e 2 - SUSQUEHANNA TIMES hh 0 RADIAL TIRES at the Right Price {$30.95 AR78/13 $37.95 BR78/13 $942.95 ER78/14 $49.95 GR78/15 FET. 1.84 to 2.79 Only on sizes listed! ALSO OFFERING COMPUTERIZED WHEEL BALANCING! MILLER’S Mobil SERVICE 271 WEST MARKET STREET, MARIETTA 426-3430 wana bbndielie mina nlnile B.B. BILLMEYER, Jewelry “Since 1915” MARIETTA, PA. MEL & GERRY HEISTAND, PROPS. ...mock crash (continued) [continued from page 1] SERCOM reported that a total of twenty people had been on the plane. The area was combed, turning up more casualties in ditches, rock piles, and hanging from tree limbs. A container of radioactive material was also found. Fortunately, it had not broken open. I arrived back at the main crash site just in time to see John Zerphey of Mount Joy being loaded onto an ambulance. He was still alive, despite burns and a horrible plastic arm wound. ‘“See this tube?’’ John had asked me ten minutes before the crash. “You can run fake blood through it so it comes out of the wound. It’s very realistic. They have a stump that’s a real shocker.”” While he was telling me about his wound, John used a cigar- ette lighter to burn holes in his shirt. “I'm also sup- posed to have third degree burns,’’ he explained. Bonnie Drace was sitting calmly beside the road, waiting for the next ambul- ance. She became hysteri- cal whenever the ambul- ance arrived. Sometimes they stopped to calm her, other times they went past looking for casualties. A boy lying in a ditch had a plastic mask on his chest. ‘““What’s the matter with this one?’’ I asked. ‘“His face was ripped off. There it is,” said the medic, pointing to the mask. “We'll stick it in a solution, in case they decide to sew it back on at the hospital.” Rick Downs of E-town had just been extricated from a piece of fuselage. Pointing to a cow cake, he asked the ambulance man. ‘““Hey! Did I get into that?”’ “No, you're clean,” he was told. “Whew!”’ Rick exclaim- ed, “I hope I'm never in a real crash.”” He had care- fully twisted himself into the wreckage in a very uncomfortable posture, where he had lain for two hours, to ‘‘make it hard for them to get me out.” About two hours after the crash the situation was well under control. Fire and ambulance crews from Marietta, Mount Joy, Bainbridge, Maytown, Florin, and E-town had re- sponded to the disaster. When the last fire was extinguished and the last victim evacuated, all per- sonnel met at the Bain- bridge Fire Hall for de- briefing and assessment. JUST THINKING A hundred times every day I remind myself that my life depends on the {labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to j give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving. Personalized Service Within The | Means Of Every Family. Richard D. Smedley FUNERAL HOME 29 NORTH GAY STREET, MARIETTA 426-3614 Ibberson’s CARPET FOR HOME & CAR 1660 S. MARKET ST. ELIZABETHTOWN, PA. 17022 Open 9 to 5:30 Mon., Thurs., Fri. 9 to 9 Creative Carpetry EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES Available Day & Night EMERGENCY MEDICAL CALLS Saturday Afternoon and Sunday Dr. David E. Schlosser (Mount Joy Area Only) COLUMBIA HOSPITAL 7th & Poplar (Emergency Entrance) SUSQUEHANNA TIMES Susquehanna Times & The Mount Joy Bulletin Box 75-A, R.D. #1, Marietta, PA 17547 Published weekly on Wednesday (50 issues per year) 426-2212 or 653-8383 Publisher— Nancy H. Bromer Editor— Rick Bromer Advertising Manager— Kathie Guyton Business Manager— Jody Bass Society Editor— Hazel Baker Staff — Pat Flowers Vol. 77 No. 19 May 18, 1977 Advertising Rates Upon Request Entered at the post office in Marietta, PA as second class mail under the Act of March 3, 1879 Subscriptiru Rate: $6.00 per year ; § : An hysterical Bonnie Drace is pinned by ambulance per- ed or FAH Ee sonnel. Bonnie’s acting was so good it gave our reporter the whim-whams! The man in the tree is suffering from radiation burns - a May 18, 1977 A ‘victim’ The ‘“‘crash’’ was spon- sored and planned by the Civil Air Patrol, squadron 308 led by Rick Hamm. Squadrons 304, 310, and 301 also participated. While de-briefing was held some Civil Air Patrol- men went in search of yet another man who had parachuted from Crunch 01, landing several miles away. This was their first search of the day. Pre- viously they had served as victims. The Civil Air Patrol, be- sides sponsoring ‘‘crashes’’ works on real disasters. They served along with the National Guard during Agnes and Eloise. They are volunteers, buying their own equipment and radios. SERCOM is a group of radio amateur ‘*hams’’ who also serve the public as volunteers. hopeless case. Rescue workers don’t kmow it yet, though, and are struggling valiantly to ‘save’ him.
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