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Tuesday, April 19, 1983/The BattaIion/Page 9 Varped by Scott McCullar High court to hear city’s nativity case )f those p: would a« demise o[ rvices, ily two in hich ha« elivery sis ica: ationm of farm, i ater;wasit and indt ing proji F I lesurrection called fluke 7 of mail,’ Live ‘corpse’ stuns officer Iso COI enthas assistance xedit ten han to \ f our nati alkies bee United Press International CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A woman who had been onounced dead but revived amorgue table was actually in tate of “hibernation,” hospital Baals said. Police officer Gary Wright, was startled to hear the rpse” swallow and try to Stic consafeathe, was not impressed with medical explanation. Tm telling you. I've seen inyothetlftd people a hundred times in laces ov tsper.Osa ig Green, Silver my other i the 111 1 adds commend a existing; ‘ develop! s report d, Saudi my life and she was dead,” Wright said. “You can believe me or not believe me. I saw a resurrection.” The woman was in satisfac tory condition Sunday night in Burnham Hospital. Dr. Stanley Bobowski, a hospital patholog ist, called the “resurrection” a medical “fluke.” “Her temperature was so low she didn’t have to breathe or have a fast pulse. It’s very rare. I think you read about it three or four times a year in the coun try,” Bobowski said. The woman was pronounced dead Thursday afternoon after police — summoned by friends — found her lying still and cold on the living room floor of her apartment. Authorities later de termined she had passed out from a combination of drugs and alcohol. The officers, unsure what had happened to the woman, called detectives, who left the iud slide dams river, oods small Utah town ] > for h the ados gress :ribesas“[ > maintai egrity of incti mi fori ne mi n § •ac ling United Press International H1STLE, Utah — The lish Fork River, dammed up a mountain mud slide that id it into a 3-mile-long lake, ped Thistle with 50 feet of forcing evacuation of 50 iple. Authorities feared the rwould flood another town instream. The town of Thistle is gone, future, whether it will ever itagain, is uncertain,” Larry men, Utah public safety miissioner, said at the site iday. safely placed in emergency shel ters in nearby Birdseye today while emergency workers bat tled the mud slide to prevent further flooding in the town of Spanish Fork miles down stream. Utah County Sheriffs dis patcher Shannon Horn said only the rooftops of the 22 homes in Thistle could be seen from a helicopter. She said the flood also may strand about 25 families in Covered Bridge if it knocks out a bridge to the com munity. “This is the worst disaster in the history of Utah as far as the economic ramifications are con cerned,” Kaliser said. “There won’t be another disaster like this for decades — I hope.” The mountain’s mud slide, resulting from a long winter and a wet spring, had moved more than 17 feet since Wednesday and wa$ creeping at 6 inches per hour Sunday. The slide, which began Wednesday night, has caused more than $1 million in damage to railroad property and state roads in the canyon. State geologist Bruce Kaliser Spanish Fork, a town of 1 people about 6 miles mstream from the slide area, preparing for flooding. 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(Northgate Only) Come Check Out: was over iasticallf ainmen, conductoi Most of the city is on a bench a and high enough to be e,” he said. “Of course, if a henitbecj 1 j] 0 f W ater came down, we 2= « tine Pfllk irki 1 : „ *. L 1 „ >> e was em [ht be in trouble, histle, a tiny railroad and ming town of about 50 peo- ilocated 65 miles southeast of two bad It Lake City, was under as nces belli ich as 50 feet of water Sunday tation l® er the mud slide in Spanish Transpo* rk Canyon backed up the riv ereating a lake extending )0 feet by 3 miles. ,11 of Thistle’s residents, my of them retirees, strike ficials at n .. t. The kH Demonstrations on Latest Programmable Calculators Newest Portable Computer, It’s CC40. • Fantastic Door Prizes and Specials Offered at Many Workshops! • At April 19 Workshop 5% Off All Calculators and Accessories. to anno® ke on igourpi monad' 1 ’! ns of the 1 will xtm e for 451 e their ir cases! A’ill han cision. ntrators ear conll ie chantfj at least lH strike viduallyi plan. followed 1 f UTU_ ;hard S in fa v(,r[ don i Haven] milar v body on the floor for two hours as they investigated the scene for a possible crime. Then an ambulance took the woman to the hospital morgue. One police officer said at least 12 people saw the woman and be lieved she was dead. But when the victim was placed on the morgue table, Wright said, he saw her swallow and try to breathe. The woman was then rushed to the emergen cy room for treatment. United Press International WASHINGTON —The Sup reme Court agreed Monday to test for the first time whether a city can own and display a nativ ity scene at Christmas without violating the Constitution’s ban on mixing government and reli- gion. Tackling a question that crops up each yuletide, the jus tices will review this fall a ruling banning the city of Pawtucket, R.I., from displaying a town- owned crib scene with life-size figures of the Christ child, Mary, Joseph, kings and shepherds. The city displayed the crib along with numerous other de corations in privately owned Hodgson Park in the heart of the city. Other decorations in cluded a giant “Seasons Greet ings” sign, lighted tree, figures of carolers, snowmen, Santa Claus, reindeer and Disney characters and a stand for a live Santa. Only the creche was attacked in a lawsuit filed by a group of taxpayers and the Rhode Island branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, who argue the Christian nativity scene violates the First Amendment’s ban on government “establishment of religion.” In other action Monday, the justices: — Agreed to decide if Nation al Enquirer reporters based in Florida can be sued for libel by Hollywood actress Shirley Jones. — Refused to revive Oscar- winner Mickey Rooney’s claim against major Hollywood stu dios for refusing to pay him for reruns of his pre-1960s films on cable television. — Rejecting vigorous argu ments from Chief Justice War ren Burger, left intact a ruling requiring a federal court to re view the conviction of a triple murderer in Washington state. In the nativity case, both a U.S. district judge in Rhode Is land and the First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the taxpayers and ACLU in the nativity scene case and declared the city’s sponsorship of the scene unconstitutional. “Despite its passive nature, erection of the creche has the real and substantial effect of affiliating the city with the Christian beliefs that the creche represents,” U.S. District Judge Raymond Pettine ruled. On a 2-1 vote, the appeals court went a step farther and found the city not only entang led government and religion by erecting the creche, but also illegally discriminated between Christian and non-Christian re ligions. Pawtucket’s city fathers de fend the nativity scene as only a neutral, historical symbol of the Christmas holidays. They argue it was only one part of a larger scene of traditional decorations that as a whole have no religious purpose. i: i! ♦Tomorrow Miss Cowgirl 10 * I Finals , . 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