European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday May 4, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 bed Board and bars All Tor $20 a night Everett Wash. Dim More than too people agreed to pay $20 each so they could go to jail but just for one night. In a fund raising Effort and As i snarl of Shakedown exercise for the staff the Snohomish county jail opened us doors to up to 120 paying non criminal guests a riday for n grand opening overnight stay. Among those with reservations was Snohomish county Superior court judge Dennis Drill. I just thought 1 d like to see what it s like he said. The is 2 million jail will begin receiving real inmates within the next two weeks. The jail has room for 277 prisoners 257 men and 20 women. The paying guests were served dinner Friday with television and snacks available until lock Down at mid night. They also got breakfast saturday morning and a souvenir to shirt. In sides Uriel those reserving Beds at the jail for the night include the mayor of Brier a minister the fore Man of the company that built the jail and two television reporters from Seattle. We have been accepting reservations for the last few weeks said Tom Lewis a spokesman for the in Thoni ish county corrections department before the in mates began arriving. We had to Cut it off monday night. We re booked  the Money raised from the overnight guess will be used to Purchase athletic equipment stationary Bicy cles a rowing machine and possibly weights for the jail staff. Doctor performed unauthorized experiments Moscow bound cancer expert reprimanded last year los Angulis a the Nhy Sican who went to the soviet Union to help Vic Tims of the chernobyl nuclear Plant disaster was once reprimanded by a Federal health Agency for making unauthorized Bone mar Row transplants. But friends and associates of or. Robert Gale said the disciplinary action by the National institutes of health stemmed from his dedication to saving lives. Nothing can Stop this Man Gale s wife Tamar said Friday after her husband arrived in Moscow. As Long As there is life there is Hope he says if somebody has leukaemia he will be the very last person to give up. He s very stubborn Gale is chairman of the advisory commit tee to the International Bone marrow transplant registry in Milwaukee which collects data from so percent of the world s Bone marrow transplant centers to Analyse treatment of leukaemia patients. Because of Gale s expertise. Or. Armand Hammer the Occidental Petroleum corp. Chairman who has close ties to soviet Lead ers arranged for him to travel to the soviet Union to Aid any people whose marrow was damaged or destroyed by radiation from the reactor disaster. The registry s scientific director or. Mortimer Borlin said Gale May help the soviets find relatives of injured people to serve As marrow donors ask Bone marrow a photo or. Robert Gale prepares to leave los Angeles to Confer with soviet cancer specialists. And transplant surgeons to travel to the so Viet Union or arrange for radiation victims to be transported to nearby nations for transplants. In 1978 and 1979, Gale performed unauthorized experimental Bone marrow trans plants on patients whose marrow was destroyed by leukaemia. The operations had not been approved by an internal review committee at the  of California at los Angeles Urcla. After a Long con Mersy Over the trans plants which some colleagues say was triggered by professional jealousy and Gale s somewhat grating personality Gale was reprimanded last year b nil i. Which provides his research funding. Gale remains widely respected despite the controversy. Borlin described Gale As a Superb scientist very dedicated to his patients. The Besl word to characterize him is Brilliant. Me certainly is one of the Foremost Bone mar Row trans planters in the  Bui Gale s judgment was wrong when he decided to perform the transplant without approval of the Urcla committee responsible for protecting human subjects of re search she said. The committee later approved further transplants and the nil continued Gale s funding on the condition his activities will be monitored until March 1988. Shepard says comp Agency harmed Nasa Washington a former astronaut Alan b. Shepard jr., the first american in space says a no hum attitude has plagued the National aeronautics and space administration in recent years and May have contributed to the space shuttle challenger disaster. It s an attitude that creeps in which causes error in judgment which causes Lack of motivation and which causes a Lack of direction Shepard told the National press club on Friday. It s a very Subtle  Shepard predicted however that the space Agency will get its net together and make its next 25 years More exciting than the first. His forecast included the construction of a space station and increased space travel by Ordi nary americans during hat time. The first 25 years of . Manned space flight began May 5, 1961, with Shepard s 15-minute ride in a Liny Mercury capsule called Freedom 7. It was propelled by a Redstone rocket. He said americans were enthusiastic in the Early years about space exploration and when astronauts reached the Moon. But he acknowledged that Public interest waned sharply after thai. It was becoming sort of to hum. There was a complacency there and i think that is basically where we arc he said he said that Altitude May have contributed to the challenger explosion Jan. 28 that killed seven Crew Mem Bers. The Accident investigation has revealed communications problems within the space Agency and Between Nasa and shuttle contractors. It has resulted in criticism of Naba s five close Calls for the shuttle challenger aug. 30, 1983 left solid Rocke Booster comes within seconds of . Discovery june 26,1984 Hydrogen teak fires on launch pad abort Mission with Only 4 seconds to launch. Discovery Jan. 24, 198s hot gases penetrate primary 0-Nng Seal charring Between o rings in held joint. Challenger april 29, 1985 primary an secondary of ring erosion in nozzle joint. Chicago Tribune graphic source Chicago Tribune news reports � Columbia Jan. 6,1986 rep. Bill Nelson flight delayed when 18,000 ibs. Of liquid oxygen act Dently drains from external tank. Management. Nobody deliberately made a bad decision Shepard id. Surely very quickly Well find the piece of hardware. A i Jsai that failed Nasa s system of management is basically Correct although it May have become Loo bureaucratic he said. But it comes Back Down to people. It comes right Back to the complacency. It does creep in there even with a Fine organization it creeps in there and it s unfortunate it takes an Accident like this to bring it  within 25 years he said americans will be Able to buy tickets for trips into space. Thai s definitely in the cards he said. Folks just can t wait to gel up there. They la be the same folks who could t wait to buy the tickets on the concorde when it first came out. Sure it was expensive but they did  scientific experimentation and commercial ventures will increase Over the next Quarter of a Century but while colonization in space is Likely in the future it s More than 25 years away he said