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Setting world pepper record
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(Radiation from plane crash not feared
United Press International
LT LAKE CITY — A cargo
e carrying 25 pounds of radioac-
material and nearly a ton of ex-
ives exploded in flight Sunday,
gthe three crewmen and show-
an uninhabited area west of
Lake City with debris,
n abandoned airport between
Lake City and Magna, Utah, was
iporarily sealed off until health
ials determined there was no
;erfrom the radioactive cargo —
ircraft gearbox containing traces
of Thorium 232.
The plane, a chartered Trans-
america Airlines Lockheed Electra
L-188, was carrying the military
shipment of explosives and gearbox
from Hill Air Force Base in Utah to
Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada.
The explosion scattered debris
“for miles” over fields west of Salt
Lake. No buildings or people on the
ground were hit. Two truck drivers
whose rigs were pelted by the debris
described the explosion as a
“meteor” and a “fireball.”
Ralph Spencer, assistant chief of
the control tower at the Salt Lake
International Airport, said the pilot
radioed he was having electrical
problems just before the crash. The
plane was flying through bad weath
er and was trying to get below the
clouds for a visual emergency land
ing at the airport.
Transamerica spokesman Rick
Slakoff in Oakland, Calif., identified
the civilian crewmen as Capt. Mar
vin Dick, 46, Ogden, Utah; First
Officer Harry Gardiner, 35, Layton,
Utah, and flight engineer Jack John
ston, 54, Warner Robbins, Ga.
Air Force spokeswoman Delah
Curry said the radioactive material
aboard the plane, Thorium 232 — a
substance often used to make watch
dials glow in the dark — was actually
part of a metal used to harden the
case of the gearbox.
The amount of radioactivity was so
low that the Air Force was not re
quired to label the gearbox, she said.
It was shipped in a steel case, which
survived the crash.
She said the explosives were “low-
yield” devices used to ignite air-
launched missile and that most of the
explosives listed on the manifest was
actually casings and shipping con
tainers.
The plane came down only four
blocks from where an Air Force jet
bomber crashed into a building four
months ago. That plane was on its
last flight from a Montana air base to
storage in Arizona. Its crew ejected
safely.
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United Press International
IVASHINGTON — Vernon
(dan, leader of the National
yan League, said Monday that
|ek Americans resent being
jd as pawns by the Ayatollah
(omeini in bargaining for re-
se of American hostages.
jThe freeing of the black and
mle hostages is a cynical
tempt to divide the American
plic,” Jordan said in a speech to
lAFL-CIO convention. “Black
[ericans refuse to be pawns in
Ayatollah Kohmeini s insane
ics.”
Iordan said American blacks
i with all Americans in deman-
|g the release of all the hos-
ss, and demand “that our gov-
iment stand firm against ter-
psm and blackmail by the Ira-
government.
[The black hostages were held
ause they were Americans
not because they were
ck,” he said.
Discovered during Kenyan study
1.5 million-year-old footprints found
United Press International
WASHINGTON — A scientific expedition in Kenya has scored “a
paleo-anthropological hole-in-one” — the discovery of seven foot
prints believed to be the oldest made by a direct ancestor of man.
Scientists say the footprints, found on the shore of an ancient lake in
the African country, are 1.5 million years old. They were discovered
during a routine geological study of Lake Turkana, about 350 miles
north of Nairobi.
The footprints were uncovered by scientists working on the Koobi
Fora Research Project of the National Museums of Kenya between
August 1978 and July 1979. The group waited until the excavation of
the footprints was completed before reporting their discovery.
“We made our find purely by chance while we were digging in a
geological trench,” said Dr. Anna K. Behrensmeyer, co-leader of the
expedition.
“We had just uncovered a bed of fossil hippopotamus footprints and
we were astounded to see a single hominid footprint among them. We
uncovered the other six later,” she said.
Dr. Glynn L. Isaac of the University of California at Berkeley, called
the discovery “a paleo-anthropological hole-in-one.”
The scientists say radiometric techniques have determined the
footprints were made 1.5 million years ago during the time of two
known forms of hominids or human-like creatures: Homo erectus and
Australopithecus. Both walked upright.
Will vote on increase of $138 billion return
Senate likely to toughen windfall tax
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Preliminary
moves indicate the Senate is more
likely to toughen the pending wind
fall profits tax than to reduce it below
the $138 billion return voted by the
Senate Finance Committee.
There has not as yet been a vote on
increasing the finance committee’s
version, which President Carter cal
led a “trillion dollar giveaway” to the
oil companies.
But senators who favor a weaker
tax lost a vote Friday to cut the gen
eral windfall tax rate from 60 percent
to 50 percent, and the 53-32 margin
indicates considerable strength by
those advocating a tougher windfall
profits tax.
Under the finance committee bill,
oil companies would pay $138 billion
in taxes on the windfall profits they
earned as a result of the decontrol of
oil prices.
The House passed a tougher, $277
billion bill last June.
In advance of Monday’s session,
Senate Finance Committee chair
man Russell Long, D-La., said he
was determined to prevent non-
germane amendments.
Long, chairman of the powerful
committee and floor manager for the
bill, has announced he will oppose
an amendment by Sens. Lloyd Bent-
sen, D-Texas, and Charles Percy, R-
111., to help small savers by excluding
from the federal income tax up to
$500 — $1,000 for a married couple
— of interest on a savings account.
Long told Bentsen the amend
ment was a good idea but did not
belong on the windfall bill, and his
strong opposition makes it doubtful
amendments of that sort will be
approved.
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EARLE, Ark.— The mother of
[of the hostages released by Iran
Monday her prayers had been
verecl.
I’m a religious person, ” said Jes-
(Maples, mother of Marine Sgt.
lell Maples, 23. “I believe in the
|d and today he heard my
hemistry (fever. ”
Universit) Maples said her son told her that
he First Ai the first three days of his captivity
SocietySta theU.S. Embassy his hands were
tonferencei ^ but he did not say his captors
sity earlie: treated him badly. Judging from
cture she had seen, Maples said
son looked as though he had
n treated well,
er. Templd Naples said the worst time for her
jnt of Chet )tionally was when the State De-
tment told her that her son was a
tage but that it was not
led.
>n Sunday night, she said she had
ten away from the house and the
s broadcasts for a while and gone
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Maples said she could not under
stand Ayatollah Khomeini’s conten
tion that other hostages at the
Embassy were spies but that the
blacks and women were not. The
Maples family is black. Khomeini is
allowing the release of blacks and
women being held at the Embassy.
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PAM PA — Ronnie Farmer had
just consumed 100 red hot jalapeno
peppers in less than 15 minutes and
was trying to look no worse for the
wear. But looking a bit weak and
with his body shaking, he said “I’m
burning up.”
Farmer, 29, a rural plumber, ate
100 jalapenos in 14 minutes, 19
seconds to claim a new world record.
“It’s hurting but I think I’ll make
it,” said Farmer. “My whole body is
quivering. I’ve got the shakes — I’m
burning up and it feels like a small
campfire in my belly.
Farmer’s feat was recorded for na
tional television cameras and he was
applauded by about 75 persons.
It was his second attempt at break
ing the world record. The unsuccess
ful previous attempt was made at
Midland last March.
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