THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 2007
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PARKING
Lots will accept all permits Anyone with KU parking permit may use Park & Ride lot
BY MAGGIE VANBUSKIRK
mvanbuskirk@kansan.com
Beginning this month, Park & Ride officially opened its lots to all KU parking permits.
Parking Department officials said that accepting any permit would encourage students to utilize the lots and help decrease congestion on the main campus.
Campus parking is becoming increasingly difficult for students, especially with construction on lots
91 and 94 near Memorial Stadium, said Danny Kaiser, assistant director for the parking department.
"You don't have to hunt for a place to park," Kaiser said. "You can park immediately and hop on a bus to go to campus."
He said opening the Park & Ride lots was a viable alternative for students and faculty having trouble finding open parking spaces.
Kaiser said Park & Ride lots hold 1,400 spaces. The parking department has sold only 900 Park & Ride permits this year.
Park & Ride permits are still available for purchase. They cost $205 and include a KU on Wheels bus pass. The lots will return to accepting only Park & Ride permits when the Park & Ride permits begin to sell out, Kaiser said. He said that students and faculty must have a KU parking permit to park in the Park & Ride lots or they could park in the meters, and violators would be ticketed.
Edited by Trevan McGee
》POW/MIA
Remains recovered from WWII wreckage
BY PABLO GORONDI ASSOCIATED PRESS
ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO
Capt. George Murphy, left, and Sgt. Andrew Whicker, right, clean a 50 cal. machine gun on July 30 while searching for the remains of a U.S. airman shot down over Hungary during World War II. The remains of Staff Sgt. Martin F. Troy were found among the wreck of a B-24H "Liberator" bomber in the village of Nemesvita, about 110 miles southwest of Budapest, the capital.
BUDAPEST, Hungary — The remains of a U.S. airman whose plane was shot down over Hungary in World War II have been recovered from wreckage left unexcavated in a rural area for 63 years, American and Hungarian officials said Friday.
The remains of Staff Sgt. Martin F. Troy were found among the wreck of a B-24H "Liberator" bomber in the village of Nemesvita, about 110 miles southwest of the capital Budapest. They will be returned to the United States, officials said.
The location of the wreckage has been well known since the time of the crash — seven of the bomber's 10-man crew bailed out and the survivors gave an account about where it went down. They said Troy had likely died. But no one has gone back to thoroughly search the site since.
Troy, a native of Norwalk, Conn., was the only member of the bomber's crew who had yet to be fully accounted for. Though the identity of the remains must be confirmed by DNA testing, officials said there was virtually not doubt they belonged to Troy.
"After 63 years of being listed as 'killed in action, body not recovered,' this airman's family can finally experience closure," U.S. Ambassador to Hungary April H. Foley said at a ceremony to officially hand over the remains to the U.S.
The recovery was carried out by the U.S. military's Hawaii-based Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, or JPAC, which identifies and recovers American soldiers killed in conflicts around the world.
Tens of thousands of people from some two dozen countries were known to have been killed during the war in Hungary, which was invaded by Nazi Germany in 1944. The country was then under communist rule until 1989 and would not have allowed an American military team in to search the crash site.
The wreckage was deemed "unrecoverable" in 1945 by the American Graves Registration Unit, because of its location. The bomber crashed into marshy land, creating a crater some six yards wide by 18 yards long which was covered by 2-3 feet of water.
"The site of the crash had been heavily salvaged over the years ... probably during the war," said anthropologist Bradley Sturm, the only civilian on the JPAC team.
"Given the fact that there were tons of metal in that aircraft, there was hardly anything left."
He said Troy's bones were scattered around the crater caused by the crash, a few miles from Lake Balaton on privately owned land.
JPAC began making efforts to recover Troy's remains two years ago "because of congressional interest," said Marine Capt. George Murphy, the military leader of the JPAC team. One of the surviving crew members and other veterans lobbied for the JPAC mission. The original survivors from Troy's crew are all dead now, Sturm said.
Murphy said JPAC's limited resources also held up the search for Troy's remains. The group has only five teams to search for about 80,000 Americans still missing from World War II.
Sturm said the excavation of the wreck took 30 days and an engine and three propeller blades were among items recovered from the bomber.
"There is a good chance that Troy died before the plane hit the ground," Sturm said. "There was a big fire involving a leakage in the oxygen system and another crew member was badly burned trying to get to him."
Troy was the tail gunner on the bomber nicknamed "Miss Fortune," which was returning from a mission in Germany to its base in Italy. His aircraft and three others flew into bad weather and were shot down by German gunners over western Hungary on June 30, 1944.
JPAC will attempt to return Troy's remains to his family if it can be found.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Astronauts evaluate damage
BY RASHA MADKOUR ASSOCIATED PRESS
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Dave Williams, right, and mission specialist Rick Mastracchio work outside of the Space Shuttle Endeavour during a space walk while orbiting Earth on Saturday.
HOUSTON — Astronauts worked Sunday to give NASA a closer look at a troubling gouge on the Endeavour's protective heat shield to help determine whether they need to repair the 3-inch wound on the space shuttle's belly.
NASA
Astronaut Charles Hobaugh used the international station's robotic arm to pull a 50-foot laser-tipped boom from Endeavour's cargo bay and hand it off to the shuttle's robotic arm.
Later in the day, teacher-turned astronaut Barbara Morgan and crewmate Tracy Caldwell were to gingerly maneuver the shuttle's robotic arm to scan the damage in the difficult-to-reach belly area. The laser will help engineers create a three-dimensional image of the gash, allowing them to determine how deep the gouge is and whether
The space agency planned to spend several hours on the detailed inspection of the $3 \frac{1}{2}$-by-2-inch gash. It was caused by a piece of foam that came off the shuttle's external fuel tank during liftoff last week, striking tiles that insulate the ship from the intense heat of reentry to Earth, NASA said.
appears to have come off a bracket on the fuel tank, then bounced off a strut farther down and shot into Endeavour, said John Shannon, chairman of the mission management team. The brackets hold the long fuel feed line to the tank, and the struts connect the tank to the shuttle for launch. Ice tends to form near these brackets and cause the foam to pop off at liftoff.
The space agency won't know how serious the ding is or whether astronauts need to repair the damage during a spacewalk until it's examined.
Adding a spacewalk to the mission is less likely now that managers know the gash was not caused by heavier and potentially more damaging ice like they initially suspected. They learned this after examining video from cameras retrieved from Endeavour's booster rockets, which were towed back from the Atlantic.
repairs are needed.
Foam has come loose from the brackets on previous flights, Shannon said, and NASA is looking at how to redesign the apparatus to mitigate this problem.
A grapefruit-sized piece of foam
"It's a little bit of a concern to us because this seems to be something that has happened frequently," Shannon said.
Almost every mission in the 26 years of shuttle flight has ended with gouges of at least an inch in the thermal tiles that cover the belly. In one flight, nearly 300 dings that big were recorded.
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