= 2: Page2, The Héraid, Tuesday, February 7, 1904 daligherald Published every weekday at 310 Kalum Street, - Terrace, B.C. by Sterling Publishers Ltd. Authorized as second cless mail. Registration Number 1201, Postage paid in cash, return poatage dea guaranteed. Terrace: 6, Circulation: 635-6357 635-4000 . Publisher - David Hamilton F Advertising Sales: Editor: Brian Gregg Nick Walton “Staff Weiter-Photographer: Sports: Raiph Reschke | Holly Olson Reception-Classitied: . Circulation: Claire Wadley Sue Nelson NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright In any adveriisement produced and-or any editorlal or photographic content published In the. Herald. Reproduction is nat permitted without the written permission of the Publisher. The Terrace-Kitimat Dally Herald Newspaper is politically Independent and a member of the British Columbia Press Council. > NASA is worried. HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) — The back-to-back loss of two : ', Satellites and a different rocket’s failure last year leave the | US. space shuttle program without the muscle to blast "heavy communications satellites into high orbit, and NASA ' officials are clearly worried. The losses of Palapa-B on Monday and Westar 6 on . rocket booster, and triggered the space industry equivalent ’ of a recall. Richard Brandes, a vice-president of Hughes Aircraft — + Ca, , manufacturer of the twin satellites, snid the failures , ~ were 0 dimilar “it’s eerie.” He indicated that the module rocket booster should nat be ~ used until the problem is understood. ‘Some clarification of e, “the problem would have to develop before we could . ~ recommend further use of the PAM motor,” Brandes said, :. MASA officials said privately that a delay in solving the *- PAM problem cauld force flight schedules to be reshuffled, _ Cause. missions to be delayed and some flights even to be = cancelled, : The module failures come almost eight months after a ‘ similar problem forced the grounding of another rocket = booster, the Initial Upper Stage. aes ' failed to send the Tracking, Data and zane sé it'to Iaaneh ot er satellites. Jcompleted, The booster is-not expected to be ‘used again “until a mission in December. ; The booster and the module were both developed to boost heavy payloads from the low orbit in which the space. - shuttle operates to the 38,000-kilometre orbit that is the working home of communications satellites, Use of the boosters was an integral part of . the :, engineering philosophy that led to devlopment of the space -‘shuttle, and the rockets’ loss turns the shuttle from a long- “haul space truck into a short-haul delivery van. ~, Glynn Lunney, program manager of the National Space “Transportation System at Johnson Space Centre, took pains Monday to point out how important the modvle was to the _-NASA program. ; “NASA has kind of what you might call a fleet interest in | - “ithe PAM program as it supports the communications “satellite industry, because obviously a lot of our traffic is of ‘Ihe communications satellite type,” he said, “Who fs list ening? acanty has only been listening to one side of the story ‘about three foster children her ministry has decided -to “youngasters’ foster parent, Lorraine Marriott. * “These children are fighting for their. home,” Marriott “themselves as foster children.” - The three youngsters have said they do not want to leave _ ‘the Marriott's home, ‘ “Mrs. McCarthy is only listening to one side of the story, ” :Marriott said. “When three teenagers lives are involved, -she should see the other side of the story.” : McCarthy zald her ministry will go ahead and take the “three away from Marriott and her husband, Ted. - - “We have to do what's best fer the children,” McCarthy -*said in an interview from Victoria. “It's a heavy. respon- sibility for our staff and I think that In this case, we have done the best thing,” The Marriatts and the teenagers, two girls aged ié.and 15, “and @ 16-year-old boy, are angry over the ‘ministry's plan to separate them. ; The teenagers say they don’t want to leave "the beat home” they ever had, while their foster mother, said: “There is just so much love in this family and our firat concern is the kids.” . McCarthy said the children would be “removed in the next short while,” —. ’ Ted Marriott said; “As far as I know the children won't go willingly. They said last night they'd kick, they’d fight, they'd do everything, but they won't leave thelr hanie. ” Re added that he had few options left. and be qulet . . would do any g McCarthy said her miniatry’s confidentiality regulations mention some of the alleged problems. “The (social) workers’ coricerns have Included the fact | 7 that there are adult boarders in the home, a lack of co- ‘ operation in planning for our wards (the chifdren) and a reluctance to provide information regarding the children, " the minister said, Marriott sald the ministry's complaints are unfounded. McCarthy sald the Marriotts will stilt be. able to peel per ~ ghildren, ; ‘To the Bdltor, Friday were caused by failure of the Payloag Assist Module | until an investigation was" VAN COUVER (CP) — Human Resources Minister Grace “xemove from thelr Vancouver foster’ home, says the ‘suid. ‘They hate the name foster home. They don’t think of “What can I do short of going to jail? I guess I've got to alt - . . But Tbe willing to go to jail if I thought It ; make it Imposalble to give detalls on why the ministry has - lost confidence in the Marriotis, Nevertheless, she did . Ihave noticed, with regret, articies written members from the Fraser Insitute appearing the Terrace Herald and several members of thenewspaper -- chains, and, although I take exception tothe nstitutes”” - Yight-wing ‘neo-conservative: _philosphies T eon ‘freedom of the. press ‘is: paramount; «there