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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.
Texas Commerce’s performance
prompted its board of directors to
halve the quarterly dividend.
The firm and its 70 banks are
presently merging with Chemical
New York Corp. in a cash and stock
transaction valued at $ 1.1 billion.
Meanwhile, Dallas-based Repub
licBank, which plans to merge with
InterFirst later this year, reported
fourth-quarter income of $9.1 mil
lion.
RepublicBank’s earnings of 26
cents per share compared with a net
income of $33.5 million, or $1.10
per share, during the same quarter
of 1985, the company said.
Its yearly income of $54 million,
or $1.65 per share, compared with
$140.2 million, $4.60 per share, in
1985.
InterFirst said its fourth-quarter
loss of $49.6 million, 74 cents per
share, compared with net income of
$13.7 million, or 20 cents per share,
during the fourth quarter of 1985.
For the full year, InterFirst re
ported a loss of $326.5 million, or
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$4.86 per share, compared with in
come of $61.1 million, 91 cents per
share, in 1985.
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year’s end.
Texas Commerce said it lost $21
million in its fourth quarter, largely
because it took a $125 million provi
sion for bad loans.
The company recorded a loss of
64 cents per share in the fourth
quarter, an $8 million improvement
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Net income for the year declined
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Texas Commerce spokesman
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share to build further capital.
The dividend will be paid April 1
to shareholders of record as of
March 13.
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