European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday february 25,1987 App Noto worker position a 10-ton Seal Orer in abandoned Mem Tiemin missile Slot containing debris from challenger. Challenger debris entombed As old minuteman silos sealed Cape canaveral Fla. Up wreckage from the shuttle challenger recovered in the most extensive Ocean Salvage operation in history finally tics entombed in a pair of abandoned missile silos for what amounts to permanent burial. Space Agency workers lowered huge Concrete covers onto the old minute Tan missile complexes monday scaling up the shuttle debris and bringing to a close the somber of of putting the remains of the once proud spaceship to rest. It s Good to Pul id is behind us said air Force col. Edward o Connor who orchestrated Nasa s Salvage operation. And it s great to look to the future because we re going to gel started flying the final hours of the storage project were deliberately Low key and Nasa Polyi vials said they were not aware of any plans for a plaque or other sign that would signify what lies buried beneath the Sands of Cape canaveral. Challenger blew up Jan. 28, 1986, and by the Lime the search for wreckage was called off in August about 50 percent of the shuttle its boosters and its giant external fuel tank had been recovered in a Salvage operation that surpassed in complexity the Clearing of mines from european harbours after world War ii. O Connor came up with the idea of using abandoned minuteman icbms silos Al the nearby Cape canaveral air Force station to store the shuttle wreckage. To Seal the silos Concrete Caps weighing 10 tons each were lowered into place monday and other slabs were used to dose up the equipment rooms. All the coverings can be removed by Crane if Engi neers Ever need Access 10 the wreckage. Oregon rejects nuclear attack Drill Salem Ore. A despite the threatened loss of i million i n Federal Money Oregon is pulling out of a nuclear attack Drill scheduled for next month Cov. Neil Goldschmidt announced monday. The exercise planned for March 3-5, is designed to lest local response to a fictional scenario of rising International tensions culminating in a nuclear War in which Oregon is hit by 10 atomic bombs. Washington gov. Booth Gardner earlier announced that his state would not take part in a similar exercise scheduled for March 31. Goldschmidt in a prepared statement said the federally sponsored mock War exercise defies common sense and is unacceptable to Oregon our citizens do not wan the stale to participate in an exercise thai May actually threaten world peace by advancing the notion that a nuclear War is survivable the governor said. Goldschmidt had come under increasing pressure from state legislators local government officials and religious groups to pull the state out of the exercise. Several counties earner announced they would have no part in the Drill. The Federal emergency management Agency has said refusal to take part could Cost Oregon is million. About half of that is for local emergency management programs and the rest for the state Fema spokesman Phil Cogan said monday that his Agency bad not received a copy of Goldschmidt s letter and could not comment on what Steps the Federal Agency would take. Let s just say the funds Are in Leoj said in a Telephone interview from office in Bothell Wash. Cogan As regional stateside. Samantha Smith Day decree sought in Maine Augusta Maine a state lawmakers arc being asked to proclaim june 29 As Saman Iha Smith Day in Maine. The schoolgirl who was born june 29, 1972, won International attention As a Goodwill ambassador and Symbol of world peace after she wrote a letter to soviet Leader Yuri Andropov in 1982 and visited the soviet Union As a guest of its govern ment the following year. She died with her father and five others in a plane crash in 198 5. Samantha Lias been accorded several honors since her death. The soviets have named a Mountain Peak in the caucasus Range a Small planet Between Man and Jupiter a Large Diamond and a Flower for her. A statue of her releasing a Dove was unveiled near the Maine state House in december supporters of the Bill say they Hope Maine schools and residents would commemorate the girl s soviet Union visit through ceremonies and activities. Problems to Force closing of Pennsylvania College Cambridge Springs Paap Alli Ance College will close june 30 because of dwindling enrolment and financial problems officials said. The College s 185 students and 72 administrative faculty and maintenance employees were told of the closing at a special meeting monday spokesman Bernard Fuller said. It s mostly financial. We re like Roost Small colleges Fuller said. The College owned by the polish National Alliance of Chicago had a Peak of 700 students in 1969 and As few As 133 students in 19si, according to College officials. The Alliance is the largest of the polish fraternal and insurance organizations in die United states. The school which opened in 1912 As a High school offered undergraduate degrees in the arts and sciences and specialized in polish studies International business manufacturing Engi Neering and technology programs. Woman in mayor s race campaigns with condoms Kansas City Kan. Apt a woman who is running for mayor handed out condoms at a candidates forum monday stressing the need to Slop teen age pregnancies and the spread of aids. Mat tie Mccluney s daughter and Campaign manager Brenda Mec Juney. Said the reaction of the 50 to 75 people at the forum was favourable they were serious minded about it. We plan on doing this the rest of the Campaign she said. The candidate said she wants residents to be aware of the danger of acquired immune deficiency syndrome and the problem of teen age pregnancy. Mcclincy 63, is one of nine people challenging incumbent Jack Reardon. Citadel yearbook photos termed sick humor Charleston . Up the a act s National chairman criticized As lick humor photographs from the Citadel s yearbooks during the Lale 1970s and Early 1980s showing students Clad As Kun jux klansmen including one Pic Ture that depicted a mock Lynching a act chairman or. William Gib son in monday also said racial sensitivity training announced last week for Ca dets at the racially troubled military Academy should have been Pul into effect when the pictures were published. If it was humor at All it was sick humor humor that was almost at to Point of morbidity Gibson said. Gibson said he had nol seen the Pic lures in question and was Basing his comments on descriptions by a United press International reporter who re viewed the pictures monday at the state Library in Columbia. A picture in the 1977 Sphinx the Cit Adel s yearbook shows 20 White cadets in Kun jux klan Robes standing around a Black student with a noose around Bis neck. One of the whiles is pointing a pistol at the Black another Points knife and a third to cars Over the Black Man s shoulder. Some of the while cadets in the Pic lure Are smiling others smirking and some arc looking at the ground. Last week maj. Gen. James grim stay president of the Citadel announced that the school is starting sensitivity training to promote Good relations Between races. The announcement followed the oct. 23 harassment of Black Cadet Kevin nes Mith. Early that morning five while Ca dets entered Nesmith s room dressed in towels sheets and pillowcases Mai obscene remarks and left behind made charred paper Cross. Nesmith later re signed from the Citadel. Nesmith and the a act have tiled an $880,000 lawsuit against the Citadel alleging violations of Nesmith s civil rights. From the standpoint of the corps of cadets i think the kind of sensitivity training he Grimsley is talking about now should have been implemented years ago instead of waiting until now Gibson said. School officials want to increase Black enrolment to 10 percent from the cur rent 6 percent. Grimsley became president of the Citadel on dec. 6, 1980. Since that Lime he has worked to keep such photographs out of the yearbooks said Citadel spokesman la. Col. Ben Legare general Grimsley has made it a poll by since he was president that those kind of photographs do not appear in any publication that has to do with the col lege Legare said. In 1977, Grimsley was vice president for finance and administration at the Citadel the yearbook shows. A picture in the 1978 yearbook shows about is sword bearing cadets in school uniform standing Al the rear of a car be Side a latin Man in Handcuffs. One Cadet holds a sign Reading Bor Der setbacks not another mexican can be seen inside the trunk. A picture As Lale As 1982 shows cadets wearing Kkt to pc attire. In the 1982 yearbook a student in a Hood stands on a Balcony holding a Rifle in one hand and a Beer can in the other
