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V ii r ounu dud unueiBy JIM HOUGANf ’■{01 TV Capital-Times Staff)While awaiting a test to determine if he is the victim of radioactive tritium poisoning, John Lynch, a U,W, research assistant in - the. Physics Department, sajd this mornipg that he heardjthe explosion in the Army Math Research Center and rushed there to fihd his friend, Robertrived at the scene and led firemen through the blasted rubble to the low-temperature research facility where Fassnaeht was working when the bomb exploded nearby,C t *“I think be (Fassnaeht) waswater,” that was stored in gas-1 sized that “s* far we haven't eous form m bottles close to the j discovered any radUtteo.”believed origin of the explosion, Besides the tritium, anotherIt was not known by noon today whether . or not those bottles were damaged, or if the materia! h?d “leaked.”♦ * * ' ’hi the hall,” Lynch' Said, “but II In the basement offices of thecouldn’t be sure: ail the interior iPhysics Department, two floorswalls were blown out.”Fassnaeht, buried beneath a Lynch1 told his story to The p|lerof riibjjlie “with his ^d be-(Capital Times on an examina-neatb about,a loot of water.” tion table ,in University Hospi-Shortly after the explosion,tals. Lynch was in the hospitalbeneath the Army Math Research Center proper, radiation hazard signs were posted.Assistant Chief of the Madison Fire1 Department. Eugene P.Lynch said, he telephoned Mrs, to learn if he had received ajBuechner, surveying the mas-F a s s n a c h t. to determine if “Fass was working or not.” • Learning that the researcher was in the building, Lynch ar-dose of tritium poisoning. Tritium, the researcher explained, is a radioactive isotope, so.metimes called “heavysive damage which still smouldered early this afternoon, confirmed that the warning signs ihad been posted, but empha-poteniiaS source of radiation leakage, according to Prof. Converse Blanchard, assistant chairman of the Physics Department, is a “linear accelerator” located in the basement of Sterling Hall, adjacent to the bomb blast.Prof. Blanchard said .this morning that the accelerator, which is kept in operation around the clock, occasionally uses radioactive targets. The professor emphasized, however, that he didn’t think such targets have been in use recently.mmbe-the Crime lab workers probe the rubble for clues while firemen continue to extinguish smouldering debris inside the demolishedoffices of the Physics Department in Sterling Hall, site of a 4 a.m. bomb .blast. (Staff Photo by Bruce Fritz)From Federal Government4■Welfare Mothers ChargeBlanchard, alternating tween his own office and site of the explosion in an effort to gain entrance for his colleagues to their damaged offices, noted that “damage to the nuclear physics department and to the low temperature research group is extensive and it wiiL be months—-rather than weeks—before the damage can be repaired: and that’s after the building is repaired.”Physicians specializing in illnesses caused by radiation poisoning said today that they will “probably” administer tests for radiation to David Schuster, 27, a victim of the blast who had been working near the placewhere the tritium is stored.* * *•Another victim, Norbert Sutter, 57, is also in University Hospitals. Both Sutter, a night watchman on duty when the bomb went off, and Schuster, a graduate student, are undergoing extensive medical tests to determine what injuries they may have sustained. Sutter Isreceiving medication to dull pain, and both men have undergone an exhaustive series of X-rays.At the site of the blast itself, crowds of spectators are kept at arm’s length by hordes of police, busy probing the wreckage for clues.Throughout the area there is widspread damage to surrounding buildings. Once tranquil university lawns and malls are carpeted with glass smashed by the explosion in Sterling Hall.Police swarm through the wreckage, photograph the spectators and the scene itself, while Madison Gas and Electric trucks continue a cautious search for possible breaks in gas mains.Glass on the bottom floor of Sterling Hall crackles under the feet of FBI men, Army investigators, civil defense workers, sheriff deputies and city poiice-_ men. An entire wall is blown out from the basement of the building, and twisted; girders poke out where bricks had oncenEstb1Ckticnnlt;►fiabeenStalling On Clothing FundsBy CHARLOTTE ROBINSON (Of The Capital Times Staff)Welfare I mothers were confronted with what they called “stalling tactics” this morning in - a conference' with Frank Brown of the State Department of Public Instruction on the question of whether or not they could get federal funds to buy school clothes for their children.’The women, members of the Dane County Welfare Rights Alliance. had asked last week lordren, or to prevent educational!welfare payments last winter, deprivation. I When they were written, wel-Brown, head of Title I in the state told the women that they can’t use Title I money where welfare money had previously been used.fare payments were high enough to allow mothers to purchase school clothes for their children.a1:vrct*Brown said he had to speak to federal officials in Chicago and Washington, D. C., before he could make any decision on spending the money for schoolclothes.Last Friday the women had met with Harold Gall, federal projects director for the Madison Board of Education, who told them he would be willing to provide the money for welfare-___ j *Automobiles, parked in a lot adjacent to the site of the explosion, are ruined, their windowsshattered and roofs smashed inby flying debris.Across University Avenue, barber plies his trade even though his plate glass windows are gone. In University Hospitals workmen chip broken glass from hundreds of windows in the East Wing, while others survey the. broken window frames twisted by the explosion.In the nearby Chemistry Building, scientists labor with broms and dustpans to clean their smashed laboratories and to determine what chemicalsctHl Teff
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Mon, Aug 24, 1970
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