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Show BOY GULPS LYE, . THINKING IT MILK As a result of having mistaken a solution of lye for milk", Lawrence Law-rence Vernon Hancock,, 15, of Roosevelt, Utah is at the Salt Lake General hospital in critical condition. con-dition. - Hospital attendants said Lawrence Law-rence was eating his breakfast Friday morning when a member of the family told him to hurry, as the school bus was approaching. Lawrence reached for a glass of milk as he rose from the table, but seized a tumbler filled with a lye solution that had been prepared pre-pared for use in scouring pans. He gulped two swallows of the caustic mixture. |