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ABOARD THE GYRE, North Atlantic — A 500-
ton mass of metal discovered on the ocean floor may
be a part of the Titanic, and this “significant find”
may help researchers know if they are scanning the
right area for the sunken liner.
■ “The big piece of metal weighs 500 tons or more,”
said Abilene oilman Jack Grimm, who is heading the
expedition. “It’s conceivable the metal was torn from
the ship when it went down. This could be a very
significant find.
1 Grimm said the search team may know by
Wednesday if the expedition is searching in the right
area for the sunken White Star liner.
I On board the research vessel Gyre, Grimm said
the hunk of metal was the “first significant develop
ment” since the search began last week about 95
miles off the coast of Newfoundland.
H Grimm said electronic transponders detected the
huge chunk of metal on four different passes over the
site. Special television cameras will now be dropped
in an attempt to photograph the metal, he said.
H The Titanic rammed an iceberg a few minutes
liefore midnight April 14, 1912, and sank a few hours
later with 1,513 people still aboard. Seconds before it
sank, experts believe several of the steamers huge
toilers may have broken from their moorings and
plunged down through the bulkheads and eventually
fell free of the 45,000 ton vessel.
Witnesses said before it sank, one of the ship’s four
funnels broke loose and experts believe the other
three may have been ripped from the ship as it
dropped 2'/2 miles to the ocean floor.
The search for the Titanic began last year but had
to be curtailed because of bad weather. This year,
the Gyre left port at Woods Hole, Mass., on June 28
and arrived over “Titanic Canyon” last Wednesday.
The research ship is scheduled to stay over tbe
area until Saturday, when it will return to port.
Grimm said weather in the area remains clear and
calm.
Grimm also reported that a mishap with one of the
drag cables Monday would cause a brief delay in the
round-the-clock search. He said a coupling on one of
the 18,000-foot cables broke and the repair part had
to be airlifted from the mainland. The delay was
expected to be brief.
If Grimm can locate the Titanic, he hopes to recov
er a fortune in gold and jewels in the purser’s cabin.
The deepsea submersible Aluminaut, with a two-
man crew, will be dropped to the ship’s deck to make
the search.
Grimm said the Aluminaut already had been
tested at depths of up to 15,000 feet and has .operated
successfully. The Titanic sunk in the range of 12,000
to 14,000 feet.
Summer causes problems
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tund.buts ■ HOUSTON — Three years af-
3 n g "> t er approving an enormous de-
sisonUi” Jjartment to solve transit prob-
Jlems, most residents of a city that
is wouldk takes partial credit for putting man
e to votefe on the moon still would never rely
turetovofc on a bus to go across town.
1' The bus might be as much as an
hour late. It might not show at all.
places. L Limited routes available might
make the trip a crazy-quilt, or the
itsvera |) US ’ S air-conditioning might be
jnday, an: broken, leaving the traveler at the
for deK mercy of steamy summer heat.
Metro’s bus fleet is now begin
ning its annual battle with scor-
, ching summer heat, subtropical
1 fTlf rains anc ^ pothole-filled streets in
sllh attempting to maintain even sub-
f standard transit service to parts of
three counties and 17 cities.
, i “I’ve been all over the country
• j." ^ 1 . and I’ve never seen anything like’
0 it,"said Butch King, adockworker
hipan sf w j io d e p en ds on public buses for
utavoe | transportation. “The buses are
never on time. When they do
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come, there’s no guarantee you’ll
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fit did, tbd 'block.
delisted fr g ut Walter Addison — director
of the new Metropolitan Transit
alifornia i Authority — claims “the bus prob-
'alofano, j em j s a temporary problem and
it’s going to be resolved” probably
lanagemeig by this time next year. He said
t position*’ “brand new maintenance facilities
ons wheat w j(b the correct tools and decent
working conditions” will give
diss Greeni Metro a chance to upgrade and
Charles Mi expand its bus fleet.
noftheDe: Voters who created Metro in
whose law? 1978 by approving a 1 percent
“lies” toitt sa i es to finance the operation,
however, have heard the promise
m) is a k of improved service before,
md I woalt ^ MTA was supposed to over-
1,” Cheell come the problems of the old city
;corporation bus system, historically ignored in
an affluent, oil-based city where
most people use personal cars to
get around, and find new ways to
get people around en masse.
But MTA, which took over the
ailing city-owned bus company —
HouTran, Inc. — has made head
lines mostly for management,
labor and mechanical problems.
Residents still see little im
provement, despite new mainte
nance facilities, steady efforts to
keep buses running on schedule
or revise schedules to conform to
the number of buses available.
Bus-short MTA, trying to keep
even 355 of its 760 buses running
in a 1,700 square mile area with 2
million people, has rented 70
buses from San Antonio at $40 a
day. So far, MTA has managed to
use only 35 of the rented buses
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Even with the buses from San
Antonio, Metro is having difficulty
making all its runs. MTA spokes
woman Janet Redeker said 10
peak-hour runs are soon to be cut
because they were regularly being
missed.
Despite its chronic problem
with local bus service, MTA
Chairman Daniel C. Arnold re
cently won board approval for a
15-month, $30 million engineer
ing study of the Southwest Free-
way-Westpark Boulevard traffic
corridor.
Spending $30 million for a pro
ject at least 10 years off at a time
when normal service is being cut
has customers grumbling.
, “Jt i^.a lot of money, but we re
talking about, u, region that is ex,-,
periencing tremendous growth,”
Addison said, adding plans should
be made for the future.
A Southwest Freeway-
Westpark Boulevard heavy rail
system would run 11 miles from
downtown to the city’s affluent
southwest side. Downtown por
tions of the city would be a sub
way. The rest would be above
ground.
Frank Hearne, Metro’s director
of transit system development,
said the study will determine if the
planned rail system will work and
if it is affordable.
Hearne said even though the
federal government is “deferring
capital assistance for new rail
starts,” other options for funding
the $1 billion project include bond
issues and long- and short-term
loans.
But one management study said
two of Metro’s persistent prob
lems were passing up the present
for the future and beginning major
transit programs it cannot main
tain.
Louis Alexander, a member of
Metro’s Citizens Advisory Board,
says an obsession with “bigness”
— Houston’s hunger for big
league status in all things — is
pushing the Westpark project.
Expressions of anger and frus
tration from rush-hour hopefuls
lined up and waiting in Houston’s
heat, humidity and rain tell the
public’s story about Metro most
eloquently. The majority of the
complaints are about Metro’s cur
rent service.
A trip from Montrose, where
many students live, to the Univer
sity of Houston — about five miles
— commonly takes 45 minutes.
From downtown to the Astro
dome, about six miles, can take as
long one hour.
Metro’s existing bus service
claims a weekly average of165,000
riders well above its goal of
140,000 — from a potential riders
ship of 2.5 million.
“Local service is undoubtedly
our biggest problem,” Redeker
said.
Customer Service Department
supervisor C. W. Apshire said 300
“comments” — complaints — are
logged weekly and most are about
missed runs.
Metro has been involved in a
crash program to put the 355
buses needed to meet their li
mited schedule on the streets each
day.
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But even as it is written. Things which eye has not seen and ear has not
heard, and which have not come up in man's heart, how much God has
prepared for those who love Him. (I Cor. 2:9)
To realize and participate in the deep and hidden things God has
ordained and prepared for us requires us not only to believe in Him, but
also to love Him. To fear God, to worship God, and to believe in God, that
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Blacks want own district
Legislators oppose redistricting
United Press International
AUSTIN — Black Texas legisla
tors, angry at what they feel is a
redistricting plan that ignores 12
percent of the population, say
they will not be the victims of back
room politics, nor will they go
away.
Charles R. Rose, a former legis
lative candidate and a member of
the Coalition for Minority Repre
sentation in Dallas County, told
the Senate Monday that blacks
wanted an exclusively black dis
trict in Dallas.
“The black leadership has come
before you in the past and you
have been able to buy them off,”
Rose said. “We will not be bought
off.
“We re saying let us have our
just representation. It doesn’t
make sense for you to sit back and
relax and think you can pass a bill
and not pay attentiion to 12 per
cent of the population.”
The Legislature is considering
a congressional redistricting plan
that would give Dallas at least one
overwhelmingly black district.
That plan, which also has the
support of Gov. Bill Clements and
the Republican party of Texas,
would have the side effect of giv
ing Republicans an opportunity to
unseat two white Democrats —
Reps. Jim Mattox and Martin
Frost, both of Dallas.
The 19 Democratic congress
men from Texas have agreed to an
alternative redistricting plan, but
John Wiley Price of Dallas, head
of the coalition, said that plan also
is unacceptable because it does
not establish an overwhelmingly
black district in the Dallas inner
city.
“It is incredible how some ruth
less, scheming congressmen who
have political cronies in Austin can
put bumper stickers on your car,
signs in your yard and even have
the cold-blooded gall to ask you for
money and still trample on your
rights for a correct and proper re
districting plan,” said Al Lips
comb, a Democratic precinct
chairman and member of the
Coalition.
“It is ironic that Democrats,
white men and women who have
taken an oath to uphold the Con
stitution, continue to violate that
very law by denying Afro-
Americans full participation in a
fair redistricting plan.'
He warned tbe Senate, “If you
continue to play good old buddy
politics, you will rue the day.”
Sen. Tati Santiesteban, D-El
Paso, said the Senate would hear
more public testimony and con
sider amendments and attempt to
approve a bill for full Senate de
bate on Wednesday.
The issue of creating a black dis
trict in Dallas was one of the prim
ary reasons for the deadlock on
congressional redistricting during
the regular legislative session six
weeks ago.
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