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those having trouble finding their way around
can get assistance, directs Susan Neal, a
freshman marketing major.
Battalion photo by Clay Cockrill
Low mortgages Now you know
draw a crowd
United Press International
METAIRIE, La. — Sunning in the broiling heat or playing poker
and Monopoly under the shade of beach umbrellas, members of “tent
dties” outside Jefferson Parish mortgage companies held community
Labor Day picnics to await a shot at low-interest home loans.
Mortgage companies and homesteads will begin taking applications
Wednesday for $86 million available for home loans at a low 7.6
percent interest.
The low-interest money, which will he split among four income level
groups, was made available by the sale of government-backed bonds.
Most of the “tent city” residents said they would he unable to afford a
house without the low-interest money.
"When you consider each day we re out there we’re saving $7,000 on
a30-yearnote, it’s absolutely thrilling, and a damn good bargain, ” said
Don Crist. “Everybody’s having a ball and making lots of new friends.
It’s like Carnival (Mardi Gras) out there. ”
Potential buyers, armed with beach chairs and shade umbrellas,
began lining up outside the offices last week. Leaders emerged among
the groups at most offices and became impromptu mayors.
“We were being told about big crowds and the very serious possibil
ity of lines and property damage,” said Burnett Tappel, chairman of
theauthority. “I really was under the impression there’d be a murder if
it were allowed to continue. "
Instead, families sitting in lines reported an instant sense of commu
nity, with strangers sharing birthday parties, organizing marathon
Monopoly games and sharing babysitting duties.
Despite the 90-degree heat, afternoon monsoon-like rains and
nightly attacks of mosquitos, sheriff’s deputies have reported no trou
ble among those taking up temporary residence outside the mortgage
offices.
More than 100 applicants at the Carruth Mortgage Corp. named
their line “Carruthville” and a couple outside a Canal Street office
wore T-shirts emblazoned with “We re Sixth in Line at Riverside
Financial."
Congress graded
49% on conservation
United Press International
The Museum of Modern Art in
New York City displayed Henri
Matisse’s “Le Bateau” in 1961 —and
it took 47 days before “the experts’
discovered it was hung upside down.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The first
space shuttle will be covered with
heat insulation tiles to enable the
rocket plane Columbia to withstand
the enormous heat of re-entry into
the Earth’s atmosphere.
But the loss of even one tile might
mean catastrophic heat.
So scientists and officials of the
Johnson Space Center in Houston
now are considering equipping the
astronauts with a spray can and caulk
gun for space-walk repairs in case
one or more tiles are damaged dur
ing launch.
The square, silica tiles — a novel
feature of the revolutionary rocket
plane — are designed to make sure
the winged ship can repeatedly with
stand the 2,000-degree-plus heat of
re-entry from orbit.
Minor damage to the tiles oc
curred last winter when the Colum
bia was ferried atop a 747 jet from
California to Cape Canaveral, Fla.
That trip was in preparation for
launch, now expected next spring or
summer. The damage caused con
cern that, during launch, ice break
ing off the shuttle’s external fuel tank
might damage the Columbia’s
underside, or that severe
aerodynamic stress during the climb
to orbit might hurt the tiles.
Two weeks ago officials at the Na
tional Aeronautics and Space Admin
istration headquarters directed
Houston to examine options for solv
ing the problem, in case ongoing
tests indicate the tiles are vulnera
ble.
“A lot of people are working very
diligently to understand the charac
teristics of the tile and to relieve any
concern that we presently have
about the possibility of either tile
damage or tiles coming off during the
ascent phase, said Reginald
Machell, manager of the engineering
team studying the inspection and re
pair possibilities.
He said in a telephone interview
that an inspection and repair system
may not be necessary, “but if you
don’t start doing the work now, you
close out the option by default.”
Machell said decisions will be made
in the next few weeks.
He said one problem — how to
inspect the outside of the shuttle in
orbit — might be solved by rigging a
television camera to an extendable
boom attached to the shuttle’s
remote-controlled manipulator arm.
A second option is to provide as
tronauts John Young and Robert
Crippen with a device that would let
an astronaut fly around the shuttle-
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member of Congress had a 49 per-
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