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]fl ■ fl I RRBBIB Bx jf Blfll 1B» 1 ijiflß ’ fl fl B'' * ■ fl ■ • R Erwin Smith, porter aboard the Champion, the train that makes the 1,264 mile journey between New York City and St. Petersburg, Fla. (API Who waves night light at train? ABOARD THE CHAMPION (AP) — Every trip this grand old train makes is a sentimental journey. Rolling south through the hills of southern Virginia, just before midnight, when the passengers are bedded down and all is quiet except for the lullaby of the rails, the crewmen pause in their chores and move to the windows on the port side of the train. They know where to look, and when. Right on schedule, in the darkness of the countryside, a light glows and waves. With their flashlights, the trainmen wave back. Another silent rendezvous kept, they return to their duties. “None of us knows his name,” said Erwin Smith, a sleeping car porter. “Some of the oldtimers say he’s been waving at this train for 20 years. I know he hasn’t missed in the two years I’ve been on this run. “On the return trip, in the daytime, we see him. He’s an old man in a wheelchair, sitting on the porch. He waves; we wave back. That’s all there is to it. He’s a friend.” Would that the Champion were visited with such friendly loyalty all along its route. “Outside Baltimore we can almost count on having something broken. Kids throw rocks at us, big rocks. It’s bad at Philadelphia, too. We have to see that no passengers are between cars or near windows that aren’t unbreakable. Nobody’s been hurt that I’m aware of, but it sure is dangerous.” . For the most part, passengers aboard the Champion are unaware of either friend or vandal. All they are aware of is one of the most pleasant trips in the land for anyone who loves the romance and lore of railroads, not to mention the husky bounce and sway, the fleeting landscape, the musical fugue played by steel rails and steel wheels, which is to say anyone with a soul who truly believes that getting there is half the fun. “It’s like eavesdropping on people’s lives,” a passenger aboard the Champion remarked the other day. “You catch a glimpse of strangers as you pass, then you’re gone.” The strangers you pass aboard the Champion live in towns along the Atlantic seaboard, along a 1,264-mile path between New York City and St. Petersburg, Fla. The original Champion was one of the first streamlined passenger trains in America. It started service in 1939, the premiere train of the Atlantic Coastline Railroad. Through all the mergers and sad decline of passenger trains, the Champion survives. Since 1971. it has been operated by Amtrak, whose purpose is to perpetuate passenger trains. And the irony is that the Champion will soon be reduced to service only eight months of the year. Well, you can’t argue with economics. Somebody ought to explain that to an old man sitting on his porch in southern Virginia. Judge Henderson sentences people in gas theft case NEWNAN, Ga. (AP) - The former mayor, police chief and assistant police chief of Tall apoosa, Ga., were sentenced Wednesday to terms in federal prison for their parts in an in terstate gasoline pipeline tap ping scheme. U.S. District Court Judge Al bert Henderson Jr. handed down sentences for 21 persons who either pleaded guilty or were convicted June 30 for various charges stemming from taps on two pipelines in Georgia and Alabama. Former Tallapoosa Mayor Sam Alta Dryden was sen tenced to 20 years in prison for convictions of conspiracy, in terstate transportation of stolen goods and two counts of theft of gasoline—the stiffest sentence Henderson handed down Wednesday. “You have been accused of masterminding this scheme," Henderson told Dryden before sentencing. “I always felt that a man of your intelligence would be well off financially if you had stayed on the right track. “Since I feel there is no hope of rehabilitation, I must be con cerned with the protection of society,” the judge said. Former Police Chief Jimmy Doyle Folsom was sentenced to five years in prison for con spiracy and interstate trans portation of stolen goods, and his nephew, former Asst. Police Chief Robert Lee Folsom, was sentenced to six months in pris on and 4% years on probation for conspiracy. 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