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Wednesday, July 19, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Fire won't stop presses Pratt paper publishes despite destruction
The Associated Press
PRATT — Early morning fire destroyed the building housing the Pratt Tribune but did not stop yester-year publication of the daily newspaper.
"We are going to publish," Managing Editor Buzz Ball said Tuesday afternoon. "The Great Bend Tribute is helping out and will print it."
Authorities said a fire of undetermined origin was reported at 3:20 a.m. and had engulfed the building 40 minutes later when flames broke through the roof. Heavy smoke poured from the building and fire was visible through a back door when firefighters arrived.
"We just couldn't see the big fire and couldn't reach the big area that appeared to be the hottest," said Fire Chief Berkley Mille, whose department was assisted by a rural fire department in fighting the blaze.
Firefighters were sent back to the building at about 10 a.m. to put out flames that had been kindled by the wind.
The state fire marshal's office was conducting a routine investigation into the fire that destroyed the one-story brick building and its contents. There was no estimate of the monetary loss.
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Authorities said a fire of undetermined origin was reported at 3:20 a.m. and had engulfed the building 40 minutes later when flames broke through the roof. Heavy smoke poured from the building and fire was visible through a back door when firefighters arrived.
Witnesses said the fire was so hot that grass near the building burst into flames. He damage vehicles parked 30 feet from the building that had housed the Pratt Tribune since 1929.
A ticket to the moon
Ball said two weekly newspapers printed at the Pratt Tribune — The St. John News and the Kiowa County Signal of Greensburg — would be printed at the Spearville News. Ball said that his weekly newsletter yesterday afternoon about a third weekly — the Cunningham Clipper. The Tribune Publishing Co owns the Pratt daily and the St. John, Kiowa County and Cunningham weeks.
now is," he said. "We do research into rocket propulsion and build small rocket engines.
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“Our goal is to make going into space a normal thing. We should be able to work there, have factories on the moon and presence on the moon and Mars.”
Downing said the first moon landing had special significance for him.
"For my generation it is one of the two major events of our lifetime," he said. "I have very vivid memories of where I was when President Kennedy was shot and when the moon landing took place.
Downing said he was not optimistic about the immediate future of the space program.
"My wife and I watched on television as the capsule opened and Armstrong came down. It was perfectly clear out that night. I went to the theater, stood in the moon and knew that two people were there. It was special."
"It are really concerned to see how much commitment the Bush administration has to space exploration," he said. "There have been some challenges, but we last 10 years or so. It's very hard to have paper designs and no
Downing was more hopeful about the long run.
flights"
"Kids are absolutely fascinated by space," he said. "Earlier this year I gave a space presentation in Colby and an astronaut gave a talk. The Colby community center was absolutely packed. It brought home to me that there is a lot of support for the space program.
"The problem is that the space program has no natural advocates," Downing said. "The population as a whole has to decide they want it. It bothers me a great deal that the next freshman class is the a generation of college students in college born before the last Anno flight."
"That tells you where our priorities have been in recent years."
John Stewart, a singer formerly with the Kingston Trio, tried to capture in a song the significance of the first moon landing:
"The rivers are getting dirty, the wind is getting bad; War and hate are killing off the only earth we have. But the world all stopped to watch it on that July afternoon. To watch a man named Armstrong walk upon the moon."
President of the Cheap Rocket Society, James Stilwell, disengages the spark plug cable of the society's latest project.
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