European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 09, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday june 9. 1980 sight hearing restored As lightning hits Man . Maine i i i Dwin i. Rubinson. His Blue a is sparkling and seeing for the film Lime in nine years said saturday he my recharged by inc Bolt of lightning that restored his sight and hear ing. I be got so much Energy. I m just right full of it the 62-year-old Robinson exclaimed. I m All recharged now. Literally. I feel about 18 years a said Portland ophthalmologist Albert Moulton. Who verified Robin son s restored condition. Robinson braved a thunderstorm wednesday to Hunt for his pet Hen Tuk Tuk in his Back Yard tapping his Way with his aluminium Cane. Suddenly he said it sounded like some body cracked a whip Over my he found himself lying dazed in inc rain and mud. When Robinson got up he could Sec and hear something he had t done since a 1971 Accident when a tractor trailer Rig he was driving Jackknife to avoid hitting a car. I did t know i was going Blind after the Accident he said. All at once i d lose everything. I just figured i was blacking out and that confused the doctors. But or. Soulum told me u blindness " i Bills n lust to hearing a i. Ami he la non a and thai lie mud pet Pic sound like i was All wired Logn Inlo he id. I used to catch i he wires in the Lilac Bushes out Back and they d pull my hearing Aid Down and Knock my glasses he said clearly Savouring using the words used i was in rouble All the time Robinson said. When the lightning jolted him. The hear ing Aid was blown apart. I m still so his wife Doris said. I be lost my voice just talking and talking about it. Our son in Virginia just nearly had a heart attack when i told him he was so it was almost As though her husband had been born again she said. He has Tunnel vision and the doctor says that s All it will probably Ever be mrs. Robinson said. But he s Happy with what he s got. He can see colors he can see i m so delighted i Don t care if it Ever Edwin e. Robinson whose Tisins and hearing Here restored by lightning shows copies of poems he typed while he was Blind. He Learned braille and typing after inc 1971 Accident thai blinded him. A photo gels any Betler Robinson said. With his vision and hearing restored Robinson said hell turn first to fixing his House. It la take eight hours a Day for one year to get this House fixed up he said. Robinson said he d like to see the two grandchildren born since he lost his vision. And he added i want to do anything i can to help anybody. I want to convince people not to give up because you just never testify offic a a unresponsive toxic waste site residents Tell fears Washington up they were grim angry depressed and and one broke Down and cried As Resi dents of toxic waste dump Sites across the land testified Friday about their frustrated efforts to gel help. They came from communities such As Jackson. . Lias Woburn mass., and Urwin Tenn. As Well As the love canal in Niagara Falls . All told the same Story toxic chemical wastes arc destroying i hair lives driving them from their Homes and. Perhaps killing their children. At hearings chaired by sen. Edward Kennedy d-mass., 10 witnesses charged that neither Federal nor state officials have been responsive to their complaints. The first to testify James g. Mccarthy of Jackson township said Hal. At age 33, he already had lost a 9-Monlh-old child to kidney disease and he has lost one of his own kidneys. He said he and his neighbors Many of whom also suffer kidney disease arc con Vinced inc health problems Are due to Poi and of time in the stars and stripes. 30 years ago today june 9, 1950 the Senate armed serv ices committee has approved a Bill to sex lend the draft. The Bill allows individuals to express his preference on whether he de sires to serve in a unil with members of his of n race. 20 years ago today june 9, i960 a negro was elected to a top level Post of inc Baptist convention for the first Lime when Ruth me Kinney of Cleveland a is second vice president. 10 years ago today june 9. I97h a dynamite explosion on a Range killed seven Ireen Beret soldiers and injured fic others Al it. Bragg. . canal homeowners hold a protest Al the area near Niagara Falls n.v., after gelling a filler from the Federal Goirn men that the i Niord stall cannot and will not by the of president Carter and others were burned. Up zoning of their Wells by wastes that have even been used As Landfill for a recreation site used by children. We be been unable to get stale help we be been unable to get Federal help he said. How do you look to the future asked Kennedy. I have two children i want to Sec them live Mccarthy replied then broke into tears. Mccarthy s neighbor. Kathleen bin sch said she is one of Many women who have had miscarriages liven neighbourhood cats Are dying of kidney disease that area Resi dents believe is caused by the water she said. The problems of people living near an acid pit at Woburn. Mass., were de scribed by the Rev. Bruce Young. Jud Broderick and Anne Anderson. Young said he thought officials would help after learning of a Cluster of Luke Mia cases among children. But government has not been our he said. It has been our Broderick said Hal fumes from Tannery wastes dumped in inc area for a Century take paint off Homes i Don t know what it does to our among Highl families on her sued she said there have been Ihrck stillbirths and four miscarriages. Skip Foss told How 200 Erwin. Tenn., residents kept a 24-hour Vigil to Slop trucks dumping waste in a Landfill Only to have them find another route through a cynic the wastes were believed the cause of an epidemic of respiratory disease in the Community bul Cili ens got a Royal Runa round from officials. I Oss said. Barbara Quimby. One of hundreds evacuated from inc canal waste dump area testified that she. Her husband and two Chil Dren Are living in one Moll room. We just can t take More of it she declared. I m sick of being a Guinea pig. My it a get me Oul of
