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Thursday, September 20,1979
University Daily Kansan
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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From the Kansan's Wire Services
Fires continue in California
LOSE ANGLES – Firefighters battling temperatures and erratic winds struggled yesterday to control more than a dozen fireburning on 90,000 acres.
A half-dozen houses in Santa Barbara County, 100 miles north of Los Angeles, were destroyed by the raging 4,000-cree Eagle Canyon fire near Goleta.
of brush above Los Angeles, 8,290 acres of forest 50 miles north of Burlington and 3,600 acres of forest in Plumas County in the northern part of the state.
Because of the extreme fire danger, the U.S. Forest Service revoked all burning permits in the state's 17 national forests yesterday and placed tight limits on access to four Southern California preserves. The state had revoked all state burning permits Tuesday on the 31 million acres under its control.
Thousands of people were working on fire lines, and reserve firefighters were being flown in to relieve exhausted federal, state and county units.
Missile leaks under control
CONWAY SPRINGS - The latest oxidizer propellant leak at a Titan II missile she was brought under control yesterday and the area's congressmen said they would be satisfied.
The leak, at a silo near Conway Springs, was contained yesterday morning and was being neutralized, according to Lt. Cynthia Scott, an Air Force spokewoman. She said crew members at the site planned to drain off fuel and oxidizer later this week, and then inspect a defective valve believed to be there.
In Washington, Reps Dan Glickman, D-Kan, and Robert Whitaker, R-Kan, met with Air Force officials to discuss reckless leaks from the missile sites in Iraq.
Glickman said he came away "convinced that the recent problems are not serious, but I'm still concerned about a number of things, such as the age of the
Conaress devises rationina plan
WASHINGTON—House and Senate conferences, unable to agree for 11 days on an acceptable formula for allowing President Jimmy Carter to increase gasoline prices.
The plan gives the president an free hand in developing a standby rationing plan—only a two-thirds vote by both houses could block him—but it also makes it harder to prevent a repeat of the 2014 vote.
The plan is a two-phase formula under which the president would send Congress a standby plan that would take effect in 30 days, unless both houses passed resolutions of disapproval. Any resolution of disapproval would be subject to presidential veto.
Congress can have its way, however, by overriding the veto by a two-thirds vote in each house.
The plan cannot be imposed unless there is a 20 percent shortage in projected demand for gasoline, diesel fuel and heating oil, and unless neither house object
H-bomb letter stirs reaction
SAN FRANCISCO—Charles Hansen says he is baffled by the storm swirling up his H-bomb attack, the target of court orders and Justice Department
The self-described amateur hydrogen bomb expert told reporters Tuesday that the letter he sent to several newspapers, with details on the construction of a hydrogen bomb, did not contain enough information to build one. Hansen said he could not build one himself.
The information in the letter, gledit from public documents and other publicly accessible data, was more "conceptual than how-to," he said.
Hansen said he wrote the letter because private citizens were called on the carpet by the government for using information made public by scientists.
His letter has been published in part by the Madison, WI., Press Connection and Berkeley's student-run Daily Californian. The Chicago Tribune published
Rev seeks record law defense
TOPEKA—State Rep. Ward Ferguson, D-MePherson, has asked the Kansas Supreme Court for permission to defend himself against a court challenge to a bill that would allow a state trooper to arrest a person.
The Wichita Eagle and Beeson Publishing Co. and reporter Kenneth Stephens are the authors of the book *Recognizing Records of persons who have been acquitted or had charges against them*.
The newspaper contents that Stephens was denied access to arrest records and, as a result, the paper could not provide citizens with reliable information about the suspects.
The paper asked the Supreme Court to order a Sedgwick County court clerk to provide access to court files that have been closed or examined
Ferguson, who last session sponsored the records bill that became law July 1, has asked to intervene in the court proceedings so that "incident victims of the murder" are brought forward.
House rejects a pay increase
WASHINGTON—An effort to give Congress a pay increase failed yesterday as the House first approved an amendment calling for a 7 percent raise, then a 10 percent raise.
It was the second time this year that the House first approved a pay raise and then backed off when the measure came up for a vote on final passage.
The proposed increase would have raised the salaries of members of the House and Senate from $7,000 to $6,125 a year. It received preliminary approval when the House adopted an amendment offered by the Appropriations Committee.
The overall measure, which would have provided emergency funding for agencies whose fiscal 1980 budgets have not been approved by Congress, was
Four Kansas representatives, Democrat Gail Dickman and Republicans Jim Jeffries, Keith Sebelius and Whitaker Vaughn voted against the measure.
Pontiff to hold rare conclave
CIVI II-VII-Jepone John III will summa cardinale of the Roman Catholic Church. He will visit the United States and Ireland, Vatican sources returns from a nine-day visit to the United States and Ireland, Vatican sources
Vatican analysts said the pope may be convening the meeting to review the first vair of his certificate. He was elected by the cardinals Oct. 16, 1978.
The sources said the conclave of the pope with all 131 cardinals, planned for November, would be unprecedented in modern times. The exact scope and timing are unclear.
Democrats favor fuel control
The action came as congressional leaders were predicting House and Senate passage of a standby gasoline rationing compromise reached Tuesday night. The Senate Energy Committee was ready to approve President Carter's energy Mobilization Board and to speed action on priority energy projects.
WASHINGTON—House Democrats, concerned about the sairing prices of home heating oil, voted yesterday in favor of reinstating price controls on the heating oil.
The resolution carries no force of law and is not binding on the 276 Democratic members of the House. But sponsors said it would send a clear message to other legislators and the White House that something must be done to curb rising fuel prices.
Weather...
The National Weather Service in Tampa predicted cloudy skies today with a 30 percent chance of rain. High temperatures will be around 80, dropping the lower temperature to 50.
Tomorrow's high temperatures will be in the mid to upper 70s under clearing skies.
The extended forecast calls for little or no rain with high temperatures in the upper 78 to mid 85 and lows in the mid 48 to mid 70s.
Airlines begin inspecting DC-9s under FAA order
WASHINGTON (AP) — Airline mechanics across the country are urging government orders to DC-9 passengers it yesterday under government orders prompted by reports of cracks in the tires of some of them.
The cracks were found in the rear door of DC54's operating room and knocked AirCanadier off the airplane, the tail cone off one of the airplane's planes. The craft made a safe landing in Canada.
Prompted by that finding, the Federal Aviation Administration sent an airworthiness directive yesterday morning to all U.S. airlines operating DC-8s. The FAA requires that the plane bulkheads, which form a wall sealing the rear of the passenger cabin.
The inspections must be completed within 10 landings. Fred Farrar of the FAA said that inspection of all aircraft involved are included in the order. If cracks are found, repairs must be made before the aircraft is put back into service.
THE OTHER planes either are new, already have had reinforcements attached to the bulkheads or are of a different design with a rear stairway in that section of the plane.
Eastern Airlines in Miami reported finding nothing out of the ordinary. A
Some airlines had begun inspections before the FAA directive, and several reported their checks were nearly complete.
spokesman for Republic, recently merged from North Central and Southern, also indicated no immediate problems.
Asked about other recent incidents of pieces of aircraft falling off in flight, Farrer termed such events "fairly unusual. It does not that it's not an everyday occurrence."
"It was the victim in this case," he said, noting that the tail cone was blown off the aircraft when the inside pressure bulkhead failed.
FARRAR NOTED that the Air Canada DC-9 tail cone involved in the Monday mishap did not just fall off.
The problems with the bulbhead had been known for some time. Three years ago, management introduced administrators or DC-9s either to make structural changes or increase inspections
AT THAT TIME TIMEX International Airlines had found some cracks in the bulbheads of its DC-3S, and developed a camera to lighten them which received FAA approval.
Air Canada reported it chose the inspection program at the time, but now also is performing modifications.
Overall, the DC-9 has one of the best safety records in the skies. A National Association of Safety Officials report for 1988 and 1979 showed the B727 and 727 with lower accident rates among more experienced pilots.
High Flying Opportunity.
At General Dynamics in Fort Worth, we have long-term programs that offer a challenge to the engineering professional. If you are looking for an opportunity to work on such projects as the F-46 Multirole Fighter or advanced aircraft and electronic programs, then General Dynamics is looking for you.
On campus interviews:
October 4-5
Sign up now for an appointment at your placement office.
Go ahead and be cynical. But listen.
The facts are not just that we have more bona fide opportunities for new graduates than ever. The clincher is that all of these entry level openings are enthusiastically endorsed by our technical managers and operations directors.
That's right; you shouldn't take that
That's right, you should not be granted, at any company. But what this positive attitude at CSC means is that it's not likely you'll come on board only to find yourself on the wrong side of a professional "generation gap." The problems are outstretched, at that you'llickly find yourself working with (as well as for) nation-
with (as well as for) nationally preeminent individuals in their fields who are eager to help you make the right decisions, without being oppressive about it!
Room at the bottom has never looked so good.
- because it's been created by more room at the top.
The motivation behind this
Because the expansion curve here has been so steep, more top posts have been created. The most common mid-level staffers also on board who demonstrated their upward mobility. This in turn
created a whole new array of mid-level openings, most of which are being filled by our junior people on the rise.
All of which creates a pretty vigorous "career suction" at the entry level.
And although you may already know that CSC corporate-wide is one of the largest information sciences companies in the world, you'll want to learn more about the Systems Division's role creating some of the world's largest computer-based communication systems, command/control/ communication systems, satellite information systems, advanced energy
management and control
systems, and turnkey computer-based systems of high sophistication that will help people and governments everywhere.
If your degree is in EE, Computer Science, or their equivalent, we'd like to introduce you to people very much like yourself who have a background in computer science or in software and computer-based systems.
We couldn't have gotten there without them,
and we can't expect to stay there without you!
We'll be interviewing on campus Friday, September 21
See your College Placement Office for details, or write to Mark Havard, Employment Manager.
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