THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas 10 cents off campus Wednesday, October 3, 1979
Federal team inspects derailment
RvMARK SPENCER
Staff Reporter
A team of 11 investigators from the University of Alabama arrived in Lawrence last month to try determine why an Antrik train detailed yesterday, leaving two men dead and scores wounded.
Officials at Lawrence Memorial Hospital had 69 persons had been treated after 16 cars of the 18-car train, carrying 182 passengers, jumped the tracks at about 6.10 am yesterday near Fourth and Ohio State Universities. The war was the second most in Antrik history.
The worst accident claimed 11 lives in a high speed crash at Toni, Ill., on June 10, 1971 the year Amtrak service was created.
Twenty persons were held overnight at Lawrence Memorial. Five of the injured were in intensive care and two required surgery.
Robert Charles, 61, of Omma, a bartender on the train, and T.R. Siegh, 39, of Chicago, a sleeping car porter, were killed, officials said.
The Federal Railway Administration in Washington yesterday confirmed witness and railroad officials said was running late, traveling in excess the 30 mph speed limit.
THE TEAM OF NTSB investigators, which includes Elwood T. D. Driver, vice chairman of the team, has held an interview at the time last night, said Brad Dunbar, a member of the team.
A total of 25 to 30 federal and local officials will be involved in the investigation, he said. The investigators will concentrate on mechanical, operational, track and human factor aspects of the accident.
Five railroad safety experts and a human factor expert are included in the team, which hopes to have a preliminary report by midmorning today. Daquar said.
The Federal Railroad Administration said speed record devices in the train's three engines showed that the train was traveling at 18 mph when the derailment occurred.
HOWEVER, H.R. BIR, regional director of the FRA, said the tapes had not been double checked to determine their accuracy.
The Kansan obtained a photograph of the speed record device located in the first engine of the train (see back page). A gauge mounted on the wheel showed a speed of 93 mph.
A spokesman for Chicago Pneumatic Tools Co., which manufacture the gauge, said the needle locked when an accident occurred.
"Once the accident has happened and the train stops, there is no reason for the needle to drop." Robert Rook, sales engineer for Chicago Pneumatic, said.
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"Once in a while, the needle sticks," he said. "But it never shoots up and sticks."
Bird also said that he had encountered instances when the needle on the speed indicator had stuck.
BUT HE SUGGESTED that the needle might have become stuck in the 90 mph zone, immediately preceding the 30 mph zone where the train crashed.
Bird said he did not think the train could have been traveling at 93 mph at the time of the accident. If it had been, he said, the crash would have been much worse.
While the FRA's investigation strategy was being planned, work crews struggled to right cars and engines that crisscrossed nearly 200 feet of girdled track. The crews began replacing the track section by section, working west along an area stricken
Officials said they hoped the area would be cleared by today.
More than 20 organizations, including Lawrence and KU police, the Lawrence Fire Department, the Kansas Highway Patrol
and area ambulance and rescue units. assisted in rescue operations.
FIREMEN, POLICE and citizens worked to free passengers and crew members trapped in the cars. Area ambulances, taxis and buses transported the injured to Lawrence Memorial Hospital and took them home. Lawrence Community Building, 15 W. 11th.
Buses took passengers from the Community Building to Kansas City, Mo., where arrangements were made for them to proceed to their destinations.
the engineer of the train, identified by an official contractor, was in stable condition. Lowered Memorial last night. Bird said doctors had not indicated when Graham could be interviewed.
"It is my understanding that some of the crew may not have traveled the route before," Bird said.
THE DEREALED train, bound for CHICAGO that had been connected in New York one train, the Southwest Limited, originated in Los Angeles and the other, the Lone Star,
The Lone Star was to be discontinued Monday, but a federal judge in Wichita issued a temporary restraining order last week that kept it running.
Anti-racists seek march approval
Rv.JEFF SJERVEN
Staff Reporter
Organizers of a Homecoming Day anti-racism march from the University of Oklahoma to the White House, ask KU administrators and the Lawrence Police Department to approve their pro-racism initiative.
The proposed committee is jointly sponsored by the International Committee Against Racism and the progressive Labor Party, a Marxist-Leninist organization.
Paul Shawalter, incAR member, said yesterday that the march was scheduled for Oct. 27 to commemorate the 120th anniversary of slave-slavery raid on Harper's Ferry, W.Va.
Ann Eversole, director of the office of student organizations and activities, said
Showalter said he would meet with Richard Stanwick, Lawrence police chief, to discuss the protest. He said he would meet later with KU officials to secure permission for the protests.
her office had not been contacted by INCAR or the Progressive Labor Partv.
"If someone just wants to walk down the sidewalk," she said, "he doesn't need our permission. It depends on whether they want to walk under KU Police Department in their parquet."
Mike Wilden, Lawrence assistant city manager, said the marchers also had to obtain approval from the police department and have a driver assigned to design disrupted homecoming activities.
Eversole also said that the route selected by the marchers could have an effect on the administration's decision. Officials in campus are advised that university students would have to be consulted, she said.
"THE MARCH will start at about the same time as the football game," he said.
some time as the football game," he said. Shawater that at least 100 players from the Midwest to participate in the march. The organizers hope to attract 200 more marriers from the U.S.
Helping hands
Rescuers lower a seriously injured passenger to safety after an 18-car Amtrak train dared near four Ohio and Illinois streets yesterday. Two persons were killed and 69 injured in the second worst accident in the history of Amtrak in terms of fatalities. More than 20 organizations responded to the accident.
Whitey Herzog
Herzog's firing elicits criticism
"They're not renewing my contract," said a pale, shaken Herzog moments after emerging from general manager Joe Lester. "And it was for the good of the organization."
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Whitely-Zerog, who guided the Kansas City Royals to three straight division championships, will play at the club braced for a critical of criticism.
The ticket office said that within an hour of the firing, 44 people had called to cancel tickets for George Brett and including all-stars George Brett and Darrison Porter, bitterly denounced the
Herzog has long been one of the most popular men in Kansas City, and reaction from fans and players was swift.
Herzog, 47, was hired in July 1975 to replace Jack McKeen and inherited a few of his grandchildren. The Royals immediately came together and finished second that year to Oakland in the season.
They won the division title the next three years, each time losing to the New York Yankees in the American League playoffs.
This year, with pitching efficiency at its lowest point since Herzog arrived, the club finished three games behind California.
Burke said firing Herzog was the most agonizing decision he had ever made and the one that brought his opinion, it was not a result of personality conflicts between Herzog and owner Burke.
"It's been a good four and a half years," said Herzog, who has made his home in nearby Independence, M., since 1899. He had the bad idea where he would work
"I know the fans will disagree because they don't know the reasons why I did it. And the reasons, I will not discuss. I felt it was time for a change."
"There comes a time when you have to make a decision," he said, refusing to explain why Herzog was fired.
"It's easy for people who don't know the tests to criticize," he said. "I know that by knowing the tests, I can be wide open for a ton of criticism. But I'm not going to do anything to hurt Wilshtey."
The Royals said they had not interviewed anyone for the manager's job.
"I'll just go home and wait for somebody else to get fired. I guess."
Burke said he thought many of the reported rifts between Kauffman and Herzog had been blown out of proportion.
Brett said, "I think he got fired because of being a bad manager. I think he had to learn how to handle him between him and Burke or between him and the owner. I don't think you can find a job."
An angry Porter said he hoped Hergert would go to the National League. "I'd hate to have that guy managing me," he said. "I've got anybody who can do as good a job."
Burke said he thought Herzoe had been a good manager. "I think Whitzle was a good manager," she said. "I also think of lot of things happen to you because of circumstance." I love to help you.
"I've agonized over this one. We delayed it a year, and now if we delay it another year, then another year . . . Well, it was too much," she said. "I don't want to take the easy way out.
"I told Whitey when he left here I hoped he would find something very quick, and I said my friend would always be open to him."
Burke said he hoped to be able to help Herzor find another position
"I think the people close to the situation know why I did it. I'll just take the brunt of the attack."
Bennett eyes Senate seat
Robert B. Frennett, former governor of Kansas, said last night that he would "take a serious look" at running in 1980 for the senate seat now occupied by Sen. Robert
By TONI WOOD Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Bennett was in Lawrence to speak to about 50 college Republicans at the Kansas Union.
"Let's put it this way," he said. "I've been in government for nearly 25 years. I would say having served in government that long is like the old horse that used to pull the cart."
"Once you get retired involuntarily, every time you hear the fire bell ring, you get all excited, stop eating, want to set something on your back and run down to the fire."
Some of Bennett's campaign funds from his 1978 gubernatorial race are still intact. He said the money was being used "by bit 'bit," but "had not been spent completely."
"I still have the desire for public service and will serve that desire in any way I can. I intend to keep all my options open."
BENNETT SAID he would consider running for two public offices.
If Dole decides to abandon the Senate race in favor of the presidential race, Bennett said, he might run for the position.
But if the 1980 option is not available.
Robert F. Bennett
Bennett said, he will consider opposing Gov. John Carlin in a 1982 gubernatorial rematch.
Bennett declined to comment on Carlin's performance as governor during the past year.
"it's far too early to judge the current governor's action. I will not at this point judge or prejudice him. But I might in the future."
Bennett talked about the Republican Party in general, saying it had suffered by not actively recruiting minorities.
Bennett also declined to predict who would win the Republican presidential primary, but said later he would support Dole as late as the senator was in the race.
"As the stereotypes we have allowed ourselves to be, we have ignored groups of minorities and allowed them to presuppose that they were not welcome.
"Historically, the Republican Party has turned its back on labor. We have presupposed that the laboring man is a Democrat
"That is not true. Labor has survived because we have a good free enterprise system."
HE SAID labor groups were beginning to realize that their jobs depended on free trade. The unions, United Auto Worker's a recent request to the federal government for a loan to Chrysler
"As long as we are stereotyped as the rich, affluent and plump," said, "as long as we are black and laborer. Protestants not Catholices, whites not blacks and Chicanos, then it is sort of difficult to expect individuals who really need to move in our space [of flag and help carry our banner]."
Pope decries war and poverty before New York's affluent, poor
NEW YORK (AP) - Pope John Paul II is expected to address the nation's Nations to Harlem and the South Brooklyn yesterday, speaking to statement and street crowds alike about the war and war crimes.
At the United Nations, the pope pleaded for the elimination of war itself rather than just a reduction in the arms used to provoke confrontation.
He gave his cautious backing to the SALT Treat it but criticized the world's superpowers for resisting "concrete proposals for re-dismantling" by building up their bases.
The most comprehensive speech on international affairs of his year-old papacy was delivered to 152 representatives in a United Nations General Assembly. The pope stressed that world peace could be achieved only through the enforcement of human rights.
Tucking the Middle East conflict for time in such explicit terms, John Paul II recognized that agreements between Egypt and Israel, but retattered Vatican policy that "a general agreement could not be reached."
JOHN PAUL, spoke from the same black marble podium where his predecessor, Paul VI, stood 14 years ago to urge "No more wars. Wars never again."
include the consideration and just settlement of the Palestinian question."
Later, at New York's St. Patrick Cathedral later at 10,000 people greeted him, many of whom were in poverty. In poverty-striken Harlem, he urged his mostly black audience to be "messengers of love."
"IN A SPECIAL way my heart is with the poor, with those who suffer, with those who are alone in the midst of this teaming
John Paul backed the late pontifix' request that Jerusalem be turned into an open city, a rejection of Christians, Moslems and Jews. But he made no reference to Israel's takeover at the city.
THE ONLY OTHER specific mention of world conflicts was his voicing of a hope for peace, "The United Nations territorial integrity" of Lebanon and a reference to the Vatican's active role in year reducing armed conflict between Israel and Hamas in the two predominantly Catholic countries.
metropolis," the pontif' said beneath the vaulted ceilings of St. Patrick's.
The pope also visited the largely Hispanic South Bronx. His last duty was celebrating Mass before 70,000 at Yankee Stadium.
THE POPES DAY was touched by the American poet Robert F. Shakespeare, a latter yesterday sang the pope's life was in danger, police raided a house in Elizabeth N.,2 and found a semi-annual meeting.
A regional alert was issued for a Spanish-speaking man identified as Alfonso Roberto Gustave, 36, a truck driver who reportedly lived in the apartment. New York City police said he was thought to be connected with the attack. The armed The Argued Front for National Liberation.
Michael McDonnell, FBI spokesman, said the letter told police to check a house at 1082A Madison Avenue in the northern New Jersey city.
"The pope, his life is in jeopardy," McDonnell said the letter read. "Check out this address."
The FBI refused to give more details about the letter because they said it was evidence.
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