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Monday, October 2, 1978
University Daily Kansan
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Staff photos by BRUCE BANDLE
Citizens of Rock, a small town 20 miles southeast of Wichita, were treated to a free picnic on the weekend by the U.S. Air Force. The picnic was given in appreciation of the town's cooperation during a missile fuel loading accident Aug. 24 (far right) Keith Matthews, lt. St. and crew commander during the accident, was one of many Air Force employees that mingled with them during the afternoon. Matthews, who suffered burns on his hands and minor respiratory problems from the accident, was especially thankful for the town's willfulness to help out during the emergency.
Rock residents celebrate, 5 weeks after missile leak
By TOM RAMSTACK
Staff Writer
ROCK—Five weeks ago the people of Rock, a township 25 miles southeast of Wichita, were told by Air Force personnel that a thale冷 cloud of gas was spewing from a nearby Titan II missile site and that they had to leave their homes immediately.
On Saturday afternoon, about 450 airmen and residents gathered at an Air Force-sponsored picnic in a Rock Township park to celebrate Rock's escape from what could have been, but wasn't, a large-scale tragedy.
Airmen and townpeople played horseshoes together in the park before sitting down to a dinner of barbecued ribs and roast beef. They lined up along dirt streets lined with American flags.
In an open field near the park, several military police officers demonstrated how trained dogs are used in combat. After the demonstration, the children of
A 20-piece Air Force band played songs from the Big Band era.
Rock were allowed to pet the dogs, German shenherds.
"I THINK this picnic is the nicest thing that's ever come to Rock," Amanda Walla who has lived in Rock Township all her 94 years, said.
Lt. Gen. Edgar Hawk, commander of the Eighth Air Force, was flown in by helicopter to visit with the townpeople and to give them a plaque.
The plaque's inscription said, "To the citizens of Montreal, to the appreciation of cooperation and support."
The Aug. 24 gas leak at the missile base killed two airmen and injured six others, one of whom is still in serious condition with burned lung tissue. A mile-long cloud of lethal fumes sped from the silo and forced evacuation of 200 residents in the building.
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TONIGHT'S
HIGHLIGHTS
The leak occurred when the valve failed as oxidizer fuel was being loaded onto a stage of the 150-ton, 103-foot missile while it stood in its underground silo.
**Movie—"Little Women"** 8:06; *4,27* This is the adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's 1868 classic. Filmed just this year, Alcott's American favorite captures the adventures, aminations, and challenges of our small-town New England sisters.
Oplum 7:00; 11, 19 "The Politicians" review a controversial offer by diners in Indianapolis in 1977 to turn over the entire city's opium supply to the U.S. Heard Advocating the deal is Lester Wolf, chairman of the House Select Committee on opium
Movie—"I Never Promised You A Rose Garden?" 7:00; *A* 3 Teenage schizophrenic wrestles with personal agonies in the nightmare world of a mental hospital. Based on the bestseller by Joanne Greenberg.
EVENING
5:30 ABC News 2,9
ABC News 4,27
CBS News 5,13
Rookies 41
6:00 News 2,5,9,13,27
Cross Wits 4
MacNell/Lehrer Report 11
6:30 Nashville On The Road 2
Hollywood Squares 4
Wild Kingdom 5
Dating Game 9
Mary Tyler Hopkins 19
Mary Tyler Moore 27
Newlywed Game 41
7:30 Operation Petticoat 2, 9
People 5, 13
Joker's Wild 41
8:30 One Day At A Time 5,13
Movie—"Smokey And The Bandit" 3*
8:00 NFL Football 2, 9
Dallas at Washington
Movie—"Little Women" 4, 27
M*A*S*H" 5, 13
Penn State at Americanera
Football 11, 18
Movie—"Houseboat" 41
7:00 Welcome Back Kotter 2, 9
Little House on the Prairie 4, 27
WKRP In Cincinnati 5, 13
Opium 11, 19
Tre Tough Dog
Movie — "I Never Promised You
A Rose Garden" 3
13:00 News 4, 5, 13, 27
Dick Cavett 19
Love Express 41
9:00 Lou Grant 5,13
11:30 Adam12-2
Man From U.N.C.L.E. 5.
Ironside 9
Flash Gordon 41
10:30 Johnny Carson 4, 27
Streets Of San Francisco 5
ABC News 11, 19
Rockford Files 13
Star Trek 41
Movie—"The Domino Principal"
*
11:40 McMillan & Wife 13
11:00 News 2,9
MacNeil/Lehrer Report
A.M
12:00 Tomorrow 4, 27
    Wrestling 41
12:30 Movie—"Confessions Of A
    Nazi Spy" 5
    High Hope 9
1:00 News 4
    Movie—"Houseboat" 41
2:00 News 5
2:45 Movie—"Let's Kill Uncle" 41
3:00 Art Linkletter 41
4:00 Dick Van Dyke 41
5:00 Andy Griffith 41
Cable Channel 10 Has Continuous News & Weather
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SECOND LT. CHARLES Frost, who attended the picnic with his wife, recalled the incident. He suffered acid burns on his hands as he tried to pull a fellow crewman to
Frost, who monitored communications for the missile site, said, "One of the men began screaming over the radio. He collapsed in a room where he was got him and drug him to the control center.
"The control center was filling up with gas. We had put on gas masks. One of the other men tried to give the man who had collapsed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and he was staring up at the ceiling at nothing, he grabbed the escape hatch and climbed out."
Laerina Smith, 62, a Rock resident, said, "I don't think it could be helped. At least it was."
The townpeople told about reporters from national television networks who confronted them with microphones after the gas leak and asked, "Arren't you angry that this happened?" They told about anti-war activists in Boston and New York after the accident from Boston and misstook the septic tanks vents in backyards for air shafts to bomb shells.
A group of about 60 people who demonstrated in Wichita, calling for a congressional investigation into the gas leak, were described as "crackpots."
townpeople kept their luggage packed for two weeks after the leak. When the Air Force began pumping water into the siro to neutralize the nitrogen tetroxide fuel, the townpeople were warned that a chemical reaction could cause another lethal gas cloud and the town would have to be reevacuated.
"WE'VE KNOW the missile's been there for 10 years. If we don't like it, then we can move it."
L. Paula Burris, deputy chief of the McConnell Air Force Base Information Office, said that he has been made aware that Air Force forces resulting from the gas leak, representing $3,000 in damages
Most of the claims were for stored food that had to be destroyed, rental of motel rooms and medical check-ups for Rock residents.
THE CREW commander at the missile
station, Keith Mathowda, 28, said the gas
lok was a K9.
No crops or livestock have been reported injured, and no lethal gas, which could be about eight times greater.
Matthews suffered minor burns and respiratory problems from the escaping
Both KU and K-Sate held their band days
saturday, in a high school band halls
below the bridge.
KU-K-State rivalry flares in high school band days
About 6,000 band members from 75 high schools came to Lawrence for the traditional march down Massachusetts at the half-time of the football game.
Although, the band turnout was slightly higher at the K-State Band Day this year, Tom Stidham, KU assistant director of bands, did not seem disturbed.
No football was played between KU and KState this weekend, but the old rivalry
NORMALLY, THE high school bands do not have to choose between the two, he
The number of participating bands at KU has decreased since Band Day hit its peak in 1974, when 103 bands appeared, Stidham said.
"We had to cut down on the number accepted since then," he said. "For example, the athletic department cut down the number of available seats one those years (1975)."
Last year, 87 high school bands came to K11
expense is one reason that high schools do not always participate in Band Day, he said. Shawnee Mission West High School, Overland Park, came last year but chose not to attend this year because of expenses, the school's band director said Friday.
HE SAID he had decided to take his band to the Wichita Marching Festival instead of KU's Band Day because his travel expenses limited him to one or the other and he thought the festival was a more educational experience for students.
Ed Bartley, band director at Lawrence
High School, said expired band members
will be in the State's Band Day.
started going to K-State after that because it was closer."
It's expensive 0 go anywhere," he said.
Lori Richter, Green junior, who played in her high school's marching band, said, "We played at KU my freshman year, but we
Stidham said he preferred working with fewer bands because it was easier to control a smaller group. The number of bands was limited to 100 in 1975.
He said that he saw "no ominous threat" to the future of Bind Day at KU and that he would probably not return.
KANSAN On Campus
Events
TODAY: SUA QUARTERBACK CLUB will meet at noon in the Big Eight Room of the Union. AN Art LECTURE by Robert Mullen is in the Spencer Museum of Art & Illustration.
TONIGHT: OPERATION FRIENDSHIP, sponsored by the Baptist Student Union will be held at 7 at 1629 W. 18th SUA FORUM will present Benn Bradley, executive editor of the Washington Post, at 8 in the University Ballroom.
TOMORROW: A BLOOD DRIVE will be held from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Union Ballroom. COLLEGE PRESIDENTS LUNCHONE is at 12:30 p.m. in the Watkins Room of the Union. IN THE ASSEMBLY OF the Union, in the Forum ROSSETHE of the Union. STUDENT SENATE BUDGET HEARINGS will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Council Room of the Union. SRU BADGE will be at 7 p.m. in the Pine Room of the Union. AN ANTHROPOLOGY LECTURE by Henry Harpending on "Studies of the Kalahari Hunter-Gatherers: Some Lessons and Notes" will begin at 7 p.m. in the Room Room of the UNIVERSITY NAMITIES LECTURE by John Blum, on the 'Ambliguttes in Progressivism: The Case for Woodrow Wilson" will start at 8 p.m. in woodruff Auditorium of the Union.