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S'iiJr 'c fr fc tr Local 4 Norton man killed in mine roof accident PAGE 1B Giants plan to stay in Candlestick Park PAGE1C njaiLiWLlwffJW gw Winter soups add variety to mealtime PAGE1D Bristol Herald Courier Bristol Virginia Tennessean 115th No 27264 Bristol Virginia Tennessee Thursday January 30 1986 40 Pages 25c Coast Guard retrieves debris from Challenger Associated Press Armada searches sea for parts Please see PROBE Page 4A Please see ARMADA Page 4A Please see DEBRIS Page 4A Related stories appear on Pages 3A 4A and 8A Bristol native Jim Stone HANK HAYES Staff Writer inquiry into why the $12 billion shuttle appearing to be on a per fect course suddenly exploded 74 seconds after liftoff Tuesday raining fiery debris into the Atlan tic Ocean The space agency impounded every scrap of paper film and data connected with the launch of the impending explosion The debris collected by Wednesday af ternoon did not include any cloth ing or personal effects of the astro nauts Mission Control with all its sophisticated technology had no warning either said Jay Greene who was directing climb to space train awfully hard for these flights and we train under every scenario you can possibly he said was nothing anyone could have done for this one It just A CAPE CANAVERAL la The Coast Guard pulled 600 pounds of metal and tiles from Challenger out of the Atlantic Ocean Wednesday and experts impounded every bit of data for clues to the death of seven people in the worst space disas ter NASA said the five men and two women aboard the 100 ton shuttle probably had no warning Shuttle probe should key on fuel AP Laserphotomap Ships are searching the sea for debris of the shattered Challenger (left) and the remains of its crew The search area Wednesday was between 50 and 130 miles southeast of Cape Canaveral in water that is between 70 and 200 feet deep its crewr74 seconds after Jaunchfrom Cape Canave Ahg oUd Juel boosters for the fal on Tuesday Some 600 pounds of debris was brought to Port Canaveral Wednesday afternoon aboard the US Point Roberts an 82 foot Coast Guard patrol boat Lt John Philbin commander of the patrol boat said much of debris appeared to be a light green metal probably aluminum He said there were no personal items such as clothing or helmet fragments gathering data put it all up and called it a Speculation focused on an ominous bright flash that was vis ible at the base of the fuel tank be fore the explosion but shuttle di rector Jesse Moore said he wanted to discourage that are asking me to lay out he said not pre pared to do NASA scheduled a memorial service at the Johnson Space Cen ter in Houston on riday and said President and Mrs Reagan will attend In Palm Bay a community south of the space center plans were made to name a school after Christa McAuliffe of Concord NH who was aboard the shuttle as the first to fly in space She had planned to teach two lessons from space to schoolchildren all across the coun try Killed along with McAuliffe were commander rancis Sco bee 46 pilot Michael Smith 40 Judith A Resnik 36 Ronald McNair 35 Ellison Onizuka 39 and Gregory Jarvis 41 An investigation team held He described the mood in the first meeting to start the long control room as pro fessional under the circum stances very somber there was not much When computer screens showed no more data was coming in he said engineers watched the views from teleivsion cameras were hoping something better would come out of he said After a while we resumed investigation into the catastrophic explosion that de stroyed the space shuttle Chal lenger should center around more than the space huge ex ternal fuel tank says Bristol na tive Jim Stone retired president of Morton Thiokol Aerospace company that makes the shut solid fuel rocket boosters Stone said Wednesday that several things could have hap pened to rupture the fuel tank and ignite a powerful explosion that killed Challeng er's seven crew members on Tuesday center it around just the fuel Stone said of" the investigation you slow down those movies (video tape of the explosion) it looks to me like it is pretty definitely in that tank But what caused the' tank to rupture they (NASA): won't know that for some Morton Thiokol manufac tures recovers and refurbishes shuttle program The shuttle's two 125 foot boosters twin white columns straddling the gi gantic liquid fuel tank ignite at liftoff and bum for two minutes then are jettisoned into the ocean They provide most of the thrust for the ascent The boosters according to Associated Press I tie assist the investigation by immediately notifying PORT CANAVERAL la Coast Guard of authorities He said several people had discovered ficials warned souvenir hunters Wednesday not to washed up debris and reported it touch any wreckage they might find from the shuttle The ship exploded killing all seven members of Challenger as searchers combing boou square miles of ocean brought the first fragments back to port for study especially concerned about a small green a Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer said be dead in two seconds if you touched Vandre declined to say what was in the canister but added were several things aboard the Challenger that potentially could be deadly" Kennedy Space Center director Richard Smith issued a plea that anyone finding pieces of the shut ywosapgay io miles mgn ana ygaBSWA miles southeast of ft the launching pad Atlantic Ocean VX Search Area Between 50 and LORIDA YX 130 miles 44 BAHAMAS I zS Miami lorida Ih fefea A Ay cuiioi v' I' "zZxv i Surprise snowfall defies forecasts SUSAN CAMERON and DIANA BLAZER Staff Writers After calling for wanner drier weather the rest of the week weather forecasters were caught red faced early Wednes day when an erratic snowfall dumped several inches of snow across most of the Mountain saEmpire is said Jim Meece a spokesman for the Na tional Weather Service at Tri City Regional Airport where only an inch of snowfall was re corded by 3 pm compared to four inches in Bristol orecasters had predicted sunny skies for Wednesday with temperatures in the mid What they got was the second heavy snowfall since Sunday The predicted warm temperatures just never reached Meece said at 2:30 pm the area Meece said In the Tri Cities the snow get the warm' air storm was heaviest in the Bris that we thought we might get tol area with less precipitation Right now it is 58 degrees in Memphis 48 in Nashville 33 in Please see SNOW Page 12A Knoxville and none have had any snow at all The residual' from the latest system is hover ing around us and and all the warming has been west of Snow forces early printing Because of severe snowstorm today's edi tion of the Herald Courier went to press earlier than nor mal The decision was made to insure delivery to as many read ers as possible and to allow car riers more time to make those deliveries safely We apologize for any inconvenience II Jo 1 IIK a Staff photoPeter Morns Ronnie elty of the Bristol Parks and Recreation Department drives a plow against the heavy snow as it falls in downtown Bristol Virginia BIR to announce end to financial difficulties VINCENT SINGLETON Staff Writer Bristol International Raceway offi cials are expected to announce today that the financial difficulties of the raceway and dragway have been resolved and that the racing complex is under new manage ment a BIR spokesman said Wednesday Denny Darnell said BIR officials have scheduled a press conference at the raceway for 2 pm today to clarify the status and ownership of Bristol International Raceway and to point the direction BIR will be going in the International Raceway and Bristol International Dragway were both owned by Warner Hodgdon and both went into bankruptcy last he said (Larry) Carrier has been running the oper ation for Hodgdon and was appointed by the courts to be in charge of the race way during the Darnell said Wednesday the bank ruptcy had been resolved and that the rac ing complex which not been pur is under new management He refused to be more specific Details of the change in ownership will be spelled out at Bristol International Raceway officials also are expected to announce that the racing complex is under new management press conference he said Hodgdon's California based National Raceways Inc acquired full control of the Bristol racing complex in July of 1983 But the Bank of Virginia filed a foreclosure no tice on BIR after Hodgdon failed to meet a payment deadline on Dec 31 1984 To pre vent a public auction of the raceway Hodgdon filed for protection under Chap ter 11 last ebruary the day before the foreclosure sale was scheduled Bristolian Larry Carrier who was hired by Hodgdon to manage the raceway was also named BIR general manager by a California federal court judge handling the bankruptcy Carrier one of the creditors holding a major lien against National Ra Please seeTRACK Page 12A Good morning! Chuckle Now with touch tone dailing so widespread you can get a wrong number anywhere in the world Tennessee A civil liberties group crit icized the US Education Depart ment for a policy they say would punish students for failing to reg ister for the draft before proving their guilt 8 Virginia Authorities granted parole to a convicted murderer because he suffers from AIDS and has less than a year to live 8 Business Texaco Inc has lost its bid to remove a Texas judge who upheld a jury's record $111 billion damage judgment against the company 7B Local Virginia income tax refund checks may be withheld from Washington countians who owe delinquent real estate or personal property taxes 2 Nation Three economists say the tax overhaul plan passed by the House would hurt the economy by requiring corporations to pay for a big tax cut for individuals 1 1 A World About 60 families have come back to Tenancinga a civil war battleground in El Salvador bombed to rubble in 1983 9 A People Bruce son says his first martial arts movie will also be his last because he is more in terested in than martial arts 8C Inside Business 6B7B Calendar 6C Classified 9C12C Comics 7C Deaths 2A ood 1D8D LocalStates 1B3B8B Movies 8C NationWorld 6A9A 11A Opinion1 10A Sports 1C5C Outside Sunny skies with variable winds and highs in the upper 30s air skies and cold tonight Lows in the mid teens 1 2A ood I I.