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WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1981
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United Press International
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California voters had better get used
to TV networks calling presidential elections before they even get a
chance to go to the polls, state lawmakers say.
A California House of Representatives subcommittee hearing
looking into the impact of NBC’s early forecast of President Reagan’s
victory over Jimmy Carter last November, said Monday a ban on
forecasts would violate the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment.
State officials claim hundreds of thousands of Californians skip
ped voting after hearing the network forecasts of a Reagan win
around 5:15 PST on the 1980 election day. California polls did not
close until 8 p.m. PST.
Foreign countries like Canada, Australia and France bar election
day forecasts by broadcasters until the polls close.
The House panel heard several suggestions for dealing with the
problem, including a uniform nation-wide closing time for voting
booths in presidential elections and pleas to networks to refrain from
election forecasts until polls have closed in all states.
In the end, most agreed with California Secretary of State March
Fong Eu, who said, “We may have to learn to live with media
projections, just as we do with the common cold.”
Youth rescued from storm sewc*
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IOWA CITY, Iowa — While authorities were preparing
to drag the Iowa River for his body, 11-year-old Steve
Schmitz was holding on to ladder rungs in a storm sewer
awaiting his rescue.
The Cedar Rapids youngster escaped death after he fell
into a drainage ditch and was swept several hundred feet
through a rain-choked storm sewer late Monday.
“I thought I was a goner,” the boy said.
Steve, who lives with his mother, Connie Schmitz, was
walking along the side of Rocky Shore Drive with his
13-year-old cousin. Brad Sedlacek of Hills, Iowa, when he
stumbled into the flooded ditch and was pulled into the
storm sewer.
“There’s no way he could have survived that current,’
Iowa City Fire Lt. Ronald G. Whittaker said — just mi
nutes before the boy was discovered alive.
Steve said he dog-paddled to keep his head in an air
pocket on top of the storm sewer while he was sucked
through the swirling current.
He saw a shaft of light through a manhole cover and
grabbed onto ladder rungs at a sewer intersection near
Highway 6 and Rocky Shore Drive. He hung on for nearly a
half an hour while authorities prepared to drag the Iowa
River— about a quarter mile away — in search of his body.
A heavy thunderstorm that dumped 1.6 inches of rain in
parts of Iowa City early Monday afternoon caused the
storm sewer to back up and fill the ditch and part of a gravel
parking lot. >king
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Harry Boren, Iowa City superintendent of ; eac ^y
control, was summoned to trace the storm sent The
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GUNTER — Though there are few tall buildings in this
small north Texas community, local resident W. B. Reed
has come up with an idea he thinks could save people
trapped in burning high-rises.
“If this had been invented sooner, every one of the lives
lost in the MGM Grand Hotel fire in Las Vegas could have
been saved,” Reed said.
His contraption consists of a large truck, a rescue basket
and either a permanent or a movable section placed on a
building roof from which cables are run to the basket.
The system would be centered in an 18-wheel tractor
rig. Three motors would provide power. The rig would
include a storage facility and a first aid station. It also would
have a fire-resistant covered basket that looks like a large
elevator and could hold up to 50 people at a time.
There’s also a 10-foot-long lookout section that could be
permanently attached to the roof of a building or lifted into
place by a helicopter within minutes.
“The beauty of the system is, when the truck arrives at a
fire, the first people can be rescued within three minutes,”
Reed said.
Any high-rise building could be protected easily with his
system, he added.
“The idea is that a city could purchase one of the truck
rigs and the portable lookout and any high-rise building in
the city can be protected by adding only the rings to secure
the lookout to the top of the building,” he said.
He said developers also could purchase the system for an
individual building and use the basket to carry workers and
equipment up and down during construction and, later, as
a rescue system.
In permanent installations, zinc-coated steel cables
would be secured in a locked box on the building roof.
When necessary, the rescue truck would be driven into
place beside the building, the box unlocked and the cables
lowered to the box on the truck.
The basket would then be lifted by cable to the desired
level, a side extension opened to a window or other open
ing in the building and people would board it.
If people had to be rescued from the top of a building, he
said, a covered ladder would be extended from the roof into
the basket.
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Boren said. “As soon as we got the manhole s
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up in the rescue basket,” he said. “It’s a great help for
someone who is afraid of heights.”
The basket would be controlled by an operator on the
ground with a second operator inside the basket in an
enclosed space away from possibly panic-stricken people.
An emergency brake and chute is a feature that Reed
says has interested firefighters who have seen a model of
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Military to retire .45-caliber pislti
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WASHINGTON — The main
stay sidearms used by the armed
forces for more than 50 years are
about to be retired.
The Pentagon said Monday the
military wants to replace its stan
dard .38-and .45-caliber sidearms
— preferably with a 9mrn hand
gun offering “numerous opera
tional benefits.”
The Army, which procures
small arms for all four services and
the Coast Guard, released a re
quest for bids for 220,000 of the
new XM-9 handguns. The cost
will not be known until a contract
is awarded.
The Army hopes to award a
contract in January and have the
first guns bolstered on the hips of
officers, military policemen and
Air Force crewmen by 1983. The
Coast Guard will get the new guns
first because it requires only 7,(XX)
of them, an Army spokesman said.
The 9mm weapon was chosen
after seven years of testing to
bring the U.S. military in line with
the standard NATO sidearm poli
cy and because of its “numerous
operational benefits,” the Army
said.
The advantages, the Army said,
include “higher hit probability,
reduced weight, improved safety,
double action firing, improved hu
man factors, reduced recoil, im
proved reliability and reduced
training.”
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ries between 14 and 15 rounds per
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IN SEARCH OF NOAH’S ARK
What a strange old man he seemed to be — working hard, year after year, as if he really thought
there was going to be a flood. How absurd! It had never flooded before. Besides, why would God
send a deluge? They weren’t doing anything wrong, were they?
How odd Noah must have seemed to his contemporaries. There he was, building that strange
boat for years, and all the time preaching righteousness and protesting the evil of his generation.
They mocked him, being too occupied with the immediate pleasures of their temporary lives. Had
they done anything wrong? One thing — they had forgotten God. Yet Noah kept building and
calling for others to turn their lives and heed God’s call. The door to the ark stayed open — until
that day. Then it began to rain, and Noah was transformed from a fool to the wisest man on the
earth.
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to resign as president of NB(
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BURBANK, Calif. — Fred Sil
verman is resigning as president of
NBC, ending his unsuccessful
three-year battle to pull the net
work from the bottom of the rat
ings war, a network source says.
The NBC source, who asked
not to be identified, said Grant
Tinker, ex-husband of actress
Mary Tyler Moore and head of
MTM Productions, would replace
Silverman as NBC’s chief prog
rammer.
RCA, parent company of NBC,
planned to announce Silverman’s
resignation Tuesday in New York,
the source said. A spokesman for
RCA in New York issued a “no
comment.”
Since being hired away from
ABC-TV and joining NBC as net
work president on June 9, 1978,
Silverman has been trying to im
prove the network’s ratings.
While heading ABC’s prime
time programming, Silverman
boosted the network’s ratings to
the No. 1 position. Prior to joining
ABC, Silverman had been CBS-
TV’s vice president of programs
for five years.
During his tenure at ABC, the
network presented the highly
acclaimed 12-hour adaptation of
Alex Haley’s “Roots.”
Silverman developed and sche
duled many successful prime-time
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The ark he was building had two important characteristics. The first was that the ark, though ever
so large, had only one door. How strange! Wasn’t that a narrowminded plan? Yet God had
ordained that this ark, which was to carry the willing creation to safety, should have only one door,
one entrance. Jesus said, “I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he shall be saved.” (John
I0:9a) There have been many who have claimed to have had a way to God, but only Jesus ever said,
“I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6)
Just as in Noah’s ark, so also today God has ordained that there be only one door to enter into
salvation — Jesus Christ.
The second main characteristic of this ark was that it was covered within and without with pitch.
The Hebrew word for pitch has the same root as the Hebrew word for atonement. When the flood
attacked the ark, the inhabitants within might have been afraid except for the sight of the covering
pitch. What kept the ark from sinking was this covering pitch. In like manner although many
teachers have had philosophical things to say, Christ sealed His words with His own blood. By
allowing His blood to be shed He has made atonement for our sins. When a person receives the
salvation that is in Jesus Christ, like the inhabitants of the ark, he no longer need fear any
condemnation or death. This ark will never sink, being covered with the redemption of Christ.
Does the time we live in parallel that of Noah? Jesus said, “For as the days of Noah were, so shall
the coming of the Son of Man be. For as they were in those days before the flood, eating and
drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, until the day in which Noah entered into the ark,
and they did not know until the flood came and took all away; so also shall the coming of the Son of
Man be. (Matthew 24:37-39) As in Noah’s day, so many today are befuddled and drugged with the
enjoyment of fleeting pleasures, refusing to hold God in their consciousness. Yet, as in Noah’s
time, so today there are some who are using their time to build an ark. And, as in Noah’s day, there
are some who are mocking. The door is still open. It’s starting to rain now, but God still holds the
door open to all who would choose to enter in. While we are still in this age, anyone may freely
come to Christ and enjoy the peace, even the protection of His cleansing blood. To enter in, simply
open to Him with an honest heart and ask Him to cleanse you and to fill your life with God
Himself.
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