The Springfield News-Leader from Springfield, Missouri • 19

A trn Porting, pnrti raw CO 1 I i .11 C-p ond EPi vM settle fame poli 'V i he said, but the F.PA rxaliulated the fine and came up with a range of t-1 million to 15 million Nm the figure stands al less than tl million dranger said The EPA had erred in calculating AFC fine according to financial data that would apply to private, investor -owned uf ill tie he said A EC i a not-for-profit electric cooperative A EC official have said the F.PJl recommended fine io the Civil Penalty Policy Panel which is charged with ensuring fines are assessed consistently across the nation EPA officials have dec lined to say whether they recommended fme The EPA would have to go to tourt to seek a fine against the co-op Uti gation could be avoided however, if EPA and AEC officials agree to i court approved consent decree that could in lude a fine aiong with a com phamf schedule Granger said the staff can I approve the fine negotiated as part of the consent decree Approval must come from the co-op board of direc lor Pollution-control devices called precipitators are causing the problem AEC offic ials have said The precipitator, which are supposed to remove most of the pollution from smoke stack emissions, never have lived up to manufacturer guarantees they said The agreement with the EPA would give the co-op time to comply with air quality standards even if it has to order new precipitators at an estimated cost of 127 million said If is able to work out the bugs in its current precipitators at cost 2 million to 13 million the coop will be in compliance hv June lfec tie 'ranger said the co-op nope to recover the costs of tre work from the firm that buiit the pre ipitator In ac epting AE( limetaMe the FPA staff dropped its propesai that would have shut down the power piant during the co-ops winter peas January he said If JTIVt PAttMTEt TIM Da Mwt Official of Assoi laied 'Electric operative Inc and the I Environmental Protection Agency have reacheij an unofficial agreement on a fine against the co-op for violating air quality standards an A EC official said Tuesdav Th? agreement in ludes a hedule for bringing the co-op power plant at New Madrid into compliance with the federal lean Air Act AFX. based in Springfield, supplies power to rural electric cooperatives across Missouri and a few in southern Iowa o-ops that buy power from A EC serve about 30 (Mi customers in rural Missouri Lance Granger AE vtaff environ mental engineer said EPA officials in Washington have to approve the agreement worked out between staff members of the co-op and the federal agency A decision is expected from Washington in mid-September, he said I ntil the agreement is approved the amount of the fine annot be released. Granger said However, the fine is less than a consultant working for the EPA originally recommended, he said And the schedule for bringing the plant into compliance with federal air quality standards is basically the same one had proposed earlier Associated was cited for violating the lean Air A1 in September lMTf Since then the co-op has operated its New Madrid piant under a variance granted by the Missouri Air Conservation Commission while it upgradi-s air pollution control equipment The EPA however never approved the variance arid has pushed for fines against AF( Granger said under She terms of the lean Air Act. companies participate in calculating the fines they pay based on (manual data and the seriousness id air pollution ins A consulting company hired by the F.PA recommended a million fine. llWO KfCBHtl Observer Taesday bxkrd at aae af tke eartbri thai flawed lata Asber reek after a Shell pipeline dam ktllt by Shell till a.

slop tke rrade all riptared riday algbt Ofvicas foor fsfi WW fo worsen xx cla now TIss Dm)t With the start nf fall Hansen at Southwest Missouri Stair Inivcrsity. parking and parties again have become a problem around the ram pus. Springfield police reports indicate. "We've had quite hit of improper parking," Traffir Kay Benton said Tuesday night "Officer Homer William haw been assigned to the area in an effort to alleviate the problems, and wrote tickets fur parking viola Imns Monday "Tiiday he wrote more than In addition, nine car were limed away Monday and five more today Town are necessary to clear blocked driveways and streets, Benton said. The situation returns al the beginning of each achiiol year, and "we jusl don't have an answer to il." Ben I on said Many students come from small towns where they are accustomed la parking where they want lo.

Benton said "When they come In a larger city, they don't realie they can't park the same as they did at home "It 's all a part of learning a respect for tin' rights of other." he said I'olice also have investigated several complaint recently about loud parties in the SMS area, but most problems have been settled without court action An exception was a Monday night gathering at Sigma I'l fraternity. 1315 V. Klin, a target of complaints during pre lous years Police said a neighbor. Viayne Hey-ing. Ill Mm.

reported a loud party started at the fraternity house about 130 preventing him and his wife from sleeping After investigating, Cpl William Huron said he saw two cm three person yelling outside the house, but the rest of the visitor were inside. He cheeked with the fraternity president. Bruce Chevalier who said he would try to keep the group quiet. Huron re ported A short time later, at It) 10 in police received another complaint from an anonymous caller, but found the guests inside the house and noticed no disturbance, they Mid following another complaint from Keying shortly after midnight, a peace disturbance wan signed by Keying and presented to Chevalier Chevalier, in turn, complained that the residents at the Keying home had been harassing the fraternity by calling the police with false allegation Officer Gary Kissinger said Kissinger said a large number of persons were coming and going when he arrived at the fraternity house, and he heard a considerable amount of noise inside The citation called for a Municipal Court aiearaiHT at a Sept 7 cleanup hW Mr Newt CAVE SPRINC, A f.h kill on Asber t'nK'k is expected to worsen, state conservation officials said Tues (lav but Shell Oil Co officials were more optimistic as they reported steady progress on cleanup opera lions Although dams about J'v miles from a ruptured pipeline are contain ing the flow of crude oil, they cannot slnp water soluble chemicals that float with the water that passes through the dams Rainfall Monday niKhl raised the water level. Shell spokesman .1 Vt Wilson said, which caused water and chemicals to bypass damn near the bridge at (ireene County Farm Hnad T2 Conservation agents, who estimated that 4H.mie fish are dead in a five-mile stretch from the leak site to the (In-etie County BB brwU-e, said they expect to find more dead fifth today Officials from the department's Jef ferson City headiuarter will visit the spill area today with I' Sen John Danforth and In an Hunioon, a staff engineer from the federal Office of it -v.

I Z3t 1 'A: i 4, 1 of oil spill I'i'm line Safety in Kansas We think we will find a hieher kill rate on farther down the creek be cause the creek does larger and has a gn volume of water Con servation Agent Jim Thomas said Tuesday night There are more fish mure tvpes of fish and larger fish Shell crews welded a new section of pipeline Tuesday Wilson said, and crude oil was running through the pipeline fur the first time since Friday night It was turned off then when a foot section of pipe rup lured and sent crude oil spewing into the creek sher reek is a Irihulan of the Little Sa Kiver that flows into Stock-Ion I-ake The spill occurred mar aie Spring. alMoil l.i miles northwist nf Springfield Oil company employees continued their work Tuesdav al the Farm Kad 22 bridge Beside siphoning oil from the top of the water at dam sites, they trans ported ml from downs ream near the KB bridge to waiting tanker trui k- at the Koad 22 bridge convinced authorities he was a hitchhiker the two men picked up earlier Stephens led a pos to a house near Thayer thought to be the gang i hideout, but found It abandoned Stephen said Sheriff Kelly apparently went to the garage to question two nien about the burglary Iwa days before of a local store The men. who drme into the garaire and turned their car around so it faced the street, wanted two tires repaired, he said Kelly entered the garage and approached the tar A he reached the car's door, he was shot twice by one of the men. then was shot by the other tlian. Stephens said "He just dtda hake a chance not a Set I'lS.

Page IB J' i I 1 s5 continue A workman on the Road 22 bridge sprayed water onto the creek near a pickup point where a tanker truck wa- parki with il hoses in the water We re flushing dnn the film they can skim it off the top. he said He was helped by two men in a canoe euipM-d with pumps that stirred the oil and moved it towards the hoses Farmer along the creek and near the mouth of the Little Sac have moved cattle out of pastures along the creek. McCrory Phillips, a milk control supervisor with the Springfield lieaith l) partmenl said Tuesday night The lliaith iM partment did not find any contamination outside the creek. said Our main idea wa to see if it was a problem and to try in contact the lieople in the areas mar all the bridge sites, 1'hlllip said He said one (irade i dairy farm sits along the Little Sat River down stream from Asher reck hut its water supply is not in danger Rczoning for landfill debated by AUJN f. JONES ThoDaihNOTt Springfield and tircene County residents Your county government can do little to make your tity government obey county zoning ordinances City and county officials say the city has no history of observing county nming ordinance and may not have to before It expands the Springfield sanitary landfill The city plans to use ft acres of agricultural land to expand the landfill The discussion about whether the rity needs to ask for zoning changes for such a project continued Tuesday, a day after city and county officials met ta discus the matter Greene County Attorney Will FMcher said the expansion comes under the county option dumping law, and the city should have gel a permit from county courts to use the land as a dumping ground Springfield City Attorney Howard Wright disagrees "It is my opinion that county zoning laws don't apply to governmental use in the county," Wnght said 'l don think there much question, if one examines the rase history, that they don I apply We're not mtrndinf lo apply for reonmg of the land anymore than we did hen we opened the landfill up Greene County Planning and Zoning Director Cliff Clark said the city failure ta abide by county regulation is a matter of breaking with formal procedure.

By not follow ins procedure, he said, the city is putting itself above its citico "I nder our zoning regulations. H's my feeling that anyone has ta go tt. rough zoning procedures, said (lark "People wonder, 'If one can get by without procedures, why ran we' If everyone else has lo do it. the city should too Clark said it is a misdemeanor ta Set 10MNG, Pgt IB 4 WiriUlnniri.iiaiim'ri memt4a'imri'i i. iiiantiriTii fc.WBi nn i.

i ir Ma. I. a Ibe laa were eertrd la federal raaii la fare rbarge la Ibe kidaapplai al William Hamm Karpls. 71, wa laaad dead Taeday la Spaia la this U3t pbatannpk, federal (aardi keep rlase walrh aa Id mat 4 C. Barlklmey left a ad Alvla Karpii (rlgbt).

aae labeM Pabllc f.aemy Marder saspert Babert 0 Neal 17. Japlia. arre4 la Sprtagfleld Tae4ay aftrraaaa frsra Eatd. Okla where be aai arrested aa rapital marder (barge. O'Neal aa arraigned la Greese Caaatj Assariai tr-rail Caart Ttevday la raaaeetlaa wrtk tbe Jsly skoiag deaib af Balpb Kesese kartcb.

7t. tAurdor suspoct arralgnad cfcr rofom Sminnthfd VJcst Plains man ramombors gangster rnme after Spanish officials reported finding Karpis body Tuesday in a Tnrrrmolimm, Spain, apartment. The officials said Karpis, "1. nnght have died of an overdose of sleeping pill. Recalling the events that caused townspeople lo join a pos in an attempt la tr j( down the sheriff's killer.

Stephen said he arned at Ca-rnk Iaidson's garage momenta after the sheriff was shot four times at close range wasn't there, I sn just dnwng up," the retired deputy said in a telephone interview of his near-miss with Karpt and Freddie Barker "They were just driving off when I got there A third nun was captured at the giiragr, but later released after he Tha Owilr Nm WEST IHJvlNS Kor most people, a rampage of bank robberies and kidnappings carried out by Ahia Karpis and the "Ma" Barker Hang in the 1930s something la read about er ee recreated mov ie Around here, a few people ran re-the day in Decrmticr IS3I, when tw nw-R later identified as Karpis and one of Kate Barker's son, Freddie, shid Sheriff K. Kelly in a hcl garage. One of those pe.ple Is C. Stephen, Krlly deputy and the first mn reach the sheriff body after the 10 gangster escajwd Stephens, who at fttill rarrtes his lell County deputy vheriff mm-mission, fommenied on the 1311 bond wa art on the eapiul murder charge, and t3tf.M bond was set for eac man on the other charges 0 Neal bad been the abject of multi -state manhunt before be was arrested Saturday Bocgs was arrested dav af.er the siMmim- Fwfl Worth, Texas. Greene County Sheriff Pctectrvt Dan Lowe said Oklahoma authorities fuund Neal sleeping ta a stolen truck He said CJ Seal was working in the 1 a'ea SHarK-b was founaj V4 la a clostt in th heme of mm in-te, J.

Larry Denaetl. on Grewe feicj DO, detituve reports- mmL. bkarisa. shot one ut the i hei. Murder auspect Robert E.

Neal Jr. was arraigned in Greene County AMN-iate Circuit Court after he was returned the county jail Tuesda afternewn from Enid. Okla where be wa arrested Saturday. Neal and a second man charged with capital murder the July shooting death of Ralph Rosen Sha-nvk. of rural Strafford, face preliminary hearings at 9 a in.

Sept. II in Associate Circuit Court. O'Neal. and John IS. both of Joplifl, also ar charged with first degree burglary, stealirjg.

and armed enin mal actom ta cc8nectio with the sau incident..