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Thursday, September 3, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
False alarms force jet landings
From the KU Weather Service
The Associated Press
Two American Airlines jets made emergency landings Wednesday after a bomb threat in northern California and a reported engine fire in Florida.
An American Airlines DC-10 carrying 276 passengers from Dallas to San Francisco was diverted to Stockton Metropolitan Airport after a crew member found a handwritten bomb threat in a bathroom, an airline spokesman said.
The pilot of the aircraft diverted Flight 295 to Stockton and landed Wednesday afternoon. All 276 passengers and 13 crew members were evacuated through emergency exits.
No bomb was found on board after a four-hour search of the plane, said Tom Schwartz, a spokesman for Fort Worth-based American Airlines.
The FBI questioned passengers for about four hours, then allowed them to board buses for San Francisco, about 90-minutes away. In Sacramento, Special Agent Tom Griffin said the FBI had no suspects.
Some of the passengers were disgruntled by the delay, Griffin said.
The passengers and crew of Flight 907 en route to Tampa from Nashville and Milwaukee were evacuated by emergency chute when the plane landed at 12:10 pm EDT at Tampa International Airport, an airline spokesman said.
In Florida, an American Airlines 727 with 32 passengers and a crew of six made a safe emergency landing after the pilot reported an engine fire, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
"They were upset, but I would rather be safe than get back on that plane," Griffin said. "I know it's hot in Stockton, about 105 degrees. But I'd rather be hot than dead."
Two passengers were injured slightly using the chutes.
A warning light in the cockpit of the Boeing 727-200 indicated a possible fire in one engine while the plane was on approach, but controllers in the tower saw no flames or smoke, said John Hotard, a spokesman at the carrier's Dallas headquarters.
"It appears at this point it was a faulty warning light," said spokesman Al Becker at American's Dallas-
headquarters.
Officials said the light came on when the flight was about 10 minutes from the runway. The pilot activated two fire extinguishers built into the engine.
headquarters.
engine.
"Apparently he blew both bottles and the light still may have been on," Hotard said.
The pilot declared an emergency landed the aircraft, turned onto a taxiway and opened the chutes.
Michelle Fulcher-Carlisle, 24, of New York was treated at St. Joseph's Hospital emergency room for minor head injuries and released, said hospital spokeswoman Barbara Fernandez.
Vivian Tekamp, 68, of Waukegan, III., was listed in satisfactory condition undergoing tests, Ms. Fernandez said.
In Chicago, meanwhile, smoke from an overheated air conditioning unit caused evacuation of 131 people from a United Airlines DC-8 at O'Hare International Airport on Wednesday night, an airline spokesman said.
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allowed to go to Colorado, which makes it very difficult to collect on our judgment."
our pennants.
Prewitt said that the University could go to court to garnish McMurry's wages but that the expense of doing that would be significant. The University would have to hire a Colorado attorney to start any legal action against him.
"I wouldn't say I've written it (the money) off," Prewitt said. "But realistically speaking, I doubt, given the circumstances, we'll ever get all the money back."
Colorado parole officials say McMurry is employed and makes between $700 and $1,200 a month.
they were as capable of opening an emergency door and assisting in an evacuation as people with sight. They also objected to what they said could be condescending treatment by airline employees and needless demands, such as that they use a wheelchair while boarding.
Larry Cavnagh, McMurry's Colorado parole officer, said he was unsure how Kansas wanted him to handle McMurry's case.
"It's unfortunate that we have to spend so much money to collect our money." Prewitt said.
arrangement.
Department of Commerce
Cavennah wrote a letter in July asking Kansas for clarification on the details of McMurry's parole
"I want to know what they are going to do if he doesn't repay the money," he said. "At this time it doesn't look like he is going to do it, and I don't have an answer from the Department of Corrections."
"It's totally up to them about what I do about him," he said.
Kansas parole officials said yesterday that they would tell Cavnaght that they will not take action against McMurry if he maintains the other conditions of his parole.
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Next July, McMurry will automatically be off parole and will no longer be under Kansas' jurisdiction, said George Jones, director of the Kansas State Parole Board.
Blind passengers protest airlines' policies
Then, even if the state wanted to take action against McMurry, it couldn't, Jones said.
could it, Jones said that regardless of state action, she would continue University efforts to collect money from McMurry. The University also filed a civil suit against McMurry in 1984. A Douglas County Circuit Court ruled that the University was entitled to restitution equal to the amount in the parole agreement. Thus, KU can demand restitution payments indefinitely.
Seating rules are discriminatory, they say
Maurer and other blind people who addressed the board focused their complaints on policies many airlines have of prohibiting them from sitting near emergency exits, a practice the carriers say is based on safety concerns.
Prewitt wouldn't comment on what actions the University would take.
WASHINGTON — The president of the National Federation of the Blind told a federal panel yesterday that the blind were ready to use "every morally justifiable means" to end discrimination by the airlines, including blocking runways.
runways in front of the planes?" Marc Maurer, president of the federation, asked a committee weighing rules to prevent discrimination against the handicapped by airlines. "That is a question that the behavior of the airlines themselves will answer."
Onera. The blind, however, argued that
cluding blocking I walk away.
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Tie-dve
The new trend could cause a backlash from former tie-dye wearers, he said.
said.
"I predict that the real Deadheads will stop wearing them, or at least won't wear them as much," he said.
Other people are wearing tie-dyes for different reasons.
for different reasons.
All 67 members of the pledge class of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority, 1500 Sigma Nu Place, were given tie-dye shirts at the beginning of the year by active members.
active members.
Margo Hackel, Omaha, Neb,
senior, said she was appointed chief
tie-dyer for the sorority.
"Every year when we get a pledge class we give them a shirt, she we wear it."
really popped she and some friends Hackel said she and some friends saw the host of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, a children's television show, make tie-dies by winding shirts around a broomstick. She said her sorority made its shirts with Mr. Rogers' method.
really popular over the summer. "
"The actual process is fun." she said.
aid. "It's like the big thing
"For some reason tie-dyes got
Sorority members decided to give their pledges the T-shirts just to be different and because they thought the shirts would be noticeable.
Carolyn Russell, Leavenworth freshman and a member of the Alpha Chi Omega pledge class, said she liked the tie-dyes because each was unique.
more and an active in the sorority, said that at first she was a bit teery of wearing a tie-dye. She said she thought the people who wore them at her former college, DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., were a little weird.
werd.
"But they (her sorority sisters) all said, 'Oh this is totally great,' and I trusted them. One of the things you gotta do is always trust your sisters," she said.
Many students are making their own tie-dyes, but a few stores in town are selling them, too.
unique!
Tara Savre, Overland Park sopho
are being Kathy Morrow, co-owner of The Yellow Sub, 624 W. 12th St. said the would have some tie-dyes for sale next week. She said the shirts would sell for $10.
Laurie Culling, a salesman at Natural Way Fine Gifts and Exotic Jewelry, 820 Massachusetts St., said the store had some tie-dye shirts, dresses, tank tops and shorts. The tank-top shirts now cost $4 to $8.
Jeff Clardy, Commerce, Texas, freshman, said he thought one of the reasons tie-dyes were in fashion was because the latest Grateful Dead album was being played on pop radio stations.
stations.
Clardy said tie-dyes also were being worn for the same reasons they were worn in the '60s.
The-dye clothes are very popular with students, she said.
were just like this.
"It's just that old '60s way of feeling totally free — 'This is me, this is the way I want to look,' " he said.
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