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Thursday, July 12, 1979
Summer Session Kansan
THE SUMMER SESSION Capsules From staff and wire reports
From staff and wire reports
Camp David summit continues
WASHINGTON - President Carter discussed the nation's unemployment with authorities on business, civil rights, sociology and religion, as well as with government officials yesterday, in the sixth day of his domestic policy summit at Camp David.
One administration official predicted Carter aide Hamilton Jordan would be given more direct authority in his role as White House chief of staff.
White House press secretary Jody Powell called reports of plans to fire Energy Secretary James Schlesinger "uninformed speculation."
There was speculation that the conferences might end soon and that work would begin on a presidential speech, with Sunday as a possible date for its
Elena Gustave, a senior director said the White House staff had hoped to deliver to the president by just giving Carter's options in developing synthetic fuels.
Man killed in dynamite blast
RYAOREM, Mo—An explosion of a truck loaded with dynamite in a residential section here yesterday killed the driver and scattered dynamite and fireballs.
James I. Miller, 25 of Kansas City, Mo., died when he moved to a truck carrying an undetermined amount of dynamite. A fellow worker, Jumper Parker of Pleasant Hill, Mo., was injured. They were employed by Tip Top Plumbing Co., near Wichita, where the stern being built in the town of 487 about 25 miles southeast of Kansas City.
The dynamite in the truck exploded as Miller started the vehicle to move it away from an excavation site.
Fight homes and some power lines were damaged by the blast.
Official says recession worse
WASHINGTON—The Congressional Budget Office director said yesterday that the economy is sliding into a deeper recession than previously predicted.
Alice Rivlin, director of the budget office, said it might be wise to maintain current government policies and to "ride out" the economic downturn and the recession.
The budget office predicted double-digit inflation for the rest of the year with prices moderating only slightly in 1980 and a rise in unemployment of 1 or 2 percentage points by the end of 1980, meaning 1 million to 2 million more workers without jobs.
Rivilin said in testimony before the House Budget Committee that she thought Congress should prepare a "contingency plan for fiscal stimulus" in case unemployment rose to unacceptable levels. But she told members not to act rashly in an attempt to counteract the economic slump.
Carao plane lands in musteru
TUNIS, Tunisia—The pilot and two crew members of a Kansas City, Mo., based cargo plane that was diverted after take off from Belton, Lebanon were shot down on Sunday by a Philippine aircraft.
The Tunisian government refused to comment on reports that the Boeing 707 had been hitiacked or that the plane was loaded with more than 50 tons of arms.
U. S. officials in Tunisia said they had no definite information about the cargo or the plane's destination. One unconfirmed report said the plane was carrying 365 tons of oil.
Farhad Azima, the chairman of Global International Airways Corp. in Kansas City, Mo., said the plane left Beirut with relief goods for refugees from Nicaragua's civil war. He said the plane was reloaded with 50 tons of weapons when it landed in Tunisia. He said two unidentified men boarded at a military base near the city.
Embassy officials said the plane was being held in Tunis. They said they had no indication it had been at Biterte. They said they believed the incident began after the plane crashed.
Record wheat crop predicted
TOPEKA-Officials predicted yesterday that the 1979 wheat harvest in Kansas would be 385.2 million bushels—the largest yield on state record.
The state Crop and Livestock Reporting Service predicted that the 10.7 million units of being harvested would yield 36 bushels per acre, exceeding the 1973 record.
The service said favorable moisture conditions this spring and early summer had made the prospects for almost all Kansas crops this year "good to excellent."
The 1979 corn yield was predicted to be 150.8 million bushels, down slightly from last year's 153 million bushel crop.
The barley crop was predicted to yield 2.59 million bushels, down 2 percent.
The oat crop was forecast at 5.04 million bushels, up 8 percent, and the rye crop at 6.71 million bushels.
Governors can regulate gas
WASHINGTON - The Energy Department issued an emergency rule yesterday giving governors the power to shift gasoline supplies from service stations to underground facilities.
The rule came on the eve of a threatened strike by independent gasoline dealers in Delaware and Pennsylvania. The dealers said they would stop selling gasoline to other states.
But the department's Economic Regulatory Administration did not blame the action on the strike threat.
In addition to redirecting supplies, the governors can require stations receiving transferred supplies to stay open longer.
The rule also prohibits suppliers from cutting deliveries to states where governers have redirected supplies.
FAA finds new DC-10 cracks
WASHINGTON - The head of the Federal Aviation Administration said yesterday that two new cracks has been discovered inside inspections of the airplane.
FAA Administrator Langhorne Bond told a Senate Commerce aviation subcommittee the cracks were found in pylon that connected the aircraft's wings.
Bond said he would wait for a report on the new cracks before deciding whether to lift the ban on the domestic use of DC-10s.
Weather...
Earlier, inspectors found cracks in three DC-10s, one United Airlines jet and two Trans International airlines jets.
Skies will be clear to partly cloudy today and it will be warn and humid tonight through Friday, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Temperatures will be in the low to mid 90's today and tomorrow with a slight chance of rain tonight. The low tonight will be in the mid 70's.
Correction ...
It was incorrectly reported in Monday's Kansas that administrators of the Pearson Trust Fund must approve speakers for this school year's political forums. The Political Forums Committee is merely petitioning the cultural branch of the trust fund for some aid in financing this year's speakers.
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Skylab debris plunges harmlessly to earth
WASHINGTON (AP) - The $2.5 billion space station Skylab plunged into the Indian Ocean yesterday at 11:37 a.m., scattering some of the most desolate terrain on earth.
There were no reports of damage or injury, sparing the United States worldwide embarrassment. It was estimated that 20 to 25 tons of metal survived Skylab's fall.
For residents of southwestern Australia, the fall of Skylab provided a celestial fireworks show, complete with the sound of sonic booms.
"It was an incredible sight," said John Seiler, a rancher in Australia's outback. "I thought the sun was shining around the homefield. We can ripen the nose of wind in the air as big pieces passed over us. Just after the last pieces dropped out of sight, the whole house shook."
The heaviest debris hit the water about 4,000 feet offshore, trailing jumk for about 4,000 miles.
Reports of sightings of Skylab debris were received from three airports in Australia. Sightings of 20 to 30 pieces were reported from Perth, Australia.
Capt. Bill Anderson, a pilot for a local airline in western Australia who was approaching the airport at Perth, said he saw fragments of Skylab fall out of the sky in flames of fire that turned red. The steward's seat broke up, trailing smaller, slew debris.
Late Wednesday, the North American Air Defense Command said the last and largest piece lost its forward motion and started to drop at Klaigorie in southwestern Australia, about 700 to 800 miles northeast of the position in the Indian Ocean where it encountered it had dropped. NORAD estimated the time of the "decay point" at **11:37 a.m.**
Jim Kukowski, a spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said, "We have received no reports of property damage or personal injury. The doesn't rule it out 100 percent, but there's no proof that any debris was found on anybody."
President Carter sent a message to
"I have instructed the Department of State to be in touch with your government immediately and to offer any assistance you may need," Carter added.
Australian Prime Minister J. Malcolm
was relieved to learn no injuries had resulted.
Skylab's demise apparently came a half-
half later than official predictions made
Tuesday.
A manuever before dawn yesterday sent the abandoned space laboratory into a tumbling orbit that reduced atmospheric pressure. Skylab would crash over North America.
The last signal from Skylab was received at Ascension Island, at 11:11 a.m.
Skylar apparently remained intact for a final sweep across the North American continent, a gentle are from the northwest and southwest of Canada and the northeast corner of Maine.
When the tracking station at Bermuda picked up its signals, Skylab still had its windmill-like solar panels, the most fragile part of its exterior and the first pieces to work on it. The lab was 72 miles above the sea, ranidly nearing the end of its space life.
By the up by the Ascension Island tracking station picked up Skyla, its systems were deteriorating. The space agency said some or all of the solar panels had been rinsed off.
Thus ended the life of the space laboratory launched May 14, 1973, from Cape Canaveral, Fla. to enhance mankind's knowledge of his own planet. Skylab gave three crews of astronauts an unparalleled chance to observe both heaven and Earth. The crew boarded for 84 days until the station was permanently abandoned on Feb. 8, 1974.
Since then, Skylab had been a ghost ship, circling the globe 16 times a day, above 90 percent of the world's population. It occupies in landmass in 2,249 days and in 34,981 orbits.
NASA said it always expected Skylab to crash back to Earth some day, but the agency's 197 calculations indicated the mission failed in May 1983 or 1984 without any further actions.
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