Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, July 26, 1983 Marine survives six weeks in wilderness From AP and UPI JACKSON, Calif. - A U.S. Marine who became lost in a rugged mountain area of Northern California for nearly, six weeks survived on a diet of ants, moss and grass until two hikers found him, authorities said yesterday. Karl Joseph Bell, 22, of Battle Creek. Mich., was found on a ledge near Bear River Reservoir Sunday afternoon. BELL, WHO described himself as a "dumb jerk that got lost," was listed in good condition yesterday at Barton, Memorial Hospital. He was rescued Sunday after crawling to the top of the ravine, collapsing, and being spotted by hikers. "It was a while before I started eating ants," said Bell, whose only other sustenance was moss and water. "They didn't really taste that good." On a one-week vacation from the Camp Pendleton Marine Base near Oceanside, Bell was reported missing June 17, when his pickup truck and Marine-loaned camp trailer were found parked at the dam. A search was mounted but abandoned four days, later. CLAD ONLY IN fatigue pants, boots and a T-shirt, Bell suffered a broken right ankle and bruised ribs in the 30- foot fall. Blisters also formed on most of his exposed skin from sun which drove daytime temperatures into the 90s. Overnight lows dropped into the 40s, he said. From his hospital bed, Bell recalled that for the first few days, he didn't eat anything. Then he got hungry. "The way it started out, I lay down and the ants would be crawling all over you. I'd smack them, and then I started eating them," he said. He also ate moss, but lost 75 of the 210 pounds he was carrying on his 6-foot-1 frame before the accident. "HE LOOKED like the pictures you see of starving people in India," added Dennis Ray, chief of the Amador Coun- ty Fire Department team that reached Bell Sunday afternoon. "He was just a skeleton with skin on it." Bell said he crossed the Bear River once in an attempt to crawl to help, but crossed back when he couldn't find a way out. Finally, he found a climbing piton and a length of rope and used them to haul himself back up to the trail from which he had fallen. Bell collapsed after the climb, and hikers David Babich, 28, and Ron Barrett, 22, both of Sacramento, found him where he had fallen. At one point, he recalled, a rescue helicopter flew overhead but didn't see him waving and shouting. TODAY PIRGIM needs you THE PUBLIC Interest Research Group In Michigan (PIRGIM) begins its annual membership drive in Ann Arbor this week. Canvassers will be going door-to-door to explain PIRGIM's stand on the issues and to ask for $15 donation from citizens who want tor be members. Organizer Amy Gibans membership drives in Ann Arbor are usually more successful than in other cities because the citizens are well informed about the issues and are more involved. The drive will last until the end of August. HAPPENINGS TUESDAY Highlight The University hosts the annual national conference of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators this week. Conference participants will attend workshops and speeches beginning at 9 a.m. tomorrow, and an exhibit ranging from wildlife art to medical illustrations will be held at the Slusser Gallery in the Art and Architecture Building from tomorrow until July 30. Speakers School of Public Health - Adria Thenen, "Iron and Immunity," 12 p.m., Rm. 3042 SPH I. Meetings Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship -7 p.m., 1619 S. University. His House Christian Fellowship - Fellowship and Bible study, 7:30 p.m., 925 E. Ann. Ann Arbor Go Club - 7-11 p.m., 1433 Mason. Baptist Student Union - Fellowship and Bible study, 7 p.m., Rm. B, third floor, League. WEDNESDAY Films AAFC - Spellbound, 7:30 p.m., Notorious, 9:30 p.m., Lorch. Cinema II - Jazz on a Summer's Day, 7:30 p.m., A Star is Born, 9:05 p.m., Angell Aud. A. CFT - Zardoz, 7:30 p.m., Rollerball, 9:20 p.m., Michigan Theater. Performances School of Music - Carillon demonstration, 4-5 p.m., Burton Tower. Meetings Academic Alcoholics - 1:30 p.m., Alano Club. Science Fiction Club -8:15 p.m., ground floor conf. room, Union. Tae Kwon Do Club - Practice, 6-8 p.m., outside behind IM Bldg. Michigan Gay Undergraduates - 9 p.m., Guild House, 802 Monroe. Miscellaneous WCBN - "Radio Free Lawyer," 6 p.m., 88.3 FM. Friends of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens - Herb harvesting workshop by Sandy Hicks, 9 a.m.-noon, 1800 N. Dixboro Rd., Rm. 139. A 40 Judge hears appeal in M.S.U. gang rape case LANSING (UPI) - Ingham County Cir- crowded courtroom that the victim's cuit Court Judge James Giddings heard testimony was "incredible" and that oral arguments yesterday in the appeal there was no evidence of resistance of an alleged gang rape case involving a from sexual relations. Michigan State University freshman Norman Gaffney, attorney for one of and seven males. the defendants, said the victim's Janis Blough, chief appellate attor- testimony was "beyond belief" and that ney for the Ingham County prosecutor, she changed her stories far too many outlined a 30-page brief to the judge, times to be credible. calling the situation a "classic case for "I don't think the case should have a jury." ever been issued," he told reporters DISTRICT Court Judge Daniel following the hearing. "Seven names Tschirhart's dismissal of the case last have been injured." December has caused the prosecution Giddings is expected to decide to believe the judge used information whether Tschirhart abused his based on the victim's failure to resist discretion by dismissing the charges rape, Blough said, adding that he earlier. He may reaffirm the decision of disobeyed a legal statute in his ruling. the lower court or send the case back Tschirhart, at the time, told a for reexamination. Dow won't fund scientist (Continued from Page) i are very much up in the air with all of and several other schools to land a this." research post, but he wouldn't say. Officials at Dow said the firm has not which schools he was considering. benokisgDwithe Uirsntt If he does accept a position at the been working with the Uiversity to University, Higginson would heada brnmg Higginson to campus. "We have small research unit in the epidemiology not committed to providing any department of the School of Public money . . to the University of Health, according to Joseph Owsley, Michigan for such purposes," said associate director for health science' Dean Wakefield, Dow communcations relations. associate. "THE DOW connection is all "(But) that doesn't say there aren't speculation," Owsley said. "We haven't negotiations going on between the had any formal talks with Dow." University and Higginson," he added. John Kirscht, School of Public Health Wakefield said it's not unusual for a interim dean said he did not know company like Dow to set up an en- dowment fund to finance researchers. dowment from Dow began, but he said "I wouldn't call it common, but it's not the speculation has hurt the school's rare," he said. the peculation h ggihsrt the schools Higginson, who has been called a chance of bringing Higginson to the "scientific superstar" by University "I think (the publicity) has made administrators, currently works in anything quite difficult," Kirscht said. Bethseda, Md. at Universities "THERE'S NEVER been any Associated for Research and discussion with Dow," he said. "Things Education. m. sit Tu du Mz Mi $13 sei The Michigan Daily Vol. XCIII, No. 27-S Tuesday, July 26, 1983 (ISSN0745-967X) News Room (313) 764-0552, 76- The Michigan Daily is edited ano DAILY. Sports Desk, 763-0376; Cir- anaged by students at the Univer- culation, 764-0558; Classified Adver- y of Michigan. 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