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mm The Pittsburgh Press Section Friday, May 23, 1986 iicting water tests worry By Tea gukneka water because it contained higher than normal amounts of barium, which can lead to heart problems. Since then, however, many residents hired a private laboratory to test their wells. Some results indicated much higher levels of barium than the DER found. The maximum allowable concentration of barium in public drinking water supplies is 1 part barium per million parts of water. The DER lab tests indicated barium levels as high as 4.1 parts per million.

But one resident complained that a private lab, Campbell Lab of New Brighton, tested a water supply and the results Zychowski said. He said Campbell Lab tested his drinking supply and found a barium reading of 2.6 parts per million. He said his brother, who lives nearby, had his water tested by the same company and got a reading of 15. "My brother has two little kids. We have three little kids.

What are you going to do?" A DER spokeswoman said the department tested 107 wells this month and found that 19 contained higher than normal levels of barium. The DER has advised residents either to avoid drinking the water or to use special water softeners to counteract the barium. Studies have showed 40 parts per million. DER officials at the meeting, held in an auditorium at Baden-Economy Junior High School, tried to downplay the Campbell readings, saying the company was not certified by the state for testing barium. "Ours were satisfactory and Campbell's were high," said Joseph Chnupa, regional sanitarian manager for the DER's Bureau of Community Environmental Control.

He was referring to some tests conducted on the same water supply by the DER and Campbell. Some residents weren't reassured. "We are really concerned," Jan the barium test results. Rumors of lower property values and people leaving have circulated through the town of 10,000 since the readings were made public. After the meeting, Campbell said he would try to obtain a grant to have municipal water lines extended to the affected areas.

Kathy Dengel, a resident, said she would continue to drink her water, which the DER said contained 3.2 parts per million of barium. "I've been drinking it all my life," she said. "If it's going to kill me, it's going to kill me." found that long-term exposure to barium can elevate blood pressure and affect the nervous system. The DER also found high levels of barium in wells in Marshall, Bell Acres and Franklin Park in Allegheny County. Betsy Mallison, community relations coordinator for the DER, said the department would re-test the 19 abnormal Economy sites next week.

She said the barium may be present because of oil wells drilled years ago or because of the rock formations along nearby Sewickley Creek. Kenneth Campbell, mayor of Economy, said he was angry about im rmsDvrfB Press Residents of the Beaver County town of Economy who get drinking water from wells are frightened by conflicting test results about its safety. Many residents complained to state and local officials at a special town meeting attended by more than 700 people last night Earlier this month, officials of the state Department of Environmental Resources advised several residents of the town to avoid drinking well Jury indicts 2 Teamsters from district i'-sp a i til I The president of Teamsters Joint Council 40, which represents 40,000 union members in three states, has been indicted by a federal grand jury here on charges of embezzling more than $10,000 in union funds. James Beros, 57, of Washington, was charged yesterday in a 16-count indictment. Titus McCue, 56, of 216 Delaware Glenshaw, an administrative assistant to the joint council, was accused in a one-count indictment of conspiring with Beros to embezzle more than $1,000.

J. Alan Johnson, U.S, attorney for Western Pennsylvania, said the indictments followed a lengthy FBI investigation. The charges are unrelated to last week's indictment of Jackie Presser, elected Wednesday as president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, on charges of racketeering and embezzlement, Johnson said. Joint Council 40, one of the largest Teamsters' councils in the nation, is based in Western Pennsylvania and represents about 40,000 workers in 25 locals in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Maryland. Beros, the second-ranking Teamster official in Western Pennsylvania, an elected secretary-treasurer and second in command of the Pennsylvania Conference of Teamsters and a trustee for the Western Pennsylvania Employers and Motor Carriers Pension Fund.

accused Beros of embezzling money council's general fund and pension fund. It filed false statements under the federal IT Dale GleasonThe Retirement income security Act. Jumbo trolley With Port Authority Transit engineers and clerical employees aboard, an 83-foot-long trolley moves out on a test run on a completed new section of the $542 million light rail transit system between the South Hills Junction and Beechview. Regular service will begin in the fall. alleges Beros embezzled $11,471.64.

of embezzling $1,710. had no comment and referred all attorney, Samuel Reich. McCue could not comment. Washington County-based gambling network broken By Darid Tenpleton Th Pitteburf Press A sports-gambling network centered in Washington County "has been brought to its knees" by a state police raid on 22 locations in four counties, according to Washington County District Attorney John C. Pettit.

Twenty-one people face charges that include conducting illegal lot "It was just like making house calls like selling Avon, A DoHi 1 Uk said. He would not identify the ringleaders or reveal the location of the operation's headquarters, except to say that the raid's two main targets were in Washington County. The raid culminates a year-long investigation by Troop of the State Police in Washington and the county district attorney's office, Pettit said. Washington County residents who rnr I 'J liliiiilll teries, bookmaking, destroying evidence, criminal conspiracy, and pool-selling in connection with a gambling "bank" that handled $100,000 a week in bets, Pettit said. "We feel we have taken down a major bank," he said.

"It's safe to say this is the biggest one (gambling raid) in Washington County history." At 6:30 p.m. yesterday, teams of state troopers served search warrants at two locations in Beaver County, one in Fayette County, five the city's River Rescue unit will be on hand. Hamilton, of Mount Washington, will divert Sunday's mostly landlocked human chain to raise money for the homeless and hungry to the Downtown shore of the Allegheny, where he and other skippers will place their vessels single file bow to stern across the river to the North Side. The city river patrol agreed to close the river to boat traffic between the Sixth Street and Fort Mr. Flaherty was also a member of the National Watchdog Society and the Would-be Lieutenant Governors Association of America.

Surviving are the editorial staffs of the two city newspapers; Mayor Caliguiri; a countless number of political enemies; the city budget; and, of course, Mr. Singel. A memorial service will be held at a later date in City Council president Ben Woods' new restaurant in the Lawyers Building on Forbes Avenue, where a wake is also planned. Family requests contributions be sent to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty To Ambitious Young Politicians. Let's stop all this nonsense about Tom Flaherty falling from political grace right now.

True, he was pitched head first and bleeding into the electoral waters Tuesday by Singel and hadn't even surfaced before his 'Boats across the Allegheny' will augment Hands Across America Pittsburgh Press Employment will receive summonses on the various charges are: Allan R. Campbell, 48, of RD 4, McDonald; Paul W. Harrington Jr, 33, Theresa Ann Campbell, 26, and Robert Sember, 50, all of McDonald; George M. Campbell, 25, and Robert Csuhta, 54, both of RD 3, Canons-burg; Richard Allen Dunkovich, 31, of RD 1, Cecil; Paul F. Koupiaris, 51, Mark Aquilino, 27, and Mary Ann Dubois, 35, all of Canonsburg; Dominic J.

Thomas, 61, and Robert J. mitted to the event, including at least three sternwheelers, which may be up to 40 feet long, and numerous smaller craft. River traffic usually is light on weekends, according to river rescue Eersonnel, with mostly pleasure oats on the water. Hamilton said he foresees "perhaps a little problem" lining the' boats across the water. "It's the weight the bigger boats throwing the smaller ones around," Hamilton said.

meets its port of the city's 7th Ward, where Singel added insult to injury by winning with ease. On the spoor, City Council President Woods announced that he would almost certainly run against Flaherty next year for the august office of city controller and that "people are tired of his craziness and shenanigans Hey, speak for yourself, Ben. I'm not at all tired of Tom Flaherty's craziness and shenanigans. In fact, each night I get on my knees and pray to the good Lord for yet another Flaherty shenanigan the next day. Quite often, of course, my frayers are answered and old om pulls out his pistol and shoots himself between the fourth and fifth metatarsal bones.

But there are those of us who will pin-the fight to resuscitate Flaherty's suddenly windless career. Any dumb politician no, it isn't redundant can commit a Teamsters The grand jury from the joint also alleged he The indictment McCue is accused Beros said he questions to his be reached for By Robert Moore Jr. The Pittsburgh Press Although he anticipates "perhaps a little problem," pleasure-boater Al Hamilton intends to see to it that Hands Across America includes a segment that could be called Boats Across The Allegheny. And to ensure that any little problems don't become big problems, the U.S. Coast Guard, the Pennsylvania Fish Commission and Roberts, 49, both of Muse; and Robert A.

Mazzie, 46, of Washington. Also: Joseph C. Moore, of 1627 Princess Pittsburgh; Michael P. Hlad, 38, of Bridgeville; David M. Lubin, 31, of Bethel Park; Patricia Ann Patterson, 44, of Monaca, Bea- ver County; Jeff Risha, 31, and Thomas Risha of Uniontown, Fayette County; Joseph P.

Shar, 19, of Clairton; and Ronald Seftas, 39, of Elizabeth. To avoid that, Hamilton wants boaters to arrive and begin lining up about noon. "We want to get the big ones on the ends and in the middle. The sternwheelers should be at the center." The nationwide event will take place at 3 p.m. EDT, when the hand-holding millions will sing "We are the World," "Hands Across America" and "America the Beautiful." The line will stretch along a route Please see C4 maker political gaffe, but it tikes a Tom Flaherty to inspire opinions that he has sunk lower than a nuclear reactor in Russia that threatened to melt the suburbs of Peking.

Taking his defeat manfully, Flaherty allowed that "amateurs make excuses" and put the blame for his loss right where it belonged. On the city's two daily newspapers. Confession is thought to be good for the soul. Best to admit the foul deed: We did Tom Flaherty in. We carried all those stories about charges that Flaherty's employees were being maced.

And that his campaign expense reports were causing any number of accountants to choke on their laughter. And that he had raised blustering to an art form. Admittedly, we were fools. Who wants to have to write about Mark Singel? He probably won't shoot himself in the foot with any regularity at all. in Allegheny County, and 14 in Washington County.

Forty-eight troopers participated in the raid, Pettit said. During the raid, police confiscated about $26,000 in cash, gambling slips, notes on betting, lists of bettors, adding machines, paper shredders, a small computer and other paraphernalia, Pettit said. Police had sledgehammers to break down doors, but did not need them to get inside homes and offices to serve search warrants. Duquesne bridges from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Then, Hamilton's 12-foot boat will be anchored among a queue of stern-wheelers, yachts, houseboats, possibly a vessel from the Gateway Clipper Fleet, and the assorted other pleasure boats that will make up this portion of the chain.

"I want to have people in each boat holding hands and holding hands with people in other boats, too," said Hamilton, 38, a retail distributor of Entertainment '86 cou enemies were tearing him to shreds and putting a period behind his political future. Flaherty was spared no simile, however awful or twisted beyond grammatical recognition. He was "lower than the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl." City Democratic Chairman Frank Lucchi-no told the Post-Gazette that Flaherty "may well be vulnerable next year" when he seeks re-election. No one chortled at Flaherty's discomfort any louder than City Councilman Jim O'Malley, anoth Tom Flaherty's ailing political life pon booklets, who for the past three weeks has spent about eight hours a day canvassing area marinas for interested boaters. Bob McCaughan, head of the city's river rescue unit, said rescue units will be on hand Sunday "to provide any assistance" to the Pennsylvania -Fish Commission and the Coast Guard.

Hamilton said nearly half the expected number of boats needed to span the approximately 700 feet across the river already have com Phil Mustek er veteran foot-shooter and Flaherty antagonist. "We could've run Mickey Mouse with (the Real Bob) Casey and the results would've been the same," O'Malley all but giggled. Somewhere, no doubt, Mayor Caliguiri was rubbing his hands together in the manner of washing off blood and asking anyone within range of his voice, "got that sucker, didn't we?" Yeah, there was great gloating that, in what was predicted to be his finest political hour, Tom Flaherty had not even had the sup THE POLITICAL CAREER of Thomas "Tom" Flaherty, 35, city controller and aspirant to high office, died Tuesday of complications arising from surgery performed upon it by Mark Singel in the race for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor. Mr. Flaherty's political career had been ill for some weeks.

Mr. Flaherty, of the 7th Ward, whose neighbors gave Singel a 300-vote plurality, served in the Legislature and was the self-appointed watchdog of city expenditures. He was a past master of The Bombastic Politicians League of Western Pennsylvania; a Life Member of the Public Officeholders Cleared OtMacing Charges Association; chairman and charter member of the Dick Caliguiri Is A Jerk Society, past commander of The Revised Campaign Expenditures Club; and president of the Foot-In-Mouth League..