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mr e4 1g vt mo leo osL 40--sofio VtAkr 74 7r rz z741 "OA c-W77-1-rzrrnt --0- -sdb 0- 'i 6 le A2--FOOTHILL INTER-CITY NEWSPAPERS WEDNESDAY MAY 30 1990-M Kiewit: Firm liable for toxic cleanup Niedflies: Shortage of sterile fruit flies Continued from Page Al a hazardous and flammable liquid according to William Carter deputy Los Angeles County district attorney in the environmental crimes division At the time Kiewit was put on probation and ordered to reimburse the city $12000 for the cost of an environmental consultant The city received the check for $12000 about three weeks ago City Attorney Michael Miller said According to Miller Kiewit was found in 1981 to have illegally buried materials on the Arcadia property Miller said that in 1985 Kiewit officials ordered another middle-of-the- night burial of more than 50 large drums containing hazardous substances Miller said used crankcase oil over large portions of the property apparently for dust control purposes Miller said Other materials dumped on the makeshift landfill included domestic trash scrap metal pipes wires glass ceramics concrete and batteries he said The attorneys for the redevelopment agency say the city still needs to determine the cleanup costs and the extent of the damages "It is somewhat difficult to tell because there's the surface contamination but what's underneath that is unknown" said Benjamin Kaufman the agency's attorney "We're not sure what we'll find when we dig up the site We didn't kpow we'd find all those drums" Clawson denied the claim that Kiewit officials ordered the burial of the drums "In 1985 empty barrels that had previously contained a flammable product were improperly disposed of on the site by an apparently well-meaning employee" he said "This was done without the person being told to do so and without the person telling us that he had done so" The buried drums and their contents were discovered in March 1989 by the Redevelopment Agency's demolition contractor and became the basis of the Los Angeles Superior Court case Miller also said that for many years Kiewit employees spread form the city about the contaminants or to undertake any removal of the chemical substances hazardous wastes and construction debris that had been dumped at the site before the company moved to Santa Fe Springs in 1986 The May 21 hearing was Kiewit's second in three months In a Los Angeles Superior Court case in March Kiewit Pacific Co pleaded no contest and was fined $50000 for unlawfully burying 50 industrial drums containing hazardous waste on the Arcadia property Two of the drums were found to contain concrete-curing solution we're doing all right" Cunningham said "We have every reason to beleive that the Medfly eradication effort in Southern California is working" California Department of Food and Agriculture Director Henry Voss said in a statement issued Saturday But Cunningham cautioned against assuming that the flies are gone simply because none have been found since May 1 The offspring from those flies will begin emerging sometime in June said Cunningham Under current Medfly Project guidelines the discovery of any new flies will necessitate at least one or two immediate aerial sprayings and more if there are not enough sterile flies available to treat the newly infested areas Continued from Page Al being released is similar to that of other successful eradication programs used in the past Cunningham's concerns come at a time when it appears the eradication efforts are gaining the upper hand over the stubborn pest which agriculture officials fear could devastate California's lucrative agricultural industry if it crosses the Tehachapi Mountains into the San Joaquin Valley No new Medflies have been found in Southern California since May 1 allowing state officials to stick to plans released in early May to phase out all aerial pesticide spraying in Los Angeles and Orange counties by the end of May Four weeks without any new fly finds "is an indicator that Hector Dyer dies one of Monrovia founding family By CHRIS EFTYCHIOU Staff Writer 4 Science: Experiment puts teen-ager in second place said "At the 220 mark he was about 10 to 15 yards behind but at the 330 he blew by me and beat me by about 10 to 15 yards After that I went into the discus" After his track career Dyer worked in the oil industry as a "land man" authorizing oil and gravel mining rights in Texas South Dakota California and Michigan A memorial service was held Thursday at Casa Bonita The family is planning a service in Monrovia in mid-June Dyer's body will be cremated but a tree marker will be placed at Live Oak Cemetery in Monrovia next to his mother's gravesite Dyer is survived by his sons William and Tom daughter Mary and nine grandchildren Dyer's coach Stanford was Dink Templeton who invented the block starter for running events Dyer went on to win a gold medal in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a member of the 400- meter relay team The team's time of 400 seconds broke the world record held by Germany by 02 seconds The new record stood until 1956 according to Dyer's son who also noted that the American team had dropped the relay baton once William said that when his father was about 40 he taught him his "first lesson in humility" by beating him at the 400-meter dash "He put on his old nylon shorts and crepe rubber shoes and we went out to the track" William Dyer lived at the Casa Bonita retirement home where his friends remembered him as a "kind and caring" person He often read books aloud to patients in a nearby convalescent home said Crystal Wilson an assistant administrator at Casa Bonita "He was really special He had a lot of friends Everybody loved him here" Wilson said "It's really sad He was really looking forward to that parade He was so excited he couldn't sleep the night before" Dyer graduated from Inglewood High School where he was valedictorian He graduated from Stanford University in 1931 after breaking the school record for the 100-yard-dash in his senior year Hector Monroe Dyer winner of a 1932 Olympic gold medal and the last remaining grandson of Monrovia's founder William Newton Monroe died May 19 on his way to the Monrovia Day Parade where he was to serve as Honorary Grand Marshal The 79-year-old lived in Fullerton where Monrovia officials had sent a limousine to bring him to the parade Dyer was about to enter the car at 7:45 am when he fainted and was taken to St Jude Hospital in Fullerton He died in the hospital at about 8:45 am said Dyer's son William who was with his father when he collapsed The official cause of death is still unknown he said I divided the caterpillars into three groups and exposed each group to radiation 5 Monique Fuentes Continued from Page A-1 them and relate it somehow to the genetic effects of X-rays on humans" said the 15-year-old honors student Hitchcock encouraged her idea and the pair ordered 17 caterpillars "More would probably have been better but that's what we could afford" he said philisophically "1 divided the caterpillars into three groups and exposed each group to a different level of X-ray radiation" Fuentes said "The first group which was exposed to 52 milirads were somewhat deformed The second group got 111 milirads They were really deformed and some died The third group got zapped with 222 milirads and they all died" Hitchcock explained that Temple City High School has had a science fair called the Bio Expo for the past four years "Every high school student enrolled in a science class has to do a project for it" he said "Last year and this year the science department chose six of the projects to enter in the LA County Science Fair This year Monique's placed second at county making her eligible for the State Expo" When not busy zapping caterpil lars with X-rays the daughter of Gene and Yvonne Fuentes is involved in lots of activities at Temple City High School She's a member of the California Scholastic Federation Honor Society the pep and flag squads and plays soccer She also works part- time as a receptionist for a Pasadena insurance agency she said The West San Gabriel Valley students taking top honors at the state science fair were Tessa Walters San Gabriel High School first place in the biochemistry category and David Lee Alhambra High School third place biochemistry Also Sanjiv Thakarar and Sherilyn Tognazzini both students at Flintridge Preparatory School in La Canada Flintridge who won second place awards in the Earth and space science categories respectively Jane Estes contributed to this story 'Pt 4 I -1111 1114 44 Ci 4 riit ft $ri 171 1441 44 1- 41( PA I Itt4 A 411 '-4 4 A -) 1 i I RI It 11 -f 11 1i Li I 414 1 a -fn 44 111 4 14 41 -t 5 I 1'71 If 144 4 LI! 41' I It rt 'i IF '11 Pt 'r1 4 7 I A 4( -411 4 A I i I cHIL 1 It -11 ti I 1 4 II Bridge: Span opens to bicyclists uuwrf nu's Anrfulvvotariy CA IbrviDN sa211E11 cedbi valriTiogs V711ER min MG 0 Continued from Page A-1 bike path to the regional path through the river it will benefit people from all over the region Surrounding cities have lauded the bridge's renovationn Ontal said The new Duarte Historical Museum will open its doors for a few hours the day of the bridge ceremony when visitors can view an exhibit on bridges of the area Other exhibits include one that details Duarte's historic citrus industry said Duarte Historical Society's president Claudia Hell The museum will not open full-time until October Heller said The bridge has been out of commission since 1952 when Henry Huntington's electric rail was discontinued The bridge's tracks were later taken off and the structure fell into disrepair said Llewellyn Pearce a member of the Duarte Historical Society who has researched the history of local bridges Originally built to withstand 300-ton locomotive engines the structure was one of the first concrete-arch bridges in the United States Pearce said Pr Concert: Three selected Continued from Page A-1 na Hodges International Piano Competition Little brother David a pupil of Art Mautner of Downey is a fifth-grader at Arcadia's Baldwin Stocker Elementary School He has not only been a winner in the baroque and open categories of the Southwest Youth Music Festival but also won the grand prize in a competition sponsored by the Los Angeles Korean Times He bagan his violin studies with the Suzuki method 14 bonus now 14(10 at renewal! 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