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_wi re Woman mistaken for dead CHAMPAIGN, M. (AP) ? Karla Woods, who was saved from the coroner's autopsy scalpel when a detective noticed her breathing as she lay on a morgue table, said she cannot bring herself to imagine the scene. "I haven't really put tosether everything that hanoened to me yet, but I do think about it," the 23-year-old waitress said. "The worst part is imagining being in the morgue. Now I feel secure and well-taken care of, but it frightens me to think of other people who weren't recognized and treated the way I was." Woods was pronounced dead April 14 after police found her apparently lifeless body on the living room floor of her apartment. Doctors later said she was in a hypothermic state. Hypothermia is a condition involving subnormal body temperatures that can be fatal, but also can reduce the body's need for oxygen. Police said the door to Woods* apartment was rm^n and a rhillv hr<>#?7i? u/nc hlnminn in Woods, whose temperature was said to have fallen to 80 degrees when she was brought to the hospital, showed signs of life several hours later as she lay on a morgue table. She is listed in satisfactory condition and is expected to be released next week. Tax assessor digs graves HIBBING, Minn. (AP) ? Jim Steele has a job that's as certain as death and taxes ? he does double duty as deputy tax assessor and gravedigger. "I'm going to see you sooner or later," he said. Steele, 45, an accountant by profession, applied for the gravedigger job when his deputy tax assessor's job was reduced to part-time when the city cut back most departments last year. He begins his new duties today and will be paid his current monthly salary of $1,800. "I don't say this is the best combination," Deputy Clerk * * i - niniy vjncrarai saia rnaay. "Hut we've got to have more people doing more different things. We're trying to tighten our budget." Steele wasn't sure how the new job would work out. "I don't blame the city for trying to experiment, but I think it's a little ludicrous to have an assessor-gravedigger," he said. "What if they run short of people at the cemetery during a' busy day? I can't really go over and dig graves in my suit and tt lie. Burn victim visited by idol IRVINE, Calif. (AP) ? A boy in critical condition from burns allegedly caused by his father got a hospital visit and a promise of a home run from his baseball idol, Reggie Jackson. Jackson made the pledge when he visited 6-year-old David P AtKonKorrt ? ~? *-* ? .wv.ivuuvie in ma uiLcusivc-carc room rriaay. He also gave David a California Angels uniform with Jackson's number, 44. David, who was brought to the University of CaliforniaIrvine Medical Center on March 3 with burns over 90 percent of his body, didn't say much during the 25-minute meeting. "He asked me how I was doing," said Jackson, who didn't get a homer in the Angels' 6-5 win Friday against the Baltimore Orioles. The boy was burned in a fire set in a Buena Park motel room he shared with his father, Charles Rothenberg. The elder Rothenberg has pleaded innocent to arson, attempted murder, causing great bodily injury and assault with a Hpa^lu u/PQnnn Uo /"V-? ^ * * " ??j ..vupuii. Jtinauis in wi<iiijge t^ouniy jau in lieu ot $250,000 bond. Festival celebrates'chitlins' JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) ? Move over, catfish. Take a back seat, okra. On the roster of down-home festival foods, there's a new contender ? the humble "chitlin." rri l?_l? " i nc ioiks sponsoring Saturday's second annual Chitterlings Festival planned to serve a ton of chitterlings, which are the small intestines of pigs, and an equal quantity of barbecued chicken, both with all the trimmings. Festival chairman Paula Day said the event is geared to compete with the World's Biggest Fish Fry in Paris, Tenn., the Strawberry Festival in Humbolt and the Okra Festival in Bells. Day said planners just figured it would be "novel" to have a chitterling festival. The festival agenda featured a parade, a greased pig chase, an appearance by Miss Piggy of Muppeis fame and an openair country music concert. Part of the proceeds benefit the Kidney F;und. " * - . .. ^ |pupjrK ^fciraui^ A^ympnony o? Hor' . ifffljeCablnet ofW& CaliflafT starrino Werner' fjKrauss, Conrad Veldt ml lil Dagover. FREE. # S.C. farmer GREENVILLE (AP) ? Several years of drought, unseasonal cold and low prices have left up to 30 pcrcent of South Carolina's 33,000 farmers on the, brink of bankruptcy, says state Farm Bureau Director Harry Bell. n?n ??:j i 1? iiii - > utu swu iic uuprs muse wnu see the bright light at the end of the tunnel are right," but he has doubts. "Unless they're able to come up with good crops and get good prices this season they'll be looking bankruptcy face-to-face come the fall of the year," he said. BELL IS NOT alone in his assessment. "I'd say 35 or 40 percent (of farmers statewide) are in a position where they're going to have a tough time making it in the next few years," state a * ? nn;_ j_i m^UtUUUIC \_UU1II1I3MU1ICI JL-CS 1 UlUitl said. Overproduction and resulting low prices, coupled with the world recession and a malcontent Mother Nature have made things tough for farmers, -'A * 'I jljj^ Double vision A mirror covering one wall of the I at the Thomas Cooper Library make near twipp ag lamp ac it ic r J Obscene mes< GREENVILLE, (AF) ? Some Greenville youngsters who called a long-distance number in New York to hear an off-color message are in hot I water now . because the numbers weren't toll-free and their parents know about the calls. The parents in the Greenville area are directing some of their wrath to the phone company, the Public Service Commission and the Federal Trade Commission. THE COMPLAINTS about the long distance calls spurred Southern fell n alert Affi^ialc at a miAAta ? "W v??v? %. V*l tVIUU UV III8VIU1V and high schools. Some parents have called the number after seeing it on their phone bill, and are none too pleased. c farmer hai HWVIIHg WWII officials say. "We would have been on much more solid footing if we had not experienced those drought years," said /^l IT-! !A.. ? : 1A 1 i^icmsun university agi icuiiui at economist Dan Smith of the four droughts the state has suffered since 1977. NET FARM INCOME in the state nosedived to minus $14 million in 1980 and had pulled up to only $98 million in 1981. That's compared to 5210 million in 1978, a relatively bad crop year. The result has been that 2,000 South Carolina farmers were forced to leave the land forever between 1979 and 1982, and many of the ones who have nung on are now aeep in aeot. Smith said the economic woes have become so severe that in 1982, for the first time, interest paid on loans by South Carolina farmers was equal to the unadjusted net farm income for the state. "It all means that farmers' debts i?iiii % mfe Diaries w : histon london (ap) Saturday he believes 'SlSi blue handwriting ar< .1 may force revisions In the documents knowledge of or hai the Nazis murdert reported Saturday. .^|? ''But he comPlair Iplll^ 'JllPMB tied in the East and they should be sent Some historians < V..W...J/1V, ?** * \ I 1938 when synagog dalizea and Jews destruction, compl; 3to by Capers Hammond Hitler personally a hie Hpnntir ~vjyuij, 1VUUUI1 could negotiate a pe< Vlezzanine level tacked the Soviet U s the room ap- *TJ?e Fuehrer order< peditionary Force trj coming to terms wit sage draws p; "We need to do something " Q , Sue Whitten, a local mother who called Southern Jell to ask about the number. Her call was one of the hundreds that local Southern Bell service representatives have gotten from customers in the past two or three months. Southern Bell spokesman Mary Epting said 10 of 56 service representatives questioned Friday morning said they get three or four calls a day about the number. THE PROBLEM has gotten so bad that Southern Bell sent letters to area middle and high schools a week ago suggesting they might want to get the word out through teachers and PTA groups, Epting said. wmmammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmammmamm # nkruptcy have increased so much in the last two or three years that net income (what's left after expenses) is having to be used to pay interest on debt," Smith said. "THIS MEANS the farmer has little or nothing left for living expenses, capital improvements to his farm nr new investments." Smith said the situation is the worst farmers have faced since the Great Depression. "The result of all this," he said, "is that we're going to lose some good farmers in the state." Smith predicts farming in the state will survive the problems of recent 4 years, possibly with the help of the payment-in-kind program that is aimed at reducing crop surpluses. "As the world demand picks up and surpluses decrease, there will be good years ahead for agriculture in the it o siaie, amim saia. "But we may be several years away from that and by then we will have no doubt lost a lot of producers." s could revise ' f, expert says ? A British expert on Adolf Hitler said 60 recently discovered volumes of spidery 2 authentic diaries of the Nazi leader that in the history of the Third Reich. Hitler "never hints that he had any direct nd in organizing the Holocaust,*' in which jd 6 million Jews, the London Times I is that if they (the Jews) could not be resetsince no other country would accept them, to sea and the boats sunk." ioubt the diaries are real. SVOR-ROPER, author of "The Last Days believes the mannscrintc nre> an nnthpritir istorical significance. low being held in a Swiss bank vault, will historical judgments on Hitler's strategic { of power and personality," the Times lis entry on "Kristallnacht," the night in ;ues were burned and Jewish shops vanwere terrorized, "Hilter deplores such tuning aooui me creaking of so much newspaper said. AY of the Wannsee Conference in Berlin d to exterminate the Jews, "Hitler has a g issage in which he rages at the Jews for exid clothed by the Reich while at the same ies." rom 1932, when Hitler began his rise to ?45, only days before he shot himself. The ; the documents' publication in weeks to :hat: pproved the solo secret "peace" flight by Hess, to Scotland in 1941 hoping Hess ace treaty with Britain before Germany atnion. ^ id his troops not to destroy the British Exapped at Dunkirk in 1940, also in hopes of h the British. arents' anger Whitten said her 9-year-old son told L t. _ ... - iicr ne got tne number from friends at school. EPTING SAID customers who call 4 the telephone company are upset and want to know if the ftimmick is leaal and what they can do about it. "We tell them to go to the source (a men's magazine)," she said. 1 he magazine was contacted by the Greenville Piedmont, but would make no comment about the message. The Federal Communications Comt - ? - ^ ituaaivm nas neard all about tne 1 problem. "Because the FCC is not a censorship agency, there's nothing we can ?o> she paid.