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utoh the west PAGE 4 SPECTRUM WEDNESDAY AUGUST 4, 1982 Wildlife threatened by inland oil spill Clean-up work begun at Montpelier helmet plant warnings of possibly toxic fumes. One man said he "drove right through the place and got a big whiff of it" about six hours after the fire erupted and "it was just smoke, just like you get in any fire." The blaze started at about 1:15 p.m. Tuesday when a short circuit in an electrical fan apparently ignited drums of paint, lacquer and other chemicals at the plant, authorities said. Fire officials said an arson investigation team from nearby Pocatello had been summoned to investigate the cause of the blaze. They said there was no reason to believe that arson was involved, however.

Plant owner Gary Brooks said he believed only one-gallon cans of paint, along with acetone in five-gallon safety containers and lacquer thinner, were in the building when the fire started. He said he did not know the dollar value of his losses. Roadways into the downtown area were blocked off late into the day and officials routed motorists around the area. The roadblocks were lifted, however, when evacuees were allowed to return home. Owners of nearby businesses also reported some smoke damage to their buildings.

Fire officials said small spot fires that ignited in nearby structures were extinguished quickly and no major damage was reported. MONTPELIER, Idaho (UPI) Clean-up work began today in the small southeastern Idaho town of Montpelier, where a fire at a safety helmet manufacturing plant spewed what were believed to be toxic fumes across the town, forcing residents to flee. Firefighters remained at the scene of the gutted Abaddon Products Inc. plant throughout the night, A atching to ensure that smoldering embers did not lare. Crews battled the blaze for three and one-naif hours Tuesday, finally razing the structure to keep it from igniting again.

Residents evacuated from downtown-area businesses and homes fled the dense smoke and fumes and were housed for seven hours Tuesday in exhibition buildings at the local fairgrounds. Authorities allowed residents to return home at 8:30 p.m., however, when health officials said the area no longer was hazardous. No serious injuries were reported, although a few firefigters had to be given oxygen, officials said. Gary Mills, police chief in the town of 5,000 inhabitants, said Idaho Health and Welfare Department officials monitoried the area and gave notice when conditions were safe enough to allow residents to return to their homes. Some local residents, however, discounted the 100 percent contaminated, and 20 miles of the Shoshone River 30 percent contaminated.

"I don't think we'll be able to tell much about the fisheries," Pachacek said. "There's still a sizable sheen on the river. It depends on whether the river carries the oil all out to the (Big Horn) reservoir and how it is dispersed." The Shoshone River reportedly does not have a large population of game fish. Leroy Feusner, oil and hazardous response supervisor of the Department of Environmental Quality, said it could take as many as 10 days to clean up the spill. He said several hundred barrels had been recovered by early Tuesday using dams and oil absorbant and skirted booms in the Big Horn Reservoir to capture oil on the surface and then pump it away.

A spokesman for Marathon Pipeline the firm that operates the Platte Pipeline Co. system, said the cause of the rupture, which has been repaired, was unknown. Feusner said Sunday's spill was apparently not as large as a 1980 spill that dumped 8,500 barrels of crude into the North Platte River in Wyoming. The Game and Fish Department said the 1980 spill killed 1,752 muskrats, 19 geese, 19 ducks, and destroyed 183 goose eggs. A suit by the state against Platte Pipeline Co.

for damages is pending in the courts. Feusner said he could not comment on whether any legal action would be taken against Platte or Marathon as a result of the latest spill. BYRON, Wyo. (UPI) Waterfowl, muskrat and beaver will be the casualties of one of the largest inland oil spills in U.S. history, but the high water level of the contaminated Shoshone River may cut the losses, wildlife officials say.

Louis Pechacek, a fisheries supervisor for the Game and Fish Department in the district affected by the spill, said Tuesday the large volume of water in the Shoshone River carried the oil downstream rapidly. Oil from a ruptured 12-inch crude oil pipeline owned by Platte Pipeline Co. was dumped into irrigation canals that carried it to Whistle Creek and, in turn, the Shoshone in one of the biggest inland oil spills on record. Pechacek said the large volume of water also meant that waterfowl, such as the great blue heron, were spread out along the river and were not concentrated in small areas like later in the year when the water recedes. "I expect some of them (the birds) will get in the oil, despite what you do," he said.

The spill also is expected to kill musk-rat and beaver living in swampy areas where the oil is not dispersing rapidly. Other animals will have their fur ruined "for a while, certainly," he said. "All you can do is catch them if you can and clean them up," Pechacek said. He speculated the helicopters, airplanes and people involved in cleaning up the waterways may also have helped scatter the wildlife and limit losses. The pipeline rupture Sunday night allowed 6,000 barrels of crude oil to escape and left 15 miles of Whistle Creek Utah Briefs Missionary drowns FORT DUCHESNE, Utah (UPI) A Navajo man serving as a Mormon missionary died Monday while trying to save a drowning girl in Big Springs in Uintah Canvon.

Ute Trial Police Chief Lloyd Arochiss said 29-year-old Michael Thomas of Winslow, Ariz, was fishing with his missionary partner, Michael Lund, and Ron Meacham of Roosevelt when they heard a young girl crying for help. Eleven-year-old Shelly Rich of Roosevelt was swimming in the spring and developed leg cramps. The missionary dove in the water to save her, then had trouble swimming and went under. Getting out the bugs SALT LAKE CITY UPI The state is too busy getting the bugs out of the budget to get the bugs out of the crops. Gov.

Scott Matheson told a concerned delegation of locust watchers this week. Plants and trees of Sandy residents have been filling up grasshoppers this summer, and as a result aren't good for anything else, Matheson was told. But the governor told the group there is no state money available to help in the spraying efforts. Sandv's city fathers and state agricultural officials told the governor the problem is getting worse each year and has spread to neighboring counties. And several residents brought in remainders of plants the insects had virtually stripped of leaves.

Girl faces double trouble Farmington. Utah (UPI) An 11-year-old Bountiful girl who falsely told her parents she had been kidnapped Monday and escaped from her abductor is in trouble with the police. Davis County Sheriff Brant Johnson said the girl will be referred to juvenile court for making a false report of a crime. He said detectives from the sheriff's office worked all of Monday night and Tuesday morning on the report before they found discrepancies in her story. She told her parents after arriving home late Monday night she had been kidnapped but had escaped.

Motorcyclist found WEST VALLEY CITY (UPI) A three-day search tor a motorcyclist who crashed into a bridge spanning the Jordan River ended Tuesday evening when on searchers pulled the body of 33-year-old Robert Gene Kundysek from the river. Salt Lake County Sheriff's Deputy Mike Parr said the body was found at 6:47 p.m. about 300 yards north of 41st South, near where Kundysek had entered the water Sunday at 1:50 a.m. Searchers looking for Kundysek found an unexpected body in the river Monday that of 19-year-old Sherrol Kep McManus, who was apparently a passenger on the motorcycle. Riverton grants cable TV franchise despite dispute Parents file lawsuit a Riverton resident, led about 100 citizens arguing against granting the franchise.

Mrs. Bench claimed cable television programs contained indecent material. Mrs. Bench presented Mrs. Deann Jones to show council members excerpts from movies allegedly taped from cable television programs.

Mrs. Jones showed a tape, including explicit love scenes from the Joan Collins film, "The Bitch," and the Angie Dickinson film, "Dressed to Kill." She stated the scenes were representative of what residents could expect from cable television programs, but some members of the audience heckled her for that claim. Bench also invited John Farmer, a self-styled expert on pornography restrictions, to speak to the council. Farmer urged adoption of the ordinance, saying the city had the power to regulate the "Contrary to what others say. the city can regulate cable Farmer said.

"Current state stat utes are not sufficient, and the Supreme Court will allow more restrictions on pornography and indecency." Cable television has come under fire in several northern Utah communities recently. Another cable company threatened to discontinue service to North Ogden residents last week, claiming that city's ordinance is too restrictive. A similar tactic produced a change in Roy City's ordinance. A motion by councilman James Warr for adoption of the ordinance failed to receive a second. A motion by councilman Curt Pollard to grant the franchise passed by a 3-1 vote, with one abstention.

Following the vote, a rival cable television company representative asked that he also be granted a franchise, and the council agreed to take the request under RIVERTON, Utah (UPI) The Riverton City Council granted a cable television franchise Tuesday night, after an emotional hearing attended by more than 200 residents who appeared to be evenly divided over the issue. Opponents of the franchise presented the council with video-taped excerpts of allegedly explicit material being shown on cable television programs, but the council rejected a proposed ordinance which would have regulated the content of cable television programs. Richard Garner, a representative of the MISCO-Draper Ltd. cable company, told council members he opposed the ordinance, because it would prevent the transmission of subscription channel programs. The crowded public hearing had to be moved from city hall offices to Southland School, and lasted several hours.

Mrs. Norma Bench, They also said Folsey twice picked up Renee and her parents and took them to the location near Saugus northwest of Los Angeles for illegal night filmings. Others named in the suit, which also charged fraud and negligent and intentional infliction of emotional distress, included associate producer George Folsey unit production manager Dan Allingham, pilot Dorcey Wingo and Western Helicopter Spielberg and Landis, who was blamed bv Some witnesses fnr ransincf the accident by ordering the helicopter to fly at dangerously low LOS ANGELES (UPI) A $200 million wrongful death suit has been filed against producer Steven Spielberg, director John Landis and Warner Bros, by the parents of a child actor killed in a helicopter crash during filming of the movie "The Twilight Zone." The 29-page Superior Court suit claimed the defendants were negligent and misrepresented the circumstances of the nighttime Vietnam war scene that led to the July 23 deaths of actor Vic Morrow, 53, Renee Shinn Chen, 6, and My-Ca Dinh Lee, 7. Filed by Henee's parents, Mark and Shayah-Huei Chen, the suit sought $100 million in punitive damages and $100 million in general damages. The Chens alleged the defendants intentionally misrepresented the dangers involved in shooting the fatal scene, where Morrow carried the children through a field of explosives simulating a mine field.

The couple claimed Spielberg, who is breaking box office records with his film "E.T.," personally approved hiring their daughter for the scene but was not involved in the actual shooting. uiiavanaoie 10 comment. THEATRE GUIDE The helicoDter was filminc fhp sepne about 2:30 a.m. when it apparently was thrown out of control by one of the explosives and crashed, decapitating Morrow and Lee and crushing the girl while her mother watched. THE MOVIE 21 4 North 1000 East DIXIE THEATRE 35 North Main GAIETY THEATRE 68 East Tabernacle 24 Hour Information 628-0669 Flu shot victimgets damages The state Labor Commission last week filed $5,000 civil charges aeainst Warner Landis, Allingham and Folsey for working the children at night without a permit and exposing them to dangerous explosives.

Officials said the parties were aware of statutes forbidding night work, but "avoided" the law All of Utah's cases have been assigned to Chief Judge Sherman G. Finesilver of the U.S. District Court for Colorado. He ruled Dec. 30, 1981 that the government is liable for damages in the Unthank case.

The amount of her award was to have been determined at a later trial, but the settlement makes the trial unnecessary. In a similar case, relatives of a Roosevelt man who contracted Gillain Barre Syndrome have filed a $21 million wrongful death in U.S. District Court for Utah. The family of Alden G. Kynaston said Kynaston contracted cancer, but the paralytic symptoms of Gillain Barre masked the disease until it was too late.

Kynaston was awarded $800 in damages for the disease before his death. SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) The federal government has agreed to pay $33,431 in damages to a Salt Lake City woman who developed a nervous disorder after receiving a swine flu vaccination in October 1976. But government attorneys reserved the right to appeal a federal judge's ruling that the government is liable because the vaccination caused the disease. Verlin Unthank, 44, sued the government in 1978, saying she developed transverse myelitis as a result of the swine flu shot she received during a nationwide program under the Ford Administration. The action was one of about a dozen suits filed by Utahns following the National Swine Flu Immunization Program.

Several of the Utah suits were filed by people who claimed they had contracted a nervous system disorder called the Gillain Barre Syndrome. Residents evicted MX STARTS CheechandChmjgs Friday "Things are Tough Aug eth All Over" 7:00 9:00 a mi fcv All II I ENDSTHURS. JL, "Poltergeist" (PG) STARTS ftf'JfTVTNYNl FRIDAY I FiTj Aug-6th Vif I i7Ttfev HCVIEafe ENDSTHURS. "Firefox" (pgp ONEL ROCKY III IYI1I ROCRY Corona case far from over 7:30 and 9:30 NOW PLAYING ill rrwoi NOW SHOWING Rodriguez had testified Corona confessed to killing 25 "Mexican nationals" and the defense jumped on that point because none of the victims were Mexican nationals nor of Latin origin. Later, under prosecution cross-examination, he said neither he nor Corona had used the term "Mexican nationals" during their 1978 interview at Soledad Prison.

HAYWARD. Calif. (UPI) The defense has rested its case in the retrial of convicted mass murderer Juan Corona, but the complex case is far from over. Prosecution rebuttal is expected to take more than a week after which the defense will present its rebuttal. Closing arguments are expected to take at least another week.

The defense called as its final witness Tuesday key prosecution witness Jesus Rodriguez Navarro, who said Corona confessed to killing 25 migratory farm workers in 1971 in a conversation seven years later. Corona was convicted of the murders, but the verdict was overturned on grounds the former farm labor contractor had an inadequate defense. LAS VEGAS. Nev. (UPI) Some 200 residents of the Forest Lane Apartments complex were evicted Tuesday after city building inspectors ruled staircase landings were unsafe.

"Those exit balconies were not built to code," said Clay Hymer, director of the Las Vegas Building and Safety Department. "In view of this consideration and realizing that any occurrence like a fire or an automobile accident on an adjacent street which might cause people to rush to the stairs and cause them to collapse we felt we could not place the occupants in jeopardy with balconies that weren't safe," he said. The complex was built in 1976 and sold to Western Continental 7:30 9:30 With Burl Do Ihu mucn fun furl rutitdn tefrfot' 7:15 9:30 LJ m'. T' i mi tisu mm nm CTHREEC Youth referral program promised 5 III 5MI 1 Held Over I I I Mm NOW gram. Ms.

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