18—The Daily, collegian Thursday, Sept. 20, 1979 Shalom Tanazanian Salim Ahmed Salim, new president, of the U.N. General Assembly, says peace talks in the Middle East will never succeed unless Palestinians participate as a people and not as refugees. Blocked air lines WASHINGTON ( AP) Blocked air lines may have caused a valve failure that contributed to the Three Mile Island nuclear • power plant accident, a congressional panel was told yesterday. Edwin L. Zebroski: 'director of the Nuclear Safety Analysis Center of the Electric Power Research Institute, made the statement in testimony to the House subcommittee on energy research. The center, based in Palo Alto, Calif., 'as, formed by a group of public and RESEARCH PAPERS 10,250 on. File All Academic Subjects Send $l.OO for your up-to-date, 306-page mail order catalog ACADEMIC RESEARCH P.O. 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"I think there is a strong surmise, but it's circumstantial," Zebroski replied. "There apparently was a possibility of Yeztnoe4 Via lie ''Yeitf We love you all! may have cOhtribUted to failure ; getting the air system contaminated with something that should not be there possibly bits of resin, possibly water or oil." Zebroski said resin was used to, purify the air around the instruments in an auxiliary building which hobsed the secondary water system valve. He said particles from the impure air used to aerate the 'resin may have somehow been shifted to the supposedly pure air in the instrument chamber. Lie said the particles could have California residents flee Fires endanger homes VENTURA, Calif. (UPI)' An 18,000-acre brush fire swooped down a mountain slope towards hundreds of homes in Ventura yesterday, but lack of wind helped firefighters kablize the flames. Several other communities also were badgered by flames as hot temperatures and warm winds stirred up nearly a dozen fires throughout California, charring thousands of acres of brush and,timber and burning some structures. Help came in from 28 states to contain the blaze. In Ventura, about 60 miles up the coast from Los Angeles, the flames from a blaze that began Tuesday near Ojai, 10 miles away, moved to the edge of the city limits, but no structures had yet burned and no major injuries were reported. , When the blaze broke out on Sulphur Mountain near Ojai, many residents fled from homes in the Mira Monte and Oak View districts. One observer said hundreds of homes were temporarily abandoned in the face of a "mass of flames." The blaze also damaged about 85 acres of citrus groves, some of which were bulldozed to make a fire break. Farther up the coast in Santa Barbara County, a 4,000-acre fire in Eagle Canyon near Goleta jumped the Pacific Coast Highway and burned to the beach, destroying four ranch structures in Eagle Canyon and one house in Winchester Canyon. The blaze also roasted 38 head of cattle, valued at $40,000 and put residents of three areas the San Miguel and Rancho Embarcadero housing tracts and Santa Barbara West Mobile Home Park into flight. Firefighters had 35 percent of the blaze contained but were also worried about afternoon winds. The worst area of . the fire was the northern flank, which was burning in an inaccessible, choked a tiny opening in the valve, "causing it to shut when it shouldn't shut." Zebroski said the stuck valve "was a factor but not the most fundamental factor in the initiation of the accident." McCormack, however, speculated that the valve failure "confused the situation," causing operators in the control room to miss other conditions and fail to take actions that might have averted the mishap. Guaranteed 26-Week Maturity For example, if you had bought a CCB 6-month Savings Certificate on Thursday, September 20, 1979, we would now be paying you this annual rate, subject to change at renewal. Right now, nobody but nobody, has a. money market certificate that pays you more. Not a savings bank, not a savings and loan, not another commercial bank, not anybody. Period. $lO,OOO minimum deposit. Insured up to $40,000 by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. counties If you withdraw your money before maturity, federal regulations require that the interest rate be lowered to the current passbook rate and that 90 days' interest at the passbook rate be forfeited. Also, federal regulations pro hibit compounding of interest during the term of this.time deposit category. central bank Member FDIC • adYzataarAlClAlLN&MkiltleliOW. Warren H. Owen, testifying on behalf went on there for a long time that from a: of an Atomic Industrial Forum corn- management standpoint I believe should, mittee following up on the Three Mile. .--have been corrected." He said the In:: Island accident, said the loss , of secon- struments for the secondary systerir dary cooling water was "at least a "needed clean air " hassle factor " "That is the last thing you need in a control room when an accident or a crisis occurs." Owen, a senior vice president of Duke Power Co. in Charlotte, N.C.., told the'subcommittee. Qwen said that apparently "things uninhabitated terrain A section of coastal Highway 101, one of the two majoii: highway links between metropolitan Los Angeles and the &aril; Francisco Bay Area, remained closed. • Firefighters contained a 200-acre blaze in the nearby Lake. Cachuma area. Although only about 100 to 150 acres were burned in Box 4 Canyon in the Simi Valley near the, Ventura-Los Angeles , County line, the blaze was considered the second most im-; portant fire in the state because of the threat to homes. - Sheriff's officials said the flames threatened about 60 homesl in Santa Susanna Knolls on the west and another string of homes at the top of Box Canyon to the east. % s 4 Air tankers dropped water on the blaze in the hopes of get ting a quick containment. Crews from as far away as Florida, Louisiana, Texas„: Georgia and South Caroline helped battle the three-day-did: Chili Bar fire near Placerville in the historic Mother Lode: country of Northern California. The 8,200-acre brush and timer blaze was 60 percent con-, tained yesterday morning. Property loss to four homes,- bulldozer, a barn and five outbuildings was estimated ai. $280,000 and three firefighters were treated for burns. About 300 homes in Swansboro on the northwest flank of the blaze were evacuated. . • 4 Elsewhere in the state, warm winds were still a threat to the six-day old, 31,000-acre Sage fire, in the Angeles Natiothik • Forest in the mountains north of Los Angeles. A companion blaze, the 4,800-acre . Monte Fire, was 85 pet , : cent contained yesterday and reseeding to replenish the: hillsides was already started in some areas. . • . • . MiZIM;S Zebroski said the analysis of the.evo. by the industry-supported center %%;as: based on "the instrument charts and the computer records ... together witha_ data logger something like a flight recorder, which provides a more complete record of what was happening than the operators had." 111
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