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Engineer Meld Responsible For Train Wreck in Which 13 Persons Lost lives Wednesday, February 29, 1956- MEDFORD (ORSGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVER . Swampscott, Mass. U.R) In vestigators said today a railroad engineer who died with 12 otb c-rs in the wreckage of two Bos ton and Maine commuter trains ' was responsible for the smashup. Sixty persons were injured when the Silver Budd Highliner smashed into the rear of a nine car diesel passenger train in a blinding snowstorm. "Human Failure" A B&M investigating board said the Budd Highlander engin eer, Ernest Toutellotte, 55, of Winchester, raced his train past two signal lights and a frantically-waving flagman . moments before crashing into the halted diesel. They termed it a "human failure." : The aluminum-sheathed High- liner's first car split apart, the twisted metal shrieking under Jackson, Josephine Made Control Area Jackson and Josephine coun ties have 'been declared a mint control area following public hearings Tuesday in Grants Pass and Medford by the state depart ment of agriculture. The declaration will prevent planting in the area of mint which might carry insects ,and diseases not common to the coun ties and which might prove dis astrous to mint crops, according to County Horticultural Agent C. B. Cordy. He said sections of the Wil lamette valley which has been a large mint producing area, have been severely damaged by diseases carried in untested planting stock. The only, other mint control area in the state is in central Oregon. About 500. acres of the pro duct are grown in the Grants Pass area. Only a few growers in Jackson county have indicat ed interest in mint production, Cordy said, but they seek to pro tect the area for possible future expansion. A control area does not re strict planting and marketing of a product, according to Cordy, but does control the sources of plant propogation material. the impact as it upended two rear coaches. The two trains were jammed with about 1,000 passengers. Bodies were strewn on both sides of the tracks. A few were trapped in the wreckage. Tour tellotte's mangled . body was found alongside the fireman, Raymond F. Jones, 28, of Lynn. Called Worst Wreck Officials, who called it - the worst wreck in 38 years in New England, said the engineer had violated a railroad operating rule in running past the signal lights. Both were operating, a spokesman said, but were ob scured by the blinding snow. " Both trains were on the B&M's main line which passes through this small North Shore town, 12 miles from Boston. The wreck occurred about a quarter of a mile north of the Swampscott Station. A dual investigation was or dered immediately by members Former Philippines President Succumbs Manila U.R)- Former Presi dent Elpidio Quirino died today of a heart attack in his home in Novaliches near Manila. He had been sick for a long time. He was 65. In 1954, before he lost the presidential race to Ramon Mag saysay, Quirino went to, the United States and underwent a stomach operation in Johns Hop kins hospital. CAA Civil, Electronic Engineers Still Needed Graduate civil and electronic engineers are still needed by the civil aeronautics administration, according to Everett Lasher, CAA engineer here. He can be contacted at the Medford air port, telephone 2-9798. . r Assignments are available in the installation of air naviga tion ar dcommunication facilities in the western states. RADIO FIGURE DIES Merced, Calif. (U.R) Charles Owen Chatterton, co-owner of radio station KYOS and former Pacific Northwest radio and news figure, died yesterday of a heart ailment. He was 64. of the Interstate Commerce Com mission and the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities. The date was tentatively set for March 6. Dazed and bleeding passen gers were helped into nearby homes and sped to North Shore hospitals by police and volunteer workers. Firemen pulled bodies from the Budd Highliner. Sev eral were so mutilated that iden tification was delayed for hours. Snow Hindered Rescue A heavy snow made rescue work difficult. Trucks, ambul ances and official vehicles strug gled through crowded, ice glazed streets leading to the wreck scene. Persons seeking news of members of their families stood in ankle deep snow and freezing temperatures while rescue work ers crawled beneath the twisted heaps of metal. Alongside the tracks were per sonal effects of the dead and in jured school books, wallets, a shoe, a ripped overcoat smeared with blood. Men and women poured from the other cars. Some were crying. Others had to be led to ambulances. Passengers Broke Windows The trapped passengers broke windows. A witness, Henry Pydynkowski of Beverly, said the injured were piled "on top of each other with their arms and legs all twisted." "I don't know how anyone survived in that crash," he said. "That first car was crushed." Swampscott Fire Capt. Frank Maitland, one of the first to ar rive, said the wreck scene was "a nightmare." "Bodies were lying on each side of the track," he said. "We found the engineer about 10 feet from what was left of the Budd car." Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent - HOLLYWOOD '(U.R) An at tractive girl named Ginny Kruse has the wildest job in tel evision, s n e has been run over by sheep, s p 1 a shed by mud, nipped at by a tiger and kissed by movie stars. Ginny .is Hollyw ood TV s only Aline Mosby "stunt stand in." For some reason, contest ants on NBC-TV's . "Truth . or Consequences" like to do zany stunts in front of millions of viewers. It's up to Ginny to test the stunts in rehearsals. "They have to be timed, and the lighting fixed," she explains. "And we have to make sure they are safe for the contestant." Thus Ginny is exposed to any danger, or discomfort. Tiger Proves Threat " Once, doubling for a contest ant to be picked later from the studio audience, she had to stick her head through a hole in the scenery. On the other side a tiger lunged too close for com fort. ' After years of watching con testants on giveaway shows, she" knows how various types react. In dress rehearsal she has to register embarrassment, hammi ness, shyness, horror and fright. She tries to "put myself in the contestant's shoes and react the way they 11 react. Ginny stands in for three or , four contestants for each show.l She often wears overalls and a bandana for her unusual job. This attire comes in handy for such stunts "as being splashed with mud. Many of the tricks, such as the tiger gag, are modi fied for contestants after Ginny tests them. Kissing Wins Approval The vivacious brunette has done stunts with pigs, water buf faloes, seals, snakes, bulls, bears, cats, dogs and ducks. The most fun, she thinks, are stunts in which the contestants (Ginny in rehearsals) are kissed by such stars as Cesar Romero, Tab Hunter and David Niven. 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