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33, 1-3, Lonsvtow Nomina Journal 1-A Bossier Farish coro- r's c'" e. The (.....: .1, Dsn Ncrrij its wer said Kiss Gridley's grand Deposition says company may have allowed use of contaminated soil I-" Grand parents identify girl from TV photo I DOCGIZR CITY, La. (AP) Eight days after a teen-ager's beaten body was found in Eienviile Farish, her grandparents recognized her photograph on a television newscast and identified her, officials say. She was Jenelle Marie Gridley, 17, of Avinger, Texas, said an official with the watching a Snreveport newscast thtt'' featured a photograph of the dead woman Friday. Her body was found May 19 in ai" wooded area off Interstate 20.

XEAST TEXAS LIGHT SOUND CONTROLSVf 1' RENTALS SALES X7 DALLAS (AP) A Houston-area company has been accused of re-. 1 peated violations of state regulations, including the transfer of radioactively contaminated soil to an employee's Galveston County property. Gulf Nuclear Webster plant also was the site of an acci- dent involving radioactivity in' a room where employees regularly ate meals, according to depositions taken for the Texas attorney general's office. Top company officials allo'wed the tainted soil to be used as fill-dirt on the League City property, a violation of state regulations, The Dallas Morning News reported Sunday. Gulf Nuclear does not have a license to dispose of radioactive wastes and the disposal represents "a potential hazard" to the public, and the environment, said David Lacker, chief of the Texas Health Department's Bureau of Radiation Control.

weeks ago for disposal in a low-level radioactive waste site and has agreed to remove remaining contamination discovered by state inspectors two weeks ago, Lacker said. None of the soil was removed, however, until its improper disposal was noted April 14 in the deposition given by a company employee, he added, -y That deposition and others filed with the state district clerk in Austin also said a February accident contaminated several workers at the plant. Until late March, the depositions say, employees regularly ate meals in a room where radioactive sources were worked on. On Feb. 8, an employee in the room inadvert-.

entry ruptured a capsule containing radioactive materials while trying to remove its outer shell with a lathe. The Health Department learned of the accident in late February, when an employee reported it. Lacker said he did not believe the radioactivity was spread beyond the spot it was dumped, a remote area a few feet from a League City road. In his deposition, employee Michael A. Jaschek said he wanted to use the dirt leftover from, work on the plant's grounds to fill in low land on his property.

Jaschek said random samples of the soil revealed cesium 137, a radioactive isotope. He said he chose the least contaminated soil and had it hauled to his property in the back of an uncovered pickup. y-. Walter P. Peeples president of Gulf Nuclear, said he could not respond specifically to the Health Department allegations because of pending litigation with the agency.

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