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1V '-H -W. w.4 'r CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) Wreckage of the shuttle Challenger's shattered crew cabin has been found and remains of some of the ship's seven crew members were brought ashore during the weekend, sources said today. The wreckage of the cabin was found Friday in 100 feet of water and identified by Navy divers from the USS Preserver Saturday morning, NASA officials said Sunday. The Preserver returned to port Saturday night under cover of darkness and with no running lights.
The ship was met at a Navy dock by astronaut Robert Overmyer, NASA photographers and others wearing white smocks. Sources said some remains of an unknown number of Challenger's slain crew members were taken off the ship, but NASA officials would not confirm such reports or provide any details of the salvage operation, which is expected to take "several days." "I don't think anybody's going to say anything until it's recovered and identification is made," said NASA spokesman Hugh Harris. On board Challenger at launch on Jan. 28 were New Hampshire schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe, commander Francis "Dick" Sco-bee, co-pilot Michael Smith, Judith Resnik, Ellison Onizuka, Ronald McNair and Gregory Jarvis, a commercial engineer with Hughes Aircraft Corp. Pathologists assigned to a hospital at Patrick Air Force Base, near the Kennedy Space Center, are in charge of identifying crew remains.
Challenger exploded in a ball of flaming debris 73 seconds after blastoff after a rupture in its right-hand booster rocket ignited the shuttle's giant external fuel tank. Since then, the space agency has had nothing to say about the crew because of concern about the astronauts' families. NASA officials said Sunday that divers from the Preserver were able to provide "positive identification of Challenger crew compartment debris and the existence of crew remains." Harris stressed, however, that he did not know the condition of the two-level reinforced cabin or how many of the seven astronauts' remains might still be in or around the wreckage. He said recovery operations were expected to last several days. A NASA statement said a "possible" identification of the cabin was made by salvage crews using sonar on Friday and that "family members of the Challenger crew were informed." But the news appeared to take some family members by surprise Sunday.
Bruce Jarvis, father of Gregory Jarvis, said he found out after a neighbor heard the news on television. "I'm angry that I haven't been (See Shuttle, page 2) The Marin Humane Society packed them in, before it was Too many bingos spoiling pot? 4 4 Reagan lobbies for Contra aid S3 344643 '5, Knsti Humphrey closed on legal technicality 6S Kristi Hi proceeds go to school "pharit nKlo nnmncae TTt Kristi Humphrey charitable purposes." Up to 20 percent of proceeds may be used to conduct the game, including rent of buildings. Jobst said the first night the Humane Society opened its doors, St. Vincent's clientele was cut nearly in half. His sentiments were echoed by many local bingo operators.
"What we are complaining about is other counties coming in," said Joe Pennington, spokesman for the Veterans of Foreign (See Bingo, page 2) At 8 a.m. the Army Corps of Engineers recorded 255,777 acre feet of water in the lake, 455 feet up the dam. The spillway is located at 495 feet, meaning 381,000 acre feet can be stored in the dam before spilling over. This remaining capacity, for flood control, is empty. Without the dam this water would have raced down Dry Creek into the Russian and added to that river's floods.
The Corps has been releasing a controlled amount to keep Dry Creek at a (See River, page 2) 'n 4 i I bingo game at Herzog Hall JT- Jt i bingo player at tiAmt miaII b-rAiiTv An avid In that incident, a well-known group was discovered to be illegally paying someone to conduct the bingo games with bingo funds, and co-mingling bingo funds with other funds, Murphy said. He said St. Vincent's complaint stemmed from the fact the Marin group was from out of town. Mike Jobst, a member of Parents and Friends of St. Vincent Schools (which runs the St.
Vincent bingo game), said he was concerned about outside groups. "My concern, generally, is that 7 gan's request to spend $100 mil lion, including $30 million for non-lethal aid, such as trucks, and another $70 million that could be used for military help. Congress last year banned military aid but did approve $27 million for non-lethal supplies. Reagan suffered three preliminary-round defeats in the Democratic-controlled House last week, when a trio of committees all rejected his plan, while only a single committee voted for it. The plan is now scheduled for a vote by the full House on March 19.
Rep. Richard Gephardt, appearing Sunday on ABC's "This Week with David Brinkley," predicted Reagan will lose the House vote, and then said, "I think there will probably be some kind of negotiation between the administration and members of both parties of both houses in order to try to reach a different approach." Reagan, returning Sunday from the presidential retreat at Camp David, hinted he might be willing to compromise if he loses March 19, telling reporters, "I would have to wait and see what someone offers." St. Vincent High School, where thnco rtorviic trtvm mifcia all nnco these from outside all By JENNIFER BARD Argus-Courier Staff Bingo has become big business in Petaluma, generating $250,000 a year for community services and more than $800,000 for bingo players. It has grown into a large and reliable source of funds for schools and organizations, since laws were passed in 1977 allowing bingo to be played by non-profit and senior citizen groups. But competition could spoil it, some bingo operators here say.
Petaluma Police Chief Robert Murphy recently asked the Marin Humane Society to cease its popular Thursday night bingo game. He said he did it because of complaints from operators of St. Vincent High School's bingo, held on the same night. "I did some coercing," Murphy explained, adding, "And it was mutually agreed they should not play." Murphy approved the Marin group's bingo permit last December. But when complaints rolled in from St.
Vincent, he re-examined the permit, he said. That's when he discovered a technicality making the Marin group's operation illegal. According to bingo laws, an organization must play bingo on premises they own or where they conduct business. The Marin Humane Society doesn't conduct its business at Herzog Hall, Murphy said. "They had set up a separate board called the Marin Humane Society Bingo Board of Directors and that didn't meet the strict interpretation of the rules." Murphy said he didn't see the word "bingo" in the group's name when he first issued the permit.
Murphy said he has only closed down one other bingo game. "It was done very quietly with the cooperation of the group involved," Murphy said. and a high tide backing up the river's downstream flow added to flooding potential, he noted. Some storm drains were overloaded and backed rainwater onto parts of Payran Street and along Petaluma Boulevard, requiring barricades to be set up at several points. This water was not river water, Scharer said.
Leisure Lake Mobile Home Park, often evacuated because of actual or potential flooding, was not threatened during the weekend storms. The city's emergency operations center was not activated. WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan, trying to stave off a foreign policy defeat on Capitol Hill, plans to meet with groups of congressmen this week to personally lobby for support of his plan to provide $100 million to the U.S.-backed guerrillas fighting Nicaragua's leftist government. The president also will make a nationally televised speech next Sunday to try to rally public support for his fight against a Soviet-supplied nation he says is a threat to its Latin American neighbors. The battle over aid to the Con-tras will be a major topic in Congress this week, along with efforts to write a budget for the fiscal year that starts Oct.
1. Last week, the Republican-con trolled Senate Budget Committee brushed aside Reagan's budget proposal on a 16-6 vote. It will continue efforts this week to come up with a spending plan, while a proposed constitutional amendment requiring balanced federal budgets will be debated on the Senate floor. The Contra fight involves Rea index Business Page 9 Classified Pages 10-11 Comics Page 8 Lifestyles Page 5 Obituaries Page 2 Opinions Page 4 Sports Pages 6-7 Stocks Page 2 Television Page 10 Theaters Page 10 Weather Page 3 WEATHER Chance of lingering showers tonight. Lows 45 to SO.
Southwest winds 10 to 25 mph. City crews watch rising river; no flooding games pose a threat to those of us who nave operated games in town for many years, and in most cases for the benefit of the youth of Petaluma. "It puts us all in jeopardy of basically going out of business. Because if someone comes in like the Marin Humane Society, they can just knock us out of the game, take all of our customers and then leave town with all of our money." Bingo laws permit organizations to use 80 percent of proceeds for homes weren't structurally damaged by the flood have moved back in and suffered no water intrusion this weekend. Though Lake Sonoma behind Warm Springs Dam received a lot of water in last month's deluges, it hasn't yet reached the "flood pool" level and can take a lot more runoff before releases down Dry Creek and into the Russian are necessary.
A county water agency spokesman said there is 130,000 acre feet of water in Lake Sonoma and the lake is at the top of what is called the recreation pool. City crews kept watch as the Petaluma River slowly rose under heavy rains early today, but it never came near topping its banks despite rainfall that closed some streets. At 6.5 feet this morning, the river was well below the eight-foot level at which it will pour over into the Linda del Mar subdivision in the Payran Street area. But the sudden downpour between 3:45 a.m. and 4:45 a.m.
and a rain total of half an inch worried city personnel as the river rose swiftly, City Manager John Scharer said. The strong winds A total of 1.83 inches of rain fell from 8 a.m. Sunday to 8 a.m. today, the most since Feb. 19.
The Russian River, cause of havoc in the previous storm, also had no problem with this weekend's rain, and there were no evacuations. At 22 feet this morning, the river was expected to crest at 27 to 30 feet this afternoon. Flood stage at the Guerneville Bridge is 32 feet. A spokesman for the Sonoma County Office of Emergency Services said most Guerneville and other river area residents whose.
