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Show Lik It hen l(imc(l Aa"inat((r a The .Sail Lake Tribune Weary Concord, N.H., Grieves for Lost Teacher By ( Dtirdrt UiEon I mted Press International uM UKD. N il - The myn, and children of this tiny state v.u-me- lucn joined together capital at hools and churches Wednesday to .seep, pi ay and griee fur Christa McAulifle. their high school teacher 'i turned astronaut. Classes were canceled at Mc.u-lifls Concord High School but some students and teachers went there fur help from psychologists to cope with the shock of her death Tuesday, and residents came together in a bond of somber unity at churches of all denominations These services are to let people curne together to share grief." said Dick Lower, pastor of St. John's Chureh. "It s like when Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 - no one wants to be alone." At a service attended by 300 grade school children at St. Juhn's. students responded with "sad" and "bad" when Father Dan Messier asked how they felt when they saw McAultffe and six other astronauts killed in the explosion of the shuttle Challenger. Cullen Dumont. 13. one of a half dozen students who stepped to a pulpit to read a prayer, said. "When the space shuttle blew up. it made me feel bud. It's too bad it happened to the teacher in space. "But I think life should go on. I also hope that Christa McAuliffe will go down in history as a good mother and a good astronaut that she would have been. Lord hear our prayers. Afterwards. Messier said. "It's going to take awhile for the community itself to bounce back. Christa McAuliffe was Concord. New Hampshire. She was us. When she stepped on that shuttle, Concord, New Hampshire, stepped on it with her." McAuliffe, 37, a native of Boston, was reared in Framingham, Mass. She had taught in the Concord area school system the past decade, the last four years as a social studies teacher at Concord High. Her husband. Steve, an attorney, and two children. Scott. 9. and Caroline. 6. made the trip to Cape Canav e eral to witness the space shut turned disaster. As of midday Wednesday, they had not returned home. In her application to become an astronaut. McAuliffe wrote. "1 want to demystify NASA and space flight want studtnls to understand the spe-- t ial perspective of space and relate it to themselves." McAuliffe was to have given two lessons in space, the first explaining the roles of the crew and the second dealing with the purpose of space n. Both were to be beamed back to U.S. classrooms. Last July about 2.50U residents lined Main Street fur a parade honoring McAuliffe after she was selected from more than 1.000 applieatants to be the teacher to go to outer space. On Tuesday, in homes, restaurants, stores and at school, they watched in horror as she and six crewmates were killed in a fiery explosion. "My biggest concern is the little kids." Lower said. "The past month the schools closely followed Christa McAuliffe's exploits and then yesterday they saw her killed. "I just got a call from a mother whose child had nightmares last night. Tin encouraging parents to talk these things out with their youngsters. Classes at Concord High were canceled Wednesday, but the school was open for students and faculty to meet with counselors for emotional support. Wendell Butt Jr director of pupil personnel services, said meetings were held between psychological counselors from a local mental health association and area teachers and guidance counselors. "We talked through our understanding of the various expressions of grieving," Butt said. He said guidance counselors returned to their respective schools to explain to faculty how to help students cope. Butt said the school district had received numerous calls from psychiatric groups across the country offering assistance and advice on how to deal with child stress. Local psychologist Norman Shul- - Thursday Januarv Nixon IleleaMMl From Hospital Say - "One t o well-wisher- enie . . . senator Wants a (S liter decide on 'Voiir Rights the yeas, during which we hawn't yet been able m get into.' oil nosed The 1 "That Nixon departed the Miami Heart Institute for the airport in a white limousine with his wile. Fat. and a bodyguard Dr. Lewis Elias said Nixon would fly immediately to his home in New Jersey and would have to restrict his activities for the next two or three weeks About 60 people, many of them hospital employees, waved and called to Nixon as he walked to the ear. A3 Koer Will h tuMIAMI BEACH Fla L'tM rner President Richard Nixon wavleft a ing to a cruwd of hospital Wednesday after a three-dabout with a viral infection duetois said was worse than originally diag- id, FG6 is a War just like holding a cui mention to dtsel sa 'the Highls of an Innocent By- stander during a Police and Fight between ' Bandits "He only has one right and that's the right to a decent burial " - January 30. lo'jy 1 Nixon cut short a Bahamas vacation last weekend because of the flulike illness and flew to Miami. He entered the hospital Monday Seiec'ed oriel edited b tu .cm Sterrights rest' sell 'O'' 0 r v'.i" Roger $ Vemor ml ling, All Number ol Kings Now Uncertain Band Faint, Saturn-Lik- e Spotted Around Uranus By Lee Siegel AP Science Writer Associated Laeipnoio Concord boy clutches his toy at a service for Christa McAuat schools. liffe. Psychologists offered help to A grief-stricke- n man said the "impact of this kind of tragedy" was compounded by the intense media attention "and the fact that there were special relationships between her McAuliffejand the student body." "We're going to get together as a family unit," said Principal Charles Foley. The staff in particular is taking this very, very, very sorrowfully." Officials at Concord High said they have been flooded with phone calls, telegrams and letters from across the country expressing condolences. "I had a call from a California She called crying, in housewife. tears." said Michael Hanson, a school secretary. "She just wanted the name of the principal so that she could ask to have the school renamed" for McAuliffe. Teachers returned slowly to the school Wednesday. "I have my good moments and my bad moments," said Chris MacLeod, an English teacher. We're going to work together with each other and work out ways to help the students." David Terrill, a junior, said of the mood at school. "It's mostly confusion. After that I guess you could call it hatred or anger, really. Once you get past why it happened and how it " happened, you have to go on .... Creator of Mary Worth Comic Strip Dies MAUMEE, Ohio (UPJ) - Allen Saunders, the creator of the comic strips "Mary Worth," which appears in The Salt Lake Tribune, and "Steve Roper," has died at the age of 86. Saunders, who died Tuesday in St. Luke's Hospital, was born in Lebanon. Ind., on March 24. 1899 He was a reporter, critic and instructor in romance languages before he began writing "Steve Roper" in 1938. His son. John, took over the strips in 1970. He is survived by his wife. Lois, and three children. Services will be held Friday in Maumee. dividually apparently contain chunks larger than three feet across, al2 though only the material in one of the ; PASADENA, Calif. Voyager has found another ring encircling rings actually was studied ' They also have said the bands o! ribUranus, a faint made dust between are the bon of material orbiting inside the up rings other rings and only 7.000 miles above largely of microscopic particles, perthe planet's cloudtops, scientists said haps produced by the collision of chunks in the surrounding rings. Wednesday. The outside edge of the new ring "It's a diffuse sheet of material." about 900 miles inside the orbit starts said National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientist Jeff Cuzzi. of the innermost previously known ring. It is about 1.9U0 miles wide, with "I'd call it a ring." an inner edge only 7,000 miles above The faint ring was photographed Uranus cloud tops, according to o by Voyager 2 less than an hour before statement issued by Jet Propulsion the spacecraft's closest approach to Uranus when it flew past the planet, Laboratory. Tuesday's briefing on Voyagers 1.8 billion miles from Earth on Friprogress was canceled because of the day. explosion of the space shuttle Chul It is more like the broad rings orlenger. biting Saturn than Uranus previously Voyager was more than 3 million known nine thin rings and a 10th dismiles beyond Uranus on Tuesday, covered by Voyager 2. speeding to its August 1989 encounter But because Voyagers photos have with Neptune at more than 33.000 shown so many bands of dusty matemph. rial between the 10 previously known In addition to surveying rings, the rings, scientists are no longer sure space probe's instruments have been what they should call a separate ring conducting infrared studies of Uraor how many exist around Uranus. nus's atmosphere and taking more We're not counting these rings inpictures of Uranus and the moons orbiting the solar system's third-largedividually. Cuzzi said. The material making up the new planet. Voyager's instruments will be ring has not been identified. Cuzzi said. Scientists had said earlier the aimed backward to study Uranus unother 10 rings that were identified in til the end of Februarv - . Reagan- Turns to Old Pro to Replace Block flights should be limited to those involved in the research. Glenn Urges NASA to Keep Civilians Off Spaceflights By William Hershey Knight-Kidde- r Newspapers Sen. John Glenn. WASHINGTON the first American to orbit the Earth. Wednesday strongly criticized the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's use of civilians in the manned space program, saying all spots on sucii flights should go to those involved in "basic re- search." Manned space flights still are in their embryonic stage." Glenn said at a news conference, and should be used fur research in science, engineering. medicine and other fields that will benefit all mankind. He said spaceflights by Sen. Jake and Rep. Bill Nelson, Gurn. because Garn , were justified and Nelson oversee the space program through their committee responsibilities in Congress. Glenn, who pioneered U.S. manned flights by circling Earth three times on Feb. 20. 1962. aboard Friendship 7. said he wasn't attempting lo "talk down" C'hrista McAuliffe. the New Hampshire schoolteacher who was killed along with the six other crew members Tuesday in the fiery explosion of the Challenger space shuttle, He rejected suggestions that McAulifle wasn't aware of the risks involved in the flight and said the training had prepared her well fur such physical sensations as weightlessness. Glenn said, however that three or four months' training pie-fligt- J for any civilian is not enough to prepare the person to be a "fully trained crew member." Glenn defended NASA against suggestions that the agency was proceeding loo rapidly with manned flights. The agency, he said, "didn't cut corners" and has had an "amazing safety record" over the past 25 years. He chided reporters and television networks for critizing NASA for not operating shuttles on a schedule like a "Greyhound bus." Instead, the agency correctly has delayed flights when conditions weren't perfect, he said. Glenn's comments on civilians in space were no more critical than opinions he had expressed previously, but he had never made them before such a large gathering of reporters, a Glenn aide said. Glenn doesn't plan to crusade against using civilians aboard future shuttle flights, the aide said, but will continue to express his reservations. "He doesn't want to sec the space program become a cosmic junket." explained the aide. The shuttle disaster brought back memories, some of them painful, to Glenn, who was just 40 when he made his historic 1962 flight. In an interview. Glenn said Tuesday's explosion caused him to think "what could have happened back in those days." His orbital flight was delayed 10 times by mechanical and technical problems and bad weather WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan nominated veteran agribusiness figure Richard E. Lyng to be secretary of agriculture, a choice welcomed Wednesday by members of Congress, but questioned by a group which lobbies for government consumer and nutrition programs. Introducing Lyng to reporters and photographers in the Oval Office. Reagan said: "I have every confidence the farmers are going to have a sound and solid friend in Secretary of Agriculture Dick Lyng." Acknowledging "we have a farm problem, the president said Lyng. in implementing the farm bill adopted last month, will help get farming more into the market economy and rectify some of the things that have been wrong with federal farm programs. Lyng. who will replace resigning secretary John R. Block, declined interview requests until after he is confirmed by the Senate an action that is expected to be routine. In a statement, he said I am honored and pleased to be given the pi of serving on the president's Cabinet. I look forward to the challenges of being secretary of agriculture during these difficult times. Agriculture is in the trough of an economic depression that is its worst in decades, with farm exports crumbling. commodity prices down and land values falling. A substantial number of farmers are laboring under heavy debt loads, and economists say 10 percent of them or more will not survive in the business. Faced with those realities, and with the widespread belief that the Republicans will be particularly vulnerable on farm issues in this election year. Reagan turned to a proven performer for the agriculture hot seat. Lyng was the president's state ag riculture director when Reagan was governor of California, and handled farm matters during the 1980 presidential campaign. Members of Congress and farm groups generally praised Lyng's credentials to run the department under the current tough conditions, saying his access to Reagan could be an aswho feel they often have been given short shrift in White House decisions and priorities. "My hope is that because of his past associations with the president, he will be able to be more effective politically than Block) was, said Rep. set to farmers Edward Madigan. Ellen Haas, director of the lobbying group Public Voice for Food and Health Policy, called Lyng open and accessible," but said his record was not particularly favorable to consumers nor to nutrition programs for the poor. Aiiixiuted President Reagan congratulates Secretary of Agriculture nominee Richard E. Mi l use1 uHoin Lyng and commissions him to revive a farm economy in the depths of depression. Canada Site Yields Uargest Fossil Find in N. America - WASHINGTON (UPI) More than bits of bones from crocodiles, dinosaurs and fish that lived 200 million years ago were found in Nova Scotia. Canada, forming the largest fossil find in North America, scien100,000 tists said Wednesday. Also found were dinosaur footprints, including an unusual series the size of a penny made by a sparrowsized dinosaur, the smallest dinosaur prints known anywhere, said the scientists and the National Geographic Society, which financed the excavation. The site of the fossil find was at the water's edge on the north shore of the Bay of Fundy's Minas Basin, about 6 miles cast of rural Parrsboro in Nova Scotia. About 200 million years ago, during a crucial point in evolution, the area was a valley where the landscape changed rapidly from desert to lake At the time, scientists believe, all the continents were together in one land mass. Geologist Paul E. Olsen of Columbia University, who excavated the fossils this summer with biologist Neil H. Shubin of Harvard, said during a news conference that the creatures were of species that had survived a catastrophe that wiped out al least 43 percent of lake and land ani- mals. "It really did shock us," Olsen said the number of fossils. He added, however. "We just hit the tip of the iceberg. That's quite clear." ol The catastrophe, Barn Fire Kills 5 Thoroughbred Horses 1 - A SELLERSBURG. Ind, (LPIi fire fanned by high winds swept through a metal barn at a center, killing 51 thoroughbreds many being trained for the at Churchill Downs in meeting spring Louisville, Ky. Authorities said Wednesday the cause of the fire had not been deterhorse-trainin- - mined. The owner, Ins training-centefamily and three grooms who were asleep in the red ami white aluminum r barn when the fire erupted at 9.45 p.m. MST Tuesday managed to rescue 11 horses. Firefighters said efforts to douse the fire were hampered by high winds and a lack of nearby hydrants. "The whole thing was over so " quick said Joselito Millan. a physiowns the training center. who cian Less than two weeks ago, 45 thoroughbreds wore killed in a fire at Belmont Race Track in New York which occurred years before the age of the fossils, could have been an asteroid known to have hit Earth with an estimated force equal to the explosion ol 500.000 all existing nuclear weapons and created the huge Manicuuagan crater 500 miles northwest of Hie fossil site. Shubin said. The impact, occurring around the borderline of the Triassie and Jurassic eras, would have thrown enough dust and debris into the air to obscure sunlight, upsetting the ecological bal unce of a wide area, killing many plant and animal species and making way for development of modern spe cies l |
