The Kilgore News Herald from Kilgore, Texas • 12

iyyWyyya -dsfcy Page 12 KILGORE NEWS HERALD Friday April 1 1983 'VT "'Wii'iiinii lujN'yagTiDiy aqfinytotya If astronauts ail public know Expensive prove profitable some mace sickness and a lanned spacewalk was de- was not happy with the previous policy "I think spaceflight and By AL ROSSJTER JR UPI Science Editor WASHINGTON (UPI) If any of the astronauts flying the space shuttle Challenger next week develop the nausea the public know about it unless a flight plan change is required The National Aeronautics and Space Administration tnasad said it has adopted a new policy barring public disclosure of space sickness symptoms during a shuttle flight unless they are serious enough to disrupt scheduled operations Past experience suggests two of the four astronauts set to take off next Monday on the first flight of the Challenger will develop the symptoms of what NASA now calls adaptation syndrome" Half the crew of the fifth flight of the shuttle Columbia last November reported Although a small business Christensen said it provides a stable means of making a living He said he has only four or five direct competitors around the world not an empire-type he said can make a living at it but not going to be competing with 1 Christensen said the Pitts Special ranges in price from $44000 to $66000 and the Eagle from $29000 to $45000 depending of course on options Christensen described his product as an something like a yacht Those who buy the planes he said are pilots with a keen feel for the adventure of stunt flying as a hobby or a competitive sport Christensen said his clients are affluent" but said it quite fair to call his product a toy certainly could call it By MARK BAGNE CHEYENNE Wyo (UPI) like little sports cars with wings To strap yourself into one and fly is to bec ome a bird So says Frank Christensen head of a small Hollister Calif industry that specializes ip the design and manufacture of aerobatic airplanes expensive bought often by the rich always by the daring an exhilarating said Christensen himself a stunt flyer literally strap it on and fly it When in flight you are almost literally a Christen Industries Inc (abbreviated from name) produces the and the two small 1 brightly-colored airplanes designed especially for aerobatic competition or for the stuntflying hobbyist Headquartered in Hollister the company last year acquired a 45-worker plant in Afton Wyo a factory that for over 40 years manufactured agricultural airplanes and converted to production of the Pitts Special in 1970 Christensen said his California company which produces the Eagle had been direct competition with the Wyoming plant for the aerobatic aircraft market until the merger Christensen with a background in engineering and manufacturing said his interest in stunt flying in which he competed in the 1960s and 70s led him to begin the specialty business on a small scale in the 1970s Initially he produced small parts for stunt airplanes then expanded to produce make-at-home kits for the Eagle Last year he said the company went a step farther with production of ready-made Eagle airplanes Since 1978 he said his company has produced 550 lie planes or kits The Eagle planes or Afton plant has produced 380 Pitts Specials since 1970 El Salvador unionist hits corporations a rich he said a great number of people who buy them are not unusally affluent call it a' Among those enthralled with the Pitt plane is King Hussein who purchased an entire squadron of Pitt planes for -the Royal Jordanian Air Force 1 Christensen said he is occasionally queried by I motion picture producers who want to add the 1 colorful high-performance of his airplanes their films i One of the planes was used a couple of years ago in the television movie which starred Bette Davis as a retired barnstorming stunt pilot teaching a paraplegic how to fly' according to Christensen Christensen said aviation sports are witnessing a rebirth in the country" particularly among ultralight aircraft which weigh as little as 1G0 pounds hoping continued interest' will bolster his fledgling industry PRINCESS IN TEXAS Princess Caroline of Monaco and actor Michael York exchange greetings in Houston before a dinner at the River Oaks home of Lynn and Oscar Wyatt The dinner was held on behalf of a campaign to reconstruct original Globe theater (UPI photo) Going where banks lend helps entrepreneur living in space is not that much different from living and working on Weitz said "And I think we ought to treat folks the same "The specifics of my state of health is privileged information and belongs only between me and my physician until one of us or both of us decide it should be otherwise and that must stem from whether a medical situation affects the Weitz spent four weeks in orbit in the Skylab space station in 1973 and said he did not develop any space sick-symptoms The other ness Challenger crewmen Karol Bobko Donald Peterson and Dr Story Musgrave have not yet been in space Space sickness is related to adaptation to weightlessness Agents fake bills MANILA Philippir lean and Phil- (UPI) American ippine agents seized $700000 in counterfeit US currency printed in Houston and stashed in a covered canal outside Manila officials said The official Philippine News Agency said Wednesday the bills were recovered March 17 in Pangasinan Province 100 miles north- west of Manila on property naHous- owned by the uncle of ton printer identified as Alfredo Bartolome Bartolome a Philippines surrendered to Secret Service agents in Houston on Feb 14 and is free on $5000 bond just took the money over there to hide said Bill Livingwood Secret Service special agent in charge of the Houston office he told us about it agents from Honolulu 'it to the spot where he told us they could find Living-wood said Philippine agents partici- Philippine agentsv partici- 5eceheJake $700000 the Philippine News Agency said arrest followed those of two other Houston men identified as Ronald Fountain arrested Jan 24 and Dale Bridget arrested Jan 26 who were suspected of passing counterfeit currency Both men were free on $10000 bond each believe they (the two other men) gave (Bartolome) some of it He took it to Manila and stashed Livingwood said Bartolome who is not a US citizen surrendered his Philippine passport at his initial appearance before a US magistrate Livingwood said Before his arrest he had been wanted on a warrant charging him with possession of counterfeit money Living-wood said Now You Know United Press International The people of Northwest Territory consume the greatest annual amount of beer in the world 62 gallons for every man woman and child layed one day because of nausea experienced by William Lenoir The walk was later cancelled because of spacesuit problems In the past space agency doctors nave disclosed aU space sickness symptoms whether or not they affected the flight plan after discuss ing the situation privately with the astronauts Involved Some astronauts complained after returning to Earth that their stomach sickness was not as serious as had been reported during the flight Harold Stall director of public affairs at the Johnson Space Center in Houston said the new policy makes policy makes mission commander Paul Weitz responsible for report- ing any significant space sickness Weitz made clear during an interview in January he interests is why President Reagan has to put forward the deceit about El Salvador being an East-West conflict" he said denying that the anti-government movement represented a Marxist movement He rebuked Reagan's domino theory of Communist aggression saying there was no reason to believe the San-danista movement in Nicaragua would Rpread revolution to Guatemala Mexico and other Central American countries He charged the Reagan Administration was against democratic elections and that military aid proposed by the president would prevent free elections Molina Lara called the current military leaders in El Salvador who have not been brought to and said Reagan was disposed to respect human its in El ghts in El 5 1 imprisoned in El Salvador for labor union activities was in San Antonio as part of a US tour seeking support for the release of 10 imprisoned trAde unionists He was joined by representatives of the International Union of Electrical Radio and Machine Workers who called for a picket line Thursday in front of the downtown Federal Building to it clear that we do not want another Vietnam-style war in to Central America In 1976 the United States and the Soviet Union agreed on the size of nuclear tests for peaceful use its seating capacity The agreement Braniff was approved week by a federal bankruptcy judge in Fort Worth Under the $80 million purchase plan People will buy 20 Braniff Boeing 727s and lease one Boeing 747 for its new Newark-London service which the Civil Aeronautics Board has approved People will pay Braniff $8 million for its planes in the next 12 days and $38 million at the time of delivery of each of the 727s for a total of $42 million for each plane Those hired will be required to purchase 100 shares of stock under profit-sharing plan with an option to buy more Marchetta said Blumenfeld and Reena started years ago Blumenfeld was a prominent high school athlete in the Memphis Tenn area Reena a former cheerleader went to the same high school His fling at pro basebal) in the St Louis By MARK LANGFORD SAN ANTONIO (UPI) A Salvadoran trade unionist says multi-national corporations could be a viable resource should democracy return to El Salvador but they are currently exploiting id natural the work force and resources Alejandro Molina Lara a leader of the National Federation of Salvadoran Workers and president of the Fishing Industry Union said multinationals are our natural resources ana exploiting the work force of El Salvador Citing his high unemployment rate however Molina Lara said multinational corporations would be welcome with certain restrictions should democracy return to the war-torn Central American country source of wealth our labor he said (corporations) could provide work but they would bave to respect our About 75 multi-national corporations including American firms have interests in El Salvador where workers make as little as $250 a day he said Molina Lara also said that multi-nationals would have to pay taxes on the profits they take from El Salvador adding been paying those taxes for half a century The union leader who has lived in the United States as a legal resident since 1981 charged the US government with sending troops and weapons to El Salvador only to protect the THE LAW OFFICE OF STEVEN GAMBLE is pleased to announce the association of THOMAS BROWN ATTORNEY AT LAW commercial loan officer who plays That put him in touch with Dave Suttles It long before the Blumenfelds moved themselves and their list of mail customers to Dallas When Suttles movedi to another bank the BSN account followed fa BSN hU offering of million stoes of stock at $250 Within the following year it acquired Rol-Dri Manufacturing Co of Houston and two other small companies Two more small acquisitions came in 1982 before the big step of taking on Tennis Lady BSN subsidiaries manufacture tennis court-maintenance equipment game tables for billiards bumper pool and ping pong barbells and weight lifting equipment and track and field fail 307 ALLIED CITIZENS BANK BUILDING KILGORE TEXAS 75662 (214)984-5471 Cardinals system ended with a in a knee injury- v-1 The Blumenfelds started in the sporting goods business selling by mail tennis nets and other tennis-related products He blames Memphis banks for his move away from his home town did not have and now contmues not to have a good banking he bluntly told an interviewer When he wanted to borrow money to expand his business he was rejected he said decided if we had to be poor why not be poor where the sun Blumenfeld said They moved to St Petersburg Fla where they were able to get the loans they wanted from a local bank But the bank changed hands two or three times he said and every time it changed Blumenfeld found himself facing a new loan officer Borrowing money to cover purchases became more difficult and Blumenfeld began to look elsewhere called a bank in Dallas and I told the woman who answered the phone 1 want to talk to your youngest By BRUCE BBAKKE UPI Business Writer DALLAS (UPI) Hie acquisition of 23 Tennis Lady stores by BSN Corp already has paid off for both sides of the deal Michael Blumenfeld the aggressive 36-year-old founder and president of corporation shares of BSN stock to take over Tennis Lady late last year Since then stock has climbed giving the sellers a substantial gain this month it was listed for trading on the American Stock Exchange The deal put BSN into retail stores in 14 states and gave it a $140000 tax refund a $500000 tax loss carryover and $150000 in cash flow from the sale in just the month of December Blumenfeld said Perhaps best of all however was a mailing list of some 200000 customers of Tennis Lady stores BSN staff now has almost completed a 24-page catalog of tennis and sporting goods merchandise that will be sent to these 200000 specialized customers plus 50000 names that BSN had in its own files BSN is into all phases of the sporting goods business manufacturing several lines of sporting goods products retailing through Tennis Lady shops and now moving heavily into direct mail sales the area in which Braniff workers may get jobs ATTENTION: RUSIC COUNTY TAXPAYERS DALLAS (UPI) People Express Airlines which plans to buy a third of the idled jet fleet of bankrupt Braniff International has said it will give special consideration to former Braniff employees in hiring Job interviews will begin Monday and special interviews for former Braniff workers will be arranged at the Amfac Hotel at the Dal-las-Fort Worth Regional Airport said Russell Marchetta spokesman for the Newark J-based airline He said Wednesday some 100 people will be hired each month through the remainder of 1983 He said the addition of the jets would enable People to double its fleet and more than double Rendition is the method through which a taxpayer reports or lists the taxable property he owned or managed and controlled on January 1 of the current tax year It is also the means by which a taxpayer is allowed to record his own opinion of what the value of that property should be Not every taxpayer is required to file a rendition but there are important reasons why a taxpayer may wish to do so YOU ARE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE IN THE KILGORE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT ELECTION SATURDAY If you aro a registered voter In the Kilgore Independent School District (The District Is located In southern Gregg Co and Northern Rusk Co) Renditions must be filed- (1) for all tangible personal property used for the production of income or (2) on any other taxable property if required by the chief appraiser Renditions may be filed bn any taxpayer who wishes to preserve certain valuable rights Even if you required to prepare and file a rendition on your property there are several good reasons why you should do so As previously noted by filing a rendition you have placed into the record your own opinion as to the value of your property You create a responsibility on the part of the chief appraiser and the appraisal review board to notify you if they intend to increase the value of your property by any amount over what you have rendered Further you have the right to protest to the appraisal review board either the increase in value or any other decision affecting the taxability of your property For property that is not rendered by the owner the chief appraiser makes his own decision on the value and places that value on the appraisal roll In addition to a rendition you also may file a special report called a report of decreased value if the value of your property decreased dunng the preceding tax year for any reason other than normal depreciation The appraisal office will view the property and venfy any reported change in appraised value and its cause and nature Renditions and other property reports may ordinarily be filed with the county appraisal district office at any time from January 1 through April 30 This year since Apnl 30 falls on a Saturday the deadline is extended by law to May 2 1983 Rendition forms for various types of property as well as other property report forms are available from the appraisal distnet office Your appraisal district can also give you a free copy of the Taxpayers' Rights Remedies Responsibilities pamphlet which explains exemptions appeal rights and other details of the local property tax system In Texas Or contact the State Property Tax Board in Austin Your school board is important The actions and deejsions of the board of trustees affect not only our taxes and community spirit but the lives and futures of our children FOR EFFECTIVE AND CAPABLE REPRESENTATION: VOTE TO ELECT GARY JAMES PLACE 7 SABIIIE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT SATURDAY APRIL 2 1983 (Pol adv paid for by Gary James Route 1 nVWallcir Gfadewater Texas) You do not have to live In city limits of Kilgore You do not have to own property IF YOU NEED A RIDE TO THE POLLS CALL 984-1 161 984-8571 643-7885 8tate Property Tax Board Box 15900 Austin 78761 RUSX COUNTY APPRAISAL DISTRICT 107 Van Buren Henderson Texas (Pol adv paid for by Margorot Martin for School Tnistao Coro-roittao Don Goodwty Trecturar nt--teweed JCIvora 10x075662) 1 i 0.