European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes monday May 12.1986 Oregon has Portland. Ore. A the highest Levels of a d inactivity selected in the United slates so far from the r Accident were found in rain samples taken Llyl residents were advised not to Drine health officer Lester n. Wright said the contamination was not High enough to cause any health concerns. The level of iodine i was More than Highl limes greater than the Prev Ings High Reading monday the j already considered abnormal because of fal chernobyl Normal Sec any iodine 131 in air or water us Wright said. Picoc urics of iodine-131 per liter of atop the stale office building in . Portland compared with monday s Reading of 654 Piccou. Ries. Federal standards consider 24,000 Fller to be a level of concern Wright Sau Erous h s sensitive to Rainwater samples in Portland. Also 3t_ Jim curies per liter of another radioactive substance ruthenium 1 03, which is not considered As dangerous As iodine i. Tests conducted by specialized radiation laboratories in Richland wash., and by the environmental Protection Agency indicate the radioactive material is from a second Cloud of materials from the chernobyl disaster Raveling 7,000 feet Wright said. Tests of drinking water and Mik in Portland have not selected any radioactivity said state health division spokesman Art Keil. Many residents of Rural areas in Central Oregon collect Rainwater far drinking because Well water is scarce and in Quality is poor. Fees pile the warning not to drink Rainwater Keil said " a incr Wou t not i you fill the next 10 Yean it Proba by would t be a goodi3cwhtaimijyeivhe said. In Alaska monitors in Fairbanks j first dose of radiation from the chernobyl Accident a Reading of 134 Piccou Riesop iodine-131 per Filer of Rainwa Ter Itati officials said. Nasa from Page 1 shifted to a new Job by Nasa on Friday challenger exploded after liftoff from Kennedy space Center in Florida on Jan 23. Taking the lives of Crew of seven including teacher Christa Mcauliffe. A leak Between segments of the right Booster rocket is blamed for the Accident. The panel investigating the Accident must make . Report to president Reagan by june 6. Allen c. Mcdonald a Morton thief col Engineer who had testified to the commis Sion that he and other engineers had argued strongly the night before challenger s launch that cold weather could cause that joint to leak said he had been transferred to two new jobs since he spoke out. Commission chairman Walkam p. Rog ers ask cd him do you have any reason to think you were Given another assignment because of he testimony you gave Mcdonald replied yes 1 do. I feel i was set aside so that t would not have con tact with people from Nasa again because they Felt that i either could t work with them or in would be a situation that would t be Good for either Rogers so you were in effect punished for being right Mcdonald i feel i a second Manan Thiol co Engineer who joined in the prelaunch objections Roger Boisjoly told the panel "1, too Haw been put on the Rogers asked do you feel that May be in retaliation for your testimony Boisjoly i think that is a possibility a distinct possibility Rogers said in this kind of an Accident where people come before a commission and Lell the truth and Hen they arc treated As he Mcdonald believes he has been treated which obviously is in some Way punishment or retaliation for his testimony it is extremely serious. To have some thing happen to him thai seems to be in the nature of punishment is shocking a Weet later 8 top Morton Thi Okol executive a Edwin Garrison told commission investigator we have made no attempt to freeze anyone out of the data. We haven1 demoted anyone. We be changed a lot of duties. Because we Are the commission heard from William l. Ray an Engineer who had worked an he initial design of the. Booster rocket who wrote Memas in i971,1977,1978 and 979 complaining about an unacceptable and in adequate design for the joint Seal that is thought to have failed. In response to a question from commis Sion executive director Alton keel Ray said Bis View has not changed is in your position then that it needs to be redesigned keel asked. Yes said Ray. The commission heard from James e. Kif Ogsbury engineering director at mar shall space flight Center in Alabama which has responsibility Tor All shuttle propulsion systems. He said joint redesign is already under Way Kingsbury headed thai Effort until Fri Day when in was shifted to another official possibly As a result of a private briefing Nasa recently received from commission members about their concerns Over the redesign work. At die May 2 hearing Kingsbury said newly forged Booster cases Are expected to be delivered by August prompting commissioner Albert Walker to respond i m just very concerned that the pressure to gel the system operating again is going to Force an Early decision on the design of the new joint Rogers added that such a Quick fix would be repeating the mistake a mis take of the commission Joseph Suiter joined by several other panel members criticized Marshall s use of a Inch and 10-Inch scale models 10 conduct tests of the design of the 150-fool-Long rocket "1 am going to see that before anything flies again Here is going to be a lot of full scale testing or something suitable to Back it up not these Dinky 10-Inch tests where a whole bunco of scale effects Are it was Learned that the commission in tends to include such a recommendation in final report As Well As a demand that the design be supervised by a panel of Independent outside experts. On Friday Nasa agreed to the panel of experts having Learned of the commission s desire in the recent private briefing. Recovering the reusable Booster rockets after challenger s launch on april 25 lost year Nasa found that both seals the primary and backup on a Booster joint had allowed Gas and flame to leak. That had been the most ser Lou of a continuing Solo problems with Bossier joints. Mulloy then issued launch constraints for six subsequent flights which meant a review Board had to to convinced before these launches that Trie problem would not endanger the shuttle. On each of the six occasions Mulloy lifted the constraint Al though leaks continued to crop up and the joint was not redesigned commissioner Robert Hoti asked mul Loy was t there any time in this history. That you or anybody else connected with the solid rocket Booster said. We Are get Ting things that Are outside our original predictions and should t we take a took at it and Stop flying until we be fixed in Malloy we continually emphasized to the contractor that we need to put More emphasis on resolving this problem. We did not recommend thai we Stop on Jan. 13, five Days before the final challenger launch the launch constraint was lifted for Good by Marshall s problem assessment system. According la a document released by the commission the sys pm concluded this problem is considered Mulloy said he was not aware of that entry and that in was an is unfortunate he said. Commission investigators also have cited As a possible problem with the joint the fact i hat i he suspect segment was found to be out of round and had to be forced into place when in was mated with another segment. Commissioner Robert Rummel brought out that Mulloy was aware some segments had fall spots and did t take that into account when he decided whether the rocket could Fly. Asked Why Mulloy replied it was an obvious oversight Rummel it is a pretty obvious Over sight in t in Mulloy yes. Sir it Mulloy pointed out in his own defense that there were other problems including burning through of the nozzle which he considered so serious that he rolled Back a shuttle from the launch pad in 1983, de laying the flight for two months so that a newly designed nozzle could be substituted. Thi Okol Engineer Mcdonald Hod complained that Mulloy was very intimidating Forest fire loops across North Carolina Hampstead. . A a fire that had charred 30,000 acres of Forest land made a Loop across Southeastern North Carolina on saturday forcing homeowners to use sprinklers and hoses to douse their roofs. Smoke from Lite fire spread into Lorida 360 Miles away. Officials asked residents of �00 Homes cast of . 17 la evacuate and urged peo ple living Between thai major Highway and the Itra coastal waterway to leave As Well. The Blaze was West of . 7, and believed moving to the Southeast. Twenty five Miles of the Highway from Holly Ridge to scorn Hill were closed. I won t say Homes Aren t in danger. We be had a fat of containment lines in there but ibis fire has jumped All of them said Tom Hegele spokesman for the slate division of Forest resources the tire which started last monday afternoon burned an additional 5,000 acres of Bone dry Timber land saturday. It made a big run. It made a big to do today Hegele said More thin 100 state troopers were help ing people evacuate and keeping others from returning to the area said Chrystal Stowe spokeswoman for the stale depart ment of crime control and Public safety some flames jumped Over to the East Side of . 17, but were contained she said. Once the fire did hit 17 in the Blaze appeared headed toward Hampstead where protective lines were slowed around buildings and local firefighters were prepared to Hose Down houses said Feld Man Corn spokesman for the stale division of Forest resources. State troopers warned motorists near the fire to use headlights to Pierce the heavy smoke and aircraft buzzed overhead dump ing chemicals on the advancing flames two men suffered respiratory problems from the smoke saturday Stowe said but she did not know their conditions. At one paint officials said the fire was two Miles wide and 18 Miles Long but on sat urday winds split inc Blaze and Hie smoke made it impossible to find the fire s edges tie fire bos made & Loop said Hegele since it started monday afternoon in has made an almost 36wegree turn. In is almost Back to where u to me after Mcdonald bad spoken about his launch eve protest to commission Mem Bers. Mcdonald said Mulloy questioned Why he was giving information to the com Mission without going through your own management without going through said Mcdonald told him to Calm Down that i did t think i had Roget a note from my Mother or anyone to give anybody Mulloy had a different recollection. He said that he objected to that portion of Mcdonald s testimony claiming the Thi Okol Engineer had continued his protests right up to launch when that was not a another major conflict came to the com Mission in the testimony of a Michael weeks Nasa s Deputy associate adminis Trator far space flight who said the joint problem had been discussed at monthly meetings during the entire last couple of years and1 that shuttle Bosses lease w. Moore and Arnold Aldrich had to have known about them. Moore and Aldrich have testified thai they were never made aware of the seriousness of the problem. 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