Ex-Nebraskan describes airshow horror
HASTINGS — A former Nebras
kan who witnessed the air show disas
ter in West Germany says a surge of
adrenaline and a clear path away from
the burning wreckage saved his life.
“1 don’t really remember getting
out of there. I just did it," said Ted
Alber, a former Blue Springs resident
who was at Ramstein Air Base when
jets in an Italian flying team collided
with each other Sunday.
Alber, 23, a graduate of Blue Hill
High School and a former Hastings
College student, is an air defense ar
tillery specialist in the U.S. Army. He
is stationed near Mainz, West Ger
many, about 60 miles north of Ram
stein Air Base.
Alber told The Hastings Tribune in
a telephone interview that he and
several friends were near the airstrip
demonstrating remote-controlled
miniature aerial training targets when
the accident happened.
He said he thought one of the stunt
pilots was flying lower than he should
have been.
“That’s when there was a big thud
as one plane broadsided another one,’’
he said. “When he came out of that
little ball of fire up there he was
heading right for us.”
The plane landed about 50 yards
from where Alber was standing, and
he quickly dashed out of the way.
“I think it was more adrenaline
than quick reflexes. It was my body
telling me to get out of there,” he said.
“When the plane hit it threw fuel in
every direction,” he said. “There
were spots on the ground (where the
fuel had soaked in) that were burning
before the fire department got there.
Alber said he and his friends were
able to get out of the plane’s path
because they were apart from the
crowd of spectators.
“I feel very lucky. When it hit we
had a chance to get out of the way,”
Alber said. “They were packed in so
tight (in the crowd) they had no
chance to move. All they could do is
stand there and watch it come at them.
They were so tight nobody could run
away.”
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Leading economic indicator plummets
WASHINGTON — The govern
ment said Tuesday its chief forecast
ing gauge of future economic activity
suffered the steepest drop in eight
months in July, but few analysts ex
pect a substantial slackening in
growth anytime soon.
The 0.8 percent decline in the
Commerce Department’s Index of
Leading Economic Indicators was the
biggest since last November, when
the index dropped 1.0 percent in the
aftermath of the October stock market
crash.
However, economists noted that
the index posted an exceptionally
strong increase in June and cautioned
against reading too much into a one
month downturn.
In a separate report, the Commerce
Department said orders to U.S. facto
ries for manufactured goods plunged
3.5 percent in July, the worst decline
in 18 months. But that drop followed
a very strong showing in June and was
heavily influenced by a wide swing in
orders for military equipment
The economy, as measured by the
gross national product, grew at a 3.3
percent annual rate in the three
months ended in June and at a 3.4
percent pace in the first quarter.
White House spokesman B. Jay
Cooper, in California with the vaca
tioning President Reagan, said “The
data suggests continued economic
growth in the months ahead, although
at a more moderate pace than in tne
first half’ of the year.
However, the very strength that
dispelled financial markets’ worries
about a recession is fueling concern
that the economy is expanding at a
too-rapid pace lhai will lead to faster
inflation.
In an effort to ease inflationary
pressures, the Federal Reserve Board
nas been attempting to dampen eco
nomic growth by pushing up short
term interest rates since late March.
On Aug. 9, it took its most dramatic
inflation-fighting move by raising the
discount rate, its key bank lending
rate, by a half percentage point
Lawrence Chimerine, chairman of
the Wefa Group, a Bala Cyn wyd, Pa.,
economic forecasting firm, said
Tuesday’s reports should help en
courage the Fed to hold off on any
further tightening moves unless new
evidence of inflation surfaces.
However, bond and stock traders
had been anticipating the declines
and the markets showed little reaction
in trading Tuesday.
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A
cigarette that produces flavor by
healing a capsule instead of burning
tobacco will be lest marketed in Octo
ber, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. said
Tuesday, but health advocates said
smoke is smoke and the new brand
won’t be cleaner.
“Just because they remove a vast
amount of the visible smoke does not
eliminate all of the noxious chemi
cals,” said Athena Mueller, general
counsel for Action on Smoking and
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ible particles arc reduced, but it
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come its best-selling brand.
“We believe it has the potential to
capture a significant share of the
market,” said Richard Kampe, presi
dent of the tobacco company’s dcvel
opmcnldivision. “It’s a technological
breakthrough that addresses all of the
criticism that’s been generated
against cigarettes.”
Kampe said the product will be
aimed at smokers over age 25.
“This is an examnle of American
ingenuity at its best,” he said. “It’s
important for all of us to understand
that a (health and safety) controversy
does exist. Here is a cigarette that
offers good taste and pleasure by
heating rather than burning.”
A carbon heat source is lit at the lip
of the cigarette, and it heats air that is
then drawn past the flavor capsule
containing tobacco extracts.
Reynolds Tobacco, one of the
nation’s largestcigarette manufactur
ers and a subsidiary of Atlanta-based
RJR Nabisco Inc., began selling the
new brand this week to distributors,
supermarkets and discount chains in
three test market cities.
Beginning Oct. 1, Premier will go
on sale in St. Louis, and Phoenix and
Tucson, Ari/.., at a cost about 25 per
cent — or about 30 cents a pack —
more than the company’s other
brands. Betsy Annese, director or
public relations for the tobacco com
pany, said the cities were chosen
because they have “the right mix of
retail outlets and a very good distribu
tor network.”
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