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EIiaiG 0S17S DETROIT FREE PRESSSATURDAY, DEC. 25. 1962 1B Red Cross quits flooded town contaminated by dioxin 4 ill "We will not intentionally jeopardize any of the personnel on our staff." 11 cleanup efforts be halted to prevent workers from coming into contact with dioxin. "It is possible that much of the contaminated soil has been diluted or spread around by the floodwa-ters," the center said. "It is also possible that isolated, highly contaminated areas still exist or have been shifted to new areas." But many residents are staying.

"Move?" asked Joe Caskey. "That would be fine and dandy if the government made it possible. I've got every dime I have in this place, and I can't go anywhere." Caskey echoed others in his belief that the federal government is trying to frighten residents. "If they can browbeat us enough, they get more of us to leave," he said. "And then there would be less of us to deal with." this St.

Louis suburb and to assess damages from the "once-in-a-century flood" of the Meramec River. 'Before the flood, the town was home people. The dioxin was; apparently spread in the town in the early 1970s, when a waste hauler sprayed oil, possibly contaminated, with dioxin, on the unpaved roads to control dust. ALTHOUGH ITS impact on humans is in dispute, dioxin a by-product of herbicide production is one of the most poisonous substances known. Tests on laboratory animals have linked dioxin with cancer, birth defects and liver damage.

The Centers for Disease Control recommended residents leave Times Beach and all non-emergency jak' in A if AP and UP! TIMES BEACH, Mo. The Red Cross ordered its workers out of this flood-stricken town Friday because of the threat posed by the toxic chemical dioxin. But many of the 600 or solremaining residents refused to leave despite the flooding and confirmation of the chemical contamination's "This is really cutting our throats now," said City Marshal Ralph Case when the Red Cross ordered its' workers to leave on the advice of the national Centers for Disease Control. "We will continue to assist people from outside the area," said Red Cross spokesman Frank Byrne. "But we will stop our home visits until we get a ruling on the situation.

We will not intentionally jeopardize any of the personnel on our staff." ED DANIEL, director of the state Department of Public Safety, said Friday that residents who wish to move would be given temporary housing for up to a year. He said the state was "certainly not ing any major evacuation. "But if I lived here, I would move out," Daniel added. "I wouldn't want to subject myself and my family to the potential dangers of the dioxin." Daniel said the temporary housing would be paid for beginning Monday by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The Salvation Army, meanwhile, said it would continue to bring food into Times Beach.

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