European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 stateside the stars and stripes wed tuesday september 0,1966 too much show business in lbs news Moyers says new York map Bill Moyers commentator for lbs evening news has criticized lbs news for yielding to inc encroachment of entertainment values on the news business. Not Only were those values invited in. They were movers said in an interview in this week s editions of Newsweek explaining Why he is leaving lbs news after his contract expires in november. The line Between entertainment and news was steadily blurred Moyers said. Our Center of Gravity shifted from the standards and practices of the news business to show business . Official warns of growing traffic problem new York not new York City s transportation commissioner said monday that methods or controlling traffic congestion had been exhausted and dramatic new Steps Are needed if the City was to meet Federal clean air requirements. In a 23-Page report. Commissioner Ross Sander said thai without such measures traffic would continue to Worsen and. By the 1990s, could reach the Levels that came with the transit strike of 1980. He suggested several programs the City could begin to combat the problem. Some arc new ideas others have been under discussion at years the proposals Range from increasing traffic lanes reserved for buses and taxis to Banning cars in mid Lown Manhattan to charging motorists Fen for enter ing certain areas. Woman Burns her eyes after using tainted Vistnes Salt Lake City up a 24-year-old woman slightly burned her eyes using Voisine Eye drops that apparently were contaminated with a chemical irritant Salt Lake county officials said monday. Managers of the Smith food King store in Down town Salt Lake removed All Voisine from the shelves to Check for contamination but City county health department officials Laid the tampering appeared to be an isolated incident i am not anticipating that it will be necessary to extend the withdrawal of the product to any other stores or. Harry Gibbons City county health director said. Utility employee loses Job for harassing co worker Seattle up a Seattle Utility employee was fired monday for a buckling the safety Belt of a female co worker while the two were working on a pole 30 feet High. Art Myers a 17-year Journeyman Linc worker was fired by City Light superintendent Randy Hardy after Hardy results of two investigations thai recommended Myers dismissal for harassment. City Light spokesman Malcolm Mcdonald said myers1 Crew chief Leo Schmitz was suspended for the four remaining Days of this week. Mcdonald said Myers threatened to strike apprentice Linc worker she Eric Holmes during an argument aug. 7 Over How to do a Job. Myers then unbuckled the woman s climbing Belt but she did not fall. This wus an isolated incident As far As the serious Ness of the Case was concerned Mcdonald said. Over the past two to three years we be had 850 folks working in the held every Day and have not had an incident like this proposed space station this drawing released by Nasa in Washington b one of Many proposals for manned Pace stations that would be developed to orbit the Earth. A apace station is planned for operation in the mid 1990s. This plan depicts growth phase with tour is. Modules two lab Mogiln Tiro i Bluhm Modis logistic module european space Agency Nadile and a japanese Experiment module. A Annan cd space station platform and a Orbital Nuur Emring vehicle Are depicted to the left of in citation 7,500 guests beam aboard for Star trek9 birthday Bash los Angeles a Twenty years after a Western but with space ships took a generation of americans boldly to where no Man had gone the Star trek Crew is seeking out new worlds of popularity. About 1,500 people turned out monday to celebrate the 20th birthday of the space Saga with coot James t. Kirk or. Spock and the Crew of the Sla ship enter prise. As waiters in Star trek uniforms circulated guests look turns posing for photos in the chair from which Kirk directed Battles with the evil klingon Empire and dictated his Captain s log. They shared a cake in the form of the Sla ship that served As the setting for the television series and the three movies that have followed. Invited to the Bash were inc original cast every guest Star who has Ever appeared on the to series or the movies and All the writers director producers and people who be worked on the shows during the past 20 years. The gathering was held on the Paramount pictures sound stages where the upcoming fourth Star trek movie was filmed. Star trek in the voyage Home is scheduled for Christmas release. Producer Gene Roddenberry discussing How he got the show on Abc 20 years ago. Said i d Tell them it was a Western but with spaceships instead of among the themes were the dangers of prejudice even against aliens and the need for peace even among intergalactic superpowers. As Roddenbery watched the guest mingle he Laid i m surprised and pleased. 1 really planned to have a show Only a few people would remember. I never thought there would a this attention and Leonard Nimoy who played the aloof or. Spock had a Light growth of Beard instead of his trademark pointed ears. A fifth movie is in development. Nimoy directed the third and fourth and William thalner who plays Kirk will direct the fifth. The series which ran on Abc from 1966-69, also starred Deforrest Keiley As or. Leonard Mccoy George Takei As Sulu Nichelle Nichols at Juhura James Doohan As Montgomery Scott Sajtl Barrett Ai nurse Christine Chapel Waller Koenig As ens. Pavel Chukov and Grace Lee Whitney As Yeoman Janice Rand. Paramount is considering a new to series with a younger cast playing the Enterprise Crew As space acad Emy cadets. Roddenberry created the show for Desilus studios. Paramount wanted to dump the 79 episodes it had acquired in its Purchase of Desilus. It offered the whole lot for $250,006. Then the trekkie cull turned into a Stampede. The old shows began to earn a Fortune in reruns it became an animated saturday morning cartoon. Star trek conventions Drew fans by the thousands. Firm gets of to launch mausoleum into orbit space Center Houston a space services inc., a Houston based private rocket company has been Given permission to launch an orbiting mausoleum from Nasa s facilities at Wallops Island a. Company spokesman wait Pennino on monday said space services plans to launch late next year the first of three space tombs containing the cremated re Mains of about 10,000 people. A Melbourne. Fla., funeral Home called the Celeslie group is Selling the space burial arrangements. Space services will launch the tombs with a Conestoga ii rocket it designed. Pennino said the human remains will be contained in Metal capsules about the size of a lipstick lube and packed into a satellite that will be put into a i,500-mile orbit space services agreement with Nasa Alto will per Mit the firm to launch other satellites from Wallops Island along the Virginia coast that the space Agency has used for suborbital rocket launches mainly for atmospheric research. Pennino said Hii company also has an agreement with another company that is negotiating with the de sense department to launch satellites. If a government contract is agreed upon in could mean five launches from Wallops he said. Other proposals if approved would mean 10 or More from Wallops or Vandenberg fab in California be said. The department of transportation last month cleared the Way for private companies to sell launch services. Martin Marietta announced last week that it reached an agreement with Federal express to launch a communications satellite called express that in 1989. A Titan Iii rocket will be used to Send the satellite loan orbit of 22,000 Miles. Pennino said space services is concentrating on put Ting satellites in orbit of 1,500 mile or lower. The Conestoga u ii assembled from Udall solid fuel rocket engines manufactured by Morton Thi Okol ine., whih have been in use on upper Mage of government Rock ets for Yean. Low orbits Are used for satellite gathering radar and photographic images of the Earth and for some navigation satellites. Pennino said space services recently was awarded a government contract 10 develop a radar system hat would give enhanced two dimensional images. This would permit use of Orbital radar to explore for minerals or lest soil conditions he said
