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I -Austin American-Statesman citystate Friday, April 27, 1979 B1 Hot over hepatitis Parents of students at a Round Rock elementary school are upset by the way the warnings of the outbreak were handled. Page B7. Fun and fiddlin' It's time for a fresh outpouring of merriment at happy Hallettsville tonight, as Cajun Fun Night gets the annual fiddlers' get-together under way. Page E7. Poison reportedly used on E.

Texas roads mike kelley tice in early December. The sludge is derived from waste oil "skimmed off the water," Davis said, and is mixed with sandy soil to make surfacing material. Melvin Grizzard, a Browning-Ferris chemist for seven months until his resignation Nov. contended in complaints to the Texas Department of Water Resources and the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration that cyanide was being disposed of in the surfacing sludge. He made the allegations after he4eft the company.

Investigation by both agencies yielded no substantiation of that allegation. Grizzard is suing the company on a work compensation claim involving injuries he said he received at the Browning-Ferris plant when cyanide gas leaked from tanks. See Cyanide, B4 The ATewsconf irmed through a sampling of the sludge from the subdivision roads and adjoining streams that cyanide, nitrobenzene, chloride and a number of other toxic chemicals exist in quantities sufficient to pose a public health danger. Tests on the samples were done by Dr. Erwin Eads, director of environmental science at Lamar University.

Residents in the subdivision say they have become ill more frequently since the roads were surfaced last November. No deaths or illnesses have been directly linked to the road material. Browning-Ferris operations manager Gene Davis said his company provided the subdivision with the surfacing sludge, but he denied any toxic chemicals were dumped into it. Davis said Browning-Ferris regularly delivered about 500,000 gallons of surfacing materials at no charge throughout East Texas until it stopped the prac By JIM CARLTON and CHUCK COOK Cox News Service Roads in a rural East Texas subdivision have been surfaced with oil sludge containing potentially lethal doses of cyanide, the Port Arthur News reports. Chemical analysis of road samples in a subdivision near Corrigan in Polk County south of Lufkin show that cyanide and toxic nitrobenzene are contained in sludge used as road oil.

The roads, including a school bus route, were topped with 70,000 gallons of the contaminated sludge. Records indicate the sludge was delivered free by a Nederland chemical disposal firm, Browning-Ferris Industries. Present and former Browning-Ferris employees allege that supervisors of the company ordered them to dispose of cyanide by mixing the chemical into batches of the sludge. Abe Lincoln puts House in disorder Mooning over the energy crisis Here are all the experts in the world furiously trying to come up with a solution to the energy crisis, and a kid out at Anderson High School sits down and solves the thing for them. Like all great concepts, it is so obvious you could kick yourself for not coming up with it.

It was devised by one Clayton Stromberger, son of Ernie Stromberger, a longtime Texas newsman before he found honest work. Young Stromberger's efforts were published in The "Oddhioa, an occasional and lunatic supplement to An-'derSon's regular student newspaper. Herewith: "THERE'S BEEN a lot of ridiculous talk going around lately about the upcoming energy crisis and how we should deal with it. "Some suicidal fools argue we need atomic energy, while other nitwits not playing with a full deck say we should depend on such useless crud as solar energy. I science staff of the Oddition has devised an incredibly brilliant new idea to solve the energy crisis -an idea so simple it's hard to believe nobody thought of it before.

We call it lunar energy. "That's right energy from the moon. Our science editor estimates that by the year 1983 lunar energy could supply as much as 100 percent of all the world's energy needs maybe even more. "WHY NOT LUNAR energy? After all, everybody knows that the moon is a lot closer to the Earth than the sun is, so we wouldn't have to go so far to fix it if it broke down. Why, using solar energy instead of moon power is the same thing as going all the way to Australia to watch television when you can watch it here! "Also, it's a known fact that the moon is sometimes visible during the day and night, which would provide much more power than the sun, which is visible only during the day.

"Plus, everybody must remember the Apollo missions a few years back, when American astronauts walked on the moon. When's the last time you read about anybody walking around on the sun? "The recent eclipse dramatically showed the moon's superiority over the sun. "VARIOUS PRESTIGIOUS science-related groups, including the American Astrology Society, the Moonies and the Moon Children have expressed interest in our blueprint for lunar energy. It's all ready to roll and everything. "But nooooooooooo! We have to wait for Congress and the president to act before we can save the world.

"Think about this for awhile: Scientists estimate the sun is going to croak in about five billion years, while clinical tests have shown that the moon is always going to be with us. NOW WE MIGHT not live to see that day, but our kids might, and it's time we started securing for them a dependable power source for the years to come." As a good citizen of the Republic, I am cheered to see thissort of innovative thinking going on in our schools. At the same time, as a hard-hitting, investigative humor columnist, I am terrified to think of it being loosed on the job market. The kid has to be hit. Abraham Lincoln addressed the Texas House Thursday and told legislators their actions have forced him to revise his previous statement about not being able to fool all of the people all of the time.

Furthermore, the late President told the House members that "many of you have become legends in your own time." In a rare public appearance, Lincoln noted that his picture is carried on $5 bills and he said Texas legislators have 'become very adept" at spending them. When it comes to legislative spending, a penny saved doesn't amount to much of anything, he said. Lincoln quoted that oft-quoted quote: "You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." "But," he added, "looking around this chamber, I feel that I must revise that statement." Just before his remarks, San Antonio Rep. Matt Garcia asked House Speaker Bill Clayton if it would violate House rules to "recognize an old friend of President Lincoln's in the gallery, John Wilkes Boothe." Clayton said it would and then welcomed "the late, late, late" President Lincoln. It wasn't really Abraham Lincoln, of course.

It really was Rep. Ron Bird of San Antonio, who bears a resemblance to Lincoln. The Senate earlier this year invited Lincoln to adress the Senate as a prank. fV; Staff Photo by Jim Dougrwcly State Rep. Ron Bird of San Antonio gives 'Lincoln's address' a new twist.

Slain policeman's last citation was to Meinert By JOHN SUTTON American-Statesman Staff The last citation on slain officer Ralph Ablanedo's ticket book was issued to Sheila Meinert, a witness testified in Meinert's capital murder trial today. The driver's yellow copy of the "failure to display a driver's license" citation was later found in the bullet-riddled red Mustang police say Meinert drove away from the location where Ablanedo was gunned down by automatic AK-47 rifle fire, said police Sgt. Kenny Williams. The home address Meinert apparently gave to Ablanedo 904 Robertson St. was the same as Powell's address listed on the registration for the car.

Williams said it has been his experience that when a driver does not have a license with him that the officer takes down the home address from the stopped driver. Williams said the red 1966 Mustang was strewn with spent rifle casings, live rounds of ammunition, a locked In testimony Thursday, patrolman Tom Foree said the barrel of the AK-47 automatic rifle David Lee Powell used to blast away at police was so hot it burned his hand when he picked it up. Foree told the jury he arrested Meinert after she ran from the cornered red Mustang. Foree said that after he handcuffed Meinert he looked in the Mustang and found the automatic rifle on the passenger seat of the car and an empty pistol holster on the floorboard. He grabbed both for evidence, and as he was carefully picking up the rifle it slipped and slightly burned his hand, Foree said.

Other officers testified in the third day of testimony that they had seen a man spraying automatic rifle fire on pursuing policemen. Patrolman Bruce Boardman described for the jury See Meinert, B7 pair of Spanish-made handcuffs and a book on rifles. He added that one of the rear tires on the car had been flattened by apparent gunfire from inside the car. While Williams displayed the "Book of Rifles" to jurors, prosecutor Steve Edwards flipped to Chapter 55.: It included a section on an AK-47 Russian assault rifle like the one David Lee Powell used to spray bullets at officers who cornered him and Meinert in the Travis Park Apartments parking lot in the 1100 block of East Oltorf Street. Meinert is accused of being a party to the attempted murder of Joe Villegas, the officer who spotted her and Powell in the moments after Ablanedo was killed a few blocks away.

The fourth day of testimony was spent mostly introducing the evidence that was found in the red Mustang after police captured Meinert and seized the automatic rifle that was in the car. City patrolman assisting at crash is struck by auto Telephoning' of fish prompts warden caution Shortly before 2 a.m. today, a city police patrolman was struck by a car while standing in the street assisting at the scene of an earlier traffic accident. Officer Michael Ford was treated at Brackenridge Hospital for bruises and abrasions of the right leg. Police officials said the 26-year-old officer was not seriously injured.

He was released from the hospital after emergency treatment. Ford, according to police accounts of the accident, was standing in the left turn lane next to a wrecker that was stopped at the scene of a collision in the 1000 block of South Congress Avenue when he was struck and knocked down by an automobile heading north. The 23-year-old woman driver of the car was cited for driving without headlights and failure to control speed, authorities said. Area game wardens issued a warning to fisherman against using illegal methods to catch fish Thursday after the weekend arrests of seven Austin men caught "telephoning" a method of electrocuting fish on the Colorado River. Travis County Game Wardens Grover Simpson and Bob Wolford, Bastrop County's Harold Farley and Caldwell County warden Roger Haug teamed up to catch the illegal fishermen Sunday after an angler told Farley of the scheme.

Simpson said the men were seen getting into two boats at Webberville County Park with only two rods and reels and no minnow buckets, trot lines, or fish baskets. The men were seen loading several nets and a gaff as well as a tow sack Simpson suspected carried an old-time crank-style telephone used to create electricity. Simpson said the method is especially effective in catching "skin" fish like the popular yellow catfish caught in the river and throughout the Highland Lakes. The game warden said the wires leading in and out of the telephone are arranged so both are in the water while the handle is cranked. The electricity created paralyzes all the non-scale fish between the two ends of wire.

Simpson said cheating fishermen have been known to collect boatloads of fish with the method. Farley called his colleagues into the chase and they stalked the banks of the river, watching the men fish until they arranged an intercept at the Ranch Road 969 bridge near Utley. Simpson said the men already had covered 25 miles of river and snagged two large catfish and several smaller ones by the time of their arrests. Simpson said the insulation on the group's drag line, the longer of the two lines coming from the phone, was nicked, causing the electricity to diffuse too quickly for a larger catch. Simpson said the men pleaded guilty to "telephoning" and were fined $206.50 each by Bastrop County Justice of the Peace Cody Lentz.

Lentz issued a total of $1,525 in fines to the men, including two for failure to hold a fishing license and one for See Telephone, B7 1111,1 r-ii iiHirmnnii, Staff Photo by Liny Murphy Helping out It's been nearly 65 years since the women down at the YWCA helped two little girls who missed the train. Read about a lot of memories and a forthcoming birthday party in Saturday's LifeStyle section. Ups and downs vV lit r- i rfr riiii i What's more embarrassing than a wet sailor? That might be one of the thoughts going through the swamped fellow's mind, especially as a wind surfer sails by with no apparent trouble. The scene is Town Lake. The downed pilot soon had his boat righted and he was sailing along on his merry way once more.

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