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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1973
Page
9
In Hortense Georgia a logging truck struck an Auto Train carrying 300 passengers causing derailment and a fire. The truck driver died and about two dozen passengers were hospitalized with four family-carriers damaged. Firefighters extinguished the blaze as the train along Highway 32 carried autos to Sanford Florida.
The incident at dawn involved an Auto-Train on Seaboard Coast Line rails near Waycross. Passengers describe a violent jolt and derailment into ties as a truck driver is later found alive in a gully.
James Glenn Falkner, 34, of Pearland, and Linda June Jurer, 26, of Houston, are held in Lubbock Jail on forgery charges. Magistrate Bill Brister set bonds at 10,000 dollars each. They were apprehended in Big Spring and are accused of possessing counterfeit $20 Federal Reserve notes. The case will be turned over to federal authorities.
Ezra Solomon, a member of President Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers, will depart at month end to return to teaching at Stanford University. Solomon, 53, joined almost two years ago and says he leaves with mixed feelings after a role advising on economic policy and wage price controls. No successor has been named. the council now has two other members, Chairman Herbert Stein and Marina Whiteman.
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