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16 Cons Escape
Chatham Camp
SAVANNAH, Ga. (UPI) —
Prison officials and local law
officers tightened their dragnet
today for 16 Chatham County
prison camp escapers, who
hacked their way to freedom
while fellow inmates watched
the astronauts walk on the
moon Sunday night.
Seventeen prisoners made the
original break, but authorities
soon recaptured Billy Kight of
Reidsville.
App are nll y the 17 went
through a 7*4 - Inch opening,
sawed from a steel-barred win
dow, then over an eight - foot,
barbed wire fence. But Warden
P.O. Youman said,” I’m not
convinced they went out that
hole."
Four lorge search parties,
complete with bloodhounds,
packed the area surrounding
the prison. One county deputy
said South Carolina authorities
had also been notified.
The 16 men still loose Include
one life termer, Charlie Clark
from Fulton County, a convict
ed murderer. Sentences for the
others ranged from four to 20
years, mostly for robbery and
burglary.
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Deaf Army
Recruit
Discharged
MIAMI (UPI) — A deaf Army
recruit who was called "a liar,
a traitor, and a coward” be
cause he could not pass a hear
ing test has been discharged af
ter 23 days of service.
Louis H. Cole Jr., 21, failed
to convince his local draft board
he was a victim of deafness de
spite assurances from his doc
tor and several tests at the
Coral Gables induction station.
His draft notice and a re
affirmation of classification
from the state appeal board
came the same day, and he
was promptly whisked off to Ft.
Jackson, S. C.
"They kept us up all night,"
he said. "I got into a hearing
booth. A private was giving me
the test. When he finished, he
opened the door and cussed me
out. He called me a liar, a
traitor, a coward, everything.
"He said they were going to
lock me up,” Cole recalled.
He finally persuaded recruit
processors to send him to a
doctor.
"What the hell are you doing
here?” Cole quoted the doctor
as saying when he looked at his
file. He was scheduled for dis
charge July 3 but it was yet
another 20 days before the
Army would release him.
“I had to sign a whole bunch
of papers saying the Army
hadn’t hurt me in any way, that
I could get my job back.”
He said he spent his time
waiting for discharge "picking
up cigarette butts.”
Monday, he came home. The
Army paid him $42 in travel ex
penses.
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Availability, Not Cost,
Governs Eye Transplant
By WAYNE G. BRANDSTADT, M.D.
Q—Can anyone who can
afford it receive an eye
transplant? Does it have to
be a human eye?
A—The only kind of eye
transplant that has been
widely used is the corneal
transplant—not the whole
eye. Receiving such a trans
plant depends more on the
availability of a human
cornea and the degree of
need than on one’s ability to
pay. In addition to corneas
from a human eye bank, a
Silastic corneal implant has
been developed and used
successfully.
Q—l get recurring corneal
ulcers. What causes them?
Is there any hope of a per
manent cure?
A—Corneal ulcers are fair
ly common in persons whose
general health is poor. They
are caused by a bacterial in
fection. The treatment is
best left to an ophthalmolo
gist, who will identify the
cause and eliminate it.
Q —l have keratoconus.
What causes it? Is there any
cure for it?
A—Keratoconus, or conical
cornea, is a hereditary de
fect that usually affects both
eyes and develops in the
early 20s. Untreated, it will
lead to blindness but this can
be prevented by wearing
contact lenses.
Q—My eyes water a lot.
What causes this? Is there
anything I can use to stop it?
A—Watering of the eyes
Kennedy Case
Hearing Monday
Frank Borman
To Speak
In Atlanta
ATLANTA (UPI) — Apollo 8
astronaut Air Force Col. Frank
Borman is scheduled to address
the national convention of the
American Legion here Aug. 28.
Borman commanded the Apol
lo 8 mission which completed
the first manned orbit of the
moon last December.
Borman is now field director
of Space Station Task Group at
the NASA Manned Spacecraft
Center at Houston, Tex.
may be caused by any irri
tation, such as a foreign
body in the eye, an infection,
wind, smoke, bright lights,
the volatile oil of onions or
an allergy. It may also be
caused by a blocking of the
duct that drains the tears
into the back part of your
nasal passages. It can be
stopped only by finding and
removing the cause.
Q—What causes ichthyo
sis? Is there any cure for it?
A—This is a hereditary
condition in which the skin is
dry and scaly. It is worse in
winter, especially in persons
who live in steam-heated
homes, and it is aggravated
by the excessive use of soaps
and detergents. Although it
can’t be cured, it is helpful
to use bath oils and to apply
cold cream after bathing and
before going to bed—espe
cially on the arms and legs.
Q—ls there any treatment
for the type of anemia that
is associated with an en
larged spleen?
A—Several types of ane
mia may be associated with
splenic enlargement. One of
the most common, splenic
anemia or Banti’s disease, is
best treated by removal of
the spleen.
(Newspaper [nterprise Ann.)
Please send your questions and
comments to Wayne G. Brandstadt,
MD, in care of this paper. While
Dr. Brandstadt cannot answer indi
vidual letters, he will answer letters
of general interest in future columns.
By PHILIP BALBUM 1
EDGARTOWN, Ma rth a's
Vineyard, Mass. (UPI) — A
hearing to determine whether
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will
have to face prosecution for
leaving the scene of an accident
in which a young woman was
killed has been set for July 28.
Court Clerk Thomas A. Teller
set the hearing date for next
Monday at the request of
Edgartown attorney Richard J.
McCarron, retained by the
senior Massachusetts senator.
If probable cause is found
and Kennedy, considered a
leading presidential candidate
in 1972, is arraigned on the
charge, he faces a minimum
sentence of two months or a
maximum of two years if
convicted. However, suspended
sentences, fines and probationa
ry periods are generally
ordered by the court in such
cases.
McCarron's request for the
hearing to determine whethei
Kennedy should be prosecuted
at all followed the formal filing
of an application for a motor
vehicle complaint against Ken
nedy by Police Chief Dominick
J. Arena. No complaint will be
issued until the hearing at
which Kennedy need not
appear.
Killed in the accident, which
apparently occurred between
midnight Friday and 1 a.m.
Saturday, according to Arena,
was Miss Mary Jo Kopechne,
28', a pretty blonde secretary to
Kennedy's late brother, Sen.
Robert F. Kennedy, D-N.Y.
Kennedy did not report the
accident to police until about 10
a.m. Saturday, about nine or 10
hours after it occurred. The
charge of "leaving the scene"
is the only one against the
senator. Arena said he believed
no negligence was in the tragic
affair.
Kennedy was awaiting word
from his doctor on whether he
would make the trip to
Larksville, Pa., today where
Miss Kopechne, 29, was to be
buried. A Kennedy aide said the
senator planned to fly to
Pennsylvania with his wife,
Joan, his sister-in-law Mrs.
Robert F. Kennedy and other
members of the family, but the
trip hinged on the doctor’s
approval.
The senator sustained a mild
concussion and bruises and was
suffering from shock because of
the accident.
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Four
Killed
Luna 15 Mission Still Mystery
By JAMES O. JACKSON
MOSCOW (UPl)—The Soviet
Union announced today that its
unmanned Luna 15 spacecraft
had reached the moon and
completed its work. What it
was supposed to do and what it
accomplished remained a mys
tery.
The announcement of the end
of the Luna 15 mission was
much like the one which
report°d its launch eight days
ago—vague and unspecific and
prompting questions that were
left unanswered.
Two sentences of a Tass
dispatch told of the actual end
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WINDER, GA. —— A trip to the doctor’s o ffice in Athens ended in death for a
Winder mother and three of her four ch ildren. Mrs Raymond Gentry and her
daughters 13-year-old Susan, six-year-old Patricia and 10-month-old Tina, were
killed when their car shown in this photograph ran into Seaboard Coastline Freight
Train at crossing near here. Nine-year-old Linda Gentry was the only survivor of
the collision.
of the mission:
"At 18 hours 47 minutes
Moscow time (11:47 a.m. EDT
Monday) a retrorocket was
switched on and the station left
the orbit and reached the
moon's surface in the preset
area. The work with the station
ended at 18 hours 51 minutes.”
Fills In Information
Britain’s Jodrell Bank Obser
vatory filled in some of the
missing information.
The tracking station said
Luna 15 nosedived into the Sea
of Crises, about 500 miles
across a crater rim from the
Sea of Tranquillity Base where
the U.S. moon module Eagle
was readying for takeoff.
The Soviet craft impacted on
the moon two hours and seven
minutes before U.S. astronauts
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Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin
E. Aldrin blasted away.
Sir Bernard Lovell, the head
of the Jodrell Observatory and
the non-Communist world’s best
link with the Luna 15, said he
believed something had gone
awry with the experiment.
Goal Not Announced
To put Luna 15 on the moon
and do nothing with it was
nonsense, Lovell said.
Soviet scientific sources said
they believed Luna 15 was to
gather a sample of lunar soil
and get it back to earth before
the return of Apollo 11.
The Soviets did not announce
such a goal but significantly the
final Tass communique did not
say the Luna 15 mission was
"successfully completed,” a
phrase usually applied to Soviet
Tuesday, July 22,1969
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space projects that have gone
well.
Lovell estimated the space
craft hit the moon’s surface at
300 miles per hour, most likely
damaging or destroying the
expet nnent.
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