European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 24, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday december 24, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 prompt Core credited for child s survival Deborah edmo Nijs and her Fiance Carl detach Comfort her to in Only old son Stephen it a Hospital in Reno no. Reno. Nev. I a i prompt emergency cart was credited for the survival of a 20-Monlh-old boy who was trapped in a car under water for 20 to 25 Minics. The child s dior said. Or. Barry Frank said Stephen Edmonds came nut of a coma and was fussing crying and shaking his head tuesday one Day after the Accident. Frank said there was no evidence of nerve damage or brain swelling Hal can occur in such cases. The child was trapped when his to tier s car skidded Down an embankment turned Over and Sank in a Frozen canal in Gardner Villa. The Mother. Deborah Edmonds 21, escaped through a broken window bul could no gel her son Oul. Paramedics Don stangly and Bobby Wartgow were among the first to arrive at she 5-foot-Dccp canal. They jumped into the water but co Ukon i get the door open. Douglas county sheriffs Deputy Greg Curtis and Volunteer fireman Steve Morgan also jumped into the canal and were Able to attach a Cable to the Wagon and Winch i onto its passenger Side. Hospital spokesman Tim Robinson said the nurses say he s a 20 month old and he s acting like a 20 to file old who s been through a Forsyth county spa flight recorded 6 gunshots still divided on civil rights Issue Atlanta a a committee studying racial problems in nearly All while Forsyth county issued a report tuesday showing it failed to reach agreement on key Points in the dispute Between while res Denis and civil rights groups. The county attracted National attention last january when White hecklers hurled rocks and bottles at a Small group marching to protest the exclusion of Blacks. A week later 25,000 people supporting Blacks marched on the county the committee s two factions Sis members who live in Forsyth county and six representing a consortium of civil rights groups issued essentially separate recons outlining i hair positions on issues panel members Folk or Ward a Black lawyer from Atlanta and Phil Beltis. A White attorney from Forsyth county insisted that Progress had been made. We did t anticipate that we would All agree on the causes or solutions Ward said. Beltis called inc report an excellent Opportunity to outline the perspectives of both sides the commit tee will reconvene in a year 10 Sec whether there has been Progress he said. The county located 40 Miles North of Atlanta has had an anti Black reputation since a 1911 incident in which three Black men were charged with the rape and murder of a while girl. The racial tension thai followed prompted an exo dus of Blacks. The Black population of Forsyth county dropped from 1,098 in 191010 30 in 1920. A key Point of Contention Between members of the committee is the question of restoring land rights to descendants of Blacks who were forced to leave. The Coni Minitee members representing an umbrella civil rights group known As the coalition to end fear and intimidation in Forsyth county contended in their position paper thai the Issue is Paramount and argued that either the state or Federal government should appoint a commission or assign an casting Agency to consider appropriate redress. The is committee members representing Forsyth county said current residents of the county have no lies or culpability relative to events of 1912." they Alvo noted an opinion of Georgia attorney general Michael Bowers in june in which Bowers said there is a statute of limitations of 20 years on land claims. Los Angeles a the pilots of Pacific South West airlines right 1771 declared an emergency and said they were going to a lower Altitude after the first gunshots rang out in the doomed Jet the Fri said. The last of the six shots heard on a recording of cockpit activity came moments before Impact the Fri said. All 43 people aboard the spa Jet were killed in what is believed to have been a revenge attack by fired air line worker David Hii Rke. The four in inc jetliner was in route to san Francis co when it crashed near paso Robles. Officials believe its 22,000-foot plunge was caused by Burke 35, inking revenge on passenger Raymond Thomson the supervisor who fired him from us air on nov. 9 when he allegedly stole less than $70 in passenger beverage receipts. Authorities earlier said Only that shots were believed to have been fired in the passenger Cabin before the jetliner crashed Dee. 7 about 175 Miles Northwest of los Angeles Bui inc Fri s special agent in charge in los Angeles Richard by cling said tuesday that a recording contains what sounds like two gunshots in the passenger area then an intruder entering the cockpit followed by three More gunshot like sounds a pause and then a final shot just before the radio went dead. The cockpit voice recorder confirms that just prior to the Pilot s making an Appeal to he Faa s Oakland Center two noises were heard that sounded Tike gunshots aboard he said Bret ing. The pilots reported this 1o the Oakland Center and after declaring an emergency one Pilot was heard 10 stale that he was taking the aircraft to a Tower Alti tude he said. A female was then heard to say in a controlled voice a one word warning to the earlier u-li1 vision reports said a flight attendant in inc cockpit was heard saying we be got a problem then a male voice said i m the there was an unlawful entry to the cockpit Fol Lowed by three Sharp reports that sounded like gunshots. Some commotion was recorded in the cock pit and shortly before inc recording ended another shot report sounding like a gunshot was heard Horci ing said. Oakland television station a thu to gave More details on cockpit events. The station quoting an unidentified source said Burke handed Thomson the note then shot him and had the flight attendant Lake him to inc cockpit one of the pilots can be heard groaning and trying to pull the plane Oul of its dive the source said. Twenty seconds before Impact the engines were heard full throttle then a gunshot was heard 10 seconds before the crash
