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Alleged arsonist says blaze was accident
BURLINGTON (Nov. 2): - A Haw River man took the
witness stand Thursday in an attempt to prove he is innocent
of burning down his house in order to receive insurance
money.
The defendent. Thomas Hudgins, claimed that the fire,
which occurred thirty minutes after he and his family left
to go out of town, was an accident and suggested that an
electric heater may have been the culprit. The state, however,
contends that Hudgins set fire to the house because he was
three months behind in his mortgage payments and was on
the verge of foreclosure. Supporting the state is the insurance
company, which said that Hudgins had filed for $30,000
in claims for merchandise lost in the fire, some of which
was apparently undamaged.
High Point Enterprise:
Voters in High Point precinct preserve record
HIGH PO!NT(Nov. 7): Voters in High Point's Precinct
13 have a long history of voting with the winners in national
and state elections, and Tuesday they kept the tradition alive
by picking all the winners again. Well, almost all.
The small southside precinct, which counts only 802
registered voters, picked correctly in all the major races and
only missed in the race for lieutenant governor, where the
voters supported John Carrington. Reagan received 70
percent. Helms 63 percent, Martin 63 percent and Howard
Coble 57 percent of the vote in the precinct. Even in the
race for the N.C. House, the precinct was right on the ball,
supporting Richard Chalk and Steve Wood, the eventual
victors.
Statesville Record and Landmark:
$1.2 million project set
STATESVILLE (Nov. 1): Groundbreaking ceremonies
were held Wednesday for a $1.2 million addition to the John
Boyle and Co. plant, with completion of the project expected
by June of next year.
William Pitt, president of the company, said the new facility
would allow expansion of the company's production of
knitted fabrics and expressed the hope that the expansion
would eventually result in the addition of 25 employees to
the Boyle workforce. We have a lot of good people working
for us, and we are continuing to grow," Pitt said. The new
facility includes a wastewater treatment plant in addition
to the manufacturing building.
Washington Daily News:
Former Texasgulf employee criticizes proposal
WASHING ION (Nov! 7): How often do the discussions
of a governing body in eastern N.C. touch on the affairs
of a powerful European nation? Well, it happened Tuesday
night at a meeting of the Beaufort County Board of
Commissioners.
Texasgulf Chemicals Co. wants to issue $20 million in
tax-free bonds to finance the upgrading of its pollution
control systems at the Lee Creek operation. But Hood
Richardson, a former Texasgulf employee, told the board
that granting the bond request would, instead of helping
the people of Beaufort County, grant "financial favors to
the socialist-communist government of France." Richardson
claimed that the interest these bonds would save for Texasgulf
would accrue to the French government since 67 percent
of Texasgulf's parent company. Elf Aquitaine, is owned by
the government of France. His arguments apparently did
not sway the board, however, because after the hearing the
commissioners adopted a resolution approving the project
in principle and forwarding the matter to the N.C. Commerce
Department.
The Sanford Herald:
Martin's Lee showing is surprising to many
SANFORD (Nov. 7): Over the last three months, Rufus
Edmisten's forces in Lee County had put together a political
organization which had been heralded as the best organized,
most energetic and enthusiastic in years. That's what made
Jim Martin's victory over Edmisten in Lee County so bitterly
surprising.
Edmisten's campaign manager David Riddle was gracious
in defeat and commended the Martin forces in Lee County
for what he called "an exceptional job." Martin's Lee manager
Dennis Foushee said that Martin's victory was due to his
positive campaign and his willingness to talk about the issues.
Foushee also praised the Lee County Republican Women
for "their tireless efforts to get out the vote." The key to
the victory, however, was the crossover of Democratic voters,
and in the end, neither organization had much control over
that.
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Education Secretary Bell resigns post
From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON Education Secretary T.H. Bell
yesterday announced his resignation from the Reagan
Cabinet, lauding what he called "the remarkable success
the administration had achieved in spurring school
reforms.
Bell, the first member of the Cabinet to step down
after President Reagan's landslide re-election, said at a
news conference that "we're involved in a real renaissance
in American education . . . but we're not there yet."
Bell said, "A four-year hitch is a long time." He said
he was leaving on Dec. 31 for personal reasons.
Shuttle birthday candle for astronaut
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Space shuttle Discovery
soared into orbit yesterday and set off in hot pursuit of
two wayward satellites beginning a 1.6 million-mile chase
to snare the fast-moving targets and bring them home
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After a 23-hour delay because of fierce winds aloft,
the shuttle and its four-man, one-woman crew, lifted off
from the Kennedy Space Center only 70 milliseconds late.
"We look good," said astronaut Rick Hauck, the
mission commander.
"That was a tremendous ascent, we really enjoyed it,"
astronaut Dale Gardner told Mission Control. Gardner
turned 36 yesterday, and Hauck had promised "the biggest
birthday candle of his life."
The others in Hauck's crew are pilot David Walker
and mission specialists Anna Fisher and Joe Allen.
The money-making work of the eight-day flight begins
this afternoon with the launch of a communications
satellite for Telesat, a firm owned jointly by the Canadian
government and private industry.
Clean-up of state chemical wastes concerns some
By KEVIN WASHINGTON
Staff Writer
In 1976, members of the sleepy
suburban community of Niagara Falls,
N. Y., seemed to enjoy quiet lives beyond
the city's dirt and pollution.
But as the year closed, residents
became increasingly concerned about
the oozing slimes in their basements and
the stench in the air children had
complained of for years.
As the months passed, they began to
compare notes on the health of neigh
borhood families. Four mothers in the
same block gave birth to children with
serious birth defects. Miscarriages,
nervous disorders, liver ailments and
kidney disease were found to be above
the national average.
By mid-1977, the story of Love Canal
was slowly unfolding. Buried by the
Hooker Chemical and Plastics Corpo
ration in the 1930s and 1940s, more than
100 chemical compounds 11 known
carcinogens had begun to leak from
rusted and corroded drums long before
the community's school and homes
graced the landscape.
When New York state authorities
evacuated 239 families from Love Canal
on Aug. 2, 1978, hazardous waste
dumping and landfilling became for
many, the environmental issue of the
coming decade.
And hazardous waste dumping has
become a serious environmental issue
in North Carolina.
For example, in northern Durham,
14 families on Ryan and Monk streets
were advised not to use their well water
this summer because of contamination
from a septic tank filled with the
drycleaning fluid tetrachloroethylene
since 1972. The chemical is a
carcinogen.
"Many of the hazardous waste
problems we are encountering now have
to do with environmental damage from
earlier legal operations," according to
Bryant Haskins, spokesman for the
N.C. Department of Human Resources.
"Industry is very closely scrutinized
today, but a few years ago people didn't
know what we know today about the
chemical hazards," he said. "In the
1930s, industry's ability to use chemicals
outstripped its ability to dispose of
waste by-products.
"In fact, ali kinds of things went into
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waste.
"People basically threw their hazard
ous waste in the field until regulations
came along in 1976, 1978 and 1980."
Haskins said the Love Canal tragedy
produced at least one conclusion:
Dumping is the worst way to deal with
the problem. In addition to the prob
lems a dump may present to a com
munity located directly over it, buried
chemicals often leach into the surface
water and ground water destroying the
surrounding ecosystem.
At the request of the state's Gover
nor's Waste Management Board, a
coordinating board for the state's waste
management policies, the Tracor-Jitco
company performed an analysis of the
state's industrial waste, in which land
filling was addressed:
"Secure landfills cannot substitute for
other waste treatment technologies such
as waste volume reduction, recovery,
treatment or destruction. The many
environmental problems and unknowns
associated with landfilling make it a
disposal option that should be minim
ized in the face of alternative
technologies.
Problems with past chemical dump
ing forced Congress to pass the Com
prehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation and Liability Act of
1980, commonly called the Superfund.
The act authorized the Environmental
Protection Agency to spend up to $1.6
billion to clean up toxic dumps claimed
by no one often called 'orphan
dumps
Superfund money is used to clean up
a site for which an owner can not
immediately be found. The cost of
cleanup is, hopefully, recovered from
the owner.
More than 22,000 Superfund sites
may ultimately be discovered nation
wide, according to the EPA. Of the 350
cleanups begun, only six have been
completed
One site? located in North Carolina,
was the cleanup of polychlorinated
biphenyls (PCBs) illegally dumped
along 210 miies of state roads in 14
counties. The soil was scooped up and
buried in a Warren County landfill at
a cost of $2.5 million to the state and
the EPA. The landfill, located near a
small, predominantly black community
called Afton, sparked a bitter series of
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the first official hazardous waste dump
created since Love Canal.
Because of the slow cleanups, envir
onmentalists in the state maintain that
present action by the EPA and the state
is not enough.
"The North Carolina hazardous
waste program falls far short of what
is needed,M said Bill Holman, lobbyist
for the N.C. Chapter of the Sierra Club.
"We need to clean up the state's dumps."
He said one bill, proposed during the
General Assembly's short session this
summer, would have allowed the DHR
to have a state Superfund. It was killed
by industry.
In addition, the resignation of Anne
Burford, the former EPA director
accused of mismanaging the Superfund,
and EPA Assistant Administrator Lee
Thomas' statement that Superfund
cleanup collection sites were leaking
waste into groundwater, prompted
environmentalists to say that the EPA
is asleep on the job in North Carolina.
But, Frank Moore, an environmental
engineer with the N.C. Solid and
Hazardous Waste Management
Branch, said the nationwide EPA
situation doesn't apply to the state. "In
fact, there are no real 'orphan dumps,' "
Moore said. "We know who owns every
supposed 'orphan' dump site in North
Carolina. In reality, these site are
uncontrolled hazardous waste disposal
sites."
Today, North Carolina has three sites
on the EPA National Priority List, he
said: the PCB spill, one in the Blue
Ridge Mountains and one in Charlotte.
The PCB spill is cleaned up, and the
other two sites come under the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976
which applies to active hazardous waste
treatment facilities instead of waste
dumps, he explained.
Haskins said the number of hazard
ous waste dumps falling in the orphan
dump category was smaller than first
believed. "When a survey was a done
a few years ago, this state, it was
thought, had 600 orphan dumps," he
said, "but as we went back to review
the data, we found that we had dupli
cated some of the sites and the listing
was inadequate. Now we think the list
is much more accurate at 130."
Moore added, "Of the first 100 we
reviewed, 70 to 80 percent weren't
hazardous waste dump sites."
Several sites had also been cleaned
up, including ones at the Lenoir
Refining Company and the Plymouth
Wood Treating Company. The Ply
mouth cleanup cost $250,000, all of
which was paid by the EPA.
H. Lee Mittelstadt, spokeswoman for
the Hazardous Waste Branch, said the
EPA had been quite responsive to the
state's hazardous waste program.
"When we call EPA," she said,
"they're here the next day determining
just how much of a threat the problem
poses to the public health, and we
haven't been turned down yet."