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Parkway • C.S. • 696-9578 Open M-F 10am - 8pm, Sat. 9am - 1pm ♦Regular price S44 less $15 cash discount (on Anderson shuttle Bus Route) Widow calls NASA uncaring, urges families to file suit SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) — The widow of an astronaut who died in a spacecraft fire says NASA and the space contractors are uncar ing and negligent and urges the families of those killed in the Chal lenger explosion to File suits. “I’d File a lawsuit because I know right now that they don’t care any thing about you,” said Betty Gris som, widow of astronaut Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom. “They don’t care about me, financially or morally.” Grissom and astronauts Edward White and Roger Chaffee died on Jan. 27, 1967, when a fire erupted inside their Apollo 1 spacecraft while they conducted tests on a Ken nedy Space Center launch pad. In a copyright story Tuesday in the Houston Chronicle, Mrs. Gris som she would have received no money from her husband’s death if Houston attorney Ronald D. Krist had not filed a last-minute lawsuit for her in 1972 against North Amer ican Aviation, the Apollo’s prime contractor. The suit was filed just three days before the Florida statute of limita tions expired. Mrs. Grissom received $350,000 on the grounds that her husband endured conscious pain and suffering for 17 seconds. Krist now is representing Cheryl McNair, widow of Challenger astro naut Ronald E. McNair, in a suit filed last fall against Morton Thio- kol, Inc., the manufacturer of the solid rocket booster blamed for the Challenger explosion. The lawyer also represents the parents of two other Challenger crew members. Jane Smith, widow of Challenger pilot Michael Smith, has filed a $15.1 million claim against the government, but is rep resented by another attorney. Four Challenger families recently settled with the government for about $ 1 million apiece. Mrs. Grissom said she believes the settlement, which she called “still kind of cheap,” would not have been made except for the McNair suit. “The federal government would never have paid a dime to any of them,” she said. “I don’t want to give the Challenger families advice, but they might learn something from my experience. ... I didn’t know any thing about the statute of limitations and all of that.” Mrs. Grissom said after her hus band died, she was living on about $500 a month for herself and her two teen-age sons. “I think that’s what happened to Mrs. Smith,” Mrs. Grissom said. “She looked at her paycheck and her children and thought maybe she ought to do something. I admire her guts for doing it.” Grissom was a graduate of Purdue University and Mrs. Grissom said the school gave her two sons schol arships, “or else we would never have made it.” She said Purdue probably did more for her sons than NASA or the federal government did. Mrs. Grissom said the public has had more sympathy for the Chal lenger families than it did for the widows of the Apollo 1 astronauts. “I think the general public has gotten behind the Challenger tra gedy, in sympathy and understand ing that it may not have had for the Apollo 1 fire, because Christa McAuliffe, the schoolteacher, was aboard,” Mrs. Grissom said. “But we didn’t have a school teacher on Apollo 1,” she said. “We had military men.” At-home smoking ban imposed on workers CHICAGO (AP) — Lighting up at home or in the workplace will cost employees their jobs at nine USG Acoustical Products plants, and the company plans to conduct lung tests to make sure workers are complying with the smoking ban. “It will apply to everybody in the plants, from the newest hourly worker on up to the plant manager — without exception,” spokesman Paul Colitti said Tuesday at USG Corp., holding company for the building-products manufacturer. One of the plants to be affected by the policy is in Corsicana, Texas. The quit-smoking-or-quit policy will apply to 1,500 to 2,000 company workers in eight states, Colitti said. Employees must also refrain from smoking off the job, he said. The policy, which won’t apply at USG’s corporate headquarters in Chicago, raised questions among le gal scholars and outraged the To bacco Institute, an industry group that called the ban an invasion of privacy. “I think this would easily be the most punitive or asinine proposal we’ve seen,” said spokesman Scott Staph at the institute in Washington. “Obviously there’s just an incredible invasion of privacy concern.” Colitti said smokers will be given an opportunity to participate in or ganized kick-the-habit programs in May or June. They can enroll in a company- sponsored Smoke Enders clinic on company time or be reimbursed for programs recommended by their own physicians. After the six- to eight-week clinic by Smoke Enders, a national organi zation that counsels smokers on quit- ing, USG will give workers a grace period of about one week to kick the habit, Colitti said. “Then we administer a pulmo nary function test that measures lung capacity, among other things,” he said. “We’ll know then if they are still smoking. If they are, we’ll have no choice but to let them go.” Colitti said there is no history of lung ailments among workers at the plants, which use mineral Fiber and rock wool to make thermal insula tion and acoustical tiles. He said USG is implementing the policy for health reasons, noting sta tistics showing non-smokers have fewer sick days. “It’s one question to restrict smok ing on the job,” said Staph at the To bacco Institute. “But when you go beyond that and say you can’t smoke in your backyard . . . obviously peo ple are going to have some problems with that.” He said the institute received sev eral calls from USG workers who op posed the policy and said things like, “Did I wake up this morning in the Soviet Union?” Texas banks report losses; RepublicBank posts gain Texas banks, InterFirst Corp. and Texas Commerce Bancshares, re ported fourth-quarter losses, partly because of bad loans, while Repub licBank Corp. bucked the trend and posted a gain, officials said Tuesday. Dallas-based InterFirst lost almost $50 million during the last quarter of 1986, and Texas Commerce Bancshares of Houston suffered a net loss of $21 million, the compa nies reported. 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