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THE BATTAOON
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1979
Boeing contracts
let for new plane
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SEATTLE — The largest
one-day transaction of its kind in
civil aircraft manufacturing his
tory was culminated Thursday
when four aerospace firms
agreed to more than $1 billion in
subcontracts to help build the
Boeing 757 airliner, a spokesman
said.
The subcontracts were signed
at the Boeing Commerical
Airplane Co. Plant in nearby Re
nton, where the new twin-jets
will be assembled. Plans called
for the 757 to be built in sections
at plants in four states, then
shipped to Washington State
where they will be assembled —
much like a giant airplane kit.
First deliveries of the short-
to-medium range, 178-passenger
airplane were scheduled for early
1983, the Boeing announcement
said.
Work on the aircraft would be
allotted out in the following
— Avco Aerostructures divi
sion, Nashville, Tenn., will build |
the wing center section on which
the fuselage rides, and the keel-
beam, located in the fuselage
section over the wing.
— Fairchild Republic Co.,
Farmingdale, Long Island, N.Y., !
will construct the passenger
cabin section over the wing.
— Rockwell International
Corp., Tulsa division, Tulsa,
Okla., will build the fuselage sec
tions just forward and just aft of
the wing.
— Vought Corp., of Dallas will
build the horizontal stabilizer in
cluding leading edges and
stabilizer tips; the vertical tail
including its leading edge and
the aft-most body section of the
fuselage.
The contracts were in addition
to 757 structrual subcontracts al
ready signed with Short Brothers
Ltd. of Belfast, Northern Ire
land, for inboard trailing flaps.
Federal jobs flee cities
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NEW YORK — Federal jobs are
abandoning the central cities of New
York, Boston, Chicago, Detroit,
Houston and Los Angeles for their
surrounding suburban areas, city
Comptroller Harrison Goldin said
Thursday.
Goldin said the job losses “fly di
rectly in the face of President Car
ter’s stated policy” to try to keep
federal jobs in inner cities.
Carter issued a 1978 directive in
structing federal agencies to
“encourage the location of federal
facilities in urban areas,” the com
ptroller said. Since then, however,
Goldin said the flight has continued.
New York was hardest hit of the
six cities, he said, having lost 5,100
federal jobs from 1974 to 1978.
Chicago was next, with 3,083 job
losses in the same period, followed
by Boston with 2,803, Houston with
2,547, Los Angeles with 1,184 and
Detroit with 1,077.
In the 1974-1978 period, he said,
total federal employment levels rose
29,000 to 2,753,000.
Goldin said he could not cite spe
cifically the development of any
facilities that had contributed to the
inner city job losses.
The comptroller detailed his ob
jections to the policy in a letter he
said he sent to Carter.
Fiesta flyers were warned
Balloonists die in crash
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —
Internationally famous balloonist
Ben Abruzzo is well acquainted with
the treacherous winds that often
buffet off the Sandia Mountains, a
10,600-foot range that rises from the
east floor of the Rio Grande Valley.
Abruzzo, one of the three Al
buquerque adventurers who made
history last year by completing the
first Trans-Atlantic balloon crossing.
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not to try and fly over the mountain
range during the International Bal
loon Fiesta.
But despite the warnings of Ab
ruzzo and fiesta officials, some 20
balloonists Wednesday decided to
challenge the 30-35 mph winds by
attempting to float their craft over
the picturesque mountains. A
California couple didn’t make it.
Richard Temple, 31, of
Cucamonga, Calif., and Kathy
Wiley of Palmdale, Calif, died in
the flaming crash of their red and
gray nylon balloon, free-falling in
side the balloon’s small gondola
some 750-feet into a ravine.
While Federal Aviation Adminis
tration officials Thursday tried to
pinpoint the cause of the crash, offi
cials of the Balloon Fiesta — which
has attracted hundreds of pilots
from throughout the United States
— said the events would proceed as
scheduled.
The fatal crash was the first such
accident in the eight-year history of
the festival, which this year has at
tracted some 350 balloonists.
Abruzzo, who along with fellow
Albuquerque residents Maxie An
derson and Larry Newman com
pleted the historic flight across the
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Atlantic last year, said he tried to
discourage balloonists from attempt
ing the treacherous excursion over
the Sandias.
Abruzzo apparently convinced
about 60 pilots to stay on the
ground, but when others decided to
try the flight, Abruzzo went up first I
in his balloon and succeeded in fly
ing over the rugged peak.
“I radioed back that conditions
were nasty and that they should go
high,” Abruzzo said.
Scores of witnesses, including
Temple’s chase crew, witnessed the
flaming crash.
Witnesses said the balloon,
named the “Johnathan Livingston
Seagull II,” apparently did not have
enough air and the strong winds col
lapsed the throat portion of the bal
loon. When Temple attempted to
use his propane burner to force hot
air back into the balloon, an entire
side of the nylon balloon ignited.
The flames spread quickly, engulf
ing the entire balloon and turning it
into a stream of fire.
“There was nothing the pilot
could do,” said Dale Stevenson, of
Albuquerque, a witness to the
crash. “Everybody knew that man
was going to crash.”
Sam Edwards of Houston, a
member of the board of the Balloon
Federation of America, said the
flight over the Sandia Mountains
was not a sanctioned part of the
weeklong festivities and officials had
discouraged the pilots from trying
it.
Another balloonist, Howard F.
Wolfley of Colorado Springs, Colo.,
said he witnessed the crash from his
balloon, which was hovering just
above Temple’s. Wolfley, who has
flown over Pikes Peak several times,
said the winds at the time of the
crash were “as treacherous as I have
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hunting season closed in 12 parishes
last weekend with a “highly suc
cessful” harvest of 12,000 to 15,000
hides, a state wildlife official said
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