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Flash may be caused
by large size meteor
United Press International
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A
flash that lit up a clear Arkansas
sky late Friday night may have
been caused by a large meteor
entering the atmosphere, offi
cials said.
Paul Engle, a physics and
astronomy professor at the Uni
versity of Arkansas at Little
Rock, speculated the bright
light, seen in the four corners of
the state, may have been a “fire
ball,” or a large meteor.
The switchboard at the state
Office of Emergency Services in
Conway began lighting up
shortly after 10:30 p.m. when
the light was seen. Residents and
law enforcement officers from
around the state called to report
the phenomenon.
OES officials said the first re
port came from the Conway Fire
Department in central Arkan
sas. Reports then came in from
Springdale in the northwest,
Hope in the southwest, Pine
Bluff in the southeast and Jones
boro in the northeast part of the
state.
Similar reports were received
in northeast Oklahoma and
Memphis, Tenn., officials said.
A National Weather Service
meteorologist in North Little
Rock said a meteor shower had
been forecast between 7 p.m.
and midnight Friday, but Engle
said a meteor shower probably
could not have produced the
bright light and “rumbling”
sound reported to emergency
officials.
“Usually the shower meteors
don’t ever have such a bright ob
ject as that,” he said. “Shower
meteors usually aren’t very
Relatives must wait to sue
nursing home for neglect
United Press International
GALVESTON — Relatives of
several elderly patients who died
at the Autumn Hills nursing
home in Texas City nearly five
years ago were told they must
wait longer for a court ruling to
determine if they may sue the
home for damages.
State District Judge I. Allen
Lerner said Friday he would not
rule immediately on the consti
tutionality of a law that protects
nursing homes from lawsuits
more than two years after
alleged mistreatment occured.
Lerner told attorneys he will
wait until the Texas Supreme
Court rules in another case on
the same issue before he decides
whether to allow the relatives to
seek damages for alleged mis
treatment and neglect of the pa
tients.
Galveston attorney Bob
Moore is seeking class action sta
tus for a lawsuit filed on behalf
of one elderly woman who died
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bright. It might be what we call a
sporadic or bolide meteor or
fireball. It would not be directly
connected with any shower.”
Engle said it would be diffi
cult to determine if the light was
caused by a meteor unless pieces
of it were found. He said reports
of the rumbling sound accom
panying the light could indicate
the sonic boom of a meteor
traveling through the atmos
phere.
“The large meteors like the
fireballs quite often will make it
through the earth’s atmosphere
and hit,” he said.
Meteors generally can been
seen when they burn entering
the atmosphere at an altitude of
“about 100 miles or so,” Engle
said, and the meteors usually
quit burning and cannot be seen
at about 20 to 40 miles up.
Fornication law enforced
Probationers given choice
United Press International
NEW ULM, Minn. — A Min
nesota judge is sentencing
minor offenders to a life sent-
’Rosenbloom, 58, sees three
or four such cases each year. So
far, no one has chosen jail, he
said.
more than just a strict reading of
the state law.
at the Texas city facility March 1,
1978.
Moore told Lerner relatives
of many other elderly people
who died under the care of Au
tumn Hills could not have
known within two years of the
deaths that they might have
grounds for seeking damages
from the Autumn Hills Con
valescent Centers Inc., which
owned the Texas City home.
Moore argued the two-year
statute of limitations should not
apply in this case.
ence — marriage.
For the past 20 years, Judge
Noah Rosenbloom has made
marriage a condition for proba
tion. When the judge learns an
individual seeking probation is
living with a girlfriend or boyf
riend, he gives the probationer
three choices — get married,
move out or go to jail.
The judge claims his policy
makes sense, as the first condi
tion of probation is obeying all
laws. Fornication, sex between a
man and an unmarried woman,
is a misdemeanor in Minnesota,
although the law generally is not
enforced.
Rosenbloom said his policy is
“It is part of public policy in
diis country that legitimate
births are far preferable to illegi
timate births, and that abortion
is a terribly heartrending prob
lem in this society,” the judge
said.
.... , , Bta
l sually without muctidH.,^
t he people get married,
“It’s a kind of a catalyst.'
1 lennepin County Pullil
lender Bill Kennedy tab
view of Rosenbloom's Jave t
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Rosenbloom has never had to
use “the ultimate sanction,”
sending a reluctant bridegroom
to prison.
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who wears a black rober
stead of a bow and arrovl
shotgun."
People flock to image on door
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United Press International
JASPER, Ala. — Thousands
of people are flocking to a hos
pital to see a wooden door on
which an image — reportedly
resembling Jesus Christ —
appeared as a man stood before
it praying for his son’s life.
Hospital authorities confirm
the door appears to have
changed in appearance but re
fuse comment further. Some
who view it say they see nothing
but the grain of the wood.
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Nonetheless, more than a
thousand people came to Wal
ker County Medical Center
Thursday to see the image and,
although the number dropped
Friday night, a security guard
said it still averaged as many as
50 an hour.
The image on the door to the
third-floor surgical recovery
room apparently was first seen
by Joel Naramore a week ago
Friday as he prayed for his son
Charles, 16, who was critically
injured in a motorcycle accident.
Shirley McCough, a hospital
employee, said she witnessed the
incident.
"When he looked up he saw
the face, and he said, ‘My son is
going to be all right now,”’ said
McCough.
Doctors soon came out and
told him his son was in stable
condition. His son since has
been transferred to the Univer
sity of Alabama -Birmingham
Hospital, where his condition is
still critical.
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