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enttne Cnjoy FLORIDA Late Sports VvCf sunshine fruit Florida's Most Interesting Newspaper Orlando, Florida, Tumlay, June 12, 1973 97lh YearNo. 163 ft 1W1 SmIImI Sitr Company TILEPHONI CM41I 6 1 Tages 10 Cenls 9 Broadcasts On Borrowed Tower fttet 1 By CHARLES RYAN ttntlMl Star Staff After a three-day blackout which began Friday when a 1 ,484 font tower at Bithlo collapsed killing two workmen, WFTV-Channel 9 returned to the air at 5:30 p.m. Monday broadcasting from a borrowed 240-foot structure erected at the crash site. The Orange County sheriff's department, which also lost a radio broadcasting channel when the $500,000 tower collapsed, continued its investigation into the cause. A report is expected by the end of the week.

Two workmen, injured when the giant steel structure crashed, are in satisfactory condition at Florida Hospital. They are T. Sherman Penney, 204 Chippewa Trail, Mait-land, and Eugene Hobby, 20, Tallahassee. The sheriff's department's communications channels were cut 25 per cent when the antenna it at tached to the huge tower the tallest structure in Florida collapsed. A spokesman said vehicles which used the Bithlo channel now must call in on one of three remaining channels, crowding them at peak time of 5 p.m.

each day. The sheriff's department, still (Continued On Page 4-A, Col. 5) iM A- sA" ercury Jumps, Force Cut Across oSo f. xvt 1 twit 4 i. A iff HUGH O'BRIAN, G7 MEMBERS OF HIS YOUTH FOUNDATION Watch Skylab 2 begin its four-mile trip to Complex 39 Astronauts Check Storms, a Clean Skylab Quarters JO ,7 By Andrtv J.

Hickmn) 5 (Sentinel Star Photo By Bruct OtnrtO By studying the thunderstorm formation from Skylab's unique angle from space, scientists hoped to learn more about the severe storms which spawn tornadoes and high winds over the Midwest and Southwest. The weather observations were part of a search resources photosensing pass starting 200 miles northwest of Portland, crossing the United States and ending south of Sao Paulo, Brazil. DATA GATHERED from the pass will be used to map snow cover depths in the Columbia River Basin in Oregon; to classify forest and land use around Mani-tou, to search for oil in the Anadarko Basin of Oklahoma and sketch changes in urban development around Wichita Falls, since the 1970 census. Special photographs also were taken of Mount St. Helens in Washington, the Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River; Snake River and Willow Creek in Oregon, and the Denver, area.

Crystal-clear skies greeted Conrad and Weitz during part of the pass, particularly over the Northwest. 'MAN, IS IT clear around those mountains today. Hooooooooha! (Continued On Page 13-A, Col. 1) Pine Hills neighbor, William Joseph Garland, take a car for a joyride at speeds of more than 100 m.p.h. What was behind the tragic trip that ended in the Sunday morning deaths of Donnie, the driver, and William, his passenger? "We're mystified.

There's no reason. He certainly had a happy home. He was well-loved, never any trouble. It doesn't make any sense," an aunt said of Donnie, who lived at 3IO.r Pipes O'The Glen, in the ion 9w. -m.

Power New York Reaches 95, Sets Record By United Press International A heat wave pushing temperatures to record highs forced utilities from New York City to Chicago to reduce voltage Monday in the first major power cutback of the summer months. Consolidated Edison in New York City was the first to cut Related Stories, Pg, 13-A voltage by. five per cent as the temperature hit 95, breaking a 53-year-old record for that date. Similar action followed shortly in New York State, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Washington, D.C. BY MID-AFTERNOON, voltage had been cut by 2.5 per cent in parts of Chicago and five per cent in Detroit.

Con Ed made another reduction in New York to eight per cent, the maximum allowed. Some 24,000 persons in the Rosedale and Laurelton sections of Queens were hit with scattered one-hour blackouts shortly before Con Ed reduced its voltage cutback from 8 to 5 per cent. Power was restored at 6 p.m. to about 20,000 persons, Con Edison said. The power failure was believed to be caused by trouble in an unmanned substation in the Rose-dale section.

SPOKESMEN for the utility companies involved said there was no major crisis and normal activity would not be disrupted. Still, consumers were asked to be frugal in their use of electricity. In Washington, some lights were turned off in the Capitol and the House and Senate office buildings, although officials of the Potomac Electric Power Co. said there was no specific request to do so. The Metropolitan Council of Governments, a cooperative agency representing local governments around Washington, issued an air pollution alert for the nation's capital.

The pollution alert could complicate efforts to reduce power consumption because during (Continued On Page 13-A, Col. 1) Pine Hills area west of Orlando. Friends say both boys were well-liked, though William Garland, who lived at 3719 Pipes O'The Glen was considered the more spirited. William was characterized as a daredevil. He would swim in a muddy lake where no one else would go.

He would jump off high hills. Donnie, however, was described in less turbulent terms by his seventh grade classmates at Mcadowbrook Junior High School on North Avenue. In his Wicre (Stntlntl Star ho Eiijoiiueitl Sprtiifs Eleritcil (SMtlml Star Phots Blue Springs State Park west of Orange City is drawing hundreds of visitors to its cool, clear waters. Springs, which discharge one million gallons of water daily and are second largest in state, are part of 518-acre, $2.32 million acquisition for state's newest state park. More than 4,400 boaters, campers, swimmers and other visitors used facility first 10 days of June.

SPACE CENTER, Houston (iP) Skylab 1 astronauts photographed a menacing weather front over Texas and Oklahoma Monday to gather data which may help scientists better predict, devastating storms and tornadoes. Astronauts Charles Conrad Jr. and Paul Weitz turned on Belated Stories, Pg. 15-A instruments which probed deep into a storm front as Skylab passed 275 miles overhead. "WE GOT FORT Cobb," said Weitz as the spaceship orbited past the Oklahoma reservoir by that name.

"We're getting a lot of clouds." While his crewmates served as i 1 ing weathermen, Dr. Joseph P. Kerwin worked on eeping chores and prepared to run several hours of medical experiments on Weitz. At Cape Kennedy, meanwhile, engineers rolled out the Saturn IB rocket which next month will launch the Skylab 2 astronauts on a 56-day mission the same space station. THE STORM front photographed by Conrad and Weitz extended from northwest of Dallas and into crop land areas of southeastern Oklahoma.

Wrong Field Landing May CostPilots been an airport a lot shorter and many things could have happened." Barker said the pilot and copilot violated an FAA regulation prohibiting a pilot from landing a plane carrying passengers at an airport at which he had never landed before. (Continued On Page 4-A, Col. 1) TlieWealfser Partly cloudy with 30 per cent chance of afternoon thundershow-ers. High today in lower 90s. Low tonight in lower 70s.

Southerly winds about 10 m.p.h. lunrhf i-W, SumM MnnnrM Mnonwt 4:11 a.m. Morning Start Man, Jupiler, Ivtnln Start Mercury, Vnjt, aturrt. for 24 Hourt tnaen p.m. Monday: Temperature, Mi9h tow 74, Meat 83, Normal II.

Relative Humidity a.m. per cent 1 p.m. JOi p.m. S. Precipitation, .04 in i Monlh't Total 1 In i Normal tor June, in Year' Trial JO 32 in i axel si through May, 4 In.

Hlehetf Wind Velocit. II m.p h. 1:11 p.m. Iron east northeast. Barometer, I a m.

3n 1 In I p.m. 01 In. (Map and Other Report! on Pate l-C.) Index the Boeing 727 was going to land at Opa-Locka Airport instead of Miami. The plane with 62 passengers aboard landed safely at Opa-Locka and a United spokesman said Monday "it was a perfect landing except the plane landed at the wrong airport." "It could be very serious," Barker said. "The pilot landed at the wrong airport.

Fortunately this airport had a runway 200 feet wide and 8,000 feet long. It could have ly" was also well-liked. He was of medium build, with long brown hair. He is described as having good manners. Donnie wore wire rim glasses, had braces on his teeth, and curly hair about which he was ribbed because of its tendency to be frizzy.

Both boys lived in a good neighborhood. The Pine Hills subdivision near Maynard Evans High School is a middle class haven for employes of Walt Disney World and Martin- I A I The pilot and copilot of a United Air Lines jet that landed at a small field used by the Coast Guard instead of Miami International Airport, eight miles away, were grounded Monday. They face possible charges, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Jack Barker, public affairs officer for the FAA in Atlanta, also revealed that air controllers could not reach the crew by radio Sunday night when they realized yearbook, students wrote: "Good luck to the nicest kid in the class." In describing Donnie, classmates used words like: "Nice Quiet Friendly Never hurt anyone liked by everyone not the kind of kid to do something like this at all." Among Donnic's friends, the most common theory Monday was that the boy may have been influenced by William Garland. Though Donnie perhaps had more friends.

William or "Bi I- Friends Now Wonder They Knew Pair: Shy Student, Daredevil By DAVID WILKENING Stnllncl Star Staff He was known as Donnie: a good boy who lived in a pleasant neighborhood, who seldom went out after dark, earned mostly "A's" and "B's" on his report card, and was never in any kind nf "trouble. Monday, however, friends and relatives of 13-year-old Harold Donald Ralthazor Jr. were wondering how well they really knew the shy young man. They were puzzled over what made Donnie and a 13-year-old Astrology 5.7D Citrus 14A Classified GC Comics 4-7D Crossword Editorial 20A Financial 5B Movies 8D Obituaries 4B Opinion 21A Sports 1C Television 10D Weather 6C Women ID (Continued On Page 4-A, Col. 1).

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