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THE CORBIN Times-TRIBUNE VOL. 79 NUMBER 137 Corbin, Kentucky, Friday Afternoon, June 11, 1971 8 PAGES TODAY 10 CENTS A COPY 94 Others Injured Train Crash Kills By ROY MALONE Auoctated Press Writer SALEM, HI. (AP) -Officials of the Illinois Central Railroad said today that a locked wheel- probably caused by an elec- trical failure--led i the Oaming derailment of the City of New Orleans passenger liner. Eleven persons died in the' wreckage and 94 were injured. The City of New Orleans, with four locomotives and 14 cars, hurtled off the tracks two miles north of Salem at a speed of 90 miles hour, officials said.

There 224 persons, in- cluding 18 crewmen, aboard. Jim Law, superintendent of the railroad's Illinois division, said a rear wheel on the lead engine started sliding miles north of the accident scene but the train's engineer never knew it. The derailment occurred, Law said, when the wheels, misshapen by the friction of sliding, struck a crossing mech- anism which railroaders call a "frog." "If there hadn't been a crossover there, the defect might have been detected as the train rounded a bend further on," Law said. "We suspect it was an electrical malfunction in the traction works!" The crash was the first major accident under the new national Amtrak system, under which the Illinois Central and other railroads operate passenger trains. Investigators from the Na- tional Rail Safety Board, the National Transportation Safety Board and the Illinois Com- merce Commission came to the scene.

Alan S. Boyd, Illinois Central president, toured the wreckage for two hours. He said the crossover switch was not opened and said the track was "in first-class condition." The train departed Chicago at 8 a.m. and was'scheduled to arrive in New Orleans at 1:30 a.m. today.

The accident oc- curred about near Tonti, a whistle-stoo 240 miles south of Chicago. Witnesses said 1,200 feet of track were twisted and hurled by the crash. "God, it was horrible," one survivor said. "I saw a woman pinned under the rails and she had to be cut free. She later died." Melvin 63, a farmer who lives a mile from the acci- dent scene, said, "People were climbing out of the cars and ly- OmCERS-Tke Corfcta Jayeees keM Uwtr inmal MallattM TMMby nlgkl al Howard Johnson's.

Attending were Jayceei, wives and gmsts. The main ipeaker the newly-elected president of the Kentucky Jayeees, Jim Vernon. He expressed his ap- preciation to the cltliens of Corbin, thli area and the entire state tor their support In his campaign. "Corbin," he noted "Is the smallest town ever to produce a Kentucky Jaycee President. And never before has a candidate for this office won by such in overwhelming majority." Dr.

Bruce Barton, the new president of the Corblrt Jayceei. Outgoing president John Reed was cited tor hli outstanding service and leadership during the year just ended. The Corbin Jaycee-of-the-Year Award went to Lacey Grose. From left to right ire: Reed, Vernon and Barton. Refugees Pakistani Army Is Blamed For Atrocities By DfcNNIS NEELD Associated Press Writer CALCUTTA (AP) The Pa- kistani army is inciting neigh- bor against neighbor in a new wave of terror sweeping East Pakistan, refugees escaping to India report.

Hindus are bearing the brunt of the wide-scale killing, burn- ing and looting, but the troops are encouraging the local popu- lace to do the dirty work for them, the refugees say. Foreign relief workers who have interviewed hundreds of refugees in border areas are convinced the Pakistani government is determined to make East Pakistan ex- clusively Moslem. According to official Indian figures, 5,441,683 refugees have fled from Pakistan since the civil war in March, and they are still coming at the rate of about 100,000 a day. A big new influx is anticipated as the army extends its area of control. The Rev.

John Hastings, a British relief worker who has spent 19 years in Bengal, reports the army's tactics everywhere follow a similar pattern: As the troops move into an area, the local people are called together and told to declare their loyalty-- to President Mohammed Agha Yahya Khan or to Sheik Mujibur Rahman, jailed leader of the outlawed Awami League. Although "the Awami league got 73 per cent of the vote in East Pakistan in 'the general election last December, few will risk death by admitting to have supported it. The Bengalis then are ordered to weed out the "traitors" and are promised a share of the loot if they take the law into their own hands. The eight million Hindu Bengalis in East Pakistan are a natural target for the violence of Moslem mobs. Hindu refugees tell of entire villages being burned, their daughters raped and kidnaped, and hundreds massacred.

Man Arrested Relief workers are told ol troops decapitating their vic- tims rather than shooting them in order to save ammunition and of children being used tot bayonet practice. One large group of Hindus es- caping from the industrial city of Khulna was stopped by villa- gers on the way to India, sur- (Continued to Page 8) Deadly Pesticide Dumped Into Lake Have lake The Corbin High School vanity ctleerleiJwi will have a bake at I a.m. Satardajr in UlC BAH PORTSMOUTH, Ohio (AP)- State officials have installed a 24-hour guard around the poi- soned three acre Shawnee Lake in Shawnee State Park here while expert advice is sought on how to dispose of it. "There is no known method of diluting the compound and there is no way to isolate it," said Dale Roach, enforcement supervisor for the Ohio Depart- ment of Natural Resources said. He said officials of the federal Environmental Protection Agency feared the poison could be carried from the lake along the Turkey Creek tributary to the Ohio River.

The creek enters the river near Vanceburg, above Maysville, Aberdeen, Ohio and Cincinnati. Garry D. Hiles, 24, of Ports- mouth, was held in the Sciota County Jail in lieu of $3,300 bond on five charges in connection with the poisoning that killed all aquatic life in the take. Better than 3,400 fish died. Sheriff John Kmuf said the poison dumped into the lake was a cciVioiiMtton of Endrin, a pesticide, and strychnine, about a gallon According to Roach, Endrin is one of the more toxic of the cholorinated hydrocarbon pesticides and is used for mouse control in orchards during the winter.

He said that Endrin "is the most toxic compound for aqua- tic life." Tests have shown that .003 parts per million in water will kill fish. By contrast, .01 pans per million are harmful to humans, he said. Merl DeVoe, state game pro- tector, may have suffered a re- action from the poison when he recovered a jug from the lake for tests, Roach said. Only small portions of water have moved over the dam thus far into Turkey Creek. Fish kills have been cited a half mile below the dam.

Roach said officials hoped, that what poison gets out, will be diluted below poison level! when it gets into the Ohio River. While the lake has been quar- antined, Roach said "the prob- lem is still there and we do not have any clear-cut answer." Neither the Shell Chemical which makes endtin, nor health officials have any idea how to counteract or dissipate (CMMlMMl 8 ing on the rails everybody was screaming." "The engine was on fire and flames were jumping 15 feet in the air," Maxey said. Jim Hunter, 23, another resi- dent, said. "The cars were scattered like spaghetti." Passengers were slammed through the plate glass windows of the coaches. Rescue squads used acetylene torches to cut rails pinning victims.

One survivor, Mrs. R. L. King of Paducah, said she had just finished eating a "bad tast- ing hamburger" in the diner and was "kidding about suing the 1C when all hell broke loose." "I had been in two other wrecks and I knew they don't hit the brakes like that unless something serious has hap- pened The cars started tumbling over and over. It landed upside down and part of the sunroof was off," she said.

She said a couple from Ber- wyn, 111., dining with her, were hurled through a window. "His wife was-bleeding and her ear was nearly torn off," she said. "There were people trapped under the tables and I "was afraid the car would burst into flames." She said a friend kept shout- ing, "Get out 1 Get out!" "I got out as soon as I could find my shoes," she said. The train was scheduled to stop at Fulton, Ky. on its way to New Orleans.

HOW TO MAKE A POINT emphatically is demonstrated by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat during an address following the crushing of a conspiracy against him. "I will mince them," he warned conspirators, who include some of the key figures in the Egyptian military and government. Frankfort Export List Released Will Get FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) Gov. Louie B.

Nunn said Thurs day that Fort Hill, an impor- tant, but now almost forgotten relic of Kentucky's preCivll War past will join the state's park system. Nunn said arrangements have been made to acquire the 123-acre site overlooking the dty and now owned by the city of Frankfort, Franklin County Fiscal Court and the Frankfort Electric and Water Plant Board. The governor said he is confi- dent "we will be able to find the Ainds" to reconstruct the Fort Boone complex and recraa- ttonal faciilties. park Opens The Door Ky. (AP) For Trade With China By BILL NEIKIHK Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) --Pres- ident Nixon's list of U.S.

exports that may be sold inside mainland China -contains few surprises, but officials say it will be expanded if'Peking be- comes more receptive to trade. "It's a fairly sizable and meaningful list," said one ad- ministration official who helped prepare it. "It's a step forward. I expect other items will be BfMjwIjM tlw'ltiit H. 1 Shirley Palmer-Ball said a Lex- ington firm has done some pre- liminary planning and suggested several possible improvements for the park including a restaurant and amphitheater.

The latter, he said, could be used: for an outdoor historical drama. Merchant's Billfold Is Stolen State Police are investigating the theft of $275 from North Corbin merchant yesterday afternoon at his store. Russell Stansberry reported that two black women entered his store on the pretense of pricing articles with one of them leaving and going across the street to a furniture stores where she parked their car. Stansberry the woman was a "good talker" and kept up a steady conversation while she roamed the store asking prices of various articles. After she had left he said he missed the $275 from his billfold that had been protruding from his back pocket.

He said the two women fled north in a car bearing Ohio license. Two Churches Will Sponsor Bible School Daily Vacation Church School will be held at First United Methodist Church, 220 North Main from June 14-19. The school will be sponsored by Trininty United Methodist Church and First United Methodist Church, The hours of the school are 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Boys and girls from four years old through the eighth grade are invited to come.

'With" export' list' Nixon" announced Thursday allowable items for: Wade with the Soviet Union without specif- ic government approval. In line with his policy of es- tablishing closer ties with Pek- ing, Nixon broke a 21-year ban on trade with mainland China by disclosing a broad range of American-made products that can be shipped to the Commu- nist country. Included are automobiles, a coDuimcr goods sucHVas stoves and re WHERE OTHER GREAT CITIES spread out, Hong Kong has to climb up. The mountainous terrain of the Island city has resulted in numerous "ladder streets," actually steep flights of stairs which make picturesque scenes for tourists but also serve as very practical, communications arteries for Hong Kong's millions. Good Chance Of Rain frigerators, some industrial machinery, and a large number of raw materials, such as tex- tiles and rubber.

Left off were jet aircraft and diesel locomotives, items the United States considers might have military uses: Officials conceded there was consider- able debate within the adminis- tration over whether" they should be Included. industry, can still apply for specific licenMi to ship these and other 'left off the list to mainland China U.S. officials doubted the list would open up significant trade with China soon. "We do not anticipate signifi- cant trade developments with either China or the Soviet Union in the Immediate future," said Agriculture Secretary Clifford M. Hardin.

Presidential press secretary Ronald LI Ziegler said Nixon these measures as a significant step to improved communications with a land of 800 million people after a 20- year freeze in our relations." -Nixon also lifted a ban on im- ports from China and dropped a requirement imposed by former President John F. Kennedy in 1963 that at least half of U.S. grain exports to Russia, Eastern Europe and China be carried in American ships. The. administration said the new shipping requirement could eventually help U.S.

exporters get some of the estimated $300 million a year in wheat ship- ments the Soviets buy else- where. The requirement has put U.S. grain at a competitive disadvantage in such sales be- cause American shipping costs more. But AFL-CIO President George Meany denounced the action, saying it was a breach ol faith and a repudiation ol commitments he said were made to U.S. seamen by Ken- nedy and former President Lyndon B.

Johnson. In' Congress, Sen. George McGovern, said Nixon's move publishing the list ol exports "will greatly enhance our ability to compete with oth- er nations for a fair share of UK world market." But Sen. John Tower, said he had "very great reser- vations as to the wisdom of lib- eralizing trade with Red China or any of: the Communist na- tions which pose a threat to Weatherman Poses Problem For Wedding to partly cloudy and a today through Saturday. Low tonight to Chance of showers Saturdiy, high around M.

Outlook for Sunday is very warm and chance of showers. Deaths Alma Will By FRANCES LEWINE Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) With the bachelor dinner and bridal party out of the way, Tricia Nixon and Ed Cox step through final rehearsals today for their wedding Saturday, hopefully in the White House Rose Garden. The weather remains a prob- lem. The Weather Bureau called for partly cloudy skies and temperatures in the 80s Saturday with the latest pros- pect for rain set at 30 per cent. While the half-century-old Rose Garden was the center of attention today, a rehearsal also was set for inside the man- sion, where the ceremony will be if it does rain.

Workmen were putting down a wood platform to be covered by a 90-foot white carpet down the center of the Rose Garden to the altar. The rest of the 310-foot route from the White House Blue Room will be carpeted in green. The afternoon rehearsal is sandwiched between a luncheon for 100 hosted by Eddie's godfa- ther, Hugh McKcan, and the re- hearsal dinner tonight for Pres- ident and Mrs. Nixon, the entire wedding party, friends arid relatives. Eddie's parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Howard E. Cox of New York, are hosts for the filet of beef dinner at historic Blair House across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. President Nixon got out of the way Thursday night and took a Potomac River dinner cruise with aides when Tricia en- tertained for her bridesmaids and Eddie attended a bachelor dinner at a private club. But.

first, they all gathered for a White House tour. Tricia took the wedding party to the Executive Office Building next door to the White House to show them the wedding gifts on display in the famed Indian Treaty Room. No one was giving out any in- formation about the gifts, who sent them or what they were. Press Secretary Constance Stuart said it was a private matter. After the tour, the bachelor party went its way and Tricia gave her 13 women guests, in- cluding her mother and Mrs.

Cox, a buffet dinner followed by a movie in the White House theater. The film, made in 1966, was, "The Swan," starring Grace Kelly. Cox was proving as privacy- prone as his fiance. He and his best man, brother Howard Cox to the Street Club (CnwUmed to Page 8) Industry's first reaction was cautious: "We've said right along that we are always interested in doing business with any country where it is prohibited by the said a spokesman for Chrysler Corp. "But there are economic prohi- bitions to be faced." He cited customs duties and tariffs that may frustrate trade.

Officials in the tobacco in- dustry reacted favorably. To- bacco was put on the general export; list. John M. Berry, president of the Burley Tobacco Growers Co-op, said the "pros- pect of use of American hurley is very favorable throughout the Orient." The textile industry, already troubled with cheaper imports from Japan and other Asian countries, appeared unhappy. "The American textile in- dustry has a great deal more to lose than gain as the result ol the trade liberalization with Red China," said Howard Rich- mond, chairman of the Inter- national Trade Committee of the American Textile Manufac- turers Institute.

Nixon's list, includes mosl farm, fish and forestry prod- ucts, tobacco, fertilizers, coal, selected inorganic chemicals, rubber, textiles, some metals, agricultural, industrial and of- fice equipment, household ap- pliances, electrical products in general use, some electronic equipment, automotive equip- ment, and most consumer goods. Woodbine Will Hold Revival Evangelist Nell Matheson and a revival team of Clayton, will conduct weekend services beginning tonight at 7:30 p.m. and continuing through Sunday at the Woodbine Deliverance Center located in the former Lynn Theatre Building. 17th St. Church Begins School The Seventeenth street Christian Church will hold a daily vacation bible school beginning Monday, June 14.

Sessions will be held nightly from 7 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., through Friday, June 18. Swimming Forty Set Saturday A swimming party will be given for the seventh and eighth grades of the Corbin Elementary Schools from p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday at the Corbin Municipal Pool.

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