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The Messenger from Madisonville, Kentucky • 2

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2 THE MESSENGER MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1993 Astronauts install solar new wings By MARC IA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer WORLD deal between the giant trading partners were "pretty good." The trading powers were trying, after years of failure, to settle a bitter dispute over cuts in the community 's subsidies to its 9 million farmers After two days of bargaining last week, they appeared on the verge of a deal But late Sunday, officials said senior U.S. and EC negotiators in Geneva apparently hit last-minute snags on agriculture as well as on films, financial services and other issues. They provided no MAHON SPACE CENTER, Houston A I Astronaut Kathryn Thornton, lifted high by a shuttle crane, held a 400-pound twisted solar panel from the Hubble Space Telescope over her head, let go and watched it slowly drift away as space debris. Thornton and her spacewalking partner, Tom Akers, then installed new solar wings on Hubble today. The discarded wing a thin blanket of plastic began flipping as space shuttle Endeavour backed away.

Sunlight glinted off the golden surface of the panel as it floated like a lost kite, dramatic with the blue ball of Earth in the background. It looks like a bird," Thornton said as the shuttle moved farther and farther away. Installing new electricity-generating solar panels was the purpose of todays spacewalk, the second of five to correct Hubbles had vision, jitters and other problems. The SI 6 billion telescope got two new pairs of gyroscopes and new fuses during Sundays spacewalk by two other Endeavour astronauts. "Weve been up to bat twice, and the crew has hit two home runs, said Joe Rothenberg, NASAs associate director of flight projects for Hubble.

Despite the astronauts accomplishments, NASA officials still were anxious about the upcoming spacewalks to install new optics, extremely delicate tasks. Both ex- cursions so far required extra, unexpected work: tossing the solar panel today and fussing over a misaligned telescope door on Sun-; day. The discarded panel joined 6,700 other pieces of space junk being j4racked-by -the Space Com-; mand and was expected to stay in orbit for a year before falling through the atmosphere and burning up. "Just to watch that thing floating through space was just like 2001. Some day somebody's go-1 ing to put that to music, Rothenberg said.

In the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, objects drift majestically through space to booming music. Hubbles old solar wings shook every time the telescope moved in and out of daylight. The one that Associated Press taserphoto Astronauts Kathryn Thornton (left) and Tom Akers work on removing the solar panel attached to the Hubble telescope during a televised view of the Space Shuttle Endeavor mission today. The astronauts have definitely earned their Dr. Goodwrench certificate, and service station Endeavour has qualified for a triple A rating, said David Leckrone, Hubbles senior project scientist.

Musgrave and Hoffman were to replace Hubbles wide field-planetary camera and magnetometers during spacewalk No. 3, beginning Tate tonight. The new camera contains corrective mirrors to compensate for the error in Hubble's primary mirror. The fact that the mirror had been ground wrong was discovered only after Hubble was launched in 1990. The effect was to blur the telescopes view of: extremely remote, objects in the universe.

Thornton and Akers are to install a new telescope computer and corrective lenses for three other instruments on Wednesday. Musgrave and Hoffman are to make the last planned spacewalk of the mission Thursday, to install new solar panel drive electronics and an ultraviolet-light detector switch. The repairs are the most extensive, and expensive, in space flight history. Serb shelling kills 4 SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovi-na i AP) Serbs shelled a crowded market place in Sarajevo today, killing least four people and wounding 18 The shelling came after infantry of the besieging Serb forces and the Bosnian army clashed for the first time in weeks, and just days after the failure of the latest effort to negotiate an end to 20 months of war. AP photographer Morten Hvaal said he saw the bodies of a young woman and three men who were killed by shelling late this morning of the central part of the city, including a market area.

Sixteen of the wounded were hit at the market area and two more were in the western part of the city, said a doctor on duty in the emergency ward of Kosevo Hospital. A short time after the shelling of the market, which was crowded with people shopping and trading for food, cigarettes and clothing, a mortar round hit the cemetery during a funeral for a 34-year-old woman and an older man who were killed in shelling last week, Hvaal said. He said there were no casualties in the shelling of the funeral, but that the round hit less than 75 yards from the mourners, who ran for cover. Spymaster gets 6 years DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) A German court today convicted former East German spymaster Markus Wolf of espionage, treason and bribery. He was sentenced to six years in prison.

Wolf, 70, operated East Germanys renowned spy apparatus for 33 years, earning admiration among friends and foes alike during the Cold War. He directed 500 spies in West Germany, including a mole whose unmasking toppled Chancellor Willy Brandt in 1974, and routinely delivered NATO secrets to the Soviet KGB. Wolf claimed that he was being unfairly prosecuted, saying the western German court had no grounds to try him The five-judge panel of the Duesseldorf Regional Court rejected those arguments after a trial that started May 4. The court allowed Wolf to remain free on bond pending further legal moves in the case. Chiefs deal on GATT BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -The United States and the European Community began make-or-break negotiations today on agriculture, films and other trade issues that will likely decide the fate of world trade talks.

U.S. Trade Representative Ml ckey Kan tor arrived at the headquarters of the 12-nation trading bloc for what-was widely expected to be the final round of bargaining with his EC counterpart, Sir Leon Brittan. He told reporters chances of a was scrapped was badly twisted and could not be rolled up for transport home. It retracted about a third of its 40-foot length and then stopped. While Thornton and Akers were detaching the deformed panel late Sunday, the panel flexed with the slightest motion and flapped like a sheet on a clothesline on a windy day.

The European Space Agency made both the old and new panels. Story Musgrave and Jeff Hoffman spent nearly eight hours in the open cargo bay Sunday, held up by the misaligned door to the gyroscope compartment. When they were through, the Hubble had six working gyroscopes again to guide it. three electronics units to run the gyros and a new set of eight fuses. And after today's C'e-hour spacew'alk, it also had the new so-j lar wrings.

They will not be unfurled until Thursday. Boat sinks; 2 dead POINT LOOKOUT. Md i AP) -A charter fishing boat carrying 23 passengers took on water and sank in the Chesapeake Bay Sunday. At least two people died, authorities said. Some passengers had to wait up to two hours before being plucked from the rough.

50-degree water. Coast Guard spokesman Robert Snyder said a loose plank on the ship's hull may have allowed water to gush into the ship, causing it to sink. Edgar Curtis Philips 19, of Piney Point died Sunday night at St. Mary's Hospital in Leonard-town, officials said. Robert Bernard Shipe, 45.

of Mechanicsville. who was removed from the water in full cardiac arrest, was pronounced dead at the medical facility at the Patuxent Naval Air Station. Seventeen passengers and two U.S. Coast Guard rescuers were being treated at St. Marys Hospital, said hospital spokeswoman Barbara Stepura.

The remaining four passengers were taken to the air station's medical facility. The El Toro II sank at 2:15 p.m. EST about four miles from shore. There were 6-foot waves and winds of up to 20 mph in the area, said Stan Fifield of the Coast Guard's Baltimore office. Composer Zappa dies LOS ANGELES AP) Frank Zappa, whose compositions stretched the boundaries of rock, jazz and classical music, and tested the limits of free speech, has died of prostate cancer.

He was 52. Zappa died Saturday evening, and was buried Sunday in a private ceremony in Los Angeles, said family friend Jim Nagle. Zappa made his name in the late 1960s when he led his band the Mothers of Invention in w'hat he called sonic mutilations." With the band or as a solo artist, he released about 50 albums, including Freak Hot Rats." and Sheik Yerbouti." While Zappa was a rock guitar virtuoso and a singer, he often picked up a baton to conduct his bands through classical compositions, which also have been performed by major orchestras and dance ensembles. Conductor Zubin Mehta once called Zappa one of the few rock musicians who knows my language. Typhoon Lola kills 21 HOURS: Mon.

Frl: 6:30 am 6:00 pm 6:30 am 7:00 pm 7 ORIVl IN LOCATIONS S. Main At McLaughlin 833-1361 133 I. Cantor 833-1361 bet ore entering the South China Sea. Civil defense officials said nine deaths were reported in Catan-duanes. an island province about 250 miles southeast of Manila, and one death was reported in Carnal--ines Sur province.

The government-run Philip pines News Agency reported six deaths in Marinduque, a province 100 miles southeast of Manila. Five more deaths were reported in Naga. 280 miles southeast of Manila, and one in surrounding Camarines Sur province. Philippine Airlines canceled early morning domestic flights and some international flights, and moved all its domestic aircraft Jo Cebu, 350 miles to the south Lola had been expected to pass near Mount Pinatubo, the volcano 60 miles northw'est of Manila. The 1991 eruption dumped miliionsmf tons of debris on its slopes the approach of a typhoon raises 'fears of avalanches.

But the course change spared the area from predicted heavy rains. MANILA, Philippines AP A typhoon that killed at least 21 people today left southeastern Luzon, the main Philippine island, a di-Sfftter area as a second storm headed its way. But a change of course spared Manila and the avalanche-prone area near the Mount Pinatubo volcano from Typhoon Lola's 93 mpti winds. The storm caused floods throughout southeastern Luzon that forced at least 20,000 people from their homes. President Fidel Ramos declared the southeastern region a disaster area.

The Manila weather bureau saida second typhoon Manny was bearing down on the Philippines. Manny, with winds up to 75 mph. was reported early today about 600 miles southeast of Mindanao island. Manny was expected to threat en southeastern Luzon by Tuesday. Lola struck near Daet, 200 miles southeast of Manila, late Sunday.

It veered southward, passing about 70 miles south of the capital Trousers pZar i.89 "We Honor Any Dry Cleaners Coupon SHIRTS $1.20 Ea. Laundered 515.50 EXCLUDING KNIT FLANNELS WEATHER Tomorrow: Partly sunny; high 45 KENTUCKY TENNESSEE Weather HOPKINS COUNTY Tuesday, Dec. 7 Accu-Weather forecast for daytime conditions and high temperatures PHASES OF THE MOON LAST I QUARTER Clear, colder tonight; low 25. Partly sunny Tuesday, high 45. Mostly cloudy Wednesday; high 45, low 33.

Partly cloudy Thursday: high 45, low 26. Partly cloudy Friday; high 54, low 34. High yesterday in Madisonville 47. low 37. RAINFALL Last 24 1.22 This month: 1.72 For year: 46.04 Sunrise 6:52 a.m.

Sunset 4:30 p.m. Its Beginning To Sound A Lot Like Christmas. Make Sure You Can Hear It Start the holiday season off on the right note. Come to your local Beltone Center for a free 10-step hearing test and we'll give you a free turkey to enjoy over the holidays. So call Beltone today.

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42431 Postmaster Send address changes to 221 Mam St Madisonville. KY 42431 Circulation: I To start home delivery of The Messenger or re port a delivery change or problem call the circulation department at 821 0857 Missed delivery should be reported before 6 00 Monday Friday and 9 30 a on Saturday tor replacement the same evening in Madisonville and with the next day paper outside Madisonville The Messenger 221 Mam St Box 529 Madisonville. KY 42431 (502) 821 6833 ysF Publication No. 3253600 Subscription Rates Home Dpi 1 month $6 00 3 months $18.00 6 months $36 00 1 year $70.00 Mail $30.00 $60.00 $120.00 OVE 50YEARS Better Hearing Through Professional Care UMWA most insurances accepted 733 E. Center 821-9451 I.

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