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University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository 1982 The aiD ly Lobo 1981 - 1985 10-5-1982 New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 087, No 32, 10/ 5/1982 University of New Mexico Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1982 Recommended Citation University of New Mexico. "New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 087, No 32, 10/5/1982." 87, 32 (1982). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1982/114 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The aiD ly Lobo 1981 - 1985 at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1982 by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Vol. 87 No. 32 Tuesday, October 5, 1982 Ballooning accident arouses speculation ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. England. (UPI)- One of the world's best Her own plans for the rest of the known aeronauts, who stayed fiesta, which concludes Sunday, are aboard a flaming hot-air balloon and undetemtined fell to his death moments later, may have been trying to put out the fire, a She said if she flies again during Belgian balloonist said Monday. the 11th annual event, "it has to be "I'm quite sure that's the only absolutely perfect weather . ., I will reason he stayed," said Anneke try to fly again very soon. But it may Sandel of Brussels of her beloved be very difficult.'' friend, Dick Wirth. Wirth, manufacturer of the "Thunder" balloon known as "El The disastrous conclusion Sunday Globo Grande" that wound up col to a 90-minute balloon ride aboard lapsed in the Rio Grande, was the "EI Globo Grande" stunned a among four people killed and three ballooning community and others injured in Sunday's disaster. thousands of spectators assembled Among the dead was Christina for the 11th annual International Robinson, 29, in charge of the Balloon Fiesta, normally a go,.rgeous Thunder sewing room in London. visual spectacle marred only occa sionally by minor accidents. "He obviously just stayed on board to minimize the damage,'' said Sandel, a balloon pilot with 13 TV stars again, years experience and more than 500 hours in the air. $144,000 to UNM "He could have jumped just like The University of New Mexico/ anyone else (when the fire was first Brigham Young University football discovered). But he was probably game will be televised Saturday on Joe Ceverene trying to do something to fix the ' CBS Television as part of a regional problem. That's the only reason we schedule of college grid action. DELA YEO DESCENT this morning ended this pilot's ·attempt in the balloon fiestas figure out and we know him very hare-and-hound rat:fl. The mishap occurred at the Rio Grande Zoo. well," she said. UNM will act as the host school Saturday and will receive about • 'It "'=as just a freak incident and at $144,000- three shares of the tot least five people came out alive. Un al revenue given to the WAC by Balloon competition begins fortunately, the other four dido 't," CBS - instead of the two shares she said. the Lobos received as the visiting 1 school at the Air Force Academy last Sandel said she was watching the Saturday. despite isolated incident~ imperiled balloon through binocu lars from a vast field where waves of Dennis Pohlman balloon within 50 feet of the ''road Short said, were the designer of the The game will be televised in 10 colorful hot-air balloons had lifted states. Frank Herzog and former runner'' and was the only balloon of balloon, Dick Wirth of Lo11don, En off Sunday. Undaunted by Sunday's mishap the first flight to land within 200 gland, and his fiance, Christina Michigan quarterback Dennis Franklin will be the announcers. that claimed four lives· and left three yards. Robinson, also of London. By that "But I didn't know when we saw others injured, the 1 Jth Annual Hot Races continued throughout the time the balloon had risen to nearly this happening in the sky that he was The game should be a sellout and Air Balloon Fiesta continued Mon morning and will continue for the 1,000 feet in the air. Neither had in that balloon,'' the grief stricken fans, especially the students, are en day with participants vowing to go next several days, along with other parachutes, and both died instantly woman said. "And then we just -couraged to show up early. Kickoff on despite the "isolated incident." contests designed to test pilots' upon impact. The force of their land waited around, waited around, and is set for 11:35 a.m. at University manuevering skills. ing left impressions in the soft earth kept hoping. And it started to sound Stadium. Monday, the third day of the fies nearly a foot deep, according to wit The balloon fiesta committee worse and worse and then we finally ta, featured the beginning of com nesses.at the scene. got confirmation. '' Student tickets can be obtained in petition among the balloon pilots. issued a press statement Monday in Short suffered pelvic bruises and the Student Union Building from 8 The "roadrunner-coyote" races pit cluding the recollections of a pas bums to his hair, the left side of his She said both Wirth and Ms. a.m. until 4:30 p.m. today and ted a single "roadrunner" balloon senger injured in Sunday"s tragedy. face and his left hand. He will re Robinson would be cremated Wednesday. Tickets for all future crewed by experts against the skills C. Vincent Short, 35, of Grover, main under observation at UNM Wednesday in Albuquerque, and home game will be issued on the of the remaining flight of N.C., described the accident that Hospital for the next several days. their remains will be taken back to Tuesday of game week. ''coyotes." The "roadrunner" bal killed four of his fellow passengers loon took off first in each of the and injured two others besides him races, and using every trick in the self in the ill-fated last voyageof"EI book, attempted to evade the rest of Globo Grande." the flight, with varying degrees of Short said the accident was most success. likely the result of equipment fai lure. "We were making a relatively The-- first "roadrunner" was the soft landing," he remembered, Coca-Cola balloon, which stayed ''then something seemed to give low and eventually touched down in way on top of one of the propane the parking lot of the Rio Grande tanks." Zoo on lOth Street across from Do The result was a release of raw lores Gonzales Elementary School, propane into the gondola, and when much to the delight of the school the gas rose to the level of the bur children. ners, the propane ignited, causing a flash fll'e to rush through the basket. A multi-colored balloon was the ''The gondola rose again to be first to attempt a landing alongside tween 10 and 20 feet when I pushed the .. roadrunner.'' Unfortunately out the woman standing behind me no. N-58-LB came down a little (Barbara Mardyla, 28, of North short, crashing into a tree on the Canton, Ohio). I went next and Joe edge of the flamingo pen. No in• (pilot Joe Gonzales) was right after juries were reported, only a few ex me. Joe and lwere both on fire, and cited flamingos. It was nearly an we worked on 'putting each other's hour before fire department rescue flames out. As we fell, the balloon units were able to extricate the bal· lost a lot of ballast, of course, It loon, although the crew clambered began to rise faster,'' Short recalled. down the tree safely long before res cue units arrived. Once Short was clear of the the flaming gondola, he was able to see Meanwhile the Midcap Bearings the terrible events which followed. balloon of San Antonio, Texas, The remaining passengers; some managed to swoop in and claim first clinging to the sides of the gondola, honors in the "roadrunner-coyote" jumped rather than remain and face ONE CHILl DOG daily from this,. one ofseveral concession stands around UNM, is part ol race. The pilot managed to spot his the roaring flames. Last to jump, this student1s diet. (See story on psge 5.} Page 2, New Mexico Daily Lobo, October 5, 1982 Page 3, New Mexico D11ily Lobo, October 5, 1982 ! ' TOP DOG Wire Report By United Press lnternation~l KNME receives $300,000 to replace equipment OPENS THURSDAY KNME educ11tional televi~ion has $125,000, Coopersaid. Community International News received a government grant of more service grants from the CorporatiOn ~~~~~=~~~ than $300,000. for Public Broadcasting are adding Senator Harrison S·chmitt to the new equipment fund. These announced that $375,000 is avail grants are providing $35,650 to re National Chicano Health able to KNME starting in October place existing equipment and U.S.- Soviet arms talks resuming for the purchase of equipment. $48,300 for new equipment. Organization GENEVA, Switzerland- U.S. range missiles, while Moscow seeks Schmitt is chairman of a Congres Cooper is expecting federal funds he said. sional appropriations committee and Soviet negotiators, agreeing only modest reductions in missiles Reagan has proposed each side. be to continue to decrease. In 1982 Welcomes all pre-health students to which funds public broadcasting sta Congress appropriated $172 million only that progress will be painsta and strategic bombers, limited to 5,000 nuclear warheads tions. our monthly meeting, this kingly slow, returned to Geneva for public broadcasting stations, For and 850 strategic missiles with not ' 'A large part ofthe reason we got Wednesday Oct.