Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 9 January 1962 — Page 1

VOL. LX No. 7.

195 Pints Os Blood Given

Adams county went “way over” in its bloodmobile program Monday, giving 195 pints, the highest in the history of the program here, Mrs. Ferris Bower, chairman of the Red Cross blood committee, said this morning. The quota was 125, but the blood bank is so short of blood that it is being rationed to hospitals in the and the 70 pint overage will be put to good use, she added. Four-Gallon Donor Talmadge Campbell joined the four-gallon donor list, and Mrs. Lowell Smith became a threegallon donor Monday. Ten 2-gallon pins and 14 one-gallon pins were awarded, also. The following nurses, in addition to those previously named, helped out Monday: Mrs. Robert Eash, Mrs. Ed Buckner, Mrs. Gail Grabill, Mrs. Cletus Miller, Mrs. Wilbert Fuelling, Mrs. Gilbert Bultemeier, Mrs. Richard Callow, Mrs. John Terveer, and Mrs. Mark Colchin. — Thanks To Helpers Thanks also went to the Welcome Wagon workers, Mrs. Dan Tyndall and Mrs. Robert Drake, for their help in bringing in those who did not have transportation. Fritz Ellsworth’s Garage and Bower Jewelry Store were thanked for furnishing the food for the canteen, which helps restore the vitality of those who give blood. The firemen who put out the flags, and the four city street department employes who helped set up and tear down the mobile unit operation, partly on their free time, were all thanked for making the visit such a success. Two-Gallon Donors The ten two-gallon donors were: Melvin Tinkham, Ted Hahnert, Don Raudenbush, Edmund Thieme. Paul E. Kohne, Lewis L. Sheets, Mrs. John Rowland, Joe Weber, Ethel Schlickman and Don Gerber. The one-gallon donors are: Fred Lautzenheiser, Harry Dailey, Morton Railing, Herman Aeschliman, Mrs. Ernest Anderson, Mrs. Kathrvn Wynn, James Beery,. Miss Kathryn Shaffer, Mrs. Theodore Lepper, Mrs. Victor Bieberich, Mrs. Omer Merriman, Carroll Schroeder, Mrs. Arnold Scheumann and_Clarence Lengerich. There were 31 new donors and 80 walkins, only 28 of whom had been previously contacted, 52 of them volunteering to come in. Blood Donors Those who gave include: Robert Dedo 1p h, Mrs. John Kohne, Ed Vian, Rev. Richard Ludwig, John Smith, Robert Mutschler, Mrs. Paul Uhrick and Herman Knapke. Jack Heller, Mrs. Calvin Burnett, Charles Jessup, Mrs. Edgar Krueckeberg, Mrs. Jane Colchin and Fred Lautzenheiser. Jim Goldner, Mrs. Shirley Goldner, Mrs. Paul Carll, Brice Daniels, Alfred Conrad and Mrs. Brice Daniels. Mrs. Robert Stevenson, Gene Schindler, Mrs. Mary Schindler, Katherine E. Young, Delphena Reynolds, Gretchen Foreman, the Rev. Elbert Smith, Jr., Paul L. Patrick and Mrs. Lester Diehl. Dale Mankey, H. P. Schmitt, Jr., Mrs. Burl Fuhrman, Harold Strahm, Don Raudenbush and Ben Eichenauer. __ More Donors Ron Gerber, Carl Rumschlag, Robert Carr, Charles Abel, Mrs. C. E. Roberts, Evelyn Ostermeyer, Frank Ly bar ge r and Jerry 'Continued on Page Six)

Kennedy Discusses Congress Strategy

WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Kennedy met with Democratic congressional leaders today to discuss strategy for winning approval of such major administration bills as medical aid for die aged in the new session which beWednesday. The White House breakfast meeting produced forecasts by party leaders that the President would succeed in getting most of his program written into law. Speaker-to-be John W. McCormack was generally optimistic. Sen. George A. Smathers, D-Fla., secretary of the Conference of Democratic Senators, said administration leaders “are going to come pretty near getting what they want, it looks like.” In addition to discussing legislative strategy, Kennedy also gave the Democratic leaders the timetable for sending his major proposals to Congress. McCormack said the President will submit his fiscal 1963 budget

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Butler Funeral To Be Held Wednesday Funeral services will be held Wednesday for William Butler, 64, who was found dead Monday morning ,in his house -trailer at 908 Meibers street, apparently due to a heart attack suffered late Saturday night or early Sunday morning. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Zwick funeral home, with the Rev. William C. Feller officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetary. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today until time of the services. A lifelong resident of this city, he was born in Decatur Dec. 31, 1897, a son of Samuel and Hester Catherine Stalter-Butler. He had been employed in recent years at the Decatur Industries. Only survivors are two sisters, Mrs. Marie Tindall of Van Wert, 0., and Mrs. J. R. (Ireta) Peterson of Terre Haute. • To Receive Fallout Shelter Supplies About 6,250 cubic feet of fallout shelter supplies will be sent in the near future to Adams county, to be stored until the material can be transferred to shelters, Charles L. Arnold, Adams couney civil defense director, said today. _ The material will fill a room 25 by 25 by 10 feet, or about onequarter of a cubic foot per man, woman, and child in the county, Arnold said. Keep At Jail The Adams county jail and garage have been designated as location for the material and Arnold will act as custodian of the goods. The distribution is being made under the federal fallout shelter survey program, Arnold added. A large, number of the booklets, “Fallout protection, what to know and do about nuclear attack” have been received by the local post office, and are now available through that source, it was learned today. Many inexpensive shelters are diagrammed in the booklet, including a basement shelter for $125, and a back yard shelter for about $l5O. Check List In addition, every article need_ed in the shelter is pictured, so that a simple check off method can be made to provide what is needed. Arnold stated that he expects the government will make a survey soon of public buildings to see which ones are suitable for conversion to fallout shelters with little trouble. The 46-page booklet gives a number of fine ideas not available in other publications, and also lists' eight more sources of information on shelters. Arnold advised everyone seriously interested in surviving by planning ahead to get one of the booklets, and make it a part of fallout shelter equipment.

on Jan. 18, and his annual economic message will come Jan. 22. The State of the Union message will be delivered Thursday. Today’s conference marked the resumption of Kennedy’s Tuesday breakfast meeting with the Democratic leaders, a regular feature when Congress is In session. But one missing face today was that of the late Speaker Sam Rayburn, who died of cancer late last year. In his place today was McCormack, who was to be elected formally as speaker later today. The election, a mere formality, will be the first change in Democratic leadership in the House in 21 years. Replacing McCormack as the party’s floor leader in Congress is Rep. Carl Albert, from Oklahoma, who sat in on today’s White House session. After his session wit the congressional leaders, Kennedy held hrs first meeting with his Cabinet since Nov. 9.' ~

School Board Approves Fund For Additions The Decatur school board, meeting to hear objections or questions on the special appropriation of $265,000 from the cumulative building fund to pay for the proposed additions to the high school and Northwest elementary school buildings, unanimously approved the appropriation as no dissenters appeared before the board. Contracts are scheduled to be let January 23. Superintendent Gail Grabill announced that the firm of Bradley and Bradley of Fort Wayne, archiitects for the new additions, reported that seven general contractors have picked up copies of the plans. The contractors include three from Fort Wayne, two from Decatur, and one each from Bluffton and Berne. Grabill made reports on the general conditions of the various schools following some routine and emergency repairs, and also reported on the progress of the midwest airborne television program. The program, financed for its first two years by grants frpm the Ford foundation and Industry, will be turned over to the schools for continuing maintainence. The board briefly discussed broadening the local educational opportunities by offering some programs in on-the-job training for high school dropouts and evening classes for adult education. The plans will be discussed and considered at later meetings when more available material has been collected. Survey# will also have to be made in this area to ascertain exactly what types of programs will be most beneficial to the specific needs of this locality. I_ _ L Annual Reports Are Given County Board Lawrence Noll’s report for the month of December of the county highway department, and Frank Kitson’s report for the county home for the same month, were submitted to the Adams county coipmissioners at their regular meeting Monday in the courthouse. Both reports were approved by the commissioners. Noll’s report showed some 5,620 tons of stone haUled on the roads; 28,769 miles traveled by the trucks; 586 miles grades; and equipment in use 2,126 hours, among other items. Kitson’s report revealed that there were 17 male and nine female patients at the county farm, the same number as at the first of the month. A petition to blacktop county road 22%, from its intersection with U.S. 27 north of Geneva, extending west approximately three miles, to its intersection with county road 37 was submitted to the commissioners. The petition was signed by 29 residents or landowners adjacent to the road, which is in both Wabash and Hartford townships. Ditch Petition A petition for the cleaning and repairing of the James K. Martz ditch in Monroe, St. Mary’s and Blue Creek townships, was also submitted. The petition was signed by all persons. Ho action wa§ ; taken by the commissioners on either petition. * A group of persons who filed a petition April 10, 1961, appeared at the meeting, to remind the commissioners of their petition. They had requested blacktopping county road 12, between U. S. 27 and county road 34. A 1961 report of the $2,800 appropriation for the 4-H club work was submitted and approved, as was an inventory of the highway department, filed by Lawrence Noll, department head. The commissioners spent the afternoon, inspect in,g ditches bridges, and roads throughout the county.

INDIANA WEATHER Continued very cold and windy with occasional snow flurries tonight and Wednesday. gnew flurries locally heavy near Lake Michigan tonight and over most of the northern area Wednesday. Low tonight 5 to 10 below sero north, 3 below to 3 above south. H 1 g h Wednesday around sero north, 12 to 20 south. Sunset today 5:39 p. m. Sanrise Wednesday 8:06 a.m. Outlook for Thursday: Continued very cold with snow flurries. Lows Wednesday night 10 below to 5 above. Highs Thursday S to 18 above north to around 20 extreme ° south.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, January 9,1962.

Soviet Russia To Release Belgian Sabena Airliner Forced Down In Armenia

Dick Heller Speaks To Decatur Lions Decatur isn’t getting its share of Indiana’s annual quarter billion dollars in tourist business, but it can, if local people will think in terms of making more money, Dick D. Heller Jr., publisher of the Decatur Daily Democrat, told the Decatur Lions club Monday night. Last year Michigan businessmen made $650,000,000, nearly threequarters of a billion dollars, from tourists. Equally important, tourists then paid S4O million in taxes. This tax money would have come from the pockets of local people, had Michigan not had an active tourist program. What Do We Have? “But what does Indiana have to offer?” Heller continued. “For one thing, Indiana is the crossroads of America, and its location is of primary value. If people don’t necessarily start out with the idea of vacationing in Indiana, at least they will probably pass through the state on their way to their vacation area. “But our location will be of no value unless we advertise what we have: our history, our factories, our lakes, and our man-made or commercial attractions,” he stated. Central Saya “For exam pl e, Decatur IfaP failed in many ways Jin take advantage of the fact that it is the site of the world’s largest soybean extraction plant, and storage facility. If this were to be set down on an attractive aluminum state historical marker, with a history of the founding of the company here, and located in an attractive roadside bench area in view of Central Soya, many people who wonder just what the ‘trig bunch of buildings’ are would stop, and enjoy finding out. “The St. Mary’s river, which we cross every day, has an interesting story, which is often overlooked just because it is not documented on Explorers like Celeron de Bienville used 'Continued on Page Eight) ——

Nation Is Braced For Record Cold

By United Press International Blizzards pounded the Dakotas, [ Colorado fought waist-deep snow : and the southern Plains braced for predicted record cold today, i Snow up to 40 inches deep clogged parts of the Rockies. Ahead and behind the storm sub-zero > cold moved in, engulfing all or parts of 15 states. Up to 8 inches of snow fell in western Michigan early today, leaving highways hazardous. Between traverse City and Charlevoix high winds whipped the snow, cutting visibility to 10 feet, the Michigan Highway Department reported. Chicago had its coldest day in more than a year. The U.S. Weather Bureau warned of a hard freeze tonight as far south as Louisiana and Mississippi. Heavy snow warnings were up for parts of Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma. Meanwhile, San Francisco had a high of 79 degrees Monday, breaking an 85-yearold record for the date and the 63-year-old record for the month of January. The death toll since the latest weather onslaught began last weekend reached 60. Wisconsin had 17 deaths, Illinois 16 Michigan 9. lowa 6, Massachusetts and New Hampshire 3 each, Colorado 2, and Missouri, Kansas, Montana and North Carolina 1 each. Below freezing temperatures stretched as far southward as the gulf states. Snow fell as far east as New York. The U.S. Weather Bureau warned that record low temperatures were likely for the next two or three days in Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, northern New Mexico, northern Texas and south-

Local Lady's Mother Dies At Fort Wayne Mrs. Iva L. Dill, '7B, of 2808 Bowser avenue, Fort Wayne, ’ mother of Mrs. Herman Von Gunt ten of Decatur, died Monday ( morning at her home. t Mrs. Dill, a resident of Fort , Wayne for 61 years, was a memj ber of the Immanuel Baptist church. Her husband, Samuel S. ’ J. Dill, preceded her in death * in 1953. * Surviving in addition to Mrs. Von Gunten are two sons, Gerald S. and Delbert E. Dill, both of ’ Fort Wayne; another daughter, ' Mrs. Thelma Shuler of Fort ’ Wayne; seven grandchildren and ' four great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 11 a. m. Wednesday at the D. . O. McComb & Sons funeral home, the Rev. Thomas Younger offi- ‘ dating. Burial will be in the Lehman cemetery at Payne, O. ! Friends may call at the funeral 1 home until time of the services. j Unemployment In : Decatur Area Lower Unemployment for the week ending January 5 dropped again f Adams county to well below the ■ 100 mark, Richard P. App, man- : ager of the Fort Wayne office of i the Indiana employment security * division, said today. i During the week ending January 5, 19 new claims were filed and 53 regular claims continued, for a total of 72 regular claims, of > people out of work more than two weeks but less than six months. This compares with 52 new claims, 64 continued, and a total of 116, for the previous week. For the fourth week no new extended coverage claims were reported, and just 10 were continued, compared with 13 the previous week. Thus, this past week, total claims transactions totaled 82, compared with 129 the week before.

ern Missouri. , By midnight Monday the ternt perature had dropped below zero 1 at Denver, Minneapolis and Chi- . cago. Butte, Mont., reported 32 - below zero. By 9 p.m. Monday the i mercury had dropped to 24 below > at Casper, Wyo. Temperatures ber low zero were reported from New Mexico to Indiana and from Texi as to the Canadian border. , Colorado’s Monarch Pass was - blanketed by 40 inches of snow - and the Montana Rockies had 24 , inches. Central City, Colo., had 18 » inches. Snowslides closed Love- - land Pass Monday, stranding cars, but occupants were rescued. i Authorities warned against travel anywhere in North Dakota, i where blizzards cut visibility to a t quarter of a mile at Grand Forks, - forty - mile winds were reported > at Minot, where the temperature . dipped to 14 below zero at midevening Monday. I Road graders were used to , crack walls of ice on Montana • streets. A wind gust tossed a Grey- ■ bound bus into a snow drift near Butte, Mont., and blew’a beer t truck off a highway near Belt grade, Mont., but there were no » injuries. ■- . / Decatur Temperatures • Local weather data for the 24 . hour period ending at 11 a.m. today. 12 noon 19 12 midnight .. 2 1 p.m. - .. 20 1 a.m. 2 . 2 p.m 19 2 a.m. a 2 3 p.m. 18 3 a.m. ..... ... 2 ■ 4 p.m 16 4 a.m 1 ■ 5 p.m 14 5 a.m. 0 6p.m 11 6 a.m. 0 7 p.m 9 7 a.m. 0 I 8 p.m. 8 8 a.m. 0 9 p.m. 7 9 a m 3 10 p.m 5 10 a.m 2 I 11 p.m :* 3 11 a.m 4 Precipitation Total for the 14 hour period end - ’ Ing at 7 a.m. today, .01 inches. Th* St. Mary's river was at 5.00 fe«t.

Citizens Telephone Seeks Added Funds The Citizens Telephone company asked the Indiana public service commission Monday for authority to borrow $460,000 from Lincoln to finish its building program and to make more lines available to neighboring exchanges, such as Berne, it was learned today. Two hearings before the commission involved the local company. The first hearing was on a four-point request on behalf of the Nappanee Telephone company, the stock of which is wholly owned by Citizens. The points were: 1. Authority was requested to convert to automatic dial. 2. Authority was requested to provide extended area service to Wakarusa and New Paris from Nappanee. 3. The Nappanee company asked permission to borrow $300,000 from Lincoln Life to make the needed improvements in physical plant, etc. - Sell Stock To Citizens 4. Because the company can only borrow up to a certain per cent of its capitalized value, Nappanee asked permission to sell an additional 255 shares of stocfc to Citizens Telephone company, for the book value of $50,• 076.90. This would get the company capitalized at a high enough figure to borrow the amount of money requested in Item 3. Citizens Hearing The second hearing, involving Citizens Telephone Co., of Decatur, involved two main points: 1. Authority was requested to allow Citizens to buy the additional 255 shares of Nappanee at book Value. 2. Authority was requested to borrow $400,000 from Lincoln Life. The Citizens Telephone company has to show, in its application, how it intends to spend the money, and how it plans to repay the principal and interest. The two main uses to be made of the money are finishing the present building program of the company, and to make more lines available to other areas, so that the busy signal will not occur so frequently. Charles Ehinger, president of the company, and Robert S. Anderson, company attorney, attended the hearings, and represented the interests of Citizens Telephone Co.

Native Os Decatur Dies At Fort Wayne Darrel J. Mann, 54, a native of Decatur, died Monday evening at Parkview hospital in Fort Wayne, 10 hour after being striken while driving to work at International Harvester Co. The family has lived in Fort Wayne 53 years. Mr. Mann was a* member of Trinity Episcopal church. Surviving are his wife. Margaret G.; his mother, Mrs. Minnie Meyer of Fort Wayne; three sons, a daughter and a brother. The body was removed to the D. O. McComb & Sons funeral home. Arrangements have not been completed. Advertising Index Advertiser ! Page Arnold Lumber Co., Inc<-sx 8 Beavers Oil Service, Inc. 6 Burk Elevator Co. — 5 Bower Jewelry Store ————— 3 Cadillac — 2 Cassandra's House of Style -— 3 Custom Craft Homes — - 5 Decatur Record Store ----- 3 Dodge — —7 Evans Sales & Service, Inc. —-- 5 Fairway Restaurant 8 Allen Fleming — 5 Fasteeth - — 2 Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. 4 Kohne Drug Store ... 2 Kiddie Shop 3 Oldsmobile - 6 Petrie Oil Co. 7 Psi lota Xi Trading Post — 3 Rambler » —2, 4 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 5 Smith Drug Co. —— — 2 Teeple Truck Line’-'—. 5

MOSCOW (UPI) — The Soviet Foreign Ministry agreed today to release the Belgian Sabena airliner that was forced down in Soviet Armenia Monday with 27 persons aboard. Deputy Foreign Minister Vassily Kuznetsov told Belgian Ambassador Hippolite Cools that the plane probably would be released Wednesday. Kuznetsov said the French-built twin-jet Caravelle and its 19 passengers and eight crew members were in good condition. 'At Tehran, the point from which the plane departed on its flight, Sabena Airlines identified three of the passengers as Americans. The airline said they were Charles and Maria Weimer of New York and a Fred Holden, whose address was not immediately available. Sabena said Weimer is an employe in Tehran of the Morrison Knudson engineering firm of New York, while Holden was in transit from the far east to Istanbul.) He added that the plane and its occupants were now at Broznyi, not far from the Caspian Sea, about 124 miles northeast of Tbilisi capital of the Georgian Republic. When Soviet jets intercepted the airliner near the tense SovietTurkish border, they were reported to have forced it to land at a military airport near Yerevan, capital of the Armenia Republic,— Belgian officials immediately asked the Soviet government to release the plane, which apparently had been operating with a “defective radio compass and wandered across the Soviet frontier. The exact point of interception was unknown. But the plane was on a flight from Tehran, Iran, to Brussels, with scheduled stops at Istanbul, Athens and Frankfurt. The Tehran-Istanbul leg is near the point where the Soviet-Turkish-Iranian frontiers converge in rugged country, and a pilot can wander off course with little trouble. 12th Traffic Victim Os Year In Indiana By United Press International An 84-year-old Batesville area man died today from injuries received in a traffic accident last week, raising Indiana's traffic fatality toll for 1962 to at least 12. Elmer Crowell, R. R. 1, Batesville, died on Margaret Mary Hospital at Batesville from injuries suffered as he was hit by a car on Indiana 229 near Batesville last Thursday night.

Trainman Dies In lowa Crash

AURELIA, lowa (UPI) - One trainman was killed and another was trapped in the wreckage of a smashed diesel engine today when an Illinois Central passenger train roared from its tracks in snow-swept lowa farm country. Expressman John Nelson was cut out of the twisted steel of the express oar, but died of his injuries. The engineer, Darrell E. Johnson, Sioux City, lowa, was trapped in his cab when the lead diesel of the eight-unit train careened off the tracks and smashed onto its side. Blow torches were needed to cut Johnson from the wreckage. He was hospitalized in Storm Lake, in critical condition suffering from broken ribs and internal injuries. The lowa highway patrol said at least six passengers on the Chi-cago-to-Sioux City “Hawkey e” were injured. Other estimates of the injured ran as high as 10. The train was a half hour late, cruising at 40 miles per hour, when it lurched from the tracks without warning two miles east of this northwest lowa village and 50 miles .northeast of Sioux City. The temperature was 15 degrees below zero and the flat lowa fa r m country was raked by blowing snow.

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Mrs. Carrie Haubold Dies This Morning Mrs. Carrie T. Haubold. of 228 South Third street; one of Decatur’s most prominent ladies in music, church and civic circles, died at 6 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. She bad been ill for the past month, and hospitalized for about two weeks. She was 75. Born in Berne March 25, 1886, she was a daughter of Dr. Philip B. and Estelle Hart-Thomas. Her father was a prominent Decatur physician for many years. She was married Oct. 28, 1908, to Otto H. Haubold. who preceded her in death in 1915. Mrs. Haubold was a member of the First Presbyterian church, the Music department of the catur Woman’s club, the Research club, and the Sigma Alpha lota, national honorary music sorority. One of the city’s most accomplished musicians, she had served as organist at the First Presbyterian church for 29 years, and previously was organist at the First Methodist church. She had attended the Northwestern University school of musie. On School Board Highly interested in children of the community, Mrs. Haubold served as secretary of the city school board from 1920 until 1943. Surviving are two daughters. Miss Helen Haubold, at home, supervisor of vocal music in the Decatur public schools, and Mrs. Harry (Louise) Dailey, of Decatur; one son, Thomas Haubold, at home, an employe in the offices of the Decatur G. E. plant, and one brother, P. Bryce Thomas, principal of the Lincoln elementary school in this city. Her only grandchild, Jack T. Dailey, 19, a sophomore at Indiana University, died Dec. 16 of last year. .. ?■ Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Thursday at the Zwick funeral home. The Rev. A. C. Underwood, pastor of the First Methodist church, will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Elbert A. Smith, pastor of the First Presbyterian church. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p. m. Wednesday until time of the services.

The two diesel locomotives and express car smashed onto their sides. The other cars, all off the tracks, tilted at precarious angles. Some of them sprawled across lowa 5, which parallels the tracks. Just before the crash, fireman R.A. Creek jumped to safety. None of the passengers was believed to be seriously injured. Illinois Central officials said most of them suffered scratches and bruises. The shocked and shivering passengers were taken by school bus to nearby Cherokee, where most of those requiring treatment were hospitalized. > Railroad officials said the passengers would be taken to their final destination by taxicab, even as far as Sioux City if necessary. There was no immediate explanation for the smashup. Illinois Central officials said there was a broken rail beneath the train, but it was not known whether the break occurred duringhthe derailment. Train officials said they believed there were no more than a dozen passengers aboard the train when it went off the tracks. The train had left Chicago at 8 p.m. Monday and was due to arrive in Sioux City at 9:30 a.m. The derailment occurred at 8:30.