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AO October 1 1985 THC fHCSNO DCC Richter of earthquake scale fame dies at 85 Ill-fated jetliner got no warning of storm his foothill Altadena home the day of the Feb 9 1971 quake in the San Fernando Valley the most recent to cause serious damage in Los Angeles He rushed to his old lab to help former colleagues sift through the mounds of scientific data During his long tenure at Caltech from 1937 until 1970 the scientist frequently refuted misconceptions about earthquakes as well as of quakes to come He did however map out quake-prone areas of the United States where faults in the earth's surface existed and where slow mountain building processes were still underway He helped establish a seismologi-cal reporting network at Caltech that studies earthquakes around the world He also made frequent reports on how to prepare for earthquakes and avoid panic In a 1963 report to the Los Angeles County Disaster Office he said the major risk in Southern California was not from a direct hit but from "public panic and After leaving the Caltech faculty in 1970 Dr Richter formed a consulting firm that delved into quake activity and related structural dangers Born near Hamilton Ohio on April 26 1900 Dr Richter was raised by his grandfather and moved with his family to Los An- By LINDA RAPATTONI Unitod Press international PASADENA Dr Charles Richter the world's best known earthquake expert and inventor of the scale used to measure their magnitude died Monday of heart disease He was 85 Officials at Caltech where the pioneering seismologist taught for many years said Dr Richter died at 12:30 pm at Park Marina Convalescent Center "He died of coronary artery following a lengthy hospitalization spokesman Dennis Meredith said Dr Richter in collaboration with colleague Bern Gutenberg devised the internationally accepted Richter scale in the 1930s The scale which determines an magnitude at its center became the primary method to quickly assess the potential damage of a temblor in populated areas Dr Richter concerned with rumors and false reports frequently associated with earthquakes began giving magnitude readings to the media about 1952 He kept a seismograph in his living room draping its records over the backs of chairs and telephoned news services with the time distance direction and magnitude of quakes they recorded The scientist was jarred awake at crash he observed lightning "right ahead of as the plane continued its descent "You get good legs yairf quipped the flight engineer referring to the co-pilot and pilot switch- ing off flying duties on different1! tegs of the trip The co-pilot was at the controls As they spoke another Delta crew its plane taxiing away from the runway after having landed already had noticed the severe weather along the approach path "Is that a waterspout out there on the end of the the pilot of the Boeing 737 remarked "I know Sure looks like it it? Looks like a tornado or something never seen anything like the co-pilot replied About 2VS minutes later the two 'Delta crew members neither of whom was identified saw tire fireball beyond the runway where Flight 191 had crashed According to sources dose to the investigation there is no indication-that the sighting of a possible toma- do on the approach was ever rathe control tower or on to 191 While lightning was seen from'-the airport tower and at least 20 pilots saw the severe weather devel- oping to the north end of the airport runway before Flight 1919 arrival "this observation was not disseml-' nated to any flights on tower fre- the NTSB documents $aic( A recorded weather advisory for incoming aircraft did not refer to "thunderstorm and heavy rain until 25 minutes after the plane crashed according to ah' NTSB summary On the flight to Texas the Delta crew members several times ex- pressed concern about being direct- ed toward bad weather by air traffic controllers When a controller insisted the plane use a particular ap preach to the Dallas-Fort Worth auv port they objected because they saw on their weather radar "a pretty good-sized weather cell" build-- ing up there The controller promised to direct the plane away from the bad weather but needed prodding from the pilot before he gave a change in direction sleeping get him out of snapped pilot Connors a 29-year veteran with Delta getting kind of hot in the -oven with this controller See what the lack of experience he said a short time later before' being switched over to an approach controller at the airport By JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press WASHINGTON In the minutes before Delta Flight 191 crashed white trying to land at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport a thunderstorm was clearly apparent and a pilot who had just landed noticed what he thought was a tornado along the approach But National Transportation Safety Board documents indicated Monday the pilot of Flight 191 never was warned of the storm's severity Less than 10- minutes before the crash he was told by air traffic controllers that there was a little rain north of the airport Investigators have speculated that the Aug 2 crash which killed 136 people was caused by wind shear a severe change of wind direction ally forced H011 it was about to land A transcript of exchanges in the cockpit just before the crash supported the wind-shear theory because the crew could be heard strui the maximum power "Push it up push it way up way pilot Edward Connors exhorted his co-pilot Rudolph Price Jr "Way Price responded with the sounds of the engines increasing power and the "whoop whoop pull up pull up' warning of the nd proximity alarm in the nd Theis was followed by a 'sound similar to a landing and someone saying "Oh and what the NTSB called a non-printable word Almost immediately there was the sound of a second impact and silence The flight from Fort Lauderdale Fla was bound for Los Angeles with an interim stop at Dallas when it encountered heavy rain lightning and treacherous winds short of the runway The plane first touched down in a field bounded across a highway 1 jetliner where it struck a car and crashed into water tanks before bursting into flames According to the transcript from the cockpit voice recorder the crew was concerned during the approach about severe weather in the area Several times they criticized air traffic controllers for directing them too close to a severe weather cell going to get our airplane Price a 15-year veteran with Delta remarked A short time later about 90 seconds before the v'-'v v- -t FUe photo DR CHARLES RICHTER Coronary disease victim geles in 1909 He graduated from Stanford University in 1920 and eight years later earned a PhD at Caltech He worked at the Carnegie Institution of Washington DC Seismo-logjcal Laboratory before joining In late 1981 the famed scientist was found walking in a dazed condition in Pasadena's Arroyo Seco following an auto crash His health deteriorated badly after that and he was placed in the convalescent center in August 1984 Pratt dies File photo NEWTON PRATT He was 84 home of another enthusiast At one show he won 78 ribbons for his camellias di himself for he was an eclectic student whose talents ran in such diverse areas as graphics furniture design and tapestries Bee cartoonist Newton of school before he was 10 He worked as a draftsman for the old state Division of Highways (now Caltrans) before he joined McClatchy Newspapers As a youngster he worked at a variety of jobs in Sacramento including a stint as a messenger for The Sacramento Bee where he met Walter Jones The late editor-in-chief who later appointed him editorial cartoonist Mr Pratt was one of the nation's few editorial cartoonists to challenge the anti-communist hysteria generated by Sen Joseph McCarthy the 1950s "He was a hard-hitting defender of dvil rights and tivif said Dennis Renault who succeeded Mr Pratt in 1971 as The Sacramento editorial cartoonist "When less than a handful of American editorial cartoonists had the guts to take on Joe McCarthy work was a beacon to saner elements in this said Renault An award-winning camellia grower and an outspoken backer of the Sacramento Camellia Show Mr Pratt started collecting the flowers in 1955 after a chance visit to the State Digest California bar delegates move in favor of Bird 4 Ti SAN DIEGO In actions hailed by supporters of Chief Justice Rose Bird State Bar delegates Monday endorsed Judicial independence and opposed certain attacks on the state Supreme Court i By skillful maneuvering backers pCrtke chief justice avoided debate on the November 1986 election an endorsement of some of Bird's major campaign themes Bird and five Supreme Court colleagues are to be on next year's state ballot for voter retention The bar is prohibited by law from endorsing judicial candidates but supporters of the justices worked throughout the weekend to reach agreement on a statement of support for their principal campaign doctrine that the court's role as the guardian of constitutional rights rbquires it to be able to reach unpopular decisions without fear of TOfrL Garamendi will not ijifj against Bradley SACRAMENTO State Sen JohPLGaramendi abandoned Monday plans for a bruising rematch agqjnst popular Los Angeles Mayor TomBradley in the 1986 Democratic gubernatorial primary saying party unity is more important for ousting Republican Gov George Deukmejian is clear that I can only defeat Tom Bradley by running the kind of campaign that would discredit him weaken our party and ultimately damage the very issues that drew me to politics in the first place" said Garamendi 40 Decision due soon on AIDS children school SACRAMENTO State health officials are expected to decide by next week under what circumstances if any children with AIDS should be admitted to public schools QbJames Chin chief of the infectious diseases section of the state Department of Health Services said Monday that most of the recommendations under review by department's AIDS task force point to admitting those children to classes under stringent conditions Impostor who took Emmy award charged PASADENA The impostor who accepted the Emmy award won by Betty Thomas has been charged with interfering with an event an infraction that carries a maximum fine of $170 Bany Bremen 38 of West Bloomfield Mich appeared on the Sept 22 ABC telecast to say he was accepting the award for Thomas who there Moments later Thomas appeared to claim her award as best supporting actress for "Hill Street Bradley raps plan to tag offensive records LOS ANGELES Mayor Tom Bradley and a group of recording artists and record company executives Monday opposed legislative efforts to label offensive records saying parents should be the censors not government "We need to oppose any erosion of our constitutional rights and free Bradley said criticizing suggestions matte before the US Senate Commerce Committee to put warning labels on records Californian draws Ohio death sentence CINCINNATI A California man was sentenced Monday to die in electric chair for finally stabbing his estranged wife and a retired Taft Broadcasting Co executive in August 1984 John Dean Mize 43 of Hayward was sentenced for the murders of Amma Anim II 28 of Ghana Africa and Ralph Wachs 76 Anim worked as a housekeeper for Wachs and both were found slain Aug 25 1984 in home in Anderson Township a Cincinnati suburb Also Famed lawyer Melvin Belli has turned drwn suspect Richard request to be his defense attorney citing the financial and time burdens the high-profile case will generate it was reported Monday in San Francisco A University of California study of 300 health care workers who handle AIDS patients at San Francisco General Hospital has found no cases of transmission of the disease to workers not in high-risk groups it was announced By STEVE GIBSON McOatehy News Service SACRAMENTO Newton Thomas Pratt who drew biting incisive 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