The Daily Spectrum from Saint George, Utah • 13

Spectrum Tuesday, January 1 7, 1 334 13 Amid bombs and bullets school is occasional in war torn Beirut i ir O1 -ilk" SPS BEIRUT, Lebanon UPI With the shells screaming overhead and sniper fire blocking the only stairway out of the school, the teachers had no choice but to lower their seven and eight-year-old students down the side of the building on a rope. Bullets through the windows, shrapnel through the doors a teacher in Beirut has many problems that her western counterpart has never dreamed of. "They stay in their classroom until they are told to implement the security plan," Gaby Shamaa explained, using the kind of unemotional language that somehow makes the nine years of Lebanese warfare seem almost normal. Nazareth, the school where she teaches mathematics, had been open for only 10 days since the beginning of September and was supposed to stay open through the Christmas holidays to make up the lost time. A bomb aimed at French peacekeepers ended that plan three days before Christmas.

The explosion down the hill from the school shattered its windows and ripped open the doors. "It's simple," said Sister Veronica Carthy. "Everything we did before has to be repaired again." The hardships of closing down the schools tend to alternate between the Christian eastern side of Beirut and the mainly Molsem west. When one ling from the mountains. "Perhaps the people doing the firing before were nice," said the middle aged Roman Catholic nun.

They only shelled in the The years of disruption have taken their toll on the standard? education. Teachers talk of an decline in the amount of ksu -viedgo that students can accumulate whea they are forced to miss classes or transfer from one school to another. The school system also refit -is the hardening of ethnic divisions in the city. "There were very few," Marie-Claude Rahme, head of a school in east Beirut, said of the mixing of Moslem and Christian students in pre-war schools. "Now tlure are none." Actually, there still is the oeeusion-al crossing of the religious tines.

Arafat Hijazi, a broadivster on state-run Beirut television, decided last fall to enroll his son in a Christian Maronite school despite his Shiite Moslem religion. With the name Yasser Arafat Hija-zi, his 8-year-old son was headed for a tough life with studects who learned nothing but hatred tor Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat during his years of power in west Beirut. "While I was talking to hiin 1 had telephone calls from 10 teachers demanding he not be enrolled," said a councilor with the school. side of the city is closed by attacks, the other often is enjoying a period of peace. While students in west Beirut have enjoyed almost uninterrupted classes, schools in east Beirut have been open only a few days since last fall.

Public schools in the Christian east, which make up about half of the total school system, have been jammed with refugees instead of students since the war broke out between warring militias last fall in the mountains east and southeast of the capital. The years of experience in operating a school system during wartime have made the emergency procedures very efficient. There was even a bit of foresight. Schools built since 1967, the year of Israel's major victory over its Arab neighbors, have had to include bomb shelters. "First we find out where the shelling is," said Sister Carthy.

"Then we give the alert and take the children into the shelter." In the case of Nazareth school, there are no real shelters and children take refuge in the lower floor, a former cistern, until the shooting stops and parents can arrive to escort them home. Sister Carthy, nervous after years of attacks and given to sleeping in a more secure room near the chapel during shelling, says it is worse now with the threat of bombings and shel HURRICANE Marvin Smith and Harold "Curly" Lounsbury clear brush from the two acres of land leased from the Hurricane Municipal Airport. They plan a $100,000 investment at the site. Airplane repair service planned HURRICANE First major industry at Hurricane Municipal Airport got started when Marvin Smith and Harold "Curly" Lounsbury began clearing brush from two acres leased for the establishment of a repair service and avionics mobile constructions. They propose an investment of up to $100,000 to be in operation in the spring.

After the creosote shrubs, brush and weeds have been cleared, Smith said, determination will be made on the amount of base required for buildings and runways. A heavy pad of cinders will be laid, followed by a binding surface. Buildings to be erected are a 50 80 foot hangar and a shop and office 40 40 feet. Aircraft mechanics will be equipped to service, repair and maintain all types of planes which may use the local field. In addition Smith will have an avionics and communications division to provide land to air contact over a three-state area.

The Smiths moved to southern Utah from Phoenix. Lifetime fishing license proposed Sub Landsatto monitor crops SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) The House Energy and Natural Resources Committee today unanimously approved a bill that would provide for lifetime combination hunting and fishing licenses in Utah. The measure, HB-66, would allow residents to by a lifetime license $500, which would cover the recre-ationist for both fishing and hunting in the state. It would be a voluntary program which proponents say would be a good and needed revenue source for the Division of Wildlife Resources. Rep.

Jack DeMann, R-Salt Lake, sponsor of the bill, called it a win-win situation. He said an outdoorsman who currently buys the annual combination license for $23 could recoup the original investment in just over 21 years. "I've been hunting and fishing in this state for 41 years," he said. "So if a lifetime combination had been available to me when I started, I would have recouped my investment a long time ago." DeMann said the money from the lifetime license fees would be placed into a trust account and invested for the division with a current return of about 10 percent. He said the immediate impact on the budget would be about a $4,000 loss if 500 recreationists purchased the lieftime license and had their fees placed in a trust account rather than in the operating budget.

halted the flow of images from the improved scanner, and the power problems are preventing engineers from using NASA's new data relay satellite to transmit the information to Earth on another frequency. The new Landsat is a twin of the spacecraft in orbit except for modifications to systems that failed aboard Landsat 4. WASHINGTON (UPI) With its new Earth-watching satellite facing an uncertain future, the government is rushing to launch a substitute Landsat March 1 so it will be able to gather spring crop information to help establish farm production policy for 1984. The Landsat 4 satellite that normally would have provided broad views of the greening of grain-growing areas to help specialists assess potential yields from spring crops has had power problems and is able to draw electricity from only two of its four solar panels. The $250 million spacecraft was launched July 16, 1982, and was designed to operate at least three years.

But it experienced power problems starting last February and they continued to worsen, prompting engineers last summer to predict the satellite would dfeOctober I I lr I rvy? mm rT IMTIji FOR DECEMBER 1 nr- in I n-MMWmtwm MIKE CHRISTIAN of St. George has been selected as The Daily Spectrum's Carrier of the Month for December 1983 1 Mike, the son of Clark and Laurel Christian, has likely become a fa- 'I miliar face to the Spectrum's southern Utah readership. Through ex- 1 traordinary effort, Mike has repeatedly earned the Carrier of the -'v I Month award during 1983. Mike's attitude, ambition and profession- I alism have been complimented time and again by the ultimate xt, I 'j judges of a businessman's performance: his customers. jr fllBHMH----MHHMBBMHNMVHH rTTf Wl IWMIMI MHMMMIS mm Ota.

ry IT) 'ymm fills) 11 I 111 "t4 in ft ri The satellite is still operating, but because of its problems, Congress and President Reagan agreed to permit the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to spend $26 million this year instead of next to launch the backup satellite as soon as possible. The second Landsat already had been built, but was not scheduled to be launched until July 1985. The space agency, which transferred control of Landsat 4 to NOAA last February, plans to launch the substitute Landsat atop a Delta rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. It will be operated by NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service. NOAA said the earlier launch date was selected in part to "provide spring crop assessment information needed to establish U.S.

farm production policy for 1984, and to assess the economic implications of potential crop yields." Richard McArdle, remote sensing coordinator for the Agriculture Department's World Agricultural Outlook Board, said the Landsat information will be used along with data from some NOAA weather satellites and a wide variety of other terrestrial sources to improve estimates of wheat and other grain production in North America, Europe and Asia. He said the resulting assessments are important for American grain producers and marketers. In addition to monitoring crops, both to assess yields and to look for evidence of disease, the pictures from Landsat 4's scanners are used for such things as monitoring land use changes, looking for possible locations of mineral deposits, mapping watersheds and monitoring sources of pollution. The first three Landsats were orbited in 1972, 1975 and 1978. Landsat 4 is the first to carry an improved globe-watching scanning instrument called a thematic mapper.

It is a telescope that focuses different wavelengths of reflected sunlight onio six detectors. Electrical signals from the detectors are processed by an on-board computer and radioed to the ground where they are converted into picture elements. In addition, Landsat 4 carries a more limited scanner similiar to those aboard the first three spacecraft. One of the first pictures from Landsat 4's improved scanner covered parts of Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky and tennessee where a wide variety of crops is grown. Of special interest was the scanner's ability to distinguish between rice and soybeans, two crops that were difficult to differentiate from earlier Landsat photos.

On the basis of initial studies, project scientists said the new instrument would be 25 percent more accurate in classifying crop types. They said it should be particularly useful for surveying crops in many areas of Europe, China, India, anu South America, where farm fields often range in size from 10 to 40 acres. Failure of a radio transmitter aboard Landsat 4 last February CINDY PRISBREY of Ivins earned the third highest point total during the past month. Cindy is the daughter of Eileen and Kent Prisbrey. Like the other award-winners for December, Cindy has been previously honored by this program.

She and her co-carriers have helped make 1983 an outstanding year for both the Spectrum and Spectrum subscribers. BURTON SANT, JR. of Rockville earned the second highest point total during December. Burton, the son of Anna and Burton Sant, is another carrier who has frequently worked his way to the top positions in this program. Burton and other regular Spectrum award-winners illustrate that consbtency is a trademark among exceptional business people.

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