The Kilgore News Herald from Kilgore, Texas • 1

y-y' '1 TUESDAY No 1 small city capital of the East Texas Oil Field 59TH No 7 USPS 294-700 KILGORE TEXAS TUESDAY AFTERNOON JANUARY 9 1990 8 PAGES 25 Columbia thunders into orbit lyn ysis By WILLIAM HARWOOD UPI Science Writer CAPE CANAVERAL Fla (UPI) The shuttle crew rocketed into orbit Tuesday ringing in the new decade with a delayed down-to-the-wire flight to rescue an 11 -ton satellite before it plunges to a fiery death in atmosphere With its three main engines roaring at full throttle two 14-story solid-fuel boosters ignited with a rush of fire on time at 7:35 am EST and smoothly climbed skyward on the first of 10 flights set for 1990 two one zero booster ignition and liftoff of said NASA commentator Lisa Malone a new decade of spaceflight At the controls were commander Daniel Brandcnstcin 46 a veteran of two previous flights and rookie co-pilot James Wethcrbee 37 Their crewmates are veteran Bonnie Dunbar 40 Marsha Ivins 38 and David Low 33 both making their first space flight Two minutes after liftoff redesigned boosters fell away from the climbing spaceship and at eight and a half minutes into the mission the hydrogen-fueled main engines shut down putting the spaceplane in a safe preliminary orbit Brandcnstcin and Wctherbce planned to fire the twin orbital maneuvering rockets about 40 minutes after liftoff to circularize the orbit at an altitute of about 207 miles Liftoff of the 33rd shuttle mission the most ambitious flight yet attempted in the post-Challcnger era came 22 days and four delays behind schedule because of work to refurbish launch pad 39A and low clouds that scotched a launch try Monday Low clouds showed up again Tuesday but they were not judged to be a threat and Columbia pierced through a thin cloud layer and shot toward space leaving a churning trail of dirty brown exhaust in its wake and thrilling thousands of tourists and spectators gathered along area roadways and beaches The goal of the long-awaited flight is the launch Wednesday of a Syncom Navy communications satellite and the retrieval late this week of the Long Duration Exposure Facility LDEF an 1 1-ton science satellite that is falling toward a fiery March re-entry into the atmosphere LDEF (pronounced was built to expose a variety of high-tech materials to the harsh radiation vacuum and temperature extremes of space over an extended period in research expected to help engineers design hardier longer-lived spacecraft launch was timed to kick off a complex orbital ballet of rocket firings and maneuvers designed to bring the shuttle within a throw of the 12-sidcd satellite racing along at more than 17100 mph and falling about a half mile per day When Columbia took off LDEF was sailing 2062 miles above the Atlantic Ocean southeast of Bermuda on a course carrying it toward the coast of North Africa If all goes well Columbia will pass about 3000 feet below LDEF Friday morning before looping in front of the satellite and then above it for a manually controlled descent to within 35 feet At that point Dunbar using the 50-foot-robot arm plans to pull the satellite into cargo bay for return to Earth for anal A third objective of mission is to work the shuttle and the astronauts over a 10-day period as part of a program to eventually certify orbiters for flights lasting 16 days or more The astronauts scheduled to carry out a long list of science engineering and medical experiments throughout the flight plan to glide to a night landing Jan 19 at Edwards Air Force Base Calif to close out the 10-day flight Columbia first space shuttle originally was scheduled to blast off on its ninth mission Dec 18 but the flight was repeatedly delayed to Monday because of work to finish an extensive overhaul of launch pad 39 A last used by Columbia four years ago Friday Extensively modified to improve crew safety and shuttle weather protection the sprawling launch myriad systems worked flawlessly during the countdown Monday but persistent low clouds forced NASA managers to order a 24-hour postponement NASA considers mission a high priority because LDEF is slowly dropping out of orbit victim of the gentle but insistent "drag" produced by friction with the tenuous outer reaches of atmosphere LDEF is equipped with 57 experiments including one supplied by the George Park Seed Co in which more than 12 million tomato seeds will be distributed to school students across the nation in an experiment to find out how long-term exposure to space radiation may have affected -mutation rates President denounces Noriega moved nT 0 it WK' i'u- i ifis 1 r- Report: set to be NEW YORK (UPI) A source in the federal government said authorities will move Gen Manuel Noriega from his Miami holding cell to a more secure federal penitentiary probably in Atlanta the New York Times reported Tuesday The ousted Panamanian strongman will most likely be moved Tuesday night and could be taken to any of three prisons: Atlanta Leavenworth Kan or the No 1 maximum security prison in Marion 111 the Times said It is believed that Noriega is being held in an isolated basement of the Federal court building in Miami in a cell known as But wherever he is federal authorities feel his current lodgings should be only temporary and want to find a permanent place for him Atlanta is considered the most likely choice of the three federal institutions because it is the closest to Miami where Noriega the ousted Panamanian dictator who faces federal drug-trafficking charges will be tried Miami is also where lawyers are based The closest federal prison to Miami the Metropolitan KC ADVISORY BOARD Members of the Kilgore College Child Development Advisory Committee recently met to discuss future directions for the Child Development irogram Members jnclude from left Sheryl of the Swing Shift Children's Center Candice Bowers chairman of the Kilgore College Child Development program Mary Ann McGuffin manager of the Child Development Center at Kilgore College Patsy Bradley Kilgore High School home economics teacher and Colleen Randel University of Texas at Tyler instructor pa Resources Cindy McIntosh owner of Happy oyette Texas Department of Human Faces Learning Center Renee Bogert owner Bulgaria: Victims to be rehabilitated Kilgoround racism WASHINGTON (UPI) President Bush Tuesday denounced as last apparent racist mail bombings that killed a civil rights attorney in Georgia and a federal judge in Alabama promising to bring to justice Bush who signed a proclamation declaring Jan 15 a federal holiday to honor the birthday of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr said his administration will not stand for racial intolerance The president at a White House meeting with NAACP Director Benjamin Hooks expressed at the recent bombings obscene phone calls and hate received by NAACP offices nationwide since the attacks Appeals Judge Robert Vance was killed Dec 16 at his home in Birmingham Ala by a mail bomb Two days later a letter bomb killed Robert Robinson a black Savannah Ga lawyer active in civil rights legislation A letter mailed to an Atlanta television station claimed the bombings were retaliation for the killing of a white woman whose accused attackers are black The letter warned more judges and civil rights activists would be killed time a black man rapes a white woman in Alabama Florida or Bush said will use the bully pulpit to bring to justice the bigots who stain this have asked Reverend Hooks to let his membership know that this administration will not let up in the fight against racism and that we will work to bring the perpetrators of these hideous crimes to Bush said Indey IIIUCA Classified 6 Comics 7 Crossword 7 Daily Digest 5 Dear Abby 7 Editorials 4 Horoscope 7 Obituaries 5 Sports 2 TV notes 4 Weather i rnnm an i aK WUK1 a low near 40 light and variable winds Mostly sunny and continued lower 70s South wind 5 to 10 mph LOCAL WEATHER (Chalk Hill Weather Station) High 67 Wind 10 Low 49 Barom 2995 Sunset 5:27 Temp 9 am 58 Sunrise 7:18 Prccip 0 portion mize suppression of the speech in the event of a license denial We therefore hold that the failure to provide these essential safeguards renders the licensing requirement unconstitutional insofar as it is enforced against those businesses engaged in First Amendment was joined in that portion of the ruling by Justices John Paul Stevens and Anthony Correctional Center which is 10 miles south of the city does not have adequate security to handle a prisoner as well-known as Noriega the Times said Law enforcement authorities and prosecution and defense attorneys have held discussions about the move and agreed that the prison in Atlanta was the best site the source told the Times The US Marshals Service which is guarding Noriega and will be responsible for moving him has been very secretive about when and how the deposed dictator will be moved and where he might be taken get any information from Daniel Horgan the US Marshal for Southern Florida told the Times a policy of the Marshals Service not to discuss the time or destination of any A spokesman in Washington said the marshals would not acknowledge where a prisoner is or if he were being moved until he was at a secure location the paper said Defense and prosecution attorneys also refused to discuss where Noriega was being held or if he might be moved the Times said whose father Sam Ross was an original director May Pool president of the home's resident council EB Mobley original treasurer and now a board member JE Dickson a board member and nephew of Kelly Dickson one of the original board members Barbara A Gamer administrator and Mablc Spear representing Franz Spear who was also an original board member Miss Ross represented the Hughey-Ross School which was converted to Gregg Home The garden club's tradition of planting a tree at Gregg Home began soon after the home was completed years ago FOR GIVEAWAY: A male Chihuahua black and white Houscbroken and good with kids Call 983-3667 HAPPY BIRTHDAY today to Helen Padgett Ruth Yocom Brenda Hodges Myrtle Smith Dan Connelly Virginia Howell Jason Hablinski Scott Harris Lamar Lewis Jim Ed Elms Roger Adams Wanda Edney Dave Bugay Sylvia Mae Clark Dee Dee Thomason Scott Stallard Roger Brigmon Jr Quinda Rcntz Ncta Harvey Patrice Neal and die Rev EG Ferguson Today is also the wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs David Edmonson and Mr and Mrs Leonard Farrar White said he could see basis for invalidating this ordinance because it fails to include some prophylactic measures lhat will guard against highly speculative In another portion of the opinion supported by the entire court upheld a portion of the ordinance that barred motel owners from renting rooms for less than 10 hours KIBA begins planning 1990 banquet Directors of the Kilgore Improvement and Beautification Association began planning for the organization's annual banquet when the board met Monday at the Kilgore Chamber of Commerce office Virginia Long a member of the banquet committee said the country club facilities would be available April 3 or April 10 She asked for suggestions for speakers and the board concluded that the date selected for the banquet may depend upon the availability of the speaker Frank Dunaway president appointed a nominating committee composed of Nell Dugan Ronnie Spradlin and Austin Kay The trio was asked to have its report ready for the KIBA meeting in February Dunaway reported that it appeared that a number of plants such as azaleas were killed during the extreme cold at Christmas Ume but it's too early to tell for certain He noted that it hasn't been determined whether some of the plants that KIBA planted at Kilgore Public Library in November were killed He added that debris had been cleaned up from buildings destroyed by fire on Commerce and at the intersection of SH 135 and Gladcwater Work has started on cleaning up the debris of Alvin's Bar which burned Christmas and about one-third of the debris has been removed Dunaway reported The board discussed several other sites that directors thought needed to be cleaned up By ANNELLE DUGAN THERE'S ONE HAPPY woman in Kilgore today Ruby Hill is home and improving after a stay in Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler lhat lasted almost three months She thanks her friends for the prayers and other kindness shown her and says it sure is good to be home THREE STUDENTS from Kilgore were among candidates for graduation from Stephen Austin State University during fall com- menccment They include Brian Dase BBA in accounting Angela Sue Peters BSED in elementary education and Carol marie Wilson BA in finance NO MORE BLOOD is needed for Colton Cannon 4 months old child of Tammy and Dwayne Cannon Colton is out of the ICU at Baylor Pediatrics center where he has been treated for intcrsucccssion of the intestine a complications of unknown infection Wendv DJsscyh Prccd thanks for the concern donalionS) and do: nations AMONG THOSE participating in an arbor day ceremony at Gregg Home for the Aged last week were Caroline Ross one of the current board members for the home SOFIA Bulgaria (UPI) The Bulgarian government announced Tuesday it will rehabilitate victims of Communist Party purges under the discredited 18-year rule of fallen President Todor Zhivkov The official news agency BTA said the move was aimed at reversing negative effects of the (Zhivkov) personality and that 30 former Communist Party members a otficials would benefit immediately idea or opinion at variance with Todor ideas and opinions was persecuted and their purveyors and exponents were subjected to the agency said The official announcement also said the state prosecutor and the Bulgarian Supreme Court would be asked to review all jail sentences handed down by the courts to Zhivkov opponents in the past It said that under Zhivkov the expression of any view at variance with the public stance of the president was viewed as a plot in an a political atmosphere thick with distrust and suspicion The statement said those rehabilitated included people who had not sought the overthrow of the in Bulgaria but only the ousting of Zhivkov and the correction of deformations in the party and the Among the first 30 to have their names cleared by the Communist authorities were former Prime Minister Anton Yugov and a clutch of former ruling Politburo members generals party functionaries and portions of the ordinance In a ruling by Justice Sandra Day the court held that the licensing porlion of the law which required adult theaters and bookstores to have a license and inspections regardless of whether a business has changed or moved "largely targets businesses purveying sexually explicit speech which the city concedes for the purposes of these cases arc pro leading Bulgarian government officials The announcement came as representatives of the ruling Communist Party heads of opposition pro-democracy groupings and leaders of the ethnic Turkish and Moslem minorities met to discuss an ethnic crisis that has led to demonstrations in eight Bulgarian cities including Sofia and Plovdiv Bulgarian nationalists have been demonstrating against government concessions to ethnic Turks who make up more than 8 percent of the population Ethnic Bulgarians claim the policy change threatens national identity The news agency said the new Bulgarian leader Peter Mladenov who replaced Zhivkov in November promising political and economic reform discussed the disturbances late Monday with visiting Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov Ryzhkov is in Sofia for a two-day meeting of leaders of the socialist trading bloc Comccon In Kuwait Tuesday Turkish Foreign Minister Mcsut Yilmaz met his Bulgarian counterpart Boiko Dimitrov to discuss safeguarding rights of Moslems most of whom of Turkish decent and normalizing Turkish-Bulgarian ties in view of the change in policy by the new leadership in Bulgaria The one-day meeting was organized by Kuwait the current leader of the 46-nation Islamic Conference Organization In a decree Dec 29 Bulgarian authorities reversed a four-year campaign instigated by Zhivkov tected by the First Amendment (of the She also wrote that the procedure allows postponement of the issuance of a Dallas scheme docs not provide for an effective limitation on the time within which the decision must be she said also fails to provide an avenue for prompt judicial review so as to mini -i Court strikes down of ordinance Kennedy Justice William Brennan joined by Justices Thurgood Marshall and Harry Blackmun wrote separately to join that porlion of the ruling When she announced her opinion from the bench quipped: "In a number of opinions which may even exceed the number of justices not sure the court has resolved In a dissent Justice Byron By HENRY JRESKE UPI Supreme Court Reporter WASHINGTON (UPI) The Supreme Court Tuesday struck down a major portion of a Dallas ordinance that imposed strict licensing and zoning requirements on sexually oriented businesses The court in a complex opinion that various justices joined and dissented from also upheld vjf iflf mirffri iHl i1 A Ti' 11'.