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HA to try to raise funds
>r A&M freeze victims
CHRISTINE MALLON
Stun' Writer
cause of the number of
nls who suffered water
ige due to frozen pipes
the holidays. Hart Hall,
help from the Residence
.ing Association, will begin
ration: Mop-Up” to raise
py to compensate those stu-
i who lost personal prop-
eliminary plans are under-
to start a reimbursement
ess. John McMaster will be
man of a committee which
also have one representa
tive from each of the affected
dorms (Haas, Hart, Legett, Un
derwood and Walton.)
Donations will be collected
door-to-door later this month
and tables will be setup in the
MSC, outside of Sbisa and in
the Commons.
RHA approved this commit
tee at Tuesday’s meeting.
A controversial bill to pro
pose an ammendment to the
Student Senate was also passed
at the meeting.
Currently, the appointed
senate representatives of the
RHA, Off-Campus Aggies and
the Corps of Cadets don’t have
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meetings and members of each
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ters arise in these meetings that
directly af ect the constituents
of these groups and on many
occasions these representatives
have extra knowledge which
could be of benefit to the sen
ate. This bill was given special
emergency attention because
the student government will be
ammending the constitution
soon.
RHA also established
guidelines for spring election
campaigning.
The elections will be March
27-28 and campaigning begins
March 18. Door-to-door cam
paigning in the dorms will be al
lowed during these hours: Sun-
day-Thursday 4p.m. to 8 p.m.
and Friday-Saturday 10 a.m. to
1:30 a.m.
The next meeting of the
RHA will be Feb. 21 at 7:00
p.m. in 158 Blocker.
Oswald’s wife wants tapes
United Press International
DALLAS — The widow of
presidential assassin Lee Har
vey Oswald is sueing the son
of a Texas congressman to
prevent his “private and per
sonal” use of videotapes
taken of Oswald’s exhuma
tion.
Court documents filed on
behalf of Marina Oswald Por
ter and British author Mi
chael Eddowes alleged
Hampton Hall and another
defendant violated the pri
vacy of Porter, now married
to Texas contractor Kenneth
Porter.
“The defendants for a fee
agreed to private videotaping
services of the exhumation
and autopsy of one Lee Har
vey Oswald,” the suit alleged.
But the defendants —John
Cullins and Hall, son of Rep.
Ralph Moody Hall, D-Texas
— refused to return the
material, which included
photographs and other docu
ments of the man who shot
President John F. Kennedy in
Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
Instead, the tapes were
“converted to their private
and personal use,” the suit al
leged. The document did not
elaborate.
In addition to the tapes
themselves, Porter demanded
“reasonable” legal compensa
tion of at least $5,000.
“I have no comment what
soever at this time,” said
Hampton Hall, who did the
actual taping.
Cullins, who handled the
exhumation’s security and
contracted with Hall on a
free-lance basis, could not be
reached for comment Tues
day.
a Dallas suburb that is also
Porter’s home.
“Marina evidently is afraid
those tapes might fall into the
wrong hands,” said a source
close to the Russian-born
woman. “To some people and
some newspapers, they would
be worth a fortune.”
Porter initially did not
want to keep the tapes, which
depicted the forensic process,
the source said, but she later
realized the tapes could be
used against her.
“She just assumed that the
tapes would be locked up in a
bank or a vault,” he said.
convinced Porter that Oswald
might have been replaced by
a Russian agent when he de
fected to the Soviet Union in
1959. But the pathologists,
checking dental and medical
records, debunked his the-
Both men live in Rockwall,
The tapes show the re
moval of Oswald’s body from
a Fort Worth cemetery in Oc
tober 1981 and the four-hour
examination by a team of
pathologists.
Eddowes, a co-plaintiff in
the lawsuit filed Monday,
ory.
“We hope this puts the
matter to rest without further
questions as to the identity of
the body,” said Dr. Linda
Norton of the medical exam
iner’s office at the time of the
exhumation.
The pathologists spent
most of their lime making
careful comparison of the
body’s teeth with Oswald’s
dental records from the Ma
rine Corps in the mid-1950s.
“Now I have my answers,"
said the widow in October
1981, “and from now on I
oidy want to be Mrs. Porter.”
She could not lie reached
for comment Tuesday.
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Space walking techniques
learned in earth water tank
United Press International
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. —
When astronaut Bruce Mc-
Candless donned a jetpack
Tuesday and walked in space
from the space shuttle Chal
lenger, he was using techniques
learned at the Marshall Space
Flight Center.
During test flight simula
tions, McCandless was sub
merged in the center’s 40-foot-
deep Neutral Buoyancy Simula
tor while wearing a specially de
signed underwater version of
the jetpack called a Manned
Maneuvering Unit.
The neutral buoyancy facility
is 75 feet in diameter, holds
1,400,000 gallons of water and
is constructed of steel plating.
The water is maintained at a
constant 86 degrees Fahrenheit.
Robert Stewart who also
walked in space Tuesday, par
ticipated in underwater simula
tions in a smaller neutral buoy
ancy facility at the Johnson
Space Center in Houston.
Stewart’s parents, Lee and
Polly Stewart of Tuscumbia,
have been at the Kennedy
Space Center in Florida for two
weeks to monitor their son’s
shuttle flight.
NASA officials said the water
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tank simulations and Tuesday’s
test walks were necessary prepa
rations leading to the planned
repair of the disabled Solar
Maximum Mission satellite in
April.
Officials at the Goddard
Space Flight Center in Green-
belt, Md., asked the Marshall
scientists to check out repair
procedures Goddard techni
cians had developed. Goddard
is responsible for managing the
satellite repair mission.
During simulations at Mar
shall last year, McCandless
donned a pressurized space suit
and was submerged in the tank.
“The weightlessness of space
was simulated by adding
weights to the already buoyant
space suits of those training in
the tank until they neither float
to the surface nor sink,” said
Charlie Cooper, lead engineer
for the project.
Valerie Neal, spokeswoman
for Essex Corp. of Huntsville,
said the underwater version of
the maneuvering unit was pow
ered by eight electric trolling
motors and duplicated the for
ward, reverse, roll, pitch and
yaw characteristics expected ol
the flight unit.
When McCandless tested the
special simulator in the tank, he
departed from a submerged or-
bitor cargo bay on the floor of
the tank and practiced ap
proaches to a full-scale mockup
of the Solar Maximum Mission
satellite stationed above him.
During the April mission, as
tronaut George Nelson will use
the maneuvering unit to dock
Three children die
in blaze; babysitter
apparently drunk
United Press International
TEXARKANA — Police
Tuesday were investigating the
deaths of three boys in a fire
that raced through a home
where they were were left in the
care of an apparently drunken
man and a “severely retarded”
woman.
The oldest of the youngsters
apparently started the blaze by
playing with matches or a space
heater, said police Capt. Charlie
Campbell.
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The bodies of Glen PowelU
and his brothers, Joseph,2,and
Christopher, 5 months, weif
discovered after firefightersei
tinguished the blaze that ik
stroyed their wood frame homt
Monday.
The fire began at thereard
the house where the childrtt
were playing, but was not
ticed by J.D. Brown and Rost
Thomas, who were in a fra®
room. A passing postman
alerted them to the blaze, bu
flames made it impossible n
reach thechilren.
“During the course of the i»
vesligation, the lady toldusik
little boy was bad aboutplavm!
with fire, and we feel like he#
it,” Campbell said. “Thebodift
were so badly burned it W0I/HI
be almost impossible to tell,ta|
we fell like they diedofsmoh
inhalation.”
A spokeswoman forthefiK
marshal’s office said an invet
gation of the fire was contitt
ing.
I he adults apparently
not notice the fire becausetk
had been drinking, Can
said.
“The woman was severel'
mentally retarded and the old
boy was drunk,” he said.
No charges were filed again?
the boys’ mother, Marty
Powell, 27, Campbell said, 1
investigators still were tab
statements in the deaths. M
Powell was away from the hot* I
at the time of the fire.
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