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University Daily Kansan, January 22, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Broken bodies of 7 miners recovered from blast site
PIKEVILLE, Ky —The broken bodies of seven coal miners, killed Wednesday in a coal mine explosion here, were recovered yesterday. Officials said the blast was so fierce that it shattered about half the bones in the miners' bodies.
miners' bodies.
"I'd say they died instantly when their bodies were thrown into the walls of the mine," said David Jones, who runs the state medical examiner's office in Frankfort, Kentucky's capital.
Frankfort, Kentucky's captain
The victims were recovered following an explosion in a family-run coal pit with the explosive blasting technique. The technique, called "shooting the solid," involves drilling holes in mine surfaces, filling them with dynamite and setting them off to break the coal free.
Foyt County Coroner Roger Nelson said all seven victims were related. "From what I understand, the third cousin was the furthest relationship,"
Nelson Saak
Love me, Lord. Lord have mercy! What am I going to do?? Lilly Hamilton, whose three sons and a grandson died in the blast, said as she
loved her son, James Saak.
witched officials said they would begin their formal inquiry into the explosion Jan. 25, State, federal and United Mine Workers union representatives looked through muddy debris to see whether they could get any preliminary clues.
Water heater studied in explosion
SPENCER, Okla.-Expertts studied three reconstructed water heater valves to determine how they allowed an explosive buildup of steam that could compromise the safety of the furnace.
Pippin is a school cafeteria manager. The expres sns t
Thirty-four people were injured and one, Angela Martin, 10, was in critical condition yesterday.
"We still are not laying Blame," Jack Sanders, State Fire Hearth,State. He has used the explosion, however, to push for more stringent state law.
Lloyd Ray, director of property services for the school system, said the Spencer tragedy may not have been avoidable, but he nevertheless sent a memo to maintenance workers outlining steps to take if they noticed steam coming from water faucets or pipes.
More Polish refugees seek asylum
HOUSTON—Fourteen Polish refugees, one of whom kissed the ground upon jumping in the ship of Houston, yesterday asked an immigration official to release him.
Seven of the refugees, all members of the Solidarity and all sailors on the cargo ship Zabre, owned by Gdynia American Line, walked off the vessel Wednesday night in the Houston ship channel and were taken to a restaurant owned by a Polish immigrant.
Some of the other seven refugees have been staying in Houston with relatives. others arrived in America from Vienna and do not have visas yet.
perished martial law. Several of them left behind families and children, said Stanley Gorzanski, head of the Texas Polish-American Congress.
Senator says bill will force quotas
WASHINGTON-A House-passed version of a voting rights bill would force two-thirds of all U.S. cities to elect their officials on a racial quota basis, according to Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah.
Hatch, whose Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution opens hearings on the House bill and several others next Wednesday, said yesterday that behind-the-scenes civil rights advocates wanted to impose "proportional representation" on the nation.
"If the people out there realized what these people are trying to do to the country as a whole, they would be so mad that they would never get over it."
Legalism is needed to extend the 1965 Voting Rights Act's key enforcement provision, which is credited with sharply reducing discrimination against minority voters in crucial areas. Unless Congress acts, it expires Aug. 6.
Haig, Grovmko to discuss Poland
WASHINGTON—Secretary of State Alexander Haig Jr. and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromov will visit in Geneva, Switzerland, next week.
The State Department said yesterday that Haag planned to see Gromyko Tuesday before going to Israel and Egypt to push for progress in the stalled
Officials had indicated earlier that Haig and Gromyko would meet Tuesday and Wednesday and that they might agree on a date for the superpowers to resume negotiations on a treaty to limit nuclear missiles and other strategic arms.
It is believed that the meeting was cut to one day because the Polish crisis has worsened Soviet-American relations and has eroded prospects for dialogue.
Sick elephant in no mood for love
FORT WORTH, Texas—Arthritis is threatening the domestic bliss at the elephant barn at the Municipal Zoo—Sheba isn't up to accepting the amorous affection.
If that isn't had enough, the 18-year-old, two-female also is sufferer from an ingrown toenail and has to sleep standing up, leaning against a wall.
Benny, 7, 'an' helps benefit any. Officials have had to keep him chained to the floor of the couple's cramped barn to control his romantic urges.
The barn is damp, which aggravates Shea's arthritis, Steve Clarke, zoo spokesman, said. When the weather gets too cold for the elephants to go outside, their joints stiffen from lack of exercise. Such weather also intensifies Benny's romantic overtures.
Military reports fewer desertions
WASHINGTON—The U.S. armed forces recorded slightly more than 10,000 incidents of desertion or absenteeism without last year, of which
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, in a memorandum to the service secretaries, cited last year's increase in the recruitment of high school graduates as a significant reason for the decline in the number of absentees and deserters the Pentagon said.
The figure was the lowest in 14 years.
*"Experience has demonstrated that a high school graduate is twice as likely to successfully complete a three-year tour as a non-graduate," the author wrote.
Workers move woman from tent
GALVESTON, Texas.-A judge ordered social workers to a new home for a 76-year-old woman who had been living in a tent made from wood.
Opera Henderson and her dog Chang lived in the makeshift tent for six months, but were plucked from their home last week when subfreezing temperatures, sleet and snow hit the Texas gulf coast.
endorsers. Heenerson's granddaughter, Shirley Gauldin, of Texas City, said examining psychiatrists and state and local social workers had failed to recognize what her family considered to be the independent, elderly woman's inability to take proper care of herself.
Henderson was placed in a hospital, officials said
Crash tapes muddled, untelling
By United Press International
WASHINGTON-Technicians attempted to decipher unintelligible portions of a conversation aboard the crashed Air Florida jetliner yesterday while divers searched the ice Potomac River for the last of the 78 victims.
Divers recovered six bodies during the morning, leaving only one victim still missing eight days after the Boeing 737 clipped the 14th Street bridge and plunged into the water. killing 74 members and four commuters on the bridge.
Francis McAdams, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, said he listened twice to the cockpit voice recorder tape recovered Wednesday with the flight data recorder from the muddy river bottom.
"There are several things we're going to have to look at in quite greater depth, but there isn't anything I would say we're going to focus on to the exclusion of some other factors:" McAdams said on NBC's "Today" show.
McADAMS SAID he heard no reference on the cockpit tape to a buildup of ice on the plane's wings, and when it was not there, the crash, or to any unusual engine noise.
"Some of the crew's conversation is rather clear, the other is overridden by noises and some of it is really unintelligible," McAdams said.
The tape was turned over to the board's technicians to improve its quality by filtering out background noise.
Investigators expect the cockpit voice recorder and a second "black box," the flight data recorder, to give them a comprehensive picture of what happened as Flight 90 took off in a weather system that ran from Washington's National Airport.
Navy Lt. Cmdr. Stephen Delaplane, in charge of the recovery operation, said earlier it would take another week
Divers will walk along the river bottom collecting all the debris they can find and send it to the surface in baskets.
to raise the remaining wreckage, much of it the size of beer cans.
THE PENTAGON recovered "secret" and "confidential" documents from the plane wreckage, but a back of mail is still missing, officials said.
"We have recovered all known classifc documents," Army Col. Dupont (Deputy Commander).
Duchin said a very limited number of documents were carried aboard the aircraft in two attach cases. None were classified "top secret," which would mean they would be locked in special briefcases.
A spokesman said he did not know the identities of the people carrying the attache cases, but he noted that three of the passengers killed in the crash were members of the Army's readings and who were in the rapid deployment force.
KC crash kills pilot
By United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—A twinengine plane crashed into a building less than a mile northeast of the Downtown Airport and burst into flames late yesterday, killing the pilot, authorities said.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the Kansas City Police Department confirmed that a Cessna 401 twin-engine plane crashed into the roof of the Fleming Food Co. distribution center at 11th and Atlantic streets about 7:25 p.m. yesterday.
The only occupant of the plane,
Don Fedorky, 50, Springdale, Ark.,
was killed in the crash.
FAA Duty Officer Harold Scott said the plane was in touch with the airport tower and was attempting to land at the time of the crash.
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