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Skylab’s return joins list
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — A Soviet satel
lite fell to Earth nine years ago scat
tering charred steel debris over the
'American southwest including a
640-pound steel plate that is the
heaviest known piece of space junk
to have been recovered.
Sometime in late June or early
July, America’s abandoned 78.5 ton
Skylab space station will re-enter
Earth’s atmosphere, disintegrate
and drop an estimated 500 chunks of
metal along a 4,000 mile long belt
100 miles wide.
Forty-three Skylab pieces are ex
pected to weigh more than 200
pounds with a section of an airlock
module weighing 5,000 pounds, a
lead-lined film vault weighing 4,000
pounds and six oxygen tanks weigh
ing 2,700 pounds apiece.
In addition to Skylab, there are
now more than 4,600 man-made ob
jects the size of golf ball or larger in
space. All but 114 are in orbit around
the Earth and most sooner or later
will return.
Thousands of man-made objects
already have fallen out of orbit since
the space age began in 1957 and the
North American Air Defense Com
mand (NORAD) reports space debris
is now falling on the average of more
than one a day.
NORAD said it knows of no one
being hit by a man-made object from
space and it said chances are greater
of being struck by a meteorite.
According to a study for NASA by
the Battelle Columbus (Ohio)
Laboratories, there have been only
seven verified incidents of injuries
caused by a meteorite during the
past 200 years and no verified
fatalities.
There have been some close calls,
however, during the past decade.
Among 12 separate incidents re
ported since 1968 were:
—A 1.5-pound meteorite pene
trated the roof of a barn near Murchi
son, Australia, Sept. 28, 1969, nar
rowly missing two men who were
stacking hay.
—A farmer in Ucera, Venezuela,
saw a fireball and heard an explosion
when an 11 pound meteorite struck
the ground 240 feet from his house
on Jan. 16, 1970.
—A meteorite weighing 12.3
ounces struck a home in
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Wethersfield, Conn., April 8, 1971,
and lodged in the ceiling of the living
room.
—A meteorite struck a garage at a
home located two miles north of
Canon City, Colo., Oct. 27, 1973,
penetrated the roof and shattered
when it hit the floor. Fragments
weighing more than three pounds
were recovered.
— A 2-pound meteorite fell
through the roof of a carport in a
trailer park in San Juan Capistrano,
Calif., March 15, 1973.
Of the satellite debris that fell over
the Southwest on Aug. 28, 1970, six
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Metered phone calls, Ma Bell’s
latest idea: pay for what you sa
United Press International
WASHINGTON — No matter
where you live, the day may be com
ing when you pay for your local tele
phone call by the same method as
you’re charged for long-distance —
by how long and how often you talk.
The industry contends the ap
proach is only fair: People who use
the telephone the most should pay
more, and those who hardly ever lift
the receiver should pay less.
Opponents of the approach say it’s
deceptive because it is touted as a
voluntary option to current flat rate
billing. In reality, they say, flat rate
billing will eventually get so expen
sive that it will disappear and
everyone will be left with the pay-
by-the-call system.
The local measured approach is
not new. New York City, for exam
ple, has had a message unit system
for years based on the amount of time
the user is on the telephone. Chicago
has had a variation of the same sys-
pieces of steel were recovered®
rural areas near Beaver, Okk^
rian, Tex., and Pratt, Kan.;
the pieces were oblong chunfe!
to two and one-half feet lonfST
weighing about 150 pounds.[ u,
The largest piece was a flat stee); .4V A S1
weighing 640 pounds. ^ sa l
me mol
two year:
payers “1
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tern. Most of the country, W’,]t said
has been on a flat rate systeml 1976
calls. Bnths ii
American Telephone and* the ii
graph says the system —calkfceofhis
measured service — is beingo&ut aft
in one form or another in most::
About 50 percent of the BellsysJ
business customers haveitancj
13 percent of the firm’s read
customers, a spokesman said
“Optional measured serviaJ
the customer a chance to selecl
kind of service that appears J
most useful and best forhimoril
he added. “In a time of risingp
it enables them to select as
where, by the way they usej
phones, they can control the*
they pay.”
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You save about one-half the cost of using a moving
company by renting a Ryder truck and moving it yourself. Not
bad pay for doing your own moving, is it? And, with
Ryder, you know that you’re renting a truck from the best-
maintained, most dependable fleet in the world. That’s nice
to know when you’re rolling across the highway with ail
of your family and possessions with you.
One person who has been
questions about the trend tj
Richardson, an assistant to
Peterson, President Garten
sumer adviser.
“It’s not really voluntary,” 1«|
in an interview. “It’s beingpraj
in a voluntary way and I fee!
deceptive.
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“People who benefit, people
use the telephone less, wills*
an effort to try to cut the bi
they can cut the bills to vant|
grees,” Richardson said. ‘'Ba
means the telephone comp®
less revenue.
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“What they have to do then
the flat rate. The result is tk® sa >d
will price flat rate out of the r® we d tl
because the people remaining
will be higher and higher tw
would start a spiral,’’ he said
Richardson also question!
measured service approach be
“it introduces uncertainty lbr_, , r
sumers. The companies haven ®!
cated us. Very few people haw te 8' c
idea how much they use theP as
phone.” Bln the
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