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arrow points to newspaper clipping Dear Jack: Merry Xmas. arrow points to name mentioned in clipping This Sanders - sole survivor of the Mine entombment (1 our of 119) is surely a frightening example of the diabolical hold Tobacco has on the Addict.

  Note 2 facts:

1 He offered to Hug Anyone who would give him a Cig--even a newspaper Reporter. Depravity un-paralleled 2 He was taken out of an oxygen tent to smoke.

      addicts lungs triple underline:  prefer fumes to oxygen.
I guess the Lord spared him, so you Could send him some tracts.  Do so!

hopefully - Rev. D.

arrow from end of article to this comment In another write-up he's said to be Cecil Sanders - of Benton, Ill. arrow pointing to next comment send the Tracts there. -JCD

newspaper clipping How's Wife, Survivor's First Words WEST FRANKFORT, Ill -- (UP) --The first words of George Sanders after his rescue from the explosion-wrecked New-Orient mine were:

 "How's my wife?"
  State police cars, their sirens screaming, raced to the Sanders home to get his wife.
  Dr. A. F. Barnett, physician for the mine owned by the Chicago, Wilmington & Franklin Coal Co., said Sanders told him:
  "I just went to sleep and woke up a little while before they found me."
  "I didn't even know there was an explosion."
  Sanders was taken into the hospital on a stretcher.  His grimy clothes were removed and he was placed in an oxygen tent.

. . . [[underlined in pen: "I'D HUG anybody who'd give me a cigaret," he said and Barnett ordered him removed from the oxygen tent. A reporter lighted a cigaret and gave it to him.

   Just then his wife Ethel, 41, arrived at the room.  She was shaking with emotion.]]

"Hello, Honey," Sanders said and smiled.