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One Year LaterrStill Have Nightmaresrf;*3 maSaysSurvivor 01 Missile Silo BlastBy KD SHEARKRSKAKCY, Ark rAPiGaryI Wayne Lay, 19, looks back on that dark afternoon one yearago and he knows it was a dayidown the ladder, but the menjammed up there, so I up, through the fire. If Ithadn’t been for God. I'd neverhavewerewentthat changed his lifesaidgot out of there, layI don’t think I'll never gotSaunders returned to the tlcompletely over it. he says.I still thank God for whattan job three months after theblast and stayed on it until ithappened to me but my nerveswas completed last June He now Is employed hy aare just about gone. . A! in l a ! t f . Parting contractor in MorriL. I had nighemares for several ton! months and I still have them ... „every once in a while 11 ,d,,ln 1 l’0,h';r m« lhay. a student at the Unlver-1 funders »«.lt;!. ' I m not the e*-citable type. M\ wife didn ti sity of Arkansan, was doingsummer work as a part-timelaborer helping renovate a TitanIf missile site one year ago to*vvorr\wabouteither. Neighbors talkedit some, but everything was hack to normal In a fewday when an explosion and flashdays*»*fire tore through the nine-storv underground structure raileda launch silo complexularHealth Hurti,av and another workman,. wf'Hubert A Saunders 60 of Conway got out with minor burns ! Another 53 men died in theDiscriminationrw/ei-dark horror of the big tube, killed by the explodon ortherthe firet ra pp^dSays Negro Chief;levels and suffocatedCHICAGO fAPi-Kaclil dniThe underground silo Is one of cr*mnation5t In the United States holdingdooms the NegrO) a career medc-Titan Intercontinental ballistic ca* nwliocrily and his jnitienfamissiles cocked and ready for a Uj inferior medical care,” ue!one-way trip with anuclear tiew president of the National(payload This complex one of in1 in Arkansas, is outside thisMedical Association said todav‘*We find ourselvi** cut offnorth centra! Arkansas town of from the mainstream of modP 269 populationern medicine and our patientsThe missile wasn't armed atthe timemust pay the penalty,' Ur John LS Holloman Jr.. of New YorkA 10-man Investigation team City, said in his prepared inauconcluded that the tragedy, Rural address to the annualrro«yworst in the history of thtion’s soaee and missileconvention of the Negro medi-av*rnPfAiv*temsoaceftstarted whensvs*wa weider’scai group.(tlft l/vfstorch touched a fuel line“The higher mortality ratePT, i *j ToLay. who was working on thefor Negroes is, in reality, a.statistical reflection of the di.4*?aiomths second level when the fire started climbed un anladder afteremergencywalking throughcriminatory denial health because ofofrace,gootDr.the fireHolloman said.“It was horrible. I could hearA Negro psychiatrist told thap menturrmen screaming and cryinggroup that centuries of brain-Somebody was veiling. HelpSHAPtAme! God. help me!’ I tried to gowashinginstilledV Vby the white man ha»self-hatred in manvNegroes
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Northwest Arkansas Times
Fayetteville, Arkansas, US
Tue, Aug 09, 1966
Page 24
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