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Thursday, October 11, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Train engineer to be questioned
Federal investigators today will interview the engineer and fireman who were on duty on the Amstraf train that killed 27 people, 2 killing two persons and injuring 69.
Harold E. Storey, the head investigator of the National Safety Board, said yesterday he had question L.H. Graham, Roeland Park, the engineer, and William P. Hand, Newton.
Graham has been in intensive care with internal injuries at Lawrence Memorial Hospital since the accident. Hand was held from Anneliese Axtel Christian Hospital in Newton.
Investigators hope to learn from the interviews why the train was traveling 78 mph in a 30 mph zone, as indicated by
speed recording devices in two of the train's engines.
A technical expert from the NTSB will go to Chicago to assist the manufacturer of the device, Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co., in handling the equipment. The Dumbar, a spokesman for the company, said.
The NTSB also want to determine whether a warning alarm and light in the system would accidentally cause the accident. The alarm would have to have been acknowledged within a matter of hours.
The Bureau of Accident Investigation has recommended to the five-member NTSB team that a public hearing on the accident be held in Kansas City, Mo. Dunbark said. The NTSB will decide in "a matter of days" whether to authorize the
hearing, which would be part of the fact finding phase of the investigation he said.
Dunbar said public hearings were usually scheduled four to eight weeks after an accident and that a NTSB board member would conduct the proceedings.
Witnesses would be selected and and representants from Santa Fe Railroad, Amtrak and railroad unions would have an opportunity to question witnesses, Dunbar
"The hearing would help establish a factual record which, combined with on-scene investigation, give the board a basis for analysis," Dumbar said.
Dunbar said it would be several months before a final report on the accident would be released.
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Chinese healthy despite poor care
Despite cases of less than adequate health care in China, the Chinese people might be fearful of being treated by a professor who spent three weeks in the People's Republic of China last summer on the island.
Leand Miller, professor of occupational health at all 436 people in the weekly Faculty of Occupational Health. Ministries building that the level of Chinese health care still trailed that of the West.
"It's surprising how healthy the Chinese people look when you consider the bad sanitation conditions in Chinese doctor hospitals," Mr. Miller said. "Some Chinese doctors have," Miller said.
He said some doctor's offices had dirt floors, dirty walls and other unsanitary conditions. Some of the doctors, he said, are also using their hands before working with patients.
He also said that some Chinese doctors
"THE CHINESE LOOK lean and muscular, however," he said. They probably are healthier than many Americans."
had as little as five months of training, but that most had about five years of training.
According to the National Office of Health Statistics, however, the 1978 life expectancy in the United States is almost 73 years with 62 in the People's Republic of China.
Miller also said the Chinese were making gains in birth control in a country that now has almost 1 billion inhabitants.
"Contraception is taught," Miller said. "Each couple is encouraged to have only two children."
He also said the Chinese government prohibited people from marrying until they became 26 years old.
In addition to Chinese health care conditions, Miller discussed parts of everyday life he had seen in China.
He said he was impressed with improvements in living conditions in China since the 1949 Communist revolution.
"One woman I met with 11 others before the revolution in a room that was 9 feet deep," he said. "That room was the living room, kitchen, dining room and bathroom."
HE SAID that now the woman and the three others in her family lived in a three room apartment in Chuancho, a large city in southeastern China.
Next week's Faculty Forum will feature Daniel Bressler, assistant professor of religious studies, who will speak on "Clarifying Terms in the Middle East."
"Even though the Chinese have a long way to go to catch up with the West economically," she said. "I think the United Nations should make some definite improvements in China."
The speech will be at 11:45 a.m. next Wednesday at the Ecumenical Ministries building, 1294 Oread Ave.
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