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17 THE TIMES Tuesday, July 24, 1979 N-Project Flaw Detailed Saccharin Sale Gets Extension INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The sworn affidavit of a former construction worker "demonstrated the scope and the extent of the problems" in concrete work at the Marble Hill nuclear plant project, a Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman says. Jan Strasma, spokesman for the NRC's regional office in Chicago, said Monday federal inspectors first discovered in April that there were honeycomb-type air pockets in concrete poured at the Ohio River site and found one instance of improper repairs. In May however, Charles E. Cutshall, a former worker on the project, charged in a sworn affidavit that there were widespread concrete defects and that he had been ordered to conceal some of them from inspectors. It was his affidavit that "really put emphasis on the improper preparation and the allegation that it was a coverup operation." Strasma added.

On June 26, concrete work was stopped in all areas at the facility that might leak radiation during a nuclear accident after NRC inspectors said 170 of more than 500 air pockets had been improperly repaired. Many of the improper repairs were in the concrete and steel containment buildings that will house the plan'ts two nuclear reactors and in an auxiliary building that will hold backup systems. Strasma said the extent of the problem at Marble Hill was much wider than usual, but added that the bad patches "did not impair the integrity of the structure." "Our inspectors' observations would have shown that that sort of thing did, in fact, occur, but not necessarily to the extent that Mr. Cutshall disclosed," Stasma said. NRC officials and representatives of Public Service Indiana, the utility building the plant, met shortly before Cutshall's affidavit to discuss concrete work.

"The natural progression would have been to intensify our investigation into concrete work," Strasma said. Concrete pouring in potential radiation areas was stopped again last Friday after the NRC said the contractor still was not making proper preparations for concrete pouring. That could have led to further defects, Strasma said, had it ot been for backup inspections by both the NRC and the utility. Strasma said there have been no significaant problems reported in concrete work done by the contractor, Newberg Construction at other nuclear projects, and he said the NRC has no authority to remove Newberg from Marble Hill. PSI and the contrctor at the plan in southeastern Indiana 30 miles upstream from Louisville, have denied any attempt to cover up defects.

The NRC still is investigating the motivation behind the improper repairs. Ufa Ij Channel 50 Resumes Program WASHINGTON (AP) Users of diet sodas and other foods containing saccharin are a step closer to being assured the products will remain on store shelves at least two more years. The House on Monday tentatively approved extending until June 30, 1981, a moratorium that has blocked a planned saccharin ban since mid-1977. Monday's voice vote was expected to become formal with an on-the-record tally today. Sponsors of the moratorium extension, yet to be acted on in the Senate, said they hoped the additional two years would be used to develop a safe alternative to saccharin, which the Food and Drug Administration says could possibly cause cancer.

In March 1977, the FDA annonced plans to ban saccharin as a food additive because tests linked it to cancer in laboratory animals. But Congress imposed an 18-month moratorium on the ban. That moratorium expired May 23. Congress also ordered that all saccharin products be labled with a written cancer warning. Supporters of the two-year extension claim diabetics, the obese and others feel a need for a low-calorie sugar substitute, and that a good alternative to saccharin has not yet been marketed.

"I hope tht during the moratorium period the industry will be working diligently to develop a substitute for sacchairn which will be both safe and low in calories," said Rep. Henry A. Waxman, chairman of the House health and environment subcommittee. The National Academy of Sciences has said saccharin should be regarded as a potential cancer-causing substance in humans, although one of low potency. The academy expressed concern that saccharin may be a particular hazard to young children and to children born to pregnant woman who consume diet beverages.

The FDA wants to allow saccharin to be purchased only as a tabletop sweetener and not in food or drinks. ran for only four days before the station stopped broadcasting fo 17 days. The feed wires to the transmitter in Hammond shorted out, causing the shutdown, Missal said. program. Channel 50, WCAE, plans to expand the program in length and with film of events as soon as this fall, after a news director is hired, Missal said.

The show premiered June 25 but Learning The Ropes Willie Mae Miles of Indianapolis works at a construction project at the Indiana Laborers' Training Institute near Bedford. Miles is one of 80 Indiana welfare mothers enrolled in an 11-week program at the institute. 3 Surveyors Killed, 1 Hurt in Shootout New Trial Ordered For Rochester Man Greer's wife, Mary, was ST. JOHN For the first time in 18 months, you can see a newscast focused on northwest Indiana. Public television station Channel 50 televises the 5-minute "Northwest Indiana Newsbrief" at 5:25 p.m.

and broadcasts a tape of the show at 11 p.m., Monay through Friday. John Nelson, former manager of northwest Indiana's only television station, stopped broadcasting the station's last news program in February, 1978. He didn't want to show local programs in black and white, which the station was only able to do with its equipment at that time, Tara Missal, station public information director, said. Newsbrief consists of Nancy Hoffman, public service director, reading short reports of news events from the area and state while slides are shown on a screen behind her desk. Hoffman said she collects information and writes stories by contacting area police and government officials and from wire service reports.

While some slides are just words, such as "accident" or "politics," others are photographs of government buildings and officials. Photographs representative of the area, for instance, the Valparaiso University Cathedral, corn fields and the Illiana Motor Speedway, are shown during the introduction of the also the arrested in connection with EVERGREEN, Va. (AP) A bloody shootout among four surveyors who shared a small home left three of them dead and the fourth critically wounded, the Appomattox County sheriff says. "It all occurred between the four people in the house," said Sheriff J.E. Richardson.

Police found the men in their home early Monday morning after fellow workers from the American Engineering Co. of Atlanta came by and heard shouting and gunshots. "Bodies were scattered everywhere," said Richardson. "There was blood on every wall." Two of the victims were identified by Deputy Richard Tanner as Robert E. Dentsch, 30, of Atlanta, and Stephen Perry Philgreen of Georgia.

PhUgreen's hometown and age were not available. The third victim's name was not released pending notification of relatives. The sheriff said he interviewed the survivor, James Michael Hardy of Stone Mountain, at a hospital. Hardy was in critical condition with his jawbone broken by a gunshot. "I'm satisfied the answer will come from the survivor," said the sheriff, who did not reveal what Hardy had told him.

Police said two pistols were used in the exchange. The four men were in Virginia surveying pipeline rights-of-way for the Colonial Pipeline Co. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The Indiana Court of Appeals has ordered a new trial for a Rochester man, ruling that his confession was made because police promised lenient treatment for his ailing wife. The appeals court said Monday that Ronald Greer was improperly convicted of conspiracy, second-degree burglary and theft because the confession had been admitted into evidence during his trial in Marshall County Superior Court. But the appeals court left standing the Marshall Superior Court convictions on the same charges of two alleged accomplices, Maurice Grosswhite of Plymouth and Debbie Ann Greer Swihart of Argos.

The three were charged in connection with the May 3, 1976 burglary of Bowser Sand Gravel Co. of Bremen in which CB radios and tools were taken. burglary, the appeals court said, and was being held in jail while Greer was questioned. The appeals court said the police indicated to Greer they would recommend low bail for her if' he cooperated. Mrs.

Greer suffered from a heart condition and died prior to the trial. The court said that the two others tried weren't affected by the confession since it was not admissible as evidence against them. They must serve their 14-year prison sentence. In another case, the appeals court reversed a Starke County Circuit Courtdecision that found Bobby Sallee, 30, of North Judson, to be a habitual traffic offender. The appeals court saoid evidence of Sallee's driving record was insufficient to sustain the judgement.

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The recruits allege the three DI's "slapped, punched and kicked" members of two platoons. The three instructors could receive six years in prison on each count of more than 100 charges of assault. Of those allegedly attacked, the most seriously injured received a split lip, a Corps spokesman said. COMMISSION WILL MEET CHESTERTON The Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Advisory Commission will meet at 10 a.m. Friday at the Westchester Public Library, Chesterton Branch, 200 W.

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