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.
Once she stood in for a small
boy contestant and was shot at
(with blanks) by Guy Madison
ier worst injury was wnen a
mechanical bycycle ran wild
"and my vertebrae were shaken
loose. tier weirdest exper-
ence was being hypnotized as a
test for that SC coed who, while
in a trance, refused to pick up
$100,000 on the show last fall.
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