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Conductor revises trip
for subway passengers
United Press International
NEW YORK — An angry conduc
tor cursed a group of belligerent
subway riders who refused to get off
a disabled train, then dealt with the
rebellion by taking them on a mys
tery ride through the bowels of New
York City.
Transit Authority officials
Wednesday said they were “looking
into” the Monday incident and said
the conductor would be “reins
tructed in customer courtesy” if an
investigation found that he acted
abusively.
The protest started with more
than 80 riders who refused to get off
a southbound D train taken out of
service at the busy 34th Street station
because door-indicator lights failed
during the evening rush hour.
Most of the 1,000 passengers
obeyed the order to get off the train,
but dozens of rebellious riders re
mained in the car.
A TA spokeswoman said passen
gers were heard to say, “We’re tired
of being turned off the trains.”
According to a rider who stayed
aboard, the conductor shut the
doors and announced on the loud
speaker, if they wouldn’t listen to
him, he was going to take them for a
ride.
The passengers said they had no
idea where they were being taken or
when the ride would end.
About 20 minutes later, 80 reso
lute passengers found themselves at
the Second Avenue station, which is
not on the D line. The train was
greeted by transit police who
pleaded with the rebellious riders to
get off the train.
Most left, but eight people still re
fused and remained on the train for
another three hours.
“We didn’t want to arrest them be
cause we try to avoid arresting our
passengers,” said Ed Silberfarb, a
TA police spokesman.
“We try sweet reason first,” he
said.
When a TA captain and deputy
inspector entered the train to apply
“sweet reason,” three more riders
agreed to leave.
But five die-hards upped the ante
and demanded they be given a po
lice escort across town to a different
stop.
About 3 ‘/a hours after they first
entered the train, the five emerged
from the subterranean depths and
were taken in a TA police car to
their destinations.
Dialysis station backflows
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ATLANTA — A dialysis pump
ing station malfunctioned and sent a
formaldehyde solution into the
bloodstreams of eight patients being
treated for complete kidney failure,
officials said Wednesday.
The pumping station, hooked up
to dialysis units at a private clinic
that treats patients too ill for home
treatment, suffered a backflow prob
lem. None of the eight patients were
seriously injured, officials said.
“They use the formaldehyde as a
cleaning agent,” said Terrell Tea
gue, spokesman for the Georgia De
partment of Human Resources, the
agency that regulates private clinic-
s.“It would be fatal in large doses but
they were using a solution mixed
with water.”
Robert Krilla, administrator of
the Dialysis Clinics Inc. of Atlanta,
said the solution that entered the
bloodstream of the patients was
“probably less than 1 percent” for
maldehyde and the patients were ex
posed to the solution for “about 1
minute.”
Teague said registered nurses
were on duty and disconnected the
dialysis units when several patients
began complaining of cramps. He
said no physician was present but a
doctor was called.
Krilla said, however, all of the pa
tients recovered and all decided to
leave the clinic before the doctor ar
rived.
Krilla said eight adult patients
were involved in the incident Satur
day. He said patients coming to the
clinic have either suffered complica
tions and are too ill for home treat
ment or have no one to assist them.
The clinic is one of 24 operated by
Dialysis Clinics Inc. in New Mexico,
Pennsylvania, Georgia and Florida,
Krilla said. He said he believed the
clinics all were equipped with similar
pumping stations.
Teague said the clinic was closed
Monday night so equipment could
be installed to prevent a recurrence
of the problem.
Bush says he’s every bit a Texan
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Vice Presi
dent George Bush, brushing aside
challenges to his stated legal resi
dence, said Wednesday the piece of
land he owns in Houston makes him
every bit a Texan according to state
law.
In an interview with CBS tele
vision affiliates in the Southwest,
conducted over a satellite linkup,
Bush was asked by a reporter in
Houston how Texans are expected
to consider him one of their own if
all he has to show is “a vacant lot and
a voter registration card here in
Houston.”
“Because the Texas law says you
don’t have to have a house in Tex
as,” replied Bush, who lives in Wash
ington and has a house in Kenne-
bunkport, Maine. “Many
congressmen don’t.”
The vice president, with a de
clared net worth of more than $2
million, said he has “limited re
sources these days.” Although he
and his wife, Barbara, left Texas
four years ago, Bush said the parcel
of land he owns in Houston enables
them still to call the state their home.
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Groin program will remain
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WASHINGTON — The Reagan
administration Wednesday ruled out
changes in next year’s farm program
based on estimates corn supplies will
be below a level that could have trig
gered a more generous program.
In a short statement, Richard
Lyng, deputy agriculture secretary,
said, “There will be no modifications
in the 1985 feed grains program.
“Since feed grain supplies are not
expected to reach excessive levels in
1984-85, no further production ad
justments will be necessary,” he said.
The administration had been un
der pressure from farm groups and
members of Congress to sweeten the
program for corn and other feed
grains that Agriculture Secretary
John Block announced last month.
But in a world agricultural supply
and demand estimates report, the
Agriculture Department predicted
the nation’s corn supply will total
1.05 billion bushels before the 1985
harvest begins.
Earlier this year. Congress ap
proved a provision that called lot-
paying farmers cash to reduce acre
age if projected corn supplies would
reach 1.1 billion bushels.
The estimate was less than the 1.1
billion-bushel trigger level last
month when Block announced that
corn fanners would Ik* required to
reduce acreage by 10 percent to
qualify for farm program benefits.
Then earlier this month, analysts
raised the projectiorf to 1.1 billion
bushels, raising the |»ossibilily that
Block might add a 5 percent paid di
version to the existing program.
The latest report reduced the pro
jection once again because corn use
over the past several months was a
little greater than expected and sup
plies on hand as this year's harvest
began were measured at 722 million
bushels, down 66 million bushels
from an estimate issued Oct. 12.
The 722 million-bushel total was
the smallest in eight years. Use of
corn for feeding livestock and other
uses was 540 million bushels, the
lowest in more than a decade, but
more than expected.
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pei ted to he a bit tighter,thejw
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