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TT7' VENING Binghamton, IN.Y., Tuesday, May 24, 1977 20 Cents REGIONAL 4 Gannett Newnpaper nth tee Ti PRESS fa Beat On Railroad. 'He's fine, but scared of course. Maybe he learned a Mrs. Donald Saicver 4 3 ing, Douglas' friends Jeffrey Seroka, 13, and David McArthur, 13, both of Otego, were able to get out of the way by hanging onto the side of the bridge. "The train came around the bend, and Dave ran over to the side of the trestle," Douglas said.

"I tried to run there, too, but I tripped up." Douglas then laid between the tracks to allow the train to pass over him, but he didn't think it would work. "I thought I ASSOCIATED MESS WNtE PHOTO A resident of Cobalt, Ont. flees from fire that wiped out part of town. By KARK SVATEK and PETE DOBINSKY An Otsego County boy expected to die yesterday when he fell between the rails just before a Delaware Hudson freight train came rolling through Otegoat about 4:15 p.m. But Douglas Sawyer, 13, of Otego, escaped the ordeal with only minor injuries.

He was released after treatment at Fox Memorial Hospital in Oneonta for cuts on his knees and chest, suffered when the train passed over his prone body. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Sawyer.

The boy's mother said her son and two of his friends were on a railroad bridge after swimming in the Susquehanna River. Young Sawyer said the bridge was about 30 feet above the river, and he and his friends had been jumping into the water from it. When the boys noticed the train com After the train had passed over him, Douglas thought: "I was awful lucky." The freight consisted of five cars Ont. Fire Destroys 60 Buildings and a diesel locomotive. Engineer Kenneth Baternan stopped the train and insisted pn sending the boy to the hospital, his mother said.

"He's fine," she said of Douglas, "but. scared, of course. Maybe he learned a Douglas said he had learned a lesson, and would be more careful if he went on the bridge again. hospital suffering from shock and smoke inhalation, but none was seriously injured. Lonsdale said campsites and trailer parks will likely be used as summer housing for the homeless, but added that an emergency housing program would be needed before winter.

Terrorists Demand sightseers out of the area and preventing theft. Authorities said several television sets were taken from piles of property hauled from homes during the fire. Salvaged property now is being guarded in the town arena and at other sites. Hughes, who was in charge of about 150 volunteer firemen from Cobalt and neighboring communities, said winds up to 60 miles an hour blew sparks from building to building and made it impossible to save much of the rundown residential area. Many of the area's frame homes were covered with tar paper.

In the center of the fire zone, a Catholic church stood untouched while everything around it burned to the ground. Nearby, a white picket fence stood but the house was destroyed. Lonsdale said many senior citizens in the burned-out area refused to leave their homes during the fire and had to be dragged out by firemen. officials said 10 persons were taken to the COBALT, Ont. (AP) Authorities are investigating arson as the cause of a wind-whipped fire that jumped from bouse to house and destroyed 60 buildings yesterday.

Nearly one-fifth of the silver mining town was destroyed. 140 persons left homeless and about 10 slightly injured. The six-hour fire wiped out the town's north end and destroyed about one-fifth of the buildings. Mayor Bruce whose house was engulfed by flames, said he will ask" the provincial government today to declare Cobalt, home to 2.200 residents, a disaster area. Sam Hughes, fire chief in nearby Haileybury.

said arson may have been the cause and a fire marshal was flown in to investigate. Hughes said several children about 10 years old were seen running from a furniture store where the fire started about noon yesterday. Police Cpl. Richard Purdon said investigations into possible arson and looting during the fire were continued but no charges were filed. He said his 13-officer force was working overtime today keeping The town's three schools were closed today.

Five water bombers were pulled from forest fires by the provincial environment ministry and sent into Cobalt to keep, the fire from spreading to surrounding bush and forest areas. The north end of the town dates back to the early 1900s. when the discovery of silver created a mining boom. The town, about 40 miles south of Sudbury, quickly grew to 30.000 residents with 50 mines shipping cobalt and silver until the economic slump during the Great Depression of. the 1930s.

In 1922. a forest fire broke out. killing 44 persons and destroying nearby towns and villages. they're just hungry." a police spokesman said. "As far as we know, none of the Tonight' Expert Favors Dropping Curbs on Eyeglass Ads ASS EN.

The Netherlands (AP) -South Moluccan militants holding more than 150 hostages in a school and on a train in northern Holland demanded the release of 21 jailed countrymen and a jumbo jet to fly them out of the country. Dutch officials said today. The militanU set a deadline of 2 p.m. (8 a.m. EDT) tomorrow for their demands to be met and threatened to kill their hostages if the government attempted mediation.

Dutch radio reported. The South Moluccans did not specify where they wanted to be flown in the jumbo jet. which has a range of more than 6.000 miles. Two bursts of automatic weapons fire was heard at a village school in nearby Bovensmilde where 105 children and six teachers are held captive by a half-dozen extremists. One volley was fired to alert police they wanted breakfast and a second was fired just before the food arrived.

"They were shooting in the air. I think Sunny Partly cloudy tonight, low near 60. Mostly sunny tomorrow, 80s. (Details ortPage2A.) keep us on our toes." Food was delivered to the single-story elementary school in the morning and later taken inside. A second food delivery was made at noon.

A medical official reported that medicines accepted by the gunmen last night included a special prescription for a girl suffering from a heart condition. "If she does not have this, her life will be in danger." he said, adding she needed five doses a day. A special package of toys and candy was sent to the school house and accepted by the gunmen. About 10 miles from the school, a second "band of seven South Moluccans held commuters hostage on a four-car train stalled in rolling pastureland. A police spokesman said the number held could be more than 50- possibly as many as 70 or 80.

Some of the 100 persons 114 takes a large chunk out of the fixed incomes of the aged. Besides the repeal of all state regulations prohibiting price advertising. Schulman recommended that consumers be given their lens prescription following an eye examination, so that they may shop around for glasses which the can best afford. Cancer Institute May Test Laetrile 111 It WASHINGTON (AP) Eyeglasses would be less expensive if states allowed more competition and advertisement of eyeglasses prices, a leading ophthalmologist says. Frank W.

Newell, chairman of the ophthalmology department at the University of Chicago, said in testimony prepared for a Senate small business sub-, committee that "efforts of various state licensing boards to restrict information concerning prices may be regarded as designed to protect those who are licensed, rather than to serve the public." Newell, editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Ophthalmology and former chairman of the American Board of Ophthalmology, said more consumer problems arise from the high cost of lenses than from faulty manufacturing. William R. Hutton. executive director for the National Council of Senior Citizens, testified that eyeglasses are probably the most important health aid used by older Americans. Hutton said a survey by the council of its own members showed that half of the 500 responding use their present glasses as long as possible to avoid the expense of a new pair, delaying an eye examination or the purchase of new glasses until vision is a serious problem.

Most bespectacled persons over age 65 use bifocal or trifocal lenses, which are much more expensive than single-vision glasses, explained Hutton. This, he said. any of the animal test systems. "It seems to us that societal pressure has something to do with this (Laetrile). Many people are getting the drug.

Some individuals claim it is beneficial. It has no apparent toxicity. But all of this has persuaded us to reopen the issue of conducting a clinical trial." A decision will be made within 60 days, Newell said, adding it would probably take six months tg release initial findings of such research. Newell stressed that human testing would be done Only on a volunteer basis and would involve individuals "who have run the gamut of the conventional therapy WASHINGTON (AP) The National Cancer Institute is "seriously considering" using Laetrile in tests on humans to determine whether the controversial substance is an effective cancer treatment. Dr.

Guy Newell, acting director of the federal cancer institute, said today the institute is reassessing its previous opposition to testing Laetrile on cancer patients who volunteer for the experimentation. He said legalization of Laetrile, by some states, despite a Food and Drug Administration ban on the substance, is having an influence on the institute. Alaska, Florida, Indiana, Arizona and Nevada have legalized Laetrile. The FDA bans importation of Laetrile, now produced mainly in Mexico from apricot seeds, on grounds there is no evidence it is effective against cancer. Newell said individual states are able to permit intrastate use of Laetrile, however, because the FDA ban applies only to interstate commerce.

He said it is unusual, but not unprecedented, for the institute to test a substance on humans without having determined from animal testing that it may be an effective treatment for an illness. "We don't view this as a sensational project," Newell said. "Our official position on the drug has not changed. We do not believe the drug shows any positive activity in Julie Seeks Own Place in Life Unmasking In Philadelphia, an autopsy is planned on a body discovered two weeks ago. The body sports its own mask and breastplate shown above.

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Chuckle The accent today may be wholly on youth but most of the stress is definitely on parents. ,1 4 if Asked if her marriage to David Eisenhower was strained by the public life they led when her father was president, Julie said: "Yes, I think it has undergone great changes. I think that the last White House years were a greater strain on us than we realized, and in the decompression period, there were many adjustments to make." Julie continued, "In my marriage, I've made a lot of mistakes, and I think David has made mistakes, too. But in a way we've really grown together, and we're much more honest with each other than we have ever been before. "I must say that the White House imposes incredible pressures "We seem to have worked out a good balance in what we're doing." David graduated from law school last year, and is working on a book about his grandfather, the late President Dwight D.

Eisenhower. He has not yet taken the bar examination. The Eisenhowers now live in a three-bedroom beach house overlooking thePacific in Capistrano Beach, about a 15-mimite drive from her parents' home. Julie sees her mother four or five times a week and she and her husband have dinner with the Nixons once a week. Mrs.

Eisenhower said she is afraid her mother will not recover completely from the stroke she suffered last July. "They say that if you're not recovered within a year, you never have a complete recovery, and it's almost a year now," she said. "Mother has a little difficulty walking and can't use her left hand completely, but her spirit is good. In a choked voice, she said her mother is in pain most of the time because since her stroke she has suffered from arthritis. Asked for her reaction to her father's interviews with television personality David Frost, Julie set her jaw and said: "I don't want to comment on it," she said.

"He expressed himself much better than I could. He has to speak for himself. I'm proud of my father." NEW YORK (AP) Julie Nixon Eisenhower is trying to establish her own identity after years of being known only as the daughter of Richard M. Nixon. "I want to be accepted as a writer," she said in an interview yesterday.

"I want to feel that I'm a contributing member of society and not just one of the people who has lived in the White House." At 28, former President Nixon's younger daughter has just written her first book, "Special People," which is to be published June 6. The book contains six profiles of famous people she has known, including Prince Charles, heir to the British throne; the late Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung and author Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Julie is quick to admit that the profiles, which deal with marriages, tragedies and problems in the limelight, reveal almost as much about her as they do about the people she interviewed. Of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, an author and widow of Charles A. Lindbergh, she writes: "We talked about marriage and the seemingly unavoidable mistake of expecting more of the one you love than others, expecting men to meet your needs effortlessly, to share your goMs." Abby 8A Help 3B Business 10A Leisure" 4B Classified 6-1 2B Sports 12-1 4 A Comics 5B TV 3B Deaths 6B Tier News 3-5 A Editorial 6 A 1-2B Food M5C Volume 101-31 "Awn Luennower about book..