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— Griffin Daily News Monday, October 9,1972
Page 12
Train toll reaches 208;
investigators seek cause
By PIETER VAN BENNEKOM
SALTILIX), Mexico (UPI)-
Lt. Genovezo Molgado of the
Saltillo Firemen’s Brigade
pulled a small body from the
bottom of a pile of crushed
railway cars. “It’s very proba
ble that this was the last,” he
said.
“It must have been a little
boy,” said a rescue worker,
tears welling from his eyes
above the surgical mask
drenched in alcohol. All the
searchers used them to protect
them from the stench of death.
The body of the little boy was
the 208th corpse taken from
twisted wood and metal of a 22-
car train that careened from
the tracks Thursday night to
the screams of terror from its
passengers—some 2,000 pil
grims who had been attending a
religious festival in a nearby
town. Another 1,198 were
injured, 55 of them seriously.
Seven railroad men stand
accused today of homicide. The
state-owned railway placed full
blame on them, claiming the
crew that was running the train
had been drinking with women
who boarded at a whistle stop.
Some of the men admitted it.
Others denied it. All claimed
the cause was mechanical
failure.
Any one of the charges to be
brought against the engineer,
four crewmen and two railroad
officials could bring them jail
sentences of up to 40 years, if
convicted.
The two locomotives pulling
the 22-car train packed with
Laird says talks
very significant
WASHINGTON (UPI) — De
fense Secretary Melvin R.
has described current
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about 2,000 poverty-stricken
Mexicans on a religious pilgri
mage were barreling along the
downcurve at 75 miles an hour
—35 m.p.h. faster than the
maximum allowed speed.
Steel wheel screamed against
steel rail and as Saltillo butcher
Rosalio Badillo tells it: “Every
body began to shout and pray—
you know, church prayers,
whatever comes to your mind
at a time like that. The ones
who had children embraced
them to protect them from
what was coming.”
“They’re trying to make me
out like some young buck
fooling around with women,”
said Jesus Rocha Serna, the
train’s 47-year-old conductor
with 30 years of railroad
experience. “They say I took
the prettiest one for myself.
I’m a married man. There was
no drinking, there were no
women. I don’t know why
they’re saying that. Maybe
they’re trying to make us
scapegoats for the whole
thing.”
Fireman Ignacio Carrizales
Garcia, a 26-year-veteran with
the railroad, said the crew
agreed to give three women a
ride from La Ventura to
Saltillo. “They got on to the
locomotive with a couple of
bottles of tequila. But they
drank most of it themselves.
We only had about two or three
drinks each and it had nothing
to do with the accident. It was
mechanical failure and nothing
else — the brakes wouldn’t
work.”
Vietnam peace talks as “very
significant” but stated the
American objective in the war
remains the prevention of a
Communist takeover.
I>aird was asked Sunday if a
settlement of the Vietnam issue
was imminent.
“.. .The negotiations which are
going forward are very serious,
they are certainly very signifi
cant, and they are very
sensitive,” Laird said.
But he added the objective of
U.S. policy is “to prevent a
Communist takeover of South
Vietnam.
“That remains our objective
and we will abide by that
objective in this administra
tion,” Laird said. “The negotia
tion track or the Vietnamization
track, either one, will make it
possible that there will not be a
Communist takeover in Viet
nam.”
Pain
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weather
By United Press International
MISTAKEN DIAGNOSIS
RIO DE JANEIRO (UPI)-
Jussara Simpliciano gave birth
in the back seat of a taxi
Saturday on her way home
from a hospital where doctors
had diagnosed her labor pains
as a reaction to the weather.
Doctors at Fernando Ma
laghaes Maternity clinic told
the 22-year-old housewife that
rapidly falling temperatures
caused her pains.
In the taxi, Mrs. Simpliciano
experienced the pains again.
Her mother ordered the cab
driver to take them to Salgado
Filho Hospital. Jussara gave
birth to a 6 % pound boy in the
driveway in front of the
hospital.
SPACEMAN’S LOSS
FRANKFORT, Ky. (UPI)—
Astronaut James Irwin, here to
address a Crusade for Christ
rally, reported to police his
SI,OOO watch and wallet were
stolen.
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Irwin said the watch and
wallet were taken from the
YMCA health club.
WARNS COMMANDERS
NEW YORK (UPl)—Police
Commissioner Patrick V. Mur
phy said Sunday his latest
anticorruption effort is a
warning to precinct and squad
commanders to “make sure it
doesn't happen under your
nose...lf it does, your head
may come off.”
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In a televised interview,
Murphy said the department’s
250-odd commanders have been
ordered to answer detailed
questionnaires about possible
varieties of police corruption
and what is being done about
them.
If unreported corruption is
found to exist within a
commander’s area of responsi
bility, action will be taken
against him for failing to report
the wrongdoing and act on it,
Murphy said.
PERON IS 77
MADRID (UPl)—Argentine
ex-President Juan D. Peron
celebrated his 77th birthday at
his Madrid home Sunday in the
company of friends and politi
cal aides, Peronist sources said.
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Meanwhile, a spokesman for
the deposed dictator lent weight
to speculation among Peron
watchers that arrangements
are being made for Italy’s
Alitalia airline to fly Peron
back to Argentina where he
was overthrown by a military
coup in 1955.
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Griffin Kiwanis Club; and Jack Smith, manager of the Kiwanis Fair Association, check out plaque
at a park on Quilley street. The field was named Kiwanis Field, sponsored by the fair association.
Dundee Mills made the land available for the recreation complex and Kiwanis contributed funds
to help construct ball parks.
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Hiatal hernia is fairly common
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By Lawrence Lamb, M.D
Dear Dr. Lamb—First, I
want you to know I read
your column every day and
wouldn’t miss it unless I had
to. So I’m giving you roses
while you live. I am a wom
an 65 years old and have all
the old age pains but try to
understand that we are going
to have them too. My trouble
is a hiatus hernia which I
have had for many years.
The doctor says there is
nothing he can do (no sur
gery), that I’ll just have to
live with it.
I take antacids all the
time and hurt an awful lot.
My doctor says “watch what
you eat and take antacids.”
I sleep with my bed on
blocks and elevated high in
order to sleep. Can you tell
me what causes these her
nias and am I doing all I can
do for comfort. I have to
leave off so many things that
I would love to eat. If I could
have surgery I’d be willing
to go through that if it would
hold and do any good. I wish
you’d tell me what to do if
you have any other answers.
Do most of these hernias
to serve you better
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Dear Reader —Hiatal hernias
are fairly common, particu
larly as a person grows old
er. Basically, what happens
is that the hole in the dia
phragm where the esophagus
passes through to join the
stomach is too large, and it
allows a portion of the stom
ach to slip through the dia
phragm into the chest. The
normal closure mechanism
that closes the stomach open
ing is faulty, and the acid
contents are squirted back
into the lower part of the
esophagus causing burning
and pain.
Keeping your bed elevated
is important. Lying flat at
any time should be avoided
to prevent the stomach con
tents from running back into
the esophagus. You should
avoid bending over to pull
weeds, bending over to tie
your shoes, pick up clothes,
or any head down positions.
A second way to help pre
vent difficulties is not to
overeat and preferably to
have the stomach empty be
fore you lie down. This
means eating numerous
small meals, perhaps five or
six a day and avoiding any
large meals. It takes at least
an hour for the stomach to
empty so you shouldn’t eat
anything for at least an hour
and preferably two or three
hours, before lying down.
Fatty foods are retained
by the stomach longer. Thus
if you have a fatty meal, it
should be in the middle of
the day to allow four or five
hours to allow the stomach
to completely empty before
lying down. Cold foods, such
as ice cream, tend to stay in
the stomach longer and de
lay the stomach emptying.
In addition to antacids you
should avoid coffee, colas,
teas and any drinks or bev
erages which increase acid
pepsin juice by the stomach.
This includes avoiding alco
hol. You should also avoid
smoking cigarettes. Elimi
nating abdominal obesity will
also help decrease the pres
sure in the abdomen that ag
gravates the hernia. Girdles
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Memorial service
honors burn victim
ATLANTA (UPI) — A young
black Vietnam veteran who
wanted “white folks to quit
treating us black folks so bad”
was honored by a memorial
service Sunday after he burned
himself to death during a down
town college homecoming
parade.
Civil rights leaders said at
the memorial service that Wil
lie B. Phillips, 27, had been
upset over the alleged beating
of a black man at a bus station
before he set himself on fire
during the parade Saturday.
’the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference said ina
statement that Phillips self
immolation could be
parralleded with the same act
by Buddhist monks in South
Vietnam.
The SCLC said the monks
have burned themselves to
death “to protest the rape and
desolation of their country by
the same racist imperialists that
oppress minority groups in
America.”
Phillips appeared to be just
another spectator watching the
MorrisßrownCollege homecom
ing parade on a downtown street
as he prepared to die.
“I didn’t think anything of it,”
said Gwendolyn Ferguson, a
witness to the incident, who saw
the young man pouring some
thing on himself. She said she
turned back toward the parade
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but “when I turned again he
was in flames.”
“He ran between two cars and
fell. He got up, ran again and
fell and people began running
after him.”
Police officers took off Phil
lips’ coat, smothered the flames
with it and then rushed him to
a hospital, where he died 7%
hours later.
Only a pair of sunglasses, a
cigarette lighter and two quart
cans, believed by police to have
teld kerosene, remained at the
scene.
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