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-m 6 5 'tSxZ I 0Q Weekend Edition 4: 'y-Vfy, Xs ''W- y- 'V'4f 9' -r; -s 'r! The ONiV TJeii'spaper World Dedicated ta Serving Tipton County, Indiana? TIPTON, INDIANA, 46072 SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1976 noFwwe, injures 340 VOLUME 80 NO. 8 Train CHICAGO (UPI) A rush hour Chicago El train smashed into the rear of another jampacked train which was stopped at a station Friday, trapping passengers in twisted metal and injuring at least 340 of them Authorities at eight hospitals said they counted at least 340 persons injured when a four-car train heading for the Loop with work- bound passengers slammed into the rear of a six-car train on, the citys Northwest Side. Six of those injured were in serious coondition at Northwest Hospital, the Chicago Transit Authority said CTA spokesman Thomas Buck said about 600 persons aboard the two trains Warmer weather forecast American Public Association, would head a special investigative panel of industry experts. It was 1 degree above zero and the morning rush hour was at its peak when the moving train, traveling at 15 to 30 miles per hour, rammed the other and turned its rear car into a mass of twisted metal and splintered glass, tipped upward at a 45-degree angle. The mangled metal trapped some passengers, ar rescue workers had to use torches to free at least two of them.

Emergency workers freed other trapped passengers. Many had to scramble out through broken windows. Survivors, many bloody-faced. were carried off in football fans gathering in Florida for the Super Bowl and threatened the citrus crop. Bitter cold reigned from the Rockies to the Atlantic, but- a slow warmup started in parts of the Plains and the Midwest.

A freak lake effect snowstorm belted Lake Erie areas south of Buffalo with up to two feet of snow, where a motorist said traveling was like driving into a wall of snow. The toll of weather-connected deaths across the nation in the week-long siege of cold built to at least 29, including 10 in Illinois. Pennsylvania had 5 weather-connected deaths. New Jersey. 4, Missouri and North Carolina 3 each, Kansas 2, and Wisconsin and Indiana 1 each.

The Arkansas Lousiana Gas Co. asked schools to close in most of Arkansas, much of Oklahoma, northwestern Louisiana, northeastern Texas and a small area near Wichita, because of the drain on available natural gas. Most rural schools in the area complied. In some large districts, officials kept schools open, saying they had not had sufficient notice to reduce heat overnight. In Florida, the mercury dropped to 26 at Pensacola and Chicago firemen swarm over the back end of the last car of a Chicago Transit Authority train, a mass of twisted metal after it was struck by another CTA commiiter train during the morning rush hour Friday.

A crowded train slammed into the rear of a loaded parked train at a station located on a median strip along the Kennedy Expressway. Firemen used wrecking bars and torches to free several passengers trapped in the last car. No deaths were reported, but more than 340 persons were injured. (UPI Telephoto) Temperatures began moderating somewhat around Indiana Friday and may reach the 30s in central and southern portions by Saturday. The mercury, which plunged below zero Thursday and Friday mornings, was expected to remain on the plus side Friday night and early Saturday1 with lows ranging only from 10 above into the teens Highs Saturday were forecast for the 20s north and 30s south, Smoking ban is approved INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) A bill to ban smoking in most government buildings was approved Friday by the Indiana House Public Health and Environmental Affairs Committee, The ban would apply to buildings owned, controlled or subsidized by government It also would apply to elevators, bases, planes and trains.

major bills pass 15 CENTS house exemption for a taxpayer 65 years of age or over or blind from $1,500 to $1 750 For a taxpayer over 65 and also blind it would increase the exemption from $2,000 to $2,500 and for a disabled taxpayer under 65 it would be an increase from $1,000 to $1,750 The bill does not change the exemption for a taxpayer which remains at $1,000 nor for a working spouse who earns at least $1,000 House Minority Leader Ker-mit Burrous. R-Peru, objected to the fiscal impact of the (Continued on Page 6) priorities as well as its responsibility to the taxpayers of Indiana, Harris said State Rep Harris, Wednesday filed a house motion to withdraw two of his bills, house bills 1025 and 1026 House bill 1025 was a bill to mandate the Indiana Highway Department to conduct a feasibility study for a bypass around the present U.S. 31 bypass around Kokomo. Harris said that because of the advice of the House Attorney and the constitutionality erf such a bill he withdrew it and will introduce a (Continued on Page 6) The big question is this: if you- reduce the cholesterol in your blood, do you reduce your risk of developing coronary heart disease? The answer is, we dont know, said Dr. Basil Rifkind, chief of the National Heart and Lung Institutes fat metabolism branch.

There have been many (Continued on Page 6) crash which came together at the Addison Street Station on the Jefferson Park Line in the middle of the Kennedy Expressway, one of the main arteries into the city. Buck said there was no immediate explanation of why or how the four-car train, which was not supposed to stop at Addison Street but was on the correct track, plowed into the back of the other train, which was also southbound and making a scheduled stop. The CTA, the Federal Railroad Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board began on-site investigations. The CTA also said Dr." Wiliam J. Ronan, chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and of the but there was a prospect of precipitation later in the day.

The National Weather Service said there was up to a 30 per cent chance of precipitation later Saturday snow in the" north, rain in the south and either or both in the central region. There also was a chance of more precipitation Sunday. Although temperatures were rising slightly Friday afternoon, it was still cold. It was 11 above at 2 p.m. in Indianapolis, but the wind chill was a minus 15 At Fort Wayne, it was 8 above but the wind chill was minus 25.

South Bends 9 degree reading coupled with a 14 miles per hour wind yielded a wind chill of 18 below. State police reported most main roads were in nearly normal condition, but most secondary roads all over the state were still slippery with snow and ice. The winters worst cold wave speared deep into the South Friday. It forced schools to close to conserve natural gas in five southwestern states, chilled H. Bud Hillis (R-Kokomo) The body needs cnolesterol for some basic chemical tasks and, in fact, makes most of the cholesterol it uses.

The trouble is, cholesterol also has been implicated in hardening of the arteries or atherosclerosis, the silent forerunner of heart attacks and strokes. Arteries become thickened and roughened by deposits of cholesterol and other fats, cellular debris and calcium. As the buildup continues, the blood channel narrows, making it easier for a clot to form and shut off the flow altogether. If that happens, the result is a heart attack or, if the plugged vessel is in the brain, a stroke. Whether cholesterol from was made a special order of business for Monday afternoon The vote on the bill to increase individual income taxpayers exemptions was 69-27 This was the same bill that passed both houses in the 1975 session It probably would have been signed by the governor except for a printing error that made the exemptions much larger than the bill had intended so he vetoed it The measure would increase the minimum exemption for dependents from $500 each to $750 and would increase the stretchers or stumbled away in the bitter cold Virginia De Backer, 16.

who watched the crash from the station platform, said, Oh my God, all those people. I had just missed getting on the train that was hit. It was standing there with its doors closed for two, maybe three minutes. The other train seemed to brake, then crashed Glass sprayed in all directions. Insurance underwriter A1 Di Silvestro, 26, was in the middle of the six-car train.

I was trapped, he said. I tried to get out and I couldnt. The policemen and firemen got me out. There was- quite a bit of panic. People were yelling and screaming trying to get out.

Jacksonville, 32 at Tampa and 38 near Miami in Dade County. The 38-degree reading was the lowest in Dade County since 1951. Tourists flocking 'into the Miami area for next weeks big football game stayed away from the beaches and hoped for a predicted warmup Sunday. A predicted hard freeze failed to develop in the citrus country, and a spokesman for Florida Citrus Mutual, an orange growers cooperative, said, We got by last night in pretty good shape. Steady winds kept frost from forming in fields of tender vegetables south of Miami.

The power load on the Tennessee Valley Authority system hit an all-time peak of 20.38 million kilowatts in 5 to 10 degree lows Friday morning A frigid 4-degree temperature iced and closed U.S. 441 across Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Temperatures were in the low teens in most of Mississippi, 8 above at Asheville, N.C., and 16 above at Anderson, C. It was the coldest night in three years in parts of Mississippi. West Virginia and the Washington, D.C., area Record lows chilled northern Louisiana and northern Alabama.

and then after the deaths the problem was corrected. The Kokomo legislator said, The highway department is in the process of buying access rights on U.S. 31 between Kokomo and Indianapolis in order to install a chain- link fence along both sides of U.S. 31. This is being done like so many other projects that are questionable simply because the federal government is paying a portion of it.

They fail to take into consideration that these new projects require maintenance funds and that with a 55- mph speed limit some Whatever social affluence and medicine have achieved, something else has been taken away, says Dr. Hairy Black-bum of the University of Minnesota. That something else is principally the atherosclerotic, coronary and cardiovascular disease epidemic. Hardening of the arteries is a peculiarly Western disease. It is not a major health problem in Japan, some other Asian nations or Africa.

Because the incidence of coronary heart disease varies with cultures, it must not be part of the natural process of human aging. So, the reasoning goes, something else must be ttoOopJTOP o' Train wreck Two INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) The Indiana House Friday passed on final reading and sent to the Senate two major bills increasing individual income tax exemptions and hiking unemployment benefits The House was the scene of most of the action as the 1976 Indiana Legislature ended its first full week of work 3and recessed until Monday afternoon All three of the bills on the House calendar Friday were introduced on the opening organizational day of the legislature Nov. 18, 1975, at a of these safety projects may not be as necessary as they were several years ago when traffic was traveling at 65 mph. Harris also said many of the home owners along U.S. 31 have bought two or three lots as an investment but now the highway department is taking their access rights to these lots which makes their investment worthless.

U.S. 31, the highway through the center of Indiana, has never been given the attention it deserves, it has just been pieced together. The fence project should have been done when 31 causing it, and there must be ways to prevent it. Therein lies the controversy over cholesterol. Research going back to 1847 has shown cholesterol to be a constituent of artery-blocking material.

It has long been known, too, that children with extraordinarily high blood levels of cholesterol because of inherited defects had heart attacks at early ages. In the past 40 years, various studies have tied cholesterol to coronary disease in one way or another. Perhaps the best evidence of a connection has come from studies in which originally healthy people have Windfall gets grant Fifth District Rep. Elwood Rep. Harris opposes fence project announced today that a federal grant had been approved for the Town of Windfall by the Environmental Protection Agency.

The grant is in the amount of $53,925 for preparation of construction drawings and specifications for a wastewater treatment plant for the community. The project is being planned by the Windfall Town Board and has been in planning stages since 1966 when the town was ordered to establish a sewage treatment program, i The federal grant is a step one grant for plans for a facility based in Windfall. Application has been made, for a step two grant. The engineering firm of Clyde E. Williams and Associates, South Bend, is preparing the plans for a sewer system.

The Windfall Town Board will have- to decide later to proceed with plans to build a treatment plant locally or join in a regionalized sewer system with sewage being pumped to Tipton for treatment. The grant announced by Rep. Hillis was the first to be received by the Town of Windfall for its sewer project. Costs of the project could exceed $1,200,000 with 75 per cent of the cost paid by federal funds and 10 per cent by state funds. another bypass for Kokomo, another example of their attitude toward central Indiana cities Harris said he has tried to work with the highway department on behalf of Kokomo and on behalf of the home owners on 31 around Sharpsville but all he gets is unfulfilled promises from them.

I cannot support a higher budget for the Indiana Highway Department or a larger increase of gasoline taxes until the highway department starts using some common sense in its construction schedule and time the Democrats, who control the House, tried but failed to pass them under suspension of rules However, on Friday, with only a simple majority approval needed, the Democrats with some Republican help passed the bills increasing minimum adjusted gross income tax exemptions and boosting the amount of weekly benefits for jobless persons. The third bill from the Nov. 18 introduction was one to delay general reassessment of property for a year. After a long debate, it U.S. 31 was made four lane and not now after people have invested their life savings in a home.

As I understand there are over a dozen suits already filed in the courts over this project Harris said. Rep. Harris also stated that U.S. 31 bypass around Kokomo is the worst hang- up in Indiana truckers call Kokomo stop light city also known as barrel city because construction has not been completed in over two years and barrels were left up as markers, yet the highway department has said no to any plans of been followed for a number of years. One of the most famous was conducted in Framingham.

where the medical history of 5,127 residents was watched for years. Dr. Thomas Dawber, architect of the study, said in an interview at Boston University Medical Center that blood cholesterol was proved to be a heart disease risk. The higher the level of cholesterol in the blood, the greater the probability that individuals would develop coronary heart disease at an earlier age than people who didnt have this abnormality, he said. The Framingham study, Part one Cholesterol controversy: the big question INDIANAPOLIS State Rep.

Joseph P. Harris, D- Kokomo, said today that he could not support any increase in funding for the Indiana Highway Department. He said he doesnt feel the highway department is realistic, that it continues to operate in the past and refuses to listen to officials in the various communities. He cited a recent case where a mother and her child were killed in Clinton County because the highway department had refused to listen to a state senator and a state representative from that district foods is the guilty party has not been proved. Some other factor or combination of factors might be the real culprit.

After years of research, no one knows for sure. If coronary heart disease could be wiped out, the average life span of American men could be increased by eight to 10 years, by some estimates. Elimination erf cancer would extend the average life by about 2.5 years. Despite vast improvements in medicine in this century, the average life expectancy for men who reach age 40 is only six months longer today than it was in 1900. however, did not find a relationship between what people ate and their cholesterol levels.

Dawber said the diets of the people studied did not vary markedly in terms of cholesterol consumption. But it is known that cholesterol levels in the blood can be lowered to some extent by drugs or by a carefully selected, low-cholesterol diet. WASHINGTON (UPI) Dr. Robert I. Levy, director of the National Heart and Lung Institute, hasnt eaten an egg in several years.

Heart surgeon Michael DeBakey eats them regularly. Eggs have become the focal point of a growing controversy over, the role cholesterol plays in heart disease, which kills more than twice as many Americans as cancer. Cholesterol is a tasteless, odorless, white fatty substance which enters the body in the foods we eat. It is especially abundant in egg yolks, some meats, milk, butter and cheese, but is absent in vegetable fats and oils. WEATHER Saturday cloudy and warm with snow likely by afternoon.

Highs mid to upper 20s. Snow Saturday night. Lows low to mid 20s. Sunday mostly cloudy with a chance of snow flurries. Highs upper 20s to low 30s.

Precipitation probability percentages 60 Saturday and 80 Saturday night. 1 fee- mm -j Tf, 1.