Pulaski Southwest Times (Newspaper) - April 3, 1979, Pulaski, Virginia COPYRIGHT NEW RH ER INC Rams owner Carroll Rosenbloom dies while Chuck Fairbanks finally moves to Colorado and Pulaski County drops a tennis Page 80 APRIL 1979 20 CENTS 35 CENTS SUNDAY Pulaski Andy Taylor Meets Brad Dead In High Noon Showdown Staff Photos by Explosion unlikely Nuclear threat is diminished UPI After more days on the engineers say they finally have taken the offensive in the Three Mile Island nuclear powerplant crisis and cautiously expressed hope the worst was Two separate events Monday one planned and one a marked what Nuclear Regulatory Com mission experts viewed as the turning a large hydrogen bubble within the reactor suddenly and unexpectedly appeared to have shrunk to 6 percent of its original size for reasons not entirely understood by The Food and Drug ih in cooperation with the Mallinckrodt drug firm of got bottles of the antiradiation solution potassium iodide airlifted to Harrisburg as a precaution against thyroid problems should a major radiation release Harold chief Nuclear Regulatory Commission official on the called the apparent change in the size of the reactor bubble as reason for I think its certainly safer than it was Denton said 1 think there certainly is reason for in a planned engineers began removing hydrogen gas from the reactors con a concrete cylinder 120 feet wide and about 230 feet Both promised to reduce the risk of potentially catastrophic hydrogen But traces of radiation from millirem to millirem per hour at ground level and from to 3 millirem at an altitude of 500 wafted over the Pennsylvania Dutch countryside near A dental by is about 6 Officials estimated people onefourth the population of Lancaster and Cumberland Counties which surround the Susquehanna River plant had fled the area in an almost in visible voluntary evacuation since state and civil defense officials remained poised for total evacuation should the situation threaten to get Businesses in the area surrounding the leaking plant reported sales off by as much as50 Reserve Bank of Philadelphia shipped millions of dollars cash to Harrisburg by armored trucks to help banks near the plant meet withdrawal demands of voluntary But Denton said he was taken aback and skeptical about the size of the from 850 cubic feet to 47 cubic and to stay on the safe side he ordered a careful of the calculation before accepting the dramatic decrease as The good hews about the bubble was matched later in the day by the start of electric furnaces hooked to ports in the containment building to remove hydrogen cook it with a catalyst to add oxygen and turn it from a possibly explosive gas to harmless Those developments were tempered by the first failure of an instrument in the reactor due to radiation That failure did no harm because the instrument was not in But Denton said he was concerned others might fail as depriving engineers of information about conditions in the Pennsylvania authorities took a careful approach to the easing of the Civil defense spokesman John Comey said standby evacuation plans still were at the reporting We are not relaxing our prepared Richard Thornburgh kept schools closed within five miles of the plant and said pregnant women and proschool children still should avoid the No Pulaski cases Measles flare in Montgomery Staff Writer An outbreak of red Montgomery County and the City of Radford has not become a problem in Pulaski to according to superintendent of the Ken HAROLD DENTON Nuclear Chief Says Danger Eased United Press In the neighboring immunization clinics have been set up in the schools due to the appearance of several cases of known as or the ten day But Pulaski has not experienced the same emergence of the We just dont have the instance of measles here that they are having in Montgomery and Dobson this He said he had talked with Health Department officials during the later Trucking fight not expected to hamper New River Valley stiff Photo SPRING CLEANING Shutdown Has a Benefit From Staff and Wire Reports The Teamsters strike and trucking industry lockout entered its third day Tuesday with an estimated union members off their jobs in South west according to a union Three trucking companies serving this part of the state have locked out workers in response to the strike which Local 171 is supporting in near full Local President Jim Guynn said this morning in a telephone We are supporting national union and President Frank Fitz simmons Guynn He said he has no idea how long the strike and lockouts will Teamsters national negotiating committee of about 350 representatives of union locals is scheduled to meet Wednesday in United Press International No new negotiating sessions were scheduled this morning to resolve impasse that began Sunday morning when the Teamsters called a selective strike against 73 The disruption escalated when the trucking industry started a nation wide Guynn said this morning three companies in the region served Local 171 have locked out all to date and Wilson The Local covers the region roughly from Lynchburg west in Southwest he said Teamsters of the Hemingway Transport are still on the The strike will effect everything in your on your body and in your Guynn when asked if Southwestern Virginians should ex shortages See Page 12 part of last week and they did not report any cases to This morning a spokeswoman at the Pulaski office of the Health Depart ment indicated that she had heard of one or two cases but nothing regional health department office in no word of a problem of the highly contagious disease occuring in Pulaski had been But in Radford and Montgomery immunization is currently going According to a press release from the Health clinics will be operating in those school systems throughout this According to Montgomery County School Nurse Jean there were about 40 cases of red measles rubeola reported in the Shawsville On March the state health department conducted an im clinic al Shawsville Middle and High Schools and Elementary Red a health department release is a serious and disease can end in serious in brain ear infections und Symptoms of the disease are a high runny nose and watery The disease usually lasts one lo two The incubation period following exposure to children involved in the outbreak has beea Meyers Were seeing second generation cases she Were trying to before theres a third generation Meyers she said there probably will be some third cases resulting from ex before to the second generation Principals at Blacksburg Middle School and Harding Avenue School in Blacksburg said Friday one case believed to be See Page 12 Bomb threat clears plant From Staff and Wire Reports A Christiansburg radio station reported this morning the station received a bomb threat against the Federal Mogul Corporation in Blacksburg Monday Jill news reporter for said a woman called the disc jockey on duty at 10 She said Its time for their power to The woman was very very articulate without an said She told the disc jockey the bomb was set to go off about Plant Superintendent Rod said a telephone caller said a bomb was set to go off at At Fuller called the 100 workers on the third shift into the cafeteria to explain the situation and the building was evacuated while a bomb squad searched the No bomb was By normal operations Fuller telephoned threat was made Sunday authorities Fuller said the plant was operating with three shifts despite the earlier wildcat There was talk of a possible strike by members of Local 3533 of the Machinists and Aerospace Workers because of the Blacksburg police investigated the call but found no according to No statements were released except to say than no bomb was Normal plant operations resumed about Union president Jim Metcalf said Monday night the Union will begin taking legal action this morning firings at Federal The first will be to work thru the plants grievance If the grievance procedures the union plans to take other legal action up finding arbitration and filing charges National Tabor Relations TIMES Scouts lift rocket 3 Index Rain tapering tonight with dropping temperatures with the low tonight in Showers and possibly heavy on Wed with the high in the of precipitation is 60 percent tonight increasing to 90 percent Classifieds Comics Doonesbury Editorials Lifestyles Sports TV Listings Weather n 9 11 4 4 3 6 n 2 POLICE GATHERED LAST WEEK AT PLANT Monday Bomb Threat Latest in Series of Violent Incidents at Federal Mogul Stitt by Suun
