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M ! Page 10 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1981 National Drivers pass by dying woman United Press International RICHMOND, Va. — A heart- attack victim lay on a rainy street for nearly an hour and eventually died — because hundreds of passing motorists refused to stop and help, says the Good Samaritan who work ed frantically to keep her alive. about 50 minutes while motorists driving bumper-to-bumper in rush- hour traffic passed them by, ignoring Waldrop’s gestures for help, he said. He gave her cardiopulmonary re suscitation until another motorist finally stopped and called an ambu lance. heart attack. She had worked there for 29 years. “The wonderful display of apathy we witnessed yesterday morning turns my stomach,” Doug Waldrop said Tuesday after he learned Thel ma Qualls had died of the heart attack in a Richmond hospital. ' Six times the woman’s heart stop ped as she lay on Richmond’s Main Street in the rain Monday. Six times the 30-year-old former Medevac pilot in Vietnam revived her. But Qualls lay on the street for “In those minutes, how many peo ple drove by to their nice warm offices and didn’t even call the police?” said Waldrop. “They saw me leaning over a woman, I could’ve been giving her CPR, I could’ve been attacking her, anything. All they had to do was roll down their windows.” “I’d love to have a list of the names of everyone in those cars,” Waldrop said. “I’d like to call them up and tell them what the doctor told me — that half an hour or more that was wasted before she got to the hospital would have tripled her chances of sur viving. ” Monday would have been Qualls’ first day back on the job at the Amer ican Tobacco Co. since a Nov. 21 Waldrop, a construction super visor from Waynesboro, Va., said he noticed Mrs. Qualls waving as he passed her car, parked on the side of Main Street. At first, he did not stop. “I just thought at the time she was waving to somebody across the street,” he said. “But something wasn’t right. Maybe it was the way she was parked. The car wasn’t com pletely off the street." He turned around. “I went back and asked her if any thing was wrong. She said she was having trouble breathing,” he said. Waldrop told Qualls to get out of the car and stand up. “When she did, I saw her eyes — looked like she was having a heart attack. And her skin was clammy and cold. That’s when I knew,” he said. Virginia is one of the few states with a “Good Samaritan act,” under which a person who stops to help someone cannot be sued for dam ages, even if the assistance does more harm than good. Would he stop again next time? “Sure, sure,” Waldrop said. “I’d like to say it’s not worth it, but it is.” — Attention Historians Everyone is invited to the first organizational meeting of “A&M Living Historians” Thurs. Feb. 5 7:30 P.M. Room 109 Heldenfels For More Information Contact Greg Johnson 845-4676 or Bob Rogers 845 5175 Coun try m usic stars immortalized by tapes United Press International BATON ROUGE, La.—Every Saturday night for decades, country music fans around the country lis tened to “Louisiana Hayride” — which gave a big boost to the careers of stars Hank Williams, Elvis Pre- iso,®"”'"' > N \\'C\') OVW YEARBOOK ASSOCIATES P.O. Box 91 Millers Falls, MA01349 Please send posters @ $4.50 ea. sley, Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson. Now country music fans and re searchers will be able to relive at least part of that experience by visit ing the state archives. 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However, agents say it may take another week until their investiga tion into the confession by Donald R. Morabito is complete. FBI agents have been making dozens of phone calls and filling out stacks of paperwork since last week trying to confirm the number and location of the holdups, FBI local agent Myron Fuller said Tuesday. He said he hopes Morabito’s claims can be checked out by late next week. “As you can imagine, a guy who has committed this many robberies — it’s difficult for him to remember times, dates and details,” said one agent who has questioned Morabito. FBI agents would not confirm or deny a report by Shreveport police last Friday that Morabito had confes sed to 32 holdups and that 15 of the robberies had been confirmed. “To pinpoint an exact number at this time, we cannot do it,” said an FBI agent. “The figure of32 thati y as ' guy has given us — it very well* stricts ( ; be more than that.” Morabito was arrested Nov. f ce, esp ationali Franc Nazi-i “This 1 din dr a holdup at a downtown branch^Kd'reca Shreveport Bank and Trust Co. He® p 0 jj ce being held at the Caddo Correctioi4q uent Institute for trial in that robbery. I]j ce S01| “At first, he didn’t give us thing,” said Shreveport detecirf Capt. Sam Burns. “But he seems| be wanting to get himselfcompleitf cleared. He has been coopera with us for the last few days.” The ROTARY CLUB of Bryan, Texas, is sponsor ing the establishment of the student ROTARACT Service Club. All TAMU students are eligible to join. For further information, contact: DR. DAVID E. 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