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Tuesday, August 29, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Victim of missile leak buried
From the Kansan's Wire Services
ROCK—The victim of a toxic rocket propellant leak was buried yesterday and residents near this tiny town, forced from their homes for three days, were prepared to fight.
A mass was held yesterday at the All Saints Catholic Church for Air Force Staff Sgt. Robert Thomas, who died when pressurized liquid oxidizer escaped from a broken safety valve on a Titan II missile last Thursday.
Several members of Thomas' missile crew attended the ceremony.
THE 25-YEAR-OLD Philadelphia native,
the father of two young sons, was the only
mother of three in the area.
Two other airmen were in critical condition yesterday suffering from lung burns.
was described as "stabilized" by Air Force officials who were trying to decide when to pour as much as 22,000 gallons of ammonium hydroxide into it.
The situation at the nuclear missile silo
Last Friday, the Air Force pumped 80,000 gallons of water into the complex to partially neutralize the oxidizer propellant, but instead set the set for the second part of the neutralization.
Officials warned that some residents of the area probably would be evacuated when the ammonia was added because of a cloud of ammonia that would be generated.
Many residents of Rock and surrounding areas were allowed to return to their homes Saturday, but seven families were evacuated again Sunday afternoon for two weeks after the team removed about 3,000 gallons of liquid oxidizer that had not leaked from the miskin tanks.
People keep cab drivers going
Staff Writer
By TOM RAMSTACK
"When you drive one of these, you drive like everybody in town's trying to hit you," Leonard Mayhun, manager of Yellow Cab Trucks, said as he drove a tautcab down 11th Street.
"Our cabs have been in 13 wrecks since November, and only one has been our current vessel."
Mayhugh said of the cab drivers, "They're pretty good people. We prefer older people because they're more dependable."
He said the full-time cdriver worked 12 hours a day, six days a week. The employment turnover, he said, was "quite great."
"Most of the guys you get, they get $10 or $20 in their pocket and they're happy," he said.
But Mayhugh, who first drove a cab in 1841 when he was 17 years old, said, "I enjoy driving."
"You meet them all from walks of life. One moment you can be driving a man on welfare and the next a banker. Rich man, rich man. And then between them is one's got money and one hasn't."
THE MAJORITY of customers are real nice. As a rule you can talk to them. You'll run into a drunk once in a while. But most of them don't bother you. They just want to get home.
Mayhui parked his car beside a house on new Jersey Street. A young man on his way to work, he found the door open.
Mayhugh started driving down the street and opened a conversation about the history of their town.
"It's supposed to get hot today," the young man said.
"I don't know why I left Southern California for this," Mayhua said.
When the young man got out he paid his $2 are and gave Mayhigh some change for a tac
"What tickles me is these 80-year-old ladies who will have a $1.20 fare and then say, 'Wait a second, this is for you.' Mayhua said. "I don't think all the drivers open the doors for everybody like they're not but I think all the drivers help the old folks."
Mayhugh said Yellow Cab also uses students as drivers throughout the year. Most of them have to work to go to school and he said he worked with them.
"ABOUT THE only time we drive KU students is during ice, snow and bad weather. I'll tell you what, the people at KU tip better than most."
As Mayhugh drove across the KU campus he said he remembered the time before some of the buildings were constructed. He also remembered the students.
who threatened him or who forced him to call the police.
"I remember 30 years ago the students dressed neat and clean," he said. "But now they all look like a bunch of burns. But they change. They always will."
He said that many of the KU students who rode cabs were foreigners who didn't know English.
He said he he had never had a customer
Deloris Burton, 41, said she enjoyed meeting people as a cab driver.
She said she was Yellow Cab Company's only full-time woman driver.
Burton said she had been driving a cab for three years and would continue with the car.
Jack Todd, another Yellow Cab driver,
Jack he had worked with the company for
ten years.
In an average 72-hour work week, Todd,
50, said he would earn $100. "But last week
it was $89," he said.
Training course not halted for Marine by pregnancy
QUANTICO, Va. (AP) —Laurie Gleem Jacobson, who is 36-month pregnant, is nearing the end of a grueling, 21-week course at the Quantico Marine Corps Base.
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For most Marines, having any women going through obstacle courses, long marches and mock battles at the base is not a concern. If the arm only men went through such training.
But it took even longer for some of the men to get used to training with a pregnant woman. In fact, at first some of the leathernecks were almost patronizing toward the 5-foot, 118-pound second lieutenant, she said.
"They asked me if they could lift things for me. Now they don't even bother asking," said Jacobson, who last week shouldered a drill of the U.S. Army's arms of ammunition during a field exercise.
Jacobson, 25, is one of the first pregnant women to undergo the rigors of Marine Corps training. The only exercise she did not participate in fully was the Three-Day War—a simulated battle exercise in which combatants are exposed to tear gas.
"The doctor told me not to take aspirin, so I thought tear gas would be bad idea," she said.
Marine officials said that of the 5,000 women in the corps today, 44 are pregnant. The number is expected to increase.
Jacobson, wife of a Marine first lieutenant now stationed on Okinawa, is one of 15 women in the 244-person Charlie Company, and she is the only one who is pregnant.
With 10,000 women expected in the Military ranks by 1985, headquarters is at Wake Forest.
Until July 1975 women Marines who became pregnant were automatically discharged from the service. Now official Marine policy is to leave the matter up to the person in charge of the intervening only when necessary to protect the expectant mother of the unborn child.
KEARNEY, Mo. (AP)—Clay County's acting park director wants to dig up Jesse James' grave, hoping to find data that will help track the evolution of the outlaw's final resting place.
Acting director Milton F. Perry has recommended that the Clay County Court approve payment of up to $200 for an arrears, which would be paid by excavation could begin as soon as October.
Outlaw's grave to be restored as historic site
The county in March bought the 36-acre where he was born and is developing as a hotel.
PERRY SAID he wanted the grave on the farm restored so it could be added to park tours like those conducted by James's friend, Mr. Hammond. The lawman was runned down in 1832 in St. Joseph.
Souvenir collectors have carried off the original 10-foot tombstone in pieces, and the grave has been relocated to a cemetery in the area where the original site and its exact dimensions unclear.
Governors hit Carter's stand on beef imports
BOSTON (UPI)—A group of farm state governors last night redrafted a proposed resolution and took a more critical stand against President Carter's decision to allow more foreign beef imports on the domestic market.
The Agriculture Committee of the National Governors' Association came up with a set of proposed resolutions yesterday. The one dealing with beef imports objected to the Carter decision in mild terms and the administration to reconsider the matter.
Cattlemen, who say they have had several consecutive poor years, objected to the president's decision because they said it once again made it difficult for them to make a profit. Carter said the larger import was needed to lower consumer prices.
But some farm state governors, led by Gov. Robert Bennett, said they were planning to offer a tougher proposal which would be more critical of the import decision.
Democratic Gov. J. James Exon x Nebraska, who heads the agriculture panel of Midwest governors, said Carter's decision had discouraged farmers who felt their needs were ignored by the federal government.
But Agriculture Secretary Bob Berglund said the governors were making too much of the matter because the 200,000 pounds Carter's decision added to the market worked out to less than one pound for every resident.