Blaze threatens explosives near Los Alamos site
A forest fire near Bandelier National Monument has burned about 4000 acres and moved toward the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. Firefighters, slurry bombers, and helicopters battled the flames as authorities said no major explosives were in immediate danger unless winds shift. A National Parks Service worker Juan Aldaz died battling the blaze.
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Associated Press
Bandelier National Monument
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Eugene H. Eyster
Federal Energy Research and Development Administration
Eyster
Bandelier
la Mesa
National Parks Service
Juan G
Johnny” Aldaz
Vallecitos
Aldaz
Forest Service
Los Alamos Medical Center
Los Alamos
New Mexico
Bureau of Land Management
Organ Mountains
Las Cruces
U.S. Forest Service
Santa Fe National Forest
Delier Park
Jemez Mountain Forest
City weighs big water and sewer rate hike
Roswell officials consider raising water and sewer charges by more than 100 percent to fund system improvements. The Water and Sewer Committee backs bonds totaling 14.5 million dollars for Roswell and Roswell Industrial Air Center water system upgrades, new Kerr Well Field water delivery, and a new sewage treatment plant. Mayor Jerry N. Smith says action could come in September with changes likely in October, noting no rate rise in a decade.
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Water and Sewer Committee
Roswell
Kerr
Jerry N. Smith
The
Daily Record
Smith
Herkenhoff and Associates
Albuquerque
Wilson and Co
St. Louis
Robert H. Cress
Cress
Kerr Field
Environmental Protection Agency
Waste disposal costs push up nuclear energy prices
Washington AP reports that the cost of managing radioactive waste raises the price per kilowatt hour for nuclear plants. Rep. Leo Ryan and three subcommittee members toured Hanford to press for a concrete waste disposal cost figure, with ERDA officials citing unofficial estimates of one mill per kilowatt hour.
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Richland
Wash
U.S. House
Leo Ryan
D-Calif
Jack Hightower
D-Tex
Thomas Kindness
Ohio
Arlan Strangeland
R-Mini
Washington State
John Cunningham
Mike McCormack
Ryan
Tom Bauman
Energy Research and Development Administration
Strangeland
Alex Fremling
ERDA
Fremling
Hanford Reservation
San Francisco
Washington
Hanford
Lincoln National Forest Closes Amid Extreme Fire Danger
The Lincoln National Forest and all national forests in New Mexico and Arizona will close at 8 a.m. due to extreme fire danger. Rangers said roads camps and picnic grounds stay open, but no roadside parking or hiking trails. Reopening hinges on conditions and is unpredictable.
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Spehar
Forest Service
New Mexico
Arizona
U.S Forest Service
Albuquerque
Enterprise conducts first manned piggyback test flight
At Edwards Air Force Base California two astronauts test flaps and speed brake on the piggyback Space Shuttle Enterprise during a 54 minute flight atop a modified Boeing 747. Haise and Fullerton perform flutter tests while the craft is carried at 209 miles per hour over the Dryden Flight Research Center.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Enterprise
Johnson Space Center
Houston
Desert
Fred W. Haise Jr
Haise
Air Force
Gordon Fullerton
Fullerton
Space Agency
Earth
Dryden Flight Research Center
Giant radio telescope rises near Magdalena
A Y shaped rail system is being built to support 27 210 ton movable antennas for the National Astronomy Observatory. The project aims to finish by 1980 at a cost of 78 million dollars. Antennas mounted on transporter cars will run along about 13 mile arms in the Plains of San Agustin 90 miles southwest of Albuquerque. Seven antennas are active now with more to come this month, forming a surface equivalent to a 425 foot single dish.
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Magdalena
National Astronomy Observatory
Plains of
San Agustin
Albuquerque
World's largest fully steerable radio telescope in Bonn
Scientists say the Max Planck Institute in Bonn West Germany operates the world’s largest fully steerable radio telescope. Radio telescopes gather radio waves from stars planets and the Milky Way and use computers to create photograph like images and maps. They can estimate surface and atmospheric temperatures of planets from the waves.
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Max Planck Institute
Bonn
West Germany
Solar System
Earth
Moon
Milky Way
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