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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1981
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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. Fais
said he had to declare a mistrial
because the defense attorney
would not agree to proceeding
with seven jurors.
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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 .
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