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fcat' m0mfl Uf ra fate -i ATLANTA CONSTITUTION For 104 Years the South's Standard Newspaper ATLANTA, GA. 30302, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1972 61 PAGES, 4 SECTIONS P.O. Box 4639 VOL. 105, No. 117 TEN CENTS raw 6 'Please Help Us! 1 7IJ if Life and Death Drama at the Crash I Awf V.

Vt-e? i- Vj'Hrf Ji if si Ills it a Iff Investigators hunt or cause of crash. Page 2-A. By TOM FITZPATRICK CHICAGO (CDN) "Please help us," Patricia cried. Firefighter Billy Nolan from Snorkel Squad No. 1 heard the voice coming from the front end of the train.

This was the second Illinois Central train, the one that had slammed into the rear of a doubledecker highliner on the South Side just off Lake Michigan Monday. Nolan made his way into the mangled wreckage. There were two girls there and they were pinned side by side. "Are you in pain?" Nolan asked. "I'm numb," Patricia said.

"I can't feel my legs." "Can you get us out?" Lisa asked. "Are we going to live?" "Don't worry, girls," Nolan said. "We have lots of equipment here. We'll get your out. We'll keep you safe." The two girls, Patricia Wysmierski, 17, and Lisa Tuttle, 17, had both been sitting in the front seat of the train, directly behind themotorman.

When the car in which Patricia and Lisa sat telescoped itself into the modern highliner, the impact of the crash flattened their seat. Now they were pinned underneath the weight of the steel bulkhead of the motor-man's cab and the pressure from the pushed-in front end of the train. On either side of Patricia and Lisa were a middle-aged man and woman. They had died instantly. But the two girls didn't know this and no one ever told them.

Fire Captain John Wiendle approached the girls after seconds with Nolan. "Billy," he said, "you stay with these girls. It's gonna be a while before we can get them out. Stay with them, Billy. Keep talking to them.

"If you don't they'll panic. If they go See RESCUE, Page 10-A 4 IB This Was Rear Coach of New Train Into Which Older Train Telescoped ation Club, of Jinve NEWS 8LFS 9 Is Ordered by Carter THIS MORNING November 1,1972 GOOD MORNING! Variable cloudiness and warmer temperatures are expeced across Georgia Wednesday with mostly sunny skies prevailing in the southern half of the sate. Highs Wednesday should be mostly in the 70s after early morning lows generally in the 50s. Details on Page 2-A. WORLD LONDON Queen Elizabeth, wearing her jeweled state crown and ermine-fringed robe, opened a new session of Parliament Tuesday by reading the traditional speech trom the throne outlining the Conservative government's program.

Page 6-A. SANTIAGO, Chile All 15 members of Chile's cabinet resigned Tuesday to give President Salvador Allende a free hand in figuring out a way to end three straight weeks of strikes, street demonstrations, sabotage and political conflict. Page 1-B. LONDON The Soviet Union! may have promoted the ouster of its advisers in Queen Elizabeth II By SAM HOPKINS A major state investigation of Atlanta bars and nightclubs and the possibility of their connection with organized crime has been ordered by Gov. Jimmy Carter, it was learned Tuesday.

The probe will be started immediately by a special investigative squad created by the State Revenue department in September. Ten to 15 persons are expected to be subpoenaed to testify including crime-linked Burton and Robert Wolcoff nightclub operator Chick Hedrick and possibly Howard Massell, the brother of Mayor Sam Massell according to a high-level source in the Revenue department. A preliminary investigation by the Revenue department has indicated that background information required for a liquor license in Atlanta has often been inadequate in regard to who is connected with the operation, where the financial support is coming from and who is getting the profits, a state source said. The source blamed the Atlanta Police Department where Chief John Inman is already under fire for not pushing the investigation of the Wolcoff brothers for not getting sufficient information from the operators of the bars and nightclubs before local liquor licenses are issued. "Unfortunately," a State Revenue department source said Tuesday, "our reliance on the local people was somewhat misplaced.

We have been issu'ng state liquor licenses based on the information they had on the local level." Inman, contacted at his home Tuesday night, said he refused to comment on criticism that his department fails to adequately investigate applicants for licuor licenses. "Well, of course we try to get sufficient information," Inman said, "hut I'm not going to comment much on criticism made by an unnamed source." The chief added that he learned Tuesday that slate revenue agents are work ng with his department's Special Investigators Department. "I just found out today," Inman said, "because they needed a radio to go in the car. Of course, I'm glad. We get extra help for investigating and they provide their own transportation." A knowledgeable source at the state level said the Wolcoff brothers will "definitely be subpoenaed.

Their names have popped up See CARTER, Page 10-A Hello, Kids! Was this the face of the kindly lady down the street? Or was it really one of the witches who greeted the youngsters of the Atlanta area Tuesday night? A less scary view of Halloween is on Page 8-A. (Staff Photo-Bill Grimes) Staff Photo George Clark MAYOR SAM MASSELL (L) TALKS TO NEWSMEN AT FULTON COURTHOUSE Arrives to Meet With Grand Jury on Night Club Investigation U.S. Asks Assurance Of N. Viet Withdrawal 'I Hate You I Hope I Killed Yoiv Egypt in order to protect its influence in the Middle East, the new edition of Jane's Weapons Systems said Tuesday. Page 12-D.

NATION WASHINGTON President Nixon announced Tuesday he will wind up his presidential election campaign with a radio and television blitz. Meantime, Sen. George McGovern campaigned in New York state. Page 9-A. NEW YORK A parents' boycott Tuesday kept nearly 12,000 children out of school in a white, working-class section of Brooklyn scene of bitter confrontations over the admission of a small group of black and Puerto Rican children.

Page 6-A. WASHINGTON A secret White House study of plans to wire every American home, car and boat into a central communications system under government control was made public Tuesday by Rep. William S. Moorhead, D-Pa. Page 13-A.

WASHINGTON The House Banking Committee reported Tuesday its staff had uncovered evidence that Republican campaign officials monitored the personal bank accounts of Democratic congressmen and kept tabs on the love lives of Democratic campaign workers. Page 11-R. WASHINGTON The Great Silver Dollar sale began Tuesday, an unprecedented auction of more than two million shiny uncirculated coins salted away and forgotten for over 60 years in the musty cellar of the Treasury Building. Page 7-D. GEORGIA DUBLIN Department of Transportation director Bert Lance said Tuesday he plans to ask the General Assembly next year for permission to use more state money to construct interstate highways when federal funds are exhausted.

Page 12-D. THE LAST portion of Interstate 20 linking Atlanta to Columbia, S. will be opened to traffic next week, it was announced Tuesday. Ribbon cutting ceremonies are planned on the state line. Page 1-B.

ATLANTA DeKALB COUNTY will begin a $387,000 "emergency medical service" program in December in an effort to put ambulance service within six minutes of every resident of the county. Page 5-A. INDEX BY BERNARD GWERTZMAN WASHINGTON (NYT) The United States is seeking reassurances from Hanoi that once the Indochina peace agreement takes effect, North Vietnam will withdraw many of its 35,000 troops now stationed in the northern part of South Vietnam, even though Hanoi is not required to do so under the terms of the accord. This new element in the complicated negotiations picture became known Tuesday at fiie same time as the White House reaffirmed that President Nixon would not be "stampeded" into a signing of the tentative agreement until his chief foreign policy advisor, Henry A. Kissinger had a chance to settle all details in a further three-or four-day negotiating session with the North Vietnamese.

Tuesday was the deadline imposed by Hanoi for the signing of the agreement, reached in Paris earlier this month by Kissinger and Le Due Tho, Hanoi's chief negotiator. But the administration remained confident that Hanoi would agree its request for a further session to settle unresolved problems. After repeating, the administration's confidence, Ronald L. Ziegler, the White House press secretary, said "the President's firm intention is to have a settlement which See PEACE, Page 10-A THE ATLANTA SEAT Bo-or-Bie for Cook, Young By GREGORY JAYNES i Witnesses testified Tuesday that 2 4-1 year-old Emily Butler emptied a .22 revolver into her supervisor at the IRS center at-Chamblee, saying "I hate you" and after-' wards "I hate you so bad, 1 hope I killed you." It was the second day of trial for Miss Butler, who is charged in the killing of Mrs. Betty Davis, 38, of Douglasville.

The shooting occurred June 2 at the Internal Revenue Service facility. DcKalb Superior Court Judge Ed Wheel-er recessed the trial at 4:30 p.m. after defense attorneys argued they needed more time to prepare an argument to throw out a confession Miss Butler made to Chamblee police. With the jury out, Chamblee detective 1 Reid Miller testified that Miss Butler told him after the shooting she had "been having problems with her supervisor. She said her supervisor pushed her." The detective said Miss Butler told him she requested a transfer from Mrs.

Davis unit but did not get it. "The supervisor started giving her more work," Miller said he was told. "She said she felt her supervisor was punishing her because she had gone over her head" to try to get the transfer. "She said the super- visor was giving her so much work it was driving her crazy." On the day before Mrs. Davis was shot, Miller said, the supervisor and Miss Butler See EMILY, Page In 1972, Young is going to fewer social functions and is spending more time on the streets at bus stops, in shopping centers and in apartment complexes, taking his message to the voters.

His pace also is tougher this time and it shows. The strain and exhaustion make their indelible impressions from time to time at late night meetings and! early morning appearances. When asked if he feels overscheduled, Young manages a smile and a chuckle and says. "Definitely." The days begin before 7 a.m., rarely end before 11 p.m. and the pressure builds.

Cook had a similar experience In 19G9, See FIFTH, Page 10-A the end of his political career, but it would cast a cloud over any future political aspirations. For Young, a man who has never helu elective office, a second defeat might end a political career that never really began. Both men learned painful lessons from their earlier defeats Young at the hands of Fletcher Thompson in the 1970 district campaign and Cook at the hands of Sam Massell in the 1969 mayor's race and are trying to profit from those mistakes this time around. Young spent a lot of time attending coffees and teas and talking to small groups of people in 1970, when he lost to Thompson by some 20,000 votes; First of Three Parts By TOM LINTIIICUM Neither Andrew Young nor Rodney Cook considers himself a loser. Yet each man has lost the biggest race in his political career and now finds himself making what may well be a do-or-die effort to attain high elective office.

The stakes are high. The winner goes to the U.S. House of Representatives to represent the Fifth Congressional District of Georgia and the loser stays behind, bearing the stigma of losing the two biggest races of his political career. For Cook, a two-term Atlanta alderman and four-term state representative from Fulton County, a second might not spell Good Health 5-B Goren on Bridge 6-D Movies, Amusements 12-A Reg Murphy 4-A Sports 1-D Television 2-C Want Ads 5-C Weather 2-A Astrology 2-B BobHarrell C-A Business, Industry 7-D Celestine Sibley 7-B Comics, Jumble 6-D Crossword Puzzle 6-D DearAbby 7-B Deaths Editorials 4-A Women, Family 5-B.

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