European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 25, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes monday september 25, 1978 f Plank pierced mishap victim will survive i Washington up an Auto Acci. Dent drove a 1-Inch thick 8-foot Long Sec Tion of wooden fencing through the right Chest and out the left Side of a Young Man and doctors said sunday the victim will live. David Hamilton Rich jr., 22, of Warren ton va., was reported in serious but stable condition at Washington Hospital Center. Police said Rich s sports car swept off a Rural Road saturday and wrecked a 150 foot Long Section of 1-by 6-Inch fencing. A Sharp length of Board punctured the convertible top and impaled Rich. The Board entered Rich s body below the right Chest missed the heart by four inches and punctured the Abdomen. The Impact splintered the Board and forced a 3-by-4 Inch wide Section past the Small bowels punching through the body above the left fur a Good cause in a rare Public appearance screen actress Rita Hayworth models a fur coat at a reception for a cancer research Benefit sponsored by the Chicago Bonwit Teller fur Salon and the mount Sinai Hospital of Chicago. Up photo drug intoxication mental arresters not jailed hip. A helicopter ferried Rich to the Hospital where he was conscious before three hours of surgery. Doctors were unable to saw off a protruding 4-to-6-Inch Section of the Plank with their surgical tools finally turn ing the Job Over to a member of the Rescue squad a part time Carpenter who used a circular Power saw. Surgeons opened the Chest cavity from below the Chin to the Abdomen and re moved the remainder of the splintered Board. Fortunately the Board missed his heart cardiac surgeon George Garcia said. It s a horrible sight to see a Man with a Board sticking out both sides of him. It s amazing How he survived  there were a few splinters in the Chest Wall and a few Loose pieces of Wood that we removed or. Vikram Paul said. Rich a machinery operator and his companion sue Clark also of Warrenton va., were driving Down a Rural paved Road shortly after Midnight saturday. His Small car missed a turn skidded off the Road and swept Down a 150-foot embankment before slamming into the Fence. A state police officer said Rich was not drunk but had apparently consumed sever al alcoholic drinks earlier at a Friend s House. He s the Luckiest Man alive said a trooper. I saw it the Plank come through the car slowly but surely Clark said. I did t think it went All the Way through him. He kept telling me that it  Clark a College student suffered minor facial injuries and was treated at the hos Pital and released. Prober says Congress outraged with Cia for its dealing with mafia Washington up the chairman of the House subcommittee investigating the assassination of John f. Kennedy said sunday Congress was outraged at the Cia for contacting organized crime in a plot to kill cuban president Fidel Castro. Rep. Richardson Preyer d-n.c., said the Cia also opened itself to Public criticism for the Way it handled a soviet secret police defector who said Lee Harvey Oswald was not a russian operative. The defector Yuri Nosenko was subjected to More than three years of imprisonment and hostile interrogation because the Cia suspected he was planting false in formation about Oswald. I think the Congress generally All of the committee Are outraged about two things in the Cia conduct Preyer said. One is the brutal Way in which they handled or. Nosenko. The second thing is the facts that have come out now Over a period of years about the. Cia s involvement with organized crime. That the american government should Ever have had anything to do with the mafia has outraged the members of  Preyer appeared on the lbs news pro Gram face the  Richard Helms former director of intelligence was vigorously questioned by the committee last week about Cia feelers to organized crime to help assassinate Cas Tro. The cuban Leader was aware of the assassination plots and the committee was concerned that Castro might have Retali ated by conspiring to murder Kennedy. The House is investigating the murders of Kennedy and or. Martin Luther King or. Of the investigations Preyer said there is evidence suggesting a conspiracy in the King murder but it is difficult to prove without solid information from the convicted killer James Earl Ray. The evidence supports the Warren commission single Bullet conclusion that there was one gunman in Dallas who fired on Kennedy and wounded Texas gov. John b. Connally with one shot. There was no continuous photo graphic surveillance of the cuban embassy in Mexico City where Oswald sought Vissa to Cuba and Russia. Preyer said there is no photograph of Oswald going to the embassy and thus no evidence anyone accompanied him. There is information to support allegations Oswald said at the cuban embassy he might kill Kennedy and Castro was pos Sibly aware of it. Through its exhaustive hearings the committee should detail and document the full Story of the Kennedy assassination and there is a Good Chance the Effort could reverse Public doubts about the Warren commission report. Project s handling of fhe disturbed praised Washington up a Federal Agency gives an excellent rating to a Pennsyl Vania project for its treatment of intoxicated drugged or mentally disturbed persons without placing them in jail and recommends communities throughout the country copy the program. James . Gregg acting administrator of the Law enforcement assistance administration Lea Asaid the Montgom Ery county emergency service provides both treatment and Security while freeing manpower for criminal police work another duties. The Agency called aces an exem Plary project and is encouraging other communities to try the approach. Leaa says drugged intoxicated or mentally disturbed people arrested by the police Are too often placed in facilities ill equipped to care for them. It s an everyday occurrence in cities and towns around the country and it just need t be Gregg said in a statement. Under the four year old Pennsylvania program police courts and probation offi cers refer drunk drug abuse and disturbed person cases to an emergency service that operates outside the criminal Justice sys tem. Psychiatric and detoxification emergency service psychiatric evaluation refer ral services and emergency transportation is provided on a 24-hour basis. The referral service arranges longer term care and intervention with such groups As alcoholics Anonymous drug treatment centers or psychiatric hospitals. Chief Edward 0. Stauch or. Of the upper Moreland police department said a psychiatric emergency to Deal with a mentally disturbed person would require the response of almost All on duty Law enforce ment personnel in Many of the Small police departments in the county. Project director or. Angelo Zosa said police referrals account for 41 percent of admissions to the unit which handled 6,700 cases in its first three years of operation. A three month study of 152 referrals showed that charges were brought in Only 34 cases and most of these were issued Pri or to the referral Leaa said. Most patients Are thus removed from the criminal Justice system and relieve the Load on both courts and  we Hope in the next year or so to be financially Independent Zosa said. At present we have 93 percent of our Billings covered by third party payers insurance companies woman innocent of attacking cop Phoenix Ariz. A Bonita Fromme who had been choked into unconsciousness by a policeman during a scuffle Over a parking ticket has been found inno cent of assaulting the officer. Patrolman Harry Vasconcello admitted during Friday s proceedings that he had choked Fromme on june 18 until she was unconscious. Vasconcello testified Fromme threw a bowl of water in his face after being handed a ticket for impeding traffic. Fromme had a different Story. I picked up the bowl of water and called my dog said Fromme. The Metal Rod holding up the door of the car slipped. I reached up to grab it and the water splashed All Over both of  Vasconcello said that after he hand cuffed Fromme her dog a Dalmatian came at him snarling and snapping. She screamed and fought the officer said. I put her Between myself and the dog and told her to Call the dog off. She asked me to let her go and said she would put the dog in the truck. I  with the dog at her Side in the Phoenix City court Fromme testified that she or dered the dog to stay put but was prevented from speaking further. Every time i opened my Mouth to speak he would choke me she said. I blacked out three  the judge who said there was doubt that the woman had thrown the water ruled that she was innocent