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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1979
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MOLINO, Fla. —The memory of
a 1977 propane tank car explosion
that killed 16 people was on the
minds of Louisville & Nashville Rail
road officials who urged destruction
of the last of nine derailed L&N che
mical cars.
L&N officials, who balked at a
Texas demolitions expert’s advice
that no further blasting was needed
to eliminate the threat of an uncon
trolled explosion at the Florida
Panhandle wreck, won out Wednes
day when the demolition team ex
ploded the ninth car.
“We re not going to put our peo
ple close to it,” L&N vice president
Kenneth Dufford told a tense meet
ing of railroad representatives and
the Environmental Protection Agen
cy’s Regional Response Team earlier
in the day.
Al Smith, an EPA representative
and coordinator of the response
team, reminded team members
“there was only one at Waverly.”
He was referring to the uncontrol
led explosion of an L&N propane
tanker in Waverly, Tenn. The tank
car ruptured as workers tried to
transfer the propane two days after
the 1977 derailment.
“Maybe we are a little more cau
tious after Waverly,” Dufford said.
Nearly 400 area residents, evacu
ated after 29 cars of the 109-car L&N
train jumped the tracks early Sun
day, were allowed to return to their
homes Wednesday afternoon.
Another 1,500 people were able to
return home Tuesday after the de
molition team successfully blew up
the first eight cars, laden with
flammable liquid propane, ethyl
alcohol, styrene monomer and ace
tone.
“As far as I’m concerned, it looked
great,” Wayne Rutledge, cowboy-
booted leader of the demolition
team, said after he returned from
surveying the wreck Wednesday
morning.
But Dufford disagreed and, after
the morning meeting, Smith sent
Rutledge’s team back with another
charge.
The response team will foot Rut
ledge’s bill, which is estimated to be
between $25,000 and $30,000.
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“These kind of operations are not
two-dollar-an-hour jobs,” Smith
said.
Although the detonations were
successful. Bob Wilkerson, assistant
bureau chief in the state Division of
Disaster Preparedness, said blasting
would not necessarily become a
common way of disposing of danger
ous cargo of derailed trains.
“We’re not proposing that every
time a train jumps a track we’re
going to blow it up,” he said.
As officials were giving the all-
clear Wednesday, railroad execu
tives began to tally damages. L&N
spokesman Charles Castner said 21
damaged cars and a locomotive prob
ably would be moved and the track
repaired by the weekend.
Castner declined to estimate dam
ages, but Smith and Dufford both
said property damage to tlicr.
would exceed $1 million.
Russell Gober, a Nation
portation Safety Board iniei
said the accident resulted j
washout caused by heavyr
overflowed a culvert and ad
ditch Saturday.
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far as I can see,” Gober said 1
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WASHINGTON — A House
Agriculture subcommittee has voted
to lift a ceiling on spending author
ization for food stamps in fiscal years
1980 and 1981, but a close vote indi
cates the issue is far from settled.
Committee staff members said the
5-4 vote by which the bill was
approved Wednesday indicated the
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issue of a ceiling on spending would
be resolved when the full House
Agriculture Committee considers
the bill.
It also could face controversy on
the House and Senate floors.
For fiscal 1980, which began Oct.
1, the administration expects to
spend $8.3 billion for food stamps,
20 percent greater than the $6.9 bil
lion cost for fiscal 1979. The ceiling is
just $6.2 billion.
In 1977, Congress set ceilings on
annual food stamp expenditures to
try to put some brakes on the rapidly
rising costs of the program. But food
inflation and major changes in the
program pushed up costs to levels
higher than expected.
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million to prevent across-^ turewasin
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for the month of September
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states to tighten adminisM ccasionalgl
the food stamp program inn
to reduce waste and fraud.
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CASPER, Wyo.— A county jvidge
has cleared a sheriff s deputy of beat
ing his wife, calling the physical
abuse he inflicted “normal, everday”
conduct for the couple.
Natrona County Courty Judge
Stephen Davidson found Deputy
John Mort innocent of an assault and
battery charge brought by his wife,
Colleen, who filed for divorce the
day after the attack. They had been
married six weeks.
Mrs. Mort told police her husband
struck her face Oct. 18, causing
swelling and a cut lip.
But Davidson said
probable cause to believe tin
had struck his wife "in a nidt
lent and angry manner, ” asp
tors alleged.
Mort was tried Tuesday.
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into account “what’s rude
Morts. He said the couple'
lifestyle” of physical and
abuse.
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come of the ease, will retumti
duty. Sheriff Bill Estes said
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