Show Saturday July 7 1990 r Standard-Examine- 3A' National tests to find shuttles’ hydrogen leaks NASA plans WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA plans tests on two coasts starting this weekend to isolate the source of hydrogen leaks that have grounded the nation’s space shuttle fleet officials said Friday Engineers at Rockwell International the contractor that built the space shuttles are testing pipes and valves from the space shuttle Columbia this weekend in Downey Calif And next Friday NASA engineers will conduct leak tests on space shuttle Atlantis which is on a launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida William Lenoir NASA associate administrator for space flight said Friday that the goal of the tests is find where a leak developed in the maze of pipes and valves that are used to load liquid hydrogen aboard the space shuttles Leaks found in May on Columbia and last week on Atlantis caused NASA to ground all three of the nation’s winged spacecraft The third craft Discovery is scheduled to fly in October if the leak problem is solved Meanwhile a panel of experts studying another major NASA National briefs Exxon Valdez to get new name location SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Exxon Valdez the tanker that caused the nation’s worst oil spill will be returned to service under the name Exxon Mediterranean and will ply the seas half a world away from Alaska officials said Friday Exxon Shipping Co President Gus Elmer said the decision to rename the vessel was consistent with its relocation to the foreign service The ship is due to return to duty next month “Due to declining Alaskan crude oil the vessel will enter foreign service most likely loading crude in the Mediterranean or the Middle East It is consistent with our policy that the vessels be named according to their location” Elmer said He declined to say that the environmental disaster in Alaska 16 months ago was a major factor in renaming the vessel the Exxon Mediterranean and moving it The tanker has been undergoing work since August to repair damage it sustained on March when it ran aground on a reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound spilling almost 11 million gallons of oil into the sound 9 Thursday evening a group of 50 activists and homeless people at the Civic Center decided to accept the city’s offer The group noisily marched seven blocks to one of two new shelters where a worker told them all the rooms were filled The group returned to the plaza — a park surrounded by mostly government buildings Veto of abortion bill may be overridden BATON ROUGE La (AP) — The Louisiana House on Friday night voted to override Gov Buddy Roemer’s veto of the nation's strongest state abortion bill which contains no exceptions for rape of incest 1 The vote was three more votes than were needed for a House veto override The state Senate still had to deal with the veto Roemer issued earlier in the day Senators were debating the state budget and leaders were unsure whether they would take up the override debate later Friday night If the Senate also voted to override it would be the first time a Louisiana governor has had a veto overridden this centu73-3- ry SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police arrested five people Friday as the city began enforcing a ban on sleeping in parks in an effort to empty a downtown plaza where more than 200 people have camped out for two years CHANNELVIEW Texas (AP) — The death toll rose to 17 from an explosion that could be heard 20 miles away when it leveled an area the size of a city block at a Authorities said Keith tree-shade- d plant explosion chemical plant authorities said Friday Five others were injured A tank exploded at about 11:30 pm Thursday at the plant about 15 miles east of Houston The resulting fire was out by dawn Company firefighters sprayed the area as other workers pulled bodies from tons of twisted pipe and debris Assistant US Secretary of Labor Gerard F Scannell arrived at the plant Friday afternoon to lead a federal investigation Wildfires still threaten Alaskan town after sweeping over 400 square miles ANCHORAGE Alaska (AP) — Wildfires charred about 400 square miles of Alaska forests and tundra by Friday and still threatened the town of Tok where firefighters kept up a house-to-houwind-drive- n battle against se flames “We’re afraid the fire will blow back down in a different direction” said Rob McWhorter of the Bureau of Land Management in Tok a crossroads town on the Alaska Highway 80 miles from the Canadian border The gusty winds that fanned flames around Tok in recent days eased and the fire’s growth slowed but officials told residents to remain prepared to evacuate The fire which grew to more than 53 square miles leaped trees and fire lines Thursday to come within a quarter-mil- e of some homes before sweeping northwest of town When the flames got that close some 300 of the town’s 1200 residents evacuated ©lVMon mjlCK' 3520 WALL AVE 394-165- 1 WeeklySpecial 1989 BlIICK REATTA Handcrafted luxury MSRP $27745 2 WEEK SPECIAL ONLY $19990 most returned to their houses Friday McWhorter said Firefighters widened fire lines Friday but the blaze remained close “In some cases there are some spot fires on the edge of town left over from yesterday” McWhorter said “It’s not under control but the fire quieted down overnight” said Sue Mitchell a spokeswoman for an interagency fire center in Fairbanks “The fire created its own lightning storm which dropped little rain on the area It wasn’t much but it helped a little bit” A report Thursday that Tok’s Coast Guard navigational station burned was incorrect It only lost power The station was back on line early Friday after the seven crewman stationed there returned “Our priority for today is to continue to defend the community to rebuild and expand lines on the flanks 1 1 when that craft was being loaded with liquid hydrogen in preparation for launch Columbia was rolled back to the hangar and engineers removed the elaborate plumbing fixture called the umbilical that is used to load hydrogen into the shuttle rocket propellant tank The fixture was sent to the Rockwell plant in Downey for testing On Sunday Rockwell engineers plan to pump helium then liquid nitrogen and finally the much colder liquid hydrogen through the umbilical STOREWIDE CLEARANCE d (14 U San Francisco Examiner “ET phone home” is an old graffiti gag But Congress may hang up the in phone and put Mountain View Calif out of business At NASA’s Ames Research Center scientists are developing ways to detect radio signals from inhabitants of other star systems But in Washington lawmakers have ridiculed SETI — the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence — as an effort “to look for little green men with misshapen heads” Last week an amendment to kill SETI funds slid through the House and is headed for the Senate So NASA scientists who usually push buttons and program computers are preparing to walk the halls of the US Senate where they hope to rescue the program The proposed $100 million search for aliens is foolish considering the nation's woes two Republican representatives charged on the House floor June 28 “No one in this body can doubt that we are in the middle of a financial crisis” said Rep Ronald “We do not Machtley have to go into outer space to find minds and intelligence that need to be developed “We are just beginning to ET-hunte- rs R-- KEROSENE LANTERNS $39 39 NOW 99 NOW & Piatt " Green KIT aflSk Orangp Tv 99' "959 SI AlwiHAum MESS MARSHMALLOWS Garlic Flavor Yellow & Pink wleg $499 $9 Colors (Assorted DUTCH OVENS os '6 18 1 s Natural Zeke FOAM FLOATIN' BAIT S9 Rag 24 $ Rag St ALL Garlic (pink) Garlic (oranqe) Corn Original $099 FISHING GEAR 25 & OFF MORE SIZES 99 99 NOW Hughes-Danbur- cost-contr- CENTURY BOOSTER TAILS Hughes-Danbur- er CAMPING DEPARTMENT FISHING DEPT Congressional Quarterly now-cripple- more vigorous test is planned for Atlantis next Friday when liquid hydrogen is pumped into the spacecraft tank at a high rate of flow Plastic bags will be placed over the 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