The Herald from Jasper, Indiana • Page 8

Page 6 The Dubois County DAILY HERALD, Jasper, Ind. Saturday, March 25, 1972 3 Students Killed, 42 Hurt Engineer Says Bus Driver Failed To Stop At Crossing Auto Company Chairmen Say Standards Are Beyond Reach By DAVID W. CHUTE DETROIT (UPI)-The board chairmen of the big four auto companies agree that government safety and air pollution standards for cars are beyond the economic and technological abilities. They questioned the merit behind them. think they are moving too far, too fast without enough factual and scientific data behind said Lynn Townsend.

certainly are all advocates of safety and safe emissions in this country, but I think that we certainly question the standards that have been set as to whether they need to be as rigid as they are. And we question the scientific data behind them requiring them in the form that they are. then we question the speed which may make it impossible to do the normal testing and engineering development that we normally Townsend said. Townsend and the chairmen of the other three Richard C. Gerstenberg of General Motors Henry Ford II of Ford Motor Co.

and Roy D. Chapin of American Motors their views in four separate interviews with Detroit Television Station WJBK to be aired next Tuesday. Ford, who once called the air bag lot of made it plain that he changed his mind. still against air bags because we think going to work he said. Chapin was less dogmatic but insisted that at the present time there is not a reliable air bag that will accomplish what it is supposed to accomplish.

He added, however, think coming sooner or Gerstenberg said the air bag is most complicated and sophisticated and that lead time was the most critical factor. Gerstenberg said the widening gap between productivity and costs in recent years would make this and other advances difficult. He said that from 1965 to 1971, wages shot up by 42 per cent while productivity increased only 14 per cent, resalting in enormous cost pressures and rapidly rising prices. PRESSURE AIDS CURE LOS ANGELES of high pressure air chambers normally used to treat deep sea divers for the bends has helped cure a rare jawbone disease, dental researchers at UCLA reported Friday. The researchers said six patients suffering from bular osteomyelitis improved after spending a series of two- hour periods in the chamber filled with pressurized pure oxygen.

The disease, an infection, produces a degeneration of the jawbone. aily erald BUS SPLIT BY wreckage of a school having been dragged more than a quarter of a mile bus in which three children died when it was rammed down the Penn Central tracks, by a freight train Friday, rests in a sea of foam after Press International) By DONALD THORNTON CONGERS, NY. (UPI) Patty Bundick, an 18-year-old senior at Nyack High School, was sitting near the back of the orange school bus packed with 49 teen-age students when she glanced up and saw the approaching freight train. looked at the train and a few of the other kids must have too. I called out that it was coming a few of us screamed she said.

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Exotic Printing At Lilly Library BLOOMINGTON Samples of printing which date from the year Columbus discovered America are included in a new exhibit at Indiana Lilly Library. The exhibit, entitled Printing and the Expansion of Europe, will remain until the end of May. A major part of the exhibit deals with the spread of European printing, with movable types, around the world through the medium of the old colonial empires ol Spain and Portugal. A second section is a small, ed to stop, but he kept on going. He was going too fast to she said.

Patty was one of three fortunate students who suffered only minor injuries Friday morning when the 83-car Penn Central freight train, its whistle blaring, slammed into the bus at an unguarded crossing in this hamlet 25 miles north of New York City. Train Splits Bus in Two The train, which railroad officials said was traveling at A BIG Joe Scherer, 402 Eighth Jasper, accepts $500 from Ron Thewes, manager of Northwood IGA store in Jasper. Mrs. Scherer is the latest winner in Bankroll contest Sister Of Jasper Man Died Friday Hazel Irene Orman, 68, of R. 1, Shoals, died at 6 a Friday at her home.

Surviving is one brother, Wilburn Houchin of Jasper. Friends may call after six tonight at the Queen Funeral Home in Shoals where services will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday, followed by burial in Patton Cemetery in LaPorte. carefully selected collection of xylographicor block-printed works published in China by mostly Jesuit during the 17th and 18th Centuries. A third section is comprised of selected items from a collection of block-printed books and a few copper plate engravings published in Japan during the period from 1641 to 1853.

This was the so-called country With one or two exceptions, all of the exhibit material was drawn from the Josiah K. Lilly Bernardo Mendel, and C.R. Boxer collections. about 25 miles an hour at the time of the collision, split the bus in two and dragged the front part of it 1,500 feet down the tracks spilling out injured children all the way. Three boys were killed, two crushed in the wreckage pulled under the train engine.

Forty- three students, ranging in age from 14 to 18, and the bus driver, were admitted to Nyack Hospital. Eight were reported in critical condition, three of whom lost limbs. One boy had to have his leg amputated to free him from the wreckage, police said. kids were spread all over the said Police Lt. George Finley.

The train engineer, Charles Carpenter, said he blew his whistle and set his emergency brakes when he saw the bus coming. Never never stopped at Carpenter told police. The bus driver, Joseph Larkin, 35, of Stony Point, N.Y., was reported in shock. He was admitted to the hospital for chest injuries and authorities refused to say what he had told them in a police interview. Finley, heading the investigation of the accident, said the live workers aboard the train had been interviewed along with scores of students.

He said police were investigating reports the bus did not stop, but would not elaborate. However, he did say, investigation will culminate in it being presented to the Rockland County Grand New York state law requires school buses to make a complete stop at all railroad crossings. Bus was Traveling East The bus, owned by Rockland Bus Lines, of Congers, a bus contractor, was traveling east on Gilcrest Road when it was hit by the train. Authorities said the crossing was not part of the usual bus route. Sewer construction on Kings Highway resulted in the bus changing to the Gilcrest crossing at the beginning of this week.

Two of the boys who were killed were found in wreckage, under the engine. The third victim died at Nyack Hospital. They were identified as James McGuiness, 17, Robert Mauterer, 15, and Richard Macaylo, 18, all of nearby Valley Cottage. Three investigators for the National Transportation Safety Board interviewed students today and said a board of inquiry would be held..