NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Tuesday. March 5. 1996 5A Train ignites; town evacuated The Associated Press WEYAUWEGA, Wis. — Burning propane spewed from wrecked railroad tank cars yesterday, threatening to blow additional cars loaded with the fuel and keeping the town's entire population away from their homes. No injuries were reported. "This is about as serious as it can get," emergency management official Paul Thomsen said. "A detonation would be catastrophic." Throughout the morning, the leaking gas blazed in a 200-foot wall of flames. At times, the light of the fire was visible up to 13 miles away in New London. During the afternoon, however, a snowstorm obscured the inferno from view. Firefighters were pulled back to let the fire burn. Thirty-seven cars of a 81-car Wisconsin Central Ltd. freight train derailed just before dawn in this east-central Wisconsin city. As the cars piled up, one of the train's 15 propane tank cars exploded, destroying a nearby feed mill and forcing the evacuation of 1,700 people from the town and two nearby nursing homes. Knight-Ridder Tribune The 15 tank cars were loaded with a total of 1 million pounds of propane, shipped liquefied and under high pressure, Thomson said. Three of them apparently were leaking and feeding the fire started by the tank that exploded, said Wisconsin Central representative Bob Jones. Authorities said they were concerned that other propane tank cars might explode. If all the tanks ronimental pollutant rather than a fire danger and was not leaking, Jones said. Susan Nowak was making coffee at her home a few hundred yards from the tracks when the train derailed just before 6 a.m. "This is about as serious as it can get. A detonation would be catastrophic." Paul Thomson "I heard what I thought was thunder. Then the whole sky turned orange or red. It was just like a bomb. I opened the door. It was intense heat," she said. Russ Barker pulled up at a stop sign about 500 feet away in time to watch the derailment start with a detonated, the blast could shatter windows more than a mile away, said Thomsen, president of Risk Management Planning, a company hired by the state emergency management division. Waupaca County Sheriff's Department representative Mary Robbins said officials also were concerned that fertilizer stored nearby could catch fire. In addition, a natural gas pipeline serving the area was shut down as a precaution. shower of sparks Two cars carried sodium hydroxide, but that was considered an envi- "One of the cars exploded. The rest of the train kept piling into it," he said. "Flames flew probably like 200 to 300 feet in the air." Emergency management official Barker said he felt the heat, and a woman in a car behind him said her vehicle moved. "It was scary. It was time to get out of there," Barker said. Jones said the train was headed from Stevens Point to Neenah. Gary Sywertsen, director of the Waupaca County Hazardous Materials Team, said the 1,700 people evacuated included about 200 people at the Weyauwega Health Care Center and Lakeview Manor nursing homes just outside town. Terry Macho, public relations chairman for the Wisconsin Propane Gas Association, said unburned propane fumes generally dissipate quickly and do not make people sick. Comparison to executioner highlights Kevorkian trial PONTIAC, Mich. — Surprising his own lawyer with his choice of words, Jack Kevorkian likened The Associated Press naderly today an executioner whose duty is to "implement justice." Defense attorney Geoffrey Fieger, seeking to dispel the image the Jack Kevorkian "Not at all," Kevorkian replied in his second day on the stand at his assisted-suicide trial. analogy had created, quickly asked if Kevorkian feels he is an executioner. A key question in the trial is whether he intended to kill when he helped two people die by breathing carbon monoxide in 1993. Michigan's assisted-suicide law, now expired, exempts someone who gives medication or procedures that may hasten death as long as the intent is to relieve pain or discomfort, not to cause death. "When an executioner pulls the switch on the electric chair, is his wish to kill a human being?" Kevorkian asked. "Or to fulfill his duty to ... implement justice and uphold the law? What's his aim?" Kevorkian has maintained that as a doctor he has a moral duty to help his patients end their suffering, even if the only way is to end their lives. He could get up to four years in prison on each Ali Khalili and Merian Frederick died a month apart in a suburban Detroit apartment rented by Kevorkian. Khalili had bone cancer; Frederick had Lou Gehrig's disease. and rushed to judgment about their conditions without consulting their other doctors. In both cases, Kevorkian said, death was foreor-dained and imminent. Under his attorney's questioning Friday and yesterday, Kevorkian tried to portray himself as a careful "obbitiatrist" who accepts a patient for suicide only after much scrutiny. "When an executioner pulls the switch on the electric chair, is his wish to kill a human being?" Jack Kevorkian Medically assisted suicide doctor Prosecutors have suggested that Kevorkian did not fully explore other options with his patients "Their concern was how much more pain they had to endure before death," he said. Kevorkian said that once a patient decides against suicide, he no longer offers his services, even if the patient changes his or her mind. death from a debilitating, painful cancer. He disputed testimony that Frederick appeared depressed before she died, and said all her relatives agreed she was of sound mind. Khalili, he said, showed some anxiety, but that was to be expected in someone Shoe exchange offers great fit PHOENIX — When his left leg was amputated three years ago because of complications from diabetes, Patrick Hogan's need for shoes changed forever. "This is a gift from heaven," said Hogan, admiring five right-footed dress, casual and athletic shoes, size 13-D, that he picked out at the exchange's Phoenix headquarters. "They're all brand new, never been on anyone else's foot." Since 1943, tens of thousands of people with two different-sized feet — or, like Hogan, only one foot — have looked to the nonprofit National Odd Shoe Exchange. The exchange's cramped offices overflow with 1 million shoes donated by more than two dozen manufacturers. The organization counts 17,000 members in the United States and Canada, most of whom have mismatched shoe sizes because of disease, injury or birth defects. No store would sell him just one shoe, so he resigned himself to paying full price for a pair and tossing the left one into the growing pile at the back of his closet. Members shop for shoes for free at the organization's headquarters or order by mail, paying only the shipping costs. The retired radio announcer's luck changed when he came across the National Odd Shoe Exchange while thumbing through the phone book. The exchange fits the hard-to-fit, from a 2-year-old toddler in Arizona with a clubfoot to size 17 athletic shoes for a strapping 13-year-old boy in Ohio. Depending on their ages, members pay a one-time registration fee of $15 or $25, plus $10 or $15 a year. The fees are waived for children under 5, adults 75 and older and people who cannot afford to pay. "We've had people come in and say, 'I don't think you can help me, but I wear an adult size 7 on my right foot and a children's size 1 on my left,'" said Jeanne Sallman, the exchange's director. "They're in tears when they leave with those shoes." The Associated Press Many of the shoes are manufacturers' overstocks. Some have slight defects, but most are in perfect condition. There are rows upon rows of different styles, from Nike Air models to Joan & David black pumps, handmade in Italy, the $229 price tag still attached. Sallman, 54, knows firsthand how hard it is for the estimated 10 percent of Americans with mismatched feet to find shoes. Childhood classmates called her a web-footed freak because a congenital condition left her right foot two and a half sizes smaller than her left foot. She has been a member since her mother saw an interview with the exchange's founder Ruth Feldman on "Art Linketter's House Party" in 1953. In 1983, Feldman persuaded Salman to take over the organization. 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Wilson, M.D. $ R_{X} $ Will Violeta and Alfredo's love survivor Find out at the Led Center in the New York City Opera's presentation of La Traviata. Tickets on sale at the Led Center Box Office (864-ARTS); all Ticketmaster centers or call Ticketmaster at 913-234-5455. BY FAY AND MICHAEL KANIN BASED ON STORIES BY RYUNOSUKE AKUTAGAWA 8:00 p.m.March 8,9,14,15,16 2:30 p.m.Sunday,March 10,1996 Crafton-Preyer Theatre Murphy Hall Reservedessel tickets are on sale in the KU box office; Murphy Hall, 844-3822; Lied Center, 846-NIT5; SUA Office, 842-0971; public 16, KU students; other students and senior citizens 89; JPCC Office, 842-1276. The University Theatre and the KU Department of Theatre and Film will present the Julie Stough Symphony in the Cathedral, which runs the Sunday matinees, March 10. In the Café-Fashion Theatre, the symphonic is open to all ages. The Friday, March 15, performance will be signed for the deal and hand-of-hearing. For a list of other activities related to this production of *Rashomon*, contact The University Theatre at 854-3381. 1.