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SHOE by Jeff MacNelly
Challenger
Shuttle crew dodges waste in cockpit
Associated Press
SPACE CENTER, Houston — A
woozy, cowering squirrel monkey
had a worried astronaut hovering
over his sickbed Wednesday, but an
other monkey and two dozen rats
seemed to be thriving on their zero-
gravity ride aboard space shuttle
Challenger.
The astronauts, meanwhile, also
complained about animal wastes
floating in the cockpit because of de
bris escaping from cages.
Mission commander Bob Over-
myer voiced his opinion in a conver
sation accidently beamed to Earth.
He complained about the wastes
floating in the spacecraft and
warned his crewmates about the
problem.
“How many years did we tell them
that these cages wouldn’t work,”
Overmyer was heard to say.
“It’s really discouraging to get
monkey feces in the cockpit,” he
said.
Then Overmyer joked: “Just
don’t pick anything out of the air
and eat it, guys.”
Dr. Bill Thornton is a physician in
charge of the two monkeys and 24
rats housed in cages aboard the
spacelab.
He continued to report that a
squirrel monkey seemed to be doing
poorly and that the debris was drift
ing out of the cages.
One primate, known only as mon
key number 1, “seems thoroughly
confused,” Thornton said.
“He certainly doesn’t give the ap
pearance of being sick in any fash
ion,” Thornton said.
“He just seems thoroughly confu
sed,” he said. “He just looks hungry
to me and probably thirsty.”
The monkey seemed confused by
an automatic feeder that is supposed
to dispense a banana-flavored food,
Thornton said.
“He is sitting here desperately op
erating his feeder,” said the astro
naut. “He doesn’t seem capable of
handling that feeder.”
Thornton reported earlier that
the monkey had “dark circles.”
He added that the monkey also
seemed to spend most of his time
huddled in one corner of his cage
with his head between his paws.
The second monkey, however, ap
peared frisky on a television view
beamed to earth.
“This monkey likes spaceflight,”
said the astronaut. “He thinks it’s
pretty nice stuff.”
Experts on the ground assured
Thornton their data indicated both
monkeys were receiving proper
amounts of water and food.
Dr. Jerry Goldsboro, a NASA vet
erinarian, said Tuesday night that
Primate No. 1 appeared to have
space sickness, a motion illness, but
was coming around.
House gives tentative OK
to charity bingo legislation
Associated Press
AUST IN — House members gave
tentative OK Wednesday to a bill
aimed at cleaning up charity bingo
games and making sure more money
gets into charity coffers.
“We did not want to write a bingo
parlor act (in 1981),” Houston Rep.
Randy Pennington said. “But, in
fact, that’s what we have.”
Fort Worth Rep. Doyle Willis said,
“If I had it my way today I’d repeal
this whole thing. It's a mess.
Also, the House voted to protect
views of the Capitol, allow jurors to
be told about parole laws and to set
fees on hazardous waste production
and disposal.
The bingo measure, tentatively
approved 94-6, includes provisions
to:
•Limit bingo games to organiza
tions that have been in existence for
at least live years.
•Bar bingo equipment makers
from owning halls leased for bingo.
• Increase penalties for some vio
lations.
•Guarantee that charities get at
least 10.5 percent of total receipts.
Comptroller Bob Bullock has re
ported that the statewide average in
come for charities has been about 10
percent, but some charities have re
ceived as little as 3 percent of the
receipts.
The 1981 Legislature approved a
constitutional amendment, later ap-
roved by voters, that legalized
ingo for charity. The changes
backed by the House would be made
in the enabling legislation under
which the games are operated.
“This closes every loophole we
know of that allows profiteers to
make money off these charities,”
said Rep. Lloyd Criss, D-La Marque
and bill sponsor.
Final approval would send the bill
to the Senate.
A 65-4 vote gave preliminary ap
proval to a Senate-backed measure
to protect views of the Capitol from
30 locations in Austin.
Kingwood Rep. Ed Emmett asked
House members to think about the
“buoyant feeling” that a glimpse of
the Capitol dome can inspire.
But Richardson Rep. Bill Ceverha
said he was concerned about the
bill’s possible effect on downtown
property values. A bill analysis said
those values could drop by as much
as $70 per square foot if the view bill
is approved.
Prosecutors scored a victory in the
House vote backing jury instructions-
concerning parole and prison “good
time” laws. Under current law, ju
rors are not allowed to be told how
those laws might effect prison terms.
Houston Rep. Debra Danburg
tried, but failed, to add an amend
ment to delete jury instructions
about the possibility that an inmate
might serve only one-third of the ac
tual sentence.
“Human nature is to take the
amount of time they want them to - •
serve in the Texas Department of
Corrections and multiply it by A
three,” she said of jurors.
The hazardous waste fee bill, also
tentatively approved, requires an an
nual fee of $50-$ 1,000 from compa- /
nies that produce such wastes. Facili- !•
ties that process, store or dispose ;
hazardous waste would pay $50-
$15,000 a year.
The state would use the money to
administer new hazardous waste
management programs.
The House gave final approval
and sent to the Senate a bill to clamp ■■
down on “gray market” cars — pres- /
tige foreign autos purchased in Eu- ;
rope and shipped to United States
customers at reduced prices.
Under the bill, owners of foreign
cars not made for United States use /
could not register them in Texas ;
without proof that the vehicles meet ;
federal safety and pollution stan
dards.
Japanese hit slopes;
skiers crowd resorts
Associated Press
SUGADAIRA, Japan — Kiyoko
Iwaide strapped her brand-new
Austrian ski boots into brand-new
Italian bindings and pulled a pair of
brand-new German goggles over her
head.
Zipping up a new Italian jacket
and adjusting the matching ski
pants, she was ready to step onto the
slopes and join thousands of others,
many in designer ski wear.
It was a typical scene at a ski resort
in Japan, where the sport lasts from
the .first snows in December to the
last melting in June — and where
fashion counts more than form.
“Any way you look at it, skiing is a
sport to he seen doing,” said Iwaide,
a 21-year-old, first-time visitor to Su-
gadaira. “Of course no one would
say anything to me, hut I wouldn’t
want to wear something that’s out of
place.”
Japan’s ski boom began about 13
years ago when Japan hosted the
1972 winter Olympics, ski instructor
Susumu Takahashi said.
“Since then skiing in Japan has
changed every single year, with
more people learning and all sorts of
equipment imported from abroad,”
Takahashi, an instructor for 12
years, said.
That was also the year that Japan’s
top two ski suppliers began business.
Last season they reported record-
high sales: $88 million for Victoria
and $64 million for Alpen.
Iwaide said she spent $615 on her
new gear, or $230 more than her
monthly salary. She said she would
use them one or two more times this
season and as many times next year.
“I’ll definitely buy new ski wear at
the end of next year. I’ll get tired of
it,” she said. “Anyway, it’s fashion,
right? New things come out every
year.”
Keiko Kazo of the Ski Association
of Japan said that an estimated 20
million people — one-sixth of the
population — hit the slopes each
year, which may make Japan the
country with the most ski enthusiasts
in relation to its population
It means putting up with huge
crowds and long waits for lifts on Ja
pan’s assembly-line slopes.
Enthusiasts in Tokyo can reach
nearby slopes in less than an hour, so
there is an exodus from the capital
every weekend of the season. That
proximity enables them to go several
times, as compared with North
Americans or Europeans, who may
take only one or two extended ski
trips a year.
Skiing also has given birth to new
vocabulary in Japanese. Most bor
rowed foreign words in Japanese are
English, but since early skiing tech
niques and equipment came from
Europe, so did the terminology.
German words such as “gelande”
(slope), “pflug” (snowplow) and
“kurzeschwung” (short swing) have
now become Japanese.
The only common English ski
term in the Japanese lexicon is “after
ski,” meaning the partying that
comes after the skiing.
History
Today’s highlight in history:
On May 3, 1802, Washington,
D.C., was incorporated as a city,
with the mayor to be appointed
by the president and the council
elected by property owners.
On this date:
In 1654, a bridge in Rowley,
Mass., was permitted to charge a
toll for animals, while people
crossed for free.
In 1765, the first U.S. medical
school was proposed at the Col
lege of Philadelphia, now the
University of Pennsylvania.
In 1921, West Virginia im
posed the first state sales tax.
In 1933, Nellie Taylor Ross be
came the first woman director of
the U.S. Mint.
In 1937, Margaret Mitchell
won a Pulitzer Prize for her
novel, “Cone With the Wind.”
In 1979, Conservative Party
leader Margaret Thatcher was
elected Britain’s first woman
prime minister.
Ten years ago: During the
commissioning of the nuclear air
craft carrier USS Nimitz in Nor
folk, Va., President Gerald R.
Ford pledged the United States
would keep its commitments
abroad and remain militarily
strong.
Five years ago: Genuine Risk
won the Kentucky Derby, becom
ing the second filly in the history
of the race to do so. The first was
Regret, in 1915.
One year ago: Defense Secre
tary Caspar Weinberger pre
sented to Congress the Reagan
administration’s plan to cut mili
tary spending in fiscal 1985 by
$13.9 billion.