerospace engineering, said that the issue of the Cosmos 944 satellite had been blown over and that he was against the proposed ban.
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The first satellite, which was launched in the late 1960s, came down in 1974, Oldfield said. How fast they decay, he said, depends on how far they are from earth.
This made its recover much easier, he said.
However, a different point of view was taken by Ben Friesen, professor of radiation biophysics, who agreed with the proposed ban.
The Soviet satellite was similar to a nuclear reactor in the way it worked. It had a
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