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Page 6 Pharos-Tribune, Logansport, Indiana Tuesday, July 12, 1983 Hot Temps Prompt Emergency Cleanup United Press International Danger of fire exists at this waste dump near Zionsville ZIONSVILLE, Ind. (UP!) An emergency $3 million cleanup of the Enviro-Chem hazardous waste site has been approved to prevent hot summer temperatures from a dangerous fire, EPA regional spokesman Robert Martian says. "If you had a fire, you'd have one massive fireball because everything is right up next to each other," Martian told a news conference at the site Monday. "Everything would fuel one another." The cleanup operation, which will be paid for by the federal "Superfund," won personal approval Friday from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator William Ruckelshaus, a former Indiana resident, Martian said.

Regional Administrator Valdas V. Adamkus had recommended the action after a deputy observed the fire hazard during a recent inspection, he said. About 24,000 55-gallon drums, containing cleaners, solvents, paints and glue, and 400,000 gallons of waste-in 47 bulk storage containers will be hauled away from the site, Hartian said. Crews, which this week will begin examining the drums to determine what type of disposal will be needed, also partially will drain contaminated water out of a cooling pond, Hartian said. The project will be finished in 30 weeks.

EPA and state officials will begin a "remedial cleanup" of the grounds after the emergency cleanup is completed, he said. Chemical Waste Management of Oakbrook, 111., the firm cleaning up a hazardous waste site at Seymour, was awarded the contract to conduct the emergency work, Hartian said. Eleven wells have been dug into the water table surrounding the Zionsville site, he said, but no results are in because of a backlog at the laboratories that analyze the samples. Hartian said he would be surprised if the tests found water in the surrounding area was unhealthful, but "we want to confirm that determination rather than leave it unchecked." The decision to launch the emergency cleanup reflected a change in EPA policy since Ruckelshaus has taken over as the agency chief, he said. Before, only sites that could be cleaned up within six months and at a cost of $1 million or less would be awarded "Superfund" backing, he said.

"It's reflective of Mr. Ruckelshaus' administration compared to the previous administration, which was much more restrained," Hartian said. Although the federal "Superfund" is paying for the cleanup, Hartian said the EPA still is attempting to make those responsible for the waste pay for the cleanup. United Press International Robert Hartian, EPA, announces cleanup Murder Suspect Sightings 'Don't Follow A Pattern' INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) At least eight people in southern Indiana have reported seeing two 17-year-olds wanted for the brutal slaying of a Linton teenage girl, but the sightings do not follow a pattern, police said. "They're scattered all over Indiana," said Murl Summerville, a Greene County sheriff's dispatcher, "They don't follow any set pattern, They couldn't be in so many places at once.

The suspects, Christopher Deckard and Michael Poling, both of rural Jasonville, have been missing since July 3, shortly after the body of Cindy Lou Mason, 15, was found near an abandoned building outside Linton, police said. She had been raped, stabbed and shot. FBI agents have joined in the search for the youths, who were believed to be driving a 1978 white-over-burgundy Buick Skylark. Lilly Hit In Indy Death INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) Eli Lilly and Co. officials have denied charges a heart patient who died after taking an experimental drug was misled about its hazards.

The company has responded to a Cleveland, Ohio, newspaper article about the drug Drobuline. The article said Lilly failed to warn Harrison Pit- tm'aV 54, Indianapolis, a similar drug had killed humans. Lilly officials said those fatalities had not occurred by the time Pittman began taking the drug. The Cleveland Plain Dealer report also cited charges from federal investigators about irregularities in the 1977 experiments involving Pittman. Lilly officials replied Pittman could not have been warned about deaths linked to an associated drug, Aprindine, because none had occurred by the time he volunteered for the experiment.

Pittman died Nov. 21, 1977, two days after he began taking Drobuline. Drobuline was a compound Lilly researchers were investigating to see if it could help control irregular heart rhythms. Lilly halted the testing in 1980. A lawyer representing Pittman's family, John H.

Caress, said he is investigating whether there is a good case against Lilly. A report issued by the federal Food and Drug Administration said Lilly ceased testing Drobuline because it produced a wide range of side effects, including dizziness, tremors and weakness. A Lilly spokesman said the firm dropped the drug because its benefits were not significantly greater than those of current drugs. A Lilly spokesman, Dr. John H.

Marsden, said Pittman was among three patients on Drobuline who died, "but nothing suggested that the drug caused their deaths." Lilly officials acnowledged The FDA had charged a research physician, Dr. Frances 0. Kelsey, failed to comply with regulations on keeping proper records of drugs under investigation and the patients who used them. Lilly said it violated no law or regulation, but has revised record-keeping procedures in line with FDA requests. Special Reeves Traction engine (above) will be on display Winamac Hosts Power Show WINAMAC The sounds of old, steam-powered threshing machines will fill the air in Winamac July 14-17 during the sixth annual Antique Power Show.

The event will be conducted at the Pulaski County Fairgrounds. A full schedule of events is planned, including daily flea markets, and threshing, sawing, grinding and old craft, demonstrations. Exhibitors from across the midwest are expected to attend. Concessions will include outdoor cooked ham, beans and cornbread and many other sponsored food stands. Square dancing, a parade and a barber shop quartet also will be featured.

More than 10,000 people attended last year's show. Four steam engines, 225 gas engines, 125 tractors, 17 old cars and trucks, and 15 old motorcycles were transported to the site last year. A number of the engines were used to power the equipment which demonstrated the old-time work. A parade of all the movable displays was held each tractors and other equipment moving slowly along the main roads of the grounds, with an announcer identifying each as it passed the public address system. A daily event was the "noon whistle" when all the steam engines sounded off.

On Saturday night, the engine owners gave a "spark show." During last year's cross-cut sawing contest on Sunday, the winning team sawed a 10-inch log in 18 seconds. Horseshoe pitching and an antique tractor pull also were conducted that day. All visitors, dealers, buyers, sellers, traders and exhibitors are welcome to attend this year's show. Committee Blasts 'Biased' Textbooks INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) Textbooks biased in favor of compulsory unionism should be removed from Indiana's high schools, National Right to Work Committee vice president Susan Staub said. Ms.

Staub urged Indiana education officials to drop their approval of those textbooks to "help ensure that Indiana school children receive a well-balanced, thorough and objective account of the American Labor Movement." Her statement, issued Friday in Washington, came after the committee's education division filed a complaint about numerous secondary level textbooks used in Indiana's public schools. The complaint, filed with state Superintendent of Public Instruction Harold Negley, lists 17 books that do not "present, mention or treat" Section 14 of the 1947 Taft-Harley Act. Ms. Staub said it was under that act that 20 states passed Right to Work laws protecting employees' right to decide for themselves whether or not to join or support labor unions. She said one book, for instance, asserts that union workers favor the "union shop" arrangement and that it is right to force employees to join a union.

Most polls conducted during the past 10 years show workers including a majority of union members favor the prohibition of any form of compulsory unionism, Ms. Staub said. The complaint was the second one filed against slanted school materials in Indiana. In September 1978, the committee lodged a complaint against 22 textbooks. Ms.

Staub said 14 of those were removed from state-approved lists. "We hope that Indiana school officials will once again respond to the needs of their students by dropping these inaccurate textbooks from state- approved lists," Ms. Staub said. "And where texts are being used that do not discuss freedom of choice," she said, "we urge the inclusion of curriculum materials that present the' American Labor Movement in its objective entirety, including Right to Work, It is clearly important that students not be swayed one way or the other in the classroom," The complaints are based on an ongoing study, which evaluates textbooks and school materials for their presentation of the American Labor Movement. Since the study first was published in 1977, more than 231 textbooks have been evaluated.

Of those, 161 books were found to be biased. Area Briefs ROYAL CENTER Mission Circle of Baptist Christian Church will meet at 7:30 p.m. today in the home of Pastor John Drexler. The ladies auxiliary of Baptist Christian Church will meet at noon Thursday in the Rea Park Pavilion. Crooked Creek Church women will meet July 13 at the County Home at 1:30 p.m.

for entertainment and refreshments. WINAMAC The Pulaski County EH Club will have a slide presentation entitled "Hoosier Homemakers: The Early Years" at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Pulaski County Library. FLORA The Flora Christian Church general meeting of C.W.F. will be at 7 p.m.

today in the church. The Tri-Wednesday Club will meet at noon Wednesday for a luncheon and party at Jo-Ann's Restaurant. The Senior Citizen Queen Contest will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Flora Senior Citizens Center. The Flora Kil-Kare Club will meet at 10 a.m.

Monday at Jo-Ann's Restaurant. The Flora Presbyterian Church will meet July 19. The Ruth Circle will meet at the church for a noon carry-in luncheon. The Mary-Martha Circle will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the home of Mable Wharton.

The Sharon Baptist W.M.S, will attend the Tippecanoe Baptist Camp July 19. U.S Hears Erosion Suit NEW ALBANY, Ind. (UPI) A trial involving landowners affected by Ohio River erosion in three states opened Monday in the federal court. Ninety-five Ohio River landowners will attempt to prove that the federal government's dams on the river are eroding their land. The trial involves the claims of peo 1 pie In Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio who own 134 tracts of land.

It consolidates several lawsuits. U.S. Court of Claims Judge Thomas J. Lyndon is presiding at the trial. Such cases are tried before court of claims judges because they involve litigation against the U.S.

government. The small courtroom was filled with buckets of soil and rock samples which the attorney for the landowners plans to illustrate the ability of soils to resist erosion of various kinds. In addition thre are 18 boxes con- taining 1,326 exhibits which will be presented by the Justice Department and the Army Corps of Engineers. Lyndon ruled against a group of 23 Ohio River landowners four years ago when they attempted to prove that stronger wave action since the building of tree dams on the Ohio River caused erosion. They claimed they should be compensated for loss of riverfront land.

The landowners also claimed the Corps of Engineers was guilty of fraud and misrepresentation in the purchase of easements for the dam projects. In the 1979 case, Lyndon disagreed with the claims of all 23 landowners, who also were from Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. In his ruling, upheld on appeal, he said that most of the erosion along the Ohio River resulted from the natural flow of the river during the floods and other periods of high water. 2 Miami Trustees Must Pay INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) The State Board of Accounts has reported irregularities In the accounts of three township trustees two in Miami County. The watchdog board certified reports Monday to the attorney general for collection of funds from the Union and Pipe Creek township trustees in Miami County and the trustee of Sparta Township, Noble County.

The total all three exceeded $2,000. Union Township Trustee Jerry Lee Carlson agreed to repay $883, including $779 for dog tax collections not deposited in the township fund from Jan. 1, 1980 through Dec. 31, 1982, $100 for long-distance teiepnone calls and $4,56 for excess travel charges. Pipe Creek Trustee Patrica C.

Wade promised to repay $662, including $75 in overpayments to advisory board members and $75 in overpayments to clerk Carl saying she was unawre the county reduced the allowance. She conceded she should replace $504 in telephone expenses over three years, but said she incurred them following her predecessor's practices. Sparta Township Trustee Thomas A. Gosuch told examiners he will repay $400 in overpayments for telephones, telegrams and travel, plus $106 in excess salary paid his wife, the township clerk. Schools Rochester Names Principal ROCHESTER Dennis K.

EJler, principal at Winamac High School for the past two years, has been named principal at Rochester High School. He was officially named principal Monday night during a meeting of the Rochester School Board. The new principal will be paid $33,000 for the first year of his two-year contract. Eller had been principal at Oregon-Davis High School for three years prior to working at Winamac High School. He had taught from 1971-75 at Oregon-Da vis.

Eller received a bachelor's degree from Manchester College and his master's degree from Indiana University. He and his wife, Susan, are the parents of two children, Sarah, 6, and Andrew, 3. E. Pulaski Elects Officers WINAMAC John Boyce was named president of the Eastern Pulaski School Board at the board's meeting Monday night. Boyce, who is in his first term on the board, is the owner and operator of Coast to Coast Hardware, Winamac.

Boyce previously served as vice president of the body. The board also elected Jay Bonnell vice president and Steve Gladding sec- retary. William Sheridan was named treasurer of the board and Patricia Mersch was named assistant treasurer. In other action, the board approved the hiring of Martin Torgerson as an English teacher at the high school. The board also approved a request from the Winamac Soccer League for use of the football field from Aug.

10 through Oct. 10. Southeastern Names Myers WALTON The Southeastern School Board re-elected its officers during its reorganization meeting Monday night. Richard Myers was re-elected president of the board. He begins his fifth year as the board's president.

J. Mark Miller was re-elected vice president and Francis Caldwell was re-elected secretary of the board. Dorothy Lynas was elected treasurer of the corporation and Nora Marschand was designated assistant treasurer. Fred Bowyer was re-appointed as legal counsel for the corporation. In other action, the board approved the hiring of Thomas Buchko as principal at Thompson Elementary School.

Buchko formerly was principal of Yeoman Elementary School in the Twin Lakes School Corporation. The board also hired Troy Gibson as a Spanish and English teacher at the high school. The board opened bids and quotes on gasoline, fuel oil, cafeteria items, tires and driver education cars..