MIIIUlillllMl THE BATTALION Paqe FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1981 State / National Staff photo by Daniel Sanders clm< ?s fin xls l Intcrnatioiiil — The S mission bi Jeneratinjl to fofam i inspect® in steel ani anche Pci A little higher please Stacy Dumas, top, a freshman accounting major from Round Rock, and Katrina Davis, a freshman pre-nr^d major from Round Rock, try to get some mistletoe from the top of a tree in front of the Academic Building. Fare gone; judge calls a mistrail •h acts as» vner comp that qwl re review) pect t/ie* if the projf rer & rvice & - Co., tlr Agency, f ^ooperati'f ne,ta«'i United Press Internutional GOLUMBUS — After five days Jof testimony, a $200,000 civil suit was declared a mislrLi) because a juror who said she.didn t have 60 cents for bus fare missed a court session. Franklin County Common Pleas Court Judge G. VV. Fais de- ekred the mistrial Monday after waiting 90 minutes for Debra Shu man. The jury was hearing evi dence in a loan default suit by Huntington National Bank against' Ewing Lumber Co. of Pick- erington. Shuman appeared at the Hall of Justice Tuesday and told Fais she was absent Monday because she did not have 60 cents for bus fare. Shuman said she spent her last 60 cents on telephone calls trying to reach court officials to tell them she would be late. “I’m a very broke person, ” Shu man, 18, told the judge. She said she went to the court house Tuesday to pick up her $37.50 check for the previous week’s five days of testimony. Shuman told Fais that she plan ned to cash the check so she would have enough money to serve the remainder of her two weeks of jury duty. However, Fais excused her from jury duty and she was allowed to keep the check. A bank attorney had asked Fais to send a deputy sheriff to get Shu man hut the judge declined saying he could not wait any longer. 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Cycles, Etc 403 University At Northgate 846-BIKE Residents alarmed at fireball Meteor crosses four states United Press International SHREVEPORT, La — A huge fireball streaked across the sky Wednesday about 6 p.m., sending residents of four states running to their telephones to report a possi ble meteor or unidentified flying object, “It looked like a ball of fire with a flare coming out of the tail,” a witness in Shreveport said. Another described it as “a huge object with green and yellow lights.” News agencies were flooded with calls from Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma residents reporting the object, which zip ped across the sky from east to west. Dr. J. Allen Hynek, of the Cen ter for UFO Studies in Evanston, Ill., said he had received several calls from people who reported seeing a yellow-white object with a blue or green tail flying across the sky. Hynek, an astronomer, who has studied UFO sightings since 1948, said from the descriptions given, the object probably was a fireball — a meteor that flies low and is very bright. “I would say there’s a sizable bet that this is nothing more than a bright fireball,” Hynek said. “The color is right, the tail is right, the duration, the fact that it was seen over several states, goes right along with that. At a height of 75 to 100 miles it would, of course, be seen over quite an area.” Assistant Police Chief Larry Masten of Longview agreed. “It was a meteor that came out of the northeast and lasted about five seconds after it hit the atmos phere and disappeared,” Masten said. “One of the people (at the Gregg County Airport) saw it. We have no sound proof but the peo ple here and some of the pilots said it was a meteor.” Masten said there have been several meteor showers during the summer, but none as specta cular as the sighting Wednesday. The National Weather Service in New Orleans also said the ob ject probably was a meteor. However, nothing was picked up on the NWS radar, officials said. Hynek said he believed the ob ject must be a meteor instead oi satellite, because it traveled ea to west and satellites are launcht to travel west to east. “Most people do not realize th some meteors can be extreme bright, and they’re called fir< balls,” Hynek said. “The typic meteor is a streak of light aero the sky, but occasionally a fair! large chunk of material enters tl atmosphere and burns up throng j friction.” Space Center planning layoff United Press International HOUSTON — Anticipated budget cuts have forced officials at the Johnson Space Center into planning a 10-man layoff in the planetary and earth sciences divi sion. The 10 are among about 80 con tractor employees at the division, which also employs 150 govern ment workers. Division Chief Michael Duke said Wednesday he has heard the budget may be cut as much as $1 billion from the $5.5 billion antici pated for fiscal year 1982. The lower funding level is like ly to raise a number of very diffi cult problems, Duke said. Plan ning anything becomes a difficult problem when everything is so uncertain, he said. The president’s science adviser recently recommended halting all new planetary space missions for at least the next decade. Duke said two programs have been planned for the 1980s, on which relatively little money has been spent. The Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar program and Galileo, a dual spacecraft mission to Jupiter, would take more than $100 mil lion . PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH invites you to share the joy of the Christmas Season with the people of Peace. 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