Gas Bubble Breaks up in Reactor

I i \ . ......... ’ I Customers Saddened Elkii Toby Exchanged 1 Whalers Panic^ Fire I Work Is Never Done 'B y Tavern Closings " Clean Air Love Notes Dineen, Tab Blackburn I For Mayor in Area Page 3 Page 5 1 Page 11 1 Page 2 0 L------------------------------------J ----------------- ^ iUaudiPfitpr Rainy Tonight, h WHAFS Cioudy Tuesday NEWS Details on page 2 Bones Found MANCHESTER -Portions of a » A Family NEWSpaper Since 1881 • 20$ Single Copy • 15t Home Delivered jaw bone and skull, probably of a human being, were found in Charter Oak Park Friday by a nine-year-old boy and police, police reported today. Gas Bubble Patrol Capt. Henry Minor said that Matthew Patnaude, 9. of 148 School St. found the jawbone >eath" (1943) Basil Rath- along the bank of the creek run igel Bruca. ning through the park in the area near the bridge leading to Mt. Breaks Up la "The Story Of Louis Nebo. He took the bone home and " (1936) Paul Muni, Akim his parents called police. f ^ f- Police returned and found a niece of skull and dug for more [Bonny remains on Shturday, finding I 11 ,another piece of skull, Minor- In Reactor rio "The Unfaithful" said. Vnn Sheridan. Lew Ayres. Manchester Memorial Hospital HARRISBURG, Pa. (UPI) - nuclear facility. confirmed that the jaw bone was Metropolitan fildison Co., the power Thousands of residents already had probably from a human. The company that owns the Three Mile fled the area. There has been no of bones have been sent to the Island nuclear plant, claimed today ficial evacuation order, but Thorn University of Connecticut the dangerous bubble of hydrogen gas burgh suggested that pregnant Medical Center for evaluation. inside the reactor is women and pre-school children stay Preliminary investigation in “disintegrating.” at least five miles away from the dicated by the teeth show that the Federal nuclear experts refused to facility. bones may have been from an old confirm the report but said they were The main task now f;iced by the person, Minor said. The bones “encouraged" about the bubble size. engineers is to cool the reactor core were not buried deeply. A spokesman for Metropolitan so they can shut it down cold. Unless Edison, part-owner of the stricken the fuel core can be cooled, the Housing Grant nuclear plant, said the bubble, which danger of a melt-down of the core — is complicating the vital cooling of the worst possibV' nuclear MANCHESTER -T h e Depart- the nuclear core is “about 170-175 catastrophe — could arise. Im ent of Housing and Urban cubic feet right now and there is Harold Denton, the Nuclear iDevelopment today notified evidence in might be disintegrating.” Regulatory Commission’s operation I Congressman William Cotter that If true, the report would mean the chief at the plant site, said the le’^el Ithe Westhill Gardens senior bubble is far less than half its of hydrogen in the containment DL I citizen housing Project will be original size when it first posed a building was increasing. But he said I receiving a grant of $222,267 for a dangerous problem to the cooling if the increase in hydrogen was due I modernization program. ' jr- process. It was because original ef to a decrease in the size of the bub- The Manchester Housing V'«- forts to eliminate the bubble bte,‘ “ th a t’s what we hoped to [Authority had received produced no results that mass achieve" [preliminary approval for the evacuation plans for the whole area Carter, cheered and applauded [ grant last month. are being considered. enthusiastically by about 600 The money will fund four •k. ISuclear Tour However, a spokesman for the Middletown residents when he [different projects including Nuclear Regulatory Commission, arrived at the local town hall, shook [ expanded maintenance and office President Carter, Harold Denton, center, Power Plant Sunday after touring the facili which is in charge of the operation at hands, grinned and waved to the [ facilities, emergency lighting and and Peennsylvania Gov. Dick Thornburgh ty. (UPI photo) Three Mile Island, refused to con crowd as tie departed for the installation of showers and a walk from the Three Mile island Nuclear firm the Met-Ed report. The NRC Washihgton. [temperature control system. has consistently had figures on the But inside the hall, the |)residen( The local authority has received size of the bubble higher than Met-, appeared grim us he repeated three I funding for all the improvements Ed. "" times that his main concern was the I it had requested. Reception Subdued “The only thing we have is that safety of the population, Plans for the improvements there is reason to be encouraged "If we make an error, we want to [have already been begun by about the bubble size,” NRC err on the side of extrernevcaution Lawrence Associates, architects. spokesman Ken Clark said. and extra safety,” Carter said. “The “All we’ve got to do now, when Meanwhile, engineers at the site health and safety of the peopfe will the plans are finalized, is put the For Begin in Cairo continued the slow process of star be paramount. ” job out for bid,” Pascal ting to convert hydrogen gas in the containment building back to water Mastrangelo, housing authority CAIRO. Egypt (UPI) — Menachem visit was routine for visiting heads of greeted Begin as the 65-year-old to help cool the reactor. Giant Tank I chairman, said. Begin arrived in Cairo today qnd prime minister and his wife, Aliza, government and indicated that his The new attempt began just hours Egypt gave a subdued but proper emerged from their Israeli air force overnight stay in the most populous after President Carter — himself a CIA & Cancer reception for the first Israeli prime Boeing 707. city in the Middle East will be kept trained nuclear engineer — and Gov. Reaches Pa. minister to set foot in an Arab Protocol did not require President low-key. WASHINGTON (UPI) - A capital. Anwar Sadat to greet Begin, since Begin’s first official function after Dick Thornburgh donned bright .SCRANTON, Pa. I UPI) - A con yellow protective boots, personally quarter-century ago, the CIA con Blue and white Israeli flags the prime minister is the head of voy hauling a giant nuclear radiation his arrival was to lay a wreath on the inspected the plant on the Susquehan sidered experimenting on ter fluttered over the airport, Israel’s government but not a head of state. Unknown Soldier monument on the containment chamber to the Three na River island and reported the minal cancer patients under the national anthem was played by an Neither Begin nor Mobarak made parade grounds at Nasser City, on Mile Island nuclear power plant situation "stable.” guise of “ legitimate medical Egyptian band and the man once any statements, although the Israeli Cairo’s eastern outskirts. trundled into Pennsylvania today, Engineers hooked up hydrogen work,” but government denounced as a terrorist by the Egyp leader waved to more than 300 The monument, a towering, after winding its way through 'recombiners” to the vents of the documents fail to show if such tian press lowered his head in salute reporters and photographers, saying hollowed-out sandstone pyramid with Connecticut back roads and across containment building, where the ideas were carried out. to the Egyptian flag. “Shalom, shalom.” a black marble block on a pedestal New York State. nuclear core is housed, to start Heavily censored material ob Vice President Hosni Mobarak The welcome for Begin's 28-hour below the apex, is a tribute to all Moving at 30 to .35 miles per hour, today’s ciperation. tained under the Freedom of In soldiers killed on the battlefield, but the convoy crossed from Connecticut formation Act showed the agency especially those who died in the Oc The two recombiners were in place • to New York at 5:,30 a.m, and crossed was looking into ways to “knock tober 1973 Arab-Israeli war. and were expected to be in full opera into lY-nnsylvania at Port Jervis, off key guys” through inducing Embassy Attacked The Israeli flag was hoisted on the tion later today, according to Harry N Y. at 7:55 a.m. apparently natural causes such as grounds a few minutes before the Kister, a Nuclear Regulatory Com State police accom|)anied the con stock cancer and heart attacks. BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) - They said they did not know who wreath-laying ceremony began. It mission official in Philadelphia. voy, which includes a'spare truck lor The CIA also was concerned Unidentified terrorists today at was responsible. stood in a row with the Egyptian The recombiners are designed to the 117,000-pound, 85-by-15-foot rved. about the vulnerability of U.S. tacked the U.S. Embassy in Beirut “We have some shrapnel and it national flag and the standards of the convert some of the hydrogen gas holding lank, a crane for lilting the leaders to assassination by such with rocket-propelled grenades as appears we were hit by rocket- army, navy and air force. buildup in the containment building truck around tight corners, a pickup virtually undetectable means. Arab opposition to the U.S.- propelled grenades,"the spokesman Begin drove to the grounds in a back into water by heating it with truck and a pace car. 1979 But there is nothing to show sponsored Egyptian-Israeli peace said. The attack occurred at about black presidential limousine, with oxygen — a process similar to the The convoy continued on Interst;ite whether the talk about inducing treaty intensified. 8:45 a.m. EST and the rocket Israeli Hags flying from both way steam from a teapot is con 84 until it reached the outskirts of cancer and heart attacks ever got The embassy building was launchers apparently were fired fenders.

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