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nipipirp ip I f' 1 ry ny. iirriIMiiyii pistil rilyMOJillialllo nytyir nT Hilly yi i Will rTy1' The Courier-Journal, Saturday, September 30, 1978 metro tv regional news deaths accent A deadly option rode with garbage ivorker "1 1 fresher sessions. Summers said, are informal and infrequent. Because of Wednesday's accident, that will change. was no step," said Summers.

"He's taken a step on the truck where he had no business being. Vou know where the hopper comes down? He was standing up there. "He realized where he was standing there was a good chance that the compactor was going to hit his foot, and if it hit his foot, there was a good chance he was going to lose his toes." Turpin was teamed with a tipper with equal experience, and they had given the driver clearance to start backing up, said Summers. Basic safety rules are given to a tipper when he comes on board. But re Several sanitation departments have the incentive system, and it has led nationwide to a rush to finish the job and to lax safety precautions.

Summers said. "The real problem you got is that you're on an incentive plan, and the guys rush, and a lot of times they'll take shortcuts because they're rushing. If he finishes his route in four hours, he still gets paid for 8 Summers said Turpin's death, classified as an accident by Louisville police, is particularly disturbing because it could easily have been avoided. "He had taken a step where there job since May as one of Louisville's 205 garbage tippers, leaped from the truck and was run over by its left rear wheels. Turpin, of 2200 Osage was dead when investigating officers reached the scene near 42nd and Kentucky streets in western Louisville.

The truck was backing up, says Sanitation Director William Summers IV, because crews work under the incentive plan, a system that allows crew to go home whenever their route is completed and still be paid for a full day's work. Backing the truck, although potentially hazardous, is quicker sometimes than driving around a block. John filiatreau Courier-Journal Columnist At this level of theorizing, physics equals philosophy Ir J- if If By COURTNEY BARRETT Courier-Journal Staff Writar It was perhaps too early and too chilly to be faced with such a weighty dectsion, but Michael Turpin's options were painfully limited Wednesday as he clung to the back of a Louisville garbage truck. The powerful garbage compactor had been started and, if Turpin did nothing, it could have mangled his foot. He could call out for the driver to stop the equipment and the truck, which was backing up, but there was the chance that the driver's reaction might be too slow.

So Turpin. 22. who had been on the New contract is approved at Standard Plant is expected to reopen Monday By VINCENT CROWDUS Courier-Journal Staff Writer As expected by union leaders, a majority of the 1.200 striking workers at Louisville's American-Standard Co. plant approved a three-year contract yesterday, ending a 91 -day walkout. The plant, which makes bathtubs and plumbing fixtures, will reopen Monday.

All workers will not be called back then, however, because the company will start its three-week vacation and maintenance shutdown. Adrian Deshotel, the plant's industrial relations manager, said only maintenance workers will be called back. Production employees are being notified to take their paid vacations. The employees are members of 13 union locals. Negotiations involved master contracts on wages, pensions and insurance, and individual contracts on working conditions pertaining to each local.

Robert H. Aubrey, chairman of the Standard Allied Trades Council, which coordinated negotiations for the locals, announced yesterday's agreement. He declined to say how each local voted but said that the company's offer was approved by "a big majority." When the latest offer was disclosed Thursday, union leaders said they believed the membership would accept it because it contained more money than a previous offer that was rejected. Aubrey said the approved contract calls for these hourly pay increases over the three-year period: $1,135 for production employees who work on a flat rate without incentive pay; $1,125 for production employees on an incentive-pay bats, and $1.59 for craftsmen. In addition, the workers will get a cost-of-living increase of up to 10 cents an hour each year, Aubrey said.

The offer that was rejected last week called for hourly wage increases totaling $1.09 over the three years for production workers and $1.43 for craftsmen. The 10-cent cost-of-living provision also was part of that offer. Aubrey said there were numerous improvements in fringe benefits and working conditions covered in the individual contracts with each local. mi If if Engineers yesterday. The falls are near Clarksville.

(Story, Page ing of graduates" and others that the name should not be altered. Jefferson County Judge Mitch McCon-nell first suggested the name change, and Fiscal Court later endorsed the idea. Meme Sweets, an aide to McCon-nell, said yesterday afternoon that he thought the committee's decision was Summers has issued orders that trucks will be backed up only when necessary, is re-emphasizing safety rules and is "reviewing the whole procedure to come up with a total new program where we can regularly reinforce this with employees." Summers, who has been sanitation director 2 "4 years, said he has always See CITY PAGE 5, col. 1, this section 4 1 Staff Photo by Michaol Coors along the Indiana shore of the river 4.) fine and that he "wanted to leave it up to the judgment of the school board." One member of the committee, who would discuss its actions only anonymously, commented, "It was unanimous, except for one classmate of his (All's) and we convinced" that individual that the name change wasn't the best way to honor Ali. Because of incorrect information received, the wrong address was listed in yesterday's Courier-Journal for Albert and Iverne Harris, who are charged with using money mistakenly placed in their savings account.

The Harrises live in the 5100 block of Red Fern Road. Dog day in the park 1 Edith Camp took her 9-year-old Labrador retriever for a walk in Carrie Gaulbert Cox Park on a recent sunny afternoon. The pleasant weather gave her a good excuse to get some exercise. Staff Photo by Joan Garcia IFafci the birdies Nineteenth-century science looked upon matter and energy as two different worlds, each with its own set of laws. Matter was said to be composed of particles; energy was composed of waves.

Early in this century, physicist Max Planck shattered that comfortable model of reality when he developed what was called "quantum theory." Planck was working on an experiment In which gas was heated inside a neutral, or "black," enclosure, and its resulting radiation was measured by a spectrometer and a heat-registering device. The idea was to chart the intensity with which the gas radiated energy at various wavelengths. The results of the experiment were in clear conflict with the predictions of classical theory. Each gas Planck tested yielded a distinctive graph wavelength against temperature that had a characteristic "blackbody" contour, with the curve's peak clearly related to the temperature of the gas; but results were not those existing physics had predicted. To explain the incongruity, Planck developed what has since been called "Planck's Law." The formula has accurately predicted the behavior of radiated energy in laboratory jars, in the sun and stars and it apparently applies in the universe at large.

Planck saw that atoms radiate energy not in a smooth continuum, as had been assumed, but in discrete packets he called "quanta." Quantum theory holds that nature acts, in a sense, like a bank teller, who can pay out a penny or two pennies but nothing in between. On the heels of Planck's theory came a controversy. Is nature composed of waves, or particles? Albert Einstein was an early proponent of the view that particles were real and waves merely reflected the probability of finding a particle at any given point along, say, a ray of light. Other physicists argued just as plausibly that the waves were what really counted, and the particles an illusion. Ultimately it was demonstrated that the two positions amount to different ways of saying the same thing.

Physicist Werner Heisenberg concluded that the paradox of waves and particles could be resolved only by taking the role of the observer into account which led him to his "uncertainty principle." Briefly, Heisenberg figured that the things scientists saw in the subatomic world were determined less by than by their methods of observation. You cannot observe an electron unless you bombard it with gamma rays or other radiation, knocking it out of the atom and producing the radiation necessary to illuminate it. To see the electron, you have to interfere with it and change its behavior. If you want to know how the particle is behaving in space and time and it is this behavior of great numbers of "particles" that generates you must wait and see. Its path will show up as a track in a cloud chamber or a curve on an oscilloscope.

But the scientist cannot know where any particle is at a given moment. The point is. we can never peer into the subatomic world to see what is "real" there. We can manipulate that world one way to make things like waves, or another way to make them look like particles, but we can never eliminate the uncertainty we feel about what is real within the atom at a given instant. Given enormous swarms of matterenergy on a tiny scale, the scientist can predict behavior of "particles" only in terms of probabilities.

He cannot really see what the "particles" do. Therefore and this assertion is as much philosophy as physics it is said to be pointless to talk about causation operating in a realm where we can never see it or examine it at work. Many theologians, notably Thomas Aquinas, argued for the existence of God by placing him at the head of the cosmic causal chain. If, at the very heart of matter, within the single atom, causality is not demonstrable, then causation cannot be assumed to be the basis of the universe. The first cause Aristotle called it "the unmoved mover" remains hidden behind a curtain.

Einstein remained a disciple of causation. In his famous words: "God does not play dice." He figured that you could work out cause-and-effect for all physical realities, if you had the proper tools, and patience and time enough. So: The very large is assayed by relativity, the very small by quantum physics. Each leads to a principle of uncertainty, theorizes that human perception necessarily is limited by physical laws, and leaves the central mystery of existence uniliuminated. 197a, Tha Courtar-Journal members of the Falls of the Ohio the area by the Army Corps of goes against Muhammad Ali Beg your pardon Because of reporting errors, the names of William E.

Bockmon and Mel-zar Lowe were misspelled in the Marketplace section of yesterday's Courier-Journal. Bockmon is to become president of Standard Gravure Corp. on Dec. 1, succeeding Lowe, who has been president since 1964. A flock of birds flew by while Coinmission were given a tour A decision By DICK KAl'KAS Courrer-Journat Staff Writar A 12-member committee appointed by Jefferson County school Superintendent E.

C. Grayson yesterday recommended that the name of Central High School not be changed to honor heavyweight boxir.g champion Muhammad Ali. Instead, the group urged that other ways be found to accomplish that goal All is a Louisville native and attended Central According to a news release from the school systems office of information, the committee suggested three alternatives to the renaming of Central: Consulting with state and local government agencies to come up with money to build a sports stadium near Central that would be named for Ali. 1 i ft- a of "All in all he said. we came out fairly well," The strike at the plant at 15ll S.

Seventh St. began at midnight June 30, when members of two molders locals set up pickets after the plant's contracts expired. Members of the other union locals honored the picket lines and caused production lines to close. The other locals officially went on strike sftortiy afterward. The locals are Machinists Local 681 and 1344.

Pipefitters Local 522, the Pattern Makers League, Electrical Workers Local 3r9. Molders and Allied Workers Local 214 and 8, Clerks and Checkers Local 61, Metal Polishers Local 6fi, Teamsters Local K9, Carpenters and Joiners Local 2971, Foremen and Oilers Local 320 and Bricklayers Local 1. fy 1 vv Renaming Walnut Street for him, an idea that the Board of Aldermen already is looking into. (A public hearing by the Louisville-Jefferson County Planning Commission on naming a street in honor of Ali has been set for 1 p.m. Nov.

2 in the aldermanic chambers in City Hall.) And. renaming the North-South Expressway for him. Some committee members reportedly believed this would be most appropriate because All's name would be visible to people passing through Louisville. Butch Cravens of the system's information office said the committee's main reasons for not recommending the renaming of Central included "the longstanding tradition associated with Central, the school's large number of distin guished graduates and the strong feel 4 ft iiJ iU. I i.